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Tuesday, August 12, 2014
2015: Tambuwal in secret meeting with Obasanjo
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Photo: Police arrest fake Assistant Commissioner of Police
46 year old Alexander Ilesanmi (pictured above), an indigene of Akure, Ondo state has been arrested by the Lagos State Police command for parading himself as an Assistant Commissioner of Police and receiving stolen vehicles from robbery suspects.
According to police reports, Illesanmi, who goes about dressing in police uniform with the rank of a Deputy police commissioner displayed on his shirt, was arrested after an apprehended notorious car snatcher and supposed pastor of a church, Gabriel Asaolu, identified him to be one of those who bought stolen cars from him. Continue...
Politicians offered us ₦14m to compromise Osun elections – DSS
The spokesperson, Department of State Security, Marilyn Ogar, has stated that some politicians in Osun State offered operatives of the service N14 million bribe to compromise the just concluded governorship election.
Ogar who didn't name the politicians, explained that the service rejected the bribe which she said was agreed to the DSS Director, who supervised the August 9,2014 election.
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Omisore should accept defeat -APC
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Pres. Jonathan to inaugurate Akwa Ibom gas plant
President Goodluck Jonathan is to inaugurate a gas processing plant with 69km pipeline at Uquo, Esit Eket Local Government Area, Akwa Ibom State, on Thursday.
A statement by the Commissioner for Information and Communications, Mr. Aniekan Umanah, in Uyo on Tuesday, said the gas plant is constructed under a public-private partnership arrangement between Septa Energy and the Akwa Ibom State government.
Umanah added that the president, who is paying a fourth official visit to the state, will during the one-day visit also inaugurate the Goodluck Boulevard on Ring Road III in Uyo.
FG, UNDP to train women on entrepreneurship skills
The Director General of SMEDAN Alhaji Bature Masari, made this known during a five day workshop in Minna organized by the agency for five women corporative groups from Niger, Katsina and Gombe states.
He said Niger and Katsina states have two women corporative groups with six representatives each while Gombe state has one corporative group with six representatives. Masari said the training is aimed at empowering the women owned corporative societies in the six geo-political zones of the country to enable them handle their businesses properly toward alleviating poverty.
Ex-President Obasanjo tasks govts on youth empowerment
He said this on Tuesday shortly after a 2km health walk to mark this year’s International Youth Day with the theme: ‘Youth and Mental Health,’ organised by the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library Youth Centre in Abeokuta, Ogun State.
In order to achieve national development, he emphasised the need for the training, empowerment as well as employment of the youth.
Pastor arraigned for alleged rape
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Abuja designates Kuje General Hospital Ebola hub
The Abuja Minister, Bala Mohammed, has designated the General Hospital, Kuje, in Kuje Area Council, as Isolation Centre for possible Ebola-infected persons.
The minister also inaugurated a 25-member committee to work out modalities for responding to the threat of Ebola virus and create awareness on the nature and symptoms of the virus.
Mr. Mohammed made this known during a high powered stakeholder’s interactive forum in Abuja on Monday. Continue...
Lagos Shippers Association bemoan high cost of port charges
The President of the association, Mr Jonathan Nicol, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos that the five per cent Value Added Tax and the one per cent Pre-Arrival Assessment Report charge were some of the charges.
Chinese Ebola doctors arrive Africa
China announced on Sunday it would send three expert teams and medical supplies to Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone to assist in the prevention and control of the Ebola virus, with each medical team composed of one epidemiologist and two specialists in disinfection and protection.
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Emir of Gwoza resurfaces
How Lagos nursing mother contracted Ebola virus – Doctor
A medical doctor has revealed how a nursing mother contracted the deadly Ebola virus at a Lagos hospital. PUNCH Metro learnt that the woman was the patient who visited the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation staff clinic on Muri Okunola Street in the Victoria Island area of Lagos. NNPC had issued a press statement on Friday, saying that the clinic would be shut due to a suspected case of Ebola reported in the clinic.
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Alcohol dealer sues police over seizure of goods
The alcohol dealer who said the drinks, Baron Romeo, were imported from the Benin Republic, told the court that the police seized them on the claim that they were stolen.
President Obama: New Discovery of Africa
Amine Laghidi, General Manager for Africa North Star Group; Mikhail Margelov, Russia’s President Special Envoy to Africa and Chairman of the Committee for Foreign Affairs of the Council of Federation; David Ochami, Senior reporter at the Standard Group, Nairobi, Kenya; Andrei Fyodorov, the former Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia, the Director of the Center for Political Research Foundation; Andrei Urnov, Leading Research Fellow at the Institute of Africa, and also the former Russia’s Ambassador to Namibia shared their opinions with our source.
I didn’t sign report on unremitted $49.8bn oil revenue – Saraki
In a statement on Tuesday by his Special Assistant on Media and Advocacy, Mr. Bamikole Omishore, the senator said though he is a member of the committee and also participated actively in the investigation, he did not sign the report as reported by a national daily (not The Punch).
END OF THE ROAD. Boko Haram Commander, Mallam Hussani Killed In Gun Battle.
This is the end of the Road For Mallam Hussaini (Insurgent Commander).
More pictures coming shortly.
[Picture courtesy: Sirus Black - 7 Div Nigerian Army.
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Spanish Priest Contaminated With Ebola Dies In A Madrid Clinic
The Spanish priest, Miguel Pajares who was infected with the Ebola Virus in Liberia and was later flown back to his country has died this morning. The priest who'd started taking the experimental drugs died today at a Madrid hospital. Spain's Ministry of Heath also have confirmed his death.
US Must Abandon Goal of Unified Iraq - Kurdish Advocate
“It was good that Obama came forward and protected the Kurds, but his desire to put Iraq together comes too late. Iraq is artificial – it’s neither a legitimate nor a linguistically-similar state. Unless Iraq has a very weak central government, it has no prospect of holding together,” Xulam, director of the American Kurdish Information Network, said.
US Seeks to Bolster Waning Influence in Iraq by Backing Kurdish Regime - expert
"The purpose of [US President Barack] Obama's interfering in Iraqi politics has to do, first and foremost, with saving the Kurdish regime, which is essentially under US influence," Petras, a professor of sociology at Binghamton University, told our source on Monday.
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