Month: November 2017

Pastor, Imam win intercultural award

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Two Nigerian clerics, Pastor James Movel Wuye and Imam Muhammad Ashafa, have won the 2017 Intercultural Innovation Award, an international award held at the UN headquarters. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the clerics were among the 10 recipients of the award, out of which five awardees were from Nigeria, Egypt, South Africa, Tunisia and Uganda . The others were from Argentina, Ecuador, Israel, Northern Ireland and Pakistan. Wuye and Ashafa are Co-Executive Directors of Interfaith Mediation Centre, Kaduna, an organisation that engages in interfaith dialogue and relations…

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Physician: Diabetes a ‘disease of choices’

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Diabetes can lead to lots of serious, even life-threatening, complications. But it doesn’t have to. Dr. Thomas Grace, a family medicine physician in practice at Blanchard Valley Diabetes Center who himself has diabetes, recalled finding some doctor’s appointments intimidating when he was growing up. His own philosophy as a doctor is “This is a judgment-free zone.” He could try to scare patients — saying they will go blind or have a heart attack if they don’t get their diabetes under control. “Those things don’t have to happen,” though, so instead…

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Theresa May slams Donald Trump for sharing divisive video from a far-right group

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The British Prime Minister, Theresa May, on Wednesday delivered a rare criticism of President Donald Trump for retweeting anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant videos originally posted by a far-right U.K. political group. Mr. Trump recirculated the video posted by Jayda Fransen, deputy leader of the fringe group Britain First, which opposes alleged “Islamisation” of Britain and known for inflammatory tactics, including occupying mosques. “It is wrong for the president to have done this,” Ms. May said in a statement. The footage Mr. Trump retweeted purportedly showed a Muslim migrant beating up a…

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$68m Novare Mall begins operation in Abuja

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Nigeria’s mall segment of the real estate sector has continued to thrive, notwithstanding the supposed downturn in the industry. This position is further buttressed with the investment of $68 million in the development of Novare Gateway Mall in Abuja. The mall, from the stable of Novare Real Estate Africa, which is being inaugurated today, is the third of such retail and commercial development in the country, and it is the firm’s largest in Abuja. Other malls in Abuja owned by Novare Real Estate Africa include the 8, 267 square metre…

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Slavery: Reps to investigate auctioning of black Africans in Libya

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The House of Representatives has urged the Federal Government to liaise with the Libyan Government for solution to the menace of migration and modern day slavery in the North African country. The call followed a motion by Rep. Saheed Akinade-Fijabi (Oyo-APC) on the “need to investigate the inhuman and barbaric act of slave trade involving the auctioning of black Africans in Libya.’’ Moving the motion, Akinade-Fijabi said that African migrants from nations, including Nigeria, Guinea and Senegal, were making dangerous crossing through the Sahara Desert to Libya. He said that…

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Federal, states, local govts shared N4.55 trillion in nine months – NEITI

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Revenue allocation from the federation Account to the three tiers of government summed up to about N4.55 trillion between January and September 2017, the latest edition of the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, NEITI, Quarterly Review has showed. The publication issued on Wednesday in Abuja showed that of the total amount, about N1.76 trillion was shared in the third quarter of 2017, as against the N1.377 trillion and N1.41 trillion disbursed in the second and first quarters of the year respectively. Information and data on FAAC disbursements for the third…

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Man City restore gap, Arsenal crush Huddersfield

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Raheem Sterling scored a stunning 96th-minute winner as Man City dramatically edged Southampton 2-1 on Wednesday to preserve their eight-point lead at the Premier League summit. Pep Guardiola’s side looked set to drop points after Oriol Romeu cancelled out Kevin De Bruyne’s opener, only for Sterling to give City a 19th straight win in all competitions and a club-record 12th successive win in the league. It was Sterling’s third late winner in as many games and will have sickened second-place Manchester United, who had closed to within five points of…

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2019: President Buhari hints at seeking re-election

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President Muhammadu Buhari has given the clearest hint so far that he will seek re election in 2019. He gave the hint in far away Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire where he is attending the 5th European Union-African Union (EU-AU) Summit. He was accompanied on the trip by a leader of the governing APC, Bola Tinubu, and governors Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom and Mohammed Abubakar of Bauchi states among others. The president arrived late to an interactive session with the Nigerian community in Cote d’Ivoire Tuesday night and said he had…

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North Korea: Donald Trump calls for more military, govt funding

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The North Korean recent missile launch has reaffirmed the need to allocate more funding for the needs of the U.S. government and army, President Donald Trump said Wednesday. Early on Wednesday, North Korea launched the Hwasong-15 ballistic missile, which flew 950 km and reached an altitude of 4,475 km. The flight has lasted for 53 minutes, after which the missile fell into the Sea of Japan, within the Japanese exclusive economic zone. “After North Korea missile launch, it’s more important than ever to fund our gov’t and military! Dems shouldn’t…

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UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin signs up for Juan Mata’s Common Goal project

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UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin has joined Juan Mata’s Common Goal project. The 50-year-old, who took over from Michael Platini in 2016, has pledged to donate one percent of his salary to charity. He is the 31st member of the football industry to sign up. Manchester United midfielder Mata was the first to donate a portion of his wage to support football projects around the world in August. He has been followed by a host of other professionals, including Mats Hummels, Giorgio Chiellini, Alex Morgan, Megan Rapinoe, as well as Hoffenheim…

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