It's PluxTIME: 2017-08-13

Large Asteroid to Safely Pass Earth on Sept. 1

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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">According to NASA report, <span style="background-color: white;">Asteroid Florence, a large near-Earth asteroid, will pass safely by Earth on Sept. 1, 2017, at a distance of about 4.4 million miles, (7.0 million kilometers, or about 18 Earth-Moon distances). Florence is among the largest near-Earth asteroids that are several miles in size; measurements from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and NEOWISE mission indicate it’s about 2.7 miles (4.4 kilometers) in size.  </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“While many known asteroids have passed by closer to Earth than Florence will on September 1, all of those were estimated to be smaller,” said Paul Chodas, manager of NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. “Florence is the largest asteroid to pass by our planet this close since the NASA program to detect and track near-Earth asteroids began.”</span></div>
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Large Asteroid to Safely Pass Earth on Sept. 1

According to NASA report, Asteroid Florence, a large near-Earth asteroid, will pass safely by Earth on Sept. 1, 2017, at a distance of about 4.4 million miles, (7.0 million kilometers, or about 18 Ea…

Kano takes steps to battle drug abuse

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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img alt="Abdullahi Ganduje, Kano State Governor" src="http://18694-presscdn.pagely.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Abdullahi-Ganduje-2.jpg" /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bogged by the increasing wave of drug abuse among youths, Kano State Government has concluded plans to establish drugs marshals to curb the menace.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mr. Muhuyi Rimingado, the Executive Chairman, Kano State Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission said when the commandant of National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency‎, Mr. Hamza Umar paid him a courtesy visit in his office.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">‎Rimingado said that the establishment of the marshals became necessary due to prevalence of substance abuse particularly among youths in the state.‎</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">‎He said that the state government would not tolerate any form of illegal drug dealing, drug abuse or those patronising them, in order to check drug related crimes in the state.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">According to him, the government is worried over the influx of illegal drug dealers and abuses among youths.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Government will not fold its arms to allow any unscrupulous elements to destroy the future of the youths,’’ he said.‎</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He said that the ‎marshals under his chairmanship would work directly with NDLEA.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">‎The chairman said that 30 civil servants would be selected from each of the 44 local government areas of the state.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He added that the members would be trained by NLDLEA without endangering their lives.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Rimingado added that the commission had acquired modern communication gadgets that would help to trace the hideouts of the peddlers without harming the personnel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Earlier, the commandant of N‎DLEA, Malam Hamza Umar, said that the activities of the illegal drug dealers were responsible for the increase in the use of hard and illicit drugs among youths.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He said that the agency would liaise with the State Government to train the personnel. ‎</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Umar commended the commission for its efforts in solving public complaints and also giving the agency tip-off on peddlers hideouts in the state. </span></div>
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Kano takes steps to battle drug abuse

Bogged by the increasing wave of drug abuse among youths, Kano State Government has concluded plans to establish drugs marshals to curb the menace. Mr. Muhuyi Rimingado, the Executive Chairman, Kano …

Lebanese army, Hezbollah attack ISIS enclave

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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Lebanese army launched an offensive against an Islamic State enclave on the northeast border with Syria, a Lebanese security source said on Saturday, as Hezbollah and the Syrian army announced an assault from the Syrian side of the border.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Lebanese army was targeting Islamic State positions near the town of Ras Baalbek with rockets, artillery and helicopters, the source said. The area is the last part of the Lebanese-Syrian frontier under insurgent control. “We started advancing at 5 a.m. (0200 GMT),” the Lebanese source said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The operation by the Syrian army and Hezbollah, an Iran-backed Lebanese group, was targeting Islamic State militants in the western Qalamoun region of Syria, the Hezbollah-run al-Manar television station reported, an area across the frontier from Ras Baalbek.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Last month, Hezbollah forced Nusra Front militants and Syrian rebels to leave nearby border strongholds in a joint operation with the Syrian army.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Lebanese army, a major recipient of U.S. military aid, did not take part in the July operation, but it has been gearing up to assault the Islamic State pocket in the same mountainous region. A military source said around 500 IS fighters were holed up in the enclave.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lebanese President Michel Aoun was following the army operation, called “Jroud Dawn”. “Jroud” refers to the barren, mountainous border area between Lebanon and Syria.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lebanese security sources have previously said the army intends to fight Islamic State in Lebanese territory on its own, in response to suggestions Hezbollah or the Syrian army may help it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">*Reuters</span></div>
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Lebanese army, Hezbollah attack ISIS enclave

The Lebanese army launched an offensive against an Islamic State enclave on the northeast border with Syria, a Lebanese security source said on Saturday, as Hezbollah and the Syrian army announced an…

Dangote hopes to fire Arsene Wenger after taking over Arsenal

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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, is unrelenting in his desire to to take over Arsenal Football Club of England.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But he stated clearly that long serving coach, Arsene Wenger is out of the planned swoop, which may be sometime in 2019.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dangote, valued at £10billion by Forbes earlier this year, added that he would fire Arsenal’s Manager, Arsene Wenger if his takeover bid is successful.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dangote has always expressed his desire to take over at the Emirates for several years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">An Arsenal fan since the mid-1980s, he had been in talks with then-shareholder Lady Nina Bracewell-Smith about a deal seven years ago but saw a deal fall apart.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In an interview with Bloomberg, the billionaire once more affirmed his desire to invest in the north London side once he completes a major oil refinery project in the Nigerian capital of Lagos.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“The first thing I would change is the coach,” Dangote said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“He has done a good job, but someone else should also try his luck.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The majority shareholder Stan Kroenke, in May, rejected a £1billion takeover bid from Alisher Usmanov, who owns a 30 per cent stake in the club, insisting that he was a committed, long-term investor in the club.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dangote, however, believes that he could tempt Kroenke and Usmanov into selling up the club which is valued at £2bn.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“If they get the right offer, I’m sure they would walk away,” he said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Someone will give them an offer that will make them seriously consider walking away.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“And when we finish the refinery, I think we will be in a position to do that.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">*Culled from The Will.</span></div>
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Dangote hopes to fire Arsene Wenger after taking over Arsenal

Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, is unrelenting in his desire to to take over Arsenal Football Club of England. But he stated clearly that long serving coach, Arsene Wenger is out of the planned …

Al-Shabaab beheads three Kenyans

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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Suspected Somali Islamist militant group, Al-Shabaab, beheaded three people and torched several houses in the latest overnight attacks in Kenya’s coastal region of Lamu.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Kenyan Coast Regional Police Commander Larry Kieng confirmed the attack at Maleli on Friday, saying security officers are pursuing the attackers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“We have launched investigation into the attack at Maleli village by suspected Al-Shabaab militants, who also torched several houses,” Kieng told Xinhua by telephone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Several areas in northeastern Kenya that border Somalia have been the target of Al-Shabaab terrorists who have killed innocent citizens since Kenyan soldiers entered Somalia in 2011 to secure the two countries’ shared border.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">NAN reports that on July 9, suspected al-shabaab fighters beheaded nine men in an overnight assault on a village in the Kenyan coastal district of Lamu, days after the armed group killed three police officers in an attack on a nearby village.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A witness, who asked not to be named, confirmed the death toll to Reuters news agency.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“They raided Jima and Pandanguo villages and killed nine men. They were slaughtered like chickens, using knives,” said the witness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Kenya’s Interior Ministry announced that curfew was imposed in three districts following the attack.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The ministry said in a tweet that the 12-hour curfew, from 6:30pm (1530 GMT), affects parts of Lamu, Garissa and Tana River and is to be in place for the next three months. </span></div>
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Al-Shabaab beheads three Kenyans

Suspected Somali Islamist militant group, Al-Shabaab, beheaded three people and torched several houses in the latest overnight attacks in Kenya’s coastal region of Lamu. Kenyan Coast Regional Police …

Spanish police kill five terror suspects

Spanish police kill five terror suspects

Spanish police have killed five terror suspects after confronting them early on Friday in a town south of Barcelona, where on Thursday a suspected Islamist militant had driven a van into crowds, kill…

S/Africa grants Grace Mugabe immunity

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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">South Africa has granted diplomatic immunity to Zimbabwe’s first lady, Grace Mugabe, allowing her to return to Harare and avoid prosecution for the alleged assault of a 20-year-old model, Reuters has reported quoting a security source.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">News about the immunity came as South African police put border posts on “red alert” to prevent her fleeing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The police had indicated she would receive no special treatment in the case involving Gabriella Engels, who says Mugabe whipped her with an electric extension cable.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A security source, however, said immunity had been granted.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The source also said Grace Mugabe failed to turn up at a Johannesburg court hearing on Tuesday because of concerns she could be attacked.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The alleged assault — Engels said it occurred on Sunday evening as she waited with two friends in a luxury Johannesburg hotel suite to meet one of Mugabe’s adult sons — is a diplomatic nightmare for South Africa.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The country has a difficult relationship with its northern neighbour. It is home to an estimated three million Zimbabwean exiles who regard President Robert Mugabe as a dictator who has ruined what was once one of Africa’s most promising democracies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Although he is also widely reviled in the West, Mugabe is seen by many Africans as the continent’s elder statesman and a hero of its anti-colonial struggles.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A senior government source said on Friday there was “no way” Grace Mugabe, 52, would be arrested because of the diplomatic fallout that would ensue from Zimbabwe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Indeed, the 93-year old president himself arrived two days early in Pretoria for a regional southern African summit this week to help resolve his wife’s legal problems.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The government source accepted the view widely held by legal experts that Grace Mugabe was not entitled to immunity because she was in South Africa for medical treatment, and said the government was expecting her immunity to be challenged in court.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">However, the source said Pretoria justified its decision because of other countries in southern Africa that supported South Africa’s ruling ANC in the long struggle against apartheid would also see Grace Mugabe’s prosecution as a betrayal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“There would obviously be implications for our relations with Zimbabwe. Sadly the other countries in the region are watching us and how we are going to act,” the source said, asking not to be named.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“What is likely to happen is that she will be allowed to go back home, and then we announce that we’ve granted diplomatic immunity and wait for somebody to challenge us.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">South Africa’s foreign ministry spokesman declined to comment when contacted by Reuters.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Engels’ mother Debbie, who released photographs of her daughter with gashes to her head requiring 14 stitches, said it would be “very sad” if Grace Mugabe was allowed to leave.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">However, her daughter’s legal team — which includes Gerrie Nel, the prosecutor who secured a murder conviction against Olympic and Paralympic track star Oscar Pistorius — would counter such a move, she said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Gerrie Nel and the team have contingency plans,” she told Reuters, without elaborating. “They will run with it.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Afriforum, an Afrikaans rights group that Nel joined in January after quitting as a state prosecutor, said it would be illegal for Pretoria to give Mugabe immunity and branded the plans a “disgrace”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“The government has two responsibilities: one, to protect its own citizens and two, to act according to the law. And the granting of diplomatic immunity would transgress the law,” chief executive Kallie Kriel said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Harare has made no official comment on the saga and requests for comment from Zimbabwean government officials have gone unanswered. The South African government has restricted all official comment to the police ministry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Engels incident is not the first time Grace Mugabe — who is lauded in official Zimbabwean media as “Mother of the Nation” – has been in legal hot water.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In 2009, a newspaper photographer in Hong Kong said Grace and her bodyguard had assaulted him. Police said the incident was reported but no charges were brought.</span></div>
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S/Africa grants Grace Mugabe immunity

South Africa has granted diplomatic immunity to Zimbabwe’s first lady, Grace Mugabe, allowing her to return to Harare and avoid prosecution for the alleged assault of a 20-year-old model, Reuters has…

Donald Trump fires his chief strategist

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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">U.S. President Donald Trump has fired his chief strategist, Stephen Bannon in the latest high-level White House shake-up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bannon. a force behind some of Trump’s most contentious policies, including a travel ban on people from several Muslim-majority nations, was a powerful and controversial figure known for far-right political views.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On July 28, Trump replaced his beleaguered White House chief of staff, Reince Priebus, installing retired General John Kelly in his place in a major shake-up of his top team.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Trump then ousted White House communications chief Anthony Scaramucci on July 31 over an obscene tirade just 10 days after the president named him to the post.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Scaramucci’s hiring had prompted Sean Spicer, a Priebus ally, to abruptly resign as press secretary.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Trump, seven months into his term in office, has become increasingly isolated over his comments following white supremacist violence in the Virginia college town of Charlottesville last Saturday.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As Trump came under fire from prominent fellow Republicans, business leaders and U.S. allies abroad, he faced mounting calls for Bannon’s ouster.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“White House Chief of Staff John Kelly and Steve Bannon have mutually agreed today would be Steve’s last day,” White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said in a statement on Friday. “We are grateful for his service and wish him the best.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A champion of economic nationalism and a political provocateur, Bannon, 63, is a former U.S. Navy officer, Goldman Sachs investment banker and Hollywood movie producer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Critics have accused Bannon of harbouring anti-Semitic and white nationalist sentiments. Democrats welcomed Bannon’s departure.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“There is one less white supremacist in the White House, but that doesn’t change the man sitting behind the Resolute desk,” Democratic National Committee spokesman Michael Tyler said in a statement, referring to Trump’s Oval Office desk.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Donald Trump has spent decades fueling hate in communities, including his recent attempts to divide our country and give a voice to white supremacists.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bannon had been in a precarious position before but Trump opted to keep him, in part because his chief strategist played a major role in his 2016 election victory and was backed by many of the president’s most loyal rank-and-file supporters.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The decision to fire Bannon could undermine Trump’s support among far-right voters but might ease tensions within the White House and with party leaders.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Republicans control the White House and both chambers of Congress but have been unable to pass major legislative goals including a healthcare legislation overhaul because of fierce intra-party divisions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Trump fired Bannon from the White House post one year and one day after he hired the firebrand to head his presidential campaign.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Trump ran into trouble in recent days after saying anti-racist demonstrators in Charlottesville were as responsible for the violence as the neo-Nazis and white supremacists who instigated the protests.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Those remarks sparked rebukes from fellow Republicans, top corporate executives and some close allies even as some supporters, including Vice President Mike Pence, stood by Trump.</span></div>
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Donald Trump fires his chief strategist

U.S. President Donald Trump has fired his chief strategist, Stephen Bannon in the latest high-level White House shake-up. Bannon. a force behind some of Trump’s most contentious policies, including a…

Real Madrid: Asensio on PSG links; "No thanks, I'm at a better club"

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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSoErUJW0S1NLP14AuByszFd3jujx4wyxTB5XESDV9wAMX61JvG4Z7P-1sv4C7ItDcmVRmbp2Wssv8zbQ8sdA4_aszwnR8F1200roMjCY7XJbBD7V4GXnCEA6LrpRJS25GGT7WqU4iLkY/s1600/asensio.real.madrid.esulta.2016.2017.356x237.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSoErUJW0S1NLP14AuByszFd3jujx4wyxTB5XESDV9wAMX61JvG4Z7P-1sv4C7ItDcmVRmbp2Wssv8zbQ8sdA4_aszwnR8F1200roMjCY7XJbBD7V4GXnCEA6LrpRJS25GGT7WqU4iLkY/s320/asensio.real.madrid.esulta.2016.2017.356x237.jpg" width="320" /></a><b><i><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">R</span><span style="color: #555555; font-size: 15.6px;">eal Madrid’s attacking midfielder Marco Asensio is the talk of the Spanish capital at the moment. The 21-year-old scored another sublime goal in the second-leg of their Super Cup win over Barcelona on Wednesday and is now set to become a regular starter in Zinedine Zidane’s side this season.</span></i></b><br /><span style="color: #555555; font-size: 15.6px;"> </span></div>
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With some of Europe’s biggest clubs chasing down his signature as rumours of a split with the European champions gathered pace, the player was asked by <em>ABC (via Calciomercato.com) </em>about latest reports linking him with a move to Paris Saint-Germain.</div>
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Asensio quashed any reports however, explaining that; “No thank-you. I’m at a better club and I want to stay here. It’s great that Real have put their confidence in me and I want to repay their trust”.<br /> </div>
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The youngster could be in the starting XI to face Deportivo La Coruna this weekend as the Liga champions begin the defence of their crown at the Riazor Stadium.</div>

Real Madrid: Asensio on PSG links; "No thanks, I'm at a better club"

Real Madrid’s attacking midfielder Marco Asensio is the talk of the Spanish capital at the moment. The 21-year-old scored another sublime goal in the second-leg of their Super Cup win over Barcelona …

Man Utd, Liverpool, Chelsea and Arsenal enquire on PSG star

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The arrival of Neymar for a world record-breaking fee of £200m from Barcelona has caused unrest among the PSG attackers, with German Draxler being one of them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The Daily Express via the Gambling Times now claim that the four clubs have been made known of the former Wolfsburg players’ availability and so are beginning discussions with PSG representatives.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The quad are all in looking for another attacker to bolster their options in front of goal, with Liverpool in need of a replacement for Philippe Coutinho, should he move to Barcelona, Manchester United looking for alternatives to Gareth Bale and Ivan Perisic, Arsenal seeking for another Thomas Lemar, and Chelsea searching for some added insurance, with their forward Diego Costa in exile in Brazil and seeming destined for a move to Atletico Madrid.  <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">PSG are telling the clubs that he could be available should the price be right, despite earlier comments from the player’s agent.</span></div>

Man Utd, Liverpool, Chelsea and Arsenal enquire on PSG star

Premier League giants Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester United and Liverpool have made enquires to Paris Saint-Germain over signing one of their star players Julian Draxler. The arrival of Neymar for a wo…

U.S. to train NSCDC personnel

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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The
 California National Guard, U.S., has offered to train personnel of the 
Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in peace, security and 
emergency response in line with international best practices.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The
 Adjutant General of the California National Guard, Maj.-Gen. David 
Baldwin, disclosed this when he paid a courtesy visit to the 
Commandant-General of the NSCDC, Abdullahi Muhammadu.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The
 corps spokesperson, Emmanuel Okeh, was quoted in a statement on 
Thursday in Abuja as saying that the training would be encompassing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Okeh
 quoted Baldwin as ‎assuring the NSCDC of priority attention especially 
to the areas of Disaster Management, Peace and Conflict Resolution, 
Security, Aviation, Fire prevention, Medical, Training and re-training 
of officers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">He
 stressed that capacity building was a very critical area of manpower 
development and the technological enhancement of security agencies in 
combating insecurity in the society.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">‎He
 also proposed that some officers of the Corps could be trained in the 
U.S in the afore-mentioned areas to become specialists in them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Commandant-General ‎briefed the visitor on the history and core mandate of the Corps.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">He
 said th‎at the NSCDC officials needed more capacity building and 
training to tackle issues such as pipeline vandalism, illegal mining and
 protection of lives and property.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The
 California National Guard officials had earlier visited the Ministry of
 Interior and some services under the ministry to strengthen 
collaboration.</span></div>
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U.S. to train NSCDC personnel

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Buhari hands over Marina Lodge to Lagos

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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">President
 Muhammadu Buhari has fulfilled his promise to hand over the historic 
Presidential Lodge in Marina, Lagos to the state government. The promise
 was made last year, before the President left for the country for 
medical vacation in the United Kingdom.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The
 formal handing over ceremony was done in Lagos today, with Jalal Arabi,
 the permanent secretary in State House, Abuja handing over the keys to 
the Secretary to the State Government, Tunji Bello.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In
 a brief but impressive ceremony held at the main conference room of the
 Lodge, also known as State House, Marina, the Federal and Lagos State 
Government signed a Memorandum of Understanding formally transferring 
ownership of the edifice to the State Government.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Speaking
 at the ceremony, Secretary to the State Government, Mr. Tunji Bello who
 led the State officials including members of the State Executive 
Council, promised that the State Government would not compromise its 
structural integrity while preserving the architectural finesse and 
beauty.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Bello said the administration of Governor Akinwunmi Ambode would ensure the edifice becomes a tourist destination.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">He
 stressed that the edifice will become one which residents of Lagos and 
Nigerians in general would not only be proud of but which compares to 
similar ones in distant locations, assuring Lagosians that the State 
will put the edifice to the best and most judicious use.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">He
 added that the State Government would ensure that it is perfectly 
transformed without compromising its structural integrity and preserving
 its architectural finesse and beauty.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“The
 successful handover of the structure represents one of the landmarks of
 the City of Lagos and an eloquent testimony to the new dawn of politics
 of tolerance and inclusiveness which the All Progressives Congress 
(APC) has brought to the Nigerian landscape”, Bello said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The
 SSG, on behalf of the State Governor, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode, the 
Government and people of the State, expressed deepest appreciation to 
President Muhammadu Buhari for his statesman-like gesture in the 
approval of the release of the edifice to the Lagos State Government.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">He
 also applauded the Acting President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo for 
ensuring that the handover process became realizable and the Minister of
 Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN) for his untiring 
assistance to ensure the success of the transfer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“The
 list of appreciation will be incomplete without mentioning the 
Permanent Secretary in the State House, Abuja, Mr Jalal Arabi with whom I
 co-chaired the committee that midwifed the handover process for the 
painstaking job. Same goes for all the directors and top staffers in the
 Presidency with whom officials of the State Government worked. Mr Arabi
 and his team have been very supportive, forthcoming and painstaking in 
the last couple of months since we commenced this exercise by ensuring 
that nothing is left out. We are indeed very grateful to you and your 
team”, he said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Earlier,
 the Permanent Secretary, State House, Abuja, Mr. Jalal Arabi who 
described the occasion as a solemn one because of the emotional 
attachment that most of the staff have towards the complex, said they 
are happy it was a smooth transition process.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">He
 said the several months of perfecting the transfer of the ownership was
 a family discussion which was devoid of any bitter feelings expressing 
delight that he and his team carried out the directives of Mr. President
 concerning the handover of the edifice and ensuring that all the 
equipments and properties were not removed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">He
 described President Muhammadu Buhari as a statesman who believes that 
his word should always be his bond, hence his insistence that his 
promise to the State Government must be kept.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The
 event featured a ceremonial handover of the keys to the building and 
the symbolic takeover by the State Government officials led by the SSG.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Also
 part of the Lagos State team are the Commissioners for Special Duties 
and Intergovernmental Relations, Mr Seye Oladejo; Housing, Prince 
Gbolahan Lawal; Women Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Hon Lola Akande; 
Special Adviser on Tourism and Culture, Hon Adebimpe Akinsola; Special 
Adviser on Urban Development, Mrs Yewande Onabule and Permanent 
Secretary, Ministry of Works, Engineer Olujimi Hotonu.</span></div>
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Buhari hands over Marina Lodge to Lagos

President Muhammadu Buhari has fulfilled his promise to hand over the historic Presidential Lodge in Marina, Lagos to the state government. The promise was made last year, before the President l…

Buhari doing well, says Dogara

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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The
 Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr Yakubu Dogara, said there 
is tremendous improvement in the health of President Muhammadu Buhari.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A
 statement signed by the speaker’s Special Adviser on Media and Public 
Affairs, Mr Turaki Hassan, quoted Dogara’s Twitter handle @Yakubdogara 
as saying that Buhari was doing well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It
 added that the speaker, who visited the President with the President of
 the Senate, Dr Bukola Saraki at the Abuja House in London, also urged 
Nigerians to continue to pray for the safe return of the President.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“Today we visited His Excellency, President Muhammadu Buhari. I am glad that he is doing well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“His
 health has improved tremendously. I urge all Nigerians to continue to 
pray and offer thanks to God for answered prayers and for the safe 
return of Mr President.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The visit by Dogara and Saraki was the latest by prominent Nigerians.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">President
 Buhari on Saturday at the Abuja House in London had received members of
 his media team, where he reassured them that there was tremendous 
improvement in his health.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The
 presidential media team was led by Alhaji Lai Mohammed, Minister of 
Information and Culture, accompanied by Mr Femi Adesina, Special Adviser
 on Media and Publicity and Malam Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant 
on Media and Publicity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Other
 members of the team on the trip included Lauretta Onochie, Personal 
Assistant on Digital/Online Media and Mrs Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Senior 
Special Assistant on Diaspora Matters.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Acting-President Yemi Osinbajo led the stream of visitors.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">He was followed by state governors and the leadership of All Progressives Congress (APC)..</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">During the visits, President Buhari sent appreciation to all Nigerians, expressing hope that he would return home soon</span></div>
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Buhari doing well, says Dogara

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr Yakubu Dogara, said there is tremendous improvement in the health of President Muhammadu Buhari. A statement signed by the speaker’s Special Advis…

Case closed: Dammy Krane off the hook

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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Singer
 Oyindamola Emmanuel Johnson-Hunga popularly known as Dammy Krane is off
 the hook, as a court in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States, has 
struck out a charge of credit card forgery, armed conspiracy and grand 
theft filed against him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Dammy Krane was arrested in June.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">He was alleged to have booked a private jet service with stolen credit card details.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Judge De La O Miguel who heard the case struck out the charge and ‘closed’ it. The singer was represented by Erik Courtney.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Krane
 thanked his supporters on Twitter: “Sometimes life puts you through 
trials and tribulations, not to bring you down but to make you stronger.
 It will also show you who is truly with you, who really cares.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“Case closed. I’m a free man. Let’s get back to the music. One love. Back in the studio! New music on the way,” he tweeted.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #181818;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Reports
 from Florida last June had claimed that seven fake credit cards were 
found in the pockets of Dammy Krane on 1 June when he was arrested at 
Opa-locka Executive Airport in Miami Dade, Florida.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A
 report in New Miami Times said the police slammed a nine count felony 
charge at Miami Dade’s criminal court for credit card forgery and grand 
theft against the 23 year-old pop artist.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Dammy
 Krane’s trouble began after he allegedly used a bogus card to book a 
private jet flight to Washington, D.C., police said. When the police 
searched him, they found seven false credit cards in his wallet, 
according to the police report, details of which Miami New Times 
published today.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Agents
 from the mobile-phone booking app TapJets had called police, when they 
found that the first card Dammy Krane tendered was bogus. The jet 
company told Miami-Dade Police that Krane and a partner, Chukwuebuka 
Ilochonwu, had booked a $10,943 trip on a jet from Opa-locka to 
Washington, D.C.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Two
 MDPD officers staked out the jet runway until Krane and Ilochonwu 
showed up. Police searched the pair and found seven cards in Krane’s 
pants pocket. When authorities checked the cards later, all seven had 
numbers on the face that didn’t match the numbers on the security strip 
on the back.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">MDPD
 said Krane used one of those cards to book his flight and then gave 
TapJet two other fake cards when he was asked for backup cards for the 
travel.</span></div>
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Case closed: Dammy Krane off the hook

Singer Oyindamola Emmanuel Johnson-Hunga popularly known as Dammy Krane is off the hook, as a court in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States, has struck out a charge of credit card forgery, …

No mysterious disease in Kwara

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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Kwara
 state government has denied recording any mysterious disease that has 
killed many people but admitted recording a scourge of yellow fever, 
diarrhoea and malaria.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Dr
 Atolagbe Alege, the Commissioner for Health in Kwara, on Thursday 
reacted to a report of the outbreak of Oro-Ago in Ifelodun Local 
Government Area of the state.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The
 strange disease was reported to be ravaging the Fulani community in the
 town but the Commissioner dismissed the report, saying there was no 
such disease in the state.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“The
 ministry sees it as a rumour because we deployed a response team 
comprising of an epidemiologist, directors of public health and the 
disease surveillance response team,” he said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">He
 said experts at the ministry in company with a team from the World 
Health Organisation visited Oro-Ago where they met with elders and 
community leaders.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Alege said the team found no such mysterious disease affecting the Fulani population in the area.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The
 commissioner also said the response team had taken samples from some 
sick people at Abanisi and ECWA hospitals in Oro- Ago, adding that there
 was no confirmed mortality.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">He, however, confirmed yellow fever, diarrhea and malaria in the community.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“The
 governor has directed the general hospitals across the state to be on 
standby in case of any unforeseen occurrence,” he said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Alege
 further disclosed that the result of the sample earlier taken from the 
community was expected to arrive in Ilorin on Thursday was delayed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">He
 said that the government would communicate the result as soon as 
examination was concluded on it, adding that there was no need for 
panic.</span></div>
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No mysterious disease in Kwara

Kwara state government has denied recording any mysterious disease that has killed many people but admitted recording a scourge of yellow fever, diarrhoea and malaria. Dr Atolagbe Alege, the Co…

ISIS claims Barcelona killings

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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The
 Islamic state has claimed responsibility for the killing of 13 persons,
 when a van ploughed through a crowd in a busy Barcelona tourist 
district today. About 100 people were injured in the incident.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ISIS
 made the claim via Amaq News Agency, as two men were arrested, just as 
Catalan Police also confirmed the attack as terrorism.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">One
 of those arrested is thought to include the driver of the van used in 
the attack, while Spanish media have also published a picture of a man 
police sources say rented the van.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Authorities named him as Driss Oukabir, a 28-year-old born in Morocco who lives in Catalunya.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Security sources told El Pais that Oukabir had recently visited Morocco and arrived back in Barcelona earlier this week.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Witnesses
 said the white van zigzagged at high speed down Las Ramblas, a busy 
avenue thronged with tourists, knocking down pedestrians and leaving 
bodies strewn across the ground.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Islamic
 State’s Amaq news agency said: “The perpetrators of the Barcelona 
attack are soldiers of the Islamic State and carried out the operation 
in response to calls for targeting coalition states” – a reference to a 
U.S.-led coalition against the Sunni militant group.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If
 the involvement of Islamist militants is confirmed, it would be the 
latest in a string of attacks in the past 13 months in which they have 
used vehicles to bring carnage to the streets of European cities.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">That
 modus operandi – crude, deadly and very hard to prevent – has killed 
well over 100 people in Nice, Berlin, London and Stockholm.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Witness
 Tom Gueller told the BBC: “I heard screams and a bit of a crash and 
then I just saw the crowd parting and this van going full pelt down the 
middle of the Ramblas and I immediately knew that it was a terrorist 
attack or something like that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“It wasn’t slowing down at all. It was just going straight through the middle of the crowds,” he added.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It
 was the deadliest attack in Spain since March 2004, when Islamist 
militants placed bombs on commuter trains in Madrid, killing 191 people 
and wounding more than 1,800.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Spanish
 Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said on Twitter he was en route to 
Barcelona. “Maximum coordination to arrest the attackers, reinforce 
security and attend to all those affected,” he said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The
 Spanish royal household said on Twitter: “They are murderers, nothing 
more than criminals who are not going to terrorize us. All of Spain is 
Barcelona. Las Ramblas will go back to being everyone’s.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">U.S.
 President Donald Trump said: “The United States condemns the terror 
attack in Barcelona, Spain, and will do whatever is necessary to help.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">He added: “Be tough & strong, we love you!”</span></div>
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10-year-old rape victim gives birth

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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A 10-year old girl in India who had been raped, but whose abortion plea was turned down by the country’s Supreme Court, on Thursday delivered a baby.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Both the minor and the baby girl were safe at the state-run hospital in northern city of Chandigarh, according to Dasari Harish, chairman of the committee which was set up to treat and take care of the girl.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“The girl is stable. The infant has been admitted to the neo-natal intensive care unit for quick recovery,’’ he said by phone from Chandigarh.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The girl was repeatedly raped by her uncle over several months.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The crime came to light when the girl was taken to hospital complaining of stomachache in July, and was found to be over 20 weeks into the pregnancy..</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Her uncle was arrested shortly afterwards.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Indian law prohibits medical termination of pregnancies after 20 weeks except when the mother’s life is at risk.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lawyers had approached the Supreme Court on behalf of her parents but the judges refused their plea to allow an exception.</span></div>
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10-year-old rape victim gives birth

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Breaking: 3 dead in Abuja flood

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<span style="background-color: white; color: #212121;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Not fewer than three people have been reportedly lost their lives in an early morning flood in Lokogoma axis of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja. The tragedy was said to have occurred on Thursday, August 17. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #212121;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Properties worth millions of naira were also said to have been destroyed in the process. Officers of the FCT Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), are said to be trying to recover corpses of the deceased as at the time of filing this report. Other residents declared missing are yet to be seen, The Sun reports. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #212121;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The news outlet also reports that minister of FCT, Muhammad Bello, has 'directed that rescue efforts be raised to ensure that residents in the affected areas are evacuated immediately.' </span></span></div>

Breaking: 3 dead in Abuja flood

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Blac Chyna dump her new boyfriends within a month of dating

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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Read TMZ report below;</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Blac Chyna's had it with her flavor of the month ... she dumped Mechie's ass and she's already back on familiar ground -- the strip club.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Sources close to BC tell us she got into an explosive argument Monday night with Mechie over his constant flirting with other women on social media. They'd been dating for less than 2 months but that didn't stop Mechie from getting BC's initials tattooed behind his ear.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The ink has barely dried and already she's told him to take a hike ... and to take all his stuff with him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">After the argument ... we're told Blac hit up a Tarzana studio and vented her frustration on the mic and spit lyrics for a new track. Inspiration.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Not long after she hit up Ace of Diamonds. As we reported ... she hit up the joint the same night her baby daddy's sister, Khloe, and her NBA superstar bf, Tristan Thompson, showed up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We're told Khloe and BC crossed paths inside and had a brief stare down. But no one uttered a peep.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As for how long the breakup will last ... we're told BC's called it game over but Mechie's desperately trying to make things right.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">After all ... tattoo removal ain't cheap.</span></div>
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Blac Chyna dump her new boyfriends within a month of dating

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UN urges USA, Korean to reduce war drum

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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">UN Secretary-General António Guterres has called on the U.S. and North Korea “to dial down rhetoric and dial up diplomacy” in addressing the growing tensions on the Korean Peninsula.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Guterres, while speaking with the UN Correspondents in New York, stressed that the solution to the crisis must be political.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The UN chief reiterated that his good offices – the prestige and weight that his title and the UN represented to the world community – were always available.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“I will remain in close contact with all concerned parties and stand ready to assist in any way,” Guterres said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He noted Tuesday’s meeting of the representatives of the Six-Party Talks, which include China, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), Japan, the Republic of Korea, the Russian Federation, and the United States.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Guterres also noted the UN Security Council strengthened sanctions against DPRK’s exports, which unanimously adopted resolution 2371 (2017) and imposed a full ban on the export of coal, iron and iron ore from the north-east Asian country.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He said that with that resolution, the international community must send a clear, coherent message to the leadership of the DPRK to “fully comply with international obligations, work towards reopening communication channels and support efforts to deescalate the situation.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He noted that the resolution sent “an unambiguous message regarding the peace and security obligations” of DPRK.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It also represented “an opportunity to solve this crisis through diplomatic engagement and renewed dialogue”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Guterres welcomed the “continued critical engagement” by Member States and supported “the call of the Republic of Korea to the DPRK to engage in credible and meaningful dialogue”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These include steps as confidence-building measures to defuse tension and efforts to de-nuclearise the Peninsula, he said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The tensions related to the crisis in the region “are at levels not seen in decades,” Guterres said, noting that more than three million people died in the Korean War, which ravaged the Peninsula from 1950 to 1953.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“We need to heed the lessons of history – not to repeat the mistakes,” he said, while noting also that the potential consequences of military action “are too horrific to even contemplate”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Chinese President Xi Jinping had earlier urged all the concerned parties to practice <a href="http://www.nan.ng/news/china-urges-trump-de-escalate-north-korean-issue/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1193f6; line-height: inherit; outline: none; transition: 0.2s ease-in-out, 0.1s ease-in-out;">restraint </a>regarding the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue in a phone conversation with his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump on Saturday.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The concerned parties should avoid remarks and actions that could escalate tensions on the Korean Peninsula, Xi said, adding China is ready to work with the United States to appropriately</span></div>
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