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Political party teach women how to urinate standing up

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A local wing of Austria’s Green Party has stirred an uncommon interest online and in neighboring Germany with its agenda for a meeting today: teaching women how to urinate standing up.<br />
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<a name='more' id="more"></a>The Green Party in Perchtoldsdorf, Lower Austria, which for the past 12 years has held “women’s breakfasts” to discuss social and political issues, said today’s meeting will be “everything that concerns the pelvic base.”<br />
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 The party said the discussion will include instructions on how to urinate from a standing position at music festivals, sporting events, and other locations where unclean restrooms are likely to be found. The participants at the meeting will be instructed by an expert on how to build simple devices to assist with standing urination, organizers said.<br />
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Martha Gunzl, a local councillor and Green Party member, said she and other organizers were shocked at how much attention the planned meeting has been gathering online.<br />
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 “We always discuss controversial subjects, but because we are just a local group nobody has ever shown any interest up until now,” she told Der Westen. Gunzl said a few male members of the local party will be on hand to help with security, because the increased interest has led to “many nasty emails.”<br />
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 The planned discussion has led to much mockery on Austrian social media, with one user saying “doing it at breakfast does make sense – coffee pushes everything through.” But women have also come to the defence of the Green Party, with one saying “only a man who has never been on a completely piss-covered women’s toilet can’t see the necessity of such a lesson.”

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26 die in Lagos-Ibadan expressway accident

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The Oyo State Police Command said that 26 people died in the early Saturday morning ghastly motor accident, which occurred at the Ibadan end of the Lagos/Ibadan Expressway.<br />
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The Command’s Public Relations Officer, SP Kunle Ajisebutu confirmed the accident and said that11 others including three children sustained severe injuries.<br />
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Ajisebutu said that eyewitnesses reported that two commercial buses had a head-on-collision with the vehicles immediately bursting into flames claiming 26 lives.<br />
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“Corpses of the dead have been deposited at Adeoyo General Hospital, Yemetu, while the injured were taken to the Ibadan Central Hospital, and the University College Hospital, (UCH) Ibadan for medical attention.<br />
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“Police investigation has begun.<br />
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“The victims were evacuated by a combined team of police men from the Toll Gate Police Division and men of the FRSC.<br />
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“The Oyo State Commissioner of Police, Abiodun Odude visited the scene immediately,” he said.<br />
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Mr Deji Bobade, the Public Relations Officer of the UCH, confirmed that a male accident victim was admitted at the Accident and Emergency Unit of the hospital at about 7. 30 am. (NAN)

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FRSC to clampdown on drivers using phones while driving

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The Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC), Plateau Command, says it will from Monday clampdown on drivers using phones while driving on the highways.<br />
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The Sector Commander, Corps Commander Pat Emeordi, who stated this on Saturday while briefing newsmen in Jos, said anyone caught would pay a fine of N4, 000.<br />
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Emeordi said that the FRSC Establishment Act 2007, Section 10 (4), prohibits the use of phones while driving for obvious reasons.<br />
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“When people drive and make calls or do text messages, it causes distractions and everyone knows that driving requires a 100 per cent concentration.<br />
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“But the sad thing is that many people, including those who are supposed to know, are defaulting. We are saying that the act should stop.<br />
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“The situation is so bad that the House of Representatives on the 7th of March had to take a cursory look at the situation and everyone is worried,” she said.<br />
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According to her, the use of phones while driving has been identified as one of the major causes of road crashes in recent times.<br />
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“In the couple of days, therefore, beginning from Monday, we are going out massively to clampdown on those who may default,” she said.<br />
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Emeordi also advised road users to always ensure little children were kept at the backseats of cars as a safety measure.<br />
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The commander stated that children kept in the front seat of cars face a higher risk than those who use belt at the backseats.<br />
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According to her, the command will soon embark on sensitisation visits to schools and hospitals to educate parents on the dangers of keeping children in front seat or not strapping them to their seats.

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I pray report of release of over 80 Chibok girls is true - #BBOG leader Ezekwesili

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Leader of the Bring Back Our Girls campaign group, Dr Oby Ezekwesili says she is praying hard that reports of the release of 80 Chibok girls by Boko Haram group is true.<br />
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” You CAN’T imagine how HARD my heart is beating right now as I furiously PRAY that this news of release of 80 of OUR #ChibokGirls is true.🙏🙏🙏,” Ezekwesili tweeted Saturday evening on his Twitter handle, Obyezeks.<br />
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Saharareporters reported on Saturday evening that a top military source has confirmed the release of eighty of the abducted girls.<br />
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“None of us CAN EVER imagine how 80 Parents of OUR #ChibokGirls would feel should that news be TRUE. NO. ONLY THEY CAN KNOW THAT FEELING🙏🏽🙏🏽,” she added in another tweet.<br />
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Meanwhile, the Defence Headquarters said the media should await confirmation when contacted on the reported release.<br />
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Official sources in Presidential Villa also declined to speak on the matter claiming they have no information on it.<br />
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A highly dependable military source confirmed the release of some abducted Chibok girls but was not how many were freed.<br />
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Senator Shehu Sani from Kaduna State in a tweet said “The Only authority to confirm the release of the Chibok girls is the Federal government.However,credible negotiations took place.”

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“Credible negotiations” preceded release of Chibok girls - Senator

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Senator Shehu Sani of Kaduna Central District has confirmed that ‘credible negotiations’ took place ahead of the release of some Chibok girls on Saturday.<br />
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Sani who had earlier on Saturday tweeted on his handle @Shehusani that “Chibok girls shall be free Insha Allah” noted that the only authority to confirm the release of the abducted girls is the federal government.<br />
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Unconfirmed reports indicate that between 62 and 82 Chibok girls were released on Saturday by the Islamic militant group, Boko Haram.<br />
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All government and military officials contacted on the release claimed not to have any information on the development.

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BREAKING NEWS: 82 Chibok girls released from Boko Haram captivity

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Many Nigerian schoolgirls who were among more than 200 kidnapped by Boko Haram in 2014 have been released, multiple sources told AFP on Saturday, with unconfirmed reports that at least 80 have been freed.<br />
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“I can confirm they have been released,” said a senior government minister, who asked not to be identified, adding that an official statement would be released later. A military and a civilian militia source in Banki, near the border with Cameroon, said “at least 80” girls were brought to the town late afternoon on Saturday. “The girls are now lodged in the military barracks and will be flown to (the Borno state capital) Maiduguri tomorrow (Sunday),” said the military source. The civilian militia member gave an identical account.<br />
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Enoch Mark, a Christian pastor whose two daughters were among those kidnapped, said he was told of the release by the Bring Back Our Girls pressure group and an official in Maiduguri.<br />
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He added: “This is good news to us. We have been waiting for this day.<br />
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We hope the remaining girls will soon be released.” Bring Back Our Girls said it was awaiting an official statement but added: “Our hopes and expectations are high as we look forward to this news being true and confirmed.”<br />
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Boko Haram fighters stormed the Government Girls Secondary School in the remote town of Chibok on the evening of April 14, 2014 and kidnapped 276 girls. Fifty-seven managed to escape in the hours that followed but the remaining 219 were held by the group.<br />
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Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau claimed in a video message that they had converted to Islam. The audacious kidnapping brought the insurgency to world attention, triggering global outrage that galvanised support from the former US first lady Michelle Obama and Hollywood stars.<br />
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Twenty-one girls were released in October last year after negotiations between Boko Haram and the Nigerian government brokered by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Swiss government.<br />
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Three others were also found.<br />
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At the time of the release of the 21, President Muhammadu Buhari’s spokesman Garba Shehu said the government was hoping to secure the release of 83 others being held by a different Boko Haram faction.<br />
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Last month he said in a radio interview that there were ongoing negotiations involving “some foreign entities” to release the 195 girls believed still held.<br />
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He told BBC Hausa the ICRC and Swiss government “have not withdrawn their support in the negotiations”. Other countries were also involved, he added, without elaborating.

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REVEALED: 82 Freed Chibok Girls To Be Flown First To Maiduguri

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The 82 Chibok girls, who regained their freedom today from Boko Haram captivity, are to be flown first to Maiduguri, Borno capital on Sunday, not Abuja.<br />
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A reliable Presidency source, who disclosed this on Saturday night, said the liberated girls were currently in Banki, a border town in Borno<br />
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The 82 girls were released to international negotiators who have been working in collaboration with the Federal government for their safe return, since they were kidnapped in April 2014.<br />
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The girls were released Saturday afternoon.<br />
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“The girls are now lodged in the military barracks and will be flown to (the Borno state capital) Maiduguri tomorrow (Sunday),” a military told a news agency.<br />
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A civilian militia member gave an identical account.<br />
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Enoch Mark, a Christian pastor whose two daughters were among those kidnapped, said he was told of the release by the Bring Back Our Girls pressure group and an official in Maiduguri.<br />
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He added: “This is good news to us. We have been waiting for this day. We hope the remaining girls will soon be released.”

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Lagos council polls: We will spring surprises - PDP

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Ahead of the July 22 council polls in Lagos State, the Peoples Democratic Party says it is confident that its internal wranglings will be resolved for a “good showing” at the polls.<br />
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The party’s State Publicity Secretary, Mr Taofik Gani, said on Saturday said the party was “closing ranks” for the forthcoming council elections. “The factions in the party in Lagos State are resolving their differences to put up a strong showing in the election. “The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC)or any other party that had ruled out the PDP’s chances will be surprised at the unity of purpose with which the party will approach the election. “We will meet them at the polls as we shall surprise them, ” he said.<br />
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Gani said disagreements were normal in politics, adding “the party will reach a consensus on its candidates for the election across the 20 Local Government Areas and 37 Local Council Development Areas.” He said the party would strategise and consolidate on the “success achieved” in the last general election in the state.<br />
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Gani pointed out that the party already has some strongholds in the state and that it would help the party to spring more surprises at the polls. According to him, most Lagosians are “not satisfied with the performance of the APC” both at the federal and state levels. NAN reports that leadership crisis has created two factions in the party in Lagos — the Mr Moshood Salvador faction and Mr Segun Adewale faction just as leadership crisis has torn the party apart at the national level with two former governors — Ahmed Makarfi and Ali Modu-Sheriff — battling for its soul<br />
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The Supreme Court has fixed May 25 to hear an application for the withdrawal of appeal filed against the National Chairman of the PDP, Ali Modu Sheriff. Makarfi, the Chairman of the National Caretaker Committee of PDP, had approached the apex court to challenge the affirmation of Sheriff as chairman. Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission (LASIEC) has fixed July 22 for the council polls and July 29 for run-off.

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UTME: Crosscheck your data before Saturday midnight, JAMB tells candidates

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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has urged prospective candidates for its Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) to crosscheck the data on their registration forms for the last time on May 6. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The board’s Head of Media and Information, Dr Fabian Benjamin, made the call in an interview on Saturday in Lagos.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">The call comes ahead of the 2017 UTME scheduled for May 13 across 633 centres nationwide. NAN reports that registration of candidates for the examination was closed by the board by 12 midnight on Friday, May 5. According to Benjamin, the call for the crosschecking of data by prospective candidates was to ensure total inclusiveness.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">He added that the board intended to ensure that no candidate was left out during the examination due to one reason or the other. “All candidates who desire to do any change on their registration details are urged to do so today as the platform closes finally by 9 p.m. of Saturday May 6. </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">“We are giving all the candidates the last chance to ensure that everyone is carried along and provided with equal opportunity. “We also want to avoid a situation whereby candidates will have cause to complain of one incident or the other just before the commencement of the examination,’’ Benjamin said.</span></span></div>

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'We’ll shutdown Nigeria if Buhari fails to conduct a media chat in 14 days'

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A pro-democracy and good governance group, Concerned Nigerians, has threatened to shut down the country in peaceful protest if President Muhammadu Buhari fails to conduct a media chat in two weeks to let Nigerians know the true state of his health.<br />
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In a statement signed and made available to newsmen by both its Convener, Prince Deji Adeyanju and the Secretary, Dr. John Danfulani, it said the secret handling of President Buhari’s health by those it called a cabal has placed the country in uncertain state economically. The group also threatened to call for Buhari’s resignation should he fail to address the nation.<br />
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“For several weeks, the health of President Muhammadu Buhari has been the source of speculation. He has not appeared in public for several weeks and has failed to attend several official functions including Federal Executive Cabinet meetings. “The handling of the situation relating to President Buhari’s health has led to a lot of political uncertainty in the country.<br />
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This economic uncertainty has in turn led to a lot of economic uncertainty as major economic stakeholders and players are unable to make short, middle and long term economic decisions. “Furthermore, the uncertainty about President Buhari’s health is stoking ethnic and religious tensions. Only recently a user of the social networking site – Facebook – threatened to kill 200 innocent Nigerians if President Buhari dies.<br />
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This threat may not be unconnected with rumours making rounds in the northern parts of the country that President Buhari was poisoned.<br />
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“To this end, we call on President Buhari to, as a matter of urgency, publicly address the nation on the state of his health and other national issues. Such an address will go a long way in assuaging the socio-economic and political tensions. “If President Buhari fails or refuses to address the nation within 14 days of this statement, we will commence a series of nationwide peaceful processions calling on President Buhari to resign from office.<br />
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The processions will also call on the Federal Executive Council and the National Assembly to set up a committee to assess his health in line with Section 144 of the Constitution if he fails or refuses to do so. “While we recognise that illnesses can afflict anyone, particularly someone of President Buhari’s age, an occupant of the Office of the President has to be more forthcoming with information regarding his health.<br />
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It is an obligation that the President bears to conduct himself in a manner that does not affect the peace, order and good governance of the country.<br />
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“In all this, we wish President Buhari a speedy recovery from the illnesses that plague him. However, we believe that he can no longer recover in a manner that plagues the entire country.”

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DSS arrests Ifeanyi Ubah over N11 Billion petrol theft

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The Chairman of Capital Oil and Gas Limited, Ifeanyi Ubah, has been arrested by the Department of State Services (DSS).<br />
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The DSS disclosed this in a statement issued on Saturday by its spokesman, Tony Opuiyo.<br />
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Opuiyo said Ubah was arrested on Friday in connection with the theft of petrol kept by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) in his Lagos tank farm.<br />
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The product was valued at over N11 billion.<br />
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The agency said Ubah’s action amounted to economic sabotage, with “capacity to negatively impact on national economy.”<br />
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Opuiyo said the Capital Oil and Gas chairman also engaged in other activities inimical to national security and public order.<br />
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He said, “In furtherance of his gimmicks to undermine the government and people of Nigeria, he has incited members of the Petroleum Tanker Drivers (PTD), a critical player in the downstream sub-sector of the Petroleum Industry, to refuse/stop the lifting of products.<br />
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“This is part of his plans to curry their sentiments and cause them to embark on strike and also stage protests in his favour with the ulterior motive of arm-twisting the NNPC to abandon the cause of recovering the stolen products. The implications of this on law and order are common knowledge. It is consequent upon this that the Service arrested and will prosecute him forthwith.<br />
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” The public is hereby reassured that the Service will collaborate with appropriate agencies to ensure that the mischievous activities of any person or group(s) to engage in illegal activities will not affect the effective distribution of products across the country. It will also support such agencies to bring to book individuals or companies involved in any criminal act that undermines the nation’s economy.”<br />
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Rauf Aregbesola denies inflating contracts cost

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Osun State Governor, Mr Rauf Aregbesola has debunked the insinuation that he inflated the cost of contracts in the state and insisted that the roads he constructed were cost effective.<br />
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Speaking during a nightlong interactive session tagged 'Ogbeni Till Day Break', live on television; Aregbesola said those that were accusing him of inflating road construction contracts were not fair to him.<br />
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While responding to questions, the governor made frantic efforts to clear the air on the accusation that he inflated the cost of road construction.<br />
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His words: "We are not inflating costs of projects in Osun as speculated by some people. We are prudent in the way we finance the roads we constructed. We constructed our roads at reasonable costs."<br />
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"We cannot specifically give the cost at which we constructed roads per kilometer because certain portions of the roads required special treatment. The structures of our roads are very superb and we cannot give the cost per kilometer.<br />
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"Check the cost of road construction in other states and compare it with the cost at which we are constructing roads in Osun. The roads we are constructing in Osun are the best and we built them at reasonable”<br />
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"Those that are accusing me of inflating contracts are not fair to me. As a governor of this state in the last six years, I don't have a house in my hometown and I don't spend money on women and other frivolities. I don't eat too much and that is why I'm lean. As you can see, I'm not sick and yet I'm very lean. How many governors are lean like me. That tells you that I'm not stealing money."<br />
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The governor used the event to give a stewardship account of his administration and maintained that no government had performed like him since the creation of the state.</div>

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No one showed up in court to claim the Ikoyi Dollars at the forfeiture hearing

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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">According to Tolu Ogunesi, a digital communications officer for the Presidency, the forfeiture hearing for the money found in an apartment i Ikoyi held on Friday May 5, 2017 and no one showed up in court to claim the money</span><br />
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DSS: Why we are detaining Ifeanyi Ubah

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The Department of State Service said in Abuja on Saturday, that oil magnate, Cheif Ifeanyi is in its custody.<br />
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It said that Ubah, who has questioned some weeks ago, was again arrested on Friday over his alleged engagements in acts which the security outfit described as inimical to national security.<br />
The DSS stated this in a statement signed by its spokesperson, Mr. Tony Opuiyo, in Abuja on Saturday.<br />
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Ubah, who is the managing director of Capital Oil and Gas Limited, was accused of stealing, diversion and illegal sale of petroleum products stored in his tank farm by the Nigeria Petroleum Products Corporation.<br />
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Opuiyo put the cost of the oil at more than N11bn, adding that such acts were impacting negatively on the national economy.<br />
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He said that the arrest and the detention of Ubah was sequel to the power giving the DSS to investigate economic crimes of national secure dimension.<br />
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The statement said, “In line with the statutory mandate of the DSS to investigate economic crimes of national security dimension, the Service, on May 5,  2017, arrested Ifeanyi Ubah, Managing Director of Capital Oil and Gas Limited.<br />
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“The arrest was sequel to UBAH’s engagement in acts of economic sabotage which include stealing, diversion and illegal sale of petroleum products stored in his tank farm by the Nigeria NNPC.<br />
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“So far, it has been established that the products stolen amount to over Eleven Billion Naira (N11bn). There is no doubt that UBAH’s acts have the capacity to negatively impact on national economy.”<br />
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He added that Ubah had further engaged in other activities which he said were initial to national security and public order.<br />
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For example, the oil magnate was accused of inciting members of the Petroleum Tanker Drivers to embark on strike because of his (Ubah’s) investigation by the DSS.<br />
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Opuiyo said that this was part of the plans by the detained businessman to curry the favour of the public and force the government from going on with the recovery of the funds in his care.<br />
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The statement said,  “It is instructive to note that UBAH has further engaged in other activities inimical to national security and public order. In furtherance of his gimmicks to undermine the government and people of Nigeria, he has incited members of the Petroleum Tanker Drivers, a critical player in the downstream sub-sector of the Petroleum Industry, to refuse/stop the lifting of products.<br />
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“This is part of his plans to curry their sentiments and cause them to embark on strike and also stage protests in his favour with the ulterior motive of arm-twisting the NNPC to abandon the cause of recovering the stolen products.<br />
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“The implications of this on law and order is, in fact, a common knowledge. It is consequent upon this that the Service arrested and will prosecute him forthwith.”<br />
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Opuiyo assures that public that the service would collaborate with appropriate agencies to ensure that mischievous activities of any person or group(s) to engage in illegal activities will not affect the effective distribution of products across the country.<br />
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He added that the service would also support such agencies to bring to book individuals or companies involved in any criminal act that undermines the nation’s economy.</div>

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Man City rout Crystal Palace to boost Champions League chances

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Manchester City strengthened their hopes of a top-four Premier League finish and moved up to third in the table thanks to a 5-0 victory over Crystal Palace at the Etihad Stadium on Saturday.<br />
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David Silva, Vincent Kompany, Kevin De Bruyne, Raheem Sterling and Nicolas Otamendi scored the goals to secure City a win that leaves them four points clear of fifth-placed Manchester United and ahead of fourth-placed Liverpool on goal difference.<br />
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City needed just two minutes to open the scoring, with Silva capitalising on a poor Martin Kelly header following Sterling's cross, volleying home into the bottom corner for his 50th goal for the club.<br />
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While the hosts continued to dominate, their next real clear-cut chance did not arrive until just after the half-hour mark when Leroy Sane had a strike from the edge of the box palmed away by Wayne Hennessey before Sterling then saw his effort cleared off the line by Patrick van Aanholt.<br />
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But City were soon at it again when Sane was denied by Hennessey once more after being played in by De Bruyne, before Palace then created their first chance of the game moments later, with Christian Benteke getting on the end of an Andros Townsend cross only to be denied by a save from Willy Caballero.<br />
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Another good opportunity fell Palace's way towards the end of the first half when a loose ball deflected into the path of the unmarked Van Aanholt inside the City box, but the left-back blazed his effort over the bar.<br />
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Three minutes into the second half and City found themselves two up thanks to a stunning strike from Kompany, who arrowed a first-time hit into the top corner of the net after being picked out by De Bruyne.<br />
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And De Bruyne was involved again five minutes later with his well-taken free kick flying over the Palace wall before bouncing off the crossbar.<br />
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De Bruyne did manage to find the back of the net with his next effort, slotting into the bottom corner from the edge of the box after being teed up by Gabriel Jesus to make it three for City on the hour-mark.<br />
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And Sterling added a fourth for the hosts eight minutes from time when he rifled home Pablo Zabaleta's cushioned header into the bottom corner, leaving Hennessey with no chance.<br />
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Otamendi then netted City's fifth of the day deep into stoppage time, arriving to meet De Bruyne's set piece before heading home.<br />
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Aisha Buhari to visit baby rape victim today

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Wife of President, Hajiya Aisha Muhammadu Buhari is to visit Khadijah Bashir, an eight months old rape victim today.<br />
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Little Khadijah was raped by husband of her mother's friend while she was 6-month old.<br />
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Khadijah is currently receiving medical treatment at Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital (AKTH) in Kano state.<br />
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Aisha Buhari would visit little Khadijah at AKTH shortly after she witnessed graduation of over 3000 women who undergone skills acquisition training under her pet programme of women empowerment.</div>

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Militants invade Nigerian marine police base

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Suspected militants who have held Ogun riverine communities hostage for months have attacked the marine police base in Iwopin community in Ogun Waterside local government area, killing one policeman.<br />
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The victims was identified as Segun Akinola, a sergeant.<br />
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The heavily armed militants stormed the base on Thursday night, and shot two other policemen, witnesses say. The attackers left with a police gun boat.<br />
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A police official who escaped the attack said they could not fight back as they were “ill-equipped”.<br />
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“The militants were armed to the teeth. They arrived the Marine Base and started shooting. They killed a Marine police man who was on duty; one Sergeant Segun Akinola,” he said.<br />
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“Two other policemen were shot and they were rushed to the hospital. It is sad that the marine base which is one of the oldest in the country is not equipped. That is why the militants can attack successfully. The militants went away with a police speed gun boat in the base.”<br />
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The attack came two weeks after militants attacked a businessman and killed three vigilante members in the community.<br />
The chairman of the Ogun Waterside local government area, Femi Onanuga, expressed sadness over the repeated attacks.<br />
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“These attacks are reoccurring almost every week and it is sad that we are losing civilians and policemen. People are fleeing from Ogun Waterside local government. We are appealing to the government to urgently come to our rescue,” he said.<br />
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The spokesperson for the Ogun State police command, Abimbola Oyeyemi, confirmed the killing. He said he was going to the scene to have a first-hand information.<br />
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A source revealed that the militants had sent a letter to the community two weeks ago to inform the police that they would be attacking.

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A clergyman,Obinna Omerie, has declared that President Muhammadu Buhari will successfully pilot the affairs of the country till 2019 in good health.<br />
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Omerie, the founder of Grace and Great Kings Christian Ministry, Egbu, Owerri North Local Government Area of Imo, made the declaration while addressing journalists in Owerri on Saturday.<br />
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‘‘God revealed to me as His prophet that Buhari will complete his tenure in 2019,’’he said.<br />
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He said that those expressing concern over President Buhari’s health are spiritually blindfolded and speaking from revelations backed by satanic sources.<br />
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The man of God also said that the economic recession in the country was divinely motivated, saying ‘‘Nigeria’s economy will emerge stronger at the end of the recession.<br />
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“For children of God this economy is not so much felt now.<br />
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‘‘The situation is fast opening prosperity doors for some cities like Owerri, Port Harcourt, Lagos, and Calabar, because things are positively changing in these cities now.’’<br />
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The clergyman derided those predicting that the 2019 elections would not be peaceful, noting that ‘‘those saying the election will be bloody are wrong.<br />
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‘‘For me, the Lord has not shown me any blood, the election will be peaceful as usual irrespective of all the doomsday prophecies from some altars and pulpits.’’<br />
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Omerie asserted that Nigeria is a nation loved and blessed by God.<br />
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He said no evil would befall the nation before, during and after the next general elections in 2019.<br />
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He noted that pockets of crisis recorded across the country, according to him, were caused by evil men challenging the supremacy of God.<br />
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On the impact of fake prophecy, the man of God observed that the activities of fake religious ministers had created some discords and crises in many families.<br />
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He, therefore, appealed to the government and church leaders to evolve means of curtailing the activities of doomsday clerics.<br />
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Omeire, popularly called `Authority,’ noted that people who seek solutions to their problems sometimes play into the hands of fake pastors by carelessly disclosing their problems during counseling, which such fake take advantage of.<br />
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‘‘People meeting men of God should stop giving `expo’ to these ministers; allow God to reveal things worrying you to the man of God, that is the way God works,’’ he said

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Nigeria repatriates 18 foreigners

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The Nigeria Immigration Service in Niger says it has repatriated 18 immigrants to the Republic of Niger.<br />
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The Comptroller of Immigration Service in the state, Mrs Tamuno Oyedeji, said in Minna on Saturday that the service and Federal Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development provided vehicles for the transportation of the illegal immigrants to Zangon Daura, a border post in Katsina State.<br />
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She also said that the immigrants were handed over to the Niger Republic Immigration officers at the border post.<br />
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Adedeji explained that the immigrants were repatriated because they did not have valid documents, adding that their presence constituted a security threat to the residents of the state.<br />
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“They did not have legal valid documents to back their staying here, hence the need for us to send them back to their country,’’ she said.<br />
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The comptroller said that the command would continue to adopt proactive security measures to ensure the safety of all residents of the state.<br />
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She stated that more personnel had been deployed in Babana border post to prevent illegal immigrants from coming into the country from the Republic of Benin.<br />
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The Nigeria Immigration Service in Niger says it has repatriated 18 immigrants to the Republic of Niger.<br />
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The Comptroller of Immigration Service in the state, Mrs Tamuno Oyedeji, said in Minna on Saturday that the service and Federal Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development provided vehicles for the transportation of the illegal immigrants to Zangon Daura, a border post in Katsina State.<br />
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She also said that the immigrants were handed over to the Niger Republic Immigration officers at the border post.<br />
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Adedeji explained that the immigrants were repatriated because they did not have valid documents, adding that their presence constituted a security threat to the residents of the state.<br />
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“They did not have legal valid documents to back their staying here, hence the need for us to send them back to their country,’’ she said.<br />
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The comptroller said that the command would continue to adopt proactive security measures to ensure the safety of all residents of the state.<br />
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She stated that more personnel had been deployed in Babana border post to prevent illegal immigrants from coming into the country from the Republic of Benin.</div>

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Former Mauritanian president dies of heart attack

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Former Mauritanian President, Ely Ould Mohamed Vall, died on Friday of heart attack, the presidency said in a statement.<br />
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Mauritania announced a three-day mourning period.<br />
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Born in 1953 in Nouakchott, Vall was the President of Mauritania from 2005 to 2007.<br />
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In August 2005, a coup forced President Maaouya Ould Taya out of power and Vall became the leader of the ruling Military Council for Justice and Democracy.<br />
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Afterwards, Vall and the council introduced constitutional reforms and staged parliamentary and local elections which appeared free of fraud.<br />
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Until the coup, Vall was a close confidante of the toppled president and was made head of the security forces in 1987.<br />
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He was instrumental to the success of the 1984 military coup that brought Taya to power.<br />
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He contested for office again in 2009 and lost to current President Mohammed Ould Abdel Aziz, to join opposition forces.</div>

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World Bank to support EFCC in capacity building

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The World Bank is to support the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in the areas of facilities and capacity building to further strengthen the anti-graft war in the country.<br />
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A statement by the commission spokesman, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren, said the bank’s Director of Governance, Global Practice, Dr. Edward Olowo-Okere, gave the indication when he visited the EFCC head office in Abuja.<br />
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Uwujaren quoted Olowo-Okere as saying that the assistance would be rendered under an operation of the World Bank called “Economic Governance Project.”<br />
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“It is supposed to be a follow-up project to the one approved by the World Bank in 2004,” Olowo-Okere said.<br />
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The World Bank director lauded the commission for the tremendous feat it had attained in the last 14 years of its establishment.<br />
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Responding, the EFCC acting Chairman, Ibrahim Magu, commended the bank for its assistance, saying it had contributed in no small measure to the successes recorded by the commission so far.</div>

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We are not recruiting now – NNPC

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The Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has warned the general public, to disregard any announcement of recruitment or invitation to its interview.<br />
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The Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, Mr. Ndu Ughamadu, said this in a statement in Abuja yesterday.<br />
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Ughamadu stated that this announcement was necessary, because of the recurrent fraudulent adverts on various social media platforms.<br />
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“We are constrained to announce, once again, that NNPC is not recruiting at the moment. Members of the public are, therefore, advised to disregard any vacancy announcement on any online or social media platform, as they are the handiwork of fraudsters intent on fleecing innocent Nigerians,” he said.<br />
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Ughamadu revealed the syndicate’s method of operation, range from text messages to forged letters, inviting gullible job seekers for non-existing job interviews to extort money from them.<br />
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“To this end, we wish to once again appeal to members of the public, particularly unsuspecting applicants, to be wary of fraudulent vacancy announcements or invitations for job interviews at the NNPC Towers.<br />
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“Anyone who entertains such invitations or deals with peddlers of such invitation does so at his or her own risk,” the spokesperson reiterated.</div>

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Ohanaeze Ndigbo warns on consequence of Ike Ekweremadu's humiliation

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Ohanaeze Ndigbo in Enugu state has warned that Ndigbo will not seat aloof to watch the deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, humiliated for unsubstantiated reason.<br />
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The apex Igbo body said it’s warning is coming on the heels of the alarm raised by Ekweremadu that the federal government through the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, is planning to rope him in a phantom allegation.<br />
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Chairman of Enugu state chapter of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief Alex Ogbonnia said in statement, said that even though the EFCC has denied such plot, the group have reasons to believe that such plot is feasible going by the sequence of events that has taken place since June 2015.<br />
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Ogbonnia said: “The denial by the EFCC notwithstanding, we wish to warn, in the strongest terms possible, that the Enugu State Chapter of Ohanaeze Ndigbo will not sit idly by and watch our son being maligned; oppressed or ridiculed by the Presidency or the EFCC.<br />
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‘We are not unmindful of the fact that this plot gained currency with Senator Ekweremadu’s role in perfecting the bail conditions of Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPoB, who was granted bail recently with stringent conditions.<br />
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“For the avoidance of doubt, Senator Ekweremadu did what he was supposed to do in the circumstance as a firm believer in the rule of law and justice.’”<br />
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Ogbonnia alleged that the Presidency has made several moves to pull Senator Ekweremadu down and remove him from office especially after his emergence as the Deputy Senate President in the 8thSenate.<br />
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“Soon after his election as the Deputy Senate President, the Presidency accused him of forgery and eventually arraigned him before a judge in Abuja on trumped up charges of forgery.<br />
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“The Deputy Senate President was eventually discharged and acquitted of all the charges. Soon after this, hired assassins breached the convoy of the Senator with intent to assassinate him.<br />
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“Though this matter was officially reported to the security agencies as well as the Presidency, the matter was swept under the carpet. Till date, neither has any arrest been made in connection with the assassination attempt nor any official statement been issued by the government.<br />
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“It is in view of the foregoing events that we take seriously the recent revelation by an impeccable source on this grand plot by the presidency and the EFCC to plant exhibits in the residence of the revered Senator with intent of framing him up and bringing him to national and international disrepute.<br />
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U.S policeman charged with murder of teenager

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A police officer has been charged with murder after shooting a teenager who was a passenger in a car as it drove away from a house party in Dallas.<br />
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Roy Oliver opened fire on the vehicle, killing Jordan Edwards, 15, with a single bullet in the head, the BBC reports.<br />
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Police initially said the car reversed “aggressively” towards the officer, but then admitted that was not the case.<br />
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The police use of lethal force against African Americans has been a subject of fierce protest and debate for years.<br />
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The Dallas County Sheriff’s Office issued a warrant for Mr. Oliver’s arrest on Friday.<br />
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In a statement, the office said there was evidence to suggest Mr. Oliver “intended to cause serious bodily injury and commit an act clearly dangerous to human life that caused the death of an individual.”<br />
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The tragedy unfolded after police responded to reports of underage drinking at a house party in Balch Springs, a Dallas suburb.<br />
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Officers were inside the home trying to find the owner when they heard what they believed to be gunshots, and people began to flee from the house in panic.

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UEFA introduces new form of penalty shootouts

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European football governing body, UEFA, is set to transform penalty shootouts in football.<br />
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The new method of taking penalty shootouts is already going through trials.<br />
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Instead of the normal form which sees teams alternating spot-kicks, Uefa is considering a new system similar to the tie-break in tennis.<br />
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The system will be tried out at the European Under-17 Championship, which began in Croatia on Wednesday.<br />
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The new pattern will have teams take turns in a shootout, with the choice of who goes first decided by a coin toss.<br />
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For example, team A goes first, then team B, then team A again.<br />
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This new system is referred to as ‘ABBA’ and sees team A followed by team B – before team B goes again.<br />
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Team A would then get two successive penalties, and so on until there is a winner.<br />
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A coin will still be tossed to decide who goes first.<br />
The idea is to stop the team going second having to always, potentially, play catch-up.</div>

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JAMB introduces new measures to detect cheating in exams nationwide

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Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has come up with a new method of detecting malpractice in the forthcoming Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME.<br />
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JAMB registrar, Professor Is-haq Oloyede, said yesterday that measures had been taken to detect malpractices nationwide.<br />
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He revealed that the anti-cheating measures would also be used to spot examinations officials involved in unprofessional conduct, no matter how highly placed.<br />
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Prof. Oloyede was speaking at a meeting with owners of computer-based test facilities in Abuja.<br />
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According to him, the common fraud of multiple registrations by UTME candidates over the years had be detected and curtailed while measures were being adopted to prevent further cheating in exams.<br />
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He further explained that candidates that jot answers on papers, clothes or body would be easily caught and if the answers were similar to the questions, the board would carry out an official inquiry to determine the involvement of examination officers or otherwise with a view to prosecuting those found responsible.<br />
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He called on the proprietors of Computer-Based Test, CBT, centers to keep to instructions and make plans to ensure that internet facilities and services were intact during the examinations.</div>

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Stop killing of Christians, bishop urges Buhari

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The Bishop of Owo Diocese, Methodist Church Nigeria, Revd. Solomon Adegbite, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to stop the killing of innocent Christians in the country.<br />
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He also urged all government officials at the state and local government levels to steer clear of religious matter by ensuring that no religion is imposed over another.<br />
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The clergyman stated this at the 29th Diocesan Synod of the church held at Methodist Church Nigeria, Epinmi-Akoko, in Akoko South-East Local Government Area of Ondo State.<br />
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The bishop insisted that until people stopped their ungodly behaviours, the situation of the country might not improve.<br />
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He identified the current economic hardship as the major reason why some people attempted suicide recently, saying Nigerians needed to have positive change of hearts and pray to God for better days to come<br />
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“The various governments need to engage transparent technocrats to manage the economy of the country in order to bring succour to the poor Nigerians,” Adegbite stated.<br />
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On the incessant attacks by suspected herdsmen, the bishop decried the killings and destructions of farmlands in many parts of the country and urged the Federal Government and security agencies to curtail the activities of the assailants.<br />
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Adegbite, while calling for an egalitarian society where every Nigerian will feel equal, opined that public offices should be shared equally among various tribes in the country.</div>

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"NASS will pass 2017 budget soon"

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Sen. Ibrahim Gobir (APC-Sokoto) has assured Nigerians that the National Assembly will pass 2017 on May 9.<br />
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“The delay in its passage is to allow the effective harmonisation of the documents by both the Senate and the House of Representatives,’’ Gobir told newsmen in Sokoto on Saturday.<br />
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Gobir said that the National Assembly was committed to further improving the general welfare of Nigerians.<br />
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“The National Assembly members would, therefore, intensify oversight functions, ensure timely releases of funds, as well as ensure their judicious utilisation.<br />
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“The National Assembly is for the entire country, but, we will continue to provide checks and balances, and will always advise properly,’’ he said<br />
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Gobir further said that the National Assembly was trying its best to ensure peace and harmony among all arms of government.<br />
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According to him, the lawmakers are not oblivious of the principles of separation of powers as enshrined in the 1999 Constitution.<br />
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“We will continue to operate as partners and will always have mutual respective for all the arms and tiers of government.<br />
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“The governments are trying their best to sustain peace and order in the country, just as the Boko Haram insurgency had been surmounted.<br />
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“We will continue to support the governments in this direction to make lives better, secure and more prosperous for all Nigerians,’’ Gobir said.</div>

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<div style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Nigeria’s sprints queen, Blessing Okagbare, on Friday lost out in the women’s 200m event of the IAAF Diamond League in Doha.</span></div>
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<div style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">It was Okagbare’s second outing of the outdoor season. She had competed at the Texas Tech Red Raider Shoot-Out last week, where she won the 200m with a time of 22.87secs.</span></div>
<div style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">But she could not replicate the form in the first Diamond League meeting of the season on Friday as she finished sixth in 23.15secs.</span></div>
<div style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Jamaica’s Elaine Thompson won the race in 22.19secs while Dafne Schippers of the Netherlands was second in 22.45secs and Ivorian, Marie-Josee Ta Lou was third with a time of 22.77secs. Simon Facey and Veronica Campbell-Brown, both of Jamaica, were fourth and fifth in 23.00secs and 23.09secs respectively.</span></div>
<div style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Meanwhile, South African 100m champion and record holder, Akani Simbine, stunned a star-studded field which included USA’s Justin Gatlin, to win the men’s 100m in Doha.</span></div>
<div style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Gatlin, who is the Rio 2016 silver medallist in the event, was favoured to win the event going by his impeccable Diamond League record in the last two years. However, Simbine, who finished 5th in Rio, stormed to victory in 9.99secs.</span></div>
<div style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Asafa Powell followed in a season’s Best of 10.08secs while homeboy Femi Ogunode settled for third in an SB of 10.13secs. Gatlin finished a fourth with an SB of 10.14secs, while Canada’s Andre De Grasse followed in 10.21secs.</span></div>
<div style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Other events featured in Doha are 4x100m girls relay, 4x100m boys relay, shot put women, 100m girls/women, pole vault women, 60m boys/men, 800m boys/men.</span></div>
<div style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">The rest are high jump men, 800m regional men, 400m men, javelin throw men, 1500m men, 800m women, triple jump men, 100m hurdles women, 3000m steeplechase, 400m hurdles men and 3000m men.</span></div>
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<div style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Britain and the United States on Friday said Boko Haram was preparing to kidnap foreigners in remote northeast Nigeria, which is in the grip of a food crisis caused by the conflict.</span></div>
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<div style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">The Foreign Office in London said it had received reports the Islamist militants were “actively planning” to seize foreign workers in the Bama local government area of Borno state.</span></div>
<div style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Both said in travel advice that the affected area was “along the Banki-Kumshe axis”, which is near the border with Cameroon.</span></div>
<div style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">The US embassy in Abuja said in a message to its nationals that the report was “credible”.</span></div>
<div style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Boko Haram has kidnapped thousands of women and children, including more than 200 schoolgirls from the Borno town of Chibok in 2014, which brought the conflict to world attention.</span></div>
<div style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">At least 20,000 people have been killed since 2009. But abductions of foreigners have been rare.</span></div>
<div style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">There was a spate of kidnappings of foreign workers in the wider north from 2011 to 2013, claimed by a Boko Haram splinter group, Ansaru, which was more ideologically aligned to Al-Qaeda.</span></div>
<div style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">The leader of Ansaru, Khalid al-Barnawi, has been charged with the abduction and murder of foreign workers, among them an Italian, a Briton, a German, Greek, Lebanese and Syrians.</span></div>
<div style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Most were engineers or construction workers.</span></div>
<div style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">International aid workers now account for the majority of foreign nationals in northeast Nigeria. Most are based in the Borno state capital, Maiduguri.</span></div>
<div style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Hundreds of thousands of people in the Lake Chad region require urgent food aid as a result of the conflict, which has made more than 2.6 million people homeless and ravaged farmland.</span></div>
<div style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">AFP visited Banki with other international media two weeks ago.</span></div>
<div style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Humanitarian agencies operating in the town include the World Food Programme, International Organization for Migration and other UN bodies.</span></div>
<div style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Banki was liberated from Boko Haram in September 2015 and is currently home to some 32,000 displaced people in a sprawling, overcrowded camp.</span></div>
<div style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">The surrounding area still suffers from frequent Boko Haram attacks on military convoys, as well as suicide bombings.</span></div>
<div style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Fighters loyal to Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau, who were pushed out of their camps in the Sambisa Forest area last December, are believed to be responsible.</span></div>
<div style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">The kidnap warning and the threat to humanitarian operations underline the fragility of security in northeast Nigeria, despite claims from the government and military that Boko Haram is a spent force.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Ijaw youths on Friday warned the National Assembly that they would resist the rejection of the executive order to oil companies to relocate their administrative head offices to the Niger Delta region.</span></div>
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<div style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"> The youths, under the aegis of the Ijaw Youth Council, expressed dissatisfaction that the House of Representatives could reject a motion calling on such oil firms to relocate their head offices to the Niger Delta.</span></div>
<div style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"> It will be recalled that a member of the House of Representatives from Imo State, Mr. Goodluck Opiah, had moved a motion suggesting that there was need for all oil companies operating in Nigeria to open offices in the communities where they were engaged in exploration.</span></div>
<div style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">The motion was supported by a member from Rivers State, Mr. Kingsley Chinda, who dismissed the argument that the Niger Delta region was insecure, hence the relocation of oil companies to other states outside the region as untenable.</span></div>
<div style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"> But Aminu Shehu Shagari of Sokoto opposed the motion, describing it as ill-conceived, inconsiderate, even as the motion was later thrown out through voice vote.</span></div>
<div style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"> However, a statement by the Eric Omare-led IYC, indicated that the action of the lower house was unacceptable to the youths of Niger Delta.</span></div>
<div style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"> According to the statement signed by the group’s spokesman, Mr. Henry Iyalla, the action of the House of Representatives was unacceptable.</span></div>
<div style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"> The IYC recalled that there had been an executive order to oil companies to relocate their head offices to the Niger Delta region and added that the matter was not under the purview of the House of Representatives</span></div>
<div style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"> It pointed out that the action of the lower House was capable of undermining the demands of the people of the region.</span></div>
<div style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"> According to the IYC, “The Federal House of Representatives in its sitting held on Tuesday rejected a motion brought by Goodluck Opiah (PDP, Imo) requesting the House to impress on the IOCs to relocate their administrative head offices to the Niger Delta Region.</span></div>
<div style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"> “We state that the call for the relocation of IOC’s is not within the purview of the Federal House of Representatives since an executive order had already been issued and we expect administrative action to be in full swing to that effect.</span></div>
<div style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"> “Any action capable of undermining that order will not see the light of day as the Ijaw Youth Council will rise to ensure actions with the aim of marginalising or undermining the demands of the region will be resisted vehemently.</span></div>
<div style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">“The Ijaw Youth Council wishes to state unequivocally that this rejection is unacceptable coming at a time when the Federal Government has given a directive to all IOCs to relocate to the region as part of its fulfilment of the Pan-Niger Delta Elders Forum demands and when we are expecting the IOCs to make moves for such relocation.”</span></div>
<div style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Describing the action of the House as condemnable, the IYC noted that the rejection of the motion showed the “real mindset” of leaders, who had continued to pay lip service to the agitations and demand of the oil rich region.</span></div>
<div style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"> The IYC pointed out that the action of the House was capable of causing unrest in the Niger Delta region, adding that the relocation of the IOCs would make them to be committed to environmental issues affecting the area.</span></div>
<div style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"> “This is capable of causing unrest in the region which has thus far been peaceful.</span></div>
<div style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"> “Furthermore, we wish to state categorically that the relocation of the administrative head offices of the IOCs will make it impossible for them to give a deaf ear to all the degradation and environmental issues suffered by the region.</span></div>
<div style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"> “The IOCs will see and experience firsthand, the result of their operations in the region. The people of the region are peace loving and will ensure the success of such move,” the Ijaw group said.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Federal Government says the first phase of Ajaokuta Steel Company will provide 500,000 upstream and downstream employment when it becomes operational.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Mr Isah Onobere, the Sole Administrator of the company made this known during a media tour to the company on Friday.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Onobere said that the first phase of the plant would also provide direct employment for 10,000 technical staff when inaugurated.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">He also said the first phase had been completed, adding that it was envisaged to produce 1.3 million tonnes of liquid steel per annum.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">He said that it would cost 400 million dollars to complete Ajaokuta steel, which had reached 98 per cent completion.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">According to him, two billion dollars is needed for infrastructure rehabilitation and operational cost.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">He said that government had begun to commit resources toward the maintenance and preservation of the equipment and facilities of the plant recently and called for improved efforts.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">According to him, the government is considering the report on various options on the way forward for the completion of the project.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">These options he said include outright sales, concessioning and joint venture of Ajaokuta steel.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">He, however, denied rumour about the company equipment being obsolete, adding that the company, with 98 percent completed, could stand the test of time, adding that all its equipment were functioning appropriately.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The then President, Alhaji Shehu Shagari, laid the foundation of Ajaokuta in 1980 and within four years, it attained was 84 per cent completion.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ajaokuta steel company is located on 24,000 hectares of sprawling greenfield landmass built on 800-hectares of land.</span></div>
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We are not recruiting now – NNPC warns members of public

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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has warned the general public, to disregard any announcement of recruitment or invitation to its interview. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, Mr. Ndu Ughamadu, said this in a statement in Abuja yesterday.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ughamadu stated that this announcement was necessary, because of the recurrent fraudulent adverts on various social media platforms.</span></div>
<blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“We are constrained to announce, once again, that NNPC is not recruiting at the moment. Members of the public are, therefore, advised to disregard any vacancy announcement on any online or social media platform, as they are the handiwork of fraudsters intent on fleecing innocent Nigerians,” he said.</span></blockquote>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ughamadu revealed the syndicate’s method of operation, range from text messages to forged letters, inviting gullible job seekers for non-existing job interviews to extort money from them.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“To this end, we wish to once again appeal to members of the public, particularly unsuspecting applicants, to be wary of fraudulent vacancy announcements or invitations for job interviews at the NNPC Towers.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Anyone who entertains such invitations or deals with peddlers of such invitation does so at his or her own risk,” the spokesperson reiterated.</span></div>
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Flooding: Oyo orders removal of 200 illegal structures on waterways

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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">In its bid to reduce the effects of flooding as a result of heavy rainfall, Oyo State Government has ordered the removal of no fewer than 200 illegal structures at Ojoo Round-about, Ojoo Area in Ibadan.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">It also disclosed that about 24 rivers will be dredged as part of the proactive measures to mitigate against flooding in the state.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Commissioner for Environment and Water Resources, Mr. Isaac Ishola ordered the removal of the illegal structures at Ojoo Round-about, Ojoo Area in Ibadan while monitoring the weekly environmental sanitation exercise within the State capital.</div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">He said “Government places more priority on the cleanliness of our environment. We will not allow any person or group of persons to jeopardize our efforts in ensuring a clean, healthy and sustainable environment.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">“We have received several letters from Ojoo Police Station that the said illegal market is a security threat”.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">He noted that the rivers have been approved for dredging through the World Bank assisted project, Ibadan Urban Flood management, stressing that the measures are part of the action taken by the government in preparedness for the heavy downpour.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">The commissioner explained that the ongoing sensitization is to ensure total compliance with the environmental sanitation rules and regulations to educate the citizens on the need to avert flood.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">He admonished the people towards poor attitudinal change on environmental cleanliness by ensuring that the generated waste is kept according to the government’s policy on waste collection, urging that people should desist from dumping refuse into the drainages during raining and stop erecting kiosks on culverts to allow free flow of water.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Ishola therefore enjoined the public to adhere strictly to the State Environmental Sanitation and Waste Management Laws, noting that environmental issue is a collective responsibility.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">He however commended the Federal Government’s effort for putting in place necessary machinery for the effective use of Ikere Dam, pledging that there will be synergy between the State and the Federal Government in turning the place to a tourist centre that will improve the Internally Generated Revenue.</div>

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Bloodshed averted as Sheriff/Makarfi supporters clash in Jos

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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Bloodshed was averted on Friday evening at the Plateau State PDP Secretariat in Jos, when a faction loyal to Senator Alli Modu Sheriff tried to take over the place. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">It took a combined team of security agencies to forestall crisis.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">While the group was still trying to force its way into the secretariat, news leaked to a rival faction said to have been elected through a congress and led by a former Minister of Sports, Damishi Sango.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The development forced the police, officials of the Department of State Services and Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps to immediately take over the secretariat, frisking persons going in and out of the place.</span></div>
<blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Addressing his supporters, Sango said, “The battle for the soul of Plateau has just begun”, adding that the masterminds of the crisis were bent on destabilising the PDP before the local government elections.</span></blockquote>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">He said, “They want to cause confusion but I have told my people that there must be no violence, there must be no bloodshed.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“We know the people behind all these, let them release timetable for local government elections. You cannot claim what does not belong to you.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“If you want to claim what doesn’t belong to you, proceed to the court. The man who is claiming to be PDP chairman has been granted bail by the court for criminal impersonation. They just want to cause confusion and disrupt the peace.</span></div>
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<blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“We have to be very careful because Plateau State is still enjoying fragile peace. We don’t want anybody to tamper with that. This is the struggle for the soul of Plateau, it has begun.”</span></blockquote>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In his reaction, Gyang Badung, head of the other faction, said that the bail which was granted to him was not because Sango was challenging his position as Plateau State PDP chairman “but because of alleged criminal impersonation.”</span></div>
<blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">He said, “Being law-abiding citizens, we will not do anything that will breach the laws of the land because peace is not negotiable. We have no ill motive, our members were invited from all the 17 local governments to come for the meeting, and we are looking forward to the reconciliation of the party.</span></blockquote>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Unfortunately, the Sango faction is not loyal to our leader, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, who has been declared by the court as the PDP National Chairman.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Whatever we are doing here has the backing of our National Secretariat. We don’t want bloodshed, but I will assure you that we will take over the Secretariat by the grace of God in no distant time”, he stressed.</span></div>
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