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The year 2018 is gradually coming to an end in which many sporting activities took place in Nigeria, Africa and also many parts of the world. Some events brought joy and happiness to the minds of many football fans in Nigeria as Nigerians were happy the day the Super Eagles qualified for the 2018 FIFA World Cup which was played in Russia. Also, some families were thrown into mourning due to the ugly occurrences that happened in the year 2018. And today, we shall be taking a look at some of the Nigerian sports personalities that died in the year 2018 in which their families are still battling to cope with the pains their death brought to them. 1. Chinedu Udoji On Sunday, February 18, the family of former Super Eagles and Kano Pillars' defender Chinedu Udoji were thrown into mourning when the player died in a fatal accident in Kano. Chinedu Udoji who was 28 until the day he died was coming from the hotel of his former teammates Enyimba who played a 1-1 draw with Kano Pillars in

- Adedayo Thomas has been dragged to a Wuse Zone 6 magistrates’ court, Abuja - Thomas, the executive director of the National Film and Video Censor Board, was accused of stealing a generator set - The defendant, however, pleaded not guilty to the charge and was admitted to bail to the tune of N200, 000 by Senior Magistrate Ahmed Ndajiwo Adedayo Thomas, the executive director of the National Film and Video Censor Board (NFVCB), who police accused of stealing a generator set, has appeared in a Wuse Zone 6 magistrates’ court, Abuja. According to a First Information Report (FIR), made available to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday, December 12, the police charged Thomas with stealing. The police prosecutor, Godwin Ochai, informed the court that the defendant allegedly carried out the act on February 6, 2017 at the Lagos zonal office of the board. READ ALSO: Boko Haram has been decimated - Abdulsalami Abubakar According to Ochai, the defendant dishonestly broke the fence of t

- The Borno commissioner of police says the police in the state has successfully foiled a lone suicide bomb attack - A teenage female bomber attempted to infiltrate a security checkpoint before security men shot at her - Men of the Explosive Ordinance Department were subsequently deployed to sanitise the area The police in Borno successfully foiled a lone suicide bomb attack on Wednesday night, December 12, in Maiduguri, the police commissioner, Damian Chukwu, has said. Chukwu told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) by telephone, that the incident occurred at about 8:30pm on the outskirts of Maiduguri. READ ALSO: 2019: I’ll give women strong representation in my govt if elected - Atiku Legit.ng gathers that he said that a teenage female bomber attempted to infiltrate a security checkpoint before security men shot at her and the Improvised Explosive Device vest strapped to her body exploded. He said the explosion blew the girl into pieces, noting that there were no other casualti

- President Buhari met with Governor Amosun of Ogun ahead of the general elections - The president reportedly demanded total loyalty from the governor asking him to shelve personal desires - Amosun had said he would not support the candidate of the APC in the state gubernatorial election President Muhammadu Buhari has reportedly warned Governor Ibikunle Amosun to desist from anti-party activities as details of their meeting have emerged. The duo met on Monday, December 10 in Abuja and according to Daily Independent, the president sternly warned the Ogun governor not to engage in activities that may affect the party. READ ALSO: Boko Haram has been decimated - Abdulsalami Abubakar The president reportedly frowned at Amosun’s statement that while he would support that All progressives Congress in the presidential election, he will not support the candidate of the party, Dapo Abiodun, in the gubernatorial contest. President Buhari reportedly told Amosun that he requires total loyal

- Adedayo Thomas has been dragged to a Wuse Zone 6 Magistrates’ Court, Abuja - Thomas, the executive director of the National Film and Video Censor Board, was accused of stealing a generator set - The defendant, however, pleaded not guilty to the charge and was admitted to bail to the tune of N200, 000 by Senior Magistrate Ahmed Ndajiwo Adedayo Thomas, the executive director of the National Film and Video Censor Board (NFVCB), who police accused of stealing a generator set, has appeared in a Wuse Zone 6 magistrates’ court, Abuja. According to a First Information Report (FIR), made available to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday, December 12, the police charged Thomas with stealing. The police prosecutor, Godwin Ochai, informed the court that the defendant allegedly carried out the act on February 6, 2017 at the Lagos zonal office of the board. READ ALSO: Boko Haram has been decimated - Abdulsalami Abubakar According to Ochai, the defendant dishonestly broke the fence of t

- The Transmission Company of Nigeria is putting measure in place to forestall power system collapse - It says electricity generation companies that fail to comply with the stipulated frequency control that ensures stability of the power grid will be removed from the grid - According to the transmission company, 260 megawatts of spinning reserve will soon be deployed by TCN as against the zero or 40 megawatts figure The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has said that electricity generation companies (GenCos) that fail to comply with the stipulated frequency control that ensures stability of the power grid would be removed from the grid. TCN said one of the factors responsible for the instability in Nigeria's grid was the failure of some power generators to stick to the prescribed frequency control. According to TCN, this factor leads to power system collapse. READ ALSO: NAIJ.com upgrades to Legit.ng: a letter from our Editor-in-Chief Bayo Olupohunda According to the mana

- PDP presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to sign the Electoral Bill - Atiku said the 2019 general election will not be considered credible unless President Buhari signs the bill Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has warned that the 2019 general election will not be considered credible unless President Muhammadu Buhari signs the Electoral bill. Atiku, made the statement on Wednesday, December 12, at the Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah Centre, Abuja, where he signed the peace accord to commit himself to peaceful elections in 2019. READ ALSO: EFCC charges Okupe with 59 counts of money laundering, breach of trust He said: “I am delighted that Mr President has agreed to sign this peace accord. I will want to appeal to him to also sign the Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill. Mr. President needs to understand that as long as he refuses to sign the bill, we will have doubts that this government is trul

- Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the PDP, says if elected in 2019, he will give women a strong representation in his government - Atiku said he will commit to a strong representation of women in a future PDP government; just as he demonstrated when he was VP - The presidential candidate said he is sentimentally and emotionally attached to womanhood The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has pledged to give women a strong representation in his government, if elected in 2019. Abubakar made the pledge during an interactive session with Nigerian women on Wednesday, December 12, in Abuja, NAN reports. READ ALSO: Lagos govt vows to deal with anyone who attacks LASTMA officials Legit.ng gathers that he said that he decided to have his first interaction with women because the PDP had never refused to advance or protect the interest of women. “This is the first interactive session we are having with any group and this is to unde

- Voting machines for Congo's presidential poll were on Wednesday, December 12, destroyed by a fire outbreak - A presidential adviser, Barnabe Kikaya Bin Karubi, alleged that the inferno which took place in a warehouse where the machines were kept was caused by criminals - Karubi also disclosed that the policemen who were guarding the warehouse had been arrested A fire outbreak that reportedly took place in the night of Wednesday, December 12, at a warehouse in Congo’s capital, Kinshasa, is said to have damaged many voting machines and ballot boxes expected be used in the presidential election coming up on Sunday, December 23. The tragic development was revealed to newsmen by a presidential adviser, Barnabe Kikaya Bin Karubi, on Thursday, December 13, Reuters reports. READ ALSO: NAIJ.com upgrades to Legit.ng: a letter from our Editor-in-Chief Bayo Olupohunda In his revelation, Karubi stated that 70% of the equipment reserved for the poll scheduled to take place in Kinshasa w

- A 5-year-old boy who was kidnapped two years ago has finally been found - The little boy was reportedly abducted in Rivers state and he was found in Ebonyi - It was gathered that the child was sold to a teacher for N500,000 A little boy identified as Destiny Azubuike who was kidnapped two years ago has finally been found. The boy who is now five years old was reportedly found in Ebonyi state, two years after he went missing in Rivers state. According to WIRED Nigeria, the little boy was found after an intense campaign against kidnapping of children was launched on Facebook. The Facebook page was created to fight kidnapping of children in Isiala Ngwa South in Abia. It was reported that the boy was kidnapped from his parents' residence at 20B Afam Road in Oyigbo area of Rivers state. He was reportedly kidnapped on December 19, 2016. 5-year-old boy who was kidnapped in Rivers found in Ebonyi two years after Source: Wired.ng Source: UGC READ ALSO : First class graduate empo

- The ADC has reacted to the alleged attack on the campaign convoy of its governorship candidate in Ogun state, Prince Gboyega Isiaka - The party called on the authorities to fish out the culprits with immediate effect - The party urged other parties not to make the voting atmosphere poisonous for the electorate in a bid to retain power by all means The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has reacted to the alleged attack on the campaign convoy its governorship candidate in Ogun state, Prince Gboyega Isiaka. The party called on the authorities to fish out the culprits with immediate effect, frowning at what it called the ignoble culture of executive recklessness, intimidation and dictatorship prevalent in the Nigerian democratic space. The party also insisted that the APC governor of Ogun state and President Muhammadu Buhari are to be held accountable for any loss of lives, and breach of peace, owing to the failure of security agencies in the state and beyond. National publicity se

- A new survey by the UN has revealed that contrary to 10.5 million, 13.2 million Nigerian children are out of school - UN said those kids are forced out of school due to the persistent insurgency in the northeast - It also said Borno, Yobe and Adamawa have the highest number of the out of school kids in the world A shocking survey by the United Nations has revealed that the number of Nigerian kids who are out of school has risen from 10.5 million to 13.2 million, the highest in the world. VOA reports the children, in the UN report, are in Nigeria's northern states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa where Boko Haram insurgency has paralysed academic activities. Legit.ng gathers that most of the children are out of school while some have never been to school before. READ ALSO: NAIJ.com upgrades to Legit.ng: a letter from our Editor-in-Chief Bayo Olupohunda Expressing her worries about the future of her kids, one of the mothers, Favour Shikaan, said lack of financial capability forc

The biggest news stories in 2018, being the year before the general elections, mostly border on politics. The security challenges the country is facing, strike actions, etc. also make it to the top news in the outgoing year. As the Year 2018 gradually folds up, Legit.ng presents a list of the top 10 biggest news in 2018, according to Google Trends. 1. Osun Elections On the list of the biggest news stories in Nigeria in 2018 is the hotly contested gubernatorial election in Osun state. The election, keenly contested by the candidates of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Gboyega Oyetola, and the candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party, ran to second as the first ballot was declared inconclusive. The September 22 gubernatorial election declared inconclusive by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as a result of the slim margin between the votes polled between Senator Adeleke of the PDP and Oyetola of the APC. INEC, in the evening of Thursday, September 27, offi

- The Lagos state govt has vowed that henceforth, it will deal ruthlessly with motorists or individuals caught attacking LASTMA officials - The state’s commissioner of transportation, Ladi Lawanson, said the govt is at a loss as to why officers employed to safeguard members of the public, are always attacked by the same members of the public - He said going forward, the government will apply the full weight of the relevant extant law on culprits in this regard The Lagos State Government has vowed that henceforth, it would deal ruthlessly with motorists or individuals caught attacking Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) officials. Ladi Lawanson, the state’s commissioner for transportation, stated this during a news conference in Lagos on Wednesday, December 12, Punch reports. READ ALSO: Boko Haram: We’ve spent N12bn on rehabilitation in N/East - Foundation Legit.ng gathers that the commissioner said the government will no longer fold its arms and watch as LASTMA of

- Ahead of 2019 presidential debate, Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN), said that vice president Yemi Osinbajo has the right to represent President Buhari - According to Sagay, the debate is not about eloquence, but what the political parties have to offer the country, if elected - The vice presidential debate would hold in Abuja on Friday, December 14, while the presidential debate would hold just over a month later on Saturday, January 19, 2019 Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC), Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN), has on Wednesday, December 12, argued that Yemi Osinbajo, Nigeria's vice president has the right to represent President Muhammadu Buhari at the presidential debate which has been slated for January 19, 2019. Daily Independent reported that Sagay said the debate is not about eloquence, but what the political parties have to offer the country, if elected. READ ALSO: Hard work, loyalty will be adequately rewarded - President Buhari “Why not? The vi

How many seasons are there in Nigeria? Many people want to know the answer to this question. In our article, we will tell you in detail about the seasons in Nigeria and the weather conditions of each month. Do not miss this important information! How many seasons do we have in Nigeria The Nigerian climate varies greatly depending on the region. Therefore, there are two seasons - rainy and dry season. The dry season in Nigeria is the most pleasant (from November to March) and especially in November and December. At this time on the coast (Lagos, Calabar) is still very hot, even at night. But the humidity is less compared to the rest of the year. The sky in the mornings is often covered with a haze of fog. Moving to the north, the climate becomes more dry and in the center of the country the days are sunnier, and the nights are colder (Jos). There is almost no rain in the north, and the day is hot, while the nights are even cold (Kano, Maiduguri). The harmattan season in Nigeria be

Rauf Aregbesola, the former governor of Osun state has commended aggrieved members of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) who lost out in the last primaries for not defecting to the opposition parties in Akwa Ibom state. Legit.ng gathered that the former governor led other members of the South-South National Peace and Reconciliation Committee of the APC. The former governor explained that the committee was in the state to interact and hear from leaders and concerned members of the party with a view to brokering truce as a result of grievances that trailed the last primaries of the party in the state. READ ALSO: APC asks Supreme Court to sack Tambuwal Aregbesola addressing aggrieved aspirants said: ‘ ’I must commend you for the maturity you have exhibited by putting behind you the hurt to work for the victory of our party. It is obvious that the APC is taking over the state in 2019. ‘’Therefore, I urge you to bury the agonies, pains and miseries of the past and remain true

Real fans of football have been observing how FC Barcelona, Real Madrid, and other famous teams competed for the title of ‘football club with most trophies in the world’ for many years in a row. So, which one is the most successful football club in terms of prizes? Photo: www.si.com Source: Depositphotos The best football club in the world When we discuss the football club with the most trophies in the world, we recollect the top players from European clubs. For example, FC Barcelona has more than 90 impressive prizes won both in their home country and international matches. Can anyone beat Barcelona or Real Madrid with even more awards won? Is there another best football club in the world this year? Since we have decided to focus on the football club with most trophies in the world 2018, let us forget about the most famous clubs. We have to honor the clubs that have won the highest number awards, not just major honors. READ ALSO: Most successful club in the world in 2018

- A Twitter user identified as Maymournah has the internet in awe over her most recent photo - The young lady who is a corps member had the opportunity of wearing her dad's NYSC uniform from 41 years ago - She revealed that he served in 1977 and now she's doing same in 2018, wearing his shirt Simple photos of a young Twitter user identified as Maymournah wearing her dad's NYSC shirt from 41 years ago has the internet thinking of the value of family and special memories. The young lady who is currently a corps member shared lovely photos of herself rocking her dads's NYSC shirt from 1977 on Twitter and revealed that he was walking down the path over four decades ago and now she is doing so with the same shirt. More than anything the sentimental value attached to something as simple as a shirt proves the importance of a stable and functional family. It might appear simple but it symbolises that time and moments have passed but family and love have been things worth w

- The PDP in Ekiti state has debunked reports that its members defected to the APC or other parties - The opposition party challenged APC to name the defectors and the offices they occupied in Ayodele Fayose’s government - PDP, however, said it is true that the speaker of the state House of Assembly, Adeniran Alagbada, invited all past political office holders from 2004 till date to a meeting The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ekiti state on Wednesday, December 13, declared that non of its members defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC), or any other parties in recent time. Nigerian Tribune reports that the PDP made this known while reacting to a media report that over 500 political office holders under Fayose’s government quit the opposition party in the state. The opposition party, however, challenged the APC to name the defectors and the offices they occupied in Ayodele Fayose’s government. READ ALSO: Amosun shuns APC reconciliation meeting This is contained in a