SARAKI CROWNED ON A SHAKY THRONE; HE WILL BE DISGRACED! - CACOL

The Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders, CACOL has called on Mr. Bukola Saraki to tow the path of honour by resigning as the President of the Nigerian Senate. This is following the latest revelations from the ‘Panama Papers’ leaks about assets confirmed to be proceeds of corruption belonging to the Saraki Dynasty.

The Executive Chairman of CACOL, Mr. Debo Adeniran, reacting to the ‘Panama Papers’ revelations said that “before becoming the Senate President, a position which he assumed via very controversial means; Saraki was known for running publicly-owned businesses bankrupt and someone with a poor reputation such as his, isn’t fit to be called or be elected as a Senator not even to talk of becoming the Senate President.With such a background and considering that he  oscillates between sitting in the criminal suspects’ box in the Code of Conduct Tribunal as a criminal suspect and sitting as President of the Senate in the hallowed Chambers of the National Assembly as the President of the Senate doubling as the Chairman of the National Assembly, the situation becomes an aberration and makes Saraki a misfit to occupy a seat in the Nigerian Senate in the first place and unfit to continue to occupy the exalted position of the Senate Presidency.’’

The FG Must Ensure That Recovered Loots Are Not Re-Looted; And Due Punitives Must Be Applied For Looters - CACOL

The Executive Chairman of the Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders, CACOL, Mr, Debo Adeniran has called on the Federal government to ensure that loots recovered as the battle against corruption goes on are not re-looted and that all recovered loots are channeled back to the original projects or purposes for which they were meant for, in cases where the original projects have been fixed, such funds should be put in Treasury Single Account (TSA) and used for other important needs of the nation.

Mr. Adeniran said, ‘’it would a double tragedy if recovered funds/loots end-up getting re-looted by the incurably corrupt elements that are clearly still lurking around in very powerful positions in the present government. The processes involved in the recovery must be transparent and accountable.’’

Adam Johnson jailed: 'Don't blame football, but sport must learn'

Johnson was sacked by Sunderland after admitting on the first day of his trial that he had kissed the girlAs Adam Johnson begins his six-year sentence after being convicted of sexual activity with a child, having also pleaded guilty to one count of grooming and one count of kissing the girl, there is an understandable desire to make sure football is doing everything it can to stop such a crime happening again.If it is a worthy aspiration, the sport has been here before; in March 1999, another former England winger, Graeme Rix, at the time assistant coach at Chelsea, was sentenced to 12 months in prison for having unlawful sex with a 15-year-old girl.That it could easily occur once more is explained for some by an easy if unsavoury equation: a lifestyle of entitlement and avarice, a moral black hole when elite players should be role models.Except this is about more than just football, and more specific than some ethical malaise among millionaire young men and those who advise them.You may or may not be comfortable with footballers, Johnson among them, who earn three times as much in a week as the average annual wage in the town where they play, or who choose to spend some of that on blinged-up luxury cars, or who have sexual relations with women who are not their partners.To conflate a materialist lifestyle or promiscuity between consenting adults with what Johnson did, however, is to ignore the very clear distinction between what one individual might consider distasteful and what society as a whole has deemed illegal.To blame football for Johnson, one would equally have to blame the public relations industry for the indecent assaults on young girls carried out by Max Clifford, or the teaching profession and television industry for the two indecent assaults on teenage boys committed by former weatherman and biology teacher Fred Talbot.

Fuel scarcity to persist till May-- Kachikwu

The Minister of State for Petroleum, Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu, has said that queues at petrol stations across the nation will persist for the next two months. Kachikwu said this in an interview with State House journalists Wednesday after he and the leaderships of Nigeria Union of the Petroleum and Natural Gas (NUPENG) and the Petroleum and Natural Gas‎ Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN)  met with President Muhammadu Buhari. The minister asked Nigerians to bear with the government measures,  saying measures were being taken to build fuel reserves with a view to sustaining supply.

New Dawn: Mikel Appointed New Super Eagles Captain

. New Eagles Captain Mikel Obi Addressing Media At The Press Briefing In Kaduna

Super Eagles midfielder, John Obi Mikel has been appointed new team captain with just 24 hours to the crucial Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualifier against the Pharaohs of Egypt in Kaduna.

The news was revealed at the pre-match press briefing in Kaduna, after former captain, Ahmed Musa decided to step down for the Chelsea midfielder to rock the leadership affair in the national team, and the CSKA forward is now the team’s vice-captain.