Day: May 21, 2018

Donald Trump, Moon Jae-in discuss North Korea’s threat to scrap summit

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U.S. President Donald Trump and South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Sunday discussed threats by North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-Un to cancel its summit with Trump. Trump and Moon, in a phone conversation on Sunday, “exchanged views on various actions taken by North Korea recently”, Moon’s office said in a statement. The two leaders agreed to “work closely” for the success of the June 12 summit in Singapore, which would be the first meeting between a sitting U.S. President and a North Korean leader. Both Trump and Moon are due…

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Minister: Why President Buhari may not sign 2018 budget

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Minister of Budget and National Planning, Senator Udoma Udo Udoma, has hinted that President Muhammadu Buhari might not assent to the 2018 budget recently raised to N9.1 trillion by the National Assembly, with additional N501 billion. Special Adviser on Media to the Minister, Akpandem James, speaking to newsmen said the N501 billion addition by the legislature might not be feasible. Udoma said the National Assembly would have to tell Nigerians if they have discovered another revenue stream unknown to the Federal Government to cover the addition. “When we see the…

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Paul Pogba: Coach and player don’t have to be best friends

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Paul Pogba admitted he and Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho do not get along, telling Canal+ that “a coach and a player don’t have to be best friends.” The 2017-18 season was punctuated by friction between the pair with Pogba playing a cameo role at times — notably in the UEFA Champions League round-of-16 defeat to Sevilla. “There were times when I wasn’t playing, I was on the bench,” Pogba said. “People talked about it a lot. They thought things weren’t going well, but a coach and a player don’t…

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Linda Ikeji pregnant – Sister

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Linda Ikeji is expecting a child, her sister, Laura Ikeji, announced on Sunday. In an Instagram update, Laura posted images of her sister’s baby bump, a development that has been warmly received on the Internet. The famous blogger reportedly got engaged to a man said to be based out of Nigeria a few months ago. Linda, 37, has been a role model for many Nigerians following her successful career as a blogger. She purchased a mansion in Banana Island, Lagos, in 2015 for amount reported to be around half a…

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iOS devs unite to challenge Apple’s App Store policies

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A GROUP of iOS developers have formed The Developers Union, a “non-union union” that wants to challenge Apple’s current App Store policies. “We believe that people who create great software should be able to make a living doing it,” the union, which is currently backed by more than 400 apps and 300 developers said on its website. “So we created The Developers Union to advocate for sustainability in the App Store.” In an open letter addressed to Apple, the firm’s first request is that Apple allows free trials for all apps by the App Store’s 10th…

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Man arrested for stabbing girl to death

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The 24-year-old man, Salu Ladayo, who allegedly stabbed a 19-year-old secondary school leaver, Confidence Nwama, to death in Oshinle area of Akure last week for refusing his love advances has blamed the devil for the incident. The suspect was paraded by Ondo State Police Command, weekend, in Akure alongside other suspects arrested for different offences in the state. The suspect said: “After she came back from the venue of her West African School Certificate, WASC, examination, she was told her that I was seen with another girl. She was very…

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Congo begins Ebola vaccinations today

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Health workers in Democratic Republic of Congo will begin a vaccination campaign today  aimed at containing an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus. A spokeswoman for the health ministry, Jessica Ilunga said 4,000 doses of vaccine were shipped on Saturday to Mbandaka, which last week registered the first cases in an urban area since the latest flare-up of the disease was announced earlier this month. Cases in Mbandaka, a port city on the Congo river, have raised concerns that the virus could spread downstream to the capital Kinshasa, which has a…

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Edo school loses 100 students to traffickers

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No fewer than 100 students of Idogbo Secondary School, Benin, were lost to human traffickers  in  the last four months. This was disclosed in Benin on Sunday during an advocacy programme by Solomon Okoduwa, the Senior Special Assistant to Gov Godwin Obaseki on Human trafficking and illegal migration. Okoduwa said this fact was disclosed  to him by some teachers in the school, concerned about how the institution has become the harvesting ground for traffickers. Okoduwa  said government will not allow the evil to continue to thrive in the state.
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Olufemi Ashipa: Nigeria loses N24bn monthly to electricity-generator market

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Nigeria’s electricity sector loses N24 billion monthly to the electricity-generator market despite the 60 million generating sets used in the nation’s urban environment, according to Olufemi Ashipa, Vice President, Marketing, Lumos Nigeria. He spoke at the Solar Future Nigeria 2018 conference held in Abuja, weekend, where he also said 61% of Micro SMEs in Nigeria spend between N500 to N1000 per day on fuel and as many as 85% of micro and small businesses rely on generators for the supply of electricity. “As a result, it is critical to note…

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Courageous civilians foil suicide attack in Yobe mosque

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The Nigerian Army said some courageous civilians on Sunday foiled a suicide bomb attack by a suspected female Boko Haram member on a mosque in Gashua, Gujba Local Government Area of Yobe. Col. Onyema Nwachukwu, the Deputy Director Public Relations, Theatre Command Operation Lafiya Dole, disclosed this in a statement released in Maiduguri. “What would have otherwise been a devastating suicide bomb attack on a mosque in Gashua village in Gujba Local Government Area of Yobe state has been successfully foiled today by vigilant members of the community. “A female…

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