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  Johannesburg, South Africa – South Africa’s top court on Thursday delivered a damning verdict against President Jacob Zuma, saying he flouted the constitution over public funds used to upgrade his private residence, sparking immediate calls for him to be impeached. Zuma “failed to uphold, defend and respect the constitution as the supreme law of the land,” Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng said in a strongly-worded ruling from the Constitutional Court in Johannesburg. The court judgement came as Zuma fights back against separate allegations that a wealthy Indian family influenced ministerial appointments in a scandal that has rocked his government.

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjeeflyover bridge collapseKolkota India Harrowing Scene from the Kolkota bridge collapse The death toll in the collapsed flyover bridge in the Indian City of Kolkata has risen to 14, with many injured and many still trapped under tons of concrete and steel. The bridge collapsed today on to vehicles and street vendors below. Residents used their bare hands to try to rescue people pinned under a 100-metre (110-yard) length of metal and cement that snapped off at one end and came crashing down in a teeming commercial district near Girish Park.

President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Amaju Pinnick, has insisted he does not have any regrets calling Sunday Oliseh Africa’s Pep Guardiola. Oliseh has been blamed in some quarters, for the Super Eagles’ failure to qualify for the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations in Gabon. The former national team captain was contracted last July, but decided to quit after a series of indifferent results, including a draw away to Tanzania in the AFCON qualifying series.

The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), has confirmed that its lawyers are assessing the possibility of changing the rules of the AFCON 2017 qualifying series, after Chad pulled out of Group G. Chad’s withdrawal now means only one country can qualify for the tournament in Gabon from the group. The West African country cited financial difficulties as the reason for pulling out. “It is rather unfortunate that Chad, one of the teams in the qualification group, suddenly pulled out of the

The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), is expected to name a new foreign coach for the Super Eagles within a fortnight. This was revealed by NFF president, Amaju Pinnick, who also said the incoming manager’s salaries will be footed by a private company. Samson Siasia has been acting as the interim coach of the national team, since Sunday Oliseh resigned in February. “We’re going to get a foreign manager for the team,” Pinnick was quoted as saying by Vanguard newspaper.

Good morning! Here are 10 things you need to know this morning: 1. The Director of Radio Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, has sent a letter to the British government to wade into his case and have him released from detention. Kanu, approached the British government through his lawyer, Mr. Ifeanyi Ejiofor. A letter lamenting his unjustly detention was sent to the British High Commission in Abuja. 2. The Defence Ministry, yesterday, denied media reports, which quoted its Minister, Mansur Muhammed as saying that the Boko Haram was still operating in two council areas in the north east.

Ex-international, Adokiye Amiesimaka, says the lack of quality players in the Super Eagles is responsible for the draw back the team has been experiencing in recent times. Amiesimaka, who was a member of the victorious Green Eagles squad that won the 1980 AFCON in Lagos, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on Wednesday. The former winger added that the players lacked the finesse needed to play at the world stage compared to what was obtainable in the 1980s and 1990s.

The National Assembly has assured that details of the 2016 budget would be ready in the next two weeks. Addressing a news conference yesterday in Abuja, the chairman of the House Committee on Appropriation, Rep Abdulmumin Jibrin (APC, Kano) said both the Senate and the House Committees on Appropriation were working to ensure this happened. “At the moment, we are working on the details of the budget. We’ll take a week or two to work on the details. We are doing the final harmonization. We are looking at the various reports of the committees,” he said.

Current champions of the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL), Enyimba defeated Shooting Stars 2-0 on Wednesday, in a rescheduled Week Two fixture, played at the Umuahia Township Stadium. Abu Azeez gave the People’s Elephant the lead 12 minutes before the break, before Joseph Osadiaye confirmed their three points in the 88th minute, slotting home Mfon Udoh’s pass. In another game, Akwa United picked their first away win of the season, with a 3-1 victory over El Kanemi Warriors in Katsina.

Tay's Twitter account was accidentally turned back on while the company was fixing the problems. Almost a week after being shut down for spewing racist and sexist comments on Twitter, Microsoft Corp's artificial intelligence 'chatbot' called Tay briefly rejoined Twitter on Wednesday only to launch a spam attack on its followers. The incident marks another embarrassing setback for the software company as it tries to get ahead of Alphabet Inc's Google, Facebook Inc and other tech firms in the race to create virtual agents that can interact with people and learn from them.

The FBI may be allowed to withhold information about how it broke into an iPhone belonging to a gunman in the December San Bernardino shootings, despite a U.S. government policy of disclosing technology security flaws discovered by federal agencies. Under the U.S. vulnerabilities equities process, the government is supposed to err in favor of disclosing security issues so companies can devise fixes to protect data. The policy has exceptions for law enforcement, and there are no hard rules about when and how it must be applied.

  Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and Director of Radio Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, has called on the British Government to lean on President Muhammadu Buhari to release him from prison. Kanu alongside two other Biafra proponents, Benjamin Madubugwu and David Nwawuisi, are facing treason charges. The IPOB leader wrote a letter dated March 24 to the British High Commissioner in Abuja, through his lawyer, Ifeanyi Ejiofor.

El-Rufai said he could not have slapped his deputy and was not slapped by his deputy – He said he respect his deputy and their relationship dates back to their university days Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Rufai says healthcare and education in the state are more important than Hajj Did El-Rufai slapped his deputy? Following various reports that there was exchange of hot slaps between the now embattled Kaduna state governor, Nasir el-Rufai and his deputy, Barnabas Bala, the governor has come out to clarify the issues. El-Rufai had earlier clashed with the Vice-President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo and was once described as President Buhari’s real vice-president.

Samsung Electronics is facing a lawsuit from Pelé seeking $30m in compensation, after the football legend claimed the electronics group used a lookalike to promote its televisions last year. The former Brazil footballer filed the lawsuit against Samsung in Chicago earlier this month, claiming that the South Korean group used his identity in a full-page advert for ultra high-definition TVs that appeared in the New York Times last October. The advertisement did not mention Pelé by name but featured a large portrait photograph of an elderly black man who “very closely resembles” him, in addition to a smaller picture of a white soccer player performing a “modified bicycle of scissors-kick, perfected and famously used by Pelé”, the complaint said.

President Obama (Reuters) – Just as fears of nuclear terrorism are rising, U.S. President Barack Obama’s drive to lock down vulnerable atomic materials worldwide seems to have lost momentum and could slow further. With less than 10 months left in office to follow through on one of his signature foreign policy initiatives, Obama will convene leaders from more than 50 countries in Washington this week for his fourth and final Nuclear Security Summit, a high-level diplomatic process that started and will end on his watch.