Five-time world champions, the Golden Eaglets of Nigeria have landed in the city of Goiania, Brazil, where the team will tackle Hungary at the Estadio Olimpico in the opening game of Group B of the 2019 FIFA U17 World Cup finals on Saturday.



Players and the officials were received by FIFA and local organizing committee officials at the airport and they were ushered into the bus that took them to their hotel at the Metropolis area of the city.

The Eaglets have been in the football –passionate South American country since October 10, in the city of Sao Paulo, where the team had their training camp and played three warm-up games against Sao Paulo U 17 side, which they lost 1-2, before defeating South Korea 4-2 and then losing by the odd goal to Japan.

The record holders of the title had their first training in Gioania yesterday evening by 4.00pm local time

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RISING CHELSEA STARS FACE ACID TEST AGAINST FORMIDABLE AJAX

Chelsea’s young guns will test their run of form at one of the homes of youth development tonight as they attempt to stop an Ajax team on course to replicate last season’s thrilling Champions League run.



The Blues are on a five-match winning streak in all competitions after beating Newcastle United 1-0 at the weekend but come up against the Group H leaders in Amsterdam

Ajax are averaging over three goals a game at home and abroad and are hungry for European success after semifinal heartache last season.

Fikayo Tomori, Ross Barkley, Mason Mount, Callum Hudson-Odoi and Tammy Abraham all started Saturday’s win at Stamford Bridge, the first time since 2013 five English players made the London club’s starting XI.

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FIVE INJURED AS SOUTH AFRICANS RESUME ATTACK ON NIGERIANS

For the umpteenth time, Nigerians living in South Africa bore the brunt of a fresh wave of xenophobia that broke out yesterday, which left five persons injured.



According to reports, the latest attack occurred at Mpumalamga Province and in some parts of Witbank where the residents attacked their Nigerian neighbours.

This is coming barely weeks after President Muhammadu Buhari visited South Africa to dialogue with his South African counterpart to address the incessant xenophobic attacks on Nigerians and other African migrants.

It was gathered from Nigerians living in South Africa that the attack started with the indigenes attacking shops and businesses belonging to Nigerians and other African nationals for no just cause.

Read more: https://newsbreakers.ng/five-injured-as-south-africans-resume-attack-on-nigerians/


GUNMEN KIDNAP FEDERAL HIGH COURT JUDGE IN ONDO
A Federal High Court judge serving in Akure, Ondo State, Justice Abdul Dogo, was on Tuesday abducted by gunmen.



Dogo was said to have been abducted along with his driver at Ibilo/Isua Akoko axis, a border area between Ondo and Edo states while on their way from Abuja to Akure.

A source close to the federal judiciary in Akure confirmed the incident that was corroborated by two of the lawyers who were in his court for the hearing of their cases.

One of the lawyers also told journalists that the kidnappers had contacted family members and officials of the Federal High Court in Akure and Abuja to demand N50 million ransom

Read more: https://newsbreakers.ng/gunmen-kidnap-federal-high-court-judge-in-ondo/


INEC TO CORRECT GENERAL ELECTION MISTAKES WITH BAYELSA, KOGI POLLS

At the end of a two-day seminar on the preparedness of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the November 16 governorship elections in Kogi and the Bayelsa States, the commission said the two elections would correct the mistakes in the 2019 general election and set a new standard for future elections.



This is coming as stakeholders from Kogi and the Bayelsa States have listed violence, vote-buying and manipulation of youths as some of the issues that would determine the outcome of the polls in the two states.

Speaking yesterday, the Chairman of the Board of INEC’s Electoral Institute, who is also a National Commissioner, Prince Solomon Soyebi, said: “The election will provide the commission with yet another opportunity to test-run its policies, processes and new initiatives.
“Since the conduct and outcome of the 2019 general election, the commission has done a lot to reorganise and strengthen its processes, procedures and systems for better performance.”

Read more: https://newsbreakers.ng/inec-to-correct-general-election-mistakes-with-bayelsa-kogi-polls/

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