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| credits: OPPOSITION figures on Thursday stepped up the marketing of their newly-christened joint party, the All Progressive Congress, with a promise that the new platform would bring an end to the rule of the Peoples Democratic Party. Former governor of Lagos State and National Leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria, a key component of the new alliance, Bola Tinubu, described the years of PDP in power as the rule of “scavengers and wayfarers.” “What we have now are wayfarers, scavengers in the corridors of power and apologists, professionals whose ethics evaporate the moment they come in contact with the paraphernalia of power. “But there is help coming. Help is on the way as the opposition moves to form a broad-based coalition that will send these characters out of power and put into gear the Nigerian project.” Another key figure in the new political dispensation and an ex-Head of State, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, also enjoined Nigerians to give the APC, an identity un...

Two of the Super Eagles’ star performers, Emmanuel Emenike  and  Victor Moses , were left out of Thursday’s training session, after they picked up knocks in the 4-1 victory over  Mali . The team’s doctor,  Ibrahim Gyaran , confirmed that he advised Stephen Keshi, to exclude the players from training, so they could undergo tests on the injuries they picked up. Emenike is expected to return to training on Friday, after he showed signs of recovery from cramps, while Moses is still awaiting results of the scan he underwent. Keshi had told journalists after the match that “We will know about that, probably (on Thursday). The doctor will have to go and do some scans so we will know better,” Keshi said on Wednesday. “Hopefully, it’s not that bad. We will play (our next game) on Sunday. We just pray to God because we need everybody in the team. We are keeping our fingers crossed.” The Big Boss will be hoping to have two of his key players in great shape for th...

Premier   League   clubs   vote   in   favour   of   new   financial   fair   play   model   at   crunch   meeting Top-flight clubs also approved a salary cap as the league supported far-reaching spending reforms that limits clubs' losses to £105million over a three-year period By  Wayne Veysey  | Chief Correspondent Premier League  clubs have voted in favour of introducing a domestic financial fair play model from next season. The breakaway group of Arsenal, Liverpool, Manchester United and Tottenham failed to push through a strict 'break-even' rule at a showdown meeting in London on Thursday afternoon but club bosses agreed to a compromise system that limits a club's losses to £105million over a three-year period. The top-flight clubs also approved a cap on wage increases as the Premier League imposed the first spending controls by a first major European league. It was agreed in prin...

INTERVIEW BASIL CHIJI OKAFOR • Without Employment Opportunities, Youth Revolution Imminent • What Do You Expect When You Extol A Thief In Your Community? • Blame The Commanders, Not Awolowo For Civil War Killings, Starvation • I Didn’t Know Yar’Adua Would Die… President Olusegun Obasanjo A sprawling view of Abeokuta lay prostrate from his hilltop mansion, a metaphor for the clout of its owner, a man whose sheer strength of character held an impossible Nigeria in the palm of his hand for eight long years. It is not for nothing that he is called Baba, yet another aphorism for some sort of a hard-to-get-to-know paterfamilias, whose offspring would usually approach with great trepidation, not knowing exactly what to expect. Long after he had left office, as President of the Federal Republic, General Olusegun Obasanjo’s home is still like a pilgrimage ground, with hordes of visitors, trooping in and out, to hold court for one reason, or the other — Baba’s opinion, influence and wise couns...

Leicester, England (CNN)   -- The line snakes around the block, hundreds of people wrapped up against the early autumn chill. The crowd waits patiently as a sensibly-dressed, middle-aged woman wanders along the queue, handing out flyers and apologizing for the delay. "He's been waiting hundreds of years," says one woman, gesturing towards the archway up ahead with a smile. "It won't kill us to hang on for half an hour." NEW: DNA test proves remains are those of Richard III "He" is Richard III, one of the most famous kings of England, remembered by school children and Shakespeare aficionados alike as a notorious villain, hunchbacked and hateful, accused of killing his own nephews, the "Princes in the Tower," to usurp the throne, and whose whereabouts were, until recently, a complete mystery. The king in the parking lot The history books record that in August 1485, Richard - the last English king to die in battle - rode out fr...