Thursday 22 March 2012
Manchester City v Chelsea: Carlos Tevez comes out of the cold to help restore order for City
Sir Alex Ferguson versus Roberto Mancini is a contest of experience versus youth. City's Italian coach has been here before, in Italy, but has not sampled the unique pressure of duking it out with English football’s greatest club manager in spring’s brighter light.
In the other dugout here, Roberto Di Matteo managed to leave out Didier Drogba and upset Fernando Torres at the same time by taking him off midway through the second half. This is the win-double for Chelseamanagers hoping to lose their jobs. Mancini, too, has grappled with the sort of political issues Ferguson is immune from by virtue of his huge power base – but with this vital 2-1 victory City’s leader can say he is making the right calls.
Starting with Mario Balotelli is the default gamble of Mancini’s time in the sky-blue half of Manchester. Red cards or extreme detachment can follow. This time Balotelli brought ineffectiveness and Mancini took him off at half-time.
“He was not good,” the manager said. But the point was that he put it right quickly, and can now face the last nine games with a clear hierarchy among his forwards. An all-Argentine strike force of Sergio Agüero and Carlos Tévez looks
Civil Defence Parades 87 Fake NYSC Members
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) Wednesday, paraded about 87 suspected fake National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members.
While parading the suspects before journalists in Abuja, on behalf of the Commandant General, Dr. Ade Abolurin, the Corps’ public Relations Officer and a Chief Superintendent, Mr. Emmanuel Okeh, said the suspects were arrested in a hotel in Toto Local Government Area of Nasarawa State, where they were camped awaiting possible deployment to their places of primary assignment.
Abolurin disclosed that NSC-DC had in 2010, made similar arrest of about 54 suspected Corps members in the same Nasarawa State, adding that it was still making a serious effort to burst the syndicate that was behind the nefarious practice.
He said: “In 2010, based on intelligence report, 54 fake Corps members were arrested by members of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps from an illegal camp. Today again, we are bringing before you another 87 fake Corps members that have been also arrested. It will interest you to know that the intelligence networking of the Corps personnel had led to the discovery of this illegal hideout by these fake Corps members.
“The 87 acclaimed Corps members were arrested from Tip Top guest house in Nasarawa Local Government Area in Nasarawa state where they were camped by an acclaimed agent of the NYSC who is still at large and these 87 acclaimed fake Corps members have been undergoing illegal training,” he said.
“Unfortunately for them our intelligence staff, who also discovered, claimed to be one of those to train them but unfortunately they never knew that she was understudying the environment. They were waiting for their passing out like the regular Corps members who were on the camp in Keffi. Unfortunately, while they were celebrating and awaiting their deployment letters, they were clamped down by our personnel and 87 of them were arrested and brought to the headquarters.
“With them, are the call up letters from NYSC, all the NYSC kits that were given to the regular Corps members and you can see, most of them are already in their uniform waiting for deployment to various places of their primary assignment, which unfortunately could not take place because their activities were cut short by our personnel,” he stated.
Also speaking, the Corps’ Deputy Commandant in Nasarawa state, Mr. Walter Akubuiroh, who led the operation said surveillance was carried in virtually all parts of the state and in most cases of abnormalities, threat to security, arrests have been made and handed over to appropriate quarters.
“What we are seeing today is an unfortunate development. Most of the victims are students of distance learning centres of the universities concerned and they were tricked into believing that they could be given opportunity to serve like normal graduates from our universities. They succumbed to that trick, they took them around the state when call-up letters were issued to normal Corps members they convinced they invited them with the impression that they had a way of making it work out for them,” Akubuiroh noted.
Our investigation shows that initially they took them around the state somewhere in Nyanya, where they camped them for about four days after which they relocated them to a place, a hotel in Nasarawa, Toto. It’s in that hotel, Tip Top hotel that’s where they’ve been since eighth of this month. They took them to the bush, faking training, convincing them that they were going to take them to Kubwa, where the normal NYSC camp is,” he added.
He disclosed that the suspects were from different universities and fell victim to different persons who claimed to be agents of the NYSC.
Disclosing that the suspects paid between N60,000, to N150, 000 depending on the school where they came from.
“There is One Mr. Chinedu who was earlier arrested for involving in illegal recruitment of people into different services collecting money from them establishing of website and internet for job recruitment and today, he’s among those apprehended here as a fake Corps member, which means he has done it for so many persons and today he is involved himself,” he revealed.
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