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From social distancing dinner dates to candle scents inspired by pubs, here are some stories you may have missed this week.

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Images from street protests across the US on Saturday following the death of black man George Floyd.

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Police struggle to stem the violence as protesters take to the streets over the death of George Floyd.

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A group of performers were halfway across the ocean in a 75ft boat when the pandemic erupted - leaving them with nowhere to go.

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Alyssa Hulme from Utah in the US takes us through her weekly spending during the coronavirus pandemic.

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In the 1980s, innocent children and adults were taken off South Korea's streets - and locked away.

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What South Africa can teach other African countries gearing up for a spike in infections.

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On 31 May 1970 an earthquake struck in Peru, triggering a landslide and leading to the deaths of 70,000.

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The US president and his likely election rival have been sparring over China and the coronavirus.

The English Premier League will resume on June 17 after the 20 clubs in the division agreed “in principle” to return to play and complete the remainder of the 2019-20 season that was halted in mid-March due to the Coronavirus outbreak.

It was revealed that Manchester City versus Arsenal will be one of the first matches to be played.

Aston Villa’s home clash with Sheffield United will also be played same day to mark the return of the English top flight, it was disclosed as well.  English Premier League Soccer Ball GettyImages

Apart from the EPL, many football leagues and other sporting events around the world were put on hold as a result of the pandemic that had claimed hundreds of thousands of lives across many countries.

 

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Festus Onigbinde, former Super Eagles Coach, has attributed the static nature of sports in Nigeria to lack of development policies by the Nigerian government.

Onigbinde told SaharaReporters on Wednesday that instead of setting and achieving clear goals that would lead to the development of the sport in the country; the government has only focused on organising competitions and participating in competitions.

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He said, "In some of these countries, the level of technology is much higher than what we have here and that will eventually have some effects.

“It appears that we are helpless. Are we making any effort? I was reading this afternoon of a country making efforts to use technology for cheering during games. Do we have that type of technology here? The Coronavirus has affected and will continue to affect our sports for some time.

"The greatest challenge of sports in Nigeria is development. We don't have a developmental programme, we are just taking part in sports for the fun of it. For those who are directly involved, it's for what they can get from it -- no developmental programme. Even in the private life of an individual, if you are in a business and you are not developing that business, what will happen? It will fold up and that is the situation with Nigerian sports.

"Things were better in the past but all we think of now is competition, to take part and organise whereas competitions are like examinations in schools. Why does a teacher set up exams? He wants to know how much the students have learned.

"If you are organising competitions in sports, what are you assessing? What have you put into this performance? I maintain that the greatest problem of sports in Nigeria is lack of development, we are not developing sports."

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The US president says he is postponing this year's meeting and wants to invite other leaders as well.

Kaduna State Government has disclosed that a four-month-old child, who earlier tested positive for COVID-19, has been discharged after testing negative for the virus.

Amina Mohammed Baloni, Commissioner for Health in the state, made this known in a statement on Saturday.

She said, "Out of the total number of 232 cases reported, 149 have been discharged, while seven deaths have been recorded. 

“The state has tested almost 2000 samples but case numbers are likely to rise further as more tests are conducted in more places.

“COVID-19 cases have been recorded in 33 wards in nine local government areas of the state: Chikun, Giwa, Igabi, Kaduna North, Kaduna South, Makarfi, Sabon-Gari, Soba, and Zaria.

“The data shows that 80 per cent of the infected persons are male.”

 

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The Nigerian Government has evacuated 286 Nigerians stranded in China due to the COVID-19 lockdown.

The Nigerians arrived the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport, Abuja, on Saturday.

Chairman of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, while announcing the arrival said the returnees would be proceeding on compulsory 14 days isolation.  NIDCOM

A tweet by NIDCOM said, "268 stranded Nigerians in China lands in Abuja International Airport at exactly 2:30pm Nigerian time today 30th May 2020.

"All evacuees will be proceeding on compulsory 14 days quarantine as mandated by NCDC and Federal Ministry of Health."

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Independent monitors of the National Social Investment Programme have called for the sack of Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Farouq.

The team made the demand on Saturday while expressing their grievances following the refusal of the minister to pay their accumulated monthly stipends.

Findings by SaharaReporters showed that the NSIP provides young Nigerians with job training and education while also allowing them to receive monthly stipends of N30, 000 from the Nigerian Government.

The independent monitors supervise various programmes of government under the Social Investment Program including N-power, Home Grown School Feeding, Tradermoni, Marketmoni and the Conditional Cash Transfer in the 36 states of the country.

Some of them disclosed that despite pleas and letters to the minister, she had refused to offset their March and April stipends while that of May had also not been paid.   Sadiya Umar Farouk

Titus Omotayo, one of the beneficiaries of the programme, told our correspondent that the NSIP was his full time job as a graduate and that he had been having difficulties paying his bills since his stipend stopped coming regularly.

Omotayo said he and other monitors had been preforming their responsibilities yet 70 per cent have not been paid their accumulated stipend by the minister.

Another beneficiary, Godwin Lerve, said the team members had been in the dark concerning their payment and had resolved on calling out the minister over her refusal to pay their stipends.

He said, “A lot of us have not been paid and that is why they are calling for her removal or redeployment from that office.

“I heard that she is planning to streamline the programme probably to remove some persons from payment and I feel this is not the best.”

Abiodun Ogunleye, another monitor, said they had appealed to the minister several times for the prompt payment of their stipend but she had failed to heed their appeals.

“We are left with no other choice than to passionately appeal to the President to send Mrs Sadiya Umar Farouq back to where he picked her from before she ruins the scheme."

Salisu Na’inna Danbatta, Special Adviser on Media to the minister, could not be reached for comments. 

However, an official of the ministry revealed that the matter was already being addressed.

SaharaReporters gathered that issues concerning payment of stipend for the independent monitors began after the Social Investment Programme was moved outside the office of Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, by President Buhari last October to the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development.

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American deaths from the COVID-19 raced past the 100,000 mark this week, thanks largely to a famously coy and bungled Federal response. To put this staggering number in perspective, let’s recall that 33,686 Americans perished in the Korean War, another 58,220 in two decades of the Vietnam War, 2996 during the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack and 2,354 in nearly two decades of US military engagement of the Taliban in Afghanistan. The total tally of 97,247 from these bloody mishaps still falls shy of the toll Coronavirus is currently exacting on the United States but the President’s Twitter field and body language does not telegraph that.

Not surprisingly, many are outraged not just at the flopped US response to this rampaging pandemic but the perceived lack of empathy from a President whose hands had to be forced to allow flags to fly at half-mast in honor of the dead over this past Memorial Weekend. Mr. Trump has since returned to the golf course and pivoted to full campaign mode after turning the now defunct daily Coronavirus briefing into a breath-taking journalist bashing spectacle.

With majority of the 50 states lifting shelter-in-place orders in contravention of the Center for Disease Control’s (CDC) guidelines which conditioned such on 14 consecutive days of decline in new cases of coronavirus, you would think America is whole again especially with the President threatening to override states that do not immediately enable houses of worship to operate. In reality, 18 states show continuing increase in COVID-19 cases, 22 states hold steady with only 10 states showing a decreasing trajectory. Another stunning statistics:  More Americans have died from coronavirus than the total number of cases in Africa. 

In normal times, this tragedy would be more than enough to occupy the time of a US President but not this one. He is instead consumed with a not-so-visible power struggle for the soul of America. Following his impeachment acquittal by the Senate, he has gone on a firing spree that has exposed the fragile underbelly of American democracy. The forced exit of Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, who testified under subpoena about the content of the President’s call with the President of Ukraine, and his twin brother was closely followed by that of the US Ambassador to the European Union, Gordon Sondland, who confirmed that there was indeed a quid pro quo. Marie Yovanovitch, the former US Ambassador to Ukraine was earlier forced out for not cooperating in the scheme to get Ukraine to set up Hunter Biden and paint Mr. Trump’s Democratic opponent, Joe Biden, as self-serving and corrupt.

Not only are federal agencies and personnel now being prevented from cooperating with Congress, there has also been a string of seeming proactive firings of Inspectors Generals in the dead of the night that appears to foreshadow a desire to impose a culture of impunity. This is disconcerting for a candidate that campaigned on “draining the swamp ‘ of Washingtonian corruption. So far three inspectors-generals have been ousted through such midnight firings. There is the intelligence Community Inspector General, Michael Atkinson, who relayed the August 12, 2019 whistleblower complaint about the phone call between Presidents Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky to Congress. Then he fired the long-serving acting Department of Defense Inspector General Glenn Fine who was slated to oversee the disposition of $500 billion as chair of the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee created by the CARES Act, the coronavirus relief bill, and replaced him with a protégé, Brian D. Miller, a White House Counsel who defended him during impeachment proceedings. Also fired is Christi Grimm, the acting inspector general at the Department of Health and Human Resources, who issued a report critical of the administration's plan for ramped up coronavirus testing.

For context, the Inspector General Act of 1978 was enacted after Watergate to enhance accountability and prevent waste, fraud and abuse in agencies and programs. It has proven potent in performing its functions in the past. Seventy-three Inspectors General, each responsible for a different agency, regularly audit and report on the agencies to which they are attached. They are appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate solely on the basis of integrity and demonstrated ability in accounting, auditing, law, financial analysis or investigations ”without regard to political affiliation.” 

Congressional investigations, which President Trump now wants to turn into toothless bulldogs, by actively dissuading staff from cooperating and retaliating against those who do, exposed many cases of misconduct by the executive branch of government in the past. The Iran-Contras scandal in which the Reagan administration diverted proceeds of arms sales to secretly aid the Nicaraguan opposition without authorization by Congress; the distortion of intelligence by the George W. Bush administration to justify the war with Iraq; and the Watergate scandal. Such investigations have also exposed corruption in federal agencies, saving billions of dollars in the process, and guided Congress to close gaps in the law as was the case with the Dodd-Frank Act enacted to better protect consumers after the 2008 financial crisis. 

The presidential system of government practiced by the United States is based on a system of checks and balances between three co-equal arms of government with the constitution expressly granting Congress oversight powers which it majorly exercises through investigations, hearings, subpoena, censure and impeachment. Traditionally, failure to comply with a Congressional subpoena could attract contempt of Congress charges punishable by imprisonment. With the Senate now virtually in the president’s pocket, partisanship has helped erode the vital checks on executive rascality put in place by the founders of the Republic and Congress over the years. 

As Marie Yovanovitch, the former Ukraine ambassador recently noted in an article in The Washington Post, "I have seen dictatorships around the world, where blind obedience is the norm and truth-tellers are threatened with punishment or death. We must not allow the United States to become a country where standing up to our government is a dangerous act."

The whimsical exercise of unchecked presidential power under the cover of masterful demagoguery is reframing the nature of the United States’ democratic system in a way hardly ever imagined. This is America’s covert COVID-19 pandemic. Who would have imagined that the shiny city on the hills would come to this sorry pass? 

Dr. Yinka Tella, President of GlobalTell Inc. and Health and Education Love Project (HELP), writes from Pembroke Pines, Florida. He can be reached at globaltellinc@gmail.com.

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Less than 24hours after Arewa Agenda published a story on how Arewa (Northern) women are using the opportunity of the COVID-19 lockdown to keep their marital romance alive, especially during the Ramadan and Sallah, reactions have continued to trail the clip with some quarters alleging that the video created disunity among families, leading to divorce.

Investigations by Arewa Agenda however reveals that the couples who allegedly divorced as a result of the footage had nothing to do with the trending video published by our platform.

Most families who featured in the video published by Arewa Agenda expressed shock at the account that the video had broken their homes, reiterating that their family are still united in love and the bonds is getting stronger than ever before. 

Rumours about the alleged divorced have filtered in days ago when the video surfaced after a Social Media user, Sanusi Bature posted that a husband divorced his wife as a result of a video clip.

When contacted to authenticate if the story he posted on Social Media had something to do with the trending video, Sanusi Bature, a political communicator in Kano said the lady he was referring to had nothing to do with the footage as she was not even in the viral video.

“The divorced woman I was talking about in my social media post had nothing to do with the trending video,” he confirmed.

Bature stressed that the video in contention didn’t go viral but was shared within family circles and the husband only grouse was that he wasn’t aware his wife was recording the show.

Arewa Agenda learnt that the divorced wife being referred to have since moved to her divorced husband mother’s (Mother In-law’s) place in Minna, Niger State where efforts are being made at reconciling the couples.

Meanwhile, ArewaAgenda has received more video clips of Arewa Men showering their wives with love and affection during the Sallah period which coincided with COVID-19 Lockdown in most states, especially in the North. The clips are featured in Part 2 of our Video on YouTube titled: “Arewa Men Celebrate Wives under Covid-19 Lockdown”

In the video, couples were seen sharing joyous moments together as they took steps to relish the moment. Some of the families even have their kids joining them in the good family moment time.

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Positive reactions have continued to trail our story with a Youtube commentator, Meek Dav stating that, “This is very Romantic! You don’t need to wait till valentine’s day to spice your marriage with love and tender care. I really hope to see more of this. Thumbs up for all the couples in this video!!”

Another commentator, Halid Sherif, said, “They are still culturally most compliant among Nigerians. They know the value of marriage and family.”

Recall that Arewa Agenda had reported that the COVID-19 lockdown has given Arewa Women a rare opportunity to reconnect with their husbands, by pampering them with love and exploring ways to keep their marital romance alive.

Known for their beauty as well as their incredible wears, arewa women who are often perceived as conservatives and reserved, may have busted that myth as they took the opportunity of the confinement occasioned by the novel Coronavirus pandemic to lighten the sparkles around their love lives with their spouses.

While the coronavirus may have affected trade, jobs and other human endeavor, for some arewa women, love is indeed in the air.

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ArewaAgenda is a publication of young writers from Northern Nigeria.

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The Delta State Government has announced 17 new COVID-19 cases in the state.

The state government announced the new cases on Twitter while giving an update on the outbreak of the virus in the state.

The new cases take the total infections in the state to 74.

According to the state government, there are 51 active cases in Delta with 16 discharged and seven deaths.

 

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An 82-year-old widow, who is also suffering from hypertension, has recovered from Coronavirus disease after receiving a nine-day treatment at the Isolation and Treatment Centre, Asubiaro, Osogbo, Osun State.

She was confirmed positive and admitted at the isolation centre on May 13, 2020.

Commissioner for Health in the state, Dr Rafiu Isamotu, disclosed this in a statement in Osogbo. 

Isamotu said the woman’s recovery from the virus beats the odds as elderly people with chronic diseases were the highest risk group as many in that category are unable to recover from COVID-19.

The statement reads, "The story of the 82-year-old widow who recovered from the dreaded Coronavirus provides a glimmer of hope, considering that she is a hypertensive patient on medication. Although when she arrived at our isolation centre on May 13, she had no cough, difficulty in breathing, sore throat, fever or anosmia associated with the virus except for diarrhoea and we successfully treated her for it and she was stable all through the period of hospitalisation.

"On her 9th day on admission, we carried out a follow-up Polymerase Chain Reaction test on her and the result came back negative and she was subsequently discharged on May 24, 2020.

"Furthermore, a follow-up at her home after her discharge revealed that she was stable.”

 

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The face off between Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Ali Pantami, and Chief Executive Officer of Nigerians In Diaspora Commission; Abike Dabiri-Erewa, assumed a new and messier twist after the minister's spokeperson, Uwa Suleiman, accused Dabiri-Erewa of crossing the line.

The minister and NIDCOM boss had engaged in a disagreement since February this year after Pantami allegedly ordered the eviction of the agency from the building accommodating it. 

In an article written by Suleiman titled, "Abike Dabiri-Erewa: Season of falsehood, smear campaigns and ridiculous tactics", and posted on her twitter handle, she accused the NIDCOM boss of having a personal grudge against Pantami. 

Suleiman added that the decision of her boss not to shake hands with any woman was a personal principle and that if anyone felt offended by that they were free to go to court. 

She said, "Dr Pantami does not and will not shake any woman he is not married to. It is his personal principle. If anyone feels disrespected because they cannot shake Pantami’s hand, go to court. It is the absence of principles that leads to indiscipline, disregard for superior authority, falsehood and careless talk.  See Also Politics An Islamic Scholar Should Not Lie, Your Disrespect For Women Legendary —Abike Dabiri-Erewa Blasts Nigeria's Communications Minister, Pantami 0 Comments 5 Days Ago

"Abike Dabiri crossed the line. Her vituperations had nothing to do with office space. The speed, sequence and nature of her allegations leaves discerning mind wondering. How did we go from office space to qualifications and handshakes to hatred and disrespect for the female gender in a heartbeat?" 

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Nigeria's former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, has sacked staff of the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library, Abeokuta, Ogun State, SaharaReporters has confirmed.

In a letter by its Head of Human Resources, Administration and Procurement, Olanike Ogunleye, the management of the OPL said the organisation was overwhelmed by the adverse effects of the Coronavirus pandemic and had found it hard to sustain its workforce.

The letter reads in part, "As you are aware, the current COVID-19 pandemic has had a toll on all our business significantly. This has resulted to making some difficult business decisions. Due to this situation, we regret to inform you that your employment will be put on hold till further notice.   Olusegun Obasanjo

"You are to hand over all company properties in your possession to the human resource department, who shall do a confirmation of the exit clearance process before your final entitlements (if any) would be paid."

Before laying the workers off on Friday, the OPL had been owing several months of salaries.

A worker, who spoke with SaharaReporters on condition of anonymity said, "They have been owing salaries since last year. They will pay one and it’s going to be after 3-4 months that they will pay another one. We have workers collecting less than N30,000 and they refer to those collecting N50, 000 as senior staff and they are still owing.

"This year, they have paid just January salary and half of April salary which was paid on 20th of April." 

Obasanjo was President of Nigeria for eight years from 1999 to 2007.

 

 

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President Muhammadu Buhari has said that late General Sani Abacha, Nigeria’s late military Dictator, stole close to $1bn between 1993 and 1998.

Buhari in an article published in Newsweek, a United States-based publication, thanked countries that have returned the looted funds back to Nigeria.

Though the President did not mention the name of Sani Abacha directly, it was clear that he was referring to the late dictator.

Buhari served under the late Abacha as head of Petroleum Trust Fund. 

He said, “And we can now move forward with road, rail and power station construction -- in part under own resources -- thanks to close to a billion dollars of funds stolen from the people of Nigeria under a previous undemocratic junta in the 1990s that have now been returned to our country from the US, UK and Switzerland.

“That these friendly nations agreed to return these funds after so long is testament to the fact that Nigeria is rightly seen as an increasingly stable and beneficial place to transact and invest. It is much the same across the continent, with sub-saharan Africa now outpacing Asia, Europe and North America by some measure in terms of foreign direct investment inflows-to-GDP, perhaps for the very first time.”

Hundreds of millions of dollars stolen by the late Abacha and kept in foreign accounts have since been recovered by various Nigerian governments. 

In 1998, General Abubakar Abdulsalami recovered $750m from the Abacha family; in 2000, General Olusegun Obasanjo recovered $64m from Switzerland; still in 2002, Obasanjo got another $1.2bn from a deal with the Abacha family and another $160m in 2003 from Jersey, British Island. Obasanjo got another $88m in 2003, $461m in 2005 and $44 in 2006, all from Switzerland.

On his part, former President, Dr Goodluck Jonathan retrieved $227m from Liechtenstein while President Buhari got $322 in 2018 and the last $311 in 2020.
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President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the extension of the appointment of Justice M.B. Dongban-Mensem as Acting President of the Court of Appeal for another three months.

This was contained in a statement by Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, in Abuja on Friday.

The statement explained that the re-appointment was “under Section 238(4) and (5) of the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended).”  Justice Dongban Mensem Google

President Buhari had on March 5, 2020 announced his initial appointment as Acting President of the Court of Appeal for an initial period of three months, with effect from March 6, 2020, when Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa statutorily retired from service.

Shehu had said in the first statement issued on her appointment that Justice Mensem, who is the next most senior judge of the Court of Appeal, will be acting pending when a substantive appointment to the position of the President of the Court of Appeal might be made by President Buhari subject to the confirmation of the Senate.
 

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The English Premier League will resume on June 17 after the 20 clubs in the division agreed “in principle” to return to play and complete the remainder of the 2019-20 season that was halted in mid-March due to the Coronavirus outbreak.

It was revealed that Manchester City versus Arsenal will be one of the first matches to be played.

Aston Villa’s home clash with Sheffield United will also be played same day to mark the return of the English top flight, it was disclosed as well.  English Premier League Soccer Ball GettyImages

Apart from the EPL, many football leagues and other sporting events around the world were put on hold as a result of the pandemic that had claimed hundreds of thousands of lives across many countries.

 

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Festus Onigbinde, former Super Eagles Coach, has attributed the static nature of sports in Nigeria to lack of development policies by the Nigerian government.

Onigbinde told SaharaReporters on Wednesday that instead of setting and achieving clear goals that would lead to the development of the sport in the country; the government has only focused on organising competitions and participating in competitions.

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He said, "In some of these countries, the level of technology is much higher than what we have here and that will eventually have some effects.

“It appears that we are helpless. Are we making any effort? I was reading this afternoon of a country making efforts to use technology for cheering during games. Do we have that type of technology here? The Coronavirus has affected and will continue to affect our sports for some time.

"The greatest challenge of sports in Nigeria is development. We don't have a developmental programme, we are just taking part in sports for the fun of it. For those who are directly involved, it's for what they can get from it -- no developmental programme. Even in the private life of an individual, if you are in a business and you are not developing that business, what will happen? It will fold up and that is the situation with Nigerian sports.

"Things were better in the past but all we think of now is competition, to take part and organise whereas competitions are like examinations in schools. Why does a teacher set up exams? He wants to know how much the students have learned.

"If you are organising competitions in sports, what are you assessing? What have you put into this performance? I maintain that the greatest problem of sports in Nigeria is lack of development, we are not developing sports."

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Gernot Rohr, coach of Nigeria's Super Eagles, has extended his contract with the Nigeria Football Federation for two and half years.

The new contract is expected to end after the FIFA World Cup in Qatar in 2022.

Rohr said he was looking forward to the next AFCON games as well as the World Cup qualifier.

“Yes, I can confirm that we found an agreement with NFF to continue our collaboration for two and half years. 

“I am proud of the confidence shown by NFF, it is rare to work in the same national team for more than six years," he told TheCable on Friday.
He continued, “Our team has a good future, our players have discipline and the staff is working in the same spirit.

“Yes, we want to go to the next AFCON and do very well there. And we want to start the World Cup qualifiers well and participate in Quatar with good results there.

“I am happy to continue with the squad we built together since 4 years. Stability is important for progress and complicity.

“There is still a big work to do. With the commitment of the players and the support of the fans we will able to do great things."
 

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