BREAKING: Sepp Blatter resigns as FIFA president

Sepp Blatter, FIFA’s long-time president, announced on Tuesday that he would be resigning as soon as an extraordinary FIFA congress has elected a successor.

Blatter had won a fifth term as president just last Friday and seemed to feel vindicated in two victory speeches, after yet another round of scandals had beset him and his organization.

The FIFA president Sepp Blatter is resigning as president of FIFA amid a growing corruption scandal.

A recent indictment by the Department of Justice had led to the arrest of nine of his close associates last week.

Revitalize Nigeria now, Diasporas charge Buhari, Amosun, others

Indigenes of Ogun State residing in Canada have appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari and their home state Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, to urgently strive to turn around Nigeria for good and rekindle the hope of citizens.

The indigenes under the auspices of Olumo Progressive Association Canada Inc, also urged other elected political office holders to see the new era in the country as an opportunity to rejig the nation`s economy, education, socio-infrastructural, power and security decay, amongst others, in the country.

In a release signed by the association’s President, Chief Femi Shodunke and General Secretary, Mr. Afolabi Bakare made available to The Mega StarNews, they noted that Nigerians at home and in diaspora, no doubt, are not happy with the state of affairs in the country, particularly in the areas of economy, unemployment, power and insecurity.

Allow me nominate worthy and competent professional as your minister, Fayose begs Buhari

The Governor of Ekiti State, Ayo Fayose, has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to grant him the privilege to nominate a candidate to fill the slot of the state in the Federal Executive Council.

Mr. Fayose, who made the request in a letter to the President dated May 31, 2015, said if the request was granted by the President, he would send a worthy and competent Ekiti professional for appointment in the federal executive council.

In the letter confirmed by the Special Assistant to the Governor on Media, Lere Olayinka, the governor noted, “Should the request be favourably disposed to, I shall be happy to nominate a worthy and competent professional who can always oblige your excellency and your cabinet the benefit of a second opinion in the serious business of governance.”

Depots owners, petroleum marketers dare Buhari, insist fuel scarcity will continue unless..

Unless the Mohammadu Buhari-led Federal government pays the outstanding subsidy claim, the scarcity of petroleum products being experienced in the country would  persist, the Depots and Petroleum Products Marketers Association of Nigeria (DAPPMA) has warned.

Mr Adewole Olufemi, the Executive Secretary of the association, gave the warning on Tuesday in Lagos. 

Olufemi said that the marketers had stopped importation of petroleum products because of outstanding subsidy claims and commercial banks refusal to offer members additional loans.

“After the Petroleum Tanker Drivers (PTD) and National Road Transport Association (NARTO) suspended their strike on May 25, all our depots were opened and we dispensed the little the stocks therein.