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  • ‘I sold my children with their fathers’ consent’

    One of the six suspects arrested by the police for stealing and selling babies  to childless women has confessed that she sold two of her own children with the consent of their fathers.

    The suspect, Blessing Stephens, was arrested by the operatives of the Inspector General of Police Intelligence Response Team (IRT) after stealing a boy from a couple at Ikota area of Ajah, Lagos State.

    The 25-year-old suspect was arrested alongside five others, including a homeopathic medical doctor, Una Ekong Godwin, 58; Blessing John 27; Israel Ariyo 33; Itoro Anthony, 40, and Mrs. Mforbong Itoro, 48.

    She said:” I am from Nsitayi, Odor Akwa Ibom state but resides in Ijota Ajah area in Lagos. I dropped out of Bright Academy Secondary School, Ajah, due to a financial problem.

    ‘’There, I dated one Julius Abang and he impregnated me. I had a boy called Emmanuel with Abang in 2010 but we broke up in 2011. Only my mother was taking care of me and when life became unbearable for me I sought an advice from one Mrs. Mforbong and she advised me to sell the child and tell the father that the child had died if he ever cared to ask.

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    ‘’I was working as an office assistant and my mother did not know that the child was sold. In 2012 I started another work in a shopping complex in Ikota. When I went to Akwa Ibom for my mother’s burial  I dated another guy, a truck driver and he impregnated me but after two years he abandoned me after impregnating another girl. After one month I sold the baby but I got only N100,000.

    ‘’In 2013, I got another lover named Israel who is an iron bender. Within six months he impregnated me but he was so poor that he could not even feed me nor pay house rent. The motorcycle he usually used to find small money was destroyed by someone who put salt into the engine and the motorcycle became useless.

    ‘’We decided to sell the baby for N250,000. Mrs. Ntoro collected N20,000 and she advised us to tell whoever asked after the child that the baby diead and had been buried.

    ‘’Later, Mrs. Ntoro called from village that she needed another baby boy. I told my sister Blessing John to steal a baby boy from Ikota. It is this one that put us in trouble.’’

    On July 14, 2019, a four- year-old boy, Master Ojo Adegboyega Fapounda was stolen from his parents in Ikota housing estate Ajah, Lagos by his neighbour identified as Blessing John.

    She allegedly took the stolen child to Ibadan on July 15, 2019 to meet her childhood friend, Blessing Stephen. The child spent three days in the house of Stephens’s husband identified as Israel Ariyo.

    The stolen child was taken to Akwa Ibom and sold to one human trafficker, Mrs Mforbong for N350, 000. Unfortunately for the buyer, the toddler started crying uncontrollably to the hearing of neighbours who wondered why the child was crying in the house of the old woman who had reached menopause.

    Afraid that she might be exposed, the woman advised Blessing Stephen to return the child to his parents in Lagos after three days on the pretext that the child was too old for her to buy and that she preferred a week- old baby instead.

    Blessing (Stephen) returned the child to Ibadan and handed him over to Blessing (John) to return the boy to his parents at Ikota in Ajah area of Lagos.

    Determined to take the child to a place close to Ikota, she tried to deceive a security man attached to a church at Ketu, a Lagos suburb that she wanted to leave the boy with him in order to pick some items across the road, but the security man declined.

    Unknown to the security man, Blessing later sneaked into the church through the back door and dropped the baby and bolted.

    On discovering the baby in the church, the security man reported the matter to the church authorities and the matter was reported to the nearest police station.

    The baby was subsequently taken to a child care centre in Lagos by the police.

    Operatives of IRT traced the suspects to Ibadan, Oyo State capital following a petition by the father of the boy leading to their arrest.

    It was said that the syndicate had sold over 30 stolen children.

  • Ekiti APC suspends LG primary elections indefinitely

    The All Progressives Congress (APC) Ekiti State Chapter on Saturday said it has postponed the local government primary elections in two local government areas of the state.

    The ruling party’s shadow primary which was scheduled to hold on Saturday was suspended indefinitely in Ado and Ikole Local Government over security concern while the elections held in other 14 local councils.

    The party spokesperson, Ade Ajayi who stated this in Ado Ekiti in a telephone chat with newsmen, said the decision was reached by the party high decision making organ following emergence of a security report that some hooligans were plotting to tinker with the political atmosphere and disrupt the exercise.

    Ajayi said that a new date would be communicated to all concerned stakeholders as soon as report shows that the coast is clear.

    “The reason for the postponement in respect of the two local government is due to security concerns. We had it on record that there would be breakdown of law and order.

    “And it was on this basis we decided to postpone the election in the two local government until further notice. The remaining 14 Council election will hold today as scheduled”, he said.

    The indefinite postponement has created fear and re-awakened the suspicion of some aspirants who alleged the party leadership of plotting to impose its anointed candidates on the people.

    Two of the aspirants who spoke to newsmen at the venue of the primary including Alhaji Tajudeen Gidado, and Tosin Aluko, expressed displeasure over the suspension of the party’s shadow election.

    They accused the leadership of the party of being undemocratic, warning that they would resist any attempt to impose on the party.

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    In her reaction, Mrs Aluko, an aspirant in the election lamented that the leadership of the party were determined to impose a candidate.

    “I just heard it here now that the election has been Postponed. I don’t want to believe it because Governor Kayode Fayemi issued a statement last week that there would be primary election and that there won’t be imposition.

    “We have been waiting here since morning for the primary. Some people are with the Deputy Chairman of the party now, Sola Elesin, they don’t want the election to hold because of the plan they have to impose one of us as the candidate.

    ” I don’t know why they are doing this, they should allow people to make their choice because this is democracy. They’re doing this because they want to impose someone. But the governor they are dropping his name has come out to say he has no preferred candidate.”

    But the party Spokesman described the allegations as a conjectural statement that lack content of validity in all its measure.

    Ajayi maintained that all aspirants will be given a level playing ground to participate in the excercise, noting that the election will be conducted in a transparent, free and fair manner without compromising the basic principle of internal democracy.

  • ‘Osinbajo’ll subdue detractors’

    A group, the Southwest Youth Congress,(SWYC) on Saturday criticised those behind the current attack against Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, describing them as enemies of the country.

    The group in a statement in Akure, the Ondo state capital and signed by its Coordinator,Bamise Akintonide noted that the perceived threat against Osinbajo bears the imprints of a desperate cabals’ wicked strategy for relevance.

    Besides, the group pointed out that they have also enlisted the support of agents of calumny of desperate opposition

    However, the group assured that such campaign of calumny against a decent character like Osinbajo would fail in the presence of the right-thinking Nigerians.

    The group said ” We do know that the orchestrated allegations against Prof Osinbajo, especially the baseless accusation of misusing a non-existing N90b campaign fund, are all targeted at achieving the singular objective of dissuading the VP fro the idea of running for the presidency in 2023.

    “While the VP has not told anyone that he will be running for office in 2023, the SWYC will like to emphasize that the leadership shown by Osinbajo over the period he has worked alongside President Muhammadu Buhari to pilot the affairs of this country have proven his capacity for effective and result-driven governance.

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    ‘Therefore it is our hope and desire that come 2023 he will be on the ballot to run for the highest office in the land. If he decides to contest, it is our belief that he is immensely qualified and therefore he has our support and deserves the support of all well-meaning Nigerians.

    “While it is true that there is no amount of gimmicks or lies that can stop Osinbajo from becoming Nigeria’s President if God so wishes, we, however, call on all stakeholders and political leaders in the South West to unite in support of the Vice President.

    The group maintained that the Senior Advocate has displayed the attributes of competence and loyalty, both of which have brought honour to the entire Yoruba race and the Southwest region.

  • Nwajuiba proffers solution to intraparty dispute over primaries

    Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba wants political parties, especially the All Progressives Congress (APC) to adopt a different approach to the conduct of party primaries to avoid a repeat of the crisis that is currently rocking the party as a result of the conduct of the 2018 party primaries ahead of the 2019 general elections.

    The Minister wants the party to adopt a method of first screening aspirants who expressed their interest to contest the party and sell nomination forms to only those they found to have met the party guideline and therefore qualified to contest the primaries for the party ticket.

    He told leadership of the APC Aspirant Forum led by its National Coordinator, Lt. Col. Abdulaziz Yar’adua that if the party allow only those who scaled through the screening after expressing their interest to go to the next stage of nomination, crisis arising from disqualification from contesting the primaries after paying huge amount of money will be a thing of the past.

    He also wants the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to adopt a different method of election by staggering voting process across several days to ensure that everybody is allowed to participate in the process, pointing out that this will erase the current trend of election rigging and manipulations.

    He said “I have been contesting election since 1992 and for 27 years we have been running election the same way. Nobody has said let us reform it. Cant we enact policies around them?

    “Why do you have parties that sells you form and you cant trace them? We can also have a situation where we do screening and only those who win can go and pay. What s wrong in that? If you express your interest, we evaluate you and if we don want you, we tell you not to continue after that stage.”

    Nwajiuba associated the crisis that rocked the party before, during and after the last party primaries to a carryover from the events of 2015 that were not properly handled and the fact that the party leadership was not properly settled to understand the party machineries after the national convention.

    He said “what happened was a carryover from what happened in 2015. When we were designing the forms for the 2018 primaries, there were mistakes at the level of the convention. The convention ended and we went into an election and the National Organising Secretary had not taken charge sufficiently the matter of how to run the primaries.

    “This was very fundamental in the way it was delivered. The nature of our democracy viz a vis the sociological framework it was supposed to operate are taken for granted in Nigeria.

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    “There is a midterm convention of the party coming up. The issue is, when are we going to agitate for a midterm convention, how do we expand the working space to include other opinion. There are sensitive offices we may have to ask them to bring in women.

    “The next agenda for APC must be project Nigeria. How do we sustain all progressives, how do we take the idea of projecting 100 million people out of poverty and progressing into the next stage of development.

    “ So, ahead of the 2021 midterm convention, how do we engage the party, how do we restructure the party to function better. Governance function around four things.
    Principles being driven into policies, policies being driven into programmes and programmes being driven into projects. We said we are progressives and that means we are principled minded people and so, we want the welfare of the largest number in an all-inclusive scenario. That is what everybody professes.”

    While commending members of the forum for standing by the party, he told them that after losing out in the primary process of the party, “we pleaded with the President to engage some members and in his nature, he does not want to halt anybody. When we met with the President, we felt that some of the cases that can be redressed should be redressed and those who can go their own should do that.

    “I did some extra work because we had an understanding which was in the interest of Nigeria. We felt that the right thing that the south-east would get was the Speaker of the House of Representatives and so, I went and did the extra work to make sure that I am available to be used for that purpose.

    “The work you did for the party is the reason why we are here and we are grateful to you and the rest of the country. Those who are still with us in the party should know that we are no longer aggrieved aspirants. We have arrived at the next level because that thing for which we were aggrieved, we have arrived at it. But we have arrived at it in different capacities. We are the generation next.

    “As progressives, it is our duty to act as the conscience. We now know how other people might feel in case this is done to them. The only thing we owe ourselves is to have learnt from this collective experience and then improve on it because if we don’t, the lessons learnt will be completely lost.

    “In this business, find out what is wrong with the process before you amend them. So, for the party, there is a lot of work to be done. That is what we should begin to do now and strategise around them.”

    Speaking earlier, the National Coordinator of the Forum, Lt. Col. Abdulaziz Yar’adua (rtd) told the Minister that they have resolved to work with the leadership of the Party and President Muhammadu Buhari to ensure that the President leaves a lasting legacy including retaining the Presidency in 2013.

    He said their major concern right now was for the President to leave a lasting legacy behind for the nation and ensuring that the APC retain power in 2023, adding that “if the APC does not retain power in 2023, all the legacy of the President will go to waste”.

     

     

  • BBNaija: Getting disqualified was never my intention – Tacha

    Disqualified 2019 housemate, Tacha on Saturday stated that getting disqualified from the Big Brother Naija reality show was not her intention.

    The self-acclaimed ‘Port Harcourt first daughter’ made this known in a post on her verified Instagram handle.

    She also begged for forgiveness and expressed her gratitude to her fans, who stuck by her, regardless of her “imperfection”

    She said:

    “Dear Titans,
    Words cannot readily express how much your love and acceptance means to me at this point. Even my imperfection could not sway your support.
    THANK YOU!

    “Coming out of the Big Brother House disqualified was never my intention. Unfortunately, my weakness played against my strength and cut short what should have been a grand ending, with or without the prize.

    “I sincerely apologize for every action on my part that led to this point and I take full responsibility for it all.
    “I am an adult and ought to be in control of my emotions, but I’m human and I failed time and again. Please “forgive me. I sincerely wanted to make it, at least to the 99th day.

    “The fight to be seen and heard takes its toll on everyone of us irrespective of where, when or how it comes. What counts is what we make out of a seemingly ugly situation.
    “I know I need to work on my emotional health… That’s a fact as I have become conscious of it now. Being on this show has shown me that, I am not just a work in progress but I have the chance to become a better me on all fronts, if I give myself the chance to heal.
    “And this I promise to give due diligence.

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    “So for what you have been to me, I heard some of you even cried and held vigil for me. I cannot thank you enough. You all became my mother, friends and family and this means so much to me right now. Your prayers, time and resources spent to push me through to this point cannot be quantified in any form, but i sincerely thank you from the depth of my heart.

    “Against the odds, you all are the reason why I stand and remain hopeful that everything will fall into place, that I can make it through this storm and come out on the sunny side in time.

    “My social media official handles are open and I can be reached there for now.

    “Thank you Titans, Thank you to everyone who supported me privately and openly, Thank you Africa, Thank you Nigeria, THANK YOU WORLD!
    “I saved the best for last. Thank you to the organizers of Big Brother Nigeria for this platform, it may not have ended as I hoped and wanted, but it gave me the opportunity to rise. It was worth it and for this reason, I am grateful.
    Biggie, @bigbronaija Thank you!
    Blessings”

    Tacha was butted off the show on Friday night September 27, 2019, for violence and intent to harm fellow housemate. She had a heated argument with fellow housemate, Mercy Eke and pulled her hair twice in an attempt to get physical.

     

  • Immigration intercepts two Niger nationals with weapons at Katsina border

    Two nationals of Niger Republic have been arrested at Kongolam border in Katsina state, the Nigerian Immigration Service announced on Saturday.

    According to the Public Relation Officer of the Service, DCI James Sunday, they were arrested in possession of Pistols, computers and phones.

    Sunday explained that their arrest was on the heels of the visit of the Comptroller of Immigration, Muhammad Babandede and his counterpart in Customs, Hammeed Ali to the border town following the launch of a drill operation.

    He added that the comptrollers were on a visit to the area as part of strategic synergy to secure the nation’s borders.

    He said vigilant officers arrested the two Nigeriennes who had attempted to open fire in defiance and to evade arrest.

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    According to him the gallant Operatives of the service overpowered them, leaving one dead in the cross fire, while the survivor is helping with useful information about their activities.

    He stated that after interrogation and profiling the surviving criminal has been handed over to the police for further necessary action.

    The PRO said in a statement that the Comptroller of the Command, Bin Umar and his men were commended by the CGI Babandede on the feat.

    He asserted that the Border Drill Exercise Operation Swift Response is yielding positive result with arrests of irregular migrants, criminal elements and Smugglers whose activities have been curtailed.

    He, therefore, advised the border communities to desist from conniving and sabotaging government effort.

    Meanwhile the nationwide spot assessment by the two Comptrollers General and representative of the National Security Adviser has been very successful, the statement added.

  • Buhari returns to Abuja after UNGA74

    President Muhammadu Buhari returned to Abuja after his engagements at the 74th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA74), in New York, USA, on Saturday morning, a day ahead of schedule.

    News Agency of Nigeria reports that the president was initially scheduled to return to Abuja on Sunday morning at about 7.00a.m.

    However, the presidential aircraft carrying the president, his aides and some members of his entourage landed at the presidential wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja early Saturday morning.

    NAN gathered that the president’s decision to return home was informed by the fact that he was able to complete all his official engagements in time.

    The president, who left Abuja on Sept. 22 for New York, participated actively in the main and High Side Events of the UNGA74.

    NAN reports that the first official engagement of Buhari at the UNGA74 was on Monday in New York where he addressed the United Nations Climate Action Summit with the theme, “A Race We Can Win. A Race We Must Win.”

    At the event, Buhari announced robust plans and initiatives by his administration to reverse the negative effects of climate change in Nigeria.

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    While sharing the sentiment expressed by the UN Secretary-General that the world is on the verge of climate catastrophe, President Buhari stated that ”undeniably, Climate Change is a human-induced phenomenon.”

    The president had on Sept. 24 presented the country’s National Statement as the fifth speaker on the first day of the General Debate during the UNGA74 where he among other issues alerted the world on attempts by international criminal groups to cheat Nigeria of billions.

    While at the UNGA74, the president also participated in high level side events on Water and Sanitation as well as ‘SDG Integration – Bridging the Policy Planning – Budgeting Gap for the Achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.’

    On Sept. 26, the president presented an address at the High-Level National Side-Event organised by the African Union Development Agency and New Partnership for Africa’s Development (AUDA-NEPAD).

    President Buhari also held several bilateral meetings with world leaders, international organisations, world business gurus and Nigerian Youths Climate Group before departing New York on Friday.

  • Between popular Cele cleric ‘Genesis’ and London-based Rev. Esther Ajayi

    Popular Celestial pastor and founder of Genesis Model Parish of the Celestial Church of Christ, Israel Ogundipe, is trending with the story of how London-based woman of God, acclaimed philanthropist and General Overseer of Love of Christ Church in Clapham, London, Rev. Esther Ajayi, rescued him out of financial crisis.

    The Cele pastor is said to have confessed that Rev. Ajayi bailed out his ministry when it was facing financial crisis, especially at the beginning when things were tough for him.

    As such, Genesis, as he is fondly called, is said to have declared that he will forever be grateful to his ‘spiritual mother’, as he now calls Rev.  Ajayi.

    “Mama Esther Ajayi was the one who gave me a whooping N60million to acquire the land for our permanent site at Idimu part of Lagos State. As I am talking, I am in the United States of America with her touring with her and spreading the Gospel of Christ. This is not the first time. She takes me everywhere with her: UK, Europe, Asia just name it. I have gone places and met so many great and influential people through her; that has helped my destiny”, Genesis is said to have added.

  • Chef disappears with employer’s N18m gold, cameras two weeks after he was employed

    Personnel of the Inspector General of Police Intelligence Response Team (IRT) have arrested a chef, David Ugboko, who bolted with his employer’s gold and cameras worth N18 million, barely two weeks after he was employed.

    The 25-year-old suspect, who hails from Cross Rivers State, belongs to a syndicate that specialised in using magnesium chemical and black stone to test the worth of jewelry before stealing them.

    He was employed on August 20, 2019 by the daughter of a popular oil magnet who resides at Lekki area of Lagos to work in her father’s house.

    Ugboko however conspired with two other suspects, Aliu Alkari, 39, and Kingsley Honey, 30, to steal the valuable items and disappeared without a trace.

    A manhunt was launched for them following a petition to IRT by Ugboko’s boss.

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    It was said that Ugboko’s arrest led to the arrest of Aliu and Kingsley.

    Recovered from the suspects were two gold testing tools.

    It was also said that Aliu acted as the receiver and provider of the buyer who bought the N18million gold and cameras at a giveaway price of N1 million only.

    Police sources said the recovery all the stolen jewellery and cameras had been difficult as some of the items had been sent to Dubai and Cotonou by the suspects.

    In his confession, Ugboko said: “ I am the one who stole the gold and the cameras but I did not touch money. I am from Iyala community in Cross Rivers State, but I reside at Iju Ishaga . I have worked as a chef many places.

    ‘’It was one agent named Mr. Apera who is close to many rich men that recommended me to the oil magnet to work as a chef, without knowing that I had plan to steal gold from the house of my employer.

    ‘’They drilled me on cooking vegetable soup, afam soup, okro and ogbono soups. They also tested me on ironing clothes and house cleaning, but they did not give me access to the washing machine.

    ‘’When I passed the interview I started work as a chef on a salary of N40,000 and within two weeks of combing the whole rooms I found gold and expensive cameras and stole them.

    ‘’They did not arrest the agent because the agent did not know that the person he was recommending was a smart thief and the oil magnet family had been using him and knows very well that the agent is not criminally minded.

    ‘’I only used the agent to get work. It was not the agent’s idea for me to steal where I went to work as a chef. I have been stealing gold in many places I had worked as a chef and found stealing gold very lucrative and easy and Aliu had been my receiver and marketer of stolen gold. He was the one who gave me the black stone and the chemical which I used to test the gold before stealing it. It was Kingsley that advised me to take the opportunity and become a big man but Aliu disappointed me by selling gold worth N18 million for a small amount- N1.7 million, yet I got only N500,000.

    ‘’Aliu said he sold the gold and the cameras for only N1.7million whereas the market value is over N18 million. He gave me N500, 000 and deposited N1.2 million in Kingsley account and told Kingsley that his own share is N150, 000.

    ‘’I used one week to search where the items were kept in the house before I succeeded, but the way IRT operatives tracked us is still a mystery because I stopped using phones and I threw away my SIM  card to avoid being traced.

    ‘’I stayed 16 days before I acted. The house is a duplex. I saw 300 dollars, three pieces of Arab money and hundreds of naira but I did not touch any money. I concentrated on getting the gold.

    Confessing, Aliu said: “ I am married with two wives and I have nine children. I live with one of my wives and four children in Lagos, while my second wife and my four other children are in the village.

    ‘’David (Ugboko) lied to me that he wanted to go to his village to buy gold saying it is cheaper in his village not knowing that he wanted to steal gold from the house he was working as a chef. I told him the testers would cost him N2,000 and he promised to pay me when he comes back from village.

    ‘’My work is to scout for those who want to sell their gold because of financial problem and it is always cheap as they sell at giveaway prices. I never sent him anywhere to steal gold. My work is to look for buyer and take my commission. I have a standby buyer called Alhaji Haruna.

    ‘’I sent the stolen gold to Haruna and he paid money into Kingsley’s bank account as Ugboko had no bank account and when they got alert they paid me N300,000. I divided the money into two and sent N150, 000 to my family in the village and started managing the remaining N150,000 in Lagos.

    ‘’’The owner of the gold said the value of the gold is N18million but Alhaji Haruna bought it for N1.7million.

    In his own confession Kingsley, who is married with two children, said he was a lotto agent in the Agbado crossing area of Ogun State.

    ‘’ Ugboko is my close friend. He called me on phone and said he had found gold in the house he is working and that he intended to steal and I told him that I did not know much about gold.

    ‘’The following day, he told me that his elder brother had confirmed it to be gold. He brought the gold me and we took it to Aliu together because one needs to be careful when selling gold. He promised to give me N150,000 but all the money they deposited in my account was N1.2million.”

    Kinglsey disclosed that they used the money realised from selling the stolen items to purchase electronics and household items including Plasma TV, DVD, shelve,  gas cylinder and radio set to keep abreast of news as they ran into hiding when they heard that IRT operatives were on their trail.

  • Amapakabo: I’ll restore Nigeria’s pride with WAFU tourney

    HEAD coach of the Super Eagles Team B, Imama Amapakabo has expressed confidence that good  outing  at  the West Africa Football Union (WAFU ) tournament in Senegal will  change the loss image of the team among Nigerians having been humiliated 4 – 1 in the last CHAN encounter with Sparrow Hawks of Togo.

    Apakamabo who made this known at the point of departure to Senegal for the competition , said meeting Togo again in the WAFU tournament is the best time to avenge the defeat suffered in Lome.

    “You know that match in Togo was a big blow to me having taking the lead with few minutes of play.

    The Hawks are good and physical but my boys will surprise them in this  tournament having corrected our mistakes and knowing their style of play. Beating us twice within a space of two weeks will be a double image dent which Nigerians will not accept. We must avoid failure”. Amapakabo concluded.

    Former Enugu Rangers tactician revealed that winning the WAFU tournament will restore absolute confidence on the team ahead of return leg, second round of Africa Championship qualifier bill for Asaba,Delta on October 19th.

    He also thanked his employer(NFF) for providing the team and technical crew with the needed logistics for this tournament.