Carlo Ancelotti talked about Real Madrid's past, present and future in an interview with The Times.One of the subjects he lifted the lid on was the aftermath of José Mourinho's reign: "[The club]didn't speak about what happened last year with Mourinho, and I didn't ask. To reach the semi-finals of the Champions League is not bad. It's not good enough for some clubs, but it's not bad", he stated."The supporters here don't just look to win; they look at how you play. At Real you have to win with style. It's not enough to win here. For example, Fabio Capello was sacked after he won the league. Chelsea were a more physical team, but here the technical skills of the playersare the best", the 'Los Blancos' coach noted.The former Milan boss stressed that "La Decima is not an obsession, but it's a motivation. For the club it's very important. Thelast time Real Madrid played in the final was 2002. For a club like Real Madrid this is not good"."There's a lot of balance in the Premier League now, but in my opinion Manchester City have the best squad. Arsenal are doing well, but we helped them of course. Arsène Wenger has to buy us dinner, as we gave them Özil!" the Italian quipped.Continuing on the subject of the German playmaker, Ancelotti reiterated that selling him"was my decision. When we bought Gareth Bale it was difficult to find space for him, and he needs to play".
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Operatives of the Special Fraud Unit, SFU, Milverton Road, Ikoyi, Lagos have arrested a 24-year-old man who posed as a lady to defraud a United States of America couple of$42,497, purportedly for the purchase of a property in Lagos.The suspect, identified as Olafinraye Adedamola, admitted the offence while being paraded yesterday.photoHe was said to have connived with a Malaysian lady to defraud the couple. The Malaysian lady, according to him, was his Facebook friend, adding that he had intended to use the money to further his studies in a tertiary institution.How he was arrestedExplaining how the artisan who trained in aluminum works was arrested, spokesperson for the unit, Ngozi Isintume-Agu, a Deputy Superintendent of Police, said: "An intelligencereport dated September 24, 2013 from NigerianFinancial Intelligence Unit (NFIU), Abuja addressed to the Commissioner of Police, Special Fraud Unit (SFU) alleged that one Olafinraye Adedamola opened a USD Domiciliary Account No. 273/6980678251/0 with the Demurin, Ketu, Lagos Branch of Sterling Bank Plc and through suspicious circumstances, cumulative sum of USD 42,497 was paid into the account by unsuspecting victims abroad between August 13, 2013 and September 16, 2013."The suspected illicit inflows were followed by immediate cash withdrawals by the suspect who appeared to have no known affiliation with the international depositors."SFU operatives swung into action and investigation carried out on the domiciliary account revealed that $18,129.92 is still left in the account and a lien was immediately placedon the account."The suspect was traced to his house at 7, Agidi Road, Oshogun, Alapere, Ketu, Lagos but he evaded police arrest and his father, a proprietor of a moribund driving school, feigned ignorance of his son's whereabouts. However, the fleeing suspect was later apprehended by the Police."Olafinraye Adedamola who posed as a lady named Janet was born in 1989 in Kosofe LGA Ketu, Lagos."An artisan who trained in construction of aluminum but currently a driving instructor in his father's moribund driving school located in Ketu, Lagos claimed he met a Nigerian at a conference in Malaysia who introduced him to the victim who requested that he purchased property for him in Nigeria which was the basis for the disbursement of the money into his account and that he had already bought a building at Ogba, Ikeja for N4 million and that the documents were with him."I intended to further my studies with the money- SuspectAdedamola who noted that this was his first attempt, said he first met the couple on Facebook and in the course of their discussion,booked for a meeting in Malaysia.According to him; "I posed as Janet on the Facebook, using a white woman's photograph.I told the couple that I was an estate manager and convinced them to buy property in Lagos."Since they have not been to Nigeria, they asked us to meet elsewhere and when I stumbled on a business conference that was holding in Malasia, I booked the meeting."On reaching Malaysia, I told a Facebook lady friend to pose as Janet after telling her what to say. That was how the deal was struck and they paid the dollar equivalent of N3.4 million into my account. I intended to use the money tofurther my studies because I am determined to be a graduate. I used part of the money to travel again to Malaysia for leisure in August."My regret is that I was caught at the end because I used my genuine data to open the account. I guess it was because it is my first time."The suspect, according to Isintume-Agu, will be charged to court.
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Implementation of the agreement between the Federal Government and Academic Staff Unionof Universities, ASUU, may have to be delayed as the Chairman, Senate Committee on Establishment and Public Service Matters, Aloysius Etok, has said that the ongoing negotiations between the duo would be null and void without the input of National Wages and Salaries Commission.Senator Etok stated this during an oversight tour of the Commission. He said that under no guise should the Federal Government negotiatesalary or wage increase without the input of the relevant commission.He attributed most of the incessant industrial actions in the country to sentimental negotiation for salary increase in the civil service.He said: "We have said this earlier that on no account should Federal Government negotiate salary increase or anything that has to do with wages or salaries without the input of the Commission."They should avoid the issue of sentimental increase or negotiation and there should be no exceptions. Four months is about a semester."Etok further stated that the commission was expected to have played a prominent role in the2009 agreement reached between the Federal Government and ASUU.Questions budget implementationThe Etok-led committee also demanded explanations from the commission on how the 2013 appropriation was implemented and whythe impact of the commission was not felt on civil servants salaries crises that threaten some sectors of the economy from time to time.He lamented the withholding of part of the 2013 budget of the commission, stressing that the commission required funds to carry out its research-based projects, calling for its immediate release so that the commission can implement its budget to the full.He said: "The commission might look small but the importance cannot be overestimated. We have come to know your level of im-plementation of 2013 budget."We also want to know the relevance of the commission to the Federal Government; why your impact is not felt in the salary problems across the country; why the commission wouldbe there when ASUU is on strike for months and who guided the Federal Govern-ment in the agreement entered into with ASUU in 2009?"You cannot be ruled out in the scheme of things in this country.""They allowed ASUU compute its own salary"Also speaking, Chairman of the commission, Dr. Richard Egbule, exonerated the com-mission from the agreement reached between the Federal Government and ASUU.He said: "The Wages Commission has been up and doing in everything concerning wages andsalaries in this country."When the controversial agreement was reached in 2009, we were there but not as negotiators. We made it known to them that theroute they were going was wrong. Today, I wish to say that ASSU did not go on strike because of salaries because we handled it verywell."What is controversial was the excess workload allowance, but we have asked them to employ more lecturers to avoid excess workload."There has never been a time any agency was asked to go and compute its own salary, but they allowed ASUU to do so. We needed a structural increase where government agency would be factored in."Egbule noted with regret that successive leaderships of ASUU had established the culture of using industrial action to announce their arrival.The Senate committee visited the National Assembly Service Commission, where the Chairman of the Commission, Dr. Umaru Fika, disclosed that N2.5 billion was appropriated tothem in the 2013 fiscal year.
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The candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Dr Chris Ngige says he has no confidence that INEC will conduct a free and fair election in Anambra State.He made this known at the press conference held on Sunday morning. Ngige noted that indications already showed that the commission was planning to announce the PGA governor, the reason it went ahead to schedule election in 65 wards in Obosi which is his stronghold on a day of worship.According to his wordse, the entire exercise was fraudulent, going by the fact that besides the lapses in his stronghold, the PDP candidatealso had issues finding his name in the register.He told journalists that scheduling election in Obosi on a worship day was an attempt to prevent people from participating.Ngige recalled that his party had complained about the Resident Electoral Commissioner, Prof Onukaogu whose elections in 2011 were upturned by the court and his patty recorded victory in rerun elections.Based on all the fact that there were issues everywhere in the state in the course of the election process, Ngige asked for a cancellation of the entire result, and added thatanything on the contrary, his party would toe the line of litigation.The candidate lamented over the current situation,"This morning we sent our agents to go to the wards where the fresh elections are billed to hold, and when they got there, they found out that there were still no result sheets in the materials, yet they are bent on holding the election.And added,"We will not accept the charade going on in Obosi, and our party will take a stand soon about the entire election, and anything outside that, you know it will end up in the tribunal, appeal court, and Supreme Court."
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