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Ugochukwu Ukah suffered racial abuse from fans after he featured for Jagiellonia Bialystok against Pogon in a league match.
Narrating his ordeal to MTNFootball.com, the Nigeria defender, who has been capped once by his country, said he never expected such a thing but was comforted by an immediate apology.
“I was racially abuse by a fan who went ahead to spit on me. After our game with Pogon I went to where the fans were to appreciate them, but a couple of them refused to shake my hands and instead insulted me and one even spat on me,” he said.
“The police were swift to act and picked out the person who did that. I was not happy with it, but the Mayor of city of Bialystok called me to his office to tender a public apology to me for what happened and assured me the culprit would be charged to court. I was comforted by the city Mayor’s gesture and I won’t let what happened to weigh me down.”

Al-Shabaab fighters abandoned their positions inside Kismayo on Saturday (September 29th), a day after Somali and allied forces undertook a large-scale attack of the strategic port city.
On Saturday, al-Shabaab posted on its Twitter account that it had ceased administrative services in the city. "Last night, after more than 5 years the Islamic administration in Kismayo closed its offices," the group posted.
Residents also reported that al-Shabaab-run radio station Radio Andalus has fallen silent and that fighters had left the town, AFP reported.
The Somali government has said it currently controls the city, while the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) maintains that its forces are still working to fill the vacuum left by al-Shabaab's desertion.
"The Somali armed forces, with backing from AMISOM, managed to secure the city of Kismayo and tear it away from the grip of the terrorist al-Shabaab group," said a statement from Somalia's Ministry of Information.
Colonel Hussein Abdullahi, a Somali army commander in the Lower Jubba region, said allied forces met little resistance. "Al-Shabaab fighters abandoned their positions in Kismayo on Saturday night because they knew they could not confront the offensive from the allied forces," he told Sabahi.
Allied forces are based on the outskirts of the city, prepared to restore order to areas formerly under al-Shabaab control. "We are still based on the periphery of the city but are planning to enter it within the next few hours," Abdullahi said.
According to Kenya Defence Forces spokesman Colonel Cyrus Oguna, two top al-Shabaab leaders, Sheikhs Hassan Yakub and Abdikarim Adow, were killed during airstrikes on the group's command centre in the city.
Al-Shabaab spokesman Sheikh Ali Mohamud Rage described the militant group's withdrawal as "tactical".
"The al-Shabaab military leadership has given our fighters orders for a tactical withdrawal from the city at exactly midnight," Rage told AFP. "This withdrawal is part of the military tactics we have set for the enemy."
Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud praised the Somali armed forces and AMISOM for their efforts and sacrifices in rooting out the terrorists.
"The liberation of Kismayo marks an important milestone for the people of Somalia, particularly the residents of Kismayo who have endured hardship and difficulty under the brutal reign of al-Shabaab," he said in a statement.
"We call on the international community as well as humanitarian agencies to provide assistance to vulnerable communities in the region who have suffered under the rule of al-Shabaab as the group restricted the delivery of aid to all parts of the Jubba regions."
Eyewitnesses and local residents confirmed acts of looting in locations vacated by the militants.
"In the early morning, young people looted the sites vacated by the militants and they started celebrating the departure of the rebels," Ibrahim Dahir, a 38-year old resident of Kismayo, told Sabahi.
Nasteho Abdi, 31, said, "Residents of Kismayo are looking forward to a huge change. We were leading wretched lives because of the cruel lifestyle imposed upon us by the extremists. They would resort to flogging, amputating limbs, stoning to death and forcing merchants, farmers and shepherds to pay high taxes."
"We were not allowed to listen to music or watch TV while the radicals were in control of the city," she told Sabahi. "Now, after they have left, we can look forward to a better future."

Militants hide in the jungles of Jubba regions

Colonel Ahmed Nur Osman, a former officer in the national Somalia army, warned that militants who withdrew from Kismayo have headed towards the jungle and villages north of the city, such as Jilib, Jamaame and Kabsuma.
"Similar to what the Islamic Courts did when they were defeated by the Ethiopian troops at the end of 2006 and beginning of 2007 and took shelter in the country's southern forests, the al-Shabaab militants are preparing for a similar situation," he told Sabahi. "They will hide in the jungles and the allied forces should not allow the terrorists to turn the jungles of Jubbas into a safe haven".
"Somali armed forces and their allies should not end the military campaign until terrorist elements allied with al-Qaeda are crushed once and for all," he said. "Wherever they go, the armed forces have to be hot on their heels as they hunt down the last remnants of the terrorist al-Shabaab movement."

Beginning of the end for al-Shabaab

The fall of Kismayo is a "blow that will bring down the movement's morale and deprive it of the substantive revenues that it had access to", according to Mohamed Moalim Said, a Mogadishu-based political analyst.
The fall of Kismayo is the beginning of the end for al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Shabaab, he said. "This development will change the face of the armed conflict in Somalia, which coincides with the changing of the political conflict that was born out of the new parliament, the new president of the country and the new government that is expected to be formed within the next couple of days after a new prime minister is appointed," he told Sabahi.
"Al-Shabaab has already lost four regional capitals -- Beledweyne, Baidoa, Hudur and Marka -- but Kismayo is significantly important compared with those cities because al-Shabaab used the seaport in Kismayo to bring in weapons and ammunition and ship illegitimate charcoal exports," he said.
Al-Shabaab has also suffered recently from mass defections. On September 22nd, over 200 al-Shabaab fighters turned themselves in, and two days later, Hizbul Islam announced its decision to break away from the militant group.

President Macky Sall Donates $10,000 Dollars To The Senegalese Association In Harlem New York!

It’s me the undercover officer at the State House and Kanilai. My informers close to the NIA headquarters have just sent me a message briefing me about the latest state top secrets. The message revealed that a very senior religious figure head, an imam was busted by the officers of the National Drug Enforcement Agency officers.  Out of respect, I wouldn’t mention the Imam’s name.  The scene happened yesterday after Friday prayers, when the drug squad received information that the imam's vehicle booth was loaded with kilos of cocaine. Acting on the information they received, they stopped the vehicle around Q cell to conduct a search on it. The imam identified himself, but the officers still insisted that they must search the vehicle as it was an order from their superiors. When a thorough search was conducted, a plastic bag full of cocaine was found.

-40 dead in Adamawa, three in Maiduguri
-Security chiefs move to Mubi
THE drums may have been silent on Independence Day. Not so the guns of yet unknown assailants who stormed Mubi, Adamawa State’s second major town, on Monday.
No fewer than 40 students were killed by the gunmen who unleashed a storm of bullets on a community where students live. But the police said 25 people died.
There are three higher institutions of learning in the town – the Adamwa State University, the Federal Polytechnic and the School of Health Technology.
Three students of the University of Maiduguri were killed also on Monday.
The three were murdered by unknown assailants in their apartments at 202 Housing Estate.
Residents of the estate said the assailants sneaked into the area and killed two of the students – a woman and a man. The third was said to have escaped through the back door but was shot.
“He died in the hospital. He was a friend from southern Borno but his father is in Abuja,” one of his colleagues who identified himself as Ezekiel, said.
The bodies of two of the slain students were discovered at an isolated area near the Maiduguri Water Treatment Plant.
The killing of the students has heightened tension among parents and residents.
However, the University of Maiduguri said it cannot comment on the incident for now. “I’m sorry, we can’t comment on the incident now,” Chief Information Officer of the institution, Ahmed Tanko Mohammed said.
Wuro Fatuje, a suburb of Mubi where off campus students stay, was attacked by the gunmen at about 10pm, according to sources.
The curfew in the town, which had been in place since the security swoop last month, was slightly relaxed on Monday because of the 52nd Independence anniversary events.
Mubi is the town where 13 Igbo traders were killed during a village meeting in January. Most of them hailed from Anambra State.
The Boko Haram sect has also been operating almost unchallenged in the town where people have been killed and GSM equipment destroyed.
Last month, after a swoop by security men, two bomb factories were destroyed. Not less than 300 Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) and 25 assorted brands riffles were recovered.
Boko Haram Kingpin – Abubakar Yola (a.k.a. Abu Jihad) was killed during the ‘Operation Restore Sanity’.
The casualty figure in Monday’s bloodshed was unclear.
“I counted about 16 bodies being evacuated after the shooting and I cannot really say whether all of them were dead or not,” a resident, who pleaded for anonymity, said.
Another said he counted over 20 bodies, pointing out that both students of the polytechnic and those of the nearby School of Health Technology were tenants in a hostel that was attacked. The facility houses over 50 students.
Adamawa Police spokesman Mohammed Ibrahim confirmed that 25 people were killed, 19 of them students of the Federal Polytechnic, Mubi.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reported that the embattled town of Mubi had been under curfew since the past 10 days, following series of killings and destruction of communication masts.
The 24-hour curfew was relaxed to 6 a.m. to 3 p.m. five days ago by the State Government, following some arrests and recovery of explosives in the house-to-house search in the commercial border town.
The president of the Federal Polytechnic, Mubi Students Union, Elias Pwanidi, told our correspondent on the telephone, that six bodies, of the 34 that he claimed were killed, had been identified at the Mubi General Hospital Mortuary.
He said the majority of those killed were students of the institution who were preparing for the start of second semester examination yesterday.
He listed some of the dead as including: Chimonbi Festus (Civil Engineering HNDI) the PRO of the students union and Lucky Emmanuel (ND II) the outgoing president of the Mass Communication Students Union.
Others are: Ishaku Ibrahim (ND II Mass Communication), Ayo (surname unavailable) ND I Electrical Engineering and Emmanuel (surname unavailable) HNDI Electrical Engineering.
The Nation could not confirm the names last night as the school’s authorities could not be reached.
Many injured – some critically – in the attacks which lasted more that one hour are on admission at the Mubi General Hospital.
The shootings kept the city residents awake all night.
A source said 40 bodies were deposited at the Mubi General Hospital, adding that as at yesterday morning, more bodies were still being recovered from the scene of the attack.
The incident came barely a week after the Joint Military Task Force recorded a major breakthrough arresting over 156 suspected terrorists and discovering a local bomb manufacturing factory as well as a cache of arms and ammunition.
The Brigade Commander of 23 Armoured Brigade, Yola, Brigadier General John Nwoaga, Commissioner of Police Goeffrey Okereke, Director of State Security Service (SSS) and other Service Commanders have relocated to Mubi.
A Federal Polytechnic spokesman said it was a “commando style attack”.
The spokesman said the unknown gunmen invaded the area, shooting sporadically at any moving person, for over one hour.
“There was heavy gun fire of different calibers around 10 pm till 11pm, when it subsided.”
He said 26 students of the Federal Polytechnic, Mubi are among the dead. While the others are students of the other two institutions in the town.
The internal joint security task force headed by Brig-Gen. Nwoaga and Police Commissioner Geofrey Okeke, were rushing reinforcements to Mubi.
Some agencies gave another account of the attacks.
“They are conducting elections in the Federal Polytechnic and unknown gunmen just entered and sprayed people with bullets,” said Abdulkarim Bello of the Red Cross, adding that more than 10 people were killed.
A National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) spokesman said initial reports indicated some of the victims were candidates in the polls.
There were conflicting reports over whether the elections were being held or had been carried out in previous days.
“It was shooting by unknown gunmen,” said the agency’s Yushau Shuaib. “A number of people died.”
A military spokesman confirmed that there was an incident involving gunmen, but could not provide further details.
“I am now on my way to Mubi in the company of other security officials,” Lt. Saleh Mohammed Buba told AFP. “There was an incident at the polytechnic involving some gunmen.”
The killings caused an exodus from the town by both students and staff of the institutions.
A lecturer on condition of anonymity said he learnt that about 40 bodies had been deposited at Mubi General Hospital Mortuary.
Some of the fleeing lecturers of the polytechnic, who are not authorised to speak, said they saw at least 10 truckloads of soldiers and riot policemen moving into the troubled town.
Some of the students were said to have converged on the Rector’s home with their luggage as early as 7am yesterday.
The BBC had earlier reported that “at least 20 students have been shot dead by unknown gunmen in Mubi, north-eastern Nigeria”, a police source.
“The attack happened at a student hostel away from the Federal Polytechnic Mubi campus,” the source said.
A lecturer told the BBC that more than 40 students had been killed.
The reported killing comes days after a major operation against the Boko Haram militant group in the town.
The lecturer, who did not want his name to be used, told the BBC’s Hausa Service that the students were asked to say their names after lining up.
He says it is not clear why some were killed and others spared – some of those killed were Muslims.
“Everybody is scared and staying indoors now,” he said.
He added that students were now leaving the town, many with tree branches over their cars- a traditional sign of neutrality in Nigeria.
Mubi is in Adamawa state, which has a mixed Muslim and Christian population and borders Borno State, where Boko Haram came to prominence in 2009, staging an uprising in the state capital, Maiduguri.
Boko Haram has not yet commented on the Mubi attacks.

Six people and a company were arraigned in Lagos yesterday for their alleged complicity in fraudulent conduct over oil subsidy.
Messrs Buhari Ganiyu and Oni Oluwashola, members of the Presidential Committee on Fuel Subsidy Verification (PCFSV) were charged with conspiracy and receipt of bribe from a company, Integrated Oil and Gas Limited and its senior officials.
The company, its Managing Director, Anthony Ihenacho; Assistant General Manager, Humphrey Okoh and Financial Controller, Mrs Alalade Abioye, were charged with conspiracy and offering of bribe of N1.5m to the PCFSV officials.
They were arraigned before Magistrate Martins Owumi of the Magistrates’ Court, Tinubu on a three-count charge of conspiracy, offering and receiving of bribe.
The accused persons were said to have committed the alleged offences on August 30 in Lagos. They were accused of violating sections 63(1)(a)(b), 64(1) and 409 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.
The accused persons were, in the charge marked: J/93/2012, said to have acted with some others yet to be apprehended by men of the Police Special Fraud Unit (SFU), Ikoyi, Lagos, saddled with the investigation and prosecution of the case.
They all pleaded not guilty at their arraignment and were each granted bail at N500,000 with two sureties in like some.
Further hearing has been fixed for November 10.

President Goodluck Jonathan has set up a committee to look at the option of appealing the judgment of the International Court of Justice on the Bakassi peninsula.
The decision was reached at a meeting between the President, the leadership of the National Assembly and other stakeholders at the State House in Abuja.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the meeting which started late Wednesday night ended in the early hours of Thursday.
Cross River State governor, Liyel Imoke, told State House correspondents after the meeting that the committee would also consider how to take care of the displaced people of Bakassi.
Imoke, who did not disclose the composition of the committee, said it would work within a specified time.
NAN reports that Nigeria has an October 10 deadline to appeal the ICJ ruling which ceded the oil-rich Bakassi peninsula to neighbouring Cameroon in 2002.
Imoke said Jonathan had shown great leadership quality by convening the meeting and standing firm on some of the decisions taken.
Speaking also, the Senate President, Senator David Mark, said the executive arm of government and the lawmakers were now on the same page on the Bakassi issue.
He said they would work together to achieve results.
A former Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Prince Bola Ajibola, who was at the meeting, said the federal government had shown candid concern on the Bakassi issue.
He commended the move by government to follow dialogue, the rule of law and diplomacy in ensuring that Nigeria gets justice and the people were not wrongly dealt with.
Ajibola expressed optimism that the committee set up would handle the matter accordingly and in good time.
NAN reports that the meeting was attended by Vice President Namadi Sambo, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Aminu Tambuwal, and some other principal officers of the National Assembly.
Also in attendance were Akwa Ibom governor, Godswill Akpabio, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Senator Anyim Pius Anyim, and the Minister of Justice and AGF, Mohammed Adoke.
Some leaders and representatives of selected groups from Bakassi, as well as presidential aides, were also in attendance.