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FORMER Abia State governor Senator Theodore Orji has threatened to drag ex-gubernatorial candidate Alex Otti to court over allegations that forced the Independent National Electoral Commission (Inec) to reverse election results at gunpoint.

RUSSIAN clubsides Zenith Saint Petersburg and Lokomotiv Moscow are expected to send a team of scouts to Nigeria next month as part of an aggressive programme to seek out and recruit local footballers.

HUNDREDS of pensioners in Osun State have taken to the streets of the capital Osogbo to protest the non-payment of their gratuities and pension arrears pointing out that thousands of their colleagues have died as a result of hunger.

SUPER Eagles coach Salisu Yusuf faces being sacked by the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) after he was caught on tape receiving taking N360,000 ($1,000) from undercover reporters posing as agents trying to influence him to select players.

NIGERIA is currently engulfed in a political drama as senate president Senator Bukola Saraki has just led 15 other members of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to defect to the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) after an altercation with the police.

OFFICERS of the Delta State Police Command have launched a manhunt for the general overseer of the Royal Life Assembly Church in Asaba Pastor Sunday Ekezie after it emerged he is the kingpin of a kidnapping ring operating in the state.

ISLAMIC pressure group Muslim Rights Concern (Muric) has asked the federal government to intervene in the religious crisis at the Nigerian Immigration Service offices in Ikoyi where non-Christian members of staff are being forced to participate in morning prayers.

ITALIAN giants Lazio have stepped up their pursuit of Super Eagles striker Simeon Nwankwo and are willing to pay €10m to prize the lanky forward away from recently relegated rivals Crotone.

BENUE State governor Samuel Ortom looks set to remain in the All Progressives Congress (APC) after 13 of the Peoples Democratic Party's (PDP) gubernatorial aspirants kicked against him returning to their fold.

PRESIDENCY officials have ordered the Chris Giwa faction of the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) to vacate from the parastatal's Abuja office immediately as the government is keen to avert a Fifa ban.