Reasons why 'Our mumu don do' group suspends their sit up in Abuja

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEg9vwHfzVr3vmhe_LkZ5qxTEl4Fd62WtQSJVVzosQkYnFvjj6EqkzuwC4t061F-wCpaXue__J3HiGvr5H7QUdKc0p_BzXCrXviDSupac2mzlGulAMS_fZmq80BIogGa8o5aXRBPTYTx7wYz7IOVTSFhTL77iI9yUH2uDprctom7jEo=" /><br /> <br /> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Read their reasons below: </span></span><br /> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">1.    Following the spate of violent attacks by officers of the Nigerian Police Force and then by paid hoodlums on our #ResumeOrResign daily sit-outs and peaceful processions in various parts of Abuja, it has become necessary to announce a suspension of our daily activities in the city.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: white;">2.    This temporary suspension is to enable us restrategize on ways to make our processions less open to such violent attacks and to better ensure the safety of all our members and other participants at our sit-outs and peaceful processions in future.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: white;">3. This is also to make known our good intention and unreserved commitment to promote peace and unity in our beloved country. We believe this decision will help in dousing the unnecessary ethnic tension being stoked by the cabal holding Nigeria to a ransom.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: white;">4. Whereas our daily sit-out will be suspended temporarily in Abuja, Sit-Out will continue to hold at the Gani Fawehinmi Park, Ojota, Lagos, between 0900hrs – 1000hrs daily; New York (Front of the Nigerian consulate, 828 Second Avenue); and vigil will also be held in front of the Abuja House in London on </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1331204387" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Friday August 18th, 2017</span></span><span style="background-color: white;"> by 1700hrs.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: white;">5. Members of the general public and members of the media are also invited to any of these events to provide support in whatever capacity they may deem fit.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: white;">6. Finally, we hereby demand that President Buhari returns to the country and resume duty as President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1331204388" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="box-sizing: border-box;">within 21 days</span></span><span style="background-color: white;"> from today, or that he resigns completely from office to enable him return to Daura to take care of his ill health.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: white;">7. Should the president be unable to comply with any of the aforementioned demands </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1331204389" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="box-sizing: border-box;">within 21 days</span></span><span style="background-color: white;">, we will approach a court seeking an order of mandamus to compel the Federal Executive Council to set up a committee in line with section 144 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended), to appraise the health of President Buhari and subsequently determine whether or not he can continue to discharge his presidential functions as enshrined in the constitution.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: white;">God bless Nigeria.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: white;">SIGNED:</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: white;">Charles Oputa (Co-convener #ResumeOrResign Movement)</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: white;">FOR: Our Mumu Don Do Movement.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: white;">Deji Adeyanju</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: white;">(Co-Convener, #ResumeOrResign)</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: white;">FOR: Concerned Nigerians</span></span></div> <!-- Blogger automated replacement: "https://images-blogger-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/gadgets/proxy?url=http%3A%2F%2Falexis.lindaikejisblog.com%2Fphotos%2Fshares%2F59950f767b82f.jpg&container=blogger&gadget=a&rewriteMime=image%2F*" with "https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEg9vwHfzVr3vmhe_LkZ5qxTEl4Fd62WtQSJVVzosQkYnFvjj6EqkzuwC4t061F-wCpaXue__J3HiGvr5H7QUdKc0p_BzXCrXviDSupac2mzlGulAMS_fZmq80BIogGa8o5aXRBPTYTx7wYz7IOVTSFhTL77iI9yUH2uDprctom7jEo=" -->

Reasons why 'Our mumu don do' group suspends their sit up in Abuja

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Teenagers rape Donkey and got treated for rabies

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEh7RL7ThYwkJR5rlntNZEGnxfemLCXDzBCcFLkf6iAUl50MpicHANkcBxxVGuy9oTLWbf7oF6v7bLrrsWIECZTSY2gQSY9HvpUU8p9GaYqlNDKJqMzDriAtgBZoyFFnCOPHbBBhWbbh0wN2nCCuh5l5fcPZU2H_7ow16Z1wWf__FYQ=" /><br /> <br /> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Now fewer than fifteen teenagers from Moroccan town were treated for rabies after raping an infected local donkey.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The youths, from Sidi Al Kamel, spent a week at the Mechraa Belksiri Hospital receiving treatments after they contracted the disease from the animal. The number of boys who raped the donkey were more than 15, but many families secretly took their sons for treatment at hospitals outside the immediate area to avoid shame. Only 15 of the boys were taken to the local hospital. </span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The shocking incident left the families of the youngsters "in distress and horror." Local authorities are trying to find anyone else who has "approached" or "admired" the animal closely to limit further spread of the disease.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The innocent donkey has now been killed on the orders of police to avoid further risk of spreading the disease.</span></div> </div> <!-- Blogger automated replacement: "https://images-blogger-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/gadgets/proxy?url=http%3A%2F%2Falexis.lindaikejisblog.com%2Fphotos%2Fshares%2F5994211b66cfc.PNG&container=blogger&gadget=a&rewriteMime=image%2F*" with "https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEh7RL7ThYwkJR5rlntNZEGnxfemLCXDzBCcFLkf6iAUl50MpicHANkcBxxVGuy9oTLWbf7oF6v7bLrrsWIECZTSY2gQSY9HvpUU8p9GaYqlNDKJqMzDriAtgBZoyFFnCOPHbBBhWbbh0wN2nCCuh5l5fcPZU2H_7ow16Z1wWf__FYQ=" -->

Teenagers rape Donkey and got treated for rabies

Now fewer than fifteen teenagers from Moroccan town were treated for rabies after raping an infected local donkey. The youths, from Si...

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Fans react to the return of James Bond

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEieFjxUXRkP8CMUkoM8ImiJ515jcSE1XVdmGS7rbaRaHg0QDlHPHuQCpXa8GULbrBWnszE-xTprjk9TxZJpc9UtVlDopaBIpY8l7nlLBuu2vpD-4CjmutfZMgjMNcNOxXP8aEFHZFUHcrTyha_VzfQ7WAT21eObQqdOqmQBt_EcA6ilbLvEBJtg44T7X-1uiIviKn0EskwQHOEQG0asPhjncVxnmWSUhKoq1ZZSKQ=" /><br /> <br /> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Daniel Craig will be reprising his role as James Bond one more time.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“I just want to go out on a high note. I can’t wait,” he said on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert on Tuesday.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Although some people on social media weren’t too thrilled about the news, a lot of fans are excited about the actor’s return.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">One Twitter user is so happy about the announcement that it’s probably going to be all they’ll be talking about for a while:</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">James Evans wrote: “Daniel Craig is doing another James Bond and your [sic] gonna have to deal with me flailing about this for the next two weeks, at least.”</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">From one Craig to another, the actor has won singer Craig David’s approval too: Ajay Chowdhury, editor of the James Bond International Fan Club magazine, told BBC 5 live: “He’s been the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful actor to play Bond.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“He’s made Bond such an iconic character, no-one thought Bond would still be this important and get this much attraction.”</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">While many fans are pleased to see Daniel Craig back as Bond, some people think it’s time to give another actor a go.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Prem Mohanty wrote on Twitter: “Seriously Daniel Craig is too old to play James Bond, 4 movies was quite enough.”</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Idris Elba had been widely tipped in the past to take over, but that’s not going to happen – yet, at least.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Daniel Craig returning as Bond? Thoroughly enjoyed his Bond films but I was ready for @idriselba tbh!</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Twitter user named Hood Economist wrote: “Daniel Craig returning as Bond? Thoroughly enjoyed his Bond films but I was ready for @idriselba tbh!”</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It will be released in US cinemas on 8 November 2019 with a traditional earlier release in the UK.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There’s no title yet – for now, it’s just known as Bond 25.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It will be scripted by long-standing Bond writers Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, who have been writing the films since 1999’s The World is Not Enough</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Daniel Craig has said this will be his last time playing 007, fulfilling his five-film contract.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Bond writers Neal Purvis and Robert Wade suggested US President Donald Trump could influence the next Bond film in an interview with The Telegraph in February.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“I’m just not sure how you would go about writing a James Bond film now,” Purvis said.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“Each time, you’ve got to say something about Bond’s place in the world, which is Britain’s place in the world.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“But things are moving so quickly now, that becomes tricky. With people like Trump, the Bond villain has become a reality. So when they do another one, it will be interesting to see how they deal with the fact that the world has become a fantasy.”</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Both writers originally planned to leave the series after Skyfall but returned again for Spectre three years later.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“Spectre felt like it closed off a certain way of doing Bond,” Wade said. “And I think whatever happens next will be quite different.”</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Source: BBC</span></div> </div> <!-- Blogger automated replacement: "https://images-blogger-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/gadgets/proxy?url=http%3A%2F%2F18694-presscdn.pagely.netdna-cdn.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2017%2F08%2FDaniel-Craig-returns-as-James-Bond.jpg&container=blogger&gadget=a&rewriteMime=image%2F*" with "https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEieFjxUXRkP8CMUkoM8ImiJ515jcSE1XVdmGS7rbaRaHg0QDlHPHuQCpXa8GULbrBWnszE-xTprjk9TxZJpc9UtVlDopaBIpY8l7nlLBuu2vpD-4CjmutfZMgjMNcNOxXP8aEFHZFUHcrTyha_VzfQ7WAT21eObQqdOqmQBt_EcA6ilbLvEBJtg44T7X-1uiIviKn0EskwQHOEQG0asPhjncVxnmWSUhKoq1ZZSKQ=" -->

Fans react to the return of James Bond

Daniel Craig will be reprising his role as James Bond one more time. “I just want to go out on a high note. I can’t wait,” he said on ...

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UN chief calls for dialogue in addressing the growing tensions on the Korean Peninsula

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <img alt="Mr. Antonio Guterres" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEiP9gDOi7sDWXT8X2dC1jxCnU768G-MMOiHfioc2QYHGVyt9_4F5Edtw1opb68ETJkq-55bdV2fVBTikfbd13VT9E6q4FUtbW4v489WukaeGTYrhVriC6mQ8Swe7Z2jsAlsF1e3XAin7mu11BJPD8jhyphenhyphenq0qKeodu5Jz0SGlaVFpffT0HZusy8x-RHDcC5Cj9v_L54W1DwQs6vXlzw=" /><br /> <br /> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The world might be seeing some peace rising from Korea peninsula soon as UN Secretary-General António Guterres calls on U.S. and North Korea “to dial down rhetoric and dial up diplomacy” in addressing the growing tensions on the Korean Peninsula.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px;"> <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> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px;"> <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> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px;"> <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> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px;"> <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> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px;"> <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> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px;"> <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> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px;"> <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> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It also represented  “an opportunity to solve this crisis through diplomatic engagement and renewed dialogue”.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px;"> <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> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px;"> <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> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px;"> <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> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px;"> <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> </div> <!-- Blogger automated replacement: "https://images-blogger-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/gadgets/proxy?url=http%3A%2F%2F18694-presscdn.pagely.netdna-cdn.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2016%2F10%2Fguterres-antonio.jpg&container=blogger&gadget=a&rewriteMime=image%2F*" with "https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEiP9gDOi7sDWXT8X2dC1jxCnU768G-MMOiHfioc2QYHGVyt9_4F5Edtw1opb68ETJkq-55bdV2fVBTikfbd13VT9E6q4FUtbW4v489WukaeGTYrhVriC6mQ8Swe7Z2jsAlsF1e3XAin7mu11BJPD8jhyphenhyphenq0qKeodu5Jz0SGlaVFpffT0HZusy8x-RHDcC5Cj9v_L54W1DwQs6vXlzw=" -->

UN chief calls for dialogue in addressing the growing tensions on the Korean Peninsula

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44 minors rescued from traffickers in Kaduna

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img alt="minors rescued from traffickers" src="http://18694-presscdn.pagely.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/78962-rwanda-e1470665269866.jpg" /></span><br /> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Kaduna State Sector Command of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) says it has intercepted two suspected human traffickers and rescued 44 minors.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Sector Commander, Malam Umar Ibrahim, told our correspondent in Kaduna on Thursday that the suspects, a driver and one other adult were arrested on Wednesday on Kaduna – Zaria Expressway.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">According to him, the suspects were arrested by FRSC patrol team led by Assistant Route Commander Audu Usman, when he stopped a Fiat Bus (J5) with registration number XC 532 ZAR for overloading.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Our patrol men along Kaduna – Zaria expressway, around 3 p.m. on Wednesday, stopped a white and blue colour fiat bus popularly known as J5 for overloading.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“On checking to see what the bus was loaded with, our men discovered it was stuffed with 44 minors and one other adult.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“When asked, the driver, one Dauda Ezekiel of Gubuchi Village , Makarfi Local Government Area of the State, said he was hired to transport the occupant to an unidentified location.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“But the other adult claimed they were going for a church programme.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Our men became suspicious and immediately impounded the vehicle and booked the driver for overloading and speed limit device violation,” he added.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ibrahim said he later alerted the Commissioner of Police, Kaduna State Command, and handed over the vehicle and the suspects for further investigation.</span></div> </div>

44 minors rescued from traffickers in Kaduna

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Nigeria Army kills 10 insurgents; recovers 52 cows

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><img alt="Men of the Nigerian Army" class="size-full wp-image-75364" height="266" src="http://18694-presscdn.pagely.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/DFl6zb4VoAAHIkj.jpg" width="400" /> </span></span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The Nigerian Army on Thursday said that it killed 10 Boko Haram insurgents in a clearance operations in Marte Local Government Area of  Borno.</span></span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A statement issued in Maiduguri  by Col. Timothy Atigha, the spokesman  of the 8 Task Force Division, said the troops also recovered bicycles and cows from the insurgents.</span></span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">He also said that the troops launched  two separate attacks against  the insurgents at Maza, Danari and Mowo villages of Marte and Monguno Local Government Areas.</span></span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">“In continuation of ongoing efforts to deny terrorists freedom of action in its area of responsibility, troops of the 8 Task Force Division have neutralised 10 terrorists in Maza village of Marte Local Government Area of the state.</span></span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">“The terrorists fell into an ambush laid by troops at about 9: 00 p.m.  on Tuesday  as they attempted to sneak back into their swampy hideouts in the Lake Chad Basin.</span></span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">“ The troops also recovered 52 rustled cows from the insurgents at Danari and Mowo villages in Monguno Local Government Area,” he said.</span></span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Atigha said that the troops recovered 10 bicycles, carts and  food items.</span></span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">He disclosed  that  the  insurgents had resorted to bicycles and carts as means of transportation due to the  intensified offensive of the military  against the insurgents.</span></span><br /> </div>

Nigeria Army kills 10 insurgents; recovers 52 cows

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Pastor arrested for human parts

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img src="http://18694-presscdn.pagely.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/The-Cherubim-and-Seraphim-Pastor-arrested-for-human-parts-.jpg" /></span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Police in Ogun state on Wednesday arrested a 77-year-old pastor, Samuel Babatunde and two other suspects in connection with the discovery of suspected human parts buried inside a church.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Babatunde is the founder of Cherubim and Seraphim Church, Itedo Isinmi Ayo Parish, Egan Road in Iyana-Iyesi area of Ota in Ado-Odo Ota LGA of Ogun.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The state Police Commissioner, Ahmed Iliyasu, who paraded the pastor in Ota, told reporters that the discovery followed the arrest on Saturday of a suspected serial kidnapper, Jeremiah Adeola.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He said that Adeola, 32, who specialised in kidnapping children, confessed that the pastor of the white garment church was the receiver of the abducted children.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The CP added that a 43-year-old herbalist, Haruna Afolabi, was among the suspects, who allegedly buried the human parts at the entrance of the church.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">According to the police boss, operatives attached to the police Area Command in Ota on Sunday received intelligence about Adeola and arrested him.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Iliyasu said: “On the strength of the intelligence, detectives from Ota Area Command were detailed to effect the arrest of the suspect.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“At about 10.20 a.m. of the date, their efforts paid off when the said Jeremiah Adeola was arrested.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“On interrogation, Adeola confessed being a serial kidnapper and mentioned a prophet of a white garment church as the receiver of the kidnapped children.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Upon interrogation, Adeola was taken to the house/church the said prophet at Iyana-Iyesi Ota, where one Prophet Samuel Babatunde, 77 years, the pastor in charge of the church and one Haruna Afolabi, 42 years, a traditional worshiper, were arrested.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“The floor of the church was dug as described by the first suspect and parts suspected strongly to be human parts were dug out,” Iliyasu said.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The commissioner said the police command would conduct forensic investigation into the case.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He assured that all those found guilty of the crime would be brought to justice, adding that Ogun State would never be a safe haven for criminals.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Speaking in an interview with newsmen, the pastor denied the allegation levelled against him.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Babatunde explained that a pig was buried alive inside the church contrary to claims that human parts were buried there.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He said that he carried out the act in order to bring good fortune, prosperity and comfort to his congregation.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Babatunde said though he met Adeola at a prayer mountain in Ibadan, he never had any dealing with the alleged serial kidnapper, whom he accused of being mentally unstable.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">However, Adeola insisted that the pastor was the receiver of some kidnapped children.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He said the cleric paid him N50, 000 each for the two children he supplied to him.</span></div> </div>

Pastor arrested for human parts

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Wizkid – Craving [New Song]

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <img src="http://tooxclusive.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Wizkid-1.jpg" /><br /> <br /> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 15px;"> Nigerian International star, Wizkid returns again with this new record titled <strong>Craving.</strong></div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 15px;"> The Star Boy has certainly got his fans craving with this new one.</div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 15px;"> This one is produced by Del’B.</div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 15px;"> Hopefully, this will be a chart topper.</div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 15px;"> Enjoy below</div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 15px;"> <a href="http://tooxclusive.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Wizkid-Craving.mp3" target="_blank">Download Here</a></div> </div>

Wizkid – Craving [New Song]

Nigerian International star, Wizkid returns again with this new record titled  Craving. The Star Boy has certainly got his fans cravin...

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2Baba - Gaga Shuffle [Official Video]

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 15px;"> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">2Baba – Gaaga Shuffle. After the release of Amplifier, 2baba is certainly take no break as he premieres the video of Gaaga Shuffle.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 15px;"> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The video which is released under the Hypertek Imprint features lots of cameo apperances.</span></div> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Enjoy below and keep up for more updates</span><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/lxTU_pANdhA" width="480"></iframe></span></div>

2Baba - Gaga Shuffle [Official Video]

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Ronaldo’s 5-match ban upheld, Zidane in trouble

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img src="http://18694-presscdn.pagely.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Ronaldo-to-miss-match-against-Barcelona-e1502895411488.jpg" /></span><br /> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Disciplinary Committee of the Real Spanish Football Federation has upheld the five match ban slammed on Real Madrid’s star Cristiano Ronaldo.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It means the player will be missing in action from today, when Madrid host at Santiago Bernabeu, Barcelona in the second leg of the Spanish SuperCup.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">According to multiple sources, the Committee turned down the appeal by Real Madrid.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The club had expected that the committee would review the sanction, following the red card earned by Ronaldo at the first leg of the SuperCup at Camp Nou on Sunday. The player got the five match ban because he also pushed the referee, Ricardo De Burgos Bengoetxea.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Coach Zinedine Zidane had hoped that Ronaldo would be spared when he on Tuesday reviewed tonight’s clash with Barcelona.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And reports said he may also be in soup as well, as the committee is scrutinising his comment about the ban, especially after he said: “I hope they’ve not got something against Cristiano Ronaldo and people do their job with integrity”. His statement is being interpreted as a challenge of the referee’s authority.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here is what Zidane said Tuesday about Ronaldo and the ban:</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“I am and we are very upset. I’m not going to get involved with the referees but, after what happened, to think that he’ll not play for five games, makes you think that something isn’t right. It’s too long for him. I’ve been very clear in my response. What happened happened, but when you look at the fact that Cristiano Ronaldo has got five matches, you have to admit that it’s a lot”</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Revoke the suspension?<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />“I hope that when they meet, they look at it thoroughly. I’m upset that he’s been suspended for five games after what happened. I don’t know what’s going to happen. I’m telling you how I feel after watching the match again. How is it not going to bother me. I don’t interfere with the work of the referee, we can all make mistakes, but it’s annoying that he’s got five games after what happened.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Cristiano Ronaldo’s mood<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />“Everyone can have their opinion but Cristiano Ronaldo is upset because he wants to play and when he doesn’t play he’s not happy, I hope they’ve not got something against Cristiano Ronaldo and people do their job with integrity. We’re upset that we are not going to have him with us for a long time. We’ll wait to see what happens tomorrow(today). The disciplinary committee is going to meet tomorrow(today) and after that we’ll see what we’re going to do”.</span></div> </div>

Ronaldo’s 5-match ban upheld, Zidane in trouble

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FG saves $3bn yearly on crude oil production— NNPC

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img src="http://18694-presscdn.pagely.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/NNPC-e1491333545387.jpg" /></span><br /> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) said the country had saved a minimum of  three billion dollars per annum on Crude oil production.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In a statement signed by Mr Ndu Ughamadu, Group General Manager, Group Affairs Division, on Wednesday in Abuja, it said the cost of crude oil production went down from 78 dollars per barrel as at August 2015 to 23 dollars per barrel.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This, it said represented 70.5 per cent reduction in production cost.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It said the Group General Manager of National Petroleum Investment Management Services (NAPIMS), a unit of NNPC, Mr Dafe Sejebor, disclosed this during the inauguration of the Anti-Corruption Committee of the unit.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He said NAPIMS arrived at the figure after looking at the difference between the 78 and 23 dollars which represent the old and new cost of production in relation to the present daily average production in the country.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“If you knock down your cost of production from 78 dollars per barrel to 23 dollars, take the difference and multiply by the average daily production, you will discover that we are saving a minimum of 3billion dollars in the upstream for both Production Sharing Contracts (PSCs) and Joint Ventures (JVs)”, he said.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He added that the target was to bring the cost of production to between 17 and 19 dollars for onshore and offshore production respectively.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He commended the Federal Government for its support to the NNPC management in tackling the challenges in the petroleum industry, especially the cash call exit agreement signed in 2016 and the reduction of contracting circle from three years to six months.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On the new Petroleum Policy, Sejebor said it was necessitated by the increasing difficulty in operating the petroleum industry within the framework of the old Petroleum Act in the face of the delayed passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB).</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He said the policy would restore investors’ confidence in the industry pending the full passage of the entire PIB by the National Assembly.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Commenting on the NAPIMS Anti-Corruption Committee, he  urged the management and staff to let the principles of accountability, integrity, honesty and transparency be their watchword.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He charged them to generate positive ideas to help tackle the challenges facing the industry and help reverse its fortunes.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He urged staff to key into the NNPC management’s zero tolerance for corruption.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Group Managing Director of NNPC, Dr Maikanti Baru, while inaugurating the Anti-Corruption Unit at Corporate Headquarters recently, had directed all the Strategic Business Units (SBUs) and Corporate Service Units (CSUs) to establish their own anti-corruption committees.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">NAPIMS is the first to comply with the directive.  </span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">NAN</span></div> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <br /></div>

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Donald Trump sacks Nigeria’s Ogunlesi as adviser through twitter

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img src="http://18694-presscdn.pagely.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/adebayo-ogunlesi-193x193.jpg" /></span><br /> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Nigerian born international CEO, Adebayo Ogunlesi has now ceased to be an adviser to embattled US President Donald Trump. Trump sacked him today along with other distinguished CEOs counselling him via two councils on how to “Make America Great Again”.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Trump sacked Ogunlesi on Twitter, when  he announced the dissolution of two business advisory councils, in one fell swoop.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ogunlesi was a member of  the Strategic and Policy Forum, one of the two disbanded by the unpredictable president. The other group was the Manufacturing Jobs Initiative Council.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ogunlesi, heads Global Infrastructure Partners, a private equity firm and one of Fortune 500 companies. He was  the only African on the panel.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The New York Times reported before Trump’s tweeted dissolution, that members of Ogunlesi’s panel were debating dissolving the body entirely as Trump wallowed deeper into bigotry quagmire. But Trump preempted their move.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Corporate leaders had hoped that President Trump would help businesses by slashing taxes and gutting regulations. It is not clear how much he will deliver on that score. On top of that, he is putting many chief executives in the position of answering for a president with an unparalleled track record of outraging people, most recently at a contentious press conference on Tuesday when he drew a false equivalence between the white supremacists who protested in Charlottesville, Va., last weekend and counter-protesters.”, NYT reported.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Trump had earned rebuke and isolation from business leaders for supporting racial bigotry,  White Supremacists and the KKK, following his remarks that failed to blame the tragic violence in Charlottesville, Virginia on the groups. Instead, he blamed all the sides and the group that challenged the racists.</span></div> <div class="g-item g-text " style="backface-visibility: hidden !important; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #181818; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="g-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/14/business/merck-ceo-trump-charlottesville.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=b-lede-package-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0" 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;"> </a>leaders of three companies — Kenneth Frazier of Merck, Kevin Plank of Under Armour and Brian Krzanich of Intel — were the first to resign from the Manufacturing Jobs Initiative Council.</span></div> <div class="g-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They resigned on Monday because Mr. Trump was slow to condemn the white supremacists during the weekend and blamed “many sides” for the violence.</span></div> </div> </div>

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Gunmen attack EFCC Abuja office

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img src="http://18694-presscdn.pagely.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/03-1-e1502892168827.jpg" /></span><br /> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <div id="yiv3679210202yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502874440209_12599" style="backface-visibility: hidden !important; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #181818; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span id="yiv3679210202yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502874440209_12600" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Unidentified Gunmen early today struck  at the headquarters of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, located at Wuse Zone 7, Abuja.</b></span></span></div> </div> <div class="yiv3679210202y_msg_container" style="backface-visibility: hidden !important; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #181818; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </div> <div id="yiv3679210202yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502874440209_12602" style="backface-visibility: hidden !important; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #181818; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <span id="yiv3679210202yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502874440209_12603" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span id="yiv3679210202yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502874440209_12604" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span>The group of heavily armed men invaded the office at about 05.00 hours and shot into the premises, damaging vehicles parked in the premises. However, the attack was repelled by guards on duty.</span></span></div> <div class="yiv3679210202y_msg_container" style="backface-visibility: hidden !important; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #181818; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </div> <div id="yiv3679210202yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502874440209_12606" style="backface-visibility: hidden !important; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #181818; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <span id="yiv3679210202yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502874440209_12607" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The hoodlums escaped in a getaway vehicle but not without leaving a message; a white envelope dropped by the fleeing attackers was found to contain a death threat addressed to Ishaku Sharu, a senior investigator with the Commission.</span></span></div> <div style="backface-visibility: hidden !important; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #181818; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </div> <div style="backface-visibility: hidden !important; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #181818; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <span id="yiv3679210202yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502874440209_12607" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ishaku who heads the Foreign Exchange Malpractices Fraud Section is in charge of corruption investigation involving several politically exposed persons and retired military brass hats.</span></span></div> <div class="yiv3679210202y_msg_container" style="backface-visibility: hidden !important; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #181818; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </div> <div id="yiv3679210202yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502874440209_12609" style="backface-visibility: hidden !important; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #181818; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span id="yiv3679210202yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502874440209_12610" style="box-sizing: border-box;">The attack on the Zone 7 office which houses the Commission’s </span><span id="yiv3679210202yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502874440209_12611" style="box-sizing: border-box;">AMCON Desk, Procurement Fraud and Foreign Exchange Malpractices Sections,</span><span id="yiv3679210202yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502874440209_12612" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> is coming few weeks after another investigator, Austin Okwor was shot and wounded by unknown assailants in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.</span></span></div> <div class="yiv3679210202y_msg_container" style="backface-visibility: hidden !important; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #181818; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </div> <div id="yiv3679210202yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502874440209_12614" style="backface-visibility: hidden !important; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #181818; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <span id="yiv3679210202yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502874440209_12615" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The latest incident has already been reported to the police for investigation.</span></span></div> </div>

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Suspected kidnapper beaten to death by angry Mob in Lagos

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik03AJWcvan0_1dEy8B0ONq-zf-qtcoZAjFu2yiQ2x8Ld5r3CWdwTDEZGnxldx0NksXM6li5Ev7EeTLOE03_oY5j1_VgXsHH-zdK0fzvfIyqfczx0_DVZ-rRgIvrXJRJxu05_vDvUZPwjw/s320/8.jpg" /></span><br /> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">According to LIB, a suspected kidnapper was beaten to death by an angry mob at Brown Street, in Akinpelu, Oshodi area of Lagos State <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1991914926" style="box-sizing: border-box;" tabindex="0">on Tuesday</span>, for llegedly attempting to kidnap three children.</span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was gathered that the suspect allegedly kidnapped three children who were returning from their holiday coaching. According to eyewitnesses, the alleged kidnapper was caught with a Ghana must go bag, which he was struggling with along Salami Street.</span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This prompted suspicious residents to question him, and to their surprise, they discovered three children inside the bag.</span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The abducted children were said to have lost their voices due to suffocation as they barely struggled to stay alive until they were rescued.</span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sources told The Guardian that before the suspect was lynched, he alleged to be a Further Mathematics teacher from one Odeogberin International Nursery and Primary School at Owoseni Street, Oshodi but when he was taken to the school, the headmaster said he was not a teacher and had never seen him before.</span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A resident, who simply identified herself as Omotoke, said area boys took the kidnapper around and asked for his identity but when no one recognized him, they stripped him of his clothes.</span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“When they opened his bag, two of the children appeared to have died while one was still breathing. At the sight of the lifeless bodies, the angry mob beat him until he died,” she said.</span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Akinpelu police station, the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) noted that the suspect’s body has been deposited in mortuary.</span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Confirming the incident, Spokesperson for the Lagos State Police Command, ASP Olarinde Famous-Cole, told newsmen that the case is that of jungle justice.</span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"The information I received from the DPO is that someone was lynched by a mob for attempting to kidnap two babies. The DPO has been waiting for anyone to come and report attempted kidnap of his or her babies, but as we speak no one has shown up. Before our police officers could get to scene, the suspect was killed.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Our officers took the body of the suspect to the hospital and arrested some persons who were at the scene when the incident happened in order to aid our investigation."</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSoD8yCc6PIxG3LeY8n8dZMIdnb9qy8B9KwOK4KeBBBBkl7tCu_W7YwWT4wXS_yLTO0D6tFlwBxbsqx0UDrsDEcLeIP2Hm7G5nhdswAlssR1pjQR_FRMHfAPyGiW3vtjRCp4lABbEtEtxq/s400/12.jpg" /></span></div> </div>

Suspected kidnapper beaten to death by angry Mob in Lagos

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Ogoni Clean-up: MOSOP accuses Shell

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img alt="Ogoni land, polluted with oil spills" src="http://18694-presscdn.pagely.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Ogoni-land-polluted-with-oil-spills.jpg" /></span><br /> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP) has accused Shell Petroleum Development Development Company (SPDC) of refusing to pay its share of the counterpart funding for the clean-up.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">MOSOP President Legbosi Piagbara told newsmen in Port Harcourt on Wednesday that Shell had not shown enough willingness to be part of the exercise.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">According to him, the company is supposed to pay 200 million dollars annually into the clean-up trust fund.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He said that the clean-up would not be realisable without Shell’s fulfilment of its part of the funding plan.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Piagbara said that the 10 million dollars the company had paid was a take-off fund for the clean-up project.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“This cannot handle the project itself.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“The agreement is an annual payment of 200 million dollars for the clean-up; as we speak, shell cannot say it has paid such money.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Shell has not lived up to the agreement; we are expecting it to pay its share of the funding so that efforts on the project will become visible,’’ he said.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The clean-up of oil devastated sites in Ogoni has remained topical, following the recent release of 10 million dollars by shell.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Only recently, the National Youth Council of Ogoni People (NYCOP) said it was unsatisfied with the handling of the funds released by shell.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">NYCOP said it would ensure full assessment of all expenditures concerning the Ogoni clean-up exercise.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Vice President Yemi Osinbajo in June 2016 kicked-started the oil spillage clean-up in Bodo, Gokana Local Government Area of Rivers.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) scientific study released in 2011 exposed the large-scale, continued contamination of the water and soil in Ogoniland.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The study also reported the serious threats such as environmental contamination posed to human health.</span></div> </div>

Ogoni Clean-up: MOSOP accuses Shell

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Beyonce to buy Houston Rockets

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><img src="https://media.tmz.com/2017/08/04/0804-beyonce-showing-cleavage-drinking-instagram-2.jpg" /></span><br /> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Read Tmz reports below; </span><br /> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <br /> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> <div style="background-color: white; color: #232323; padding: 0px 0px 18px; word-spacing: 2.55px;"> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.tmz.com/person/beyonce-knowles/" style="color: #c90202; line-height: 20px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Beyonce</a>'s mom tells TMZ Sports it would be "really great" if her daughter became the next owner of the Houston Rockets -- saying she's got the Houston connection that fans would love! </span></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #232323; padding: 0px 0px 18px; word-spacing: 2.55px;"> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">After current Rockets owner Leslie Alexander announced he was selling the team last month, Beyonce's name showed up in reports as a very interested buyer. </span></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #232323; padding: 0px 0px 18px; word-spacing: 2.55px;"> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So, when we saw <a href="http://www.tmz.com/person/tina-knowles/" style="color: #c90202; line-height: 20px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Tina Knowles</a> leaving Mastro's Steakhouse in Bev Hills on Tuesday, we had to ask ... what's up?!</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #232323; padding: 0px 0px 18px; word-spacing: 2.55px;"> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Tina wasn't spilling the tea on B's business plans -- but did explain why she thinks the Rockets would be the perfect fit for her daughter. </span></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #232323; padding: 0px; word-spacing: 2.55px;"> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But if it happens, will mom attend every game? Don't plan on it</span></div> </blockquote> </div>

Beyonce to buy Houston Rockets

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Over 150 dead in India flood havoc

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img src="http://18694-presscdn.pagely.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/indian-flood.jpeg" /></span><br /> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Not few than 150 people have died and 10 million affected in recent floods and landslides across India. The country’s IT capital Bangalore was the latest to grapple with the torrential monsoon rains.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“In the eastern state of Bihar, the floods have killed 56 people since Sunday and affected nearly seven million,’’ State Disaster Management Official, Pratyay Amrit, said.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Major rivers in Bihar, which neighbours Nepal, were overflowing, causing thousands of huts to wash away and damage to bridges, highways and crops.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The deaths were due to wall collapses, drowning and electrocution, while thousands of homeless were lodged in government-run relief camps.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The state officials said that 28 people have also died in the fresh wave of flooding in the north-eastern state of Assam since Thursday.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">More than three million people were affected either displaced, stranded or suffering damage to crops and property.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Another 46 people died in a massive landslide triggered by heavy rains in the northern mountainous state of Himachal Pradesh on Sunday.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In neighbouring Uttarakhand, 17 people were killed and more than 30 including soldiers were missing in floods, domestic media reported.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Eight more people were killed in floods in the eastern states of West Bengal and Meghalaya.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">India’s IT hub of Bangalore was deluged by heavy overnight rains between Monday and Tuesday, the worst since 1890, broadcaster NDTV reported.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The downpour flooded several areas of the city while electricity supplies were cut as a precautionary measure.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Office-goers faced a tough time as several arterial roads and subways were waterlogged.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">More rain was forecast in the coming days in the flood-hit areas, according to the Indian Meteorological Department. </span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">dpa/NAN</span></div> </div>

Over 150 dead in India flood havoc

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SuperCup: Madrid wait for Ronaldo appeal

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img src="http://18694-presscdn.pagely.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/IMG_5223-e1502732895593.jpg" /></span><br /> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Real Madrid expect today the final word by the Spanish Football Federation on the appeal lodged by the club on the five match ban on star player, Cristiano Ronaldo.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Coach Zinedine Zidane gave the hint Tuesday during a preview of the second leg of the SuperCup between the club and Barcelona at the Santiago Bernabeu on Wednesday night.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ronaldo and the club are upset that Ronaldo has been barred for so long, Zidane said, warning his players to be wary of their opponents tonight,</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Barcelona can cause you problems at any time”, said  Zidane as he analysed the second leg of the Spanish Super Cup.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Anything is possible. In football nothing is certain. We’ll have to play very well because Barcelona can cause you problems at any time. In the first leg they had chances so we´ll have to play well. We did well in the first leg, but we have to play the whole tie until the end”.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“I don’t know how they’re going to replace Neymar, but I’m not very interested in that because I only concentrate on my own team. We don’t have that much time to think about other teams. I’m only thinking about tomorrow’s game against a difficult opponent. They’re a team with a lot of pride and they’re going to come here wanting to turn the game around. We have to be prepared. The team that plays will try to play in the best possible way, I have no doubt about that. We’re not going to let our guard down because we expect a difficult game, more difficult than the first leg”.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Praise for Asensio<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />“He’s working very well, like the whole group. We all want to work well. We’ll have a lot of different games and come up against different teams throughout the year. We prepare so that when a player plays, he does well”.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ronaldo:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />“I am and we are very upset. I’m not going to get involved with the referees but, after what happened, to think that he’ll not play for five games, makes you think that something isn’t right. It’s too long for him. I’ve been very clear in my response. What happened happened, but when you look at the fact that Cristiano Ronaldo has got five matches, you have to admit that it’s a lot”</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Revoke the suspension?<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />“I hope that when they meet, they look at it thoroughly. I’m upset that he’s been suspended for five games after what happened. I don’t know what’s going to happen. I’m telling you how I feel after watching the match again. How is it not going to bother me. I don’t interfere with the work of the referee, we can all make mistakes, but it’s annoying that he’s got five games after what happened.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Cristiano Ronaldo’s mood<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />“Everyone can have their opinion but Cristiano Ronaldo is upset because he wants to play and when he doesn’t play he’s not happy, I hope they’ve not got something against Cristiano Ronaldo and people do their job with integrity. We’re upset that we are not going to have him with us for a long time. We’ll wait to see what happens tomorrow(today). The disciplinary committee is going to meet tomorrow(today) and after that we’ll see what we’re going to do”.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Proud of his squad<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />“A coach expects his team to be right when the official matches begin. We prepared for that and on the 8th we competed very well, we played very well and won showing our personality. It was down to all the hard work on the tour. We’re happy about what we’ve done so far, but it’s a long season and we still have to work hard. We’re going day to day. I’m very happy with my squad and all the players. Everybody is going to stay but before the 31st anything can happen, that’s out of my control”.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“I’m proud of everything that they’ve done. It wasn’t easy to get here. We’ve got a lot of talent. There is a lot of work behind all this and I value the work of everyone: the players, everyone who works with me and those behind the scenes. We must congratulate everyone for the good work done. It’s the beginning of a long and difficult season. It’s going to get harder every day”.</span></div> </div>

SuperCup: Madrid wait for Ronaldo appeal

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U.S threatens Venezuela

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img src="http://18694-presscdn.pagely.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Pence.jpg" /></span><br /> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Vice President of United States, Mr. Mike Pence, currently on tour of South and central America, has threatened that his country will apply its full weight to force Venezuela to return to democracy.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pence told an audience in Colombia that Washington was “absolutely determined to bring the full measure of American economic and diplomatic power to bear until we see democracy restored in Venezuela.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The country, U.S, had also not ruled out military option.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“I’m not going to rule out a military option [to quell unrest in Venezuela],” said US President Donald Trump on Friday.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“We have many options for Venezuela, this is our neighbor. We’re all over the world and we have troops all over the world in places very, very far away. Venezuela is not very far away, and the people are suffering and dying. We have many options for Venezuela including a possible military option if necessary.”</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“President Trump is a leader who says what he means and means what he says,” Pence said.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“But the president sent me here to continue to marshal the unprecedented support of countries across Latin America to achieve by peaceable means the restoration of democracy in Venezuela, and we believe it is achievable by those means.”</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But while Pence didn’t put his foot down against US military intervention, Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos did. “Since friends have to tell each other the truth, I have told Vice President Pence that the possibility of a military intervention shouldn’t even be considered, neither in Colombia nor in Latin America,”</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Santos said through a translator. “America is a continent of peace. It is the land of peace. Let us preserve it as such.”</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">US Vice President Pence started the trip amid diplomatic crisis With Venezuela.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Read more: <a href="https://sputniknews.com/latam/201708161056495845-pence-american-power-against-venezuela/" 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;">Sputnik</a></span></div> </div>

U.S threatens Venezuela

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Air Force man to die for killing girlfriend as a result of jealousy

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img src="http://18694-presscdn.pagely.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/IMG_5231.jpg" /></span><br /> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A Nigeria air-force man to be killed for shooting his girlfriend to death as a result of jealousy. <span style="background-color: white; color: #212121;">A 10-man Nigeria Air Force (NAF) General Court Martial, which tried Air Craftsman Kalu Bernard over the alleged killing of his girl friend and colleague, Solape Oladipupo, has sentenced him to death by hanging.</span></span><br /> <span style="background-color: white; color: #212121;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span> <span style="background-color: white; color: #212121;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Military sources indicated that Bernard, after shooting his double-dating girlfriend, was overpowered by the lover while trying to shoot him.</span></span><br /> <span style="background-color: white; color: #212121;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Flight Lt. M. A. Umoh, Judge Advocate of the court, in a 70-page narration of the case that lasted through the early hours of Wednesday, listed the eight-count charge as murder, failure to perform military duty, housebreaking and impersonation.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <img src="http://18694-presscdn.pagely.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/IMG_5232.jpg" /></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Others included loss of service property, disobedience of service order and prejudice to service discipline.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“The accused has pleaded not guilty to all the counts , but the prosecution has proved its case against him beyond reasonable doubt,” he stated.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In his judgement, President of the court, Group Capt. Elisha Bindul, who said that the accused was found guilty in six, out of the eight-count charge preferred against him, sentenced him to death by hanging.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He, however, said that the sentence was subject to the confirmation of the convening  authority.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The defense counsel, Abimiku Ewuga, had earlier prayed the court to temper justice with mercy in its sentence, especially as the accused was a first time offender and bread winner of his family.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Speaking with newsmen after the judgement, Ewuga commended the court for being thorough, but said that he would appeal against the sentence.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On his part, prosecution counsel, Oluremi Ilori, hailed the judgement, declaring that everybody, including the deceased, would be happy with the outcome.</span></div> </div>

Air Force man to die for killing girlfriend as a result of jealousy

A Nigeria air-force man to be killed for shooting his girlfriend to death as a result of jealousy.  A 10-man Nigeria Air Force (NAF) Gener...

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Suicide bomber hits Borno, kills 16

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <img alt="Suicide bomber kills 16 in Borno" src="http://18694-presscdn.pagely.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Suicide-bomber-kills-16-in-Borno.jpg" /><br /> <br /> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> According to the report reaching us now, the Nigeria Police in Borno has said that not fewer than 16 persons were killed and 82 others wounded in a suicide bomb attack in Konduga Local Government Area of the state.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> The commissioner, Mr Damian Chukwu, confirmed the attack in a Short Message Service (SMS) sent to newsmen on Wednesday in Maiduguri.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> Chukwu said that the inicident occurred at a market at about 5: 30 p.m. when three suicide bombers hit the market.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> Dozens of people were killed in a separate suicide bomb attacks on Tuesday in Konduga local government area of Borno.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> He said the suicide bombers a male and two female detonated the explosives at The Busy Market blew up themselves and killed 16 people.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> Chukwu said that 82 other persons sustained various degrees of injuries in the attack, adding that the wounded were evacuated to Specialists Hospital, Maiduguri.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> According to him, the command has deployed EOD to sanitize the area.</div> </div>

Suicide bomber hits Borno, kills 16

According to the report reaching us now, the Nigeria Police in Borno has said that not fewer than 16 persons were killed and 82 others w...

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Obama’s tweet on Virginia attack breaks record

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img src="http://18694-presscdn.pagely.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/C-Me1mWU0AAb1qP-e1493070256731.jpg" /></span><br /> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A tweet written by former US president Barack Obama in the wake of the white supremacist rally in Virginia has become the most liked message ever posted on Twitter.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin or his background or his religion…” Obama wrote on Saturday, quoting late South African leader and Nelson Mandela, whom Obama has called a “personal hero.”</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The tweet was posted after Heather Heyer, a 32-year-old paralegal who was protesting the white nationalist rally in the city of Charlottesville, was killed when a driver slammed into a crowd of demonstrators.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The message by the 44th – and first black – US president had been liked nearly 3 million times by early Wednesday, making it the all-time most liked tweet, according to Twitter’s official feed.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It had been re-tweeted more than 1.2 million times.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Below the message is a picture of Obama greeting a group of young kids looking at him from a window.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After the initial tweet Obama followed with two more quotes from Mandela’s autobiography “The Long Walk to Freedom.”</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love,” Obama wrote. “For love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.”</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">dpa/NAN</span></div> </div>

Obama’s tweet on Virginia attack breaks record

A tweet written by former US president Barack Obama in the wake of the white supremacist rally in Virginia has become the most liked mes...

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