Month: March 2018

Rising Senegal politician Khalifa Sall gets five years for fraud

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Leading Senegalese politician Khalifa Sall was handed a five-year jail term for fraud on Friday, a sentence that will rule him out of presidential elections due next February. Sall, 62, who is mayor of Dakar, had denied the charges against him as politically motivated. He had been accused of fraudulent use of public funds, for which he was also fined five million CFA francs (7,625 euros). He was found not guilty on charges of criminal conspiracy, money laundering and misappropriating public funds. Prosecutors had sought a seven-year prison term against…

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Zinedine Zidane: I want to stay as Real Madrid boss

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Zinedine Zidane has put his future firmly in Real Madrid’s hands by stating he wants to remain head coach at the Bernabeu next season. But Real’s coach admitted his future will depend on results, with his team sitting third in La Liga, 15 points adrift of Barcelona, and relying on the Champions League for a major trophy this term. Zidane had previously stayed guarded over his desire to remain at the club but declared his hand ahead of Real’s league visit to Las Palmas on Saturday. “Yes, I would still…

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Easter: Hair stylists make brisk business in Enugu

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Hair stylists are making brisk in Enugu, two days to the Easter celebration, newsmen report. Newsmen who spoke to some hair stylists in the city on Friday, observed that customers’ quest to look good on resumption of work on April 3, is also responsible for the high patronage. Miss Ogochukwu Chika, a salon owner at Agbani Road, said the high demand was due to her customers’ choices for new looks for the Easter festival. Chika, who had been fixing artificial hair for ladies for the festive period, said that the…

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Davido: We lied to EKO Hotel about number of people coming for 30 Billion Concert

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The ‘FIA’ singer further said the concert was almost called off over the death of his friends. In October 2017, the 25-year-old singer was accused of being complicit in the deaths of his friends, Tagbo Umeike and DJ Olu. The incidents threatened to put a damper on his concert, but it proceeded as scheduled. “This is a concert that we almost called off when I lost my friends,” he said. “We almost called off the concert because we didn’t think we had the strength or even a good public perception…

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Nigeria is under siege-Secondus

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Prince Uche Secondus, national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), says the country is under siege. Secondus said this in his Easter message to Nigerians. The PDP chairman asked Nigerians to use the period to reflect on “the situation in the country and pray specially for the survival of our democracy”. “The nation’s democracy more than ever before since 1999 is under heavy stress that need all hands to be on deck for its survival,” the statement by Abonyi read. “Indicators are apparent that the country is under siege…

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Nigerians can shut down Buhari’s government – Bakare warns

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Tunde Bakare, serving overseer of the Latter Rain Assembly, LRA, has warned the President Muhammadu Buhari administration about what Nigerians can do. He warned that Nigerians can shut down the government as a result of herdsmen killings, conspiracy and mismanagement by the present administration. Bakare stated this at an event organised by Enough is Enough, a coalition of youth advocacy groups. He said the order by the Inspector-General of Police for vigilante groups and weapon-bearing individuals to surrender “illegal firearm” should apply to all including the herdsmen. The fiery preacher…

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Donald Trump escalates attack on Amazon, slams it on taxes, shipping

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United States President Donald Trump has blasted Amazon.com Inc with a list of complaints, a day after news website Axios reported that Trump wants to curb the mega retailer’s growing power. He was said to have done so by using Federal Antitrust laws and led its shares to fall almost five per cent. “I have stated my concerns with Amazon long before the Election. “Unlike others, they pay little or no taxes to state & local governments, use our Postal System as their Delivery Boy, and are putting many thousands…

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Russia gives Britain one month to reduce diplomatic presence

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Russia says Britain has one month to reduce diplomatic presence: foreign ministry Also Russia on Friday informed the Dutch ambassador of the expulsion of two diplomats in a tit-for-tat measure over the poisoning of a former Russian double agent in Britain, TASS state news agency reported. Dutch Ambassador Renee Jones-Bos told TASS state news agency: “Two of my colleagues are leaving Moscow. But we (the embassy) are staying here.” More so on Friday Russia government summoned European ambassadors to the foreign ministry to inform them of retaliatory measures to the…

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Donald Trump assails Amazon on taxes, retail competition

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By Agence France-Presse US President Donald Trump slammed Amazon on Thursday over taxes and retail competition, sparking fresh worries for the technology sector pressured by Facebook’s privacy scandal. “I have stated my concerns with Amazon long before the Election,” Trump tweeted. “Unlike others, they pay little or no taxes to state & local governments, use our Postal System as their Delivery Boy (causing tremendous loss to the U.S.), and are putting many thousands of retailers out of business!” The comments came a day after a report by the news site…

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SERAP asks Nigerian lawmakers to return illegal allowances

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A civil society group, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), has asked Nigerian lawmakers to voluntarily return payments made to them outside the law guiding the salaries and allowances of public officers in the country. In a statement on Thursday signed by its deputy director, Timothy Adewale, the group urged the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, to “persuade their members to voluntarily return running costs and other allowances so far collected, and now declared as illegal by the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and…

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