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Real Madrid faced an uphill task to qualify for the last four of the Champions League after falling to Wolfsburg 2-0 in the first leg of the tie and they were up to the task. Ronaldo opened scoring in the 15th minute to put the Spanish side ahead, he doubled the lead in the 17th minute to give Madrid a comfortable lead. The star man capped off a memorable night with his third of the evening when he whipped in a superb freekick in the 77th minute. His haul makes him the only player in the competition's history to score 15 or more goals in two different seasons and the first player to score a hat trick thrice in the same season.

Amnesty International Nigeria has asked that the mass graves constructed by the Kaduna state government where 347 Shiite members were buried, be sealed off to allow for further forensic probe. This appeal comes after Balarabe Lawal, secretary to the Kaduna State government, told a public judicial inquiry on Monday April 11th, that the the corpses of 347 Shiite members killed during the clash with Army, were taken from an army depot and buried in mass graves. In a statement released yesterday April 12th, Amnesty International Nigeria said: "The horrific revelation by the Kaduna State government that hundreds of Shi’ites were gunned down and dumped in mass graves is an important first step to bringing all those suspected of criminal responsibility for this atrocity to trial. It is now imperative that the mass grave sites are protected in order that a full independent forensic investigation can begin."

Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has described the raging controversies between the Presidency and the National Assembly over the 2016 Budget as a confirmation of his position that President Mohammadu Buhari was clueless and incompetent, saying; “Nigerians should expect more blunders like this until they send Buhari back to Daura in 2019.” The governor, who said it was now obvious that the President and his All Progressives Congress (APC) only wanted power desperately without the wherewithal to govern, added that; “I warned Nigerians of the consequences of electing an octogenarian as president and with the international embarrassment that this budget crisis has become, I have been vindicated.” According to a statement issued on Tuesday by his Special Assistant on Pubic Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, the governor said; “It is obvious that there is total disconnection between the President and his cabinet members as many of the ministers don’t even ha

Members of the Association of Mega Filling Station Owners of Nigeria, AMFSON, have expressed their readiness to name those behind the lingering fuel scarcity facing the nation if only they mention it directly to the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr Ibe Kachikwu, and he promises to guarantee their safety afterwards. The National Secretary of AMFSON, Mr. Kenneth Nwachukwu, who spoke at a press conference in Kaduna yesterday, recalled that his members had, in recent past, resisted the urge to mention the saboteurs, even when the minister insisted they mentioned names. The AMFSON scribe alleged that several trucks of fuel had been diverted into black markets by the perceived saboteurs at the detriment of mega stations owners and Nigerians in general, adding that the inability of their members to access their fuel papers several months after depositing millions of naira for supply had contributed immensely to the current fuel crisis. He pointed out that it was

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