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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission told a Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday that its operatives found cash sum of $1m in the bedroom of an Abuja mansion of the former Chief of Defence Staff, Air Marshal Alex Badeh (retd). The anti-graft agency alleged that the ex-CDS purchased the house in which the money was found with dollar equivalent of N1.1bn said to have been fraudulently removed from the accounts of the Nigerian Air Force in 2013. It said although, Badeh had denied ownership of the property, his belongings, including photographs were found in it during a search by the operatives of the commission.

Gen. Murtala Muhammed was assassinated on February 13 1976 in a coup attempt when he was on his way to his office. Along with him that very moment was the sole survival of the attack, Sergant Michael Otuwu, who narrated what transpired that moment 40 years ago as the former head of state is been remembered. Had the coup plotters led by Lt. Col. Buka Suka Dimka not noticed the door of General Murtala Muhammed’s Mercedes Benz car open minutes after it was sprayed with bullets from AK-47 assault rifles, triggering another round of firing,

Muhammadu Buhari, President of Nigeria A monthly poll tracking the performance of governments at all levels in Nigeria, and providing feedback from the public to their elected officials, has recorded President Muhammadu Buhari’s first major approval rating slide. The February survey by Governance Advancement Initiative for Nigeria, GAIN, said more Nigerians for the first time since December 2015 scored Mr. Buhari low on jobs, economy, and power. In earlier months, the poll found that majority of respondents did not blame President Buhari for Nigeria’s current economic troubles.

Yakubu Gowon Nigeria’s former military head of state, Yakubu Gowon, has confirmed his paternity of a 48-year-old man recently deported from the United States. Mr. Gowon announced Wednesday that a DNA test had proven Musa Jack Ngodadi is his biological son. Musa Gowon, who had been in jail in the U.S. for 22 years, was pardoned by President Barrack Obama in 2015, cutting short the 40-year prison term he was to serve for alleged drug related crime of which he was found guilty on November 18, 1992. Musa, a striking lookalike of the former head of state, returned to Nigeria on January 1, 2016, after the U.S. Immigration officials deported him.

  Mikel and other foreign-based players are given a March 21 deadline to arrive for the Egypt games – Coach Samson Siasia wants all players to be in camp early – He says the homebased players are already preparing hard Ahead of the crucial 2017 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying double-header against the Pharaohs of Egypt, the Super Eagles interim head coach, Samson Siasia, has given March 21 as the deadline for the arrival of foreign-based players. Siasia has already barred defender Segun Oduduwa and midfielders Stanley Dimgba and Usman Mohammed from showing up at the Bolton White Apartments camp of the Super Eagles, after they reported late to the camp of the U-23 team without earlier permission.

We can work it out? This week South Africa's President Jacob Zuma visited Nigeria and stressed that Africa's two economic giants could work together. Relations have been fraught, not helped by South African deaths in a Nigerian pastor's building and a $5bn Nigerian fine for a South African phone company. Here, two writers take a tongue-in-cheek look at how the nations see each other. How us South Africans view Nigerians Milton Nkosi, Johannesburg

PSG are a good football club. They have great players. They're chic. But I'll stick my neck out and predict that they are unlikely to win the Champions League. In this season at least.   The Chelsea-PSG R16 second-leg game was proof enough that a Barcelona, Real Madrid or Bayern Munich would run circles around the Parisian club. Chelsea were wasteful. They looked exasperated without the ball and flustered with it. They had so much time and space in front of the PSG goal for so long. But their bag of tricks has been empty all season.