It's PluxTIME: 2017-01-15

Film on kidnapped Chibok girls premieres at prestigious festival in U.S

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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A short documentary dedicated to telling the gripping story of kidnapped Chibok girls is set to premiere in the United States on Friday, January 20.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The shirt film, titled “Waiting for Hassana”, will be the first Nigerian production ever selected to debut at the prestigious Sundance International Film Festival.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“Waiting for Hassana” tells the story of the Chibok schoolgirls’ abductions from a single perspective — a voice of one of the fifty-seven escapees.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It is directed by Ifunanya ‘Funa’ Maduka and produced by Uzodinma Iweala and Ifunanya Maduka.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A statement by Adam Segal, a representative of The 2050 Group – Publicity, obtained by <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">NAN,</em> quotes Maduka as saying: “We know the global story, now we hear the personal one. As the director, my aim was to visually and sonically plunge audiences into the psychological and emotional landscape of our subject.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“My hope is that audiences will leave feeling inextricably linked to her life and her story – that it will become as much their story as it is hers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“That radical intimacy is, to me, the basic and necessary function of art. It was also important to me that a Nigerian told this story, and I am proud that our crew reflects that drive.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The film is backed by Nnamdi Asomugha, a Nigerian-American and former NFL cornerback turned producer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">About 276 schoolgirls were kidnapped from the Government Secondary School in the town of Chibok in Borno State on the night of 14-15 April 2014.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The kidnap was claimed by terrorist group, Boko Haram.</span></div>
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Film on kidnapped Chibok girls premieres at prestigious festival in U.S

A short documentary dedicated to telling the gripping story of kidnapped Chibok girls is set to premiere in the United States on Friday, January 20. The shirt film, titled “Waiting for Hassana”, will…

‘The loneliness is too much’ – Catholic Priests demand end to celibacy rule

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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A group of senior priests in Germany has called on Catholic Church to end the celibacy rule in an open letter.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The 11 high ranking clerics, who were ordained n Cologne in 1967, are of the opinion that every man should have the right to choose to take the vow or not as other Protestant and Orthodox Church pastors have.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> They wrote the letter as part of a review of their 50 years in the Catholic Church.<i style="box-sizing: border-box;"></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A group member Franz Decker told DW,<i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> “We believe that requiring that every man who becomes a priest to remain celibate is not acceptable,”</i></span></span></span></div>
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<i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> “We think, every Catholic should be allowed to choose if they would rather be celibate or not, regardless of whether they want to work as priests or not – just like in the Protestant Church or the Orthodox church, really, every church but the Catholic Church.”</span></span></i></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">To the group, celibacy causes many modern priests to suffer from seclusion and believe the men have little to gain from church-imposed solitude.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">“What moves us is the experience of loneliness – as elderly people who are unmarried because our office required this from us, we feel it vividly on some days after 50 years on the job… We agreed to this clerical life because of our jobs, but we didn’t choose it,”</span></i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> the group wrote.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">They also gave a number of suggestions as to how the Catholic Church could “modernise”, including allowing women to join the clergy.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">However, the office of Pope Francis is yet to react to the open letter</span></span></span></div>
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‘The loneliness is too much’ – Catholic Priests demand end to celibacy rule

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Stunning photos of Nuhu Ribadu's daughter Fatima, taken by Hanan Buhari

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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Fatima, the beautiful daughter of former EFCC boss, Nuhu Ribadu posed for budding photographer, Hanan, who is President Buhari's youngest daughter.</span><br />
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Fatima graduated from Nigerian Turkish International College, Abuja in 2015. More photos after the cut.</div>
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Stunning photos of Nuhu Ribadu's daughter Fatima, taken by Hanan Buhari

Fatima, the beautiful daughter of former EFCC boss, Nuhu Ribadu posed for budding photographer, Hanan, who is President Buhari's youngest daughter. Fatima graduated from Nigerian Turkish Internationa…

President Obama warns Trump that he 'will be watching' and will step in if Trump goes out of line

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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Outgoing President, Barrack Obama, who had earlier said he was going to take some quiet time off and even do some writing after he steps down, has now issued a warning to Trump, letting him know that he will not be silent if he notices Trump's policies and actions as president goes against certain core values and infringes on human rights.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Obama made this known during his final press conference </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_861018654" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">on Friday</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">. Some of the issues he brought up which could cause him to step out of the sidelines include; systemic discrimination, effort to silence dissent or the press and efforts to roll back voting rights. He also spoke on Trump's promise to deport illegal immigrants and warned him about 'rounding up' children for deportation.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">"And for me, at least, I would put in that category efforts to round up kids who have grown up here and for all practical purposes are American kids, and send them someplace else, when they love this country, they are our kids' friends and their classmates and are now entering into community colleges or in some cases serving in our military ..."</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">"The notion that we would just arbitrarily, or because of politics, punish those kids, when they didn't do anything wrong themselves, I think would be something that would merit me speaking out." Obama said.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">As president, Obama had actions in place to protect these immigrants but Trump has threatened to undo those actions when he becomes president.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Obama also touched on the issue of Trump's continuous bashing of the press, CNN especially, and the threat from his press team to kick reporters out of the white house, saying that the press is what keeps them honest and accountable.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">"Having you in this building has made this place work better, it keeps us honest ... it makes us work harder,' he said."</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Obama concluded by stating the possibilities that could result from being accepting of people and keeping opportunities open to everybody.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">"If in fact we continue to keep opportunity open to everybody, then, yeah, we're going to have a woman president, we're going to have a Latino president, we're going to have a Jewish president, a Hindu president,' Obama said. 'You know, who knows who we're going to have?"</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">"I suspect we'll have a whole bunch of mixed-up presidents at some point, that nobody really knows what to call them. And that's fine."</span></div>

President Obama warns Trump that he 'will be watching' and will step in if Trump goes out of line

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No going back on sale of power assets – Fashola

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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">According to dailypost, <span style="background-color: white;">Minister of Works, Power and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has stated that there is no going back on the sale of power assets to private investors.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">According to him, three years was enough to judge the capability of the new owners.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Fashola, at a power dialogue organised by the Nextier Power, Wednesday night in Abuja, called on electricity consumers to cooperate with the power investors to improve on their services instead of calling on government to take over the privatised companies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Fashola, while calling for cooperation from the power consuming public in the face of current epileptic power supply, explained that as far as the economy was experiencing instability, so will electricity tariff continue to fluctuate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He said: “That tariff review was continuing in the power sector. It is either review upward or downward depending on the market trend. We are not immune from the decisions we make on electricity tariff because ourselves, family members or relations will be affected.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Fashola regretted that, “But some people have gone to court, doing all sorts of things to stop the last power tariff hike. How do you think people who invested their money will not want to recoup?”</span></div>
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No going back on sale of power assets – Fashola

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Jammeh will dance naked

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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Niccolo Machiavelli said in The Prince that “All well-governed states and wise prices have taken care not to reduce the nobility to despair, nor the people to discontent.” President Yahya Jammeh of Gambia seemed to have ignored these words of wisdom. On December 10, 2016, Jammeh brazenly rejected the result of the Gambian Presidential election held on December 1, 2016 in which he was defeated by the opposition candidate, Adama Barrow. President Jammeh had initially conceded defeat on December 2, 2016 but later changed his mind and vowed to stay put, saying that only the court could decide who was the President. Barrow, the President-elect offered direct talks but Jammeh has remained adamant. His petulance and shameless volte-face has thrown Gambia and the world into turmoil.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Meanwhile, many world leaders such as Ban Ki Moon of the United Nations, Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria, Sirleaf-Johnson of Liberia and ex-president John Dramani Mahama of Ghana, among others, have appealed to Jammeh not to cause despair and discontent in Gambia. He has been told to relinquish power but the man has bluntly refused all entreaties. Barrow is expected to be sworn-in on Thursday January 19, 2017 but Jammeh has ordered that no judge would perform the ceremony. Jammeh has the backing of the Head of the Gambian army.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Yahya Jammeh, who came to power through a coup in 1994 has contested four presidential elections and won. His current intransigence takes us back to the Burkinabe uprising of December 2014 when President Blaise Campaore of Burkina Faso was forced to resign and fled to Ivory Coast. Like Jammeh, Campaore seized power in 1983 and 1987 through coups d’etat. He killed his boss and friend, Thomas Sankara. He dumped his military uniform and contested the presidential elections in 1991, 1998, 2005 and 2010 and won.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Campaore’s attempt to amend the constitution to extent his 27 year old term caused the December 2014 Burkinabe uprising which overthrew him. If Jammeh remains intransigent, there may also be a Gambian uprising. Meanwhile, several top officials serving in Jammeh’s government have resigned while thousands of women and children have fled to neighbouring Senegal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">According to John Stuart Mill, “The worth of a state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.” We sincerely pray that Jammeh will not throw Gambia into avoidable civil war through sheer obduracy and the insatiable spirit to die in office. If Jammeh remains obstinate and greedy, he will only be following the disgraceful footsteps of several African leaders who refused to leave the stage when the ovation was loudest. Such men have been described as “corrupt, mean, autocratic and irresponsible.” On top of the abominable list is Teodoro Ngema of Equitorial Guinea. He became president in 1979 and has no plan to leave power. He is Africa’s longest serving President.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Denis Sassou ruled his country from 1979 to 1992 and stepped down; he came back to overthrow a democratically elected President in 1997 and has remained in office. Jose Eduardo dos Santos of Angola has been President from 1979 till date; he promised but failed to step down in 2003.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Robert Mugabe has been president of Zimbabwe since independence in 1980. Now 93, Mugabe who is one of the longest serving and indeed the oldest President in Africa is planning to contest the next presidential election. Mugabe has always maintained that he would die in office.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Our next door neighbour, Cameroon, has been ruled by Paul Biya since 1982 till date. He is 84 and not in a hurry to step down. Ibrahim Babangida ruled Nigeria from 1985 t0 1993; he was forced to “step aside” when it became glaring he was preparing to be a life president. His comrade-in-arms, Sanni Abacha, the most brutal ruler in Nigeria, was in power from 1993 to 1998 but died before he could change to civilian president. Some African leaders were either killed or died in office; some stepped down willingly. Mobutu Sese Seko was President of Congo DRC from 1967 to 1997. He was overthrown in 1997 by Laurent Kabila. Mobutu was accused of stealing five billion US Dollars from his nation’s treasury. At the height of his squandermania, Mobutu imported a four hundred million US Dollar cake from France for his birthday. He died in Morroco, aged 66. Laurent Kabila, who deposed Mobutu, was assassinated in 2001; he was succeeded by his son, Joseph.</span></div>
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Jammeh will dance naked

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Lady burns down her ex house after he broke up with her

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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">According to Facebook user, Victor Ibeh who shared the photos, a lady attempted to murder her boyfriend after he ended the relationship and when she didn't succeed, she set his four bedroom apartment on fire. Luckily for the man, his neighbors put out the fire on time. He wrote;</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="more" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></a><br />
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This was how my friend ended his 2016. You meet a woman, you start dating, you offer her shelter, fed her, clothed her and other things. In the process of that relationship, it occurs to you that she has character flaws that she isn't willing to work on and she feels entitled that you must date her the way she is.</blockquote>
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You break off the relationship and she becomes murderous. Makes an attempt on your life. When she didn't succeed, she decides that arson is the way out.<br /> But for the goodness of neighbors a four bedroom apartment would have be burnt down. Few weeks after, she is back pleading and expecting a makeup. How possible can that be? Who walks back into the lion's den after an escape? Is this the same person that you would have ended up with in marriage?<br /> Why does this sound familiar? I have been there before. I have had an experience close to this. When I tell you that evil is not gender specific, please believe me. We have seen a lot. It's a good thing that my friend survived this.</blockquote>
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Lady burns down her ex house after he broke up with her

According to Facebook user, Victor Ibeh who shared the photos, a lady attempted to murder her boyfriend after he ended the relationship and when she didn't succeed, she set his four bedroom apartment…

Meet the female photographer with so many of her nude pics on Instagram

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Gambian President, Adama Barrow and his two wives

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if God needed to rest, the president need rest too- Femi Adesina

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"The president is going to rest. You know that God did work of creation for six days and on the seventh day he rested. So if God needed to rest, how much more human being? So the president is just going to rest and the statement we have released is straightforward. He will go on this leave and during the leave he will do routine medical checkups."</blockquote>
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if God needed to rest, the president need rest too- Femi Adesina

Senior Special Assistant to President Buhari on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, says President Buhari deserves to go on a vacation because even God rested on the 7th day after creation. Speaking t…

Jammeh’s whereabouts is still unknown as West African troops enter Gambia

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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Hours after new Gambian president, Adama Barrow was sworn into office on Tgursday, the whereabouts of former president of Gambia, Yahya Jammeh has remained unknown. Jammeh disappeared as military forces of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) entered the country from Senegal.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="more" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></a><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">According to resident Abdoulie Bah, long convoys of military vehicles with armed soldiers entered the country through the border town of Karang.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The troops are expected to search for long-term ruler Yahya Jammeh, who refused to give up power after losing the Dec. 1, 2016 presidential election to Barrow.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Barrow’s inauguration came after an escalating political standoff triggered by Jammeh’s rejection of the election results.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">During his inaugural speech, Barrow asked Gambia’s security forces to remain loyal to the constitution and commanded all soldiers to remain in their barracks. Armed soldiers found outside their barracks would be regarded as “rebels,” the newly sworn-in president said. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Jammeh’s whereabouts is still unknown.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Source: African Press Agency</span></div>

Jammeh’s whereabouts is still unknown as West African troops enter Gambia

Hours after new Gambian president, Adama Barrow was sworn into office on Tgursday, the whereabouts of former president of Gambia, Yahya Jammeh has remained unknown. Jammeh disappeared as military for…

We’ll use pension fund for infrastructure- FG

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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: -0.15pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><img height="187" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C2hp3fqWgAAZqQN.jpg" width="320" /></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: -0.15pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Federal Government is working on how to tap into the huge pension fund to finance infrastructure in the country, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo said yesterday.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: -0.15pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He said at  the World Economic Forum holding in Davos, Switzerland that  “To do this, we have to first de-risk such financing models for infrastructure.”</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: -0.15pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">His Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Laolu Akande, in a statement, quoted him as saying beyond welfare of Nigerians, their empowerment was at the heart of the N500 billion Social Investment Programme.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: -0.15pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He told the panel that “It is about investment in people, in their skills, in youths, that we have a N500bn allocation in our budget last year and proposed for this year also. It is an investment in education and educating large numbers of people in a short time. It’s a radical thing to make that kind of serious investment in education.”</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: -0.15pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He cited the N-Power scheme’s training component for young graduates and non-graduates in artesian and industrial middle-level skills as well as the planned N100,000 grants to students of higher institutions in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: -0.15pt; line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The vice president also stated that the planning of the 2017 budget was based on the Economic Recovery Growth Plan which, according to him, will be formally launched next month.</span></span></span></span></div>
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We’ll use pension fund for infrastructure- FG

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Senegalese troops set to attack Jammeh

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Senegalese troops have moved towards the Gambian border and are ready to force President Yahya Jammeh to stand down.</div>
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“We are ready and are awaiting the deadline at midnight,” Col Abdou Ndiaye, a spokesman for the Senegalese military was quoted as saying by Reuters.</div>
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Senegal had given Jammeh a Wednesday midnight deadline, after the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, mandated the country, which surrounds The Gambia, to spearhead military intervention.</div>
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Yahya has indicated intention to stay on as he imposed a 90-day state of emergency.</div>
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Parliament backed him by granting the three months extension of tenure, to stop President-elect Adama Barrow from being sworn in on Thursday.</div>
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Senegalese troops set to attack Jammeh

Senegalese troops have moved towards the Gambian border and are ready to force President Yahya Jammeh to stand down. “We are ready and are awaiting the deadline at midnight,” Col Abdou Ndiaye, a spok…

Jammeh’s deputy Isatou Njie Saidy resigns

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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Gambia’s Vice President, Isatou Njie Saidy, has resigned. Saidy abandoned President Yahya Jammeh, 24 hours to the deadline issued to him by African leaders to hand over to opposition leader, Adama Barrow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The development is coming same day the Minister of Higher Education, Research, Science, Technology and Religious Affairs, Abubacar Senghore, abandoned Jammeh. He is the eighth cabinet member‎ to resign.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Earlier, Nigerian soldiers and a Nigerian warship were sent to the Gambia to terminate the 22-year old leadership of President Jammeh who lost the December 1 election but has vowed not to hand over power today when his term runs out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Jammeh, who was defeated by Adama Barrow, first conceded defeat but later changed his mind citing irregularities. He has since challenged the results in court but has suffered several setbacks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Nigerian leader Muhammadu Buhari was appointed chief mediator in the Gambia by ECOWAS but all attempts to convince Jammeh to leave power peacefully after 22 long years failed.</span></div>
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Jammeh’s deputy Isatou Njie Saidy resigns

Gambia’s Vice President, Isatou Njie Saidy, has resigned. Saidy abandoned President Yahya Jammeh, 24 hours to the deadline issued to him by African leaders to hand over to opposition leader, Adama Ba…

Refineries pump 12.3m litres of kero, diesel

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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Three of the refineries operated by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) have as at Tuesday produced additional 12.3m litres comprising 4.6m litres of kerosene and 7.7m litres of diesel for the domestic market.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Last week when the NNPC said the three refineries in Kaduna, Port Harcourt and Warri resumed production of diesel and kerosene they were refining 2 million litres of kerosene and 3 million litres of diesel daily.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Chief Operating Officer of the refineries, Mr. Anibor Kragha, while making a presentation before the Senate Committee on Petroleum Downstream on the current status of the refineries at the National Assembly Complex in Abuja on Tuesday, said all the plants are back on stream.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“We are ready to take senators of this committee on a facility tour of all of them on a date that is convenient for the senators to have a first-hand status of the refineries,” Kragha was quoted in a statement by NNPC’s spokesman, Ndu Ughamadu.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Kragha noted that efforts are also underway for the refineries to commence the production of Aviation Turbine Kerosene otherwise known as Jet A1 fuel.</span></span></span></span></div>
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Refineries pump 12.3m litres of kero, diesel

Three of the refineries operated by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) have as at Tuesday produced additional 12.3m litres comprising 4.6m litres of kerosene and 7.7m litres of diesel…

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo to chair session at 38th Kaduna trade fair

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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: small;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Former President Olusegun Obasanjo is expected to chair the seminar at the forthcoming Kaduna Chamber of Commerce and Industry 38th Trade Fair scheduled for February 24, the president of the chamber has said.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: small;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Speaking during a visit to the headquarters of Media Trust in Abuja yesterday, the President of the Chamber, Dr. Muheeba Farida Dankaka, said measures had been put in place to ensure that all participants are safe during the fair.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: small;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="box-sizing: border-box;">The fair, which is scheduled to hold from February 24 to March 5, 2017, has the theme ‘Promoting Public Private Partnership as Panacea for Accelerated Growth and Development’.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: small;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Dr. Dankaka disclosed that many foreign and local exhibitors have declared interest for the fair. The president also said the chamber was not unmindful of the promotion of locally made goods and incentives have been given to exhibitors with goods manufactured in Nigeria.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: small;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="box-sizing: border-box;">“We are trying to promote our own locally made goods more than foreign goods. That’s why we have less foreigners coming in and more of made in Nigeria goods,” she said.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: small;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="box-sizing: border-box;">She also said that spaces that would be allocated to exhibitors would be minimally charged to ensure that prices of goods exhibited were not exorbitant and beyond the reach of average Nigerians. The director general of the chamber, Usman Saulawa, said the Kaduna Trade Fair Complex has one of the best facilities in the North for a memorable trade fair experience.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: small;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="box-sizing: border-box;">He said the cost of the complex for exhibitors was among the cheapest in the country and the essence is to provide the platform for buyers and sellers of goods.</span></span></span></div>
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Former President Olusegun Obasanjo to chair session at 38th Kaduna trade fair

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Man arrested for threatening to kill Trump at inauguration

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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A man in Florida has been accused of posting online that he would kill U.S. President-elect Donald Trump at his inauguration on Friday. </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“This is Jan.16, 2017. I was requested to type this in and post it. </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“Yes, I will be at the review stand, the inauguration and I’m going to kill President Trump, President-elect Trump today,” Dominic Puopolo said in a video posted on Monday. </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Puopolo, 51, was arrested on Tuesday and allegedly admitted to making the threat. </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He was ordered for a mental evaluation at a court hearing on Wednesday. </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The threat, which was directed at the Secret Service, came in the middle of a long string of incoherent video messages where he calls himself Jesus Christ and repeatedly talks about his “father”. </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Some of the messages are aimed at President Barack Obama’s White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough and model Adriana Lima, as well as a woman he refers to as his daughter. </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Puopolo, who said in one of the posts that he had had three wives and three children, is the son of American Airlines Flight 11 9/11 victim Sonia Morales Puopolo, the Miami Herald reported. </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The newspaper reported that then Sen. Hillary Clinton gave the eulogy for Morales Puopolo, a philanthropist from Massachusetts, who she knew from work with the Red Cross. </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Dominic Puopolo previously wrote for NBC Dateline that he traveled to Germany for the trial of Mounir el Motassadeq, convicted of the 9/11 attacks, because he was “moved to protect our country and seek justice against our enemy”. </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The Miami Beach arrest affidavit said that Puopolo is believed to be homeless.</span></div>
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Man arrested for threatening to kill Trump at inauguration

A man in Florida has been accused of posting online that he would kill U.S. President-elect Donald Trump at his inauguration on Friday. “This is Jan.16, 2017. I was requested to type this in and post…

Buhari to launch economic recovery plan in February – Osinbajo

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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government, on Wednesday said plans have been concluded to launch its economic recovery plan in February.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Speaking on the sideline of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the Vice President said that massive investments in the people and their skills would bring about economic prosperity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The VP was quoted to have said this via a statement by his media aide, Mr. Laolu Akande.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">According to Osinbajo, the Buhari’s administration is “committed to investing more in infrastructure,” than in previous times by ensuring that 30% of the budget goes into capital expenditure.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Disclosing that the government is working on how to tap into Nigeria’s huge Pension Fund to finance infrastructure in the country, Osinbajo said to do this “we have to first derisk” such financing models for infrastructure” and by “active engagement with, and encouraging the private sector.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Osinbajo who stressed that the Buhari administration is very confident about the recovery of the Nigerian economy, said, “It is not difficult to get out of where we are if we understand why we are where we are.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Vice President assured that the federal government’s newly developed Economic Recovery Growth Plan has been specifically designed to take the country out of recession and in the long term continue to grow the economy.</span></div>
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Buhari to launch economic recovery plan in February – Osinbajo

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NERC indicts Ibadan DISCO over electrocution of man in Kwara

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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission has indicted Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company for allegedly violating installation guidelines, health and safety regulations that resulted in the electrocution of a man on October 3, 2016 in Ilorin, Kwara State.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A statement by Dr. Usman Abba Arabi, Head, Public Affairs Department of NERC in Abuja, on Wednesday said that the deceased was electrocuted at Fate Basin Roundabout area of Ilorin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">According to the statement, the deceased got trapped by a drilling truck that was in contact with red-phase of a T-off Basin 11kv feeder aluminum conductor that run across a major road.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It said that the indictment on IBEDC was part of directive 159 issued by the Commission at the end of its investigation on issues that caused the man’s electrocution.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It said that IBEDC had been directed to compensate the family of the deceased.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The statement stated that the compensation was in line with the third party insurance provisions of the Nigerian Health and Safety Code.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It said that IBEDC contravened the Nigerian Electricity Supply and Installation Standards Regulation 2015 and the Nigerian Health and Safety Code.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It said that the contravention resulted in the electrocution of the man.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It said that the investigation into the circumstances that resulted into the electrocution revealed that IBEDC did not comply with electric power sector technical standards in the maintenance of its injection sub-station.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It said that IBEDC was also guilty in the distribution of network across major road just as it lacked effective monitoring of its networks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The statement announced that IBED had been asked to carry out repairs within its network where such negligence existed and embark on public enlightenment to educate electricity customers within its network of such danger.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Kwara is among the states under the IBEDC network.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Contacted over the issue the Head, Brand and Corporate Communication, IBEDC, Ibadan, Angela Olanrewaju, told the News Agency of Nigeria that she was not aware of any incidence of electrocution in Ilorin and would therefore not comment on it.</span></div>
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NERC indicts Ibadan DISCO over electrocution of man in Kwara

The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission has indicted Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company for allegedly violating installation guidelines, health and safety regulations that resulted in the…

Councillor arrested over sale of bags of rice meant for IDPs in Borno

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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">A Supervisory Councillor for Agriculture in Mafa Local Government Area of Borno State, Umar Ibrahim, and four others have been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC, Maiduguri Zonal office, for allegedly diverting 300 bags of rice.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="more" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The rice was donated by Danish Refugee Council, DRC, a Non-Governmental Organization and meant for Internally Displayed Persons, IDPs, in the council. The arrest was made following intelligence report gathered by operatives of the antigraft agency.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Others arrested along with the councillor are Bulama Zangebe, Modu Bulama, Halilu Abdullahi, and Abacha Ali.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">According to some of the suspects, the Caretaker Chairman of Mafa Local Government, Shettima Maina, allegedly instructed the sale of the rice to the duo of Lawan Ibrahim of Bolori Stores and Umar Salisu at the rate of N8,500 per bag. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Mr. Maina and two other suspects are still at large.</span></div>

Councillor arrested over sale of bags of rice meant for IDPs in Borno

A Supervisory Councillor for Agriculture in Mafa Local Government Area of Borno State, Umar Ibrahim, and four others have been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC, Maiduguri…

Federal government sends a contingent of Nigeria Police Officers to Somalia to help in rebuilding the police force in the country.

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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The Federal government has sent a contingent of  Nigeria Police Officers to Somalia as part of efforts to help in rebuilding the police force in the country.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> African Union Mission in Somalia Police Commissioner, Brig. Anand Pillay while carrying out their induction recently,  asked the Nigeria police officers to to work effectively to support the rebuilding of the country's police force.</span><br />
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“We all know that there is still a threat to security in this country and it’s our responsibility to support the Somali security institutions in building the security apparatus to take care of the country’s security,” he said.</blockquote>
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Federal government sends a contingent of Nigeria Police Officers to Somalia to help in rebuilding the police force in the country.

The Federal government has sent a contingent of Nigeria Police Officers to Somalia as part of efforts to help in rebuilding the police force in the country. African Union Mission in Somalia Police C…

CIA publishes 13 million pages of declassified documents online

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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The Central Intelligence Agency has published nearly 13 million pages of declassified documents online. These documents were previously physically accessible only from four computer terminals at the National Archives in College Park, Maryland.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The published documents shed light on the agency's activities throughout the Vietnam, Korean and Cold War conflicts.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="more" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></a><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">It also includes documents pertaining to purported UFO sightings and the organization's "Star Gate" program investigating possible psychic abilities and what could be done with them.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The archive touches on the CIA extensive history as an organization, from its inception up through the 1990s. "None of this is cherry-picked, It's the full history. It's good and bads" said CIA spokesperson Heather Fritz Horniak. Although the documents are declassified, redactions do exist throughout the millions of pages.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The redactions -- which Horniak describes as light -- were done to protect sources and methods that could potentially harm national security, she explained.</span><br />
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CIA publishes 13 million pages of declassified documents online

The Central Intelligence Agency has published nearly 13 million pages of declassified documents online. These documents were previously physically accessible only from four computer terminals at the …

Gambian Soldiers Will Surrender, Says Army Chief

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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Gambia’s army chief, Ousman Badjie said he would not order his men to fight other African troops if they enter Gambian territory.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He spoke Wednesday  as Senegalese and other troops massed on his nation’s borders.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Senegalese troops backed by Nigerian Air Force and other African troops were on standby to move into The Gambia as President Yahya Jammeh approached a midnight deadline to stand down or face military action after refusing to leave at the end of his term.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“We are not going to involve ourselves militarily. This is a political dispute,” Chief of Defence Staff Ousman Badjie said, after eating dinner in a tourist district close to the capital, Banjul, eyewitnesses told AFP.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“I am not going to involve my soldiers in a stupid fight. I love my men,” he added, stopping to pose for selfies with admirers while dressed in fatigues, beret and green t-shirt, according to those present.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We are not going to involve ourselves militarily. This is a political dispute…I am not going to involve my soldiers in a stupid fight. I love my men.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“If they (Senegalese) come in, we are here like this,” Badjie said, making a hands up to surrender gesture.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Badjie is no stranger to controversy after appearing to declare support for president-elect Adama Barrow and then switching back to Jammeh.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He was recently barred from visiting Gambian peacekeepers in Darfur due to the sensitivity of The Gambia’s ongoing political crisis, which has seen Jammeh repeatedly refuse to step down despite losing a December 1 election to opponent Barrow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“Our troops are on alert… The ultimatum takes effect at midnight,” when Jammeh’s mandate is due to expire, Senegal army spokesman Colonel Abdou Ndiaye told AFP ahead of the deadline.</span></div>
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Gambian Soldiers Will Surrender, Says Army Chief

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Waiting on Donald Trump

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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: small;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: -0.25pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Tomorrow, Friday January 2017, Donald Trump will formally assume office as the 45th President of the United States. At 70, he will be the oldest person to be elected the President of the United States, beating the record set by Ronald Reagan who became President at 69. The billionaire businessman (worth $3.7bn according to Forbes) will also make history as the first person elected President of the USA with zero government or military experience.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: small;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: -0.25pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But what will his presidency portend for Africa or Nigeria? True, Mr Trump said pretty awful things about Africans and about every other person who disagreed with his political options. But I think we need to come to terms with the reality of his election to the Presidency and the possibility that he may not turn out to be as bad as he was during the campaign period  - and that even if he turns out to be as bad, there are still pretty good options available to us. And that is assuming that both the American and global institutions are unable to restrain him!</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: small;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: -0.25pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I have a number of grounds for this cautious optimism:</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: small;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: -0.25pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">One, the late Mario Matthew Cuomo, the American Democratic politician who served as the 52nd Governor of New York State for three consecutive terms, famously said “you campaign in poetry. You govern in prose”. In essence, while you can get away with sound bites during campaigns, it will be a different ball game when it comes to actual governance. As President, Trump will need detailed explanation, costing and probably Congressional authorization to translate many of his sound bites into programmes and projects. In a democracy the wheels of governance turn rather slowly and cautiously so converting a sound bite into a government programme is unlikely to be smooth-selling, especially in a highly litigious country like the USA. I liken several of Donald Trump’s campaign rhetoric to what boxers would call ‘trash talks’ before a bout. The boxers will often boast of what they will do to each other in the ring - sometimes to psyche themselves up or intimidate their opponents or as a marketing gimmick.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: small;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: -0.25pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Two, the legitimate angst in the country about Donald Trump’s presidency sometimes presupposes that a Hilary Clinton presidency would have been better for the continent. I am not sure about that. During the campaign, I was as much concerned about a Donald Trump presidency as I was about Clinton’s. For one, I see her as very hawkish. I am among those who believe that her obsession with regime change when she was Secretary of State in countries like Syria and Libya helped to unleash forces that culminated in the emergence of the so-called Islamic State. The vacuum created through such regime changes (or efforts to do so in the case of Syria) also led to ready availability of weapons that helped to fuel insurgency in the Sahel region. In this sense, I do not believe that Clinton was good for Africa - just as there were legitimate concerns about Donald Trump’s outbursts</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: small;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: -0.25pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Three, American foreign policy - just like the foreign policy of most countries- could be interpreted using the Concentric Circles theory. Originally developed by sociologist Ernest Burgess in 1925 to explain urban social structures, Ibrahim Gambari helped to popularize its application in the analysis of Nigeria’s foreign policy. As applied to foreign policy, this theory tells us that every country has core national interests (innermost of the concentric circle) and peripheral interests (the outermost circle). America’s core foreign policy concerns have never really been Africa, explaining why most American Presidents visit Africa or formulate their Africa initiatives only at the twilight of their tenures. In this sense, it does not really matter who becomes America’s President because relations with Canada, Europe, South America and the Middle East will always be privileged over relations with Africa.</span></span></span></span></div>
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Waiting on Donald Trump

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Everything okay now? Churchill shares photo of himself & Tonto Dikeh at Charity event

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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Businessman and husband to Tonto Dikeh, Oladunni Churchill, took to his Instagram account this afternoon to share a photo of himself and Tonto Dikeh at a charity event.</span><br />
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The pair are believed to be going through marital issues following Tonto's removal of his name from hers on social media last week. Maybe they have settled? Though the photo is not a recent one, it was taken some months back Churchill's company's charity work, but posting is sending out a message. He captioned the photo 'Rise to the challenge with confidence. #bigchurchfoundation'</div>
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Everything okay now? Churchill shares photo of himself & Tonto Dikeh at Charity event

Businessman and husband to Tonto Dikeh, Oladunni Churchill, took to his Instagram account this afternoon to share a photo of himself and Tonto Dikeh at a charity event. The pair are believed to be go…

Read this convo between a lady & her boyfriend of 7 years after she found out he's been married for 4 years

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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">A lady shared screen-shots of her chat with her boyfriend whom she dated for 7 years but had no idea he's been married for 4 years. The man blocked her on Facebook but a friend saw his photos with his wife and sent it to her. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">When she confronted the man with the evidence, he denied being the person in the photos saying it was just another person bearing a striking resemblance to him. Continue to read the rest of their chat.</span><br />
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Read this convo between a lady & her boyfriend of 7 years after she found out he's been married for 4 years

A lady shared screen-shots of her chat with her boyfriend whom she dated for 7 years but had no idea he's been married for 4 years. The man blocked her on Facebook but a friend saw his photos with hi…

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