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WATCH VIDEO: I Haven’t Had Any Contact With Evans In Years – Father

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Mr. Stephen Onwuamadike, the father of the caught notorious kidnap kingpin in an interview with the Channels Tv, opined that out of his eleven children, Evans is the only person that remained incommunicado with him.<br />
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The last may not have been heard of acclaimed most brilliant kidnap kingpin Chukwudidumeme Onuamadike, aka Evans, following his starling revelation that some members of his strike team were serving security agents.<br />
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One of them, a serving personnel of the Nigerian Army, identified as Lance Corporal Victor Chukwunonso , with Army No: 09/NA/64/6317, has been arrested. Unsuspecting Lance Corporal Chukwunonso , who is attached to the Nigeria Army Band Corps ,Abatti Barrack, in Surulere area of Lagos, was arrested at about 9pm on Friday, in Ojo area of the state, from where he was subsequently taken into police custody.<br />
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During investigation Chukwunonso as reliably gathered, admitted to have only gone on three kidnap operations with Evans. He disclosed that he got a total of N6.5 million from the operations. He revealed to policemen that all the operations were carried out in Festac area of Lagos. He claimed to have been given N3milion from the first operation, N2 million form the second and N1.5million from the third.

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Trump wishes Muslims ‘warm greetings’ for Eid

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US President Donald Trump on Saturday sent warm greetings” to Muslims celebrating the end of Ramadan, after his administration broke with the tradition of hosting a White House event to recognize the holy month.<br />
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“On behalf of the American people, Melania and I send our warm greetings to Muslims as they celebrate Eid al-Fitr,” Trump said in a statement. “During this holiday, we are reminded of the importance of mercy, compassion, and goodwill.” “With Muslims around the world, the United States renews our commitment to honor these values.”<br />
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Since the Bill Clinton administration, the White House has each year hosted either an event to mark the Eid al-Fitr feast — which ends the fasting month of Ramadan — or a meal breaking the dawn-til-dusk fast, known as an iftar.<br />
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Secretary of State Rex Tillerson reportedly rejected a request by his department’s office of religion and global affairs to hold an event for the holiday.<br />
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Trump has come under fire for his history of anti-Muslim rhetoric on the campaign trail, that included calls for surveillance of US mosques and an outright ban on Muslims entering the country in the name of national security. A week after becoming president he issued a ban on travelers from several predominantly Muslim countries, which has been frozen by the US courts after sparking global chaos and outrage.<br />
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Yet during a visit to Saudi Arabia last month, Trump softened his tone on Islam, rejecting the idea of a battle between religions in an address before dozens of leaders of Muslim countries.

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President Buhari's Eid-el-Fitr message to Nigerians

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As Muslims all over the world celebrate Eid-el-Fitr, President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated Nigerian Muslims and Christians on the occasion of the Eid-el-Fitr, urging all citizens to resolve to live in peace and avoid making reckless statements.<br />
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President Buhari in a statement signed by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and publicity, Garba Shehu urged Nigerians to live together in peace and unity so as to make the country a great one.<br />
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The message issued Saturday evening in Abuja read, “I am immensely grateful to God for his mercy in guiding us successfully to conclude another Ramadan fast.<br />
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My greetings to all Nigerian Muslims and our brother Christians on the occasion of Eid-el-Fitr. “May the lessons of Ramadan namely; piety, self-denial, prayers and generosity to the poor and needy be with us for all time. “I, again, appeal to all Nigerians to avoid reckless statements or actions against our fellow countrymen.<br />
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We should all resolve to live in peace and unity in our great country, which is the envy of many less endowed nations.”

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Fayose after me because I refused to prostrate to him – lawmaker

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An Ekiti State House of Assembly member Gboyega Aribisogan has accused Governor Ayo Fayose of instigating his suspension because he refused to prostrate and beg for the offence he did not commit.<br />
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He said some party leaders and appointees urged him to prostrate for the governor at a reconciliation parley brokered by eminent lawyer and founder of Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD), Aare Afe Babalola (SAN).<br />
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Aribisogan, who was suspended by his fellow lawmakers in October last year said the governor wanted him to admit meeting with the Senator representing Ogun East, Buruji Kashamu, in Lagos sometime last year, an allegation he denied.<br />
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Speaking during an interview programme on Adaba 88.9 FM monitored by our correspondent, Aribisogan faulted an investigation panel set up by the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) faction loyal to<br />
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Fayose claiming that the panelists had been ordered to do a hatchet job against him.<br />
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Aribisogan alleged that some party members in his ward were bribed with a sum of N200, 000 and compelled to write a frivolous petition to the panel to nail him at all cost.<br />
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He revealed that the panel had already submitted its report to Fayose on Monday while he was asked to appear on Thursday.<br />
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The embattled lawmaker disclosed that he reported the alleged illegality Fayose was using the Assembly to perpetrate to the Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu and Chairman, PDP Board of Trustees, Senator Walid Jibrin.<br />
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Aribisogan said: “I cannot confess the sin I did not commit; they (party leaders) asked me to prostrate and beg Fayose but I refused and in the process they brought out a camera with the intent of taking my photographs. Fayose flared when I refused to prostrate and beg and vowed that he would not allow me to return to the Assembly again.<br />
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“For somebody to say he would not allow an elected representative of the people to go back to the Assembly shows the type of character Fayose is. He got 14,000 votes from my constituency and he has done nothing for the people.<br />
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“If they want to shoot me dead, I am ready. I am not an appointee of Fayose, I was elected the same way hea was elected. I apologize to all Ekiti for joining hands to bring him back to power and that is why he is misbehaving now.<br />
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“The Inspector General of Police had given an order that nothing should happen to me; the House of Assembly belongs to Ekiti people and not to Ayo Fayose. Fayose has brought odium and shame to Ekiti State.<br />
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“He is owing the Assembly six months salaries, Ekiti lawmakers are crying underneath because many of them are heavily indebted. Fayose threatened that he would recall me, let him go ahead but I will never prostrate for Fayose.”<br />
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Responding, Commissioner for Information, Lanre Ogunsuyi, said Hon. Aribisogan, was suffering from political hallucination.<br />
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Ogunsuyi said the Assembly suspended the lawmaker according to its rules and does not need Fayose to carry out is constitutional and statutory functions. The commissioner said Aribisogan was merely cooking up stories to cover up his infractions on the House rules.<br />
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He advised Aribisogan to avail himself of the opportunity given by the party to present his case before a disciplinary panel set up to investigate the allegations of anti-party activities and disloyalty levelled against him.<br />
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Ogunsuyi said: “I will say it is a political hallucination for the honourable member to accuse the governor of masterminding his suspension from the Assembly.<br />
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“It is an internal affair of the House and the governor is not a member of the Assembly.<br />
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“He was duly suspended by the Assembly; the governor has no hand in it and all what he is saying are stories without corroboration.”

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Ramadan: Yobe orders 12 hours restriction on vehicular movement

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The Yobe Government has issued a 12-hour restriction on the movement of vehicles in the state from 10.p.m. on Saturday to 10 a.m. on Sunday to ensure security during the ‘Eid prayers.<br />
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The government made the order known in a statement issued by Abdullahi Bego, Director of Press to Yobe Governor in Damaturu on Saturday.<br />
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“Gov. Ibrahim Gaidam has approved the placement of restriction of vehicular movement throughout the state as part of measures to ensure secure and hitch-free Eid-el-Fitr prayers marking the end of the Ramadan fast.<br />
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“Accordingly, all vehicular movement in the state is restricted with effect from 10.00p.m. tonight (Saturday 24th June 2017) to 10.00a.m. on Sunday (25th June 2017).<br />
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“The restriction is, however, conditional on the sighting of the new moon tonight and confirmation that the Eid-el-Fitr will be tomorrow, Sunday.<br />
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“If the moon has not been sighted and the Eid will be on Monday, the restriction will apply from 10.00p.m. on Sunday (25th June 2017) to 10.00a.m. on Monday (26th June 2017),” ,’’ Bego said.<br />
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He said the restriction order was placed in the interest of public safety after consultations with heads of law enforcement agencies in the state.<br />
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He warned against people driving vehicles to prayer grounds and stressed that “no vehicle will be allowed in any Eid prayer ground throughout the state.”<br />
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Meanwhile, Gaidam, in an Eid el-Fitr message to the people urged Muslim faithful to use the season to pray for the country and improved health for President Muhammadu Buhari.<br />
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“We should also, as good citizens, more than ever before, be prepared to work together, and act together in our resolve for the attainment of a happier and more prosperous future for our state and indeed our great country, Nigeria.”<br />
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He commended the Buhari administration for its commitment in the fight against insurgency and concerted steps it had taken toward repositioning Nigeria on the path to glory and prosperous economy.<br />
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In the recent past Boko Haram insurgents had used occasions of religious celebrations to attack worshippers in churches and mosques.<br />
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Yobe is one of the frontline states that have suffered attacks from the insurgents.

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After 20 years of marriage, Patrick and Ireti Doyle reportedly part ways

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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">According to Playgroundng, celebrity couple, Patrick Doyle and Ireti Doyle have separated, after over 20 years of marriage. A source close to Patrick and Ireti, hinted they are no longer living together.</div>
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The Tinsel star, Playgroundtv checks, revealed has since moved into a new apartment in Anthony Village area of Lagos, living far away from her veteran broadcaster and actor husband and children.<br />
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While the reason for their break-up is still unclear, a source said Patrick and Ireti ended their relationship after thoughtful consideration and chose to remain friends.<br />
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Ireti and Patrick married over two decades ago, shortly after his first wife passed on. Both share six children, and lost one to sickle cell in 1999. Ireti’s first daughter, Bimbo from a previous romance got married in July 2014.

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Ebonyi governor’s wife orders arrest of policewoman over house-help’s abuse

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The Wife of Ebonyi State Governor, Mrs. Racheal Umahi, has called for the arrest of a policewoman who allegedly poured hot water on her 15-year-old house-help for wrongfully applying condiments in a pot of soup.<br />
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Umahi made the call after officials from her office and the State Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development rescued the girl from the policewoman at her home in Mile 50, Abakaliki.<br />
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Mr. Donatus Owo, the Chief Press Secretary to Umahi, said in a statement in Abakaliki on Saturday that she was touched by the fact that girl’s body looked irritable because she was not given proper medical care.<br />
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“The matter has been reported to the police while the victim was taken to Police Clinic for medical treatment,’’ she said.<br />
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The victim, Chinyere Igwe, who hails from Igbere in Bende Local Government Area of Abia, said she had lived with the policewoman for two years within which she suffered various forms of maltreatment.<br />
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Igwe said she was preparing soup on that fateful day when her employer got annoyed that she did not prepare the soup according to her instruction.<br />
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“Only my mother is alive and I have been living with my madam for over two years now. This is as a result of my father’s death coupled with my mother’s financial handicap.<br />
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“I failed to follow her instruction and in anger, she came out and carried the pot of soup together with the egusi (melon) and threw at me and it landed on my back.<br />
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“She also carried iron and hit me on my body and ordered me to bend down and raise my leg up but I refused because my back was paining me seriously.<br />
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“She locked me up in a room while she went to boil water to pour on me.<br />
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“I pleaded with her to have mercy on me but she went inside and brought tear gas, then I started crying when she rushed to get hot water and poured on me,” Igwe said.<br />
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The victim said that Mr. Kingley Okochi, the husband of the suspect, also hit her after the wife complained to him about the incident.<br />
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“Her husband also beat me up, but he was not aware that I had such injury because it was in the night. He later apologised and asked his wife to use honey to treat my back,” Igwe said.<br />
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The suspect, Mrs. Joy Okochi, however, claimed told the team from the Government House that she did not pour hot water on the girl intentionally.<br />
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The Director of Child Welfare Development in the State Ministry of Women Affairs, Mr. Godwin Igwe, and the State Chairman of International Federation of Women Lawyers, Miss Olivia Okpaleke, said the culprit must face justice.<br />
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Meanwhile, the Police Public Relations Officer in Ebonyi, Mr. Jude Madu, said he had not received the report.</div>

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Chieftaincy review: Olubadan not supporting Ajimobi - Ladoja

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The Osi Olubadan and former Oyo State Governor, Rashidi Ladoja, on Saturday said the Olubadan of Ibadan land, Oba Saliu Adetunji, was not in support of the Olubadan chieftaincy declaration review that Governor Abiola Ajimobi had proposed for the state.<br />
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He said this while speaking on a radio programme monitored in Ibadan on Saturday. Ladoja said Olubadan did not commit himself to the move. He substantiated his position with a recording where the Olubadan said the proposal would not be effected in his days as king.<br />
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The Olubadan was quoted as saying that the crown on his head was given to him by the Ibadan people and that the present chieftaincy process should be maintained.<br />
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“I do not support giving crowns to everybody. Ibadan began this way and it should be left like this. This (review) will not be done while I am the king. If it has to be done, let it be after me,” said the Olubadan.<br />
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Controversy has followed the proposal since a panel was set up to review the declaration, with the Otun Olubadan, Sen. Lekan Balogun, and Ladoja challenging the governor in court.<br />
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But after a meeting between the governor, the Olubadan and Ibadan high chiefs at the state secretariat, Sen Balogun threw his weight behind the move, leaving Ladoja, who did not attend the meeting, alone in the fight.<br />
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Olubadan was heard in a recording that if the governor was in support, he would support it also.<br />
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The governor’s Special Adviser on Communication and Strategy, Mr. Yomi Layinka, told our correspondent after the meeting that areas of controversy in the proposal had been ironed out and that the move had received the monarch’s consent.</div>

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How Messi almost became a Real Madrid player

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Lionel Messi could have started his football career with Barcelona’s fierce rivals, Real Madrid, it has been revealed.<br />
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The agent that took him to the Camp Nou when he was 13, Horacio Gaggioli, says Messi would have been a Madrid player if he had moved to the Spanish capital instead.<br />
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“Due to life circumstances, I went to live in Barcelona and I brought him to Barca for a trial. But I was about to live in Madrid,” Gaggioli told Globoesporte.<br />
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“If that had happened, I would have taken him to Madrid for a trial. That’s life, those are the details.<br />
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“Today, Messi could have been a Real Madrid player, of course. The family wanted to come to Spain, to the city where I was to have some support.”<br />
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Messi has gone on to win five Ballon d’Or, eight La Liga titles and four Champions League crowns among other trophies with the Catalan giants.</div>

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Ramandan: Embrace love, promote peace and unity - Fayose urges Nigerians

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<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Governor of Ekiti State and Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors’ Forum, Ayodele Fayose has greeted Muslims across the country at Ramadan.</span></div>
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<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">He urged them to embrace peace, love and understanding for one another during the season, stressing that “human suffering in the form of fasting, is a religious obligation observed to draw near to Allah, who is the origin of love, peace and unity”.</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In a press release to journalists in Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State capital yesterday by the governor’s Chief Press Secretary (CPS), Idowu Adelusi, he urged Muslims to remember that the Ramandan is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, observed by Muslims worldwide as a month of fasting (Sawm) to commemorate the first revelation of the Quran to Muhammad according to Islamic belief.</span></div>
<blockquote class="tr_bq" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">He added that: “This annual observance is regarded as one of the five Pillars of Islam, others being testimony of faith, prayer, giving (Zakat), which is also support for the needy and the pilgrimage to Mecca: These are the framework of the Muslim life. ”</span></blockquote>
<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The governor, therefore, advised Muslims that having faithfully observed the Sawn, it behoved on them to exhibit the traits of Allah among which are peace, love and unity and practice these among themselves and extend same to others of different religious faiths.</span></div>
<blockquote class="tr_bq" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Let us therefore, shun all attitudes, behaviours, and actions that promote hatred, religious intolerance, disunity and violence and embrace true love that would promote peace and unity among us as a nation to allow for meaning progress and development which our dear nation is in dire need of now, ” Fayose said.</span></blockquote>

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Those calling for Igbos to leave North are playing with fire - Femi Fani-kayode

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<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, has said that those that want Igbo people to leave the North are “playing with fire”.</span></div>
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<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Recall that on Friday, Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), claimed that the person behind the quit notice issued to Igbos living in the North, resides in Lagos.</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“This information is very crucial to all of us and I want to say this publicly. The man who is giving quit notice (to the Igbos to leave north) does not live in the North, he lives in Lagos, he is a Lagos man. So to stay in Lagos and be giving quit notices is not the answer,” Falana said.</span></div>

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Billionaire kidnapper, Evans dismisses female accuser claim says "I don't kidnap women"

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<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">Some victims who claimed that they were kidnapped by Evans have appeared at the Lagos State Police Command, Ikeja, where they accosted the kidnap kingpin.</div>
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<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">The kingpin also denied two of his alleged victims, who claimed to have paid N5 million and N10 million respectively.</div>
<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">Evans was reported to have told the two alleged victims that he does not collect such small amounts for ransom.</div>
<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">A man, who identified himself as Murphy Ajala, according to Vanguard, came along with claims that he was kidnapped by Evans but the kingpin denied abducting him.</div>
<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">Ajala, a hotel owner in Apapa, Lagos, accused Evans of kidnapping him in 2010 and demanding N10 million.</div>
<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">He told Evans that he abducted him at the entrance of his hotel after he returned from the Coronation of Ojota of Ijora and was taken in his Hummer SUV to a bush in Ajah.</div>
<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">The alleged victim, who claimed to be a British citizen, said Evans and his gang abandoned his SUV at Lekki, where it was later found.</div>
<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">When Evans came before Ajala, he looked at him and said bluntly; ‘’I didn’t kidnap you.’’</div>
<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">The kingpin demanded further, ‘’How much did you pay as ransom?’’ Ajala responded, “I paid N10million.”</div>
<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">Upon hearing that, Evans declared, ‘’I don’t collect N10million as ransom.’”</div>
<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">Evans also told another alleged victim, a middle-aged woman that “I don’t kidnap women.”</div>
<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">The woman also came screaming that Evans kidnapped her and collected the sum of N5million as ransom.</div>
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“I also do not collect ransom as little as N5million. You may have to look elsewhere for the person that kidnapped you.”</blockquote>

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Teacher dies in car crash while having s3x (Photos)

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<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Malone, who hails from Ireland was travelling in a speeding black Suzuki when it lost control and hit a concrete post.</span></div>
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<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Horrific CCTV shows the car spinning several times as sparks fly and glass smashes, before it comes to a stop further down the road in Chiang Rai, Thailand.</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">39-yr-old Malone was pulled half-naked from the wreckage having been on the backseat with a naked Thai woman found in the car.</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Rescuers arrived and pulled out Malone wearing just a small blue t-shirt from the car unconscious while a naked Thai woman was on the back passenger seat. Neither had seat belts on.</span></div>
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<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The male driver – who was clothed – and the female front seat passenger who were both Thai were treated at Kasemrad Sriburin General Hospital.</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">According to DAILY MAIL, the volunteer rescue foundation – Siam Ruam – which attended to the crash said police authorities were now investigating.</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A spokesman for the foundation said today: ‘One foreign man died in the crash. The staff helped to bring out the bodies and give first aid.</span></div>
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<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“This was a black Suziki Swift and it was speeding.</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“We think the man was having sex in the car.</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“There were three Thai people and one foreign man.</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“They were injured and the driver was unconscious but only the man died.</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“How it happened exactly we do not know yet. From the scene we know that the two passengers did not have clothes on. The man had a small t-shirt.</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“We don’t know how the driver crashed. We have not been able to investigate with him yet.”</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The rescue foundation said that all three of the other people involved in the crash were Thai and that John, originally from County Longford, was the only foreigner.</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The driver and the front seat passenger are in a serious condition.</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Malone had been working for a number of years as a teacher at ‘The Learning Center’ in Chiang Rai, a small city in northern Thailand on the border with Laos and Myanmar.</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A spokesperson for the Department of Foreign Affairs in Ireland confirmed that they are aware of the incident and are ‘providing consular assistance’.</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It could be recalled that a few days ago, a physical education teacher and his girlfriend died after their off road vehicle rolled into a lake while they were having sex.</span></div>
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I never thought I would live to see the day that Sahara Reporters would publish a story alleging, together with supporting documents, that a person reputed to be one of its benefactors, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, the under-performing Governor of Kaduna State, has been systematically engaging in acts of corruption by way of awarding over-invoices contracts to his fronts, family, friends and cronies, without passing these contracts through the due process of tendering and public advertising.<br />
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Not only did I never think I would see such a day, I also did not believe that El-Rufai would turn around and accuse the website he had celebrated of lying and practicing gutter journalism. Wonders shall never cease to happen!<br />
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But I have issues with El-Rufai’s contretemps with Sahara Reporters after his many long years of nuptial bliss with the notorious site.<br />
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My issue is not that El-Rufai spoke, tweeted and facebooked against former President Jonathan and even my humble self during those times like a parrot that swallowed a dictionary of curse words!<br />
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Both Dr. Jonathan and I have since moved on. Jonathan to international statesman status, I to a bestselling book. No, my issue is that having used and promoted many slanderous Sahara Reporters’ stories against the former President and me, this mischievous and femininely vindictive character now wants the world to join him in his unholy crusade to delegitimise that medium.<br />
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El-Rufai’s actions are pitiable. Obviously, he has never read the words of Nabi Suleiman (King Solomon in Christendom) which says “Whoever digs a pit will fall into it”-Proverbs 26:27.<br />
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That El-Rufai, the notorious disseminator of false information  who has has said false things about almost every noteworthy Nigerian that has held influence in the federal government at one time or the other, should call Sahara Reporters liars is rich, very rich indeed.<br />
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El-Rufai seems to think that you can sleep with a prostitute at night and deny her in the morning. That will be a very difficult venture for El-Rufai seeing as his fondness for the prostitute led to sweet and carnal moaning from their love nest which was so loud that all Nigerians could hear.<br />
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There are also some dots we can connect in this whole saga. Sahara Reporters’s exposition of El-Rufai’s alleged sordid corruption and his labyrinthine scheme (according to Sahara Reporters, not me) is coming as news that a major telecommunications firm is facing serious money troubles became public knowledge.<br />
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One can only hope that those who may or may not have lost huge sums of money in this telecommunications firm are not desperate to recover their lost monies from whatever avenues they can find.<br />
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I do not know who is or was behind a certain failed newspaper or this telecommunications outfit that is failing right before our very eyes, but assuming I was behind both ventures, I would not be in a position to boast about having any managerial or business acumen. Especially if I have made a mess of my present office and turned a once peaceful enclave into the most murderous place on planet earth.<br />
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Of course, I have been speaking hypothetically. Do not let your imaginations run wild!<br />
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And while we are on the subject of El-Rufai, I would like to talk about his very close friend, Tunde Bakare’s recent not-so-subtle attacks on the acting President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, who he accused of trying to outdo his ‘benefactor’.<br />
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Said Bakare, “The king may be cold, the king may need warmth, but the final authority is still in his hands. All the actors in the corridors of power can keep acting, but the residual power is still in the man who is cold.”<br />
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Not content,  he also said Adonijahs confuse birthright with leadership rights, and “assume that the next in line is automatically the next king, whenever the current king is no more”.<br />
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He then concluded by warning that Adonijah is more strategic than Absalom, that he connects himself with “Emirs, Kabiyesis, Obis…the chief of army staff,” but often has a hole in his armour, adding that the next in line is a “show-off”.<br />
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For those not familiar with Tunde Bakare, let me introduce you to him. He is the man who famously prophesied that the prophetic axe would fall on former President Olusegun Obasanjo before his swearing-in on May 29, 1999.<br />
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His exact words on March 7, 1999 were:<br />
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“Rejoice not oh land, or your joy will be temporary. For I am bringing the nation – Nigeria, the rulers, the priests and the prophets there to my threshing floor. I will judge Saul and his comrades, and after I have finished my purging, then I will restore to you permanent joy” Obasanjo is not your messiah. He is King Agag and the prophetic axe will fall upon his head before May 29.<br />
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It is not my place to question Mr. Bakare’s prophecies. Romans 14:4 says, “Who are you to judge someone else’s servant? To their own master, servants stand or fall. And they will stand, for the Lord is able to make them stand.”<br />
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However, my response to Tunde Bakare on his shading of acting President Osinbajo is this: If Osinbajo’s ‘show off’ is leading to the appreciation of the Naira, the reduction in the price of diesel, the availability of petrol and the prompt payment of salaries, then not only Osinbajo, but every elected politician should show off.<br />
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By the way, Muhammadu Buhari ran with Tunde Bakare and lost, then he ran with Osinbajo and won. Maybe if Tunde Bakare had “shown off” he would not have lost the election for Buhari!<br />
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Tunde Bakare perhaps can now see that he may have not been wrong when he said in the The Punch Newspapers of Monday October 2, 2006 that “Let me tell you the truth by the Spirit of God, neither OBJ, Atiku, IBB and this tall one, Buhari are part of the new. They are part of the old that is decaying. That old one is passing away. The new is emerging and these ones are not part of that new.”<br />
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Bakare himself confessed with his mouth that President Muhammadu Buhari is not “part of the new”. He says the Holy Spirit told him this. If what he said in 2006 was indeed given to him by the Holy Spirit, as he claims, then why is he in 2017 fighting for the man that the Holy Spirit, according to him, revealed was part of Nigeria’s “decaying” past? Why is he fighting against a new political blood like the acting President?<br />
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When you marry what Tunde Bakare said in 2006 with what he said last Sunday (June 18, 2017), there is a disconnect, there are discrepancies, there are contradictions. And what does the word of God say in 1 Corinthians 14:33? “God is not the author of confusion.”<br />
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How can the Holy Spirit reveal Muhammadu Buhari to you as part of Nigeria’s decaying past and you, the vehicle through whom The Holy Spirit gave us this message, are trying to shove the decaying matter (according to Bakare not Mr) down our throats?<br />
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Is Tunde Bakare in the habit of feeding his own children food that is rotten, “old” and “decaying”? I am guessing no. Then why does he want us to eat what he does not feed his children?<br />
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When I was a boy, there was a major hit song titled ‘Rumors’ performed by a group known as ‘Timex Social Club’.<br />
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Some of the lyrics of the song went thus:<br />
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‘How do rumors get started, they’re started by the jealous people and they get mad seein’ somethin’ they had and somebody else is holdin’<br />
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I highly recommend this song to Tunde Bakare. It was tailor-made for him. He is starting a rumour about the acting President wanting to usurp the Presidency by outperforming his boss and “benefactor”.<br />
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Why is he doing it? Because, he wanted to be Vice President to Muhammadu Buhari but unfortunately their joint ticket lost in 2011.<br />
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Why is he jealous? Because the acting President has something he wanted but did not get.<br />
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Thank you Timex Social Club for simplifying what would have been very difficult for some to understand.<br />
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The funniest thing to me is that had it been that the acting President had not done all the consultations he has been and is still doing in the wake of the quit notice given to the Igbo, it is precisely characters like Tunde Bakare that would have criticised him for being inept and letting down his ‘benefactor’, but now that he has shown that he is up to the task of leadership, he is being accused of outshining his boss. Let me however assure Tunde Bakare et al that it is not hard to ‘outperform’ President Buhari. I have a 12-year-old daughter. I bet she can also outperform him.<br />
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Now, I am a known admirer of the acting President, but I must say this to him. When Professor Yemi Osinbajo warns that the Federal Government will deal with those making hate speeches, I hope the acting President knows his boss and “benefactor” is guilty?<br />
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President Muhammadu Buhari’s 5% versus 97% D.C. speech marked the beginning of hate speeches in this dispensation.  Before that he was guilty of hate speech when he threatened that both the “baboon and the dog will be soaked in blood”.<br />
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Fish starts to get rotten from the head. When a nation is led by a hate speaker, should anyone be surprised when the led begin to act like him?<br />
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And let me close this piece with the way I began, with Sahara Reporters.<br />
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Lai Mohammed says President  Muhammadu Buhari talks to acting President Professor Yemi Osinbajo everyday,  meanwhile Sahara Reporters, once Lai Mohammed and the All Progressives Congress’ favourite news medium, reported recently that President Buhari has not spoken to Osinbajo since he left Nigeria for London, U.K. on the 7th of May, 2017.<br />
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Who do Nigerians now believe between Lai and Sahara Reporters? I would like to believe Lai, but my mind finds it hard to believe a man who said that President Buhari has fulfilled his campaign promises or that the Whistle-Blower policy has generated $8 billion within two months or that the President is ‘hale and hearty’ or that dressing up a single masquerade can provide a thousand jobs or that the herdsmen killing Nigerians are from Mauritius. The truth is that even when I want to believe Lai, he makes it hard for me to do so.<br />
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And yes, you read me right. Lai Mohammed actually claimed that the Whistle-Blower policy has generated $8 billion within two months.<br />
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In fact, his exact words were, “Within two months of our whistle-blower policy, we retrieved $8 billion”.<br />
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Lai, easy with these lies, remember YOU ARE FASTING! If not that The Bible established that Satan is the father of lies, I would have thought that Lai was Lie’s father and wished him a happy Father’s Day yesterday! I think it is high time we did a DNA testing on lies to determine who is their real biological father between Lai Mohammed and Satan.</div>

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The Independent Democrats in Anambra State has sacked its pioneer state chairman, Mr. Omeife Omeife over alleged anti-party activities.<br />
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The party accused Omeife of hobnobbing with other political parties with the intention to undermine ID.<br />
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The new chairman of the party in the state, Mr. Ikechukwu Okafor, disclosed this to newsmen at the party’s secretariat in Awka.<br />
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He said Omeife’s activities were “against the philosophy of the party”.<br />
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Okafor added, “He was hobnobbing with other political parties in a manner that we considered to be against the interest of our great party.<br />
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“He acted without the consent of the party’s executive, NWC and other party hierarchy.”<br />
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He said the party had commenced registration of new members ahead of the November 18 governorship election in the state.<br />
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“The registration will take place in the 21 local government areas of the state and the party is targeting a minimum of one million members.<br />
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He expressed optimism that the Independent Democrats would win the governorship poll in the state, adding that four governorship aspirants had declared to run on its platform.<br />
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“Already, we have four governorship aspirants and we are expecting more. I am confident we are going to win the election.<br />
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“We’ll match force with APC, APGA, PDP and others.”</div>

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Rohr ready to break Super Eagles rule for Chelsea’s Ola Aina

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Head coach of the Super Eagles, Gernot Rohr, is ready to break the rule of not inviting players playing their football in second-tier leagues, for Ola Aina.<br />
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A source close to the German told journalists that Aina is in the frame for a call-up, even if he leaves Chelsea for a team in the second tier of English football.<br />
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Aina has already applied for a switch of nationality from England to Nigeria, but his switch is yet to be formally approved by FIFA.<br />
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Former Eagles coach, Sunday Oliseh, introduced the rule of not inviting players from the second-tier. But it appears Rohr will not stick to it.<br />
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“I’m hearing about the rule for the first time, but that said Aina is still at Chelsea, and even if he moves to the Championship, his future with Nigeria won’t be affected by playing in English second tier league.<br />
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“Already the manager has seen what he likes in him, but you must also consider the Championship, it’s a very competitive league with players of various nationals playing in it. Beside it’s rated by many as the fourth strongest league in Europe. So it isn’t bad at all,” the source stated.<br />
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Aina is being linked with Hull City and Norwich City on a loan spell.</div>

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Billionaire kidnapper: Drama as court grants bail to three suspects

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<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Three suspects that allegedly masterminded the kidnap of the CEO of Maydon Pharmacy in Ilupeju, Lagos, Chief Dunu Dona, Emeka Egbuligha, Tochukwu Nwosu and Kingsley Egbeonu, have regained their freedom.</span></div>
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<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The men were detained by the police after their boss escaped from Evans’ kidnappers’ den at Igando and reported them as suspects.</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The three suspects, who were detained before the suspected kingpin, Evans, was arrested, were granted bail by a Yaba Magistrate court.</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Dunu who parted with a huge ransom of N150m, reportedly alleged that while in the den of his abductors, he heard the voice one of the Pharmacists under his employ, discussing with the kidnappers.</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Based on these allegations, police investigators swung into action and arrested three of his staff, remanding them in their custody with court order.</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">According to Vanguard, after the arrest of Evans and his subsequent parade at the command headquarters, Ikeja, an identification parade was carried out and both Evans and other members of his gang said they did not know the three staff of the pharmaceutical company.</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Also a search at the warehouse of the company showed that nothing was tampered with contrary to earlier claims by the victim that he overheard one of the suspects discussing with his abductors how to part with his goods in the warehouse.</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">After this, their lawyers went to a Yaba Magistrate court to vacate police detention order placed on their heads.</span></div>

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Dubai-based company pulls out of Etisalat Nigeria – CBN

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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Although he gave no specific details on what he meant by “pulling out”, Okorafor said the CBN had intervened in the loan renegotiation talks to prevent job losses and asset stripping.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">He said representatives from the central bank and the Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC) would continue to hold talks in the next few days with lenders and IHS Towers, the mobile phone tower managers, as well as “equipment suppliers”.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The statement reads in part: “Given the inability of Etisalat (Nigeria) to come to an acceptable agreement with the banks, the largest shareholder in the company, Dubai-based Mubadala Development Company of the United Arab Emirates, has now pulled out of the company as well as the ongoing negotiations.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“It was based on the attempt of the banks to takeover the company that the financial and telecommunications regulators have moved in to intervene and forestall down-sizing and asset stripping,”</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In March, the central bank, and the Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC) tried to prevent lenders placing the firm in receivership to avoid a wider debt crisis and agreed with banks to pursue a default deal.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">But lenders, under pressure to avoid loan-loss provisions, have been pushing to finalise a restructuring before half-yearly audits this month.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The original loan was a seven-year facility to refinance a $650 million loan and fund expansion of Etisalat Nigeria’s network.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The company missed payments in February after sharp falls in the Nigerian naira bloated the loan’s value, making repayments difficult.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Etisalat is Nigeria’s fourth biggest mobile operator with a 14-percent market share. South Africa’s MTN has 47 percent, Globacom 20 percent and Airtel – a subsidiary of India’s Bharti Airtel – 19 percent of Nigeria’s mobile phone market.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Etisalat Nigeria had repaid $500 million of the loan before it defaulted in February due to a currency devaluation and its only remaining investors are its Nigerian partners, led by company chairman Hakeem Belo-Osagie.</span></div>
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Lagos Police raise alarm over new tactic used by kidnappers

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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">The Lagos State Police Command has raised an alarm over the new tactics used by kidnappers. Below is a statement issued by the Spokesperson of Zone 2 command, SP Dolapo Badmos. </span></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Please if any one send credit to you and the person later calls you that it was a mistake that you should send it back to them. If you send it back, they will still call you to ask for more details about you that they want to appreciate what you did and pray for you.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Do not listen to such and give out your details please. Its a new gimmick that kidnappers are now using to get victims.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></div>
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Davido allegedly gets new hair cut in honor of his cult group Neo Black Movement a.k.a Black Axe

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<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 25.6px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“IF’ Crooner, Davido, has taken to social media to share photos of the new haircut which has ‘7’ on it, in honor of his cult group, Neo Black Movement a.k.a Black Axe. The photo also came with cult slangs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Some of his cult group members, who saw this posted some cult slang comments to show support and solidarity. Here’s what we saw;</span></div>
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Arsenal close to sealing club-record £44million deal for Lacazette

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Arsene Wenger is confident of wrapping up a club-record £44million deal for Lyon’s Alexandre Lacazette.<br />
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The Arsenal boss believes he has convinced the France striker to come to the Emirates, with a deal in place possibly as early as next week.<br />
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If completed, it would eclipse the £42.5million Wenger paid for Mesut Ozil in 2013.<br />
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This would also mean the Frenchman, has cooled his chase of Monaco’s Kylian Mbappe.<br />
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Lacazette, 26, has smashed 100 league goals in 203 appearances in the French top flight.<br />
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Lyon have already landed his replacement, with a £16.5million deal for Chelsea’s Bertrand Traore on a five-year deal.</div>

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INEC moves to create additional centres in Lagos

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The Independent National Electoral Commission in Lagos State says efforts are being made to create additional centres for Continuous Voters Registration in 13 local government areas of the state.<br />
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Dr. Mustapha Mudashiru, the Administrative Secretary of the Commission in Lagos State, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday in Lagos.<br />
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He said the commission had pushed for more centres, especially in 13 of the 20 council areas in the state to reduce crowd in existing centres.<br />
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He added that “we requested for additional centres, particularly for some peculiar local governments in Lagos State to further address some of the challenges facing CVR in a metropolitan city like Lagos.<br />
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“We are still awaiting formal approval by the commission.<br />
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“We made the case for additional centres in Ajeromi-Ifelodun, Alimosho, Eti-Osa, Ifako-Ijaiye, Ikeja, Ikorodu, Kosofe, Mushin, Ojo, Oshodi-Isolo, Somolu, Surulere, and Lagos Mainland local governments.<br />
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“We are hopeful that the commission will consider this and as soon as we get<br />
approval, we will put those centres into use.<br />
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“This will go a long way in reducing crowd at existing centres because it is one of the challenges we have been facing.”<br />
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The INEC boss said the commission was committed to bringing innovation and improvement to deliver its mandate to the people.</div>

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2017 budget: Fashola lied on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway vote - Senate

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The Senate has asked Minister of Works, Housing and Power, Mr.Babatunde Fashola (SAN), to stop spreading wrong information and half-truth on the slashing of the vote to Lagos-Ibadan Expressway in the 2017 budget.<br />
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A statement on Saturday by Chairman, Senate Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Senator Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi, said the legislators worked to ensure equity across the country on all new and outstanding projects.<br />
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The Senate stated that Fashola failed to give members of the public full details about the expressway, which had been under a private finance initiative from the beginning.<br />
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It alleged that the minister would have preferred an arrangement that allowed his ministry to continue to award contracts and fund the project through government budgetary allocation at a time when the nation’s revenue was dwindling and at an all time low.<br />
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“Even as of last year, the 2016 Appropriation Act voted N40bn for the project on the insistence of the Ministry and only N26bn was released.<br />
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“If we had known, the rest of N14bn could have been allocated to other critical roads across the country,” Abdullahi said.</div>

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Threat letter: We’ll scare kidnappers away with ‘juju’ – Lagos schoolteachers

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Two days after a report broke the news of a threat letter sent to the Lagos State Model College, Kankon, Badagry, by some suspected kidnappers, staff members of the school said they did not believe any kidnapper is powerful enough to attack the school.<br />
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The writers of the letter, who claimed to be behind the kidnap of the pupils of the Lagos State Model College, Igbonla, Epe, had written that they were coming to kidnap the two principals in the school and six students.<br />
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Some of the teachers, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, explained that the remote neighbourhood where the school is located is known for its “juju,” which makes the possibility of a successful kidnap of students and staff unlikely.<br />
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“The last time some international armed robbers passed through this community, the community showed its power and they were caught within few days,” one of the three teachers in the senior school’s common room told our correspondent.<br />
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Many of the parents, who spoke with newsmen on Friday, explained that they were shocked when they heard the news on some radio stations’ newspaper reviews.<br />
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Some of the parents were on the school premises to take their children home with luggage in tow.<br />
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A woman, Mrs. Bisi Oladiji, went to pick her 12-year-old son just few hours after she heard the news of the threat letter.<br />
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She said, “My husband was the one who heard about the letter on the radio. Nobody told us anything. He told me to go and pick our son quickly.”<br />
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Some of the parents, however, said they were in the school to take their children home as a result of the Sallah public holiday.<br />
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When asked if they would have decided to take the same step if there was no holiday, one of the parents, Mrs. Theophilus Oladega, said, “Even if there is no public holiday, I would have come here to take my son home if for the weekend alone.<br />
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“How can I sleep at home peacefully knowing that kidnappers have said they were coming to abduct children where my son is?”<br />
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Meanwhile, on Friday, our correspondent counted six policemen within the school premises with a patrol van stationed at the entrance.<br />
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Despite this, some parents said they were not confident their children were safe in the school.<br />
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“The public holiday is coming at a very good time. We need to take our children home in the face of this threat. Look at the fence. Can you tell me that even a child cannot scale that?” a parent, who has two daughters in the school, told newsmen.<br />
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The fence in question is about five feet high and surrounds the entire compound which sits on more than one hectare of land.<br />
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An entire part of the fence borders a thick bush which has grown higher than the fence.<br />
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But, the staff members of the school insisted that there were security arrangements “beyond what the eyes can see.”<br />
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The principal of the senior school, Mr. Sunday Fadahunsi, one of the two threatened in the letter, said he feared no abduction as “I am a child of God.” He had earlier told The PUNCH that the situation was under control as the Lagos State Government and the police were handling the matter.<br />
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It was learnt that when the letter first got to the school, the police, Department of State Services and the Lagos State Neighbourhood Safety Corps were deployed.<br />
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The Air Force, which has a base few metres to the school, was also notified.<br />
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But days after, only few policemen were seen within and outside the compound.<br />
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The chairman of the senior school parents’ association, Mr. Wale Alo, told newsmen that he had a meeting with the parents earlier on Friday morning to calm their fears.<br />
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“I don’t see any reason why parents should come and take their children because of the letter. Everything is under control. That was the message we passed across to them and there did not seem to be any panic during the meeting,” he said. Asked if he was satisfied with the security arrangement on the ground, he said he believed that the state government and the police were capable of doing what is right.<br />
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The Lagos State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr. Steve Ayorinde, had said that the government was aware of the letter and that the security agencies were on high alert and alive to their responsibility.<br />
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Ayorinde said that the Lagos State Government would not “yield any of its schools or pupils to the evil machinations of kidnappers.”<br />
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The spokesperson for the Lagos State Police Command, Mr. Olarinde Famous-Cole, had earlier explained that security agencies had beefed up their presence in the school.<br />
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But he was unavailable to comment on the current state of security at the school as calls made to his mobile line were unanswered as of the time of filing this report.<br />
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Rivers information commissioner resigns

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Barely 24 hours after the Rivers State Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike, sacked the Commissioner for Works, Mr. Bathuel Harrison, Dr. Austin Tam-George, has resigned from his position as the State Commissioner for Information and Communication.<br />
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 Tam-George, who disclosed his decision to withdraw his services to the state government on Friday, said he had sent his resignation letter to the governor.<br />
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However, Tam-George did not give any reason for his resignation, but only added that he had handed over to the Director of Administration of the ministry.<br />
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 A copy of the letter, which was sent to the governor read, “I wish to resign my appointment as Commissioner for Information and Communication with effect from today, 23rd June, 2017.<br />
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 “I have handed over officially to the Director of Administration of the Ministry. Thank you for the opportunity to serve the state.”<br />
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 Wike had in a statement signed by his Special Assistant on Electronic Media, Mr. Simeon Nwakaudu, announced the sacking of the Works Commissioner, Bathuel Harrison with immediate effect.<br />
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According to the statement, “Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has relieved  the State Commissioner  of Works, Mr. Bathuel Harrison of his appointment with immediate effect.<br />
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“The former commissioner has been directed to hand over to the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Works.”<br />
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 No reason was, however, given for the decision to relieve Harrison of his former position.</div>

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Five dead, 120 people missing in China landslide

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At least five people were found dead and over 120 remained missing hours after a massive landslide buried a mountain village in southwest China on Saturday as rescuers scoured through rocks for survivors.<br />
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A couple and a baby were rescued and taken to hospital after dozens of homes in the village of Xinmo were swallowed by boulders when the side of a mountain collapsed, according to the local Maoxian, or Mao county, government.<br />
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A fourth survivor was found but rescuers were still trying to get to him hours after heavy rain triggered the avalanche of rock in Sichuan province, officials said.<br />
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Wu Xiaobin, captain of the local fire department, told state broadcaster CCTV that five bodies were pulled from the rubble.<br />
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The early morning landslide, which occurred following heavy rains in the region, struck 62 homes and blocked a two-kilometre (one-mile) stretch of river and 1.6 kilometre of road, according to state media.<br />
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Rescuers used ropes to move a massive rock while dozens of others, aided by dogs, searched the rubble for survivors, according to videos posted online by the Maoxian government and CCTV.<br />
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Bulldozers and heavy diggers were also deployed to remove boulders, the images showed. Medics were seen treating a woman on a road. Hundreds of police, military and firefighters were taking part in the rescue.<br />
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More than 120 people were still missing hours after the landslide, CCTV and China’s official news agency Xinhua reported. State media had earlier reported that 141 people may have been buried but did not explain why the figure had been revised.<br />
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Wang Yongbo, one of the officials in charge of rescue efforts, said the vital signs of one of the survivors “are weak”.<br />
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“It’s the biggest landslide in this area since the Wenchuan earthquake,” he said, referring to the disaster that killed 87,000 people in 2008 in a town in Sichuan.<br />
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Local police captain Chen Tiebo said the heavy rains that hit the region in recent days had triggered the landslide.<br />
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“There are several tonnes of rock” over the village, he told CCTV.<br />
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“It’s a seismic area here. There’s not a lot of vegetation,” Chen said.<br />
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Trees can help absorb excess rain and prevent landslides.<br />
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Tao Jian, director of the local weather service, told CCTV that the 2008 earthquake had “weakened the mountain” and that “a weak rain can provoke a geological catastrophe”.<br />
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President Xi Jinping called for rescuers to “spare no effort” in their search for survivors, according to CCTV.<br />
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China’s national weather observatory said more heavy rain was expected in parts of Sichuan and other southwestern provinces.<br />
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Landslides are a frequent danger in rural and mountainous parts of China, particularly at times of heavy rains.<br />
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At least 12 people were killed in January when a landslide crushed a hotel in central Hubei province.<br />
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In October landslides battered eastern China in the wake of torrential rains brought by Typhoon Megi, causing widespread damage and killing at least eight.<br />
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More than 70 were killed by a landslide in the southern commercial hub of Shenzhen in December 2015, caused by the improper storage of waste.<br />
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One of the deadliest landslides took place in 1991, when 216 were killed in southwestern Yunnan province.</div>

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“Stop begging me for money” – BBNaija’s Ese Eriata warns

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<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 25.6px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">BBNaija’s fake housemate, Ese Eriata, has taken to social media to warn social media beggars to stop begging her for money, as she’s still struggling to stand.</span></div>
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<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 25.6px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">She went further to share screenshots of a chat she had with one of her followers, who begged her to help pay for rent and school fees with the sum of 200k.</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 25.6px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The message reads;</span></div>
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<blockquote class="tr_bq" style="border: 0px; line-height: 19.5px; margin-left: 43.75px; margin-right: 43.75px; margin-top: 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; width: 350.078px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Good day miss Eriata</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">I seldomly do this buut I can’t help it</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">I really need your help of 200k to add to what I have to pay my rent and school fee next section”</span></blockquote>
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<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 25.6px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Reacting to this, Ese wrote;</span></div>
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<blockquote class="tr_bq" style="border: 0px; line-height: 19.5px; margin-left: 43.75px; margin-right: 43.75px; margin-top: 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; width: 350.078px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“I never tot I would do this but this is so funny … 200k? Do I even 200k in my acc? Abeg let me just use this medium to say this. Pls stop asking me for money because i nor get, me sef dey hustle, i cannot give what i don’t have.”</span></blockquote>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <span style="background-color: white;">She went further to talk about the kind of wedding she wants. According to Ese, she wants a low profile wedding, as she claimed she will use the money for an extravagant wedding to start a business or buy a car.</span></span></div>

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Billionaire kidnapper, Evans reveals why he never used bank account to collect ransom

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<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Dreaded kidnap kingpin, Chukwudemeje George Onwuamadike, alias Evans, has explained why he never collected ransom from victims, through a bank account.</span></div>
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<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; display: block; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px 0px 15px; orphans: 2; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Evans is renowned for demanding ransom in foreign currencies and has now denied allegations that he received any money in South Africa.</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I don’t give bank account to my victims because it could be traced. Whoever made the allegations that he paid part of his ransom in South Africa isn’t sincere. I would have been arrested and they should bring the account number they paid the money into. The Interpol can trace the account and know the account and know the owner.</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“I collect my ransom in Nigeria and after collecting it, I also do not travel abroad. I usually ask the people keeping my victims to tell them that I have traveled abroad. I usually call my victims’ relatives with my satellite phones and inform them that I was out of the country.</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“This would make them relax a little and after some time, I will ask my boys to release the victims and drop them where they could locate their people,” he said.</span></div>