Van Persie ready to return against Tottenham

Arsenal striker Robin van Persie will return from injury in Wednesday night's north London derby with Tottenham Hotspur at White Hart Lane.

Robin van Persie returns.

Van Persie has been on the sidelines since suffering ankle ligament damage following a challenge by Italy's Giorgio Chiellini in an international friendly last November, but will play some part against the Gunners' London rivals from the bench.
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger admits he is taking a ''gamble'' in bringing the striker back ahead of schedule but insists Arsenal have missed Van Persie's goal power this season.
Wenger, who lost William Gallas for the season when he came back too soon in the Champions League first leg against Barcelona, said: ''There is always a gamble in this kind of decision. But in his (Van Persie's) case we have been a bit more cautious because he has had more time for preparation.
''The biggest gamble I took recently was with Gallas. It didn't work, but he came back from a muscular problem, that is not the case for Robin. It was a joint problem.
''When I pick a player it means he is fit and sharp and has worked very hard. Of course he lacks match-practice but physically he is ready, he is fit.''
Wenger believes Arsenal's title challenge would be several points better off but for Van Persie's injury.
''He is a very important player for this club,'' said Wenger. ''He is important for the confidence. He can make the final ball, he is good on set-pieces, he can score goals, so we are very happy to have him back. The sadness was that we lost him so early in the season.''
The Dutch striker returned to full training last week and although he was expected to make his first-team comeback against Manchester City at the end of the month he is now set to bolster the Gunners' forward line against their arch rivals.
The loss of Van Persie was a huge blow to Arsenal in their challenge for the Premier League title. He had netted seven goals in 11 Premier League starts before the ankle injury.
Arsenal have had to rely on the goals of Francesc Fabregas - he has bagged 15 in the league this term - to fill the void with Nicklas Bendtner only managing five goals over the league campaign. But with captain Fabregas now out for the rest of the season the return of Van Persie will be a timely boost.
Bendtner is delighted that Van Persie is back. "It will be great to have him back," Bendtner told the club's official website. "He had a nasty injury and he has been working really hard in training to get back and if we can have him available for the last games - obviously being out for that long takes a bit of time - but if we can have him available it is a boost for us."
Wenger also confirmed defender Sol Campbell would play from the start against his former club and at a ground where he is bound to receive a hostile reception. He also said he believes Campbell has been one of the keys to Arsenal's continued title surge.
''Sol has been a big support for me and the squad,'' he said. ''He is very important in the dressing room because he is highly focused and highly motivated. Every time he has played he has turned in a very good performance. It is one of the good signings I have made.
''I have no concerns about him. He will play tomorrow. I didn't imagine he would play as many games as he has. I thought he would play in one or two games maybe but he got those extra matches because he played well.''

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Masaba shut out

Alhaji Bello Masaba, remember him? The 87-year-old world renown polygamist, then married to 86 wives, may soon be back in the trenches with the Niger State Government over the refusal of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the state to register him as a member of the party.

 Masaba was for most part of last year engaged in legal battle with the state government which charged him under some curious provisions of the sharia law for marrying more than four wives prescribed by the Quran for Moslems. Government later withdrew from the case for want of evidence.

 This time, the battle may have moved from the legal turf to the political battle ground, where Masaba has vowed to engage both the state government and the Etsu Nupe, Alhaji Yahaya Abubakar, in a battle of political supremacy.
 Daily Sun reliably gathered that when the Islamic cleric appeared at the Etsu’s palace where the registration was taking place, he was turned back by the registration officials who claimed to be acting on orders from above.

 Masaba was said to have stormed out of the palace in annoyance, vowing to make sure that no single vote from his Masaba ward will go to PDP in next year’s general election.  A chieftain of the party in Bida, Alhaji Isah Lakpene, who confirmed Masaba’s denial of registration said the matter has become a source of concern to PDP members in the area, as no constitutionally sustainable reason has so far been adduced for the refusal to admit him into the PDP fold.

 “I have to find a way of getting the governor to know about this. If we fail to register Masaba we stand the risk of losing about 1,500 of the 2,000 votes in the ward,” Lakpene lamented, stressing that he was sure Governor Muazu Babangida Aliyu may not be aware of the development.

 Meanwhile, the Islamic cleric last weekend gave five of his daughters in marriage in Bida. Family sources revealed to our correspondent in Minna that despite the hue and cry over Masaba’s perceived unislamic matrimonial status, two of his sons-in-law are said to be children of highly placed personalities in Bida. One is even said to be the son of a traditional title holder in the ancient city. Daily Sun can also authoritatively reveal that the number of Masaba’s wives has since risen to 100, and he is still counting.


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Bellamy "ashamed" to be a professional footballer

Manchester City striker Craig Bellamy has claimed that he is "ashamed" to be a footballer as he launched an outspoken attack against his fellow professionals.

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Craig Bellamy: A quiet, family man now apparently.

Bellamy, never far from controversy throughout his career, claims he is shocked by the behaviour of some team-mates and admits he gets angry when fellow pros show a lack of commitment on the field.
"I don't feel close to footballers. Sometimes when I see certain things I'm ashamed to be a footballer,'' he told the News of the World. "I don't go to nightclubs, I don't go to lounge bars, I don't spend my days shopping. That doesn't interest me. I spend a lot of time with my children at home. That's where I feel good.
"I don't know how to be on the pitch as a tourist. Some lads do that but I can't. When I play, I play for real. I never pretend.
"I know I get carried away by emotion. I have always been like that. I don't give a toss whether that pleases people or not. I do my thing. What counts for me is the respect of my family, people who know me, my manager and my team-mates.''
Bellamy, 30, also said that his future at City could be bleak as they line up another summer of big-spending.
"New players are coming in a few months and I might be overtaken. I don't see myself playing for City in two or three years, lifting trophies,'' he said. "It's going to stop quickly. My body won't hold up for a long time. I'll soon be 31 and that will quickly become a problem. I won't be able to play at my best any more and I will stop playing.
"I have had seven knee operations in the last nine years. I can't string three games a week together. My body does not allow me to play all the time."

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Resign Now! Senators, Reps give Yar’Adua 3-week ultimatum

Members of the National Interest Group (NIG) in the Senate and the Nigeria First Forum (NFF) in the House of Representatives have resolved to commence impeachment process against President Umaru Yar’Adua if he fails to resign within three weeks. This indication emerged as the lawmakers begin the search for a new Vice President from the North.

The twin moves are reportedly in response to emerging details on the state of health of the President, following the recent visit to the ailing leader by some Muslim and Christian clerics in the country. The two groups, at a meeting that extended from last Thursday night to early Friday, resolved to commence Yar’Adua’s impeachment in the next three weeks except the newly constituted Executive Council of the Federation invokes Section 144 to declare the President incapacitated.

The NIG, whose chairman, Senator Bala Mohammed, has been appointed Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, spearheaded the adoption of the Doctrine of Necessity that paved the way for the Senate to empower Dr Goodluck Jonathan as Acting President.

A source at the meeting informed Sunday Sun that although they deliberated on the state of affairs since Jonathan assumed office as Acting President, they was no agreement on which of the three geo-political zones in the North would produce the Vice President. But our correspondent authoritatively gathered that majority of the Senators were against a candidate emerging from the North East as the zone had already enjoyed two terms that was utilized by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar.

This position was said to have knocked off the lobby of Senators from the zone who wanted the group to give due consideration to the candidature of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Alhaji Yayale Ahmed.
But lawmakers from the North West zone however insisted that they would support Yar’Adua’s impeachment if the Vice President’s slot is allotted to the zone as a compensation for losing the exalted position of President.
Sunday Sun further gathered that the North West legislators declared at the meeting that since it was clear that the zone had lost the position of head of government, it would be better if the number two position was conceded to the zone and that it would be an advantage to produce an active Vice President than a President that they cannot see to make any demand. Consequently, Senators from both the North Central and North West have penciled some of their preferred candidates to be presented at a meeting with the national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

It was gathered that the legislators noted that while it is constitutionally right for a sitting President to pick his deputy, the NIG Senators said that since they equally have a role to play in the confirmation of such a candidate as well as given the role they played even at the risk of their political career to get the Acting President take over the reins of government, it would not be asking for too much to concede the position of Vice President to one of them.
The meeting was said to have resolved that members of the NIG, which currently controls more than two-thirds majority in the Senate, would only agree to commence the process of Yar’Adua’s removal only if they got a firm commitment from the PDP leadership that a Senator emerges as the next Vice President since the governors have had their share of the number one and two seats in the country.

Accordingly, Senators from the North Central zone short-listed Senate President, David Mark, Smart Adeyemi, Zainab Kure and Gbemi Saraki while the North West went for two serving governors namely, Namadi Sambo of Kaduna and Ibrahim Shema of Katsina.

 
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Fresh tension in Jos

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To break the spiraling chain of violence in the Tin City, Macedonian Initiative, an NGO has called for the speedy trial of the suspects linked with the massacre of hapless, defenseless people of Dogo Nahauwa, Jos.
Speaking exclusively to Sunday Sun after a tour of the strife-prone city, the international coordinator of Macedonian Initiative, Pastor Ladi Thompson said that: “fear, tension, mutual suspicious and revenge killing in the area will only end when perpetrators of the recent genocide are dealt with in accordance with the law of the land.

“When those ravaging the place with impunity are reined in, peace, sanity and trust will return”. Pastor Ladi further suggested that speedy trial and punishment of those who unleashed mayhem at Dogo Nahauwa will serve as a deterrent for those still arming themselves and planning revenge missions. If nothing is done now, the country will blindly walk into the quick sand of revenge killings and orgy of blood-letting. History is full of such examples. Ireland stands out”, he said with a hint of foreboding.
Meanwhile, the police in Jos says that 164 suspects arrested in the wake of Dogo Nahawa killing will be tried in Jos.

A statement credited to the police Public Relations Officer (PRO), Mr Mohammed Lerama, states that the office of the Inspector General of Police (IGP) and Attorney General of the Federation have agreed that 164 suspects arrested at Dogo Nahauwa and other settlements will be charged with terrorism, unlawful possession of firearms and homicide. According to him, the suspects who will be tried in Jos include 41 people who will be prosecuted for terrorism and culpable homicide and 106 for unlawful possession of firearms and rioting.
Smell of blood
A Dogo Nahauwa resident and victim of the recent killing in the place, who wants anonymity described the Solomon Lar-led Presidential Advisory Committee on Jos as a waste of time. “You can’t come and open the heads of my children like water melon and burn down my house and expect me not to do something. The pain is just too much. Their ghosts will not let me sleep or rest unless I revenge. Anybody talking about peace is wasting his time”, the resident said on phone.
In a voice suffused with rage, the resident went on to say: “Each time they kill us, we are told to forget it and bear it as Christians. To fool us, they set up panels. Their reports are never made public and nothing happens until another killing begins”.
Early trouble signs
Sunday Sun learnt there are signs of impending trouble in Jos city. Residents of the city are still sending text messages to one another. Some of the messages were forwarded to our reporter and read in parts: “Enough is enough, don’t buy water from Hausa mai ruwa or drink mai shai’s tea. They plan to poison us”,
“Tell your madam not to buy meat again from their butcher” “open ya eyes and see” and
“Follow fellow Christians only.”
Not taking the matter lightly, Sunday Sun learnt that churches in Jos metropolis have opened their own abattoirs, trained and employed Christian butchers. Following the heels of this, a Christian dominated market has recently been opened at Bukuru.
Tension-soaked
The once time-honoured home of hospitality and tourism is now tension soaked. To attest to this, majority of the corpers posted to the state have been redeployed to other states. The Plateau State NYSC Coordinator, Mr Tunde Baba–Ahmed last week revealed to newsmen that out of 1016 corpers posted to the state, only 351 agreed to serve in Jos. Sunday Sun learnt that the coordinator even received order from NYSC headquarters directing him to grant the wishes of corpers who want redeployment to other states.
Al-Queda outpost
Elaborating on the palpable tension in Jos, Pastor Ladi Thompson who doubles as the General Overseer of Living Waters Unlimited church traced the genesis of Dogo Nahauwa massacre to al-Queda.
“Before then, it was reported that al-Queda wanted to turn Nigeria into its new outpost but no one cared. They even issued a statement before the attack”, he said.

Sunday Sun investigation reveals that an al-Queda group in Islamic Maghreb declared it was ready to train and arm its people in Nigeria to defend themselves against Christians.
A statement attributed to its leader, Abu Mus’Abdel Wadoud clearly stated: “We are ready to train your people in weapon and give you whatever support we can in men, arms and munitions to enable you to defend our people in Nigeria.”

Pastor Ladi told Sunday Sun Islamic militants entered Jos way back in 1978 through Izala group. “They worked with characteristic patience. This slow, deliberate and vicious process has worked its way in from the Middle East through North Africa into West Africa with its eye on Nigeria as a prized conquest. This intelligent and well-funded global trust opens up with its doctrines of immigration, followed by infiltration and then subtle contentions which are then capped by acts of terror.”
Bizarre touch
The fear in Jos is further heightened with the gruesome manner children, old women and men were slaughtered by Hausa Fulani hotheads who besieged Dogo Nahawa.
A photo file made available to Sunday Sun show burnt houses, mutilated bodies of hapless children, bullet-riddled bodies and heads cut with matches. With these images in mind, the people of the crises racked city are obviously scared and perhaps getting ready for the fire next time.

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Teenage widow 'was Moscow metro bomber' - police

Russian authorities say they are almost certain that one of the suicide bombers who attacked the Moscow Metro on Monday was a 17-year-old girl from Dagestan.

The girl, Dzhennet Abdurakhmanova, is believed to be the widow of a senior Caucasus militant killed by Russian security forces late last year.
Dagestan, like nearby Chechnya, is struggling to quell militant violence.
The morning rush-hour bombings killed 40 people and injured more than 80, most of whom are still in hospital.
"One of the female suicide bombers, who blew herself up at the Park Kultury metro station, was Dzhennet Abdurakhmanova," said a statement from Russia's National Anti-Terror Committee (NAK) carried by the RIA Novosti and Interfax news agencies.
"She was born in 1992 and lived in the Khasavyurtsky region of Dagestan."
A police spokesman said earlier that the suspect had been married to a leading Islamist militant, Umalat Magomedov, who was killed by Russian security forces at the end of last year.
A photograph of her published in a leading Russian newspaper, Kommersant, bears a strong resemblance to a picture of the remains of one of the suicide bombers, the BBC's Richard Galpin reports from Moscow.
'Black widows'
The identity of the second bomber has not been confirmed, but Kommersant said she may have been the widow of another Chechen militant killed last year.

Doku Umarov: 'I promise you that the war will come to your streets'

Abdurakhmanova is believed to have travelled to Moscow by bus with the other female suicide bomber from the Dagestan town of Kizlyar, near the Chechen border.
The death toll from their twin bombings rose to 40 on Friday after one man died from his wounds in hospital, officials said.
On Wednesday 12 people, nine of them police officers, were killed in two suicide bombings in Kizlyar.
In Moscow, the news that the attacks were carried out by women had fuelled speculation that they were so-called "black widows" - women married or related to militants killed by Russian forces in areas such as Dagestan, Ingushetia and Chechnya.
Black widows have been involved in several major attacks in the North Caucasus and in Moscow.
Rebel's video warning
Unnamed Federal Security Service (FSB) officials say Magomedov was an associate of Doku Umarov, the Chechen rebel leader who claims he ordered Monday's metro attacks.
In a video message posted on a rebel website, Mr Umarov warned Russians to prepare for more attacks.
On Thursday, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev flew to Dagestan's capital Makhachkala to hold emergency talks with the leaders of Russia's troubled North Caucasus republics.
"We must deal sharp dagger blows to the terrorists; destroy them and their lairs," Mr Medvedev said.
"The list of measures to fight terrorism must be widened. They must not only be effective but tough, severe and preventative. We need to punish."
The attacks came almost a year after Mr Medvedev declared an end to Russia's "counter-terrorism operations" in Chechnya, in a bid to "further normalise the situation" after 15 years of conflict that claimed more than 100,000 lives and left it in ruins.
Despite this, the mainly Muslim republic continues to be plagued by violence, and over the past two years Islamist militants have stepped up attacks in neighbouring Ingushetia and Dagestan.
Mr Umarov said the attacks were an act of revenge for the killings of Chechen and Ingush civilians by the Russian security forces near the town of Arshty on 11 February.
The rebel, who styles himself as the Emir of the Caucasus Emirate, said attacks on Russian soil would continue.

‘Repent!’ the Man Screamed... and then Rammed His Car Under Arik Aircraft

In a puzzling development, a commercial vehicle yesterday rammed into an aircraft at the tarmac at Margaret Ekpo International Airport, Calabar, Cross River State.
The vehicle was said to have sped through two gates of the Air Force Station into the airport, running into an Arik plane waiting to take off.

The taxi with registration number Cross River XA 254 KMM was painted with the state’s taxi colour of blue-white-blue. An eyewitness account said the cab went through the gates without any resistance, drove straight to the tarmac and hit the underbelly of the plane.
The incident occurred at about 2.35 pm. There were about 200 passengers on board the aircraft and they were successfully evacuated.

It was not certain how the driver of the vehicle passed the gates but the scene of the incident showed that the security men could not stop him. The reason for the driver's behaviour was not known as at press time.
But he was arrested and handcuffed by security agents. Upon his arrest, the driver claimed that his mission was to blow up the plane and the passengers since according to him, Nigerians are unrepentant sinners.
The man, whose name is yet to be made known, spoke in one of the dialects of neighbouring Akwa Ibom State.
“Jesus is the redeemer. Everyone should repent and follow him because I will come back and complete the attack,” he said.
The pilot of the Abuja-bound plane marked 5N-MJJ, Captain Simon Robinson, crew members and passengers who had started boarding, ran for safety while the fire fighters rushed to the scene.

Security agents condoned off the area while an anti-bomb squad from the police combed the taxi and the surroundings. The outcome of the bomb search was not made public but top sources at the airport said “no bomb was found”.
Visibly-shaken passengers said they were just settling into the aircraft when they heard a loud thud. Then they heard the alarm and were asked to disembark. At first, they thought it was a fire only to find out when they stepped out that a car had run into the fuel section of the plane.
Pandemonium ensued and they scrambled towards the departure hall.
A passenger, who did not want his name in print said: “It was just a miracle that he was not successful because he got to our plane quite all right and hit it the way he wanted to. God sure has a hand in this. If he had a bomb on him, by now it would be a different story.”

One of the passengers, Mr. Odigha Odigha, said: “We were inside the plane about to take off when the alarm came and we were asked to disembark. Initially, we thought it was fire and everybody scrambled down and when we got down, we discovered it was a car right under the belly of the aircraft.”
Odigha, who is the Chairman of the state Forestry Commission, said he was shocked.
“How can a commercial car ram through two gates of the Air Force Station and get to an aircraft about to take off?” she asked.
The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) Manager at the airport, Mr. Mahmud Sani, said everyone was taken unawares. He declined further comment, saying investigation was ongoing and that a team of investigators were expected from Lagos.
The Air Force Intelligence and Security Officer O. G. Akonye and other officers of the Air Force Base, the Deputy Commissioner of Police, Mr. Tonye Ebitibituwa, and other personnel on ground also declined comment.

Later in the evening, four engineers of Arik Air arrived the airport for an on-the-spot assessment. They jacked up the plane in order to remove the taxi. Passengers were later airlifted to their destination with another Arik plane.
When THISDAY visited the scene, the two gates of the Air Force Station had partially collapsed. Part of the first gate was on the ground, while the poles of the second were badly shattered by the force of the car.
Senior officials of the state government, including the state’s Deputy Governor Mr. Efiok Cobham; the Commissioner for Information, Mr. Edet Asim; and the Special Adviser to the Governor on Public Transportation, Mr. Gabriel Okulaja, also visited the scene of the incident.

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