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Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State Jethro Ibileke/Benin ‎ Detectives at the Zone 5 Police headquarters in Benin, Edo State, have detained the pastor of a popular pentecostal church (names withheld) over an alleged murder of his wife in Uromi town, Esan North-East Local Government Area of the state.‎ The pastor, identified as Kingsley Amayo, was arrested with three other pastors of the church in connection with the death his wife, Mrs. Faith Amayo, 38, after the woman’s family wrote a petition, alleging questionable circumstances surrounding the death of their daughter. Elder brother of the deceased, Engineer Fidelis Evbuomwan, who spoke with journalists in Benin, disclosed that the deceased who was yet to have a child was properly married to Pastor Kingsley Amayo in 2011. He said his bereaved family had to instruct their lawyer to initiate a petition when their in-law, Pastor Kingsley Amayo gave conflicting accounts of how his wife died in an accident he was also involved. ...

FIJI player slugs it out at the Olympic Rugby competition Fiji won the first Olympic medal in its history Thursday by beating Great Britain in the final of the inaugural men’s rugby sevens competition. Competing at its 14th Summer Games, the rugby-mad nation took the gold after registering a 43-7 victory at the Deodoro Olympic Park. The bronze medal went to South Africa after it earlier defeated Japan 54-14.

Odion Ighalo top scorer in 2015 Watford striker Odion Ighalo has signed a new five-year deal. The 27-year-old Nigerian joined the Hornets from Udinese in July 2014 and helped them win promotion to the Premier League in 2014-15. He scored 17 goals in 42 games last season as the Vicarage Road side finished 13th in the top flight and reached the FA Cup semi-final. Advertisement Walter Mazzarri’s men start the new campaign with a trip to Southampton on Saturday.

Jibrin and Dogara: Allies Torn apart by budget padding scandal The All Progressives Congress (APC) said it would not sanction House of Representatives Speaker, Mr Yakubu Dogara, or Rep. Abdulmumuni Jibrin over allegations of budget padding in the lower chamber. Deputy National Chairman of the party, Mr Lawal Shuaibu, said this while briefing newsmen at the National Secretariat of the party on Thursday in Abuja. Quoting Article 7, sub-section 5 of APC Constitution, Shuaibu said that the party had the power to do certain things but that whatever was going to be done would not be revealed to the public. He said, “what is padding? The party does not sanction anybody on that. “What concerns us is where any member contravenes the party’s Constitution by his conduct. That is why I refer you to Article 7 sub-section 5 of our party constitution. “We are not a law enforcement organisation; we don’t enforce laws. We only ensure that the Constitution is complied with. “Any member of the pa...

A Kenyan athletics coach has been sent home from Rio after allegedly posing as an athlete and giving a urine sample. Kenya said sprint coach John Anzrah “presented himself as an athlete” and “even signed the documents” for the doping test. “We cannot tolerate such behaviour,” said Kip Keino, chairman of the National Olympic Committee of Kenya. Anzrah is the second Kenyan official to be sent home over doping issues after track and field manager Michael Rotich. Rotich was dismissed following allegations that he was prepared to warn coaches about drugs tests in return for £10,000. Keino said Kenya’s Olympic body had not facilitated Anzrah’s travel to Brazil, adding: “We don’t even know how he came here.” It was not clear which athlete Anzrah was pretending to be. However, a senior Athletics Kenya source said he had spoken to the athlete, who claims Anzrah used his accreditation purely to obtain free meals from the athletes’ village. “When the anti-doping officials met him, they a...

President Buhari and President Zuma South Africa has regained the title of Africa’s largest economy, two years after Nigeria rebased its economy to claim the spot, according to IMF data. A recalculation using current exchange rates put South Africa on top because the rand has strengthened against the dollar, BBC News reports. Nigeria’s currency has fallen sharply since a peg to the dollar was dropped. Nigeria rebased its economy in 2014 to include previously uncounted industries like telecoms, information technology, music, online sales, airlines, and film production. Most countries do rebasing, updating the measure of the size of the economy, at least every three years or so, but Nigeria had not updated the components in its GDP base year since 1990. On the basis of these numbers, there’s not a lot between the two. South Africa’s economy is worth around $301bn (£232bn) and Nigeria comes in at $296bn. The exercise in calculating the numbers using last year’s IMF figures and thi...