Barcelona refuse to confirm Neymar's move to PSG, until they receive the 222m

The club will not send on the forward's International Transfer Certificate until they have received and verified all the funds from the mammoth deal.  Barcelona have affirmed they will not clear Neymar's world record transfer to Paris Saint-Germain until they have received all of the €222 million fee agreed between the clubs. Neymar was forced to sit out PSG's first Ligue 1 match of the season against Amiens last week due to the lack of official clearance for his transfer. The French club must first present an International Transfer Certificate to FIFA confirming the move before Neymar is eligible to play, a usually routine piece of paperwork that in this case has caused the player's debut to be delayed. And Goal understands that it is Barcelona who are holding up the process, as they await full payment of the mammoth fee to be completed before they yield the necessary documents to the Spanish FA (RFEF), who in turn are entrusted with sending them on to France. Club sources insist there is no wrongdoing on their part, and that it is standard procedure for Barcelona in such cases to validate all transfer income before releasing a player's registration. The exceptional nature of the transfer, which more than doubled the previous record that took Paul Pogba from Juventus to Manchester United, is cited as the reason for the delay. The RFEF also confirmed there were no issues with the Certificate. "It is being handled following the normal process, it will be sent when it is ready," Goal heard from the governing body. The mood in Paris, however, is far from calm. PSG have until Thursday evening to register Neymar's International Transfer Certificate, or face losing the Brazilian for yet another Ligue 1 clash this weekend away to Guingamp.

Gbagyi People Writes Gov. El-Rufai over Attempt To Rename Chiefdom.

His Excellency Mallam Nasir A. El-Rufia Executive Governor of Kaduna State Sir Kashim Ibrahim House Kaduna.

Your Excellency, Sir,

RE-APPOINTMENT OF COMMITTEE TO REVIEW THE EXISTING CHIEFTAINCY SYSTEM IN THE STATE

Upon the receipt of the letter date 24th July 2017, by Sa Gbagyi (Dr. Danjuma S. Barde), in respect of the above subject matter from the sub-committee on Nomenclature, requesting him to propose a more suitable title/name for his chiefdom for adoption. After several consultations by the Gbagyi Sound Minds (a socio-cultural pressure group) and other stakeholders, we extensively and intensely deliberated on the request and resolved as follows: While we commend His Excellency for his dynamism and zeal with which he pursues governance in our dear state Kaduna, we wish observe that some of the decisions, actions and inactions of the Governor are too dicey to an extent that they tend to give false impression of what the problems of the state are. Recently, your administration embarked on the illegal sack of district and village heads across all chiefdoms and emirates, which to you have been ‘successfully concluded’ but under legal litigation. On the line now is the review of the chieftaincy system in the state, for which a committee was constituted and currently in business. The first term of reference of this committee is to “examine the nomenclature of the graded chiefs which emphasizes ethnic identity and propose new ones based on town/location…” pursuant to this the sub-committee on nomenclature has requested our chief to propose a most suitable title/name… for adoption”, so that the much needed unity and harmonious co-existence amongst your diverse communities would be achieved. With humility and every sense of responsibility, we wish to emphatically and unequivocally bring to His Excellency, that this is an exercise in futility and will end up bearing no good fruit, and it will amount to squeezing a piece of rock in other to extract water from it. Therefore, we hereby suggest that the government should redirect its energy and strength to areas of greater priorities rather than shadow chasing. Gbagyi Sound Minds thereby invite His Excellency to note and be guided by the following reasons, but permit us to school you on how the Gbgayi Chiefdom emerged: Gbagyi chiefdom or Gbagyi traditional council have been in existence long before the coming of the British colonialist. History has it that Gbagyi people were the first aborigine in the present day Kaduna state, though the Usman Danfodio jihad hoisted their flags in our communities after conquering our communities and our people thereby subjecting us to the absolute monarchism under the Zazzua rule in Zaria. Being fully aware of our distinct cultural and traditional differences with the Hausa/Fulani in Zaria, we therefore sought and struggled for our own chiefdom to called Gbagyi Traditional Council and a leader known as Sa-Gbagyi-1 of Kaduna state, this struggle started as far back as November 28th 1992. Worldwide, but notably in former colonial societies and particularly in Africa, traditional rulership or chieftaincies are relics of the social conditions and systems of social organization of primitive or pre-colonial societies, including our own in Kaduna and Gbaggyi in particular. This system of organization was design to function around distinct communities whose members were bound together by a common ethnicity/culture which gave them their identity. To use an anthropological concept, each ‘tribe’ was and should be recognized by the totality of its ways of life (culture), which is an embodiment of it traditions, values and language. The minorities of Northern Nigeria many of which are non-Islamist societies including our own in Kaduna should be in this light. Modern day traditional institutions/rulership are therefore intended to recognize the diversity in the cultures of various ethnic nationalities which should serve as veritable channels of programme formulation and implementation in modern state administration. Thus, denying them recognition by their ethnic appellations and the titles of their chief’s amounts to transforming them to something else other than traditional institutions. In other states of Nigeria and most African civilizations, such institutions are similarly recognize by their ethnic names not their town/location as proposed by your administration. Examples, O’Childoma, Estu Nupe, Chu Mada, Ohinoyi Igbirra, etc. elsewhere in Africa the same situation obtains in Buganda (Uganda), Zulu (Rep. Of South Africa) and Ashanti (Ghana) kingdoms, Kikuyu of Kenya. We respectfully think that His Excellency missed the point when he eludes the change in nomenclature as the panacea to peaceful and harmonious co-existence. We hereby challenge His Excellency to cite one example where the ethic nomenclatures of any chiefdom has ever been identified as the cause of conflict or recommended to be amended in order to achieve peace. A study of the structure and composition of our chiefdom reveals that an inbuilt mechanism is already in place to accommodate people who are not of the same ethnic stock in the chiefdom just as the Gbgayi people feel comfortably accommodated in other chiefdoms/emirates. Uniformity has never been and can never be the basis of the organization and administration of traditional institutions in the context of modern state administration. We want to make it abundantly clear that even before the coming of the British colonialist, the Gbagyi system of traditional administration is native to its people since creation by God. It may interest you to know that the title of our chief, “Sa-Gbagyi” connotes someone like God, a representative for the Gbagyi people. Your Excellency, Sir we wish to restate that this agenda that you are now pursuing in respect of traditional institution will in no way help your administration. It will rather throw the state into greater chaos and therefore truncate the peaceful co-existence you claim the exercise will achieve. Go into your history books and you will understand that the chiefdoms you have today were achieved after over a hundred years of struggle and sacrificing of blood by the people of Kaduna. The same was achieved with greater relative ease and peace and evolved as a natural process of the development of society in other minority enclaves in Northern Nigeria. What joy then do you derive in rubbishing the genuine efforts of your predecessors (colonial, military and civilian democratic government) in putting structures that will sustain peaceful and harmonious co-existence among the diverse communities of the state? May we close by requesting that much effort should be devoted in helping us incorporating former Gbagyi indigenous communities, were our people have been displace and ruled out of our entity back to our rulership and traditional institution. Therefore, we end by letting you know that if you are pursuing this agenda behind the Gbagyi Cheifdom, we will continue to recognize our chiefdom as “Gabgyi Chiefdom” and the title of our chief as “Sa-Gbagyi-1 of Kaduna state” meaning all status-quo should be maintained and so shall we continue to recognize both till eternity. Respectfully yours, Comrade. Jim Gami Makama, President Gbagyi Sound mind. ————————– Comrade. George Benjamin, Vice-President Gbagyi Sound mind. ————————– Mr David Tanko Jesse, Secretary General, ————————— Mr. Samson Yari, Member ————————— Mr. Noah Audu, Member —————————- Mr. Tobias Aboki, Member ——————————

Osibajo is sick, his nightmare has just started - Fani-Kayode.

Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, has blasted Acting President Yemi Osinbajo for denying that he called those clamouring for restructuring “political jobbers”.  Fani-Kayode, in a series of tweets, described Osinbajo as a “short deceitful little imp” and claimed “his nightmare has just started”. He wrote: “Osinbajo now says that he never said that those that wanted restructuring are political jobbers. “Seriously? Does anyone take this short deceitful little imps comments seriously anymore? “He never said what he clearly said? The man is sick. His nightmare has just started.” Osinbajo expressed surprise at reports, quoting Chief Ayo Adebanjo as saying he described those agitating for restructuring as political jobbers. In a press statement signed by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mr Laolu Akande, the Acting President said: “At no time did the Acting President say that those asking for restructuring were political jobbers looking for appointments. “The video, audio tapes and full text of his speech at the National Security summit organised last week by the Department of State Services, DSS are publicly available.”

Former BBNaija House mate Uriel Shows off her Beauty in New photos.

Former BBNaija house mate Uriel shows off her beauty in new photos - The Payporte ambassador shared the stunning photos on her social media page - Uriel who has a crush on boxer Anthony Joshua mentioned him in her new photos BBNaija's Uriel knows the importance of looking good. In a recent post the former BBNaija house mate release completely stunning photos of herself revealing her style and delicate beauty.
Urile who has a crush on Anthony Joshu mentioned the boxer in the caption of her photos, suggesting that she was waiting for him in one of the stunning photos. It's hard to tell if Anthony Joshua is involved with anyone right now but after seeing this photos of Uriel, he might just slide into her DM.

Source: Instagram, Uriel She shared the lovely photos of her rocking a peach dress and captioned it: "

Saraki Returned Pension Payments -Kwara Govt.

The Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has stopped collecting pension and returned all payments made to him, the Kwara State Government has announced. A statement by Isiaka Gold, Secretary to the State Government, on Wednesday said Mr. Saraki stopped collecting the payment since August 2015 and had returned all he collected prior to that time. Earlier, Mr. Saraki had said he had returned the pension paid to him to the state government following criticism of state governors collecting pension while holding new political offices. The senate president had come under attack, especially on social media, following reports that he was still receiving pension from the state government. But Mr. Gold said Mr. Saraki, on his own volition, considered the morality of the situation in which the pension would put him since he is still a serving senator and “chose to abandon his legal rights.” The statement read: “The (Kwara) State Government wishes to make the following clarifications. “That Dr. Saraki, as a two-term governor, is entitled to pension as stipulated by the third schedule, Paragraph D (i) of the Governor and Deputy Governor ((payment of pension) Law, No. 12 of 2010 of Kwara State. “That the said pension has been duly remitted to his account, like other former governors’, since he left office but when via a letter dated 20th August 2015 addressed to the state government, Dr Saraki requested that the payment of pension to his account be stopped and the amount already credited to the account be refunded to the government, the state government promptly complied.  “That the government not only stopped the payment of the said pension, the amount already paid into Dr. Saraki’s account since he left office was deducted from the money owed to him as well as his other outstanding lawful entitlements.” Commenting further, he said: “it should be noted that neither the Kwara State Government nor Bukola Saraki violated the state pension law or any other law for that matter. The State Pension Law empowers the State Government to pay pension to former governors of the state. “That the Kwara State Government will want to reiterate the fact that it was Dr Saraki who on his own volition considered the morality of the situation in which the pension would put him since he is still a serving Senator and chose to abandon his legal rights. We believe he should be commended for decision.”

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Boko Haram kills 31 fishermen in Lake Chad.

8th August 2017.

Kashim Shettima of Borno on Tuesday confirmed that Boko Haram insurgents had killed 31 fishermen at Baga in Kukawa Local Government Area of the state. Mr. Shettima made the confirmation at the presentation of relief materials donated to the state by the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, to the Internally Displaced Persons in Maiduguri. He said that the attack indicated that the Boko Haram insurgents were still unleashing terror, killing and maiming people in the Lake Chad Basin. Mr. Shettima noted that the military and other security agencies were yet to verify the report. “Somebody called me this morning and informed me that the insurgents had killed 31 fishermen in the Lake Chad Basin. “The security agencies have not commented on the attack; so, you cannot confirm it. “This shows the level of crisis we faced in Borno, as the so-called Jihadists continued with their inhuman acts in the Lake Chad basin,” Mr. Shettima said. He, however, commended the efforts of the military toward ending insurgency and ensuring that peace returned to the North-East region.  The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the insurgents had attacked and killed 31 fishermen in separate attacks between August 5 and 6 in Baga. It was reported that the incident occurred at Duguri and Dabar-Wanzam fishing communities in Kukawa Local Government Area of the state. An anonymous member of the Civilian Joint Task Force, CJTF, disclosed that 14 persons were killed at Duguri, while 17 others were murdered at Dabar-Wanzam. The source noted that the attack came barely four weeks after the fishermen returned to Baga and resumed fishing. NAN reports that the lifting of ban on fisheries by the military attracted thousands of fishermen to the area. The military had earlier banned fishing on the Nigerian side of the lake, following accusations that Boko Haram was using proceeds from fishing to fund its armed campaign. (NAN)