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The senator representing Kaduna Central, Shehu Sani, has disclosed that he was invited by the police in Kaduna earlier Monday, April 30. The Punch reports that he said he honoured the invite, wrote a statement, and was later allowed to go, based on self recognition. READ ALSO: Opportunity: Nigeria Prison Service releases vacancies for BSc, HND, OND, SSCE certificate holders NAIJ.com gathered that the senator disclosed this on his verified Twitter handle, where he wrote: “The police invited me to appear today by 10:45am. I honored the invitation to the police Headquarters in Kaduna by 10:45am, with clear conscience.I wrote my statements. I was granted ‘self bail’. I have left.” Earlier in the month, the Kaduna state police command had written the senator, asking him to appear at the command headquarters after identifying him as a person of interest in a murder case. The state commissioner of police, Austin Iwar, who wrote the letter, asked Sani to appear before the police on A...

2:20 PM ET Players who started playing tackle football before the age of 12, displayed symptoms related to chronic traumatic encephalopathy an average of 13 years earlier than other players. That's according to a new study published Monday in the Annals of Neurology. The study was done by the VA Boston Healthcare System and Boston University's school of medicine. The study found that among 211 players who were diagnosed with CTE after death, those who played tackle football before age 12 suffered from cognitive, behavioral and mood symptoms earlier than those players who didn't start to play until after age 12. Every year a player played tackle football under that age predicted the early onset of cognitive problems by 2.4 years, and behavioral and mood problems by 2.5 years, according to the study. The study included 246 former players, 211 of whom were diagnosed with CTE after death. Dr. Ann McKee, director of Boston University's Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy...

Note:  April is National Autism Awareness Month. Autism. There was a time when I couldn’t even say the word out loud. It was too painful, too devastating to utter. I wanted to believe that if I didn’t say the word, it didn’t exist. But it does exist; it’s real, and it’s beautiful, and it’s challenging all at the same time. And whether I say the word or not, my son Chris has autism. I’ve been on this autism journey for 30 years now, more than half my life. Back in 1990, when Chris was first diagnosed, there was no autism awareness month, because there wasn’t autism awareness. Family, friends, and neighbors looked at me quizzically when I shared his diagnosis. What does that mean? How did he get it? How do you cure it? But I did not have the answers. Even the multitude of doctors we saw could not provide the answers. Since that time, there has been an exponential increase in the number of children diagnosed, and almost everyone has been touched by autism in some way. So today, wh...

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- NAF has taken delivery of 2 new helicopter gunships from Russia to fight insurgents - The fight against Boko Haram insurgency has been one of the cardinal points of President Buhari's administration - Buhari is currently meeting with President Donald Trump of United States of America to discuss among others Nigeria-US relationships The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) on Monday, April 30, took delivery of two Mi-35M helicopter gunships that the federal government ordered from Russia. NAIJ.com reports that the Antonov aircraft, which brought the new Mi-35M helicopters, touched down on the runway at NAF Base Makurdi at exactly 12.20 p.m. READ ALSO: Opportunity: Nigeria Prison Service releases vacancies for BSc, HND, OND, SSCE certificate holders It was gathered that the Chief of Aircraft Engineering at NAF Headquarters, Abdulganiyu Olabisi, received the new aircraft on behalf of the Chief of the Air Staff, Sadique Abubakar. Nigeria Air Force takes delivery of 2 new helicopter gun...

12:24 PM ET Miami Heat guard Tyler Johnson had surgery Monday to repair a torn ligament in his left thumb. The Heat announced that Johnson will be in a cast for six weeks but that he is expected to be fully recovered and available for training camp later this year. Johnson suffered the injury in Game 3 of Miami's first-round playoff series against the Philadelphia 76ers. He played the rest of the series despite the injury and scored 16 points in Miami's season-ending loss in Game 5. Johnson, 25, averaged 11.7 points and 3.4 rebounds in 72 games this season. He is entering the third year of a four-year, $50 million deal and will make more than $19 million in 2018-19. Let's block ads! (Why?)

12:17 PM ET TAMPA, Fla. -- The head of team security for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers is investigating an online threat made against general manager Jason Licht, a source confirmed to ESPN Monday. On Friday, a fan with the Twitter alias @LuvDemNoles22 posted a series of angry tweets about the Bucs' draft, including a GIF from a murder scene in the movie "King of New York," and the words, "When I see Jason Licht the next time I roll through Tampa." The fan later identified himself as Mike Rogers, 38, of Houston. Rogers told the Tampa Bay Times that it was a "total exaggeration," that he was "caught up in the moment" and upset that the Bucs didn't draft FSU safety Derwin James. Federal law states that person found guilty of communicating a threat to kidnap or injure a person in interstate or foreign commerce is subject to a fine or up to five years in federal prison. Because the internet is a means of interstate commerce, online threats ca...

3:27 PM ET ALAMEDA, Calif. -- Oakland Raiders left tackle Donald Penn is a suspect in a domestic violence case, the Los Angeles Police Department confirmed Monday morning. Penn, 35, allegedly slapped his wife's butt, poured a drink over her head and grabbed her wrist, according to TMZ . LAPD public relations officer Detective Meghan Aguilar said officers responded to a radio call at 9 p.m. Sunday, took a report and turned it over to area detectives. When officers arrived at the residence, Penn had left the scene, Aguilar said. Later Monday morning, TMZ reported that Penn and his wife, Dominique, issued a joint statement through their representative, Denise White, that disputed any physical altercation. "There was a verbal disagreement, there was NO physical altercation," the statement said. "The two are in the middle of a divorce and it is a hard time for both parties." Raiders owner Mark Davis has said he has a zero-tolerance policy for domestic violen...

11:43 AM ET Associated Press SANTA MONICA, California -- A monster wave off Portugal has produced a world record for a Brazilian surfer. The World Surf League says Rodrigo Koxa has ridden the biggest wave ever surfed. At the group's Big Wave Awards in Santa Monica on Saturday, it said its judges determined that a wave Koxa surfed at Nazare, Portugal, on Nov. 8 was 80 feet high. That overtook the previous record of 78 feet set by American Garrett McNamara in 2011. The group said it awards "the surfer who, by any means available, catches the biggest wave of the year. ... Not only did Koxa win this year's honor, but he now holds the Guinness World Record for the biggest wave surfed." Koxa described the award as "a dream come true." Nazare is on Portugal's Atlantic coast between Lisbon and Porto. Let's block ads! (Why?)

How to watch game 1 of the 76ers vs. Celtics Eastern Conference Semifinals The Philadelphia 76ers and Boston Celtics renew their long playoff rivalry as they move one step toward the conference finals. The Sixers got to this conference semifinals matchup by dispatching the Miami Heat in five games in their first–round matchup. Boston had to survive a grueling seven-game series to get past the Milwaukee Bucks. Philadelphia has their full compliment of players, while Boston will be without Kyrie Irving, Gordon Hayward and could be without Jaylen Brown, who is doubtful for Game 1 with a hamstring injury. The teams have not met in the playoffs since the 2012 conference semifinals, which the Celtics won in seven games. How to Watch Game Time: Monday, April 30, 8 p.m. ET TV Channel: TNT Live stream : Watch live on fuboTV. Sign up now for a free seven-day trial. SI TV is also now available on fuboTV. Watch Crossover TV, SI’s NBA show starring Matt Dollinger and Rohan Nadkarni, ...

Borno state has again been thrown into another political tension and rancour with the sudden and tactical return of the Borno political icon and godfather, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff back to his original party which he was one of the founding fathers right from the APP down to the ANPP before it's subsequent merger with other political parties to form the APC. Ali Modu Sheriff who is popularly known as SAS was three times senator representing Borno central at the national assembly before joining the governorship race of Bruno state along with Late Mala Kachallah and Matawalli Kashim Imam and others to emerged the State Governor in 2003. A position he held and brokered record to be the first State Governor to be reelected for the second term in office in the political history of Borno state and until 2011 when he mobilized support for one of his kitchen cabinet and home boy, Honourable Kashim Shettima and installed him as his successor to continue from where he stopped in the gover...

By Ahmed Abu, The Nigerian Voice, Maiduguri Governor Ibrahim Gaidam of Yobe state was conferred with an honorary doctorate degree in law by Ahfad University for Women in Omdurman, Sudan weekend. A statement issued by the Director General, Press Affairs, Malam Abdullahi Bego Monday said the award was in recognition of the governor's efforts in promoting education, particularly, women's education. It was also in recognition of the governor's use of lean resources of the state government to make giant stride or impact in the lives of the people of Yobe State. The University also noted that Gaidam's commitment to improving public infrastructure in the state, especially the construction of a new teaching hospital and a new college of medical sciences in Yobe State University which is worthy of emulation. Ahfad Women's University, amongst other key interventions of the governor, also lauded his free medical policy for pregnant women and children from 0 to 5 year...

Davido ‘s hypeman, Special Spesh, has finally showed us his adorable son, Chukuyenum, who he welcomed in January. He shared these adorable photos from when he was 3 weeks old and wrote; “TELL HIM DADDY MISSES HIM!!!!!!! #TRU!!!!! #CHUKUYENUM!!! #YUNGSPESH #MyGreatestBlessing #TCCJ!!!!”  Let's block ads! (Why?)

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