Ooni OF IFE IS ALIVE SAYS .....ROYAL COUNCIL

Joseph Ijaodola, an Oba and the Lowa of Ife, who advised newsmen at the Ooni castle at Enuwa, in Ile-Ife early yesterday, said the ruler was robust and generous.

RTC, which is a blend of conventional boss and title holders' said the report that the ruler passed on in a healing center in the United Kingdom was untrue.

Ijaodola said: "I therefore disperse the gossip that our Baba, the Olubuse is dead. As I talk with you, the boss have not heard anything like that. This is not the first run through such gossip will be conveyed about our dad.

"" They did it in 1982, likewise in 2004 and now, these individuals are thinking of another gossip. Ooni stays in stable condition of wellbeing."

Vanguard saw occupants of the antiquated town trooping to the castle yesterday to determine if the news about the demise of the ruler was valid.

The media had reported that Sijuwade kicked the bucket in a clinic in London, Britain, and the news of his demise was affirmed by different sources near to the castle yet the foreswearing of the news came as a shock to numerous.

Additionally talking, secretary Royal Traditional Council of Ife, the Ladin of Ife, High Chief Adetoye Odewole, said Ooni is solidness and generous and even identifies with the boss on telephone couple of hours prior.

He included that "Those behind the demise story are adversaries of Ife and as I talk with you, boss have not heard anything like that. This is not the first run through such talk will be conveyed about our dad.

"They did it in 1984, additionally in 2004 and now, these individuals are thinking of another talk. Oba Sijuade stays in solid condition of wellbeing".

Additionally remarking, executive, Ife Development Board, Prof. Muib Opeloye, said Ife as a town with rich custom has its method for dealing with its issues.

Opeloye kept up the ruler was get ready for his child's wedding, encouraging individuals not to frenzy and go about their ordinary day by day exercises.

Interim, the passageway of Ooni castle was closed to guests, as just newsmen, boss and relations of Oba Sijuade were permitted into the premises.

Numerous indigenes and inhabitants of Ife had merged at passage of the castle however were kept from going inside by gatekeepers.

Osun State government is yet to put forth official expression concerning the destruction of the ruler.

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Executive General of the DSS, Lawal Daura is an APC part - PDP

The National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) at its meeting today altogether considered various imperative issues relating to the situation in our country. 

The NWC conveys to the consideration of President Muhammadu Buhari to some irritating improvement in the nation which, if not stopped from developing in any way, may essentially influence our vote based system and dependability as a country adversely, and that is the developing and outlandish interruption of some over-fanatical security agents on issues bordering simply on legislative issues.

Specifically, the NWC wishes to draw the consideration of the President to the proceeded with intimidation, provocation and in addition the harassing, capture and confinement of Electoral Officers and individuals from race tribunals by agents of the Department of State Services (DSS) in Rivers, Akwa-Ibom and other PDP states.

The NWC noticed that this grievous advancement has been the situation since the arrangement of the new Director General of the DSS, Alhaji Lawal Musa Daura, whom we learnt was a basic insight partner of the APC as a card-conveying individual from that gathering amid the battles. This is corrupt and unsuitable.

We do trust that in his new occupation, the Director General of DSS is not blending issues on the APC presidential hopeful and the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, subsequently the requirement for Mr. President to rein him in as the improvement is fit for disintegrating the valued autonomy of the legal and the appointive commission, a sine qua non for a virile majority rules system, which ensures our solidarity and strength as a country.

Correspondingly, we ask Mr. President to examine the issue of the arrangement of Mrs. Amina Zakari as Acting Chairman of INEC for which our gathering has severally raised some notable issues why she is not suitable for that position. It is undeniable that Mrs. Zakari by uprightness of her blood association with Mr. President can't direct the issues of an Independent National Electoral Commission.

Nigeria has a place with every one of us independent of political, religious and ethnic alliance and as a mindful political gathering we should not overlay our hands and watch while our country float along perilous line.

Besides, the NWC recognizes and salutes the PDP assemblies in the Senate and the House of Representatives on the smooth rise of the Minority authority in the National Assembly. We take note of that the procedure was with no obstructions at all from the administration of our extraordinary gathering in keeping with the manages of the freedom of the lawmaking body.

At long last, the NWC pondered on the condition of the gathering in Ekiti State and determined that it just perceives the state Exco drove by Chief Idowu Faleye. The NWC however summons every single discriminating partner in the gathering organization in Ekiti State to a meeting with the national authority on the issues in the state section.

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Nigeria looks for connections with Germany

Nigeria are trying to fashion closer connections with Germany to attempt to resuscitate the nation's soccer fortunes and help the national group's improvement. 

NFF president Amaju Pinnick said on the body's site: "We distinctly longing to band together with the DFB (German Football Federation) and the German League.

"We are asking for backing for our advancement programs for ladies' football, arbitrators and mentors.

"The NFF is doing a considerable measure in the territory of advancement of the diversion in Nigeria."

Pinnick included: "Germany is not just the supreme champions of the world in football, it is additionally an exceptionally solid financial force."

There has as of now been a meeting between NFF authorities and Germany's envoy to Nigeria, Dietmar Kreusel to talk about the recommendations.

Nigeria, once the powerhouse of African football, have persevered through an intense couple of years in worldwide rivalry.

Positioned tenth all around in 2006, they are currently 57th in the Fifa world rankings - their most reduced subsequent to 1999.

In a year ago's World Cup they came to the round of 16 surprisingly since 1998 preceding losing to France.

In the wake of winning the African Nations Cup in 2013, they neglected to fit the bill for the current year's finals in Equatorial Guinea.

"Our checks have demonstrated that the Bundesliga is the top model League in the universe," NFF VP Shehu Dikko said.

"We have had examinations with the CEO of the Bundesliga, and our arrangement includes sending some of our club directors to Germany to go and perceive how it is done in that nation."

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Gaddafi child sentenced to death over atrocities

     
A court in Libya has sentenced Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, child of removed pioneer Col Muammar Gaddafi, and eight others to death over atrocities connected to the 2011 upheaval. 

More than 30 nearby partners of Col Gaddafi were striven for stifling tranquil dissents amid the uprising.

Saif al-Islam was not present in court and gave proof by means of feature connection.

He is being held by a previous agitator bunch from the town of Zintan that declines to hand him over.

A Zintani source demonstrated to the BBC that they would not execute him or hand him over to the court.

'Until the dramatic finale'

Previous head of insight for the Gaddafi administration, Abdullah al-Senussi, is among those additionally confronting demise by terminating squad, as is previous PM Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi.

They have the privilege to advance against their sentences inside of 60 days

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Greece debt crisis: Creditors press for new proposals

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Yemen emergency: Many kick the bucket in Saudi-drove coalition air strike

An air strike by the Saudi-drove coalition has executed no less than 30 individuals in the southern Yemeni port city of Aden, witnesses there have said.

It is misty what number of the dead were regular people or Houthi rebels who the coalition planes have been focusing on.

The agitators caught the capital, Sanaa a year ago, compelling President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi into outcast.

Approximately 3,000 individuals have been executed subsequent to the Saudi-drove crusade started in March, the UN says.

The most recent strike hit a commercial center in Fayoush, a suburb of Aden, witnesses there said.

"[There was] blood from individuals blended with that of the sheep and other animals at the business sector," one inhabitant told the Associated Press news organization.

Endeavors are keeping on attempting to expedite a philanthropic truce that would gone through Eid al-Fitr, a noteworthy Muslim celebration, not long from now.

Both the Houthis and the Yemeni government in a state of banishment have flagged an availability to watch such a détente.

The UN has announced its most elevated amount of crisis in the nation, with more than 80% of Yemen's populace requiring guide

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Toolz & her fiance, Tunde Demuren lock lips at her birthday dinner

OAP Toolz and her life partner Tunde Demuren imagined out of sight kissing at her birthday supper tonight. Companions of the bootylicious media identity tossed her tranquil birthday supper at an estaurant in Lagos. Ebuka Obi Uchendu and his fiancee, Gbemi Olateru-Olagbegi, Lamide Adedeji and wife were among the visitors.

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