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Gara Gombe’s firm firms agreement to upgrade Gombe University’s facilities
Green White Green (GWG) Sports Center Nigeria Limited, a company run by former Gombe State Football Association chairman, Gara Gombe has signed an understanding with the Gombe State University to upgrade the institution’s sports facilities.
According to Gara Gombe, the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed last week Wednesday. The aim is to provide and also upgrade existing facilities for the benefit of young sport stars in Gombe State.
The MOU was jointly signed by the university’s Vice Chancellor, Prof. El Nafaty and Gara Gombe.
Prof. El Nafaty noted that Gombe State University has now become dependable partner with the Green White Green Sports Center for the upgrading of sporting facilities over six months ago.
He reiterated there should be enough liaison engagement between the two parties with the aim of enhancing sports in the university especially the track and field which is rare in Nigerian universities.
Gara Gombe who is also the Gombe State Athletics Association chairman, remarked that more sports facilities in Gombe are urgently needed considering that there is just one stadium in the state locates in Pantami.
“This is grossly inadequate.” He therefore called for concerted efforts to create alternative playing grounds for the development of all sporting talents.
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Sierra Leone throws support to Morocco’s initiatives on Western Sahara
Sierra Leone has joined the growing league of nations who have thrown their support for Morocco’s territorial integrity, especially considering the southern province. The West African nation on Tuesday in Rabat expressed its full support for Morocco and considered the kingdom’s autonomy initiative as the only “credible, serious and realistic” solution to the dispute over the Moroccan Sahara.
This stance was expressed in a joint communiqué issued following talks between Minister of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccan Expatriates, Nasser Bourita, and Sierra Leone’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Timothy Musa Kabba.
In the joint communiqué, Sierra Leone’s FM reiterated his country’s firm support to the Kingdom’s territorial integrity, which was reinforced by the opening, in August 2021, of a Sierra Leonean Consulate General in Dakhla and its participation, on January 15, 2021, in the Ministerial Conference in support of the autonomy initiative under Moroccan sovereignty, at the invitation of the Kingdom and the United States of America.
In this regard, he expressed his full support for the UN-led process to reach a realistic, practical and lasting solution to the Moroccan Sahara issue.
The past two weeks have been marked by a series of meetings between Bourita and several officials from African and Caribbean countries.
The latest meeting was with Dominica, which also renewed its support for Morocco’s territorial integrity on Monday.
Dominica’s Foreign Affairs Minister Vince Henderson emphasized his country’s position in a joint statement yesterday following talks with Bourita in Rabat.
He also emphasized that his country views Morocco’s autonomy initiative as the “only credible, serious, and realistic solution” to the dispute.
Several other countries, including Saint Kitts and Nevis and Liberia, echoed the same sentiment recently, reaffirming support for Morocco’s territorial integrity and sovereignty over its southern provinces in Western Sahara.
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REVEALED! Dani Alves Planned Jail Break Before His Temporary Release –
Former Brazil international Dani Alves who spent 430 days, behind bars while his trial lasted for alleged sexual assault on a Spanish lady at a Barcelona nightclub in December 2022 had planned an escape.
Faced with the looming possibility of a lengthy prison term, Alves allegedly attempted an audacious prison escape.
According to reports in Spain, the player sought temporary release on bail, intending to flee to his motherland, where he wouldn’t be pursued due to the absence of an extradition treaty between Spain and Brazil.
However, his escape plan was dashed when one of his cell-mates disclosed the scheme to the officials, preventing its execution and all three attempts for temporary release were denied.
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Nearly 300 Nigerian students released after abduction in Kaduna
Nearly 300 students and staff abducted by gunmen from a school in northern Nigeria this month have been released unharmed, the office of the governor of the state of Kaduna said on Sunday, days before a deadline to pay a $690,000 ransom.
The kidnapping of 287 students on March 7 in Kuriga, a dusty town in northwestern Kaduna state, was the first mass abduction in Africa’s most populous nation since 2021 when more than 150 students were taken from a high school in Kaduna.
A security source said the students were rescued in a forest in neighbouring Zamfara state and were being escorted by the army to the Kaduna capital for medical tests before being reunited with their families.
Abductions at Nigerian schools were first carried out by jihadist group Boko Haram, which seized 276 students from a girls’ school in Chibok in northeastern Borno State a decade ago. Some of the girls have never been released.
Since then the tactic has been widely adopted by criminal gangs without ideological affiliation.
Kaduna governor Uba Sani said the country’s National Security Adviser coordinated the release of the Kuriga schoolchildren. He did not provide further details.
“The Nigerian Army also deserves special commendation for showing that, with courage, determination and commitment, criminal elements can be degraded and security restored in our communities,” Sani said.
The gunmen last week demanded a total of 1 billion naira ($690,000) for release of the missing children and staff.
The government had said it would not pay any ransom. The practice was outlawed in 2022.
But kidnappings by criminal gangs demanding ransoms have become an almost daily occurrence, especially in northern Nigeria, tearing apart families and communities that have to pool savings to pay ransoms, often forcing them to sell land, cattle and grain to secure the release of their loved ones.
-Reuters
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