Day: July 22, 2017

Chelsea sign Morata in club-record deal

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Chelsea have completed the signing of Alvaro Morata from Real Madrid, two days after announcing that an agreement had been reached with the La Liga Champions for his transfer. The Spanish striker, who returned to Real Madrid last season after spending two seasons at Juventus, joins Chelsea on a five-year deal, the Premier League Champions said in a statement on Friday. “I am so happy to be here. It’s an incredible emotion to be part of this big club. I am looking to work hard, score as many goals as…

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Reps meet with Magu over Ikoyi funds

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The House of Representatives Committee on National Security and Intelligence, has met with the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu over the cash recovered in an apartment in the Ikoyi area of Lagos State, months ago. The committee said although there may have been silence over the huge cash haul uncovered in Osborne Towers, the matter is by no means forgotten. Chairman of the Committee, Hon. Sani Jaji, told Channels Television that the meeting was part of the investigation into the more than 43 million…

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Microsoft using lawyers to tackle top Russian hacking group

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US Tech giant Microsoft is going after a Russian hacking group believed to be connected to the country’s intelligence agency GRU and behind several high-profile cyber attacks including on the NATO and the Hillary Clinton campaign. According to a report in The Daily Beast late on Friday, Microsoft was using lawyers to take on the hacker group known as Fancy Bear — accusing it of computer intrusion, cybersquatting and infringing on Microsoft’s trademarks. “The action, though, is not about dragging the hackers into court. The lawsuit is a tool for Microsoft to…

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Former Nigerian leader, Obasanjo mocks Americans for choosing Trump

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For the majority of Americans to have voted for Donald John Trump to become their president, it means that they are as humans as Africans are, that is the position of former Nigerian president, Olusegun Obasanjo. ‘‘The fact that America can produce a Trump in this day and age, it means Americans are as human as we are,’‘ he is quoted to have said. The octogenarian who ruled Africa’s most populous nation – first as a military ruler and then a civilian leader, said he was happy about the turn…

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President Buhari and the descendants of Shimei

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There is nothing new under the sun, goes a popular saying. In fact, the more things seem to change, the more they appear the same. From time immemorial, some people have spoken evil of leadership, cast aspersions on them, and generally portrayed themselves as scum of the earth. No matter how a country loves its leader, there will naturally be those that the Good Book calls “filthy dreamers” who “despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.” That is why as spokesman to President Muhammadu Buhari, I never respond to such…

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WHO lists dangers of HIV drug resistance

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The World Health Organiation (WHO) has warned that the spread of an HIV strain resistant to some of the most widely used medicines could undermine global progress in treating and preventing HIV infection if early and effective action is not taken. The Director-General of WHO, Tedros Ghebreyesus, stated this in the ‘WHO HIV Drug Resistance Report 2017’. “Antimicrobial drug resistance is a growing challenge to global health and sustainable development. “We need to proactively address the rising levels of resistance to HIV drugs if we are to achieve the global…

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APC’s committee on restructuring dead on arrival – Fayose

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Gov. Ayo Fayose of Ekiti State has called on Nigerians to reject the All Progressives Congress’s committee on restructuring, describing it as dead on arrival and a ruse. “It is a blatant attempt to draw the wool over the eyes of Nigerians”, he added. In a statement yesterday by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Idowu Adelusi, Fayose, who is also the chairman of the PDP Governors’ Forum, said the APC committee on restructuring is unneccesary since the jury is that Nigerians in their large numbers, cutting across party, regional, ethnic,…

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Buratai orders troops to capture Shekau dead or alive

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The Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, has directed Maj.-Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru, the Theatre Commander, Operation Lafiya Dole, Maiduguri, to capture Abubakar Shekau, self-styled leader of the Boko Haram sect, “dead or alive”. Buratai further directed the Theatre commander to do so within 40 days. A statement issued by the Director, Army Public Relations, Brig.-Gen. Sani Usman, on Friday night, said that Attahiru should “employ all arsenal at the disposal of the Theatre Command to smoke out Shekau wherever he is hiding in Nigeria.” “The general public is please…

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