Maiduguri Will Soon Have 30 Megawatts of Solar System, Says VP Osibanjo

<p style="text-align: justify;">Following the total blackout for the past year in Maiduguri and its environs, the Vice president, Prof. Yemi Osibanjo has announced that a 30 megawatts solar system will be installed in Maiduguri, the Borno state capital.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOMXIU2vVf5YTAAzeLMGyz75mmnu_Vw9KyT949tgLEncdgBeXO3YxSlp0Qlh6QLnYre-qagGUgkcgkLbn8Xqo8lDt8DD2cKJ2LHlGls4Qj-_l6kXhCdnQSjMjCuDpL4QnDO9a0jKUKE845TUwAuF_iUo04qcZ8TZs_-fbxQPU_gLnVjZ5Ei1apYS1E9g/s937/Osinbajo.globalnet.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="937" data-original-width="663" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOMXIU2vVf5YTAAzeLMGyz75mmnu_Vw9KyT949tgLEncdgBeXO3YxSlp0Qlh6QLnYre-qagGUgkcgkLbn8Xqo8lDt8DD2cKJ2LHlGls4Qj-_l6kXhCdnQSjMjCuDpL4QnDO9a0jKUKE845TUwAuF_iUo04qcZ8TZs_-fbxQPU_gLnVjZ5Ei1apYS1E9g/s320/Osinbajo.globalnet.webp" width="226" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">According to him, this is imperative so as to achieve the Economic Sustainability Plan, ESP hitherto approved by President Muhammadu Buhari.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Recall that the Boko Haram sect repeatedly vandalized the transmission towers since January 2021 which affected T152 and T153 electric towers on Maiduguri–Damaturu 330 kilovolts, though an alternative source of 11kva line was provided early this year along the same route, only about 10% of the population were connected with interrupted supply.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Perturbed by the situation, the vice president who was at the University of Maiduguri during the official hand-over of the Muhammadu Indimi International Learning Centre to the management of the university on Thursday announced that the solar power project is the best option for Maiduguri.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">According to Osibanjo, his office, the Borno State Government and Yola Distribution Company are currently working assiduously to ensure the establishment of the solar power plant in critical areas.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">He explained that six different stations will be constructed in different locations of Maiduguri to argue the existing grid/supply, and protect against any kind of energy sabotage. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">He also commended Muhammadu Indimi for donating the centre which was constructed at the cost of N2.5 billion to the University.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">“The University of Maiduguri is an excellent centre of learning and research, it has produced well to do individuals like the Group Managing Director of Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, Mele Kolo Kyari, the senate president, Ahmed Lawan and of course, our own governor Babagana Umara Zulum who is here with us today.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">"Indimi’s philanthropic efforts especially in revamping the education sector is an inspiring one, and I urged other meaningful individuals and philanthropists to emulate.” The VP said.</p>

Maiduguri Will Soon Have 30 Megawatts of Solar System, Says VP Osibanjo

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Russia Considers Accepting Bitcoin for Oil and Gas

<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2SL8LqXw7z1r8MndcEAIJ0Pj2cqVD8kOOZ7AQQbJGsj8hbU6bCdD8oB_etrE4FKxHc9wNuTlXVcGHHewJPyGbjBCW6Bb8HH2S8FwfSdW76Um8UaS8QVv_MFfY8sjABKTmU5OHWHyvoAaqmNkcdKjyDLR3t4AZ8RdACMzCH5bSG4AYLfwC8e_bvZHPJA/s275/Bitcoin-globalnet.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" height="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2SL8LqXw7z1r8MndcEAIJ0Pj2cqVD8kOOZ7AQQbJGsj8hbU6bCdD8oB_etrE4FKxHc9wNuTlXVcGHHewJPyGbjBCW6Bb8HH2S8FwfSdW76Um8UaS8QVv_MFfY8sjABKTmU5OHWHyvoAaqmNkcdKjyDLR3t4AZ8RdACMzCH5bSG4AYLfwC8e_bvZHPJA/s1600/Bitcoin-globalnet.jpg" width="275" /></a></div><br /><p></p><div class="ssrcss-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i86" data-component="text-block" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #141414; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 1rem 0px; max-width: 36.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="ssrcss-7uxr49-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1" style="border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00" style="border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><b class="ssrcss-hmf8ql-BoldText e5tfeyi3" style="border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Russia is considering accepting Bitcoin as payment for its oil and gas exports, according to a high-ranking lawmaker.</span></b></p></div></div><div class="ssrcss-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i86" data-component="text-block" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #141414; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 1rem 0px; max-width: 36.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="ssrcss-7uxr49-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1" style="border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00" style="border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Pavel Zavalny says "friendly" countries could be allowed to pay in the crypto-currency or in their local currencies.</span></p></div></div><div class="ssrcss-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i86" data-component="text-block" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #141414; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 1rem 0px; max-width: 36.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="ssrcss-7uxr49-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1" style="border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00" style="border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Earlier this week, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that he wanted "unfriendly" countries to buy its gas with roubles.</span></p><p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00" style="border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00" style="border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The move is understood to be aimed at boosting the Russian currency, which has lost over 20% in value this year.</span></span></p></div></div><div class="ssrcss-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i86" data-component="text-block" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #141414; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 1rem 0px; max-width: 36.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="ssrcss-7uxr49-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1" style="border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00" style="border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Sanctions imposed by the UK, US and the European Union, following the invasion of Ukraine, have put a strain on Russia's rouble and raised its cost of living.</span></p><p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00" style="border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00" style="border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhacQlJJRyPY4x9fDHPyF9AAi-5ivhIkm2ZNLA5BetXznWfjtoKBIJI-JZ9L1SZ2OkQM7XerYW6GPexhC6eN8fbNMIfQEh75MLUXDYm8qu2e1RHp6KBJxc4chEvqLA61O-q-IKyKUHNWPdG3I3xeZNJnrZ1MUnomiD8I0vlhv6Pqny1gid4uKkd77U_BQ/s976/puttin-globalnet.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="549" data-original-width="976" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhacQlJJRyPY4x9fDHPyF9AAi-5ivhIkm2ZNLA5BetXznWfjtoKBIJI-JZ9L1SZ2OkQM7XerYW6GPexhC6eN8fbNMIfQEh75MLUXDYm8qu2e1RHp6KBJxc4chEvqLA61O-q-IKyKUHNWPdG3I3xeZNJnrZ1MUnomiD8I0vlhv6Pqny1gid4uKkd77U_BQ/s320/puttin-globalnet.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00" style="border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial;">However, Russia is still the world's biggest exporter of natural gas and the second largest supplier of oil.</span></p><p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00" style="border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><div class="ssrcss-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i86" data-component="text-block" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 1rem 0px; max-width: 36.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="ssrcss-7uxr49-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1" style="border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00" style="border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Mr Zavalny, who heads Russia's State Duma committee on energy, said on Thursday that the country has been exploring alternative ways to receive payment for energy exports.</span></p></div></div><div class="ssrcss-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i86" data-component="text-block" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 1rem 0px; max-width: 36.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="ssrcss-7uxr49-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1" style="border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00" style="border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial;">He said China and Turkey were among "friendly" countries which were "not involved in the sanctions pressure".</span></p></div></div><div class="ssrcss-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i86" data-component="text-block" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 1rem 0px; max-width: 36.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="ssrcss-7uxr49-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1" style="border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00" style="border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial;">"We have been proposing to China for a long time to switch to settlements in national currencies for roubles and yuan," said Mr Zavalny."With Turkey, it will be lira and roubles."</span></p></div></div><div class="ssrcss-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i86" data-component="text-block" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 1rem 0px; max-width: 36.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="ssrcss-7uxr49-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1" style="border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00" style="border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Mr Zavalny added: "You can also trade bitcoins."</span></p><p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00" style="border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><div class="ssrcss-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i86" data-component="text-block" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 1rem 0px; max-width: 36.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="ssrcss-7uxr49-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1" style="border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00" style="border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Analysts said Russia may benefit from accepting the popular cryptocurrency, despite the risks.</span></p></div></div><div class="ssrcss-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i86" data-component="text-block" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 1rem 0px; max-width: 36.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="ssrcss-7uxr49-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1" style="border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00" style="border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial;">"Russia is very quickly feeling the impact of unprecedented sanctions," said David Broadstock, a senior research fellow at the Energy Studies Institute in Singapore. "There is a need to shore up the economy and in many ways, Bitcoin is seen as a high growth asset."</span></p></div></div><div id="piano-inline2" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div class="ssrcss-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i86" data-component="text-block" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 1rem 0px; max-width: 36.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="ssrcss-7uxr49-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1" style="border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00" style="border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial;">However, he noted that the value of Bitcoin has swung by as much as 30% this year. In comparison, the dollar has traded within 5% against the euro.</span></p></div></div><div class="ssrcss-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i86" data-component="text-block" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 1rem 0px; max-width: 36.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="ssrcss-7uxr49-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1" style="border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00" style="border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial;">"Clearly accepting Bitcoin, compared with other traditional currencies, introduces considerably more risk in the trade of natural gas," Mr Broadstock said.</span></p></div></div><div class="ssrcss-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i86" data-component="text-block" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 1rem 0px; max-width: 36.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="ssrcss-7uxr49-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1" style="border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00" style="border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial;">"Moreover, one of the major 'friendly' trade partners for Russia is China, and cryptocurrency is banned for use in China," he added. "This clearly limits potential for payment using Bitcoin."</span></p><p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00" style="border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00" style="border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1usX83MQ3rZb17Fi5wa97UhpKdsE-I5YAaC9uZjPlrACMj8eidnKKCPJLHvwgnvWFrny2OqBqYtuozf5latRyhCZfFiYsNDBJ26TuupyOGpN7p0KJwikq-iheGp0xqAJ73a61iY_nkXvB1CNJSS7vEP64LGE0yvzB5D55z39o6WfNSkzJA2vuwfYNzw/s301/bitcoinglobalnet.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="167" data-original-width="301" height="167" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1usX83MQ3rZb17Fi5wa97UhpKdsE-I5YAaC9uZjPlrACMj8eidnKKCPJLHvwgnvWFrny2OqBqYtuozf5latRyhCZfFiYsNDBJ26TuupyOGpN7p0KJwikq-iheGp0xqAJ73a61iY_nkXvB1CNJSS7vEP64LGE0yvzB5D55z39o6WfNSkzJA2vuwfYNzw/s1600/bitcoinglobalnet.jpg" width="301" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p></p></div></div></div></div></div></div>

Russia Considers Accepting Bitcoin for Oil and Gas

  Russia is considering accepting Bitcoin as payment for its oil and gas exports, according to a high-ranking lawmaker. Pavel Zavalny says &...

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BREAKING: ASUU Declares Indefinite Nationwide Strike

<p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh1r8KMfup4x4e5RVCx-nYcrTQh__uQriCi8W3Uado4y7NzgrISvJsBZM_rHINmYVyvmepyZaVlFcu3kjI_x-uX5HnDZf2Z-rMXFmmToQpZqaITJZfe9Q45tVyI4Tv-lYB0PdotTNNacrYh6wh-ywBbwR28tEsT3nqxzIDkpQ7IbzKsNLgLHuKULCtUtg=s275" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" height="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh1r8KMfup4x4e5RVCx-nYcrTQh__uQriCi8W3Uado4y7NzgrISvJsBZM_rHINmYVyvmepyZaVlFcu3kjI_x-uX5HnDZf2Z-rMXFmmToQpZqaITJZfe9Q45tVyI4Tv-lYB0PdotTNNacrYh6wh-ywBbwR28tEsT3nqxzIDkpQ7IbzKsNLgLHuKULCtUtg" width="275" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The National Executive Committee of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has ended its two-day meeting at the University of Lagos, Akoka, with a final decision to proceed on an indefinite strike.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The strike takes effect from Monday, February 14, 2022.A SUU President, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, on Sunday, said the strike was against their wish but they had to put the interest of the union first.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">He said, ” I announce to you with a heavy heart the commencement of a nationwide strike starting from 14th February till our needs are met.”</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The union had expressed grievances over the failure of the Federal Government to fulfill some of the agreements it made as far back as 2009. ASUU had on November 15, 2021 given the Federal Government a three-week ultimatum over the failure to meet the demands.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgl4f2uJ5XWFtwinJHq8v0vuoYqlJdd69vsICzi6teUZIFtoAzYRe-Val5o6lqy4pmNIrGX7woebbYTOP57SDzN1MDRI9yr0Jf0cqlTgV0_EqFhp24IqlmqVW8FDZNoERQF6EujgLbD3NkF0uZPFGMbg1t6N7sismYGq758mEsq3alKad_9Zyn6AhLuyA=s983" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="983" data-original-width="604" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgl4f2uJ5XWFtwinJHq8v0vuoYqlJdd69vsICzi6teUZIFtoAzYRe-Val5o6lqy4pmNIrGX7woebbYTOP57SDzN1MDRI9yr0Jf0cqlTgV0_EqFhp24IqlmqVW8FDZNoERQF6EujgLbD3NkF0uZPFGMbg1t6N7sismYGq758mEsq3alKad_9Zyn6AhLuyA=s320" width="197" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The lecturers threatened to embark on another round of industrial action following the alleged “government’s unfaithfulness” in the implementation of the Memorandum of Action it signed with the union, leading to the suspension of the 2020 strike action.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">After the union’s National Executive Council meeting at the University of Abuja on November 13 and 14, ASUU President, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, lamented that despite meeting with the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, on October 14, 2021, on issues, including funding for revitalisation of public universities, earned academic allowances, University Transparency Accountability Solution, promotion arrears, renegotiation of 2009 ASUU-FGN agreement, and the inconsistencies in Integrated Payroll and Personnel information system payment, none of its demands had been met.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p>

BREAKING: ASUU Declares Indefinite Nationwide Strike

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BUHARI: APPOINTS BOARD AND MANAGEMENT OF NNPC LIMITED

<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhTBGgn_mgaCwCHqK27D2SQnEVDuDvGyEQ9qrvVNxrt4hrzlFFaNzD7RY5fkWOaXJ5iYu2ncDJ-HNmTil3IGSiJcRZgtwTr-t64OtDBV8-NdPkgph6-Ze_str98dkSfRHcZKQhZ0Yz3XMiK_wAH9cz0fn2ysCuUqNOLQ374PJJutbQgP7yIhlQ6Tnu4Zg=s225" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="225" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhTBGgn_mgaCwCHqK27D2SQnEVDuDvGyEQ9qrvVNxrt4hrzlFFaNzD7RY5fkWOaXJ5iYu2ncDJ-HNmTil3IGSiJcRZgtwTr-t64OtDBV8-NdPkgph6-Ze_str98dkSfRHcZKQhZ0Yz3XMiK_wAH9cz0fn2ysCuUqNOLQ374PJJutbQgP7yIhlQ6Tnu4Zg" width="225" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 15px;"><br /></span></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 15px;">President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed the Board and Management of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, in accordance with the power vested in him under Section 59(2) of the Petroleum Industry Act 2021.</span></span></p><span style="background-color: white; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 15px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Chairman of the Board is Senator Margret Chuba Okadigbo (South East), Mele Kolo Kyari, Chief Executive Officer, and Umar I. Ajiya, Chief Financial Officer.</span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Other Board Members are; Dr Tajudeen Umar (North East), Mrs Lami O. Ahmed (North Central), Mallam Mohammed Lawal (North West), Engr. Henry Obih (South East), Barrister Constance Harry Marshal (South South), and Chief Pius Akinyelure(South West).</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The appointments take effect from the date of the incorporation of the NNPC Limited.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Also appointed are Executive Commissioners of the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission. They are: Dr Nuhu Habib (Kano), Executive Commissioner, Development and Production, Dr Kelechi Onyekachi Ofoegbu (Imo), Executive Commissioner, Economic Regulations and Strategic Planning, Capt. Tonlagha Roland John (Delta), Executive Commissioner, Health, Safety, Environment and Community, and Jide Adeola (Kogi), Executive Commissioner, Corporate Services and Administration.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Earlier appointed are the Board Chairman, CEO, Executive Commissioner, Exploration and Acreage Management, and Executive Commissioner, Finance and Accounts.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">New appointees at the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority are Francis Alabo Ogaree (Rivers), Executive Director, Hydrocarbon Processing, Mustapha Lamorde (Adamawa), Executive Director, Health, Safety, Environment and Community, Mansur Kuliya (Kano), Executive Director, Midstream and Downstream Gas Infrastructure Fund, Bashir Sadiq (Sokoto), Executive Director, Corporate Services and Administration, and Dr Zainab Gobir (Kwara), Executive Director, Economic Regulations and Strategic Planning.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px;">They join the Board Chairman, Executive Director, Downstream Systems, Storage and Retailing Infrastructure, the CEO, and Executive Director, Finance and Accounts, who had earlier been appointed.</span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 15px;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 15px;"><div style="text-align: justify;">For Midstream and Downstream Infrastructure Fund, new Council Members are; Mr Effiong Abia (Akwa Ibom), Bobboi Ahmed (Adamawa), and Engr. Abdullahi Bukar (Katsina).</div></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">It will be recalled that President Buhari had last September written the Senate on the administrative structure amendments to the Petroleum Industry Act, which included appointment of Non-Executive Board Members, removal of the Ministries of Petroleum and Finance from the Board of the two new institutions, and appointment of Executive Directors.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Femi Adesina</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Special Adviser to the President</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">(Media and Publicity)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">January 5, 2022</span></span></div>

BUHARI: APPOINTS BOARD AND MANAGEMENT OF NNPC LIMITED

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Pregnancy rumours, Aisha Buhari orders staff to proceed on indefinite leave

<p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhHf1RTr7Pyzf_uEnEDjtMHmqIsH2KBrTF5Cj7ZiIhlWvjTl2AdrvX3lf6hlDpYTJiE6neoNNq9vb-JPP-k2yliLuWa_l4wfbI8phNtCGNbj-x9pf3snXWCKymgSjDVi3Fr71Duw4N6Bl0Z8SYpcRr7En9Y9QRCVw-T6Skv0N3VUrWTDYkT4u3W6HTNUw=s750" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="420" data-original-width="750" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhHf1RTr7Pyzf_uEnEDjtMHmqIsH2KBrTF5Cj7ZiIhlWvjTl2AdrvX3lf6hlDpYTJiE6neoNNq9vb-JPP-k2yliLuWa_l4wfbI8phNtCGNbj-x9pf3snXWCKymgSjDVi3Fr71Duw4N6Bl0Z8SYpcRr7En9Y9QRCVw-T6Skv0N3VUrWTDYkT4u3W6HTNUw=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="color: #393939; font-family: georgia; font-size: 19.2px;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #393939; font-family: georgia; font-size: 19.2px;">Aisha Buhari with the President, Major General Muhamamdu Buhari (retd.), after a trip from Turkey on Sunday</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #393939; font-family: georgia; font-size: 19.2px;">Amid pregnancy rumours, the wife of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), Aisha, has ordered all members of her staff to proceed on an indefinite leave.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh5EJGzH53kdi36VFv10ukRBMXcC57nEgMTW2mVq67rE38OBnJf_Vq1zDiN8IHnIYQ0hkilmcgoi1a5YClh2g-3ur-wdZG3XRxHotnsdnGGUioj7FpJCyMdDVs1HseFdfUj4OpCacwI61Ts3c_1S8NwboA17iXLJLo0DGKsGHLjCTyzSmJaU-KzeSmU7Q=s800" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="800" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh5EJGzH53kdi36VFv10ukRBMXcC57nEgMTW2mVq67rE38OBnJf_Vq1zDiN8IHnIYQ0hkilmcgoi1a5YClh2g-3ur-wdZG3XRxHotnsdnGGUioj7FpJCyMdDVs1HseFdfUj4OpCacwI61Ts3c_1S8NwboA17iXLJLo0DGKsGHLjCTyzSmJaU-KzeSmU7Q=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="color: #393939; font-family: georgia; font-size: 19.2px;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #393939; font-family: georgia; font-size: 19.2px;">This was announced in a terse statement on Tuesday by the Senior Special Adviser to the President on Health and Development Partners in the First Lady’s office, Mohammed Kamal.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #393939; font-family: georgia; font-size: 19.2px;">Buhari, 79, was in Turkey with Aisha, 50, between December 16 and 19, 2021 when they attended the 3rd Turkey-Africa Partnership Summit.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #393939; font-family: georgia; font-size: 19.2px;">Photos of the President’s wife released by the Presidency after the trip had sparked pregnancy rumours as she was pictured to have cradled what looked like a bump.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #393939; font-family: georgia; font-size: 19.2px;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #393939; font-family: georgia; font-size: 19.2px;">PUNCH‘s efforts to get the comments of Aisha’s spokesman, Aliyu Abdullahi; and another aide working with the President’s wife, Suleiman Haruna, proved abortive on Monday. While Abdullahi’s phone was unreachable and a text message sent to his line was not responded to as of press time, Haruna declined comments on the matter when our correspondent contacted him.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #393939; font-family: georgia; font-size: 19.2px;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #393939; font-family: georgia; font-size: 19.2px;">But in a statement on Tuesday, Kamal said the First Lady ordered the members of staff in her office to proceed on indefinite leave and continue work virtually.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #393939; font-family: georgia; font-size: 19.2px;">The statement, posted on the verified Instagram handle of the President’s wife, read, “This serves to inform all members of staff that the office of the First Lady will be closed for the upcoming festive period of Christmas and New Year.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #393939; font-family: georgia; font-size: 19.2px;">“To this end, all staff members are requested to proceed on leave, until further notice.</span></p>

Pregnancy rumours, Aisha Buhari orders staff to proceed on indefinite leave

Aisha Buhari with the President, Major General Muhamamdu Buhari (retd.), after a trip from Turkey on Sunday Amid pregnancy rumours, the wife...

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ASUU Resolved to Put On Hold its Decision On Strike

<p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgRpgb0THOiwc4leNrCc9mrudgKcjiId772q5PeGC4XVqEGcOASljB-fEmT7C4eswe605ihPhoS9unZXTF_KSN48yZutZwMiJZktjMEyTrcXt3QhhrGr0UrstGg9hCNNGP_EStfFB8qmLsOXos4kTp4GK4XMN2Swce_xLh0P_RVppnb9p9KCU0hlWmyTA=s294" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="171" data-original-width="294" height="171" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgRpgb0THOiwc4leNrCc9mrudgKcjiId772q5PeGC4XVqEGcOASljB-fEmT7C4eswe605ihPhoS9unZXTF_KSN48yZutZwMiJZktjMEyTrcXt3QhhrGr0UrstGg9hCNNGP_EStfFB8qmLsOXos4kTp4GK4XMN2Swce_xLh0P_RVppnb9p9KCU0hlWmyTA" width="294" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) yesterday resolved to put on hold its decision on strike. The varsity teachers’ union took stand to give room for further consultations and after receiving reports from its branches.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">According to the union, the decision was taken after a December 18 meeting to review the level of government’s implementation of the FGN-ASUU Memorandum of Action (MoA) of December 23, last year and other related matters.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhS-oHR4oSOLxWwH36x5Fjun5sWZ7TZ7CHJHJB6tHuxG6Fg05lUQvmRgbHULs79wdWC87LGRJ90PotrASvS4XeF2eYCLzQNh5lsX-LnV9fjHSVYy_v5HHGKrnFUg_zCngDKQp2Bwy5RtdbfcQmguMME1Xz8tu2XnMzC9G97CxjWllGQwo40Li7QowWVPA=s259" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="194" data-original-width="259" height="194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhS-oHR4oSOLxWwH36x5Fjun5sWZ7TZ7CHJHJB6tHuxG6Fg05lUQvmRgbHULs79wdWC87LGRJ90PotrASvS4XeF2eYCLzQNh5lsX-LnV9fjHSVYy_v5HHGKrnFUg_zCngDKQp2Bwy5RtdbfcQmguMME1Xz8tu2XnMzC9G97CxjWllGQwo40Li7QowWVPA" width="259" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">In a statement issued after its National Executive Council (NEC) meeting on Sunday, ASUU welcomed the recommendation of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) that the payment platform – University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS) developed by the university lecturers be deployed in government Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs).</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">ASUU National President Prof Emmanuel Osodeke said areas highlighted by NITDA in its report would be addressed.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Prof. Osodeke referred to the Integrated Payroll and Personnel information system (IPPIS), engineered by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank as evil, stressing that the continuous use of the IPPIS had created distortions in the payment lecturers’ salaries.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">He wondered why it took more than one year to get the needed feedback on the home-grown solution – UTAS – at a time Nigeria is yearning for “local content”.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">He said: “NEC is pleased that the end-user evaluation report overwhelmingly endorses UTAS for immediate deployment by government for Nigerian universities. On our part, ASUU is fully prepared to address all the technical observations made by NITDA in order to make this happen.</span></p>

ASUU Resolved to Put On Hold its Decision On Strike

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Zulum: Cleared off the N12Billion Naira outstanding.

<p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh46T8KVxGsytV9LhCRlvaH1cvXati1rndaysC9dp3DibPGBhVhBYv5qBamB31Qt_mgqofvll_h2b-jsKoDmOT2e90bIViZviEbIO3jNbIHkfPbm6YHAFeutkRv7Px-ZHOsnAjL5XnGmdxAAYR8hkAAwF36L5_Ok0G1e5k6JLe86NSf7GU6qnu3t2nDyQ=s1037" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1037" data-original-width="712" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh46T8KVxGsytV9LhCRlvaH1cvXati1rndaysC9dp3DibPGBhVhBYv5qBamB31Qt_mgqofvll_h2b-jsKoDmOT2e90bIViZviEbIO3jNbIHkfPbm6YHAFeutkRv7Px-ZHOsnAjL5XnGmdxAAYR8hkAAwF36L5_Ok0G1e5k6JLe86NSf7GU6qnu3t2nDyQ=s320" width="220" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">"Today I have cleared off the N12Billion Naira outstanding. This bring to an end the era of owing pensioners. It should not be recorded in history that our parents who laboured for the state for the past 35-40 years of their lives could not get means of surviving after retirement, even God will not be happy. It is expected that in the next 48hrs, every pensioner should have been credited in their accounts"</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Prof. Umara Babagana Zulum.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Borno State Governor</span></p>

Zulum: Cleared off the N12Billion Naira outstanding.

"Today I have cleared off the N12Billion Naira outstanding. This bring to an end the era of owing pensioners. It should not be recorded...

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Governor Zulum: Electricity will be restored in the next 30 days in Maiduguri

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEho0Iz6HAhciY7ekJZAKeZLhYOc_g_VEAmRhrCrhMuCGlAVGssp-AFYnkiOGDqmvvg5WzfclFPmHz4tjF0BHVPdIXa-aeAPd4Hu4uLcJImVq0Aok0L3nOd4z3-vE2jD0Sorb06P5ytKUZ6LKdR7FizmYFv2UTldzHzvopNm4pl-w349-Lr2Gt3T74TyXQ=s306" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="165" data-original-width="306" height="165" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEho0Iz6HAhciY7ekJZAKeZLhYOc_g_VEAmRhrCrhMuCGlAVGssp-AFYnkiOGDqmvvg5WzfclFPmHz4tjF0BHVPdIXa-aeAPd4Hu4uLcJImVq0Aok0L3nOd4z3-vE2jD0Sorb06P5ytKUZ6LKdR7FizmYFv2UTldzHzvopNm4pl-w349-Lr2Gt3T74TyXQ" width="306" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>Prof. Babagana Umara Zulum, Governor of Borno has said electricity will be restored in the next 30 days in Maiduguri, capital of Borno.</p><p><br /></p><p>The governor gave these assurances on Tuesday while presenting the 2022 appropriation bill at the Borno State House of Assembly.</p><p>The capital city has been without electricity for almost a year now.</p><p>The blackout was following the destruction of electricity transmission towers along Maiduguri-Damaturu by the Boko Haram insurgents in January.</p><p>The Government of Borno tried several times to fix the light by supporting the cost of repairs with, reportedly over a hundred million, but the insurgent kept sabotaging every effort made.</p><p>YERWA EXPRESS NEWS has reported how the blackout has continued to affect residents, businesses as well as some government agencies whose works solely rely on power.</p><p>Public institutions like the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital exclusively revealed they spend over 10 million Naira on a monthly basis in fueling power generators alone.</p>

Governor Zulum: Electricity will be restored in the next 30 days in Maiduguri

Prof. Babagana Umara Zulum, Governor of Borno has said electricity will be restored in the next 30 days in Maiduguri, capital of Borno. The ...

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13-year-old Chinese Hacker Sun Jisu Su Behind Whatsapp, FB, Instagram Outage

<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">A 6-hour long outage was observed for all popular social media sites starting with Whatsapp, followed by Facebook, and Instagram on Monday night (IST) that sparked outrage among Netizens.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEimmHaJC09rwZJnsNPWyvzZF1CntVk8lOhROXCXbj_ffHeFyeTgNaP5VzgfBB_ZF89-Rib8_jh64qmTjU8IUNYrUESTpNYEXf0dZ4leC4KxSAhwPsIMRx5D31H5jS44q-NlJvtsYjGgqR6Ua2pPPm-4P0xxWWZHIKMiJKfBWhJ12hdFxTq1VaOtDa4xxQ=s720" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="492" data-original-width="720" height="219" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEimmHaJC09rwZJnsNPWyvzZF1CntVk8lOhROXCXbj_ffHeFyeTgNaP5VzgfBB_ZF89-Rib8_jh64qmTjU8IUNYrUESTpNYEXf0dZ4leC4KxSAhwPsIMRx5D31H5jS44q-NlJvtsYjGgqR6Ua2pPPm-4P0xxWWZHIKMiJKfBWhJ12hdFxTq1VaOtDa4xxQ=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Facebook application has faced many technical and political problems recently for which the reasons are yet unknown. However, there are some rumours that Facebook has not confirmed, one of them being a 13-year old Chinese hacker responsible for the outage.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">In the previous period of the year, Facebook was down for 12 continuous hours with no confirmed news about the news.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The report also stated that a hack or breach of networks from outside was less likely as hacking such a large-scale Denial of Service Attack (DNS) would require powerful criminal groups to coordinate or use innovative techniques.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The question here, however, lies in the extent of our dependence on these social media sites as the outage affected millions of users across the world. Several took to Twitter to express their reactions and sparkled a mem-fest on the platform. Hashtags like FacebookDown and WhatsAppDown were trending o Twitter for many hours.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Netizens breathed a sigh of celebration when the applications were up and running from Tuesday early morning in India.</span></p>

13-year-old Chinese Hacker Sun Jisu Su Behind Whatsapp, FB, Instagram Outage

A 6-hour long outage was observed for all popular social media sites starting with Whatsapp, followed by Facebook, and Instagram on Monday n...

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Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp Goes Down Globally

<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Facebook and its Instagram and WhatsApp platforms were hit by a massive outage Monday, impacting potentially tens of millions of users as the social media giant faces fallout over its effect on teens and misinformation.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EccoZYpRs9Q/YVt5kft7etI/AAAAAAAABeY/MbdNQ_eIO-U7kgeRLg05isMwGa1lCI9nwCNcBGAsYHQ/s720/IMG_20211004_225137_552.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="466" data-original-width="720" height="207" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EccoZYpRs9Q/YVt5kft7etI/AAAAAAAABeY/MbdNQ_eIO-U7kgeRLg05isMwGa1lCI9nwCNcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_20211004_225137_552.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Tracker Downdetector was showing outages in heavily populated areas like Washington and Paris, with problems being reported from around 1545 GMT.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products,” Facebook spokesman Andy Stone said on Twitter.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Users trying to access Facebook in affected areas were greeted with the message: “Something went wrong. We’re working on it and we’ll get it fixed as soon as we can.”</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The outage comes a day after a whistleblower went on US television to reveal her identity after she leaked a trove of documents to authorities alleging the company knew its products were fueling hate and harming children’s mental health.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Frances Haugen, a 37-year-old data scientist from Iowa, has worked for companies including Google and Pinterest but said in an interview with CBS news show “60 Minutes” that Facebook was “substantially worse” than anything she had seen before.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The world’s largest social media platform has been embroiled in a firestorm brought about by Haugen, with US lawmakers and The Wall Street Journal raising sharp criticism of the network.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“I think that finally now policymakers, maybe the White House, other leaders can look at someone like Frances Haugen and say… ‘It’s now incumbent upon us, Facebook will not fix itself,'” said Nora Benavidez, a Facebook accountability expert.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Facebook’s vice president of policy and global affairs, Nick Clegg, vehemently pushed back at the assertion its platforms are “toxic” for teens, days after a tense, hours-long congressional hearing in which US lawmakers grilled the company over its impact on the mental health of young users.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Haugen, the whistleblower, is herself set to testify Tuesday on Capitol Hill over Facebook and Instagram’s impact on young people.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Senators put the social media giant’s Antigone Davis through the wringer last week over damning reports that Facebook’s own research warned of potential harm.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Davis told lawmakers that a survey of teens on 12 serious issues like anxiety, sadness and eating disorders showed that Instagram was generally helpful to them.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Yet, Senator Richard Blumenthal read aloud excerpts from company documents he said were leaked to lawmakers by a Facebook whistleblower that directly contradicted her.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“Substantial evidence suggests that experiences on Instagram and Facebook make body dissatisfaction worse,” he said, adding the finding was not a disgruntled worker’s complaint but company research.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The enterprise has been under relentless pressure to guard against being a platform where misinformation, hate and child-harming content can spread.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Legislators have struggled to pass new rules that would update online protections in decades-old laws crafted long before social media even existed. (AFP)</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p>

Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp Goes Down Globally

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Bayelsa: Host communities shut down NCDMB building, reject training of 100 youths

<p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eS5NZ_PKrfg/YVXgIIHq-QI/AAAAAAAABdc/gvR1m-0eMcsWlUj5uwzZPBAG6LPeW9qoQCNcBGAsYHQ/s720/IMG_20210930_165339_655.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="536" data-original-width="720" height="238" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eS5NZ_PKrfg/YVXgIIHq-QI/AAAAAAAABdc/gvR1m-0eMcsWlUj5uwzZPBAG6LPeW9qoQCNcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_20210930_165339_655.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Hundreds of protesters on Wednesday, again, besieged and shut down activities at the headquarters building of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital.</span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The aggrieved youths said they rejected the offer of training just one hundred youths from the earlier agreed and approved 1000 youths from over 850 communities in the eight local government areas of the state.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The angry protesters at the early hours of Wednesday stormed and barricaded the main entrance to the content tower, preventing visitors and workers from gaining entrance into the building.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PZpsm1sLAxQ/YVXgx-cBesI/AAAAAAAABdk/WEXFJB1puxg4YxhLH4Api6QfQaZNtqe-ACNcBGAsYHQ/s651/IMG_20210930_170616_237.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="483" data-original-width="651" height="237" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PZpsm1sLAxQ/YVXgx-cBesI/AAAAAAAABdk/WEXFJB1puxg4YxhLH4Api6QfQaZNtqe-ACNcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_20210930_170616_237.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Recall that DAILY POST, had on Monday reported that the protesters besieged and shut down activities at the headquarters building of the NCDMB, over the expiration of agreement and non-commencement of trainings for youths of the Oil and Gas communities.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The protesting youths who chanted solidarity songs to press home their demands, vowed never to accept anything less than 1000 youths for the first phrase of the training.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qZlyMxltAlk/YVXhDDY_VuI/AAAAAAAABds/w7993tr7YQUBGKbL4c58xzz-5Df6V3K4wCNcBGAsYHQ/s645/IMG_20210930_170559_168.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="494" data-original-width="645" height="245" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qZlyMxltAlk/YVXhDDY_VuI/AAAAAAAABds/w7993tr7YQUBGKbL4c58xzz-5Df6V3K4wCNcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_20210930_170559_168.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Speaking to DAILY POST, state chapter Chairman Host Community of Nigeria producing Oil and Gas (HOSTCOM), HRH Boma Kerekebina, said they were embarking on this peaceful protest based on their earlier agreement signed and approved by all stakeholders.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">He stated that they will only accept the number of persons approved by the Bureau for Public Prosecution in a document which is 1000 youths in the first phrase in Bayelsa, adding that any other manipulation by the board will be totally rejected.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The Chairman, who was represented by the Sagbama Local Government coordinator, Mr. Safa Perekebina, disclosed that even after the board took away hundred slots from their approved 1000 and promised to train 900, they have resorted to playing tricks with the agreement.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-k5nuxLwdt4U/YVXhMpNleqI/AAAAAAAABdw/Kaw1QdASfUkzIDtwK2NXPSKBWUNjoEe6wCNcBGAsYHQ/s649/IMG_20210930_170646_371.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="486" data-original-width="649" height="240" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-k5nuxLwdt4U/YVXhMpNleqI/AAAAAAAABdw/Kaw1QdASfUkzIDtwK2NXPSKBWUNjoEe6wCNcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_20210930_170646_371.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">He said, “Till now no date or venue have been communicated to the youths for the training after all documentation but rather officials of the NCDMB keep making flimsy excuses.”</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">According to the Executive Secretary HOSTCOM, Mr. Ofoni Ebimobowei, after several meetings, the board resorted to delay tactics.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“They told us that they can only train 100 youths because they have only N105 million naira, which we told them is unacceptable. The budget has been done and approved since 2019, and they delayed till now and they are telling us another lies, we will not accept it,” he said.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">In his brief, Chief Dogibara Allison, said all they want is to make peace and the only way to go is to abide by the earlier agreement, noting that the small way for the NCDMB to give back to the society is to train youths from the host communities in Bayelsa State.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">When reached on the board’s reaction, the media officer to NCDMB, Mr. Obinna Ezeobi, said the board is not an agency responsible for training of youths in the state, but are for the oil and gas industry.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">He added that the board will respond officially to any other claims.</span></p>

Bayelsa: Host communities shut down NCDMB building, reject training of 100 youths

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Guinea coup attempt, Soldiers claim to seize power from Alpha Condé

<p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LCuf5LlGjOg/YTWwLYiWYoI/AAAAAAAABcU/w04T2v0g9Xs2S3Jqace1N1DQPO9G41DlACNcBGAsYHQ/s720/IMG_20210906_065851_188.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="525" data-original-width="720" height="233" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LCuf5LlGjOg/YTWwLYiWYoI/AAAAAAAABcU/w04T2v0g9Xs2S3Jqace1N1DQPO9G41DlACNcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_20210906_065851_188.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The fate of Guinea's President Alpha Condé is unclear after an unverified video showed him surrounded by soldiers, who said they had seized power.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">They appeared on national TV claiming to have dissolved the government.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">However, the defence ministry said the attempted takeover had been thwarted by the presidential guard.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">This follows hours of heavy gunfire near the presidential palace in the capital, Conakry.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres and the African Union have condemned the apparent coup and demanded the immediate release of President Condé.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The West African country of Guinea is rich in natural resources but years of unrest and mismanagement mean it is one of the world's poorest countries.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">President barefoot on a sofa</span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The TV address featured nine unnamed soldiers, several draped in the red, gold and green national flag, who said they had taken over because of rampant corruption, mismanagement and poverty.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Calling themselves the National Committee for Reconciliation and Development, they said the constitution had been dissolved and that there would be consultations to create a new, more inclusive one.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Numerous reports say the coup was led by an elite unit headed by a former French legionnaire, Lt Col Mamady Doumbouya.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">In one video, which the BBC has not been able to verify, soldiers ask President Condé, 83, to confirm he is unharmed but he refuses to respond.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Sitting barefoot on a sofa wearing jeans and a printed shirt, he does not have any visible injuries. His current whereabouts are unknown.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Those behind the coup said that all land and air borders had been closed for a week.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">However, according to the defence ministry, forces loyal to the president have "contained the threat and repelled the group of assailants".</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Earlier, the only bridge connecting the mainland to the Kaloum peninsular, which houses most ministries and the presidential palace, was sealed off while many soldiers, some heavily armed, were posted around the palace, a military source told Reuters news agency.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">There are unconfirmed reports that three soldiers have been killed.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Following the news, opposition supporters and activists took to the streets in celebration.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">"We are here to show our joy because we suffered a lot over time," Abdoulaye Oumou Sow said. "We have been very patient."</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">In their televised announcement, the so-called National Committee for Reconciliation and Development made all the right noises.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">For those frustrated by last year's constitutional change that allowed President Alpha Condé to run for a third term, news that the constitution would now be scrapped and replaced in consultation with the public has been warmly welcomed.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Already there are reports of crowds of opposition supporters and activists taking to the streets of Conakry, to celebrate.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">But military juntas are notoriously fickle. With no one to hold them to account, there's no guarantee they'll deliver on their promises.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">There are also those who worry that this latest coup is further evidence of a gradual degradation of democratic values in the region.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">It's the fourth attempted coup in West Africa in just over a year. There have been two military takeovers in Mali and a failed attempt in Niger since August 2020.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Contested constitutional amendments in Guinea and the Ivory Coast, a region that had been celebrated for a number of peaceful transitions of power in the nineties and early 2000s, appears to be regressing.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Ultimately those who'll pay the price for the erosion of democratic institutions are ordinary West Africans, left without the protections these institutions were meant to provide.</span></p>

Guinea coup attempt, Soldiers claim to seize power from Alpha Condé

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President First Daughter In-law To Be Bridal Shower

<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Pictures of the bridal shower of the Emir of Bichi’s daughter, Zahra Bayero, who will be getting married to Yusuf, President Muhammadu Buhari’s only son, in a few weeks, have got many talking on social media platforms.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cNRXyW_wOLg/YQry3YXcUwI/AAAAAAAABaA/e1sUO85AtzY8SMtUhHe_C2Qi6hkrsqcjQCNcBGAsYHQ/s876/IMG_20210804_204859_944.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="876" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cNRXyW_wOLg/YQry3YXcUwI/AAAAAAAABaA/e1sUO85AtzY8SMtUhHe_C2Qi6hkrsqcjQCNcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_20210804_204859_944.JPG" width="263" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The President’s son had on Sunday released pictures of his outing with his fiancée ahead of the wedding.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Zf3s8npkHtM/YQr08uhDn5I/AAAAAAAABac/TdRQcWcW6QQtCXnDtNeWJ0J3zDd3Q8CVACNcBGAsYHQ/s720/IMG_20210804_210714_832.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="642" data-original-width="720" height="285" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Zf3s8npkHtM/YQr08uhDn5I/AAAAAAAABac/TdRQcWcW6QQtCXnDtNeWJ0J3zDd3Q8CVACNcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_20210804_210714_832.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hHPJCTIHDSg/YQr1KQ2WQgI/AAAAAAAABag/cl2QKsVPAn0_D1n9bpCVVyKMVB52qvUMQCNcBGAsYHQ/s720/IMG_20210804_210727_769.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="650" data-original-width="720" height="289" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hHPJCTIHDSg/YQr1KQ2WQgI/AAAAAAAABag/cl2QKsVPAn0_D1n9bpCVVyKMVB52qvUMQCNcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_20210804_210727_769.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_EC4CDnaQ3k/YQr1bF96oqI/AAAAAAAABas/z6TQl5sGz5csliWl9RI8nObZuGQoJPuTQCNcBGAsYHQ/s720/IMG_20210804_210654_990.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="580" data-original-width="720" height="258" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_EC4CDnaQ3k/YQr1bF96oqI/AAAAAAAABas/z6TQl5sGz5csliWl9RI8nObZuGQoJPuTQCNcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_20210804_210654_990.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pF5F9fQZ478/YQr12w_pRoI/AAAAAAAABa0/OBXRgcSeFFogZ0h_eHeNYZlyCBOmjIm9gCNcBGAsYHQ/s720/IMG_20210804_210738_896.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="714" data-original-width="720" height="317" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pF5F9fQZ478/YQr12w_pRoI/AAAAAAAABa0/OBXRgcSeFFogZ0h_eHeNYZlyCBOmjIm9gCNcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_20210804_210738_896.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">However, the pictures from the shower as posted on Instagram have generated reactions amongst many on social media.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-O51OS4guFR4/YQr0F4CDsbI/AAAAAAAABaI/Qd7jq_HNcjoN0Q09OBu3UUf1ayfPDL8KgCNcBGAsYHQ/s804/IMG_20210804_204823_767.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="804" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-O51OS4guFR4/YQr0F4CDsbI/AAAAAAAABaI/Qd7jq_HNcjoN0Q09OBu3UUf1ayfPDL8KgCNcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_20210804_204823_767.JPG" width="287" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">While some berated the Emir’s daughter ‘for wearing a bare chest gown and not covering her head as expected of a Muslim lady”, others complemented her beauty and prayed for a successful wedding.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DraTmTN8qvQ/YQr0g1DA2RI/AAAAAAAABaQ/_2xVhJ_NeBcYftZeM_JZnhNK7uAXr-A8QCNcBGAsYHQ/s720/IMG_20210804_204808_499.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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Kano School That Accepts Cryptocurrency As Fees

<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The Federal government, through the Central bank of Nigeria, CBN, recently placed a ban on cryptocurrency trading in the country.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0mu7Pxp9CZo/YQgXivRJ4aI/AAAAAAAABZc/szPPa3TQGT8hC34PgP7pYORzkCUKCpsPQCNcBGAsYHQ/s720/IMG_20210802_170324_154.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="314" data-original-width="720" height="140" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0mu7Pxp9CZo/YQgXivRJ4aI/AAAAAAAABZc/szPPa3TQGT8hC34PgP7pYORzkCUKCpsPQCNcBGAsYHQ/w320-h140/IMG_20210802_170324_154.JPG" title="School that receive crypto currency as fees in kano" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">In February, the Central Bank of Nigeria ordered banks to “identify persons and/or entities” who were conducting transactions in crypto or running crypto exchanges and “ensure that such accounts are closed immediately.”</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">It is, however, clear that the ban hasn’t had any effect as many people still engage in it. Daily Trust visits a school that accepts cryptocurrency as fees.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Kano’s New Oxford Science Academy Chiranchi is a nursery, primary and secondary school that made it into the news recently by announcing that it had started accepting payment of school fees through cryptocurrency against the earlier directives of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on this novel means of online transaction.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Few weeks later, it was gathered that not less than 10 parents have already paid their children’s school fees using that mode of payment.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><ul><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.globalnet.com.ng/2021/08/medical-student-runs-out-of-class-after.html?m=0" target="_blank">Medical student runs out of class after discovering that practical corpse was a friend</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.globalnet.com.ng/2021/08/how-uba-official-was-killed-buried-at.html?m=0" target="_blank">How UBA Official Was Killed, Buried At His Yobe Residence By Trusted Friend</a></span></li></ul><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">It would be recalled that on February 5, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) released a circular addressed to banks and other financial institutions with the directive that transactions in crypto currencies and facilitating payment for crypto currency exchanges were prohibited.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">However, speaking with the proprietor of New Oxford Science Academy, Malam Sabiu Musa Haruna, who established a window for this platform, said the main rationale behind accepting cryptocurrency as a means of payment for registration and school fees is because the world is now a global village and it is the era of sophistication where digital currencies have become a welcome development.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KBjum86sCwg/YQgYUm23ycI/AAAAAAAABZk/Yc0R60awzAY0X3KF9xoGA_Vz1O_0MM43wCNcBGAsYHQ/s872/IMG_20210802_170338_307.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="872" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KBjum86sCwg/YQgYUm23ycI/AAAAAAAABZk/Yc0R60awzAY0X3KF9xoGA_Vz1O_0MM43wCNcBGAsYHQ/w264-h320/IMG_20210802_170338_307.JPG" title="School Principal" width="264" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Located at Layin Takumashi, Panshekara road, Chiranchi area of Kano, the school is sandwiched between houses and the miniature structure of the school indicates that nearby residents are mostly students of the school.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">He stressed that people ought to embrace this new development looking at how developed countries are already harnessing this opportunity because of the profitable advantages attached to it, which may eventually help in boosting a country’s economy.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The cryptocurrency is described as a digital asset designed to work as a medium of exchange where individual coin ownership records are stored in a ledger existing in a form of computerised database. However, it usually does not exist in physical form like paper money and is not issued by a central monetary authority. It uses decentralised control as opposed to centralised digital and central banking systems.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">What kind of crypto currency coins does Oxford Science Academy accept?</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Findings showed that the first decentralized cryptocurrency, bitcoin, was created in 2009 by presumably pseudonymous developer Satoshi Nakamoto.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">In April 2011, Namecoin was created and in October 2011, Litecoin was released.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">However, Kano Oxford Science Academy does not accept bitcoins because it is very high and expensive, rather they accept Doge coin, Troy coin, FET coin, and shiba inu coin, the proprietor said.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Many youths in Nigeria have found transactions in cryptocurrencies profitable and rewarding, thus increasing its popularity. Similarly, it is believed that Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are unregulated in many countries and their legal status is unclear. As such, this implies that financial safety is really not guaranteed.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Also, there’s no record of any school in Nigeria that accepts cryptocurrency apart from Kano Oxford Science Academy.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Researches also revealed that no standard schools in developed countries like America, London or Germany have started accepting payment of school fees via crypto currency.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">But the school proprietor, Malam Sabiu, is of the opinion that most of the developed countries are working to establish a regulatory framework before they start to accept it but cryptocurrency is the future and based on his analysis, it is believed that in the near future cryptocurrency will dominate all other currencies used across the world, especially the paper money.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Malam Sabiu added that: “Cryptocurrency is a digital economy and if Nigeria accepts it, surely it will boost its economy. So, we have started accepting cryptocurrency in order to boost our school’s economy also.”</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">It would be recalled that the Central Bank of Nigeria, in justifying the ban, explained that cryptocurrencies transaction was devoid of proper regulation and prone to financial crimes.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Speaking also how do parents feel about crypto currency as a means of payment of school fees, Malam Saleh Ahmad, who identified himself as one of the parents that paid school fees using crypto currency, said it is a strange reality but it is the future.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“It is a strange thing that seems impossible but with so much enlightenment, I’ve understood the reality in it and accepted the idea. I am so happy and looking forward to seeing other parents understand this reality and accepting it.”</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Similarly, Bashir Abubakar Alkassim who also said he paid for his kids’ school fees through crypto currency, said he is very excited over the development.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“I am very excited and happy. Although, I was initially scared but later when the idea was explained to me, I understood and quickly made the payment,” he said.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Findings reveal that Nigeria has accounted for crypto transactions worth $566 million in the last five years. Also, according to the estimates, out of the top 10 countries for trading volumes, Nigeria ranked third after USA and Russia in 2020, generating more than $400 million worth of transactions.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">A resident of the area where the school is situated, Umar Musa, said he does not see anything wrong in the initiative taken by the school, even as he confirmed that the school is basically a local school for the people living within its location.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“The school is always willing to make learning better for its students. To be honest, it seems like most of the parents are willing to provide and play every role for their children’s education"</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">He said the initiative of the school makes him wish he already has a child to enrol in the school.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Efforts to get the reaction of the state government was, however, unsuccessful as the state’s Commissioner of Education, Muhammad Sanusi Sa’id Kiru, could not be reached for comments.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p>

Kano School That Accepts Cryptocurrency As Fees

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Medical student runs out of class after discovering that practical corpse was a friend

<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">He ran out in tears and had to be consoled by course mates.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-268hvdt1CTU/YQf88DK1UmI/AAAAAAAABZE/kelOlJoqXC8lh1UH4nVgD9kVzwmlubLXwCNcBGAsYHQ/s720/IMG_20210802_151013_303.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="405" data-original-width="720" height="180" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-268hvdt1CTU/YQf88DK1UmI/AAAAAAAABZE/kelOlJoqXC8lh1UH4nVgD9kVzwmlubLXwCNcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_20210802_151013_303.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Enya Egbe, 26, scurried out of his Anatomy class at the University of Calabar in tears, after discovering that the corpse he had been asked to work on was that of a friend.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The BBC reports that the incident occurred seven years ago on a Thursday afternoon.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Egbe recalls that afternoon vividly and how he gathered with fellow students around three tables with a cadaver laid out on each.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Minutes later, he screamed and fled the laboratory.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The body his group had been asked to dissect was that of Divine, his friend of more than seven years.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">"We used to go clubbing together. There were two bullet holes on the right side of his chest," Egbe says.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Oyifo Ana was one of the many students who ran out after Egbe; and found him weeping outside.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">"Most of the cadavers we used in school had bullets in them. I felt so bad when I realised that some of the people may not be real criminals," Ana says.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">She adds that one morning she had seen a police van loaded with bloodied bodies at their medical school, which had a mortuary attached to it.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><ul><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.globalnet.com.ng/2021/08/us-lawmakers-block-sale-of-attack.html?m=0">Us lawmakers have blocked the sale of some attack helicopters to Nigeria over poor human rights record</a></span></li></ul></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">After Egbe fled the lab, he sent a message to Divine's family who had been going to different police stations in search of their relative after he and three friends were arrested by security agents on their way back from a night out.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The family eventually reclaimed his body.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">A worrying trend</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The BBC reports that Egbe's shocking discovery highlights both the lack of corpses available in Nigeria for medical students and what can happen to victims of police violence.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">More than 90% of the cadavers used in Nigerian medical schools are "criminals killed by shooting", according to a 2011 research in the medical journal 'Clinical Anatomy'.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">This means that these cadavers were suspects shot dead by security forces. Their estimated ages are between 20 and 40 years, 95% are male, and three out of four are from the lower socio-economic class.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">"Nothing has changed 10 years later," says Emeka Anyanwu, a Professor of Anatomy at the University of Nigeria, who co-authored the study.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>

Medical student runs out of class after discovering that practical corpse was a friend

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How UBA Official Was Killed, Buried At His Yobe Residence By Trusted Friend

<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">If Abubakar Hassan had known what laid ahead of him, he would probably have rejected the apartment offered to him at Red Bricks, an Estate on the fringes of Damaturu, capital of Yobe State.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PJqXeYuR3gs/YQb8pLrFkKI/AAAAAAAABYs/J9LSmy6LcTIbjXAyIV9B1APB_zUjv7KKwCNcBGAsYHQ/s720/IMG_20210801_204309_821.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="401" data-original-width="720" height="178" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PJqXeYuR3gs/YQb8pLrFkKI/AAAAAAAABYs/J9LSmy6LcTIbjXAyIV9B1APB_zUjv7KKwCNcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_20210801_204309_821.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Hassan had barely spent six months at the apartment when his life was cut short by someone he trusted.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Friends, family members, colleagues are still in a state of shock over the incident that happened on July 22, 2021.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Maryam Salihu, a sister to the deceased, told Daily Trust that her late brother had been warned on his relationship with Umar Shaibu, also known as Abba, the prime suspect, and he had promised to severe contact with him.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">According to Maryam, when her brother was offered the new apartment, he did not need to move with his belongings because the house had everything in place.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“The house that was given to him at Red Bricks had everything intact. So he had to dispose of his property where he lived before moving into the apartment.”</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">She added that her late brother gave her his cushion set and told her that Abba would deliver them to her. Maryam said that was her first time of setting eyes on the person who allegedly killed her younger brother.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Property theft</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-v_3AVsliq8U/YQb-_yYVKQI/AAAAAAAABY8/J5YtLOp823gLuQyxLXgYrp2K5uiApurSwCNcBGAsYHQ/s670/IMG_20210801_205903_171.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="670" data-original-width="653" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-v_3AVsliq8U/YQb-_yYVKQI/AAAAAAAABY8/J5YtLOp823gLuQyxLXgYrp2K5uiApurSwCNcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_20210801_205903_171.JPG" width="312" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /><b><br /></b></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">She said two weeks before he was murdered, the deceased called to tell her that Abba had stolen some of his properties.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“Three weeks ago, my brother told me that he (Abba) went to his house and stole his speaker, and his clothes. He asked if I remembered one of the clothes I bought for him? And I said yes. Then, he replied that the boy had stolen it and some other items,” Maryam told Daily Trust.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">She said the deceased’s fiancée also told her how Abba allegedly stole from Abubakar on another occasion. In tears, Maryam repeated that her brother was about parting ways with the suspect when he was murdered.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">While disclosing how she found out about her brother’s demise, Maryam said she got a call from the operations manager of the UBA branch in Damaturu, where he worked, that he was absent from work and they could not reach him.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">She said not suspecting any evil, she confidently told the manager that he would report for duty later, adding that he was possibly being held back by something. But she said she started getting worried when she was called a few hours later and told that they had still not seen him at work.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><b>Stains of Blood</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“By 10am, they called again that they had not seen him. Immediately, I picked my car key and drove straight to his office where I picked somebody who followed me to his house.”</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“On reaching his house, we found a blood splash on the wall. There was also blood stain on the ground; they tried to wash it off but the stain was visible. There were traces that they had swept it with broom. At the backyard, we also found stain on the grass. I jumped over the fence because there was no key, and opened the door and searched for him,” Maryam said.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">She said she was worried seeing blood in the house, while her brother and some of his belongings were missing.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QOjbH3lYYoQ/YQb9ZPdvK-I/AAAAAAAABY0/JpcbWW-yzRMaiuXoSMviIVz7XJ1CN0BWgCNcBGAsYHQ/s859/IMG_20210801_205914_849.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="859" data-original-width="641" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QOjbH3lYYoQ/YQb9ZPdvK-I/AAAAAAAABY0/JpcbWW-yzRMaiuXoSMviIVz7XJ1CN0BWgCNcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_20210801_205914_849.JPG" width="239" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The bereaved sister said she headed to the police station where she filed a complaint and days later, the prime suspect was arrested.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">While being interrogated at the Yobe State Crime Investigation Department (CID), Abba confessed to the crime.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #e06666; font-family: georgia;"><b>Confession of the prime suspect</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">He narrated how he and some three other persons took the life of his benefactor.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“When we went to the house, four of us, we had the intention of stealing his generator. Modu and I entered the house first. We planned that those at the door should knock and when he comes out, we would hit him.”</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“One of us was holding a iron, which was used to hit him. When those at the door knocked and he came out, CK knocked him out with the iron. I couldn’t draw near until when he was completely down. The other boys left. I told them that there was blood and we were not supposed to leave him there but they still left. So, I washed the place and buried him.”</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Police react</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The Police Public Relations Officer in Yobe, ASP Dungus Abdulkarim, said four persons have been arrested in connection with the murder.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">He listed all those arrested as Umar Shaibu AKA Abba (aged 21), Tajjuddeen Taufiq (aged 20), Ismail Moh’d (aged 17), and Bulama Modu (aged 17).</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Abdulkarim said upon interrogation, Abba confessed to the crime, stating that they planned to only rob the victim of money but ended up killing him, after which he was buried.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The brutal murder of Abubakar Hassan has left his family and friends in great shock.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“He was a nice person actually. He was somebody who was not troublesome. You barely heard him speak. He had a pure heart and was probably not thinking somebody would harm him,” said one of his colleagues at UBA, who did not want to be named.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">On Saturday, the deceased’s loved ones held special prayers in his honour. One of those who attended said Abubakar’s untimely death was shocking but more shocking was how it was orchestrated by someone he trusted.</span></p>

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US Lawmakers Block Sale Of Attack Helicopters To Nigeria Over Poor Human Rights Record

<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #e06666; font-family: georgia;">US lawmakers have blocked the sale of some attack helicopters to Nigeria over purported poor human rights record of the Buhari administration. The deal worth $875million was for the sale of 12 AH-1 Cobra attack helicopters and accompanying defence systems for the Nigerian Military, it was learnt, are being blocked by the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hMN0-ERyu0A/YQZPHYrMtDI/AAAAAAAABYU/VHt8685GjkYFjk74JePztKCYitfXY5cpQCNcBGAsYHQ/s720/IMG_20210801_082747_082.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="445" data-original-width="720" height="198" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hMN0-ERyu0A/YQZPHYrMtDI/AAAAAAAABYU/VHt8685GjkYFjk74JePztKCYitfXY5cpQCNcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_20210801_082747_082.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="color: #e06666; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #e06666; font-family: georgia;">The Foreign Policy website reports that the details of the proposed sale were first sent by the U.S. State Department to Congress in January before the inauguration of President Joe Biden.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #e06666; font-family: georgia;">In addition to the helicopters, the proposed sale included 28 helicopter engines produced by GE Aviation, 14 military-grade aircraft navigation systems made by Honeywell, and 2,000 advanced precision kill weapon systems—laser-guided rocket munitions, according to information sent by the State Department to Congress and reviewed by Foreign Policy.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #e06666; font-family: georgia;">The report said the US policy makers are torn between balancing national security with human rights objectives.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #e06666; font-family: georgia;">They reportedly expressed huge discomfort with the human rights records of the Buhari’s government.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #e06666; font-family: georgia;">Instances cited include the recent ban on the micro-blogging platform, Twitter, the alleged crackdown on #EndSARS protesters in October last year, among others with the US lawmakers calling for cautions in engaging with Nigeria.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #e06666; font-family: georgia;">Chairperson of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Sen. Bob Menendez, was quoted as calling for a “fundamental rethink of the framework of our overall engagement” with Nigeria during a Senate hearing with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in June.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #e06666; font-family: georgia;">Both Menendez and Sen. Jim Risch, the top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, have placed a hold on the proposed arms sale, according to multiple U.S. officials and congressional aides familiar with the matter, who spoke to Foreign Policy on condition of anonymity, the website reported.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #e06666; font-family: georgia;">Observers also cite instances of abuse by the military as responsible for the current impasse on the sale of helicopters.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #e06666; font-family: georgia;">“There is a culture of impunity that exists around abuses by the military,” said Nigeria researcher at Human Rights Watch, Anietie Ewang who was quoted by the Foreign Policy.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #e06666; font-family: georgia;">He added, “I’m sure it’s a difficult situation. There are so many conflicts springing up across the country now. The authorities, I presume, are trying to do the best they can to save lives and properties. But this must be done in accordance with human rights standards. You can’t throw one out just to be able to achieve the other.”</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p>

US Lawmakers Block Sale Of Attack Helicopters To Nigeria Over Poor Human Rights Record

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