It's PluxTIME: 2018-01-21

Bank staff narrates how he steals customers’ money

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Having stolen N20 million of bank customers’ money, a staff of a new generation bank and his accomplices have been arrested.</div>
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Christian Amechi, who worked at the bank’s  ATM customers service unit, has confessed to the Police that he perpetrated the fraud by using a string of impersonators.</div>
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He works at the bank headquarters, Victoria Island, Lagos, Sun reports on Saturday.</div>
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His accomplices are Oyozoje Joseph, Nelson Matthew Eugari, Henry Omogbemi and Ene Mona Gabriel who are being detained at the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), Lagos State Police Command.</div>
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The arrest of a notorious  pickpocket, Mr. Akeem Apejoye in Lagos, by police on patrol gave the police the clue to the gang of fraudsters.</div>
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In his confessional statement at the police station, Akeem indicted several others including Christian, the banker as the one who encouraged him to continue to steal phones.</div>
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Bank staff narrates how he steals customers’ money

Having stolen N20 million of bank customers’ money, a staff of a new generation bank and his accomplices have been arrested. Christian Amechi, who worked at the bank’s ATM customers service unit, ha…

Troops kill 7 Boko Haram fighters

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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Troops of the Nigerian Army have killed seven Boko Haram fighters in the Sambisa forest in Northern Borno in an operation supported by the Air Force.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">According to Brig.-Gen Sani Usman, the Director of Army Public Relations, late Friday, the troops also destroy 11 gun trucks and 12 Hilux vehicles.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Usman said that other terrorists’ equipment destroyed were make-shift accommodation around Camp Zairo, Improvised Explosives Device (IEDs), booby traps and other delaying obstacles and devices.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“In addition, the gallant troops recovered one gun truck, one anti-aircraft gun, one machine gun, a pistol, large quantity of anti-aircraft gun ammunition, a 120mm mortar base Plate and a dane gun,” he said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Usman added that three canter trucks, two double barrel rifles, 30 bicycles, power generating sets, cylinders, printers, military kits and IED making workshop were also destroyed by troops.</span></div>
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Troops kill 7 Boko Haram fighters

Troops of the Nigerian Army have killed seven Boko Haram fighters in the Sambisa forest in Northern Borno in an operation supported by the Air Force. According to Brig.-Gen Sani Usman, the Director o…

Samklef – Skelebe ft. Akon [New Song]

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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Popular Nigerian singer, songwriter and producer, Samklef, has shot the official music video of his next single titled “Skelebe” featuring the Konvict Music boss-AKON, on the new single. The duo shot the video at locations in Lagos Island and Lekki (Nigeria).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Samklef, who is signed on to AKON’s Konvict Kulture Record Label & KES Entertainment Record Label-a joint venture partnership with Konvict Kulture, En-Treeg and Simcol Entertainment, produced the new song. <i>“Samklef was signed to KonLive because he is the best all-around entertainer from Nigeria,</i>” said AKON who tops the 2017 list of richest African musicians according to Forbes Africa and is known for launching the careers of superstars Lady Gaga and T-Pain. <i>“Everything Samklef touches turns to gold”. </i></span></div>
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Samklef – Skelebe ft. Akon [New Song]

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North Korea sends a rare message of unity with South Korea

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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">North Korea sent a rare messaget addressed to “all Koreans at home and abroad” on Thursday, saying they should make a “breakthrough” for unification without the help of other countries, its state media said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It said all Koreans should “promote contact, travel, cooperation between North and South Korea” while adding Pyongyang will “smash” all challenges against reunification of the Korean peninsula.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The announcement, issued after a joint meeting of government and political parties, added Koreans should wage an energetic drive to defuse the acute military tension and create a peaceful climate on the Korean peninsula.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Military tension on the Korean peninsula was a “fundamental obstacle” for the improvement of inter-Korean relations and unification, the North’s official news agency said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It added joint military drills with “outside forces” has shown to be unhelpful for the development of relations between North and South Korea.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">North Korea did not provide details why the meeting had been held but the statement said it was aimed to support leader Kim Jong Un’s remarks regarding unification from his New Year’s address.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It said this year is meaningful for both North and South Korea as it is the 70th anniversary of the founding of North Korea while South Korea will be hosting the Winter Olympics next month.</span></div>
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North Korea sends a rare message of unity with South Korea

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US warns Turkey over military action in Kurdish enclave

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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has vowed to continue military action to rid Syria of US-allied Kurdish militias, despite a warning from Washington for Turkey not to risk a clash with its forces in the region.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Turkish operations continued Wednesday against Kurdish militants in Afrin, a Kurdish-held enclave in north-western Syria.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But, in a telephone call with Erdogan, US President Donald Trump urged the Turkish leader to “avoid any actions that might risk conflict between Turkish and American forces” and emphasized the “shared goal” of the lasting defeat of the Islamic State terrorist movement, White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said in a statement.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Trump “relayed concerns” that the escalating violence in Afrin “risks undercutting our shared goals in Syria,” Sanders added.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Operation “Olive Branch” in Afrin, a Kurdish-held area close to the Turkish border, was launched on Saturday. Erdogan said the plan is to now extend the mission to Manbij, a city captured from the Islamic State movement in 2016 by Kurdish-led forces, backed by the US.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A Kurdish official told dpa that US soldiers remain inside Manbij. Analysts have cautioned that the area could be a flashpoint in already strained relations between Washington and Ankara.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Starting with Manbij, we will destroy this game along our borders and completely cleanse our region of this mischief,” Erdogan said, vowing to “exterminate the terrorists.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Erdogan said 268 “terrorists” in Afrin have been neutralized – a term Ankara uses to refer to their removal from the battlefield, usually through death.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The main Kurdish militia in the area, the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), has not verified the casualties and reported only several of its fighters killed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Erdogan said the Turkish Army and allied Syrian rebels had lost seven or eight fighters in the ongoing offensive. The operation is aimed at enabling 3.5 million refugees in Turkey to return to Syria, he said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Human rights observers claim that there have been more than a dozen civilian casualties. Turkey denies hitting any civilians.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said in its latest death toll report that some 125 people were killed over the last five days in the Afrin region, among them Turkish-backed Syrian rebels.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The group said that 28 civilians, including eight children, were among those killed. Kurdish officials placed the civilian death toll higher.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Late Wednesday, in the Turkish border town Kilis, a Turkish civilian and a Syrian were killed by rocket fire that originated in Syria, local broadcasters reported. Earlier this week, a Syrian refugee was killed by a similar strike.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Shervan Derwish, a spokesman for the Manbij Military Council, said his forces are on “full alert” in case Turkey moves on the city, where US-led coalition forces are still present.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“We are in constant contact with coalition forces, who are conducting patrols on the front lines and aerial patrols – their troops are still in Manbij,” Derwish told dpa by phone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He accused Turkey of waging an offensive aimed “against the Kurdish people.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Manbij is located to the east of Afrin. In between the two cities lies a Turkish-controlled zone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The US has supplied weapons to the Syrian Democratic Forces to battle Islamic State forces, angering Turkey, which sees the YPG as more of a threat due to its links to Turkey’s Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), a designated terrorist group.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">US officials have yet to offer clarity on their stance on the Turkish operation on Afrin, other than expressing concern it could lead to volatility and risks complicating the battle against Islamic State, while also supporting Ankara’s right to security.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In their Wednesday call, Erdogan and Trump also welcomed the return of more than 100,000 refugees to Syria after the defeat of Islamic State forces. They also “discussed the need to stabilize a unified Syria that poses no threats to its neighbours, including Turkey,” the White House said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On Thursday, Austrian Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl plans to meet in Istanbul with his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu, seeking a return to “positive dialogue” and restoration of normal relations after recent tensions between Vienna and Ankara.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The new Austrian government’s coalition agreement cements opposition to European Union membership talks with Turkey.</span></div>
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US warns Turkey over military action in Kurdish enclave

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Army launches operation to end cattle rustling, others

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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The 1 Division, Nigerian Army, Kaduna has launched a special operation in parts of Kaduna and Niger States to tackle rising cases of kidnapping, armed robbery and cattle rustling.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The operation, code named `Karamin Goro’, will cover Minna-Birnin Gwari-Pandogari and Minna-Sarkin Pawa general area, a statement by the Deputy Director, Army Public Relations, Col. Muhammad Dole said on Thursday.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dole said in Kaduna that the special operation involved the Nigeria Air Force, Police, DSS operatives and Nigeria Civil Defence Corps.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He said emerging cases of armed robberies, cattle rustling and kidnappings in the affected areas have continued to pose serious security threats to Nigerians.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“These criminals use the thick forests as hideouts and major highways as staging areas to perpetuate their nefarious activities along highways,   major roads, adjoining towns and villages.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“As a result of their dastardly acts, some remote villages were completely   deserted, causing the residents to abandon their ancestral domains to unknown destinations for their safety.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“In  response  to  these  re-emerging  security concerns,  the Division launched Operation Karamin Goro to clear the remnants of the criminals from their bases and ensure the safety of lives, properties and  safe movement of the people within these general areas.’’</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dole said arrangements and measures had been put in place to ensure safe passage of persons, motorists and their properties along the areas of operation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He solicited the understanding, cooperation and support of the general public to ensure hitch free and successful operation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dole also urged the general public to provide credible information to the security agencies that would lead to speedy execution of the exercise.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He said that those with useful information should call 193 from any network provider for prompt response by security agencies.</span></div>
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Army launches operation to end cattle rustling, others

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018 Grammys: All eyes on Jay-Z, Lamar

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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sunday’s Grammy Awards in New York will be the first time a white man has not been nominated for Album of the Year, with all eyes on rap royalty Jay-Z and Kendrick Lamar.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Jay-Z snagged the most nominations for the 60th awards, vying for a trophy in eight categories. Lamar follows him with seven nods, leaving Bruno Mars in third with six. Jay-Z already has 21 Grammys in his trophy cabinet compared to Lamar’s seven.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This year, however, rap’s elder statesman Jay Z is nominated as a solo artist for the first time for Album of the Year and Best Song of the Year for “4:44.” His thirteenth studio LP, which produced a single of the same name, has earned universal praise from critics.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But Brooklyn’s finest will be challenged by the new guard.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lamar will be aiming for his first Album of the Year win with “Damn,” a record described by Rolling Stone as “a brilliant combination of the timeless and the modern, the old-school and the next level.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Another hip-hop artist who could score big on music’s biggest night is Childish Gambino, the alter-ego of US actor Donald Glover. He is tapped for Best Record and Album of the Year, Best R&B Performance and Song, and Best Urban Contemporary Album.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Latin single “Despacito,” which got more than 4.4 billion views on YouTube, is also competing for Song of the Year and Record of the Year. It would be the first Spanish-language release to win the Grammy for Song of the Year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Other nominees for Best Song of the Year include Julia Michaels for “Issues,” “That’s What I Like” by Hawaiian singer Mars and Alessia Cara for “1-800-273-8255.” The latter is the phone number for the US National Suicide Prevention Lifeline.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mars will face off in the record of the year category with Gambino’s “Redbone,” Lamar’s “Humble,” and Jay-Z’s “The Story of O.J.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In The Album of the Year category, singer-songwriter Lorde is the only woman nominated. The New Zealander’s sophomore album “Melodrama” will compete with Gambino’s “Awaken, My Love!,” Mars’ “24K Magic,” as well as releases from Jay-Z and Lamar.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">R&B singers SZA and Khalid each scored five nominations including best newcomer. Philadelphia-based hip-hop artist Lil Uzi Vert is also among the nominees for Best New Artist.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">British virtual band Gorillaz, will take on the US acts The National, Father John Misty and LCD Soundsystem as well as Canadia’s Arcade Fire for Best Alternative Album.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The 60th Grammy Awards are voted by 13,000 members of the US Recording Academy and will take place in New York for the first time in 15 years. James Corden will host the live telecast with performances by artists including Lady Gaga, Pink and Elton John.</span></div>
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018 Grammys: All eyes on Jay-Z, Lamar

Sunday’s Grammy Awards in New York will be the first time a white man has not been nominated for Album of the Year, with all eyes on rap royalty Jay-Z and Kendrick Lamar. Jay-Z snagged the most nomin…

"Adam and Eve were black and they were created in Ile-Ife" - Ooni of Ife states in new interview

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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How could somebody be deceiving himself like this? <span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;">Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi has made huge statement in an interview with GoldMyneTV the world will forever laugh at. According to him; </span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; text-align: left;">"Adam and Eve were black. They were created in Ife. The Garden of Eden is also located in Ile Ife." This is funny though.</span></span></div>
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"Adam and Eve were black and they were created in Ile-Ife" - Ooni of Ife states in new interview

How could somebody be deceiving himself like this? Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi has made huge statement in an interview with GoldMyneTV the world will forever laugh at. According to him; "Adam a…

Liberia’s Weah rolls out early appointments

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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Less than 24 hours after his inauguration, Liberia’s President George Weah, announced seven appointments, including that of former Senate Pro-Tempore Gbezohngar Findley, as Foreign Affairs Minister.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Findley, according to local media, is close to immediate past President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, and staunchly supported Vice President Joseph Boakai at the initial stage of the campaign period.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He reportedly dumped Boakai, who ran for the presidency on the platform of then Unity Party (UP), and aligned with Weah, heavily campaigning for him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This fuelled speculations that Weah was receiving support from former President Johnson-Sirleaf, who was recently expelled by the UP for anti-party activities.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Maj.-Gen. Daniel Ziankahn was immediately retired as the Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL) and appointed the Minister of National Defense, subject to Senate confirmation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ziankahn replaces Brownie Samukai at the defence ministry, which is in the middle of an alleged wasteful spending of “welfare and supplementary pension benefits” members of the Armed Forces.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Brig. Gen. Prince Johnson takes over from Ziankahn as the new Chief of Staff of the AFL.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Weah named Chairman of the now ruling Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC), Mr Nathaniel McGill, as the Minister of State for Presidential Affairs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mr. Samuel Tweh, a long-time member of the CDC, is to serve as Minister of Finance and Development Planning.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Until his appointment, Tweh worked as an economic consultant at the Millennium Challenge Corporation under the Ministry of Finance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The president appointed Mr Charles Gibson as Minister of Justice, and Mr Sam Mannah as Press Secretary.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All the appointments were with immediate effect.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Weah has directed that the heads of other government ministries and agencies remain in place until further notice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Meanwhile, some Liberians have urged the new president to honour his promise of holding government officials accountable to the people.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Speaking to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Monrovia, one of the respondents, Saah Clinton, a retired soldier, advised Weah to show courage and do the right thing in the interest of Liberians.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Although, I am confident in the president’s ability to crack down on corruption as promised in his inaugural speech, it takes a lot of political will and courage to do that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“The president should carry the masses along in whatever decision he takes against powerful government officials, and the people will stand by him,’’ he said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Weah in his inaugural address renewed his promise to tackle endemic corruption especially in the public service, vowing to prosecute corruption government officials “to the full extent of the law’’.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“As officials of government, it is time to put the interest of our people above our own selfish interests. It is time to be honest with our people</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“For those who do not refrain from enriching themselves at the expense of the people, the law will take its course,’’ the president said.</span></div>
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Google honours Stephen Keshi

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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Google has honoured former Nigerian coach and player, Stephen Keshi, with a doodle on its search engine page for Nigerian loggers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The honour came on Keshi’s 56th birthday. Keshi died suddenly in Benin on 7 June, in 2016, to the shock of his compatriots.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He was born in Azare, Bauchi. But his parents hailed from Delta state.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Keshi was educated at Saint Finbarr’s College in Akoka, Lagos and Saint Gregory’s College.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">His wife of 30 years, Kate Aburime had died six months before his own death. They had four children.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">During his playing career as a defender, Keshi earned 60 caps for the Nigerian national football team, making him the nation’s second-most capped player at the time of his retirement.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He represented the country at the 1994 FIFA World Cup and the 1994 Africa Cup of Nations, captaining the Super Eagles to victory in the latter. He also played club football in five countries, most notably Belgium, where he won the Belgian league championship with R.S.C. Anderlecht in 1991.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As a manager, Keshi achieved success by qualifying Togo for the only FIFA World Cup appearance in its history in 2006.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">However, he left the position prior to the tournament and was replaced by Otto Pfister. He later coached  Nigeria’s Super Eagles , where he became one of only two persons, along with Egypt’s Mahmoud El-Gohary, to have won the Africa Cup of Nations as both a player and a coach. This was in 2013, two years after he was appointed the coach.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The following day Keshi handed in his resignation, only to reverse his decision the day after. Keshi led Nigeria to the 2013 Confederations Cup, defeated Tahiti 6–1, and lost 1–2 to Uruguay in the second game, and also lost 0–3 to World Cup winners, Spain in their final group game.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On 16 November 2013, Keshi’s Nigeria secured qualification to the 2014 World Cup by beating Ethiopia 4–1 on aggregate in a play-off.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Keshi set a record in African football by being the first African coach to successfully qualify two African nations (Nigeria and Togo) to the World Cup Finals.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">*Bio data from Wikipedia.</span></div>
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Google honours Stephen Keshi

Google has honoured former Nigerian coach and player, Stephen Keshi, with a doodle on its search engine page for Nigerian loggers. The honour came on Keshi’s 56th birthday. Keshi died suddenly in Ben…

Cryptocurrency traders get condition to operate in South Korea

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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">South Korea will ban the use of anonymous bank accounts in cryptocurrency trading from Jan. 30, regulators said on Tuesday.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is a widely telegraphed move designed to stop virtual coins from being used for money laundering and other crimes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Last week, reports were rife that the country <a href="http://www.nan.ng/economy/south-korea-plans-ban-cryptocurrency-trading/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1193f6; line-height: inherit; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: opacity 0.2s ease-in-out, color 0.1s ease-in-out;">planned to ban traders due to alleged evasion of tax</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">However, in a turn of events, traders have been given condition upon which they can operate their crypto currency wallets and their bank accounts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Local cryptocurrency traders will not be allowed to make deposits into their virtual currency exchange wallets unless the names on their bank accounts matches the account name in cryptocurrency exchanges, Kim Yong-beom, the Vice Chairman of the Financial Services Commission told a news conference in Seoul.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tuesday’s announcement follows a string of warnings from global policy makers about cryptocurrency trading, including those from South Korea’s chief financial regulator last week who said the government might consider shutting down domestic virtual currency exchanges.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The regulator has previously said it would come up with detailed guidelines for local banks to properly identify its clients by their real names in cryptocurrency transactions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To make deposits into virtual coin wallets, cryptocurrency traders will need to identify themselves with their real names at the exchange and have those matched with information at local banks by Jan. 30.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">According to Bithumb, the country’s second-largest virtual currency exchange, the bitcoin price in South Korea was down 4.35 per cent at $12,567 (8,987.34 pounds) from previous day as of 0214 GMT on Tuesday.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bitcoin is trading up 3.7 per cent at 10,750 dollars on the Luxembourg-based Bitstamp exchange.</span></div>
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Cryptocurrency traders get condition to operate in South Korea

South Korea will ban the use of anonymous bank accounts in cryptocurrency trading from Jan. 30, regulators said on Tuesday. It is a widely telegraphed move designed to stop virtual coins from being u…

UN Flag no longer protective power for peacekeepers – Report

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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The UN should accept that its flag itself no longer offers enough protection for the peacekeepers and they need better training, equipment and greater freedom to respond to threats, a report said.</span></div>
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<span class="hei14 pcCon" id="content" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The report entitled: “Improving Security of UN Peacekeepers: We need to change the way we are doing business,” was directed by the UN secretary-general.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“The UN and Troop- and Police-Contributing Countries [T/PCCs] need to adapt to a new reality: the blue helmet and the UN flag no longer offer “natural” protection …</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“If the UN and T/PCCs do not change their mindset, take risks and show a willingness to face these new challenges, they will be consciously sending troops into harm’s way,” according top a report by the world body.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The report stressed that “hostile forces do not understand a language other than force,” noting that the UN”needs to be strong and not fear to use force when necessary.”</span></div>
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<span class="hei14 pcCon" id="content" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">NAN reports that the UN said since 1948, no fewer than 3,500 personnel have lost their lives serving in UN peace operations with 943 due to acts of violence.</span></span></div>
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<span class="hei14 pcCon" id="content" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The UN said during the past four years (2013 to 2017) a consistent increase in peacekeeper fatalities due to violent acts resulted in 195 deaths.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">NAN reports that the UN said <span class="hei14 pcCon" id="content" style="box-sizing: border-box;">that 2017 saw the highest number of peacekeeper fatalities through violent acts in over two decades, with 56 peacekeepers killed.</span></span></div>
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UN Flag no longer protective power for peacekeepers – Report

The UN should accept that its flag itself no longer offers enough protection for the peacekeepers and they need better training, equipment and greater freedom to respond to threats, a report said. Th…

Arsenal fans blame Thierry Henry for Sanchez move

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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Arsenal legend Thierry Henry is being savaged on Twitter by Arsenal fans for advising Chile international Alexis Sanchez to move to Manchester United.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In Twitter posts, fans called Henry all sorts of names for being ‘unpatriotic’ to Arsenal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He was blamed for Arsenal loss at Bournemouth after the coach disclosed that he got a pep talk from Henry before the match, that undermined Arsenal’s fight for a top four place.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The posts also showed Henry fraternising with several Man United players, including fellow Frenchmen Pogba and Martial.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One fan even wanted Henry statue at Emirates pulled down. Another fan based in Lagos, Nigeria, said if he had gotten wind of Henry’s ‘betrayal’, he would have slapped him when he visited Lagos for a Guinness event.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Henry, who had a stellar career at Arsenal before he left to join Barcelona and later going to the United States to play in the MLS, is now a pundit on Sky TV.</span></div>
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Arsenal fans blame Thierry Henry for Sanchez move

Arsenal legend Thierry Henry is being savaged on Twitter by Arsenal fans for advising Chile international Alexis Sanchez to move to Manchester United. In Twitter posts, fans called Henry all sorts of…

Gunmen rape woman in husband’s presence

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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A 22-year-old woman was dragged out of a car and raped in front of her husband and brother-in-law, who were held at gunpoint in the northern Indian state of Haryana, the police said on Tuesday.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The incident, according to police, took place Sunday night in Sector 56 of Gurugram on the outskirts of New Delhi.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Police said they had arrested four people in this connection.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A police official said: “on Sunday night a woman, her husband and brother-in-law were returning from a function in a car.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“When they stopped near the business park tower, the woman’s husband got out of the car to use the toilet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Suddenly two cars stopped near them and four men came out and dragged the woman out of the car.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“One of the men took the woman and raped her, while others held her husband and her brother-in-law at gunpoint.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Reports said before running away, the men warned the woman and her husband against reporting the incident to the police.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is the latest incident of rape horror that emerged in the state.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Recently two incidents of young girls being raped and killed were reported in Haryana.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sexual attacks on women and girls in India put a question mark on their safety and efficiency of police force in the country.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In December 2012, a fatal gang-rape of a medical student in New Delhi brought spotlight on crimes against women in India.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The incident saw huge protests and resulted in new anti-rape laws in the country. However, brutal sexual attacks against women continue to be reported across India.</span></div>
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Gunmen rape woman in husband’s presence

A 22-year-old woman was dragged out of a car and raped in front of her husband and brother-in-law, who were held at gunpoint in the northern Indian state of Haryana, the police said on Tuesday. The i…

FG asks court to revoke Metuh’s bail

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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission(EFCC), the prosecuting agency in the ongoing trial of former Peoples Democratic Party( PDP) Spokesman, Olisah Metuh, has asked the court to revoke Metuh’s bail.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mr Sylvanus Tahir, counsel to the EFCC, who made the application at the resumption of hearing of the matter on Tuesday at the Federal High Court, Abuja, said Metuh should be remanded in prison.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tahir said the application was based on the grounds that Metuh had breached the terms of the bail granted him by the court, by being absent in court for two days with no cogent reason.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The prosecutor asked the court to discountenance the submissions of the defence as to why Metuh was absent in court.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Since the defendant has been absent from court for two days for inexplicable reasons, and bearing in mind that the defendant is enjoining the bail of the court and has undermined the purpose of the bail.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“The prosecution is constrained to apply for the revocation of the bail pursuant to Sections 137(b) and 169 of the Administration of Criminal Justice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">” We urge the court to revoke the bail and commit the defendant to prison pending the determination of his case.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He further told the court that he was vehemently opposed to the application to vacate the days already fixed for trial and adjourn to the next dates convenient for the court.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On the said medical report sent to the court by one Dr. O.C. Ekweugwu of the Nnamdi Azikiwe Universiry Teaching Hospital, Anambra, the prosecutor said there was nothing before the court to prove the authenticity of the letter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“The letter ought to have come by way of an affidavit, but nobody has deposed to an oath verifying the worth of the so called medical report, rather the report was just dumped in the court.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He further submitted that it was of no purpose for the defence to ask the court to order an investigation to ascertain the veracity of the medical report.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mr Onyeachi Ikpeazu (SAN), counsel to Metuh, had in his submission, prayed the court to vacate the earlier dates the court had fixed for the trial and fix fresh dates in the interest of justice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ikpeazu urged the court to grant the application on the grounds that his client was currently in hospital undergoing treatment for a spine related illness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He further submitted that being a criminal case, it was mandatory for his client to be in court since it was against the law to proceed with the matter in the absence of his client.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mr Tochukwu Onwubufor (SAN), counsel to the second defendant in the matter said that he aligned himself with the submissions of Ikpeazu.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Onwubufor, however, added that there was substantial reason for Metuh’s absence in court.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“There is a letter from the Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital Nnewi, Anambra stating the medical condition of the first defendant.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On the question of the authenticity of the report and whether the person who signed it was indeed a medical doctor, the counsel asked the court for time to investigate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The judge, Justice Okon Abang said the court noted that there was no proof before the court to show that the person who issued the letter was a medical doctor or an employee of the hospital.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Abang added that the hospital was not a party in the matter and that the person who issued the letter was not in court to testify.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He further wondered how the said letter found its way into the court records.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He adjourned the matter until Jan. 24 for continuation of arguments by counsel.</span></div>
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FG asks court to revoke Metuh’s bail

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission(EFCC), the prosecuting agency in the ongoing trial of former Peoples Democratic Party( PDP) Spokesman, Olisah Metuh, has asked the court to revoke Metuh’s…

FG makes use of National ID compulsory – NIMC

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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Federal Government has approval the gazette of supplementary regulations for the mandatory use of the National Identity Number (NIN), and other identification platforms.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Managing Director, National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), Mr Aliyu Aziz, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), on Tuesday in Abuja.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He said the step would allow the commission to deliver on its mandate as expected and in record time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">According to him, the Federal Government has gazetted and published five Regulations, following an approval from the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and the Minister of Justice in November, 2017.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“The gazetted regulations are: ‘Mandatory Use of the National Identification Number (NIN) Regulations, 2017’; ‘Nigeria Biometrics Standard Regulations, 2017’; ‘Registration of Persons and Contents of the National Identity Database Regulations, 2017’.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Access to Register Information in the National Identity Database Regulations, 2017 and Licensing of the Frontend Services of the National Identity Management Commission Regulations, 2017,” he said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The NIMC boss stressed the need for supplementary regulations, saying that it was essential toward the realisation of the commission’s mandate in the coming years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“With the increase and expansion of the commission’s activities, the new policy for the implementation of NIMS desires that the commission develop the identity eco-system in Nigeria and meet its mandate of harmonising all identity related databases in the country.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“It is necessary to promulgate regulations, which consist of sets of principles, practices, policies, processes and procedures to be utilised to achieve the desired objectives.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“The regulations will ensure that the commission actualises and effectively delivers on the National Identity Management System (NIMS) project in the coming years,” he added.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">NAN, recalls that the commission had in November 2016, announced the commencement process to document and publish these regulations, pursuant to Sections 27 and 31 of the NIMC Act, 2007.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Act provides for the commission to make supplementary regulations to cover its various services and offerings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Draft copies of the regulations were widely circulated to various government organisations, private and security agencies as well as the general public, inviting comments, inputs and opinions, after which the comments were reviewed by the committee charged with the development of the strategy for implementation of NIMC regulations.</span></div>
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FG makes use of National ID compulsory – NIMC

The Federal Government has approval the gazette of supplementary regulations for the mandatory use of the National Identity Number (NIN), and other identification platforms. The Managing Director, Na…

Obasanjo urges Buhari not to run in 2019

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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just back from Liberia, former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Tuesday threw another bombshell and asked President Muhammadu Buhari not to seek re-election in 2019.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In a special press statement entitled, “The Way Out: A Clarion Call for Coalition for Nigeria Movement”, Obasanjo claimed Buhari has performed far below expectation and should honourably “dismount from the horse”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Obasanjo urged the President to join the league of the country’s former leaders whose “experience, influence, wisdom and outreach can be deployed on the side line for the good of the country.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Obasanjo, a two-term president on the platform of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), said he felt disappointed by Buhari, whom he supported during the 2015 election over then incumbent and candidate of his former party, Goodluck Jonathan.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Obasanjo had written a condemnatory open letter in December 2013 titled “Before it is Too Late”. where he highlighted the numerous failings of the Mr Jonathan administration.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The former leader argued that his decision to go against Jonathan, at the time was the right one as events in the last three years have since proven, was for the good of the nation and nothing personal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Even the horse rider then, with whom I maintain very cordial, happy and social relationship today has come to realise his mistakes and regretted it publicly and I admire his courage and forthrightness in this regard,” Mr. Obasanjo said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“He has a role to play on the side line for the good of Nigeria, Africa and humanity and I will see him as a partner in playing such a role nationally and internationally, but not as a horse rider in Nigeria again.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Likening the state of the nation to lice-invested clothes, he said the country’s fingernails is stained with blood as it tries to kill the lice by pressing them in-between two fingernails. According to him, in order to make sure that our fingernails remain blood-free we must do what it takes to rid our clothes of lice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“The lice of poor performance in government – poverty, insecurity, poor economic management, nepotism, gross dereliction of duty, condonation of misdeed – if not outright encouragement of it, lack of progress and hope for the future, lack of national cohesion and poor management of internal political dynamics and widening inequality – are very much with us today,” he wrote.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“With such lice of general and specific poor performance and crying poverty with us, our fingers will not be dry of ‘blood’,” he added.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">While thanking Buhari for the effort of his administration in rolling back the Boko Haram insurgency and his fight against corruption, Obasanjo said Buhari has ultimately failed in other areas where he had thought he would be efficient.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The octogenarian, who bagged a PhD over the weekend, admitted he knew Mr Buhari was weak in handling the economy, he went ahead and voted for him because at the time “it was a matter of ‘any option but Jonathan’” and because he thought Mr Buhari would appoint qualified Nigerians to help out in that area.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He slammed Buhari for turning a blind eye to corruption within his government saying it amounted to condonation and cover-up saying whoever is “going to justice must be with clean hands.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He also berated Mr Buhari for allowing the clashes between herdsmen and farmers to go “sour” and messy saying the endorsement of the President by some governors to seek re-election barely 24 hours after 73 people who were killed by herdsmen in Benue State were given mass burial was “a sad symptom of insensitivity and callousness.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Obasanjo however reserved his harshest words for what he described as Buhari’s clannishness, lack of understanding of the dynamics of politics, and his tendencies to pass the buck of his government’s inadequacies to the immediate past administration.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“But there are three other areas where President Buhari has come out more glaringly than most of us thought we knew about him.  One is nepotic deployment bordering on clannishness and inability to bring discipline to bear on errant members of his nepotic court.  This has grave consequences on performance of his government to the detriment of the nation.  It would appear that national interest was being sacrificed on the altar of nepotic interest.  What does one make of a case like that of Maina: collusion, condonation, ineptitude, incompetence, dereliction of responsibility or kinship and friendship on the part of those who should have taken visible and deterrent disciplinary action?  How many similar cases are buried, ignored or covered up and not yet in the glare of the media and the public?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“The second is his poor understanding of the dynamics of internal politics.  This has led to wittingly or unwittingly making the nation more divided and inequality has widened and become more pronounced.  It also has effect on general national security.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“The third is passing the buck.  For instance, blaming the Governor of the Central Bank for devaluation of the naira by 70% or so and blaming past governments for it, is to say the least, not accepting one’s own responsibility.  Let nobody deceive us, economy feeds on politics and because our politics is depressing, our economy is even more depressing today.  If things were good, President Buhari would not need to come in.  He was voted to fix things that were bad and not engage in the blame game.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To Obasanjo, President Buhari and his party, the All Progressives Congress do not have the solution to the country’s problems.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">According to Obasanjo, President Buhari is not healthy enough to withstand the rigour associated with running a country like Nigeria neither does his party capable of providing the answer needed to sail the country through its difficulties.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Obasanjo thus asked Buhari to step down at the end of his first term with honour and dignity and attend to his health.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He urged him not to listen to “self-serving so-called advisers who would claim that they love him more than God loves him and that without him, there would be no Nigeria.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“President Buhari needs a dignified and honourable dismount from the horse. He needs to have time to reflect, refurbish physically and recoup and after appropriate rest, once again, join the stock of Nigerian leaders whose experience, influence, wisdom and outreach can be deployed on the side line for the good of the country.  His place in history is already assured.  Without impaired health and strain of age, running the affairs of Nigeria is a 25/7 affair, not 24/7.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“I only appeal to brother Buhari to consider a deserved rest at this point in time and at this age.  I continue to wish him robust health to enjoy his retirement from active public service.  President Buhari does not necessarily need to heed my advice.  But whether or not he heeds it, Nigeria needs to move on and move forward,” he said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“I have had occasion in the past to say that the two main political parties – APC and PDP – were wobbling.  I must reiterate that nothing has happened to convince me otherwise.  If anything, I am reinforced in my conviction.  The recent show of PDP must give grave and great concern to lovers of Nigeria.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“To claim, as has been credited to the chief kingmaker of PDP, that for procuring the Supreme Court judgement for his faction of the Party, he must dictate the tune all the way and this is indeed fraught with danger.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“If neither APC nor PDP is a worthy horse to ride to lead Nigeria at this crucial and critical time, what then do we do?  Remember Farooq Kperogi, an Associate Professor at the Kennesaw State University, Georgia, United States, calls it “a cruel Hobson’s choice; it’s like a choice between six and half a dozen, between evil and evil. Any selection or deflection would be a distinction without a difference.”  We cannot just sit down lamenting and wringing our hands desperately and hopelessly.</span></div>
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