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Portugal captain Cristiano Ronaldo took his international tally to 93 goals when he scored four times on Tuesday. The goals helped to give the European champions a 5-1 win away to Lithuania in their Euro 2020 qualifier. Playing in his 161st international, the 34-year-old notched his eighth hat-trick for his country and the 54th of his remarkable career. But the goals did help Portugal through what had threatened to turn into a frustrating evening. Unheralded midfielder William Carvalho completed the rout in stoppage time as Portugal stayed second in Group B with eight points, five behind leaders Ukraine with one game in hand. Serbia are a further point behind in third after a 3-1 win in Luxemburg. “I scored one goal against Serbia and four today (Tuesday) and what I want most is to continue like this,” said Ronaldo, who converted an early penalty kick and then added three second-half goals. Portugal coach Fernando Santos said: “Ronaldo is the best player in the

The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, has claimed unfair treatment of Igbo by successive governments led to IPOB’s agitation for the Sovereign State of Biafra. He also claimed that the situation had been aggravated by the Muhammadu Buhari government and the All Progressives Congress, hence IPOB decided to lead the fight for Igbo separation. According to the Punch Newspaper Kalu made the accusations in a paper he presented to the European Union Parliament on Tuesday. The paper quoted him, as saying, “After the civil war, Biafrans slowly rebuilt their world, but as far as Nigeria was concerned, they were not and never had been Biafrans, but were Nigerians from South-East or Igbo-speaking Nigerians. “The Biafran war was airbrushed out of the Nigerian consciousness. Biafrans could only whisper about their loss. Joining the global Biafran diaspora was one option for those who could get out of the country; others remained in Biafraland, their

The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal sitting at the Court of Appeal, on Wednesday, dismissed a preliminary objection by the Independent National Electoral Commission, seeking the striking out of the petition filed by the Peoples Democratic Party and its candidate, Atiku Abubakar, challenging the declaration of Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress as winner of the February 23, presidential election. INEC’s motion dated May 15, was filed by its counsel, Yunus Usman SAN. Specifically, INEC contended that the non-joining of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo as a party in the petition rendered the case incompetent and therefore liable to be dismissed. But in a lead judgment, Chairman of the 5-man PEPT, Justice Mohammed Garba held that the non-joinder of Osinbajo could not render the petition incompetent. Justice Garba stated that the VP is only an interested party and not a necessary party because he was chosen by the 2nd respondent, Pr