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SEVERAL community and militant groups in Delta State have sent a warning to incoming president General Muhammadu Buhari that they will not accept the exclusion of the Niger Delta people in the allocation of oil blocks in Nigeria. With the victory of General Buhari at Nigeria's recent presidential elections, fears have been raised about Niger Delta militants resuming their war with the state.

Nigeria’s President-elect, General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), who won the election of March 28, has been charged to name a sport minister who will not be football biased. Over the years, followers of sports, especially in the last 16 years of democracy, have been complaining about the way ministers of sport get carried away with the popularity of football.

Fayose The 19 All Progressives Congress, APC, lawmakers in Ekiti State House of Assembly have once again restated their stand to impeach the incumbent governor, Ayodele Fayose. Explaining why they want the governor removed from seat, the Speaker of the state house of assembly, Dr Adewale Omirin, insisted that Fayose cannot escape impeachment notice served on him because of the weight of the offence he had committed.

Warri Wolves are through to the second qualifying round of this season’s CAF Confederation Cup, after a 0-0 draw with Dedebit in Addis Ababa on Sunday. The Nigerian club had won the first leg 2-0 and progressed with that aggregate score. Wolves will face MK Etanchéité of Democratic Republic of Congo next, for a place in the play-offs of the competition.

A 100-year-old Japanese woman has become the world’s first centenarian to complete a 1,500-metre freestyle swim, 20 years after she took up the sport. Mieko Nagaoka took just under an hour and 16 minutes to finish the race as the sole competitor in the 100 – 104-year-old category at a short course pool in Ehime, western Japan, on Saturday. “I want to swim until I turn 105 if I can live that long,” the sprightly Nagaoka told Kyodo News.

For celebrity couple, Beyoncé and Jay-Z, there is no better way to celebrate their seventh wedding anniversary than a romantic new song from the former, exclusively for the latter. Titled Die With You, the Beyoncé’s song is a straight-up love song to her man. It had such emotional laden lines like, “I wake up just to sleep with you. I open my eyes so I can see with you. And I live so I can die with you,” she sings in a home-made clip that shows them in a personal moment.

President Barack Obama of the United States of America has commended the chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Attahiru Jega, over the way the Presidential and National Assembly elections were credibly conducted on March 28. Obama, who awarded the INEC boss

Central Bank of Ni­geria (CBN) has ap­proved two models for the implementation of mobile money services in the country. The Regulatory Framework and Guidelines on Mobile Money Services in Nigeria is­sued by CBN on its website, classified the services as bank led, which is a bank and/or its consortium as lead initiator and non-bank led, which is a corporate organisation duly licensed by CBN as lead ini­tiator.

  “This message should be delivered to your president, that whatever the outcome of this election, his regime has come to an end. He should accept to save the lives of millions,” Joshua said he told Jonathan through a presidential aide. Joshua claimed he called Jonathan by phone and the president promptly sent a close aide to meet with him. “It’s not a message I could say in the church because it would affect your vote,”

They have yet to publicly comment on their alleged romance. But Tyga and Kylie Jenner put on a show of togetherness when the rapper took his young son to church with her family on Easter Sunday. Carrying two-year-old son King in his arms, the 25-year-old dressed up in a smart white shirt, in keeping with the Kardashian family.

Jonathan expressed the sentiment on Sunday, April 5, while receiving a delegation of dignitaries who visited him in commemoration of the Easter holiday. President Goodluck Jonathan (Telegraph UK) President Goodluck Jonathan has compared his time in public office to being in a cage for 16 years. Jonathan expressed the sentiment on Sunday, April 5, while receiving a delegation of dignitaries who visited him in commemoration of the Easter holiday. The President however counted himself as one of the luckiest citizens of Nigeria.

Former Manchester United manager, Sir Alex Ferguson, has said that there is no player on the planet, that is close to challenging Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. Ferguson believes that the title of the world’s best footballer, will continue to be rotated between the two sueprstars for a long time. Although Neymar has been tipped to break into the duopoly, the Scot believes he is a long way away.

Al-Jazeera Doha - Two Al-Jazeera television journalists who had been detained by the Nigerian military since March 24 have been freed, the Qatar-based broadcaster said in a statement on Sunday. It said Ahmed Idris and Ali Mustafa had been allowed to leave the Maiduguri hotel where they were detained, and return to the network's Abuja office. "We're pleased for Ahmed and Ali that their ordeal is over," said Salah Negm, director of news for Al-Jazeera English.

Barcelona restored their four-point lead at the top of La Liga with a tense victory over Celta Vigo, who ended with 10 men in bizarre circumstances. It took 73 minutes for the breakthrough – Jeremy Mathieu scoring the only goal with a back-post diving header from Xavi’s free-kick. Celta had Fabian Orellana sent off for throwing some grass at Sergio Busquets as he was getting ready to take a free-kick.

Nigeria striker Emmanuel Emenike says he and his Fenerbahce team-mates were left in shock after their team bus was shot at by a gunman on Saturday night in Turkey. The Turkish league leaders were travelling to Trabzon airport to fly back to Istanbul, following their 5-1 victory over Rizespor, when the shooting happened. The driver was taken to hospital but no players were injured in the attack, which Emenike described as a “scary moment”.

The stepchildren of the woman who was killed in the Bruce Jenner car crash are gearing up for a wrongful death lawsuit, TMZ has learned, and what's especially interesting is that we're told they had virtually no relationship with their stepmom. Kim Howe was driving her Lexus on Pacific Coast Highway on February 7th when Bruce slammed into her, sending her car careening into the lane of oncoming traffic where a Hummer demolished her car.