TODAY IN HISTORY

• World Day Against Cyber Censorship

• 2019 - Italy

Cristiano Ronaldo scored a hat- trick as Juventus stormed back from a 2- 0 first- leg deficit to beat Atletico Madrid 3- 0 in the Champions League quarter- finals. With Atletico packing their defence, Ronaldo made the crucial breakthrough in the 27th minute when he rose to head in Bernardeschi’s cross at the far post.

• 2018 - Nigeria

Pres. Buhari expressed shock during his visit that after two months, Inspector- General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, disobeyed his directives to stay in Benue until the blood- letting between farmers and herdsmen was resolved.

• 2016 - Nigeria

Felix Ovudoroye Ibru, architect, Senator and first governor of Delta State, died aged 80. Until his death he was President General of the Urhobo Progressive Union ( UPU).

• 2015 - Liberia World Health Organization

estimated that Ebola outbreak killed over 10,000 people, mostly in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone.

• 2014 - Nigeria

Pres. Goodluck Jonathan ordered a forensic audit by international firms into $ 20 billion allegedly missing from petroleum sales, following weeks of outrage and demands by a Senate committee and the Central Bank governor, Lamido Sanusi.

• 2013 - Nigeria

Nigeria pardoned Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, former governor of Bayelsa State and former political benefactor of Pres. Goodluck Jonathan. He was convicted of stealing millions of dollars while serving as governor 1999- 2005

• 2009 - USA

Bernard Madoff pleaded guilty in New York to charges he carried out an epic fraud that robbed investors around the world of $ 18 billion, the largest in Wall Street's history. It turned the revered money man into an overnight global disgrace whose name became synonymous with the economic meltdown.