Day: June 22, 2018

Amnesty: 200 ex-agitators undergo training in Ondo

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About 200 beneficiaries of the Presidential Amnesty Programme are currently undergoing training in Ondo State as the process of reintegration of ex-agitators in the Niger Delta gets a boost. Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta and Coordinator, Amnesty Programme, Prof. Charles Dokubo was quoted as saying this yesterday in Abuja in a statement issued by his media adviser, Murphy Ganagana. “We have a lot of training programmes now; we have a training programme in Ondo and most parts but for me, that of Ondo is the most spectacular…

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Boxing legend Muhammed Ali’s estate for sale

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Boxing legend Muhammad Ali’s 81-acre estate in rural southwestern Michigan, United States, featuring a workout gymnasium that includes a boxing ring, is up for sale at just under $2.9 million. According to the listing at the website for top ten real estate deals, Ali’s widow Lonnie is selling the property, including huge fields along the St. Joseph River, for the knockout price of $2,895,037 — the last two numbers representing Ali’s 37 career knockouts. Ali bought the retreat as a getaway while world heavyweight champion in 1975, a year after…

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Flooding: Oyo government to dredge 64 rivers in Ibadan

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The Oyo State Government has concluded arrangements to dredge 64 streams and blocked drainage across the state as as part of efforts to prevent flooding. A statement signed by the State’s Commissioner for Environment and Water Resources, Chief Isaac Ishola in Ibadan on Thursday confirmed the government’s decision. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the dredging is expected to be undertaken by the ministry in conjunction with the Ibadan Urban Flood Management Project (IUFMP). Ishola stated that the Project Implementation Unit (PIU) safeguard team would be displaying Environmental…

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U.S slams DRC over graft, electoral fraud

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The U.S. has declared many senior officials from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as persona non grata for their alleged involvement in acts of corruption and electoral malpractices. The U.S announced the designation of the senior DRC officials under Section 7031(c) of the Department of State Foreign Operations and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2018. The U.S. said they were designated “due to these officials’ involvement in significant corruption related to the DRC’s electoral process”. “Further, the Department is taking steps to prevent entry into the United States of certain…

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Dangerous road to APC convention

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As members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) gather for the party’s elective convention in Abuja this weekend, the APC can hardly look in the mirror and recognise itself as the vibrant coalition that swept the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) from office three years ago. I still remember Lai Mohammed shelling PDP. The party was a band of thieves, a criminal enterprise with an incompetent captain at the helm, determined to drag the country down. Impunity and violence were the PDP’s official languages, while the smell of money and the…

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PDP: Comrade Oshiomhole will lead APC to grave

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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Thursday said it was commiserating with the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) that the party was currently on the throes of death. The PDP said Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, former Edo State governor, was coming in as its national chairman to bury it. Speaking in an interview, Kola Ologbondiyan, PDP’s Publicity Secretary, said the statement credited to Oshiomhole that he would ensure the collapse of PDP if he became the national chairman of APC was unfortunate. Ologbondiyan said Comrade Oshiomhole was trying to play God.…

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Convention: Kwara APC raises the alarm over fake delegates list

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The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kwara State has raised the alarm that two different groups, led by some aggrieved members of the party were compiling fake list of delegates ahead of Saturday’s national convention of the party in Abuja. The party in a statement signed by its certified state publicity secretary, Sulyman Buhari, said it have it on good authority that the decision to compile a fake list of delegates for the convention was reached at a meeting held on Tuesday in the house of a chieftain of the…

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Ex-CIBN chief blames National Assembly for tampering with 2018 Budget

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Prof. Olusegun Ajibola, immediate past president, Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN), on Thursday criticised the National Assembly for tampering with provisions for critical projects in the 2018 budget. Ajibola said this Lagos. The ex-CIBN boss said it was disheartening that National Assembly cut N347 billion on 4,700 projects from the estimates submitted for consideration by the executive and introduced 6,403 new projects amounting to N578 billion. President Muhammadu Buhari presented a total of N18.61 trillion budget to NASS in October 2017, however, it was increased to N19.12 trillion…

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Nigeria explains detention of `journalist’ Abiri

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Presidency has dispelled insinuations that the arrest and continuing detention of Mr. Jones Abiri, who claimed to be a journalist, trampled on freedom of the press. The presidency said on Thursday that Abiri has not been able been able to prove that he is a bona fide journalist. Malam Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant to the President (Media and Publicity), said in Abuja on Thursday said: “It is very uncharitable for anyone to infer that the President is in support of restrictions on freedom of expression and the media.’’…

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Indonesia hands death sentence to ISIS cleric Abdurrahman

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An Indonesian court on Friday sentenced to death an Islamic State-linked cleric, Aman Abdurrahman for masterminding from his jail cell a string of deadly militant attacks across the world’s largest Muslim-majority country. Abdurrahman, 46, is considered the ideological leader of Jemaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD) – a loose grouping of Islamic State sympathizers in Indonesia. “The court sentences the defendant to death,” said the judge, Ahmad Zaini, adding that Abdurrahman had been proved guilty of “carrying out terrorism”. According to The StraitsTimes of Jakarta, the five-judge panel ruled that Abdurrahman had…

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