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Former Arsenal, Manchester and Tottenham striker, Emmanuel Adebayor has signed 18 months deal with Turkish Super Lig high flyers, Istanbul Basakehir. The deal had some hiccups after the club revealed they couldn't match his £58,000-a-week wage demands. Emmanuel Adebayor had been without a club for the past six months after he was released by Crystal Palace. Adebayor shared the news on his Instagram page and wrote; "SEA, God has perfect timing; never early, never late. I am pleased to announce that I have reached an agreement with Istanbul Başakşehir FK. New league, new club, new challenge... but we all speak the same language which is football. Very excited to meet my teammates, the staff and the fans here. Lets get to work right away ! "

The Minister of State, Petroleum Resources , Mr Ibe Kachikwu, said that Nigeria is capable of producing three million barrels of crude oil per day from the Niger Delta region. Kachikwu stated this at a stakeholders’ meeting organised by the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs on Tuesday in Abuja. Apart from the Niger Delta Ministry, the convener, the meeting was also attended by officials from the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board, among others. The minister said the insecurity in the region had been undermining the nation’s capacity to realise its potential in oil production. He said, “It is important we continue to sustain the institutional engagement and negotiations which are key to the development of the region. “Our target is zero militancy by the middle of 2017, and an incident reduction in the region by 90 per cent by 2018. “We must resolve current militancy problems and bring back oil production to 2.2 million barrels per day.” He

The Indigenous People of Biafra,IPOB, on Tuesday, denied reports that it was sponsored by some South-East politicians. A faction of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra had on Saturday accused some unnamed politicians in the South-East of sponsoring protests organised by IPOB members. “We welcome genuine protests like the ones always carried out by MASSOB. The IPOB protests are sponsored by politicians,” National Director of Information of the MASSOB faction, Mr. Sunday Okereafor, said in an interview with SUNDAY PUNCH. But IPOB, in a statement signed by its spokesmen, Emma Mmezu and Dr. Clifford Iroanya, said it has nothing to do with any politician. The secessionist group said it depends on monthly contributions by its members. “IPOB depends on monthly contributions of dedicated family members all over the world for its sustenance. “We do not have money-bags nor do we have politicians among us with bags of money to spon

The presidency has reacted to the February 5th proposed Nationwide protest which singer, 2face Idibia and other celebrities have come out to support. Speaking in an interview with Lagos Talk 91.3fm, Senior Special Assistant to President Buhari on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, said those who are calling for the protest are people who supported the last government and are still pained that they lost the last election. "This is a country of about 180 million people. It is impossible for 180 million people to think the same way. Yoruba has a saying that is you all sleep and put your head in the same direction, then you are all foolish because you would be breathing in one another's mouth and lungs. Dont forget the last election and how it went. Somebody scored 12.5 million votes, another scored about 15 million votes. There are some people who are still in that election mode. They have not gotten out of it and till today, they are still living and "rheumatisizing

Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State on Tuesday said the Government House was not a bank where people went to collect money but a place to render service. Obaseki made this known while receiving executive members of Women’s wing of All Progressive Congress in the state in Benin. He assured the women of 35 per cent appointment in his administration but insisted that “government house is not where you come to make money, but where you come to serve.” According to him, I don’t have money to give anybody; the money I have is to work for the people. He said, “I can create money going by my experience as an investment banker; I can organise things and people must be ready to work.” He told the women that the days had gone when politics was about money sharing. He said, “The question is what do you do with the political power. It is our level of commitment that gets us where we want to be. “People should be ready to work. We should prioritise and cut waste becaus

The Federal Road Safety Corps has recommended a nationwide ban on commercial motorcycles popularly known as ‘Okada’ to reduce road accidents. The recommendation forms part of the October Road Traffic Crash Report 2016, submitted by the Corps Marshal, Mr. Boboye Oyeyemi, to the Secretary to the Government of the Federation. The report quotes Oyeyemi as saying that commercial motorcyclist remained a major cause of fatal road traffic accidents across the country, hence the need for state governments to consider banning them from operating. The RTC statistics for October 2016 shows that 230 cases or 18 per cent of a total of 1,259 vehicles involved in accidents within the month were commercial motorcycles. According to the report, motorcycle accidents ranked third after cars which accounted for 457 cases or 36 per cent, followed by minibuses with 243 or 19 per cent of the total. Oyeyemi said, “Following the outcome of the analysis, it could be concluded that motor

Off  Mr Eazi ‘s Mixtape “ Life is Eazi – Accra To Lagos ” here is our pick titled “ In The Morning ” featuring  Big Lean . Enjoy!! Download “Mr Eazi Ft. Big Lean – In The Morning”  DOWNLOAD MP3 Source: Naijaloaded

A total of 6,856 recruits have been deployed to work in Enugu State under the Federal Government N-POWER job scheme, the Commissioner for Education, Prof. Uche Eze, has said. Eze disclosed this to newsmen in Enugu on Tuesday after a meeting of the State Steering Committee on the Federal Government – Enugu State Government Social Investment Programmes. According to the commissioner, the social investment programmes will fully take off in the state on Feb. 1. He said that the state government was a notable partner in all special intervention programmes of the federal government and would continue to take the partnership seriously. He said, “On the N-POWER programme, about 6,856 recruits were deployed to the state and we have verified some of them, looking at their credentials to find out their areas of specialisation. “We also considered their local governments of origin so that we will deploy them to places close to them for them to be very effective in t

Off his 8th Solo Album titled ” ID Cabasa ”.. Here is another smashing single titled ” OJO ”. The song was produced by Krizbeatz. Enjoy!! Listen & Download “9ice – Ojo”  DOWNLOAD MP3 Source: Naijaloaded

The Rivers State Police Commissioner, Mr. Francis Bolaji Odesanya, is dead. Odesanya was said to have died this morning in an undisclosed hospital abroad after a brief illness. He was the 37 th  Rivers State Commissioner of Police, having succeeded Mr. Foluso Adebanjo on July 12, 2016. Odesanya joined the force  on February 2, 1986, as a Cadet Assistant Superintendent of Police and rose through the ranks to his current position of Commissioner of Police.

The Ekiti State House of Assembly has given the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), 21-day ultimatum to commence investigation into the allegation of N40 billion fraud made against the immediate past governor of the State and Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Dr Kayode Fayemi and others, or face legal action, accusing the anti-corruption commission of compromise. The House of Assembly, in a letter reminding the EFCC of the petition it submitted to the commission on October 27, 2016, said; “should the EFCC fail, refuse and or neglect to act on this petition within 21 days of receipt of this letter of reminder; we shall have no option than to institute legal action against you. Consequently, we shall be asking for an order of mandamus compelling you to perform your duties according to the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended) and the EFCC Act 2004.” The house had submitted a petition, dated October 24, 2016 and signed by the Spea

The Nigerian Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers has warned the Federal Government against any further increase in the price of petroleum products. The President of NUPENG, Mr. Achese Igwe, said that the increase in the pump price of fuel could not be the solution to the biting economic situation in the country. Igwe made the comment while speaking on Channels Television’s Sunrise daily programme monitored by our correspondent on Monday. He stressed that the claim that the Federal Government was owing the Depot and Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria was no reason to consider any increase in the pump price of petroleum products. When asked about the amount owed DAPMAN, he said “That shouldn’t be a basis for talking about increases in the price òf petroleum products. If marketers are being owed by government, I believe they have a right to ask for their debt, I believe Government also has a responsibility to pay part of their debt. “NARTO (

A black mother who gave birth to a million-to-one, white, blue-eyed baby boy has stunned doctors by having a second white child. Financial analyst Catherine Howarth, 35, who is of Nigerian heritage, believed the rare recessive white gene that resulted in son Jonah, three, being completely white would not strike a second time. So she was stunned when the midwife handed her daughter Sophia and she was as white as her big brother. The mum from Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, believes she is the only black mother in the world to have given birth to two white, blue-eyed children. She said: ‘When Jonah was born, a genetic specialist said he was a one-in-a-million baby. He said it was extraordinary with my African background that I’d had a child with blue eyes and pale skin. ‘He calculated the possibility of it happening again was less than one in a million. ‘So when Sophia was born with white skin and blue eyes I was more than taken aback with shock. It seems the odds o

Humans’ earliest known relative was likely an egg-shaped creature that ate and expelled from the same gaping orifice some 540 million years ago, scientists reported Monday. Startlingly well-preserved fossils of the tiny beast, dubbed Saccorhytus, were discovered in central China’s Shaanxi province, they reported in the journal Nature. Several major branches of evolution — one of them eventually leading to humans — began from this inconspicuous, sea-dwelling organism, they speculated. “This may represent the primitive beginnings of a very diverse range of species, including ourselves,” said co-author Simon Conway Morris, a professor at Britain’s University of Cambridge. Saccorhytus belongs to a broad category of organisms called deuterostomes, and is the most ancient specimen unearthed so far. Indeed, all deuterostomes — vertebrates (animals with backbones), echinoderms (starfish and sea urchins) and other distinct groups — are thought to have derived from

….As Osinbajo, Dogara, Okorocha meet The Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo,  on Monday met behind closed doors with the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara; and the Chairman of the Progressives Governors Forum, Rochas Okorocha.   The meeting which lasted about 30minutes was held inside Osinbajo’s office at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.   At the end of the meeting, Dogara did not speak with journalists.   He said he only accompanied Okorocha who is the Imo State Governor to visit Osinbajo.   Speaking on the call for Igbo President, the governor told State House correspondents that that could only come up at the end of the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari.   He said, “What I do know is that Ndigbo should talk about Presidency after President Muhammadu Buhari. I think we should support this government.   “President Muhammadu Buhari has a tenure to work for: four or eight years.   “According to the zoning arrangement and eve