How Real Madrid, Manchester City Rejected Pogba

 

Real Madrid declined the chance to sign midfielder Paul Pogba from Manchester United earlier this year, according to a report.

The Frenchman’s agent Mino Raiola was recently revealed to have offered the £89m ace to Manchester City during the January transfer window.

City were not alone in declining talks, though, as Sports Illustrated suggests that Madrid were also given a chance to sign the 25-year-old but did not want to break the club’s wage structure.

Pogba has had a largely hit-and-miss campaign with United, finding himself out of the starting lineup for a string of important matches over the past couple of months.

 Jose Mourinho included the former Juve man in his side from the off against Manchester City last time out, however, and was rewarded with two goals in a 3-2 win at the Etihad Stadium.

5 Operatives Of Special Anti-Robbery Squad Arrested For Bribe Taking

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested five operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad for allegedly harassing a businessman in the state for bribe after seizing his company documents.

The state Police Public Relations Officer, SP Chike Oti, said the men were attached to the Ipakodo base of SARS.

The culprits, according to him, are Inspector Taiwo Omojope, Inspector Arigidi Ebibor, Sergeant Rotimi Adesoba, Sergeant Olalekan Olakunle and Sergeant Friday Oni.

According to Punch reports, the businessman, Immanuel Ibe-Anyanwu, had gone to a Zenith Bank branch at Ago-Palace Way, Okota, for a transaction when he was approached by one of the cops who took him to where their operational vehicle was parked.

The victim had alleged that after searching his car and perusing his documents without finding anything incriminating, the policemen ordered him to enter the vehicle and take them to his office in the Ikoyi area of the state.

After some arguments, a resident was said to have mediated, urging the policemen to release the 37-year-old.

The cops were alleged to have demanded money from him, as they turned down a telephone call from the police command headquarters.

Ibe-Anyanwu was said to have sneaked into the toilet of the bank on the pretext of going to withdraw money for the cops.

The policemen reportedly removed the number plate of his car after waiting for about two hours.

The victim said he was forced to enter his car and speed off after bank workers asked him to leave the premises.

The state Commissioner of Police, Edgal Imohimi, was reported to have ordered that the policemen be identified and arrested.

The police spokesperson, Oti, had said preliminary investigation showed that the team was led by one Inspector Jude Akhoyemta of SARS, Ikeja.

But on Tuesday, he absolved Akhoyemta of complicity in the crime, saying the culprits were from the Ipakodo base of SARS

UPDATE: Death Toll In Military Plane Crash Increases

Algeria military plane crash.

The defence ministry said in a statement that 247 passengers and 10 crew were killed without mentioning any survivors.

The number of people who died in a military plane crash on Wednesday has increased.
 but latest count now put the number at 257.
The Algerian military plane which crashed and caught fire, was carrying mostly army personnel and members of their families.
There were charred wreckage of the plane in a field near the Boufarik airbase from where the plane had taken off.
Hundreds of ambulances and dozens of fire trucks with their sirens wailing rushed to the scene of the crash about 25 kilometres (15 miles) southwest of Algiers.
The defence ministry said in a statement that 247 passengers and 10 crew were killed without mentioning any survivors. The Ilyushin II-76 transport plane was bound for Tindouf in southwest Algeria.
Algeria has suffered a string of military and civilian aviation disasters.

Two military planes collided mid-flight in December 2012 during a training exercise in Tlemcen, in the far west of the country, killing the pilots of both planes.
In February 2014, 77 people died when a military plane carrying army personnel and family members crashed between Tamanrasset in southern Algeria and the eastern city of Constantine.
Only one person survived after the C-130 Hercules transport aircraft came down in the mountainous Oum El Bouaghi region.
An Air Algerie passenger plane flying from Burkina Faso to Algiers crashed in northern Mali in July 2014, killing all 116 people on board including 54 French nationals.
In October the same year, a military plane crashed in the south of the country during a training exercise, killing the two men on board.
That came more than a decade after all but one of the 103 people on an Air Algerie Boeing 737-200 died in March 2003 when it crashed on takeoff in the country's south after an engine caught fire.

Banana Island Murder: Danish Man Charged To Court

Peter Nielsen, the Danish husband of upcoming singer, Alizee, to face trial for the murder of the musician and her 4-year-old daughter.

The police have decided to take Mr. Peter Nielson, the Danish man suspected of killing his wife, Mrs. Zainab Nielson and daughter, Petral Nielson to court for two counts charge of murder.
The Commissioner of Police, Lagos State has directed that the case be charged to court based on the findings of the crime scene detectives sent to the apartment of the Nielsons after the alleged murder was committed.
The decision was also necessitated based on the preliminary autopsy report and the result of DNA analysis carried out by forensic experts.
He is to appear at the Yaba Magistrate Court on Wednesday, April 11, 2018 where the case would be mentioned and his trial for the offence of murder begins.

Meanwhile, a duplicate copy of the murder casefile has been sent to the Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP), for legal advice.
The Lagos Police PRO, SP Chike Oti, has promised to provide updates as the matter progresses.
Before her murder, Zainab was a budding musician known by the stage name, Alizee.
She was scheduled for a list of imminent activities including Harrysong’s "Kingmaker Concert" expected to hold at the Warri Stadium on Sunday, April 29, 2018.
Both mother and daughter were killed on Thursday, April 5, 2018, at their Banana Island residence.