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UEFA Champions LeagueKiev handed 2018 Champions League final UEFA has confirmed Kiev as the venue for the 2018 Champions League final. UEFA has confirmed Kiev as the venue for the 2018 Champions League final. The organisation's Executive Committee, under the chairmanship of newly-elected UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin, voted on handing European football's showpiece event in 20 months' time to the NSK Olympiyskyi stadium in the Ukrainian capital. The Lillekula stadium in Tallinn, Estonia will host the UEFA Super Cup on August 14, 2018. A decision regarding theEuropa League final in 2018 has been delayed to a later date. In other UEFA matters, wrapped up at its Extraordinary Congress in Athens, Theodore Theodoridis was confirmed as permanent general secretary to succeed Gianni Infantinowho successfully ran for the FIFA presidency in February while a special award will be handed out to the fans of Iceland, Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland and Wales for their conduct at...

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HeartlessMan abandons wife in hospital over N520,000 unpaid bill A woman has been abandoned by her husband in the hospital following a successful breast Cancer surgery and unpaid bill of N520,000. Hospital bed (for illustration purposes only) (Wikipedia) A mother-of-seven has been abandoned by her husband at the New Mayor Hospital and Fertility Centre, Nkpor in Anambra state over the N520,000. ALSO READ: Mother abandons child afflicted with cerebral palsy at hospital Mrs. Uzoamaka Onu, 39, has reportedly stayed in the hospital for four months over the non-payment of her bill. Speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria, Uzoamaka, who is a food vendor and from Okpoto community in Ishielu Local Government Area of Ebonyi, said her husband has abandoned her to her fate, as every attempt to reach him has failed. “My husband stopped visiting the hospital after I successfully underwent a surgery on my right breast,” Uzoamaka said. Although her husband has absconded, Uzoamaka said she did not bla...

In IlorinAviation union advise FG to halt airports concession plan Sirika had argued that the move would ensure that the airports were properly managed, while the government would still retain their ownership. Minister of State for Aviation, Capt. Hadi Sirika (sundiatapost) The National Union of Air Transport Employees (NUATE),has urged the Federal Government to immediately halt its plan to concession the four major airports in the country. The union made this known in an eight-point communique issued at its National Executive Council (NEC) meeting held in Ilorin, Kwara. A copy of the communique which was signed by NUATE’s General Secretary, Mr Olayinka Abioye, was made available to newsmen in Lagos on Thursday. The Minister of State for Aviation, Capt. Hadi Sirika, had on Sept. 6, told newsmen that there was no going back on the concession of the Lagos, Abuja, Kano and Port Harcourt Airports. Sirika had argued that the move would ensure that the airports were properly managed, while t...

Buhari: President backs constitutional amendment President Buhari said the government recognized the judgment debt but the timing of the request for its repayment was wrong, given the current economic situation in the country. President Buhari (Point Blank News) President Muhammadu Buhari says his administration will support a constitutional amendment to free local governments from the stranglehold of state governments. Malam Garba Shehu, the President’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, said in a statement that Buhari made his position known when he received the leadership of theAssociation of Local Governments in Nigeria (ALGON) on Thursday in Abuja. He stated that the President told the ALGON leadership that the amendment, when carried out, would better the lot of Nigerians at the community level. He stressed that a constitutional amendment was urgently required to clearly define the relationship among the three tiers of government. He described the ...

Ex-Governor slams EFCC for declaring him wanted Shema also accused the current Governor of Katsina state, Bello Masari, of using the anti-graft agency to hound him . The former Governor of Katsina State, Alhaji Ibrahim Shema has slammed the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for declaring him wanted. Shema said he had to cancel his trip to Saudi Arabia to honour the anti-graft agency’s invitation in June 2016. He said when he got to the EFCC office, he was told that the officer handling his case was not around, adding that the anti-graft agency did not re-schedule. The EFCC declared the former Katsina Governor wanted on Wednesday, September 14, 2016, for allegedly diverting state funds. Shema also accused the current Governor of Katsina state,Bello Masari, of using the anti-graft agency to hound him. He said “As a senior citizen of this country, a legal practitioner of 32 years post-call experience, and a two-time Governor of Katsina State, I not only feel seriously embarr...

APC Attacks “Ridiculous” PDP Over Buhari’s Resignation Call The All Progressives Congress (APC) has described the Peoples Democratic Party’s call for the resignation of President Mohammadu Buhari as ‘ridiculous’. The APC said that the call was not worth the ink it is written with. APC in a statement issued today in Abuja and signed by its national secretary, Mai Mala Buni, said it would not return Nigeria to the voodoo economics which was the hallmark of the PDP years in government. “The attention of the All Progressives Congress (APC) is drawn to the latest ridiculous demand by a faction of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari returns the country to the voodoo economics and reckless fiscal policies the country was subjected to during the immediate-past PDP administration. “The PDP faction by its demand to return the country to the years where looting of the public treasury was the order of the day, has taken its orchestrated plot to ...