Jonathan Will Come Out Victorious – Dickson

Bayelsa state governor, Mr. Seriake Dickson has projected that current President, Goodluck Jonathan will defeat Buhari come 2015 national elections.

The governor told voters from all regions of the nation to go out and get their Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs) and get ready for the general election.Seriake Dickson asked bayelsans to pray for their former governor so he could overcome the difficult circumstances facing the administration.

NFF Sends second batch of elite referees to London

 

A second batch of elite referees, this time 20 in number, will depart Nigeria for a two –week capacity building exercise in the United Kingdom on January 25, 2015.
The delegation would be led by Chairman of the NFF Referees Committee, Alhaji Yusuf Ahmed Fresh, and would also include the Chairman of the Nigeria Referees Association, Alhaji Ahmed Maude.

UN calls for 'full Rohingya citizenship'

Non-binding resolution sends a strong message to Myanmar's government over its treatment of country's minorities.

The General Assembly urged the government to allow the Muslim minority to call itself Rohingya

The UN General Assembly has approved a resolution urging Myanmar to provide "full citizenship'' to its Rohingya Muslim minority and to allow them to move freely throughout the country. The resolution adopted by consensus on Monday, stressed the assembly's "serious concern'' about the government's treatment of the Rohingyas, sending a strong message from the 193-member world body that the international community is united in wanting change in Myanmar's treatment of its minorities. It also called on the government to take measures to ensure that the Rohingyas can safely return to their communities, to conduct independent investigations into rights abuses, "and to promote peaceful coexistence".

Barca transfer ban upheld by court

Catalans may appeal after Court of Arbitration for Sport decision means club can't make transfers until January 2016.

Barcelona's youth system has produced footballing phenomena like Lionel Messi [AP]

Barcelona's appeal against a FIFA punishment for an alleged breach of rules on the transfer of foreign players in the Under-18 age group has been rejected by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), the Spanish club said on Tuesday.

Navalny says Putin's regime must be destroyed

Russian opposition leader calls for mass protests after he is given a suspended sentence and his brother is jailed.

Navalny's younger brother Oleg was sentenced to three-and-a-half years in jail [EPA]

Russia's top opposition leader Alexei Navalny has called for mass protests to "destroy" President Vladimir Putin's regime after a court handed him a suspended sentence and jailed his brother in a controversial fraud case. At a hearing that was abruptly brought forward by two weeks, a Moscow judge on Tuesday found both Navalny and his brother Oleg guilty of embezzlement and sentenced them to three and a half years in what is widely seen as a politically motivated case.

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Obasanjo, Buhari planning interim govt —FG

 

The Minister of Police Affairs, Jelili Adesiyan, on Monday, said a plot by former President Olusegun Obasanjo and the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) to form an interim government has been uncovered.

The minister said this in Lagos at the launch of a book titled, ‘Watch the Watcher,’ written by an activist, Yinka Odumakin, in reaction to Obasanjo’s controversial book, ‘My Watch’