Month: February 2018

No survivor in Iran’s Aseman Airlines plane crash

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All the 66 people on board Iran’s Aseman Airlines plane that crashed on Sunday during a flight from Tehran to the city of Yasuj are believed to have died. The ATR-made plane crashed in a mountainous area near the town of Semirom, news agency ISNA quoted emergency services spokesman Mojtaba Khaledi as saying. State television quoted the airline’s spokesman as confirming the death. “Aseman Airlines public relations head said that all on board are unfortunately dead,” the television reporter said, without elaborating on how he obtained the information. Semirom’s governor…

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Everything has an end

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‘Everything has an end’. There is an end to everything, to good things as well. – Chaucer All things must end sometime. This was the case of would he or would he not. South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma for a long time was the Teflon Don – nothing stuck to this man; he was able to come out of any scandal, corruption, fraud and other scraps with hardly any political damage until now. Like a cat with nine lives, he very well used up all nine lives and more. Zuma…

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Flavour sings for love in Los Angeles

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Flavour N’abania, one of Nigeria’s leading singers, has released another video in which he pays a tribute to the season of love. The video titled, Someone Like You, was filmed in Los Angeles, and was directed by by Patrick Elis, Flavour in the video professes love to a woman she loves, who appears to have swept his heart away. It was released on 17 February. [embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffXL1dw3Unc[/embedyt] The 3-minute video has generated over 500 comments and 160,000 views within 48 hours of its release. Flavour was born Chinedu Izuchukwu Okoli,…

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US seeks to boost local production of 35 minerals

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Africa’s mineral export will be hit very soon as the United States plans to boost domestic production of 35 critical minerals including uranium, cobalt and lithium, in  pursuance of President Donald Trump’s America First policy. The US said the 35 minerals are  critical materials used in basic manufacturing, batteries and electronics. In the full list are:  Aluminum (bauxite), antimony, arsenic, barite, beryllium, bismuth, cesium, chromium, cobalt, fluorspar, gallium, germanium, graphite (natural), hafnium, helium, indium, lithium, magnesium, manganese, niobium, platinum group metals, potash, rare earth elements group, rhenium, rubidium, scandium, strontium,…

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Get Shekau dead or alive, Buratai orders soldiers

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For refusing to surrender himself to troops after declaring unwillingness to continue with his act of terrorism, the Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, has again charged troops to capture Abubakar Shekau, the factional leader of the Boko Haram terrorists group, alive or dead. Buratai gave the charge at Camp Zairo, the former Command and Control Centre of the terrorists group in the Sambisa forest during an operational visit to troops. In 2017, the army chief gave troops a 40-day ultimatum to capture Shekau and the army recently offered…

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US and Turkey agree to mend ties as a humanitarian crisis looms in Afrin

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The United States and Turkey have pulled back from the brink of a potentially disastrous crisis, agreeing to normalise badly strained relations over Syria and other issues that had threatened the NATO allies’ longstanding ties. During a two-day visit by US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, the two sides announced the creation of new “mechanisms” to improve the relationship, starting with the question of American support for Kurdish rebels as Turkey proposed a joint deployment in Syria. The allies have been at odds since Turkey launched an air and ground assault…

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Constitutional amendment: Youths give Presidency, NASS 30 days ultimatum

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A coalition of 54 youth organisations across the country under the aegis of the ‘Not Too Young to Run Movement’ have given the Presidency, National Assembly and State Houses of Assembly 30 days to conclude all the on-going constitutional amendments as the 2019 election is 365 days away. Convener of the ‘Not Too Young to Run’ movement, Mr. Samson Itodo made this known while briefing journalists in Abuja on Friday. He said the movement had declared March 14, 2018 a National Day of Action for Presidential Assent. Against that backdrop,…

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Mourinho denies rift with Pogba

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Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho has dismissed media speculation of a rift with Paul Pogba as a “big lie” and said that the midfielder was well aware of the need to improve after below-par displays in the last few weeks. The France international, 24, was substituted in the 2-0 Premier League defeat at Tottenham Hotspur and started the next game against Huddersfield Town on the bench. He was hauled off again in the 1-0 defeat by Newcastle United last weekend. British media have said United’s record signing is increasingly frustrated…

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Google begins blocking annoying ads on Chrome browser

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Google has begun a new effort to block annoying ads on its Chrome browser, as part of an initiative aimed at improving the online advertising ecosystem that provides the bulk of its revenues. The new ad filtering system rolled out this week aims to eliminate the most irritating marketing messages such as pop-ups, auto-play video ads and “sticky” boxes which cannot be removed. The system was implemented by Google in partnership with the Coalition for Better Ads, an association which includes the internet giant and a number of media and…

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Hackers steal 339.5 million rubles from Russian banks

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Unidentified hackers stole 339.5 million rubles ($6 million) in an attack on the SWIFT international payments messaging system in Russia last year, the Russian central bank said on Friday. The disclosure, buried at the bottom of a central bank report on digital thefts at Russian banks, is the latest in a string of attempted and successful cyber heists using fraudulent wire-transfer requests. The central bank said it had been sent information about ”one successful attack on the work place of a SWIFT system operator. “The volume of unsanctioned operations as…

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