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Dictators 'get started by suppressing free press'- Sen. John McCain

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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Sen. John McCain slammed President Donald Trump's attacks on the media this week by noting dictators "get started by suppressing free press."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It was a startling observation from a sitting member of Congress against the President of the United States, especially considering McCain is a member of Trump's party.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"I hate the press," the Arizona Republican sarcastically told NBC News' Chuck Todd on "Meet the Press." "I hate you especially. But the fact is we need you. We need a free press. We must have it. It's vital."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But he continued, "If you want to preserve -- I'm very serious now -- if you want to preserve democracy as we know it, you have to have a free and many times adversarial press," McCain said in the interview. "And without it, I am afraid that we would lose so much of our individual liberties over time. That's how dictators get started."</span></div>
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Dictators 'get started by suppressing free press'- Sen. John McCain

Read CNN reports below: Sen. John McCain slammed President Donald Trump's attacks on the media this week by noting dictators "get started by suppressing free press." It was a startling observation fr…

BREAKING: At least 4 people has died as car plunges into river in Bonny Camp

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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“A car with four passengers plunged into Melee river near Bobby Camp few minutes ago,” Lagos State Emergency Management Agency said on Saturday night.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“The river spot is the most turbulent spot in the whole of West Africa. Search and rescue going.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">An eyewitness told <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Newsroom</em> the incident happened some minutes past 8pm.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“A car with three family members plunged into Lagoon near Onikan, husband rescued, searches on for wife and child,” the police tweeted.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This is a developing story. We will bring you more details later.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The incident comes barely days after a “sleepy” driver plunged a 59-passenger luxury bus into a canal along Ikorodu Road. Three people died in that tragedy while 23 others sustained injuries.</span></div>
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BREAKING: At least 4 people has died as car plunges into river in Bonny Camp

“A car with four passengers plunged into Melee river near Bobby Camp few minutes ago,” Lagos State Emergency Management Agency said on Saturday night. “The river spot is the most turbulent spot in th…

Nigeria has dropped to the fourth position as China’s trade partner in Africa

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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Nigeria has dropped to the fourth position as China’s trade partner in Africa from its former second position, the Chinese Ambassador to Nigeria, Zhou Pingjian, has said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The envoy, however, noted that the relationship between the African country and Asian giants had a lot of potential, which could be tapped to the advantage of the two countries.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Speaking during the visit of the House of Representatives Committee on Nigeria-China Relations to the CGCOC headquarters on Friday in Abuja, the envoy stated that his country’s desire was for Nigeria to attract massive Foreign Direct Investment, which he said was needed for the country’s development.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He disclosed that China had so far attracted over $139tn FDI, noting that in 2016 alone, his country attracted about $139bn.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“As Chinese ambassador to Nigeria, I wish a small part of the $139bn could come to Nigeria,” he said, stating that China’s policy was focused on the economic development of Africa.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He also said that China was devoted to implementing the outcomes of the China-Africa Cooperation Summit during President Muhammadu Buhari’s visit to the Asian country in April 2016.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He said, “What is important is for us to focus on the big plans; we see great potential in investments in Nigeria, but Nigeria-China trade is declining fast.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“Nigeria used to be China’s number two trade partner in Africa, but it’s now number four.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Nigeria-China Relations, Buba Yakubu, said the country would henceforth work on implementing all agreements reached with China.</span></div>
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Nigeria has dropped to the fourth position as China’s trade partner in Africa

Nigeria has dropped to the fourth position as China’s trade partner in Africa from its former second position, the Chinese Ambassador to Nigeria, Zhou Pingjian, has said. The envoy, however, noted th…

I am ready to step down as PDP National Chairman for the party to achieve it goal – Sheriff

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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Senator Ali-Modu Sheriff has said he is willing to step down as the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), if it is in the best interest of the party.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“I am willing to relinquish the position for the party to move forward into achieving its goals,” he said while speaking to journalists in Abuja.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“I will consult other leaders of our party to see how we can organise our national convention, to stop our division and leadership tussle”, he added.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Sheriff stated that the victory at the court was for all PDP members, including those belonging to the Makarfi faction.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He disclosed that he would start consulting every stakeholder in the party, including the Governors, National Assembly and BOT members in order to organize a unified National convention.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He expressed hope that all aggrieved members will come back to the party.</span></div>
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If Mugabe should dies, we will have his corpse appear as a candidate on the ballot paper- His wife

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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The wife of 92-year-old Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe said Friday that her husband’s corpse will run for president even after his death.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">She said this while addressing supporters from the ruling ZANU-PF party.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Grace Mugabe, who is seen as a possible successor to her ailing husband, ratcheted up her colourful rhetoric ahead of the general election due next year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“One day when God decides that Mugabe dies, we will have his corpse appear as a candidate on the ballot paper,” Grace Mugabe told a party rally in Buhera, southeast of the capital Harare.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“You will see people voting for Mugabe as a corpse. I am seriously telling you — just to show people how people love their president.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">President Mugabe has vowed to stand again in the election, but Grace could run if he dies before the vote.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Grace Mugabe, who was appointed leader of ZANU-PF’s women’s wing in a surprise move two years ago, is well known for her fiery speeches and verbal attacks on her husband’s opponents. In 2015, she led a campaign which led to the ousting of deputy president Joice Mujuru, accusing Mujuru of fanning factionalism, plotting to topple Mugabe and corruption and bribery.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">President Mugabe, the world’s oldest national leader, turns 93 on Tuesday, with a celebration party planned for next Saturday. Grace has previously pledged to push Mugabe in his wheelchair to election rallies if needed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Mugabe, who has been in power since Zimbabwe’s independence in 1980, has avoided naming a successor and his party is divided between factions jostling to succeed him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Grace bemoaned the in-fighting, telling those seeking to succeed her husband: “Let’s not fool each other, let’s wait for God’s time.”</span></div>
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If Mugabe should dies, we will have his corpse appear as a candidate on the ballot paper- His wife

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Vice President Yemi Osinbajo asssents seven bills into law

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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has signed seven bills passed by the National Assembly into law. The bills which include Oath (Amendment) Act 2017, Defence Space Administration Act, Veterinary Surgeons(Amendment) Act) have now become Nigerian laws. Senior Special Assistant to President Buhari on National Assembly Matters, Senator Ita Enang confirmed Osinbajo's endorsement of the bills in a press statement. </span></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: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The statement reads "The Nigeria's Ag President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo SAN GCON has assented to seven bills passed by the National Assembly. </span></span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Enang in a release made available to the press in his office said the bills Assented to have accordingly becomes laws as it was passed by the National Assembly and transmitted for Assent.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">The bills according to him includes:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">1. OATHS (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2017</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">2. DEFENCE SPACE ADMINISTRATION ACT, 2017</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">3. VETERINARY SURGEONS (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2017</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">4. NATIONAL FILM AND VIDEO CENSOR BOARD (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2017</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">5. PENSION RIGHTS OF JUDGES (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2017</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">6. NIGERIA INSTITUTE OF SOIL SCIENCE (ESTABLISHMENT, ETC) ACT, 2017</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">7. MORTGAGE INSTITUTIONS (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2016</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Senator Enang noted that the Acts, other than the Defence Space Administration Act, and institute of soil science are mainly Amendments to the Principal Act intended to bring the Acts in conformity with current realities.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">1.The Oaths Amendment Acts specifically enlists courts which were not in existence at the time the Oaths Act were made and which came into being upon Amendment of the constitution creating such courts such as the Federal High Court, F.C.T High Court, National Industrial Court, among others named in the Amendment Act.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">2. Defence Space Administration Act establishes the Defence Space Administration, to develop satellite technology and ensures security of the nation’s cyber activities.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">3. Veterinary Surgeons (Amendment) Act reduces the membership of the Veterinary Council.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">4. National Film and Video Censors Board (Amendment) Act reduces the membership of the Governing Board and empowers the Board to regulate the import and export on movies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">5. Pension Rights of Judges (Amendment) Act expands the meaning of a judicial officer to cover the offices of the Chief Judge or Judge of the Federal High Court, President or Judges of the National Industrial Court and Chief Judge or Judges of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">6. Nigeria Institute of Soil Science (Establishment, ETC) Act establishes the Nigeria Institute of Soil Science which is charged with the responsibility of regulating the profession of Soil Science</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">7. Mortgage Institutions (Amendment) Act reviews the prescribed penalties.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">For Bills transmitted but not listed herein, there are appropriate communication by the constitutional authority remitting same as allowed by law.</span></div>
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Vice President Yemi Osinbajo asssents seven bills into law

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has signed seven bills passed by the National Assembly into law. The bills which include Oath (Amendment) Act 2017, Defence Space Administration Act, Veterinary Surgeons(…

NAF to improve synergy with security agencies

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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) says it will improve existing synergy with other security agencies in its internal security duties in Enugu state, to achieve security goals with ease and fewer resources.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Commander, 155 Base Service Group of NAF in Enugu, Air Commodore Paul Masiyer, said this after the Quarterly Routine Match of NAF officers and men in its formations in Enugu on Saturday.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The officials of Federal Road safety Corps; Prison service and National Youth Service Corps joined in the 10-kilometre match that lasted for over four hours.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“We want to promote comradeship and spirit of oneness with sister security agencies to create understanding and seamless interface for quick result whenever we carry out joint internal security duties,” he said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">On the quarterly routine march, the commander said that it was meant to keep the officers and men of NAF in shape.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“The Chief of the Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, has made it mandatory that each of the officers and men of NAF must participate in this quarterly exercise, which comes up every three months.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“The essence is to keep NAF officers and men ready for combat and operational deployment at any moment.’’</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The officers and men matched in five units along the Enugu-Onitsha Expressway notwithstanding the cold weather and retired with some stretch and push-up exercises.</span></div>
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NAF to improve synergy with security agencies

The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) says it will improve existing synergy with other security agencies in its internal security duties in Enugu state, to achieve security goals with ease and fewer resources…

Barcelona can overturn PSG result- Pep Guardiola

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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">According to isoccer, Pep Guardiola says his former club Barcelona remain the best team in the world and thinks if anyone can recover from four goals down against Paris Saint-Germain, it is them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Barca are in crisis after losing the first leg of their Champions League last-16 tie 4-0 to PSG in Paris.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">That has prompted speculation over the future of head coach Luis Enrique, who is out of contract at the end of the season.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But Manchester City boss Guardiola warned critics not to be too hard on Barca if they want to avoid eating their words after the second leg at Camp Nou next month.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“For me Barcelona are still the best team in the world,” Guardiola told reporters.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“There is another 90 minutes left in the second leg and anything can happen. If a team can overcome this result, a 4-0 deficit, then that team is Barcelona.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“It is normal after the game the comments that happen. But in 10 years Barcelona have dominated the world of football.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“My advice to everyone is not to criticise Barcelona too much because they have proved everyone wrong before.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“Of course it was a surprise, but in football anything can happen these days if you have a bad day and the opponent play well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“It has happened to me too. There is a lot of competition and the opposition are really strong.”</span></div>
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Barcelona can overturn PSG result- Pep Guardiola

According to isoccer, Pep Guardiola says his former club Barcelona remain the best team in the world and thinks if anyone can recover from four goals down against Paris Saint-Germain, it is them. Bar…

No hope of Gabriel Jesus joining Inter Milan– agent

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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Gabriel Jesus will not leave Manchester City to join Inter in the near future, his agent has said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The 19-year-old enjoyed a spectacular start to his career at the Etihad Stadium, registering three goals and two assists in his first five appearances, although a broken metatarsal looks set to keep him sidelined for most of the rest of the season.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Inter had been linked with Jesus before he opted to sign for City from Palmeiras and former club president Massimo Moratti has encouraged the Serie A side to pursue his signature again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But the forward’s agent, Cristiano Simoes, has dismissed the notion of moving to San Siro so soon after the start of his Premier League career.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“Moratti is a very important personality and we are flattered by his words but there is no chance to see Gabriel Jesus joining Inter in the near future,” he told Calciomercato.com .</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“He’s chosen Manchester City and he’s very happy there. We’re all delighted with his performances in England.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“Gabriel Jesus is only focused on Manchester City. He’s doing a great job with Guardiola and wants to return to action as soon as possible.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Inter, backed by majority shareholders Suning Holdings Group, are expected to invest heavily in the playing squad in the next transfer window in order to set up a challenge for the title and a return to the Champions League.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Speculation has persisted that they could launch a shock bid to sign Lionel Messi from Barcelona, but Moratti feels Jesus would be a more realistic target.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“He made me fall in love with football again,” he told Sky Sport Italia this week. “Every now and again you need this new kind of player to reignite your passion and Gabriel Jesus of Manchester City is, for me, a player you have got to pursue.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“Messi is outstanding, but it’s difficult to get him. But it’s beautiful when you see a player who you believe has potential by the bucket load – and who knows what great things he will do. For me, Jesus is one of these.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“Some of our hopes have been reignited because a lot of things are really happening again. Inter are making you want to go and watch them again, but in addition to this desire to see them, they are also giving the idea of a positive future.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“At the moment, the gap between the Nerazzurri and their rivals ahead of them is not as big as it was in years gone by. They just need a few minor adjustments here and there and they will already be on that level.”</span></div>
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No hope of Gabriel Jesus joining Inter Milan– agent

Gabriel Jesus will not leave Manchester City to join Inter in the near future, his agent has said. The 19-year-old enjoyed a spectacular start to his career at the Etihad Stadium, registering three g…

US will always be your greatest ally – Pence tells Europe

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US Vice-President Mike Pence Saturday pledged an “unwavering” commitment to transatlantic ties, in an emphatic reassurance to allies including German Chancellor Angela Merkel who pleaded with nations not to go it alone.</div>
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Capping a week of whirlwind diplomacy by American officials who have descended on Europe to calm nerves rattled by Donald Trump, Pence underlined the United States’ devotion to its old friends.</div>
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“The United States is and will always be your greatest ally. Be assured that President Trump and our people are truly devoted to our transatlantic union,” he told European leaders including Merkel at the Munich Security Conference.</div>
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“The promise to share the burden of our defence has gone unfulfilled for too many, for too long and it erodes the very foundation of our alliance,” he warned, stressing that “the time has come to do more”.</div>
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At the same time, he did not go further and threaten, as Trump had done, to walk away if the allies failed to pay their way.</div>
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The US, he said, will boost defence spending significantly, “to defend our nation and our treaty allies from the known threats of today and the unknown threats of tomorrow”.</div>
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“We will meet our obligations to our people to provide for the common defence, and we’ll continue to do our part to support our allies in Europe and in NATO,” he said.</div>
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US will always be your greatest ally – Pence tells Europe

US Vice-President Mike Pence Saturday pledged an “unwavering” commitment to transatlantic ties, in an emphatic reassurance to allies including German Chancellor Angela Merkel who pleaded with nations…

APC denies having hands in the calamity rocking PDP

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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The All Progressives Congress has reacted with utmost displeasure to what it termed a misguided assertion by the officials of the Peoples Democratic Party in Benue State over the recent court judgement in Port Harcourt that recognized the Senator Ali Modu Sheriff faction as authentic.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The judgement went further to dismiss the Senator Ahmed Makarfi faction as lacking the power to superintend over the party.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Berger Alfred Emberga, the Acting Publicity Secretary of the APC in Benue State, said in a statement that it is untrue as being speculated that his party has a hand in the calamities befalling PDP in Nigeria.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Emberga described the reaction of Bemgba Iortyom as desperate and a mission to drag the good name of the APC into the self-inflicted ordeal that has befallen the party in Nigeria with Friday’s “decisive court judgement”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Makarfi was equally quoted as having said after the judgement that the APC was out to create a one party state in the country.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Emberga said in the statement: “Ordinarily, we wouldn’t have bothered to react to a statement made by a group of failed politicians who cannot successfully wail without mentioning the ruling APC. But for record purpose, we wish to set the records straight and correct the haughty impression. We wish to make it abundantly clear that no member of the ruling APC has a hand in the calamity and nemesis that has befallen the once acclaimed largest political party in Africa, hence its calamity is self-inflicted from the construction of its brigandage faithfuls to consciously determine people’s fortune and hold Nigerians hostage.</span></div>
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APC denies having hands in the calamity rocking PDP

The All Progressives Congress has reacted with utmost displeasure to what it termed a misguided assertion by the officials of the Peoples Democratic Party in Benue State over the recent court judgeme…

Ogun shuts hospital where 4 pregnant women died, 7 others

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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">According to DailyPost, Ogun State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Babatunde Ipaye has said that additional eight private health facilities have been shut down following the refusal of the owners to revalidate and register the facilities.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Ipaye, who stated this while monitoring the level of compliance of the revalidation and registration of health facilities at Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government Area of the State, said that with the closure of the facilities, it had brought the total number of facilities so far sealed in the State to 168.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Ipaye noted that the success recorded was due to relentless efforts of the monitoring team, pointing out that Ado-Odo/Ota and Ogijo in Sagamu Local Government Area, had been identified as hot spot for quackery activities in the State.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">While giving instances of the danger of quackery in the health sector, Ipaye said the death of four pregnant women in Ifo Local Government Area and other unreported cases would have been avoided if the victims were handled by qualified medical personnel, adding that those caught during the exercise were currently being prosecuted by relevant agencies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“A particular hospital in Ifo, ruptured four pregnancies and I can tell you categorically that this revalidation and registration have no political colouration of any sort.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“Since the exercise began, five doctors have been arrested and they will be prosecuted for running illegal facilities and in possession of fake documents’’, the Commissioner said.</span></div>
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Ogun shuts hospital where 4 pregnant women died, 7 others

According to DailyPost, Ogun State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Babatunde Ipaye has said that additional eight private health facilities have been shut down following the refusal of the owners to rev…

We are working to secure his release - Audu Maikori's partner explains

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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The arrest of Audu Maikori by operatives of DSS following comments he made about Southern Kaduna killings continues to generate more reactions from Nigerians. Now, his partner of many years, Paul Okeugo has just issued a statement to say: 'We are working to secure his release and have reached out to friends who realize the importance of sustaining democratic ideals in a country as fractured as ours'. Read his full statement after the cut..</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 />
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My name is Paul Okeugo and I have been Audu Maikori's  friend  & Partner for years and know him to be a very honorable and passionate  man.  Audu genuinely cares about Nigeria and everyone in it . He is not one to spread false information or advocate violence . Together we have strived to create a better future for all young people in Nigeria. Audu exemplifies the kind of qualities we sorely need in this society. </blockquote>
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Today Audu has been picked up by law enforcement agents over his advocacy about the killings in #SouthernKaduna and he is presently being held in custody. </blockquote>
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I would like to reach out to fans and friends of Audu and our company that we all should please exercise patience and remain calm.</blockquote>
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We appreciate the massive love and support we have received and continue to count on that goodwill . There is no Chocolate City without all of you! </blockquote>
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We are working to secure his release and have reached out to friends who realize the importance of sustaining democratic ideals in a country as fractured as ours.</blockquote>
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God bless</blockquote>
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<b>Paul Okeugo</b></blockquote>
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#FreeAudu </blockquote>
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Controversial actress and singer, Lindsay Lohan wants Americans to support of Donald Trump

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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Controversial actress and singer, Lindsay Lohan had a recent Interview with Daily Mail where she called on Americans to unite in support of it's new President, Donald Trump. In her words:</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 />
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“You have to join him. If you can’t beat him, join him. It would be a positive thing for America to show their care and support.”</blockquote>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">In a 2004 interview with Howard Stern, Donald Trump spoke of Lohan saying “She’s probably deeply troubled and therefore great in bed.”</span></div>

Controversial actress and singer, Lindsay Lohan wants Americans to support of Donald Trump

Controversial actress and singer, Lindsay Lohan had a recent Interview with Daily Mail where she called on Americans to unite in support of it's new President, Donald Trump. In her words: “You have t…

MI Abaga leads #FreeAudu campaign on social media

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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Yesterday, Chocolate City president, Audu Maikori was arrested in Lagos and moved to Abuja following comments and statements he made about the Southern Kaduna killings. Now a campaign for his freedom is trending across social media.</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;">On Nigerian Twitter right now, the hashtag #FreeAudu is the number one trending topic with rapper and chocolate city head, MI Abaga as the pioneer. Nigerians are asking for Audu's immediate release as well as fight for freedom of speech. See more tweets after the cut...</span><br />
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MI Abaga leads #FreeAudu campaign on social media

Yesterday, Chocolate City president, Audu Maikori was arrested in Lagos and moved to Abuja following comments and statements he made about the Southern Kaduna killings. Now a campaign for his freedom…

Tragedy as man burns house, car and kills himself in Zimbabwe

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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">A 42-year-old man from Southlea Park in Zimbabwe who had an argument with his wife has reportedly burnt down his properties before killing himself. According to Zim Eye, the man identified as Patrick Bangani drank a concoction of sulphuric acid and pesticides after ramming his car into the family house before dousing it with petrol and setting it ablaze.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">One of his children, an 11-year-old daughter, who witnessed her father taking the poisonous concoction escaped through the window of one of the bedrooms, while her other siblings were said to be playing in the neighborhood.</span><br />
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Tragedy as man burns house, car and kills himself in Zimbabwe

A 42-year-old man from Southlea Park in Zimbabwe who had an argument with his wife has reportedly burnt down his properties before killing himself. According to Zim Eye, the man identified as Patrick…

Man charged with kidnapping a minor for sexual exploitation

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A notorious Kenyan businessman from Nairobi has been charged with kidnapping and trafficking an underage girl to a neighboring country for sexual exploitation. The suspect, Abdi Hassan Mamad who appeared at a Magistrate court in Nairobi was charged with twice kidnapping of a 16-year-old form school girl to Ethiopia.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="more"></a></div>
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During a recent court hearing, the prosecutor said street boys were used to kidnaping the girl at Eastleigh while on her way from School and drove her to Ethiopia last September 2016.</div>
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According to him, the girl whose name was withheld was later found by Ethiopian security agents in Adis Ababa.</div>
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'The girl was driven beyond the Kenya border town of Moyale and taken to Adis Ababa where Ethiopian security agents found her and reunited her relatives who has accompanied Police officers from Kenya' the prosecutor stated.</div>
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Again on Wednesday, January 11, 2017, the accused allegedly kidnapped the girl around <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_266838511" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ"><span style="color: #222222;">8pm</span></span></span> and then bundled her into a waiting Probox car which took off at break-neck speed towards north eastern. After the information got to the security personnel all borders were immediately closed.</div>
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The suspect was arrested in a hotel room, where he was hiding with the victim.</div>
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The accused was however granted a cash bail of Sh100,000 until <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_266838512" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ"><span style="color: #222222;">April 4, 2017</span></span></span>, when the case will be heard</div>
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Landlady, daughters arraiged in court for pouring hot water on tenant

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Four members of a family who allegedly poured hot water on a tenant have been arraigned in court.</div>
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The culprits, Adwoa Kumaniwaa 60, Gifty Mensah 35, Hagar Mensah 31, Irene Appiah 16 recently appeared at the Kade District Magistrate Court for pouring hot water on a tenant, Elizabeth Gyamfuaa after assaulting her at Akyem Wenchi in the Eastern Region.<br /><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="more"></a></div>
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The victim has since been discharged from the Akyem Wenchi Salvation Army Health Centre.</div>
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Narrating the sad incident to the Mirror, a police source said that Gyamfuaa rented a room belonging to Kumaniwaa at Sanaahene, a suburb of Akyem Wenchi.</div>
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A little misunderstanding ensued between Adwoa and Gyamfuaa which nearly developed into a fight. Adwoa subsequently informed the conduct of Gyamfuaa to her daughter, Gifty, who stormed the house at Wenchi and angrily confronted Gyamfuaa about the issue.</div>
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She reportedly slapped Gyamfuaa several times. However, when Gyamfuaa decided to retaliate, the other family members, Adwoa, Hagar and Irene, the daughter of Gifty, together attacked Gyamfuaa and subjected her to severe beatings.</div>
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Hagar then allegedly poured the hot water which Gyamfuaa was boiling on her back.</div>
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Gyamfuaa, who got seriously injured, screamed for help which attracted some people to the scene. She was rushed to the Wenchi Salvation Army Health Centre where she was admitted for treatment.</div>
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Station Officer of the Takrowase Police Station, Inspector Ebenezer Asante Ampadu, said the four suspects have so far been granted bail by the Kade District Magistrate Court to reappear on <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_266838518" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ"><span style="color: #222222;">Monday, March 20, 2017</span></span></span>.</div>
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Landlady, daughters arraiged in court for pouring hot water on tenant

Four members of a family who allegedly poured hot water on a tenant have been arraigned in court. The culprits, Adwoa Kumaniwaa 60, Gifty Mensah 35, Hagar Mensah 31, Irene Appiah 16 recently appeared…

Giant ovarian cyst removed from a female patient

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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">As shared by an Instagram user..</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" title="Edited">Surgeon Amyr holding massive ovarian cyst that was removed from a female patient #tumordeovario:</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" title="Edited"> Ovarian Cyst: During a woman's menstrual cycle, an egg grows in a sac called a follicle. </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;" title="Edited"></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><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" title="Edited"> </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;" title="Edited">This sac is located inside the ovaries. In most cases, this follicle or sac breaks open and releases an egg. But if the follicle doesn't break open, the fluid inside the follicle can form a cyst on the ovary. Depending on the type ( polycystic ovaries , endometriosis , cystadenoma , dermoid cyst ) </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;" title="Edited"></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" title="Edited">Most women will experience a cyst on the ovaries at least once, and most are painless, causes no symptoms, and are discovered during a routine pelvic exam.</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;" title="Edited">Thou Doctors aren’t sure what causes ovarian cancer but several risk factors, including:</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;" title="Edited"></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" title="Edited">Age -- women in reproductive age & also specifically women who have gone through menopause</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;" title="Edited"></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" title="Edited">Smoking & excessive alcohol intake </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;" title="Edited"></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" title="Edited">Obesity</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;" title="Edited"></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" title="Edited">Taking fertility drugs (such as Clomid)</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;" title="Edited"></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" title="Edited">Hormone replacement therapy</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;" title="Edited"></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" title="Edited">Family or personal history of ovarian, breast, or colorectal cancer (having the BRCA gene can increase the risk) and so on <img alt="🤔" class="CToWUd" data-goomoji="1f914" goomoji="1f914" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/e/1f914" style="background: transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(153, 0, 0); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; margin: 0px 0.2ex; max-height: 24px; padding: 8px; vertical-align: middle;" /></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;" title="Edited"></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" title="Edited">🔺Symptoms of an ovarian cyst include Pain or bloating in the abdomen.</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;" title="Edited"></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" title="Edited">Difficulty urinating, or frequent need to urinate.</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;" title="Edited">Dull ache in the lower back.</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;" title="Edited"></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" title="Edited">Pain during sexual intercourse.</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;" title="Edited"></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" title="Edited">Painful menstruation, abnormal bleeding.</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;" title="Edited"></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" title="Edited">Weight gain , Nausea or vomiting ,</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;" title="Edited"></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" title="Edited">Loss of appetite, feeling full quickly.painful bowel movements, and pain during sex! .</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;" title="Edited"></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" title="Edited">In rare cases, an ovarian cyst can cause serious problems, so it’s best to have it checked by your doctor. </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;" title="Edited"></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" title="Edited">Hey! Check yourself today & live healthy 🤝</span></div>

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'Is this the change we promised Nigerians? - Ben Murray-Bruce expresses his heart

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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Two weeks ago, the Chairman of the Senate Committee of the Federal Capital Territory, Senator Dino Melaye, made a startling revelation that shook me and many right thinking Nigerians to our foundation. At a time Nigeria is going through a daunting economic recession, it was revealed that we plan on spending the sum of N250 million to build a gatehouse for the Vice President of Nigeria. </span><br /><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="more"></a></blockquote>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Whenever I think of the budgetary provision of N250 million to build a gatehouse for the vice president, I am moved by the inequities and inequalities of Nigeria.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none medium; padding: 0px;">There is no urgency or importance in building a new gatehouse for the vice president’s already over priced house, but if even we need to build such a house can we not build it with less than 10% of the cost?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none medium; padding: 0px;">At the black market rate (which is the most commonly used rate in Nigeria) N250 million is equivalent to $500,000. At the official rate, it is worth almost a million dollars. With that type of cash you can buy a mansion in Washington DC and a well developed property in London. Isn’t it a pity that all it can buy the Nigerian government is a gatehouse?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none medium; padding: 0px;">Now we want to borrow $30 billion from other nations and foreign financial institutions. But why should any other nations or foreign financial institutions lend us money when we have not shown prudence in managing the little that we have?</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none medium; padding: 0px;">I can assure you that I did my research and not one of the ten richest nations in the world is spending the equivalent of 250 million for something as inconsequential to the well being of a nation as a vice president’s gatehouse.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none medium; padding: 0px;">Why should America, Britain or China lend Nigeria any money when the gate man of our Vice President is living in a house that only a millionaire in their own country can afford?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none medium; padding: 0px;">Should they lend us $30 billion so we can build more luxurious and befitting gatehouses for our other public officials?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none medium; padding: 0px;">Is this the change we promised Nigerians?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none medium; padding: 0px;">With a minimum wage of N18,000 the N250 million to be spent on the Vice President’s gatehouse can pay the salaries of 13,888 Nigerians!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none medium; padding: 0px;">How many staff are being owed salary by the federal government? How many staff are being owed salary by state governments? How many pensioners are dying while waiting to collect pension that never comes?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none medium; padding: 0px;">How many internally displaced persons are dying of hunger while we budget N250 million for a gatehouse? N250 million can feed one million people for a day and 200,000 people for a week.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none medium; padding: 0px;">Recently, I was driving on a federal road in the South-east and a portion of that road was so damaged that it was a death trap. I wonder how many people have been killed on that road. Certainly, from my estimation as an entrepreneur who has built several malls and other real estate projects across Nigeria, N250 million will be sufficient to repair that portion of the road, but no! We have to build a gatehouse for a VIP!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none medium; padding: 0px;">Nigeria has some of the worst maternal and infant maternity rates in the whole world. 10% of all the women who die in childbirth are Nigerian women according to the UN. Meanwhile Nigeria only has 2% of the world’s population.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none medium; padding: 0px;">The main challenge we have in reducing maternal mortality is funding and we are approaching international aid organisations to help us raise funds to help reduce death amongst our pregnant women. Can you imagine how unserious we look to them when they read that we are spending N250 million on a gatehouse while begging them for money?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none medium; padding: 0px;">We really must make better use of our scarce resources at this time. We cannot expect others to lend to us from their own hard earned resources when we have demonstrated a propensity to squander the little we have.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none medium; padding: 0px;">What we have demonstrated in Nigeria, especially within the last two years, is a strong propensity to major on the minor and minor on the major.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none medium; padding: 0px;">With the way we in government treat Nigerians, I sometimes suspect that our people will prefer to go to hell if our leaders are found in heaven!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none medium; padding: 0px;">And another thing, for a nation that wants to come out of recession, Nigeria is not spending enough on education.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none medium; padding: 0px;">The proposed allocation for education is N50 billion, which is only a third of the proposed allocation for defence.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none medium; padding: 0px;">There is a reason why LEARN and EARN rhyme. If a nation wants to earn more she must first learn more. This budget proposal does not take that into account.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none medium; padding: 0px;">We are still working with an obsolete Industrial Age thought process that operates under the wrong notion that nations become rich because of what they have under their soil.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none medium; padding: 0px;">I have got news for the executive: today’s nations can only grow rich by what is between the ears of its citizens! We are living in the knowledge worker era.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none medium; padding: 0px;">Apple, Google, facebook and yahoo are now more valuable than Exxon-Mobil, Shell BP, Chevron and AGIP. The world is changing and we must change with it.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none medium; padding: 0px;">I have been studying Anambra State for a while. This used to be one of the most educationally disadvantaged states in the South. But since the era of former Governor Peter Obi till today, the state made education its priority and allocated the bulk of its budget to education and the more Anambra budgeted for education the more their economy flourished.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none medium; padding: 0px;">They do not borrow. They did not participate in the federal government’s bailout to states. They have one of, if not the best subnational economies in Nigeria. Nigeria as a whole is importing food, Anambra as a whole is exporting food.</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none medium; padding: 0px;">And their secret is education. They have consistently featured as number one in WAEC and NECO results.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none medium; padding: 0px;">If we want Nigeria to earn more money, that cannot be achieved by selling more oil. It can only be achieved by learning more to earn more.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none medium; padding: 0px;">As a nation, we are spending N49 billion maintaining about a 100 embassies and consulates. What do we get in return? That expense is a drain and not an investment.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none medium; padding: 0px;">We can spend only a fraction of that amount. Do we need a consular in every nation to issue visas? Several nations that are richer than Nigeria are doing away with consulars in preference for entry point visas.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none medium; padding: 0px;">Turkey has a policy where you pay $40 and you get your visa online. It is reducing their recurrent expenditure because now they maintain only a skeletal staff in their embassies and it is increasing their revenue because without the bottleneck and hassle of getting visas through the traditional means, people are flocking to countries like Turkey, like the UAE and other countries that have online visa policies.</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none medium; padding: 0px;">Instead of N49 billion, we can spend only 10% of that and use the balance N45 billion to build infrastructure and educate our people. In fact, we can be like the UAE and Turkey that can afford to use the millions they get from online visas to run their embassies.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none medium; padding: 0px;">Two months ago, the presidency released a statement announcing that they have recently weeded out 50,000 ghost workers from the pay roll of the federal government.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none medium; padding: 0px;">If that is true, then why isn’t that being reflected in the budget for recurrent expenditure? If you have weeded 50,000 ghost workers from the system then there must be a massive drop in our recurrent expenditure. Something is not adding up.</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none medium; padding: 0px;">Recurrent expenditure in the 2017 budget is N2.98 trillion. Let us just call it N3 trillion. Recurrent expenditure in the 2016 budget was N2.6 trillion.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none medium; padding: 0px;">Are we sure that the executive did not make a mistake and instead of weeding 50,000 ghost workers from the system it actually added 50,000 ghost workers because the recurrent expenditure has increased.</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none medium; padding: 0px;">Has minimum wage increased? No? There are too many ambiguities that need to be cleared up.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none medium; padding: 0px;">And on housing, certainly we can do much more than what the 2017 budget proposes to do.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none medium; padding: 0px;">The American psychologist, Abraham Maslow, theorised that our most basic human need is for shelter. Let us relate this to Nigeria.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none medium; padding: 0px;">Nigeria has a 17 million housing deficit. If Abraham Maslow is correct, it stands to reason that lack of shelter, among others, is one of the single largest drivers of corruption in Nigeria today.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none medium; padding: 0px;">Civil servants and politicians steal largely because they have no hope of ever owning a home and they do not want to be destitute after their retirement. This is why the EFCC seizes a lot of houses from corrupt people.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none medium; padding: 0px;">If home ownership represents man’s basic need, then no government has succeeded in meeting this need. After all, what is the essence coming to power if the most basic need of the electorate cannot be addressed?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none medium; padding: 0px;">Nigeria needs to solve this challenge because if we do, we will go a long way to improving the human development index of Nigeria and reducing the misery level as well igniting the type of economic activity that will ease our current recession while also fighting corruption.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none medium; padding: 0px;">There is no way government can build 17 million houses. At best, the budget of the ministry of housing can build a couple hundred thousand houses annually. If we are to plug this deficit, we have to rely on the private sector just like developed nations.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none medium; padding: 0px;">We have over N6 trillion of our pension funds sitting in financial institutions. Let us deploy these funds into productive sectors of our economy.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none medium; padding: 0px;">The naira gets devalued and the return from investing pension assets in government treasury bills and bank deposits is less than the rate of inflation. Real estate is one of the few investments that outstrips inflation. The safest investment anywhere in the world is real estate.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none medium; padding: 0px;">Why don’t we use these funds to fund our real estate development and end our housing deficit?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none medium; padding: 0px;">We can and we should use the pension funds to stimulate the housing market while the government subsidizes the mortgage rate for low income earners so that they can borrow at single digit interest rates.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none medium; padding: 0px;">Promoting home ownership will lower corruption and what else could be a safer investment for our pension funds? After all, no one can run away with a house. They can run away with a car or with cash, or with shares, but a house is immovable and best of all it largely continues to appreciate in value. </span><span style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none medium; padding: 0px;">It only makes Commonsense to use pension funds in this way.</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none medium; padding: 0px;">And I do not even see why government has to sell land to property developers and private housing estate builders in the first place. In my opinion, if you want to build houses for the masses, government should give you land free of charge!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none medium; padding: 0px;">Of what use is the land when it has no property or farm on it? At least if you allow people build on it government can charge them property taxes.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none medium; padding: 0px;">Our president and governors live in houses paid for by tax payers. It is time we return the favour to the taxpayers and the masses. It is time we begin running Nigeria in a businesslike manner and provide our people the dividends of democracy. It is time we deliver on the promised change.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none medium; padding: 0px;">• <b style="margin: 0px; outline: none medium; padding: 0px;">Ben Murray-Bruce is the Founder of Silverbird Entertainment Group and the Senator representing Bayelsa East in the National Assembly</b></span></span></span></div>
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