Day: June 21, 2018

Police, Shiites clash in Kaduna over Sheikh El-Zakzaky

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Men of the Kaduna State Police Command, on Wednesday, engaged members of Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) also known as Shiites in gun duel, in Kaduna, over continuous detention of Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky. The Shiites, in their numbers, during a protest, took over the popular Ahmadu Bello Way, the commercial nerve centre of the state, carrying placards with varying inscriptions demanding the release of their leader. They thereby grounded business activities within the city centre for hours. Two police officers, who sustained injuries during the encounter, were taken for treatment…

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Sex-for-marks: OAU sacks Prof. Akindele

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The Governing Council of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife,  has dismissed Prof. Richard Akindele  who was allegedly  involved in a sex-for-marks  scandal. Prof. Eyitope Ogunbodede, the Vice Chancellor of OAU,  announced Akindele’s dismissal in a statement on Wednesday in Ile-Ife. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the vice chancellor of the university had on April 19 confirmed the suspension of Akindele pending the findings of the investigative panel. Miss Monica Osagie, a student in the Masters of Business programme, had released a recorded telephone conversation, which went viral,…

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President Buhari signs 2018 budget into law

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President Muhammadu Buhari has signed the 2018 appropriation bill into law. The presidency had submitted a proposal worth N8.612 trillion to the national assembly. Six months later, the national assembly increased the budget size to N9.12 trillion. In his budget signing speech made available on his Medium page, the president said he had hoped that the legislative process on the budget would be quick. “When I submitted the 2018 budget proposals to the national assembly on November 7, 2017, I had hoped that the usual legislative review process would be…

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Ex-President Jonathan: PDP is coming back in 2019

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Former President Goodluck Jonathan says the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is getting stronger and poised to take over power come 2019. Jonathan said this on Wednesday when he hosted Atiku Abubakar, former vice-president, in his house in Yenagoa, Bayelsa state capital. Jonathan, who lost to President Muhammadu Buhari, in 2015 is optimistic that his party is now in a better position to regain its ruling status. “I believe PDP is coming back and getting stronger,” he said. “Yes, we had some issues in 2015. But as you know politics is…

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Trump bows to pressure, ends migrant family separation

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President Donald Trump backed down and abandoned on Wednesday his policy of separating immigrant children from their families on the U.S.-Mexico border, after images of youngsters in cages sparked outrage at home and abroad. Trump signed an executive order requiring that immigrant families be detained together when they are caught entering the country illegally for as long as their criminal proceedings take. That may violate a court settlement on how long children may be held, setting up a potential legal fight, unless Congress acts on the issue. The Trump order,…

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Instagram launches app for long videos, rivals You Tube

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Facebook Inc-owned social network Instagram launched a mobile app on Wednesday dedicated to user-generated videos up to an hour long, intensifying the competition for consumers’ time among ad-supported streaming services such as YouTube. Called IGTV in a nod to traditional television, the service plans to feature videos from rising internet celebrities, artists and pets, some of whom have tens of millions of social media followers. “Teens are now watching 40 percent less TV than they did five years ago,” Instagram Chief Executive Kevin Systrom said at an event to announce…

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