By Kayode Sanni-Arewa

The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has awarded Nigeria all three points of the botched Libya versus Nigeria Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualifier match that was to have been played on October 15, 2024.

The continental football body has also slammed a fine of 50,000 USD on the Libyan Football Federation (LFF).

The decision made available in CAF Media Channel reads in parts:

1.The Libya Football Federation is found to have breached Article 31 of the AfricanCup of Nations Regulations as well as Articles 82 and 151 of the CAF Disciplinary Code.

2.The match No.87 Libya v. Nigeria of the CAF African Cup of Nations Qualifiers 2025 (scheduled to be played on 15 October 2024 in Benghazi) is declared lost by forfeit by Libya (by a score of 3-0).

3 The Libya Football Federation is ordered to pay a fine of USD 50,000.

4.The fine is to be paid within 60 days of notification of the present decision.

5 All other and further motions or prayers for relief are dismissed.

By Kayode Sanni-Arewa

A 12-year-old girl in Lusaka, Zambia, has brought down a 77-year-old man after she exposed him to her father that he was sleeping with her mother, each time he was away.

The details of the unexpected adultery lay πaked in the Matero Local Court where 77-year-old retiree, Kaluba Friday of Lusaka’s Matero sued his former tenant, Luckson Mwanza, aged 44 for defamation.

According to Zambia Observer, Luckson, an excavator operator residing in Chipata district of Eastern Province, was sued for defamation of character on grounds that he accused the plaintiff of sleeping with his wife.

Kaluba told the court that Mwanza had been his tenant since 2018 until last month when he decided to move from his house in Zingalume, but that they had complications regarding payment of last month’s rent.

The plaintiff said when he called Mwanza asking for his rent, the defendant refused saying he couldn’t pay him because he discovered that the old landlord overstepped his boundaries and was having sex with his wife, an accusation Kaluba said was false and he decided to sue him.

But when the court asked Mwanza if it was true he defamed an elder, he insisted that his statement was true as he was sure that the old man was enjoying his last days on top of his wife.

His job required him to be in Chipata, so his wife would only remain home with his 12-year-old daughter (her step-child) but that he would send her money for rent every month, and she would pay to Kaluba.

He stated that last month, he was informed by a neighbour that his wife was bringing in a man into their matrimonial home while he was away at work in Chapata district.

The neighbour told Mwanza to come to Lusaka in the night, around 04:00 a.m., so that he could catch his wife red-handed and indeed, it happened.

Following his wife’s act of adultery, Mwanza, decided to withdraw from the marriage and decided to shift from Kaluba’s house, while he took his daughter to Mazabuka to live with her aunt.

But it was during that trip that the child told him that actually, it was not only the young man he found servicing his wife, she revealed that the landlord too would come several times at night, and leave very early before anyone woke up, a story his wife who is currently in Kabwe also confessed to on the telephone.

Mwanza now caught the revelation, he was paying Kaluba for two things, the house, and to assist him in servicing his wife unknowingly.

The daughter, who was also present in court as a witness from Mazabuka, gave her testimony to the court in the chambers and reiterated that indeed Kaluba who she referred to as Bashikulu (grandpa), would come to their house on several occasions.

“Mum would tell me to leave the bedroom and sleep in the seating room each time Bashikulu came and they would close the door in the bedroom. My mother would tell me that he will kill me if I told dad,” the child testified.

But Kaluba, who suddenly inherited the spirit of the biblical Moses, denied the child’s allegations while stammering.

He said she was given what to say by her father adding that despite being widowed, he had his own girlfriend.

And in their submissions, Mwanza said he holds no grudges against Kaluba as it is good that he found out about what he was doing, while the plaintiff said the defendant should bring his former wife as witness instead of the child.

After the court spoke to the child in private, it already concluded this matter.

“This girl is too young to cook up such a story because it has no benefit both to her or the father, as she repeated the same story over and over again with the same details which showed that she was not told or had mastered it.

“The court has however established that the plaintiff and the defendant’s wife created a relationship during the time that the defendant would give his wife rent to pay directly to him. And it has been proven that his wife is unfaithful because he even caught her cheating red-handed in their matrimonial bed,” said Magistrate Lewis Mumba.

The court then dismissed Kaluba’s claim due to lack of merit as he failed to substantiate his claim, and advised him to desist from taking advantage of his position as landlord to sleep with his tenant’s wives.

By Kayode Sanni-Arewa

The Concerned PDP League (CPDPL), a pressure within the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has said the 2027 presidential ticket of the party is the major reason some PDP leaders want the acting National Chairman, Ambassador Umar Damagum to stepdown.

The group in a statement jointly signed by its National Secretary, Alhaji Tasiu M. Muhammed, and acting Director of Publicity & Communication Comrade Justina D. Dashi, claimed that former Vice President Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and Bauchi State governor Bala Mohammed, who the group said has presidential ambition, believe Damagum’s leadership of the party will work against their ambition.

“Our investigation revealed that, since the exit of senator Dr Iyorchia Ayu, and the emergence of Ambassador Umar Illiya Damagum, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, feels he is at the verge of losing his chances of getting the PDP presidential ticket in 2027 because, his long time political ally (Sen. Ayu) who he claimed cannot be removed without constitutional amendment, was unceremoniously booted out.

Also, the Bauchi State governor and Chairman of the PDP Governors’ Forum, and presidential hopeful, Alhaji Bala Mohammed, feels happy with the exit of Senator Iyorchia Ayu but at same time feels his ambition is at stake with Ambassador Damagum’s chairmanship, since both of them are from the North East,” the statement added.

The group alleged that Damagum is being pressurised to suspended the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister Nyesom Wike.

According to the CPDPL, Damagum’s continued stay in office is supported by
sections 47 (6), 35 (3c) and 45 (2) of the PDP constitution

“What is playing out in our great party today, is all about 2027 presidential ambitions nothing more,” the group said, and urged Damagum, not to succumb to but to continue to stabilise and unite the party.

“He should not allow anybody to intimidate him into calling for NEC meeting,” it further advised.