Tyson Fury seen for the first time since giving up his boxing titles after cocaine use

Tyson Fury on Wednesday relinquished his WBA,WBO  and IBO titles after deciding to treat himself for depression and cocaine abuse and was for the first time on Thursday spotted arriving at his Lancashire home with a plastic bag containing packets of Doritos among other snacks.

The boxer had confessed in an interview to taking cocaine, fighting depression and being suicidal after refusing to turn up for his title defence fight against Wladmir Klitschko twice this year with his blood samples coming up positive for cocaine in the last one month.

The British Boxing Board of control planned to meet on Wednesday to discuss whether to suspend or ban Tyson from the sport, which would have seen him stripped of the belts enabling a fight between Wladmir Klitschko and Anthony Joshua but Fury has beaten them to the punch by vacating his titles voluntarily.

Invasion of judges homes by DSS is a threat to the independence of the judiciary- NJC

The National Judicial Council has described the invasion of homes and arrest of some serving and suspended judges by agents of the Department of Security Services (DSS) as a threat to the independence of the judiciary... 

In a statement released last night, the council said no judicial officer who is under any form of investigation should be invited by any institution in the country, including the DSS, without complying with the rule of law and due process.

DSS officials last Saturday, stormed the homes of some judges alleged to have been involved in corrupt practices and arrested them. The affected judges namely Justices Okoro and Ngwuta of the Supreme Court; Justice Muhammad Ladan Tsamiya of the Court of Appeal; Justice Kabiru Auta of the Kano High Court; Justice Mu’azu Pindiga of the Gombe High Court; Justice Ibrahim Auta, Chief Judge of the Federal High Court of Nigeria; and Justice Adeniyi Ademola, were however released on grounds of self recognition on Monday October 10th.  

According to Thisday, the NJC in its statement maintained it had never shielded any judge from investigation. Part of the NJC's statement reads 

Listen: First audio clip released from Aisha Buhari's explosive interview with BBC

Audio clip from Aisha Buhari's yet-to-be aired interview with BBC Hausa. In the interview, she said:

"After receiving complains and complains, I decided to tell him (President Buhari). But, all the same, a lot of People are coming on their own and also collectively to tell him that things are not going the way it should. Most of these people occupying some agencies, No 1: Nobody knows them. No 2: They don't know our party manifesto, they don't know what we campaigned for. They were not part of us completely.

They don't a mission or vision of our APC. I have my own right to say how i feel about something. If it continues like this, I will not be part of any movement again. I need to work with the people that we have started the Journey collectively as a teamwork. So that he would leave a legacy."

When asked if she told her Husband all this, she said "Yeah he know, He knows."

Only Aisha Buhari can stop us from airing her controversial Interview' - BBC

As pressure continues to mount for BBC Hausa not to air the controversial interview Aisha Buhari granted it some days ago, the station has said only Mrs Buhari can stop them from airing the said interview.

Mrs Buhari had in the interview stated that many of the people who are working for her husband now were not there when he started the journey and that most of those who had put in efforts for him to emerge president have been abandoned.

DailyTrust reports that a source within the Abuja Bureau of the BBC revealed that a letter from the Presidency has been sent to it asking for the interview not to be aired.

The source also stated that the Speaker of the Hause of Representative, Yakubu Dogara, has also tried to informally persuade the BBC from airing the interview.

The source told Daily Trust that the network wouldn't backdown on its promise to air the interview as an independent media organisation. The source stressed that the only condition that can make the service not air the interview is for the interviewee, Aisha Buhari, to decide against it. Even in that case her voice recanting what she had said in the interview would be aired. Therefore, a part of the interview will be aired in the service's morning broadcast tomorrow. It will be aired in full on its programme, 'Gane Mini Hanya', on Saturday.

Nigeria vs Algeria WC qualifier: Watford star Guedioura says Odion Ighalo and Isaac Success are now his enemies

Nigeria's Isaac Success and Odion Ighalo's teamate at clubside Watford FC, Algeria international Adlene Guedioura has revealed he's looking forward to locking horns with his friends turned 'enemies' Success and Ighalo as Nigeria prepares for it's very important qualifier against Algeria in matchday 2 of the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifier in November in Uyo.

"I said to them I won't talk to them until next month because they are my enemies now," the 30-year-old Guedioura told watfordfc.com.

"Of course it's a joke, but it will be a pleasure to play against them. It's special to meet teammates who you are used to training with every day and to play against them in one game, so it's quite good and strange at the same time. 

"It's going to be an important game for us. I'm sure we'll have a good welcome from the Nigeria people and from Ighalo and Isaac, but when we go into the pitch they're not going to be my teammates or my friends any more. It's going to be a tough game and I can't wait for

World's Longest-Reigning Monarch Dies

Thailand's venerated King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the world's longest-reigning monarch, has died at the age of 88.

King Bhumibol passed away at Bangkok's Siriraj hospital today. The palace however did not give a reason for his death. He was 88 years old.

"His Majesty has passed away at Siriraj Hospital peacefully," the palace said.

The highly revered monarch spent most of the past decade hospitalised for a variety of ailments, including kidney and lung problems. Bhumibol had been Thailand's king since 1946 and had earned the deepest respect from the vast majority of Thais.

21 Kidnapped Chibok Girls Released – Presidency

Twenty-one of the more than 200 Nigerian girls kidnapped from a school in Chibok by Boko Haram fighters in 2014 have been released. This is according to Shehu Garba.

The release followed negotiations between Nigeria's government and Boko Haram brokered by Red Cross and Swiss government.

It is confirmed that 21 of the missing Chibok Girls have been released and are in the custody of the Department of State Services, DSS. Continue...

"It is confirmed that 21 of the missing Chibok girls have been released and are in the custody of the department of state services," presidential spokesman Garba Shehu said in a statement.

"The release of the girls ... is an outcome of negotiations between the administration and the Boko Haram brokered by the International Red Cross and the Swiss government," Shehu said.

"The negotiations will continue."