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I'll meet IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu to broker peace - Oluwo of Iwo

<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">The Oluwo of Iwo, Oba Abdulrasheed Akanbi, on Friday said he would arrange a meeting with the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, to address agitations by the group.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">The monarch also disclosed he would meet with some significant traditional rulers in the South East, to seek an end to the tension in the region.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Speaking on Friday at a public lecture and conferment of the Distinguished Service Award on the Chairman of the Oyo State Chapter, Nigeria Union of Journalists, Wunmi Faniran, and others, Oba Akanbi condemned the spate of violence in the Southe East.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">“As a father of all Nigerians, I’m visiting the Southeast soon to mediate for the sustenance of ‘one Nigeria’ because when elders are in the market, a child’s head shouldn’t drop.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">“I will personally meet the IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu, and some notable traditional rulers and I’m optimistic it (the meeting) will yield peace.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">“It is unfortunate the (IPOB) threat came at a time we have a serious government ready to fight the genocidal disease (corruption) killing this nation. It must be addressed.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">“The best the agitators should be doing is praying for this government and (making) not secession threat. The country has been in mess owing to maladministration.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">“Such has promoted the proliferation of militant syndicates in Nigeria. If the government is responsible, the spate of insurgencies will be decimated,” he said.</div>

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Labour blasts Kogi govt for doubting signatories of strike notice

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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Leaders of Labour unions in Kogi State have condemned claim by Kogi State government that signatories to the strike notice are unknown labour leaders.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">In a chat with newsmen in Lokoja, Kogi State Secretary of Trade Union Congress (TUC), Comrade Kolawole James said labour leaders were shocked by the claim made by the Director General on Media and Publicity to the Governor, Kingsley Fanwo.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Fanwo, had in his response to the strike notice, alleged that none of the signatories to the letter was a civil servant.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">He added that the signatories were not the union leaders the state government had been relating with.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">However, the TUC scribe debunked the allegations as being far from the truth.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">James noted that the signatories are well known to labour leaders who had at one time or the other related with the state government.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">“As the Secretary of TUC, I have had cause to exchange correspondence with the state government on several occasions. I was part of the first staff screening committee headed by Paul Okuntimo. I also served, as representative of Labour, in the final screening committee. To say I and other signatories are unknown labour leaders is not true.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">“Secretaries of labour unions are not civil servants, they are employees of the Union seconded to different state to manage their respective secretariats. It is the duty of Union secretaries to sign correspondence from the secretariat.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">“The government should rather focus on the demands contained in the strike notice and find ways to meet the demands to avert industrial action. As we speak, the state government has not reached out to Labour to discuss how they will meet our demands. However, we met with the committee constituted by the State House of Assembly on Thursday and we tabled our demands before it.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">“We stand by our demands that workers’ July and August salaries must be paid. This is basic. Some workers in the state are owed 19 months salary as at today. Just yesterday, we were informed that the Principal of Community Secondary School, Ayere, Mr. Musari Rahman, who has not been paid salary in the last 19 months has passed away. This is just one of the many unfortunate reports we get from workers across the state.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">“We also demand that government rescind its decision on clocking in and out policy in the public service of Kogi state, which aims at casualising the service on daily pay basis. This negates the provisions of National Councils on Establishment’s principles and practices guiding the civil service in the country,” he said.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">He further assured civil servants in the state of Labour leaders’ commitment to their welfare.</div>

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‘Buhari has done what Jonathan failed to do for N’Delta’

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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Former Senator representing Bayelsa East Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Mr. Clever Ikisipo, has commended President Muhammadu Buhari for his passion to develop the Niger Delta region  particularly Bayelsa State.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Ikisikpo, a kinsman to former President Goodluck Jonathan, said Buhari had done what Jonathan’s administration failed to do for his people.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">He spoke at the weekend when students’ representatives from Bayelsa East District, consisting of Ogbia, Nembe and Brass local government areas, conferred on him an award for his oustanding leadership qualities in Kolo area of the state.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">He said Buhari ensured that some persons from Bayelsa were given a licence to build refinery and were awarded oil blocks adding that other developmental projects were being undertaken in the state and other parts of the region.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Ikisipo, an erstwhile two-time member of the House of Representatives said: ”If I say we should appreciate President Muhammadu Buhari, people will ask, why should we appreciate him. You may not know why we should thank God for making Buhari the President of Nigeria.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">”Today, what our own could not give to us, Buhari has given to us. An Ogbia man, Dr. Eruani Azibapu, has been given a licence to build a private refinery. We had an opportunity given to the people of Ogbia, Nembe and Brass to own oil blocks in the past, did we get any? No.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">”But Buhari has given one of us, a woman, an oil block. That is why I am saying we should appreciate Buhari. He is doing well for the Niger Delta people. Because if the refinery is built today, it will take not less than 10,000 workers. Will Brass, Ogbia and Nembe, not get up to 3,000 workers there? Then, would you not be empowered?</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">”So, are we not supposed to appreciate Buhari? The oil block we could not get is to be given to one us. If oil block is given to an Ogbia, Nembe or Brass person, are we not going to get one of the Alakijas, are we not going to get one of the Danjumas. Oil block is one the things that make those people billionaires. Today, Danjuma can give somebody N2bn without batting an eyelid.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">”Finally, I want to also say we need to appreciate Buhari for fighting corruption and bringing positive change in the country. My friend, one of the serving senators from Bayelsa State, asked me, so, if Buhari had not taken over government, so we would not know the quantum of amount coming into Bayelsa State.”</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Ikisikpo regretted that when the Ijaw had the opportunity to develop the region, they misused it.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">For instance, he said that some of the presidential aides from Bayelsa squandered the commonwealth of the people through excessive greed and reckless spendings and made it impossible for the region to feel the impact of governance.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">He said:  ”I want to tell you some bitter truth. There is an adage that says, ‘before you remove the speck in someone’s eyes, first remove the log in your own eyes.’</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">”God gave us an elephant but we allowed the elephant to get rotten. Some may not get the adage perhaps. If we had judiciously used that elephant properly, I think by now, Bayelsa East would have become a ‘small Dubai’.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">”But we misused the opportunity. Through that opportunity, we could not get oil blocks, through that opportunity; we could not get even modular refineries in Bayelsa East.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">“Bayelsa East is the first place to produce crude oil in Nigeria, but go to Oloibiri where oil was first discovered in commercial quantity, the place is a thick forest, where you can kill the biggest animal on earth. Is it supposed to be so?</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">”When I entered the House of Representatives in 2003, my first motion was how to make Oloibiri a place that would be conducive to every Ogbia person, every Nembe person and every Brass person. I moved a motion that the Federal Government should build an oil museum there. A beautiful resolution was given, but nothing happened.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">”At the House of Reps, the first position given to me was deputy chairman, House Committee on Appropriation. The former Governor of Benue State, Gabriel Suswan, was the chairman.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">“I told him in our first budget meetings that what I wanted was the Yenegwe-Okaki-Kolo-Nembe-Brass Road. When we met with the Budget Office, they asked if the road was a federal government road. I said yes. And they said, go and bring documents. We got the documents at Federal Ministry of Works and presented them.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">”That was a project that was started during Melford Okilo’s administration, but was abandoned and went into oblivion. Today, the project has been forsaken. Like I said, we were given an elephant, if the elephant that we were given, had used the opportunity very well, that road would have moved up to Brass today.”</div>

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IPOB calls for sack of Nigerian military spokesman

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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has called for the dismissal of Defence Spokesman, John Enenche, claiming he deceived the public by declaring them a terrorist group.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Eneche made the declaration, citing the “formation of a Biafra secret service, militant possession and use of weapons as well as physical confrontation of troops” as part of reasons for the declaration.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">But IPOB have accused him of usurping the roles and responsibilities of the judiciary, arguing that he had no legal backing.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">“This declaration is not only judicially provocative and belligerent, the Idoma-born army officer acted beyond the mandate of the Nigerian army as specified in sections 10 & 11 of CAP A20 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria (L.F.N.) 2004 and in section-217(2) of the Nigerian fraudulent constitution,” read a statement by Emma Nmezu and Clifford Iroanya, who identified themselves as spokespersons of the organisation.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">“Recall that on March 1, 2017, the Honourable Justice Binta Murtala-Nyako of the federal high court, Abuja declared in her ruling that IPOB is not an unlawful society/organisation.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">“Justice Binta Murtala-Nyako gave her judgment having studied the conditions for an organisation to be deemed unlawful as stipulated in section-62 of CAP C38 L.F.N. 2004.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">“Up till this day, that ruling from Justice Binta Murtala-Nyako has not been upturned by any court.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">“And for this reason, Major-General John Enenche (though a Biafran from Idoma land) must be dismissed from the Nigerian army, arrested and brought to trial in the court of Justice Binta Murtala-Nyako.”</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">They added that what constitute the “acts of terrorism” are given in the terrorism (prevention) Act of 2011, where “section 2 stipulated that only a judge can declare an organisation proscribed based on proven case of acts of terrorism and such case will be presented to the judge through an application made by the attorney-general or the national security adviser or the inspector general of police with the approval of the president. The judge’s declaration will thereafter be gazetted”.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">“The questions that now beg for answers are: (1) Does the director of defence information (DDI) of the Nigerian army (Major-General John Enenche) fall into any of the three categories of persons that should make an application to a Judge to declare IPOB a terrorist organization?” they asked.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">“(2) Which judge did the DDI make such application to and was it approved by the president prior to submitting the application?</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">“(3) Where is the approval given to the DDI by the judge? (4) When and where was the Judge’s declaration gazetted?”</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">“In particular, this deceitful act is a violation and interference into the judicial arm of government and it is an overreach. It is also a deliberate act in contempt of a subsisting ruling in a competent court of law.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">“IPOB, whether led by Nnamdi Kanu or led by the DOS, is not a terrorist organization because no court of competent jurisdiction has so declared it. The so-called declaration by Major-General John Enenche is null and void and of no effect.”</div>

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FG warns International Community to steer clear Nigeria’s internal problem

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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">The Federal Government has warned the International Community against interfering in Nigeria‘s internal problem.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">This warning follows the ongoing battle by the government to flush out the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) from the South East.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Senior Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Prosecution, Barrister Okoi Obono-Obla gave the order on Saturday when he spoke to us on telephone.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">He said that other countries including Iraq have their problems and it was their governments that dealt with them.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">“International Community cannot interfere with our internal affairs, every country has the right to control its internal affairs. In Iraq there is a problem there, the government is dealing with it, in Syria, the government is dealing with their problem and in the United States, there are problems which the US government is dealing with, so they cannot tell us how to deal with our own internal affairs,” Obla said.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">He further said, “There is nothing like international community, it is a propaganda. If anything happens in Nigeria, the whole West African community will be destabilised. If the South East desire peace, they will have peace, the people should come out and condemn in totality what these miscreants called IPOB are doing, they should excommunicate them, we don’t need it.”</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">On the invasion of military in Aba, Obono-Obla said “The Military did not invade Aba, I disagree with you, and the President has the constitutional power to deploy the military to anywhere there is security reports of possible break down of law and order.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">“The military’s job is to protect the territorial integrity of Nigeria and also to ensure that there is no internal break down of law and order. These people have been threatening and declared Cross River, Kogi, Benue, Rivers, Balyelsa, Akwa Ibom, Abia, Imo, and Anambra states as so called Republic of Biafra.”</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">“And they have been recruiting Biafra National Guards, recruiting Biafra security service and the President of the Country who has taken oath of office, who has swore by the constitution to defend the constitution, to defend Nigeria’s territorial integrity cannot fold his arms, so why do you call it an invasion, it is not, so if the military moves to Cross River to maintain law and order you call that an invasion, it is not please.”</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">“The action of IPOB is condemnable, it is stupid. For instance, I am from Cross River state; how can they declare Cross River state as part of the republic of Biafra without the consent of the people of the state, how can they declare Akwa Ibom as Biafra State,Delta, Edo, Kogi, Benue, as Biafra states, how can they declare any part of Nigeria as Biafra state? It is impossible and provocative,” he said.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">The Special Adviser noted that, “They went ahead to form security forces, Biafra security forces, Biafra National Guard which is unconstitutional. The only approved security forces in Nigeria is the Nigerian Army, Nigerian Navy, Nigerian Air Force, Nigerian Police, DSS, Civil Defence, you cannot form a militia group and say it’s your army, it is wrong, no nation can tolerate that.”</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">He said that the President has been very calm over this provocative act by IPOB , saying he has been very patient in the past two years. ”They have been blocking roads, collecting taxes, extorting money from people, flying Biafran flag all over the place, I mean these are all provocative act.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">“They have been burning houses, burning police stations, attacking innocent Nigerians living in the South South and South East, these acts are tantamount to declaring war on the Federal Government. International community cannot interfere with our internal affairs, every country has the right to control its internal affairs,” he stressed.</div>

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Minister opens up on Buhari’s health ahead of US, London trips

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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, on Saturday declared that President Muhammadu Buhari is fit and in excellent shape.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Onyeama said Buhari is “firing up” to lead the Nigerian delegation to the 72nd Session of the UN General Assembly.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Onyeama dismissed speculations in some quarters about the president’s health and his ability to withstand the rigours of the high-level event scheduled from September 19 to 25.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">“President Muhammadu Buhari is in very good health to lead the UN General Assembly delegation.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">“The president is in excellent form in every way possible. We had the Federal Executive Council Meeting on Wednesday that lasted very long beyond the usual.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">“He presided over the Federal Executive Council meeting throughout. He’s now firing up and very fantastic,” Onyeama said.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Recall that Nigerian Eye reported that Buhari will depart Nigeria on Sunday.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">He will join other world leaders at the welcoming reception to be hosted by the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, and also hold a bilateral meeting with the UN scribe.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">The Nigerian leader is billed to have a a lunch meeting with President Donald Trump of the United States of America, along with other world leaders.</div>
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5 Benefits Of Cucumber Water

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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Cucumber water has become a popular drink not just among fitness fanatics, but most people in the world. More people are enjoying the healthy, refreshing drink at home, and why not? It’s delicious and easy to make yourself.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Here are five ways cucumber water benefits your body</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b>It keeps you hydrated</b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Water is essential for the body to function properly. The amount of water you need to stay well-hydrated varies depending on the person. Six to eight glasses of water a day is a good goal for most people. Although drinking plain water might seem boring. Adding cucumber gives it some extra flavor, which might encourage you to drink more.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b>It helps with weight loss</b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">If you’re trying to lose weight, cucumber water can help you cut some serious calories from your diet. Sometimes your body confuses thirst with hunger, ever felt like you are hungry but in fact you are really thirsty? But how do you tell the difference? You could try reaching for a tall chilled glass of cucumber water first. If your hunger goes away after finishing the drink, you were just thirsty. If you’re still hungry, then you know it is hunger.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b>It may help prevent cancer</b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Cucumbers may help in the fight against cancer. Along with antioxidants, cucumbers have compounds (cucurbitacins) and a group of nutrients (lignans), which may be able to protect us from cancer. Cucumbers might also help to slow the progression of prostate cancer.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b>It lowers your blood pressure</b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Having too much salt (sodium) and too little potassium in your diet can lead to high blood pressure. Excess salt causes your body to hold fluids, which raises blood pressure. Potassium is an electrolyte that helps regulate the amount of sodium retained by the kidneys. Cucumbers are a good source of potassium. Drinking cucumber water increases levels of potassium, helping to lower your blood pressure.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b>It supports healthy skin</b></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Cucumber water helps soothe your skin from the inside out. Staying hydrated helps your body to flush out toxins and maintain a healthy complexion. Cucumbers are also high in vitamin B-5, which is used to treat acne.</div>