Silicone Fingers: Doctor in Brazil used 'fake fingers' to sign in absent colleagues

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A Brazilian doctor faces charges of fraud after being caught on camera using silicone fingers to sign in for work for absent colleagues. Police say the ploy involved 11 doctors and 20 nurses. The town's mayor, Acir Fillo, says that the police investigation showed that some 300 public employees in the town, whom he described as ''an army of ghosts'', had been receiving pay without going to work.

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Tambuwal absent at parley with Jonathan

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Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, was on Wednesday absent at a meeting President Goodluck Jonathan had with the leadership of the National Assembly and the members of the Peoples Democratic Party’s National Working Committee.

As at the time the President arrived at the venue of the meeting held inside the Presidential Villa, Abuja at about 9pm, none of the leaders of the House of Representatives expected at the meeting was in attendance.

But the President of the Senate, David Mark; his Deputy, Ike Ekweremadu; Senate Leader, Victor Ndoma-Egba; and Senator Hosea Agboola were there.