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Chelsea's Italian head coach Antonio Conte (3R) leads celebrations of Chelsea's Belgian striker Michy Batshuayi scoring the opening goal during the English Premier League match between West Bromwich Albion and Chelsea at The Hawthorns stadium in West Bromwich, west Midlands on May 12, 2017. Anthony Devlin / AFP Chelsea secured the Premier League title on Friday after substitute Michy Batshuayi's 82nd-minute goal earned Antonio Conte's side a hard-earned 1-0 victory at West Bromwich Albion. The Belgian striker's goal took Chelsea 10 points clear of second-place Tottenham Hotspur, who have only nine points left to play for. It is Chelsea's second title win in three seasons, their sixth in total, and comes at the end of former Juventus and Italy coach Conte's first season as manager. Conte, who claimed three Serie A titles as Juventus manager, has restored the club to the winners' circle by rebuilding from the chaotic end of Jose Mourinho's second...

The court also ordered Mohammed to produce two sureties in like sum that must be a serving senator and a director in the Federal Civil Service, with landed property in the FCT . Justice Abubakar Talba of FCT High Court, Gudu, on Friday granted bail in the sum of N500million to the former FCT Minister, Sen . Bala Mohammed. The court also ordered Mohammed to produce two sureties in like sum that must be a serving senator and a director in the Federal Civil Service, with landed property in the FCT . The sureties must possess certificate of occupancy of the said property, and evidence of payment of tax in the last three years. The defendant was also ordered to deposit his international passport with the registrar of the court. The bail conditions was determined and confirmed by the EFCC prosecutor, Mr Johnson Ojogeane and the defence counsel, Chief Chris Uche (SAN). The date for hearing was fixed on July 4. Justice Talba had stood down the ruling for the bail for 30 minutes to g...

The Inspector-General of Police Ibrahim Idris, has said that the Nigeria Police Force requires additional 155,000 personnel to adequately provide security for the country. Mr. Idris, who said that this at a two-day National Security Summit in Abuja on Thursday, said to achieve this, the force needs to recruit 31,000 cadets annually for five years. The theme of the summit is: Forging Partnership for Effective Strategies to Curb the Menace of Kidnapping, Recurring Farmers-Herders Clashes and Criminality in Nigeria. “To attain the UN ratio requirement of one police officer to 400 citizens of a country, the Nigeria Police Force needs to recruit 155,000 to police Nigerian population of approximately 182 million,”he said. Mr. Idris said the police had not conducted recruitment into its rank and file cadre since 2011 until 2016 when the recruitment of 10,000 applicants was approved by the Federal Government. He said this development had left a huge gap in the manpower need...

Why we increased the budget by N143bn Don’t alter any figure, Dogara warns executive Budget will help Nigeria exit economic recession — Saraki By Henry Umoru, Emman Ovuakporie, Godwin Oritse , Nkiruka Nnorom , Rosemary Onuoha & Ediri Ejoh ABUJA — THE National Assembly, yesterday, passed the 2017 Appropriation Bill of N7.441 trillion, which represented an increase of N143 billion from what was presented last December by President Muhammadu Buhari . The increase in expenditure came with a significant mark up in the benchmark crude oil price to $44.5 per barrel from the N42.5 per barrel proposed by the President. However, the National Assembly maintained the daily crude oil production of 2.2 million barrels, and exchange rate of N305 to $1 as proposed by the President. Details of the bill show that 30 per cent or N2.18 trillion was allocated to capital expenditure, while recurrent expenditure (non-debt) and debt service received N2.987 trillion and N1.84 ...