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10-Year-Old Brazilian Girl Gives Birth After Complaining of Stomach Ache at School

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<b>BELO HORIZONTE, BRASIL - A mother was left stunned when her ten-year-old daughter gave birth - hours after complaining of a stomach ache at school.</b></div>
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Teachers at the child's school took her to hospital where she was found to be seven months pregnant and already in late stages of labour.</div>
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The child gave birth normally and she and the baby, born two months premature, are being cared for in the hospital's neonatal unit, according to reports.</div>
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The girl and her family, from Belo Horizonte, southeast Brazil, claim they had no idea she was pregnant.</div>
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Following the birth last Tuesday, she revealed to her mother that she had been abused by her stepfather, who has since left the home.</div>
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The mother later reported the abuse to police, who arrested the ex-stepfather, aged 40, who reportedly confessed the crime.</div>
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According to police, the girl's mother said that her daughter started to struggle at school and become more introverted from October last year. </div>
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Police chief Capt. Castro, from Belo Horizonte's 61st Military Police Battalion, said that the mother hadn't noticed her daughter's growing belly.</div>
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He said: "The mother alleges that she, along with other family members, hadn't noticed, taking into consideration the child's small frame."</div>
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The girl told police that her ex-stepfather would threaten to kill her mother and brother if she ever told about the abuse.</div>
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He has been charged with rape of a child and illegal possession of firearms.</div>
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10-Year-Old Brazilian Girl Gives Birth After Complaining of Stomach Ache at School

BELO HORIZONTE, BRASIL - A mother was left stunned when her ten-year-old daughter gave birth - hours after complaining of a stomach ache at school. Teachers at the child's school took her to hospital…

19 Jul 2015

WEIRD!!! "Pregnant" 2-Year-Old Boy "Gives Birth"

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<b>HUAXI, CHINA - A 2-year-old boy from China has undergone an operation to give 'birth' after physicians detected him as 'pregnant'.</b></div>
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Xiao Feng was brought to hospital after his stomach had become so distended that he had begun to suffer breathing difficulties.</div>
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Once admitted, doctors took X-rays and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scans and discovered that Feng was carrying the undeveloped foetus of his own twin inside his stomach. The boy was then rushed to theatre for surgery.</div>
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The removed foetus measured 20 cm in width, and had a fully formed spine and limbs, including fingers and toes.</div>
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The parasitic twin would have developed into a boy, and had grown so large that almost two thirds of his affected twin’s stomach was taken up.</div>
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Identical twins form when an egg splits in half after fertilization. But conjoined twins or foetus-in-foetus siblings occur when the egg fails to fully separate. </div>
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Dr Jonathan Fanaroff, a neonatologist at Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital in Cleveland, said some conjoined twins can survive as 'parasites', but not when one twin absorbs the other.</div>
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19 Jul 2015

[INTERVIEW]: Buhari Will Probe Jonathan Administration - Presidency

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<b>ABUJA, NIGERIA - There are many questions Nigerians are craving answers to concerning the Buhari administration. For instance, why  hasn’t the government  appointed Ministers  six  weeks after it was inaugurated? Why would President Muhammadu Buhari, as the  leader of All Progressives Congress, APC, not intervene in the free- for- all at the National Assembly? Is he disappointing the South-West zone which  massively voted for him at the polls?</b></div>
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Is the President anti-Igbo by leaving them out in the appointment of Service Chiefs? Will he probe  past government officials? Is he corrupt himself? Why is he going to the United States of America, USA, when there is terrorism war raging in his backyard?  From his office at the State House in the Presidential Villa, to a hotel room in Wuse 2, Abuja, I was able to finally, after two weeks, get  hold of the workaholic Mr. Femi Adesina, Special Adviser to President Mohammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity and  a  staunch believer in the President’s cause, to provide answers to these questions during an interview on Thursday night. </div>
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<b>It has been more than 30 days since the new administration was inaugurated. How do you assess it?</b></div>
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Well, I think that is a little bit unfair because you know how I will assess the administration since I work with the President. But then to be fair and impartial, I will say, yes, the President is on the right course, maybe because there are also some facts that are previously unknown, but I just know that the President is laying a foundation for a new Nigeria. If he can continue on the wind of change that he rode on to  office and continue building on the same foundation, definitely change will come. But he is laying a completely new foundation and, when that foundation is fully laid and the country continues, you will see that  change is truly here.</div>
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<b>When you were announced to be the Special  Adviser, how did you feel? Did you see it coming or you never expected it?</b></div>
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I was announced May 31, but if you remember, on May 20,<i>  ThisDay</i> had speculated the story. The moment <i>ThisDay </i>speculated it, anything could happen. So, it was just a question of, will it happen or not? Since <i>ThisDay </i>speculated it, we knew  anything could happen, but, before then, no. It could have gone either way anyway.</div>
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<b>How does it feel settling down to work with President Muhammadu Buhari in this capacity?</b></div>
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It  is a rare opportunity. Out of 170 million people you have been called to work for your country, it  is a rare opportunity, and I will say it feels good. I have left positions that are eminent. I have been the Editor-in-Chief of a national newspaper, President, Nigerian Guild of Editors. I was satisfied in those  positions, but then, coming to serve your country can’t be compared with anything. So that is why I left those positions to come and serve because I believe in the President. If it was another administration led by someone that I don’t believe in, I wouldn’t come, but I came because I had always believed in President Buhari.</div>
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<b>Were you prepared for this assignment irrespective of the fact that you have occupied other  positions?</b></div>
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If you had spent 29 years in journalism like I have done, then you are prepared for a lot of things including this assignment. If that is the question, yes, I have a background that  prepared me for this  assignment. But if your question means did I think it was going to come, I will say no, I didn’t think  it was going to come. My mind didn’t go to it and I have  always supported  President Buhari since he was  a military Head of State. I had admired him. In fact, the day he was overthrown was one of the worst  days of  my life. I felt very sad for Nigeria; very sad for him and his family, very sad about everything. I didn’t think that government should have been toppled. If that government  had  lasted, Nigeria wouldn’t have been where it is today. So, when he attempted to come through the ballot box since 2003, I had always supported him and, even when it seemed like he stood no chance, I still believed he was the best candidate. In 2011, I had always said we needed a correlation in order to get PDP out. So when that correlation came through the emergence of All Progressives Congress, APC, I felt there was a good chance in 2015 and it has happened. But to think that I was going to work for him, no, it didn’t cross my mind.</div>
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<b>What are the attributes that really drew you to the President?</b></div>
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The first one is his simplicity. I just love his simplicity. He is a very simple man. Then I like the fact that he is very straight forward. I like people who know where they stand with anybody. It is either yes or no. When he says yes, it is yes; when he says no, it is no. Then, of course, integrity, to  me, counts a lot. The fact that every man can testify that he is a man of integrity gets me because I love integrity and then transparency and accountability. A country like Nigeria where anything goes and then you see a man that has chosen to be transparent and accountable. Look at all the positions he has held in this country, yet he remains a simple man. I love that kind of person. Why can’t I support him? Why can’t I point Nigeria to that kind of person? He is good for our county? So that is why I did it.</div>
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<b>But many Nigerians don’t really share these ideas. Some will be quick to dismiss all these, saying that beyond the facade, you may discover many others things when you dig deep.</b></div>
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Well, if they say that, they have a right to their own opinion but then we want to see the evidence to justify that. You don’t need to look far. Just look at the positions the President has held: governor of North-Eastern State, which is now six  states: Borno, Yobe, Bauchi, Gombe, Adamawa and Taraba. Then he went on to become  the Minister of Petroleum Resources and held that position for three and a half years. Can you hold such position and not have oil blocks? If anybody thinks President Buhari has an oil block, let  him show it to us? After that, he became Head of State and he was there for 20 months; after that, he was  Chairman, Petroleum Trust Fund, PTF, and we know all the achievements he made  in that position and then today President. Not many Nigerians have this kind of pedigree and who are not going to be stinkingly rich. I am not saying President Buhari is a poor man, but then I don’t think he is stinkingly rich when he  held all those positions. He should be stinkingly rich and it is only a very rare Nigerian that will not be stinkingly rich after holding those positions.</div>
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<b>You said when he was toppled you were truly sad. Now he has another opportunity! What do you crave for? Or  do  you say he has changed from who he used to be and perhaps may not realize those things that he would have truly accomplished if his government then had continued?</b></div>
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Whether he has changed, yes, I would say he has changed in some areas and,  in some areas, he  remains the same. You know that age tempers a man. Age has tempered him but for good. Remember, after he was inaugurated, some officials of the former administration were about travelling out and the security officials and agencies were stopping them and, you will recall that a statement was issued that they shouldn’t be stopped. That shows you that the man is really temperate now rather the old Buhari. The military man would have packed all of them immediately he was inaugurated and they would be heading for jail and then you would be sifting the weeds from the shaft there after. So, that already shows that he is a different man, a more mature  person, a more reflective person, a more contemplative person and that can only come with age. </div>
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Again, you would see what played out in the National Assembly. You know he is a man who wants to respect the Constitution. That shows he is already different from the soldier that ruled this country. If he was a person that didn’t want to respect the Constitution, he would have interfered in the selection or the election of the leadership of the two chambers, but he left them and said anybody that emerged, he will work with. What he didn’t know is that not everybody was going to respect the rules and we saw what played out. In terms of whether he is a changed man, yes, he is a changed man. He is a true democrat now. </div>
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There are so many things that have come up in just  six  weeks of the administration that show you that this is a man that respects the Constitution and will continue to respect it. So, he is a changed man in those areas, but then there are some areas like accountability, transparency, integrity; of course you know that he will never change in those areas and that is the reason  he was elected. Imagine a man who was a military leader 30 years earlier getting elected just on the basis of integrity, transparency and accountability; you know that kind of man will never change that.</div>
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<b>Some persons argue that if this man doesn’t exercise his authority, things might still go wrong because a leader is a leader. Being the President of Nigeria, he is the leader of the party in all ramifications. There is a proverb in my place that an elder doesn’t sit idly while the goat dies in tethers. He can’t be sitting while things are going wrong.</b></div>
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If you also permit me to quote another proverb or a saying that a tiger doesn’t proclaim its tigress. A tiger doesn’t need to come out and say ‘I am a tiger’. When he does that, go and check properly, he can be a cat, but when you see a tiger, you know  it is a tiger. So, he doesn’t need to ride over everybody before they know that he is a leader and indeed he is a leader. He has the traits, the characteristics and all the potentials. He has everything it takes to be a leader. He doesn’t need to throw his weight around before everyone knows he is a leader.</div>
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<b>Let me take you back a little to the issue of allowing the last government officials to travel. Does that mean that he has hands on probity, assuming there was something to probe?</b></div>
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He has said it that money in billions of dollars will be recovered. But you know the world is too small a place for anybody to hide if you are running from justice. The world is too small a place to hide. You will be fished out. So, there is no need that you say they should not be heading for jail if eventually the law goes after them. Very few countries can they hide in and how long will they hide? So, it doesn’t mean that anybody that has ill gotten wealth will not regurgitate it. They will. Remember when he went to Germany for the G7 summit, he met with President Obama and  Obama told him to just give us information on where the loot  is hidden and we will help you recover  it and the government has been working on that. So, that shows that looters will never go free.</div>
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<b>Is he going backwards? I mean where is he going to start to probe?</b></div>
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He can’t afford to go too deep into the past or else it  will be destructive for his administration. There are some things you can’t close your eyes to while you don’t want to shine the torchlight into the dark recesses of our past; immediate past where things are evident. The Yoruba  have a saying that the corpse we buried, the leg is sticking out and, if you bury a corpse and the leg is sticking out, you can’t pretend. When there are trails all over of the monies in billions and trillions, then a responsible government can’t close  its eyes to that.</div>
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<b>Let’s look at insecurity. In the last two weeks, the bombings have increased. People have expressed fear that the government’s efforts in the past one month and two weeks haven’t really paid off because I know that the President, immediately he was sworn-in, travelled to places and there was this assurance. But then it does appear  much hasn’t been done in that direction?</b></div>
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Let me draw an analogy. One day, the world woke up to hear that Osama bin Laden had been killed by the US Navy Seals. But did you know how long it took to plan that operation? It took 24 months of painstaking planning. Drills, simulations, all that  happened until they got him. I am not saying it is going to take 24 months    before this government breaks the back of Boko Haram. I am just telling you that planning needs to be carefully done and that is what  is being  done. In his very first week in office, he went to Niger, Chad and why did he go? Because of this Boko Haram thing and one major reason he went to G7 is because of the Boko Haram issue because the leaders of G7 said 'come and let us know what we can do to help'. </div>
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After that, the leaders of Chad, Niger, Benin Republic, Defence Minister of Cameroon also came here under the Lake Chad Basin Commission. They are planning. Before the end of this month, after he comes back from America, he is going to Cameroon and why is he going there? </div>
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Still on Boko  Haram and you know there is a multinational task force they are contributing to and Nigeria has released 21 million dollars for the joint task force. That is money Nigeria can use in other areas but it has invested 21 million dollars in that joint task force. That shows seriousness and I think  July 21  has been picked as a date for that force to swing into action. Nobody can fairly accuse this government of not doing anything about Boko Haram. It is doing a lot and, eventually, we will see the end of insurgency.</div>
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<b>Let’s also look at the appointments so far made by the Buhari government. The government has been accused of lopsiding the appointments. It has been people from the North. That’s the impression out there.</b></div>
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Those people from the North, are they Nigerians? So, if they are Nigerians, they have the right to be appointed and then I am sure there could be up to 500 appointments still ahead. Federal Boards that just got dissolved alone had 601 appointments. They are going to be filled. The cabinet is going to be constituted. Other persons and aides are going to be appointed. As at the time they began to talk, only nine appointments had been made and they said  eight  northerners and one southerner. They forget that some of those appointments are statutory, the next in rank. They just have to be the ones that will take those positions and some of those again are security chiefs. Security is an area where you take the very best. It is not something you subject to emotional considerations or other primordial sentiments. Take the very best who can deliver particularly at a critical time like this. So those who  have started counting, I think it is premature. There about 500 appointments left to be made and, when those appointments are made, that is when they can begin to analysis. Doing it after nine appointments, I think that is  hasty and  fault-line in our  country. Nigerians are too suspicious of leadership, other ethnic groups, too suspicious of many things. If we are less suspicious, then this wouldn’t have come up yet.</div>
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<b>There are still these feelings from the members of the public that President Buhari and his political allies in the South-West, people like Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, have fallen apart; that, in fact, the President has disappointed the South-West that massively voted for him at the polls. How do you address this sentiment?</b></div>
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I am glad that you used the word "these feelings" which is different from reality. Just a couple of days ago, Bola Tinubu himself came out to say there was no rift between him and the President. I think things that are unfolding are part of our political experience, political development. You will see that in the next dispensation, most of the things that happened now will not happen because the actors would have learnt. If the President in the next dispensation wants to leave the leadership of the chambers of National Assembly   to elect their own leaders as President Buhari has done, the party will need to play its own part. Everybody involved will play his or her own part so that what has happened now will not happen again. It is part of the learning curve, but for anybody to say the West is disappointed, it is not true. A lot of people who voted for President Buhari in the West have been loyal to him. Even those who didn’t vote for him are beginning to see that he is a leader worthy of their support and they are giving their support.</div>
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<b>Do you really believe in the Presidency of Mr. Buhari to radically move this country away from what it used to be, judging from the fact that he is an old man now? Won’t   his age really affect him?</b></div>
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You have heard the saying that old wines are tastier. Buhari is like a wine that gets better with age. I said this earlier and, I repeat again, he gets better with age; sound, sober, contemplative, not rash. You see what is happening now, Boards have been dissolved. There are terminations and new appointments. You know he could have done that in the very first week and then he could have made mistakes, but this is the sixth week and he is doing all those things and I think, at the end of it, all Nigerians will be glad that they elected him. I don’t foresee failure; no, it will not happen, but it will demand that Nigerians will give him support and work with him but I believe in the change that was promised to this country.</div>
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<b>Just before current appointments, you were a practising  journalist and, ordinarily, you would have been worried that this government,  after  six  weeks, hasn’t appointed even the Chief of Staff. We are talking about the time it has taken, yet no Chief of Staff, let alone Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, and then Ministers. But I remember, before now, they repeatedly said they will hit the ground running after inauguration. What has happened?</b></div>
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One thing is clear, it is constitutional to have a cabinet because the Constitution says there must be a  Federal Executive Council and Ministers  must be appointed from at least one state each. I said earlier that the President respects the Constitution. So, that shows you that he is going to constitute a cabinet. Now, you can’t compare one administration with another.</div>
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Obasanjo appointed his Ministers in July. Yar’Adua also in July, but that is not a reason for any other government not to appoint earlier than July or even later than July. Each government responds to the situation and circumstances in which it finds itself. What this administration met on ground is an Augean stable and it needs to be cleaned up. I can tell you that Nigeria was left in a mess by the last administration and it needs some clean up and, without a clean up, you continue to build on a wobbly foundation and, one day, that structure will come down. So, why don’t you then take your time to lay a fresh foundation and build up on that foundation that is what President Buhari is doing.</div>
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The cabinet has not come but it will come and, when it comes, it will be building on a freshly laid foundation. You see that in the past few weeks, he has been taking briefings from Permanent Secretaries in different ministries. When the Permanent Secretaries conclude their own, chief executives of parastatals and agencies will also come to brief, so that we have a complete picture of what is happening in government and then, after that, anything can happen. When the Ministers themselves come, they will be glad that they are coming into a system that is cleaned up for them. If they had come immediately, this house cleaning won’t have been done because they would have occupied space and continued in the old fashion. So, let Nigerians, who trusted this President and gave him their mandate, continue to trust him that he is working for them and he is doing the best for them.</div>
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<b>Some people in the South-East  aren’t happy at the appointments of Service Chiefs because they feel that none of their sons was there. If we are talking of engaging the best hands, couldn’t you have found some of the best hands in the South-East?</b></div>
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Mark the word of Mr. President, all the Service Chiefs he appointed he never met anyone of them except the Chief of Army Staff that he met casually in Chad. He was the Commander of the Multinational Joint Task Force. So, all of them got appointed based on their service records. Now, are we going to say that we will subject efficiency to ethnic and regional balances? I am not saying that it is not constitutional. There is federal character in our Constitution, but there are some areas where you can’t sacrifice efficiency for ethnic or regional balancing. Get the very best that can do the job particularly at a time of crisis  like we have in security. So, I don’t think it would have been proper shopping for people to fill positions as critical as Service Chiefs if they aren’t the very best we can get.</div>
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<b>The President is going to the U.S. Let me say it is the mother of all visits. What should Nigerians expect from that trip?</b></div>
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Three key things are going to be on the table in America. They are more than three but these three will be key. First is the  fight against insecurity. Nigeria is going to be asking for America’s assistance in terms of intelligence and in terms of equipment. If this succeeds and we get all that we want of course, we know it is going to make an impact on the war against insurgency; so that  would be a key achievement of that trip. Again, something that would be on the table in America is the anti-corruption war. If we have money outside in billions of dollars, you know what that means in Naira. That   is more than an annual budget.</div>
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If we recover that money, it is to the benefit of our country. Then the third thing will be the Nigerian economy. America used to buy 30 percent of Nigeria’s oil. Now, it is less than  five percent because they discovered  Shale  oil and gas. So, in what way can America boost our economy? This will be a major thing and, at the end of it all, this will be to the benefit of Nigerians and, of course, a visit to America, like you said, is the mother of all visits and the fact that the American  President has invited our President shows that they believe in what is happening in Nigeria. Don’t forget that the same Obama came to neighbouring Ghana and never came  to Nigeria. The fact that he invited the Nigerian President shows that the acceptability rate of Nigeria has gone up in the international community. </div>
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[INTERVIEW]: Buhari Will Probe Jonathan Administration - Presidency

ABUJA, NIGERIA - There are many questions Nigerians are craving answers to concerning the Buhari administration. For instance, why hasn’t the government appointed Ministers six weeks after it was…

19 Jul 2015

I Have No Hands In Boko Haram Attacks - Ex-NSA Sambo Dasuki

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<b>ABUJA, NIGERIA - The former National Security Adviser to the President, Colonel Sambo Dasuki (rtd), has condemned an insinuation that the Department of State Security (DSS) operatives invaded his residence last week because he was being investigated over an alleged involvement in Boko Haram attacks.</b></div>
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An associate of the former NSA who visited <i>Daily Trust'</i>s<i> o</i>ffice to lodge a complaint over the report which appeared in <b><i>Daily Trust </i></b>yesterday stated that Col. Dasuki was worried about the insinuation when "all his life as NSA he was committed to the safety and security of lives of Nigerians, not just the people of the North East."</div>
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The associate said the former NSA was very bitter about the report considering the fact the Col. Dasuki is a northerner, a Nigerian and a Muslim, hence it would be unthinkable that he would be involved in a scheme that led to death and misery in the North-East.</div>
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According to the associate, "Col. Dasuki cannot comprehend the motive behind the allegation. We don’t play politics with the security of lives and property. The media should be wary of those who use its platform for mischief."</div>
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He itemised some of the programmes that Col Dasuki spearheaded to ensure there is security in the country to include, the soft approach to counter-terrorism, where repentant terrorists and victims are rehabilitated. </div>
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"He also ensured that the 22 Local Government Areas in the North-East which were under Boko Haram control were liberated completely; Sambisa forest, Gwoza, Baga and Bama were also freed; cattle rustlers were sent packing from the North-West; and some intelligence steps were taken through collaboration with neighbouring countries and other nationals in containing the excesses of the terrorists."</div>
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I Have No Hands In Boko Haram Attacks - Ex-NSA Sambo Dasuki

ABUJA, NIGERIA - The former National Security Adviser to the President, Colonel Sambo Dasuki (rtd), has condemned an insinuation that the Department of State Security (DSS) operatives invaded his res…

19 Jul 2015

Meet Babagana Monguno (Rtd. Maj-General) Nigeria's New NSA

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<b>MONGUNO, NIGERIA - Major-General Babagana Monguno was born in 1957, attended Kings College, Lagos and holds a Bachelor's degree in Architecture and a Masters in International Relations. He was said to be to longest serving Adjutant of the prestigious military institution and his alma mater, the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA), Kaduna.</b> </div>
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Monguno also served as Commander, Guards Brigade at the end of the reign of the former President Olusegun Obasanjo and towards the beginning of the administration the President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua. He introduced special allowance for Guards Brigade, which soldiers called 'Monguno Allowance'.</div>
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He was made the Deputy Commandant, National Defence College (NDC), and   later the Chief of Defence Intelligence (CDI) responsible for gathering and compiling intelligence from all the armed forces, otherwise known as Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA), from July 2009 to September 2011.</div>
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He then served as the Chief of Logistics at the Nigerian Defense headquarters and later as Commandant of the Nigerian Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) in Minna.</div>
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Prior to his retirement from the Nigerian army he was considered for Chief of Army Staff position.  Monguno voluntarily retired from the Nigerian Army in September 2013 after turning 56, the age ceiling for Majors General in the Nigerian army.</div>
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Major-General Monguno is the nephew of elder statesman former politician, Minister of Petroleum, Internal Affairs, Mines and Power, OPEC Chairman and philanthropist, Dr Shettima Ali Monguno. </div>
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He is an erudite polyglot, as he speaks the three main Nigerian languages (Hausa, Yoruba and Igbo) fluently.</div>
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He was appointed the National Security Adviser on July 13, 2015 by President Muhammadu Buhari.</div>
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MONGUNO, NIGERIA - Major-General Babagana Monguno was born in 1957, attended Kings College, Lagos and holds a Bachelor's degree in Architecture and a Masters in International Relations. He was said t…

19 Jul 2015

I'll Marry Again If That's God's Will For Me, Says Nollywood Queen Ayo Adesanya

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<b>LAGOS, NIGERIA - Voluptuously beautiful and sexy Ayo Adesanya has rightly made an entrance into the <i>Nollywood </i>Hall of Fame as she celebrates her 20th anniversary in the industry at the age of 45. The entire month of July, has been about accolades and ovation for the highly talented actress.</b></div>
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While basking in the euphoria of the anniversary celebrations, Ayo, who had a tumultuous marriage and even messier divorce saga with her former husband, actor and producer, Goriola Hassan, took time out to tell <i>Potpourri </i>that her 20 years journey in the make-believe world had not been all rosy. She spoke about marriage and love and posited that even though her marriage didn't work out she still believed in love. She was asked if she could still marry again.</div>
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When people ask me that question, they just get me confused. Fine, God said we should come to the world, get married and multiply but you know what? I'm beginning to think marriage is not for the whole world. It's not everybody that agrees to that because these days, people are getting so hostile. People fall in love; it's not as if you don't find love but does it really last? </div>
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You keep wondering that today they've broken up, tomorrow they've broken up; it's not a good thing really. When you're asking me if I'm going to get married again, I'm not God because you really can't play God when it comes to what is going to happen. </div>
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I want the coming generation to be happily married, I want them to settle, I want them to believe in love, I want them to have a peaceful life and a peaceful home; I encourage it. Because I'm not married does not mean that I do not understand what love is, I know what love is, I know what romance is, I understand it so well.</div>
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19 Jul 2015

[VIDEO]: Gov Fayose Speaks On Ekiti, Tinubu, APC In Interview With Tribune

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<b>EKITI, NIGERIA - Governor Peter Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State speaks on a wide range of issues on his style of governance and politics in general.</b><br />
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19 Jul 2015

REVEALED!!! 33 of 36 Buhari's Ministerial Nominees FAIL Corruption Test

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<b>ABUJA, NIGERIA - Indications emerged at the weekend that the failure of President Muhammadu Buhari to announce ministers after nearly two months of assuming office is not unconnected with the alleged malfeasance, fraud and misappropriation of funds traced to most of the ministerial nominees.</b></div>
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The revelations by investigation teams reportedly revealed shocking security reports on the alleged fraud and misappropriation of funds by 33 nominees short-listed by President Muhammadu Buhari, with only three said to have passed the corruption test.</div>
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Informed sources told <i>Sunday Tribune</i> that out of the 36 ministerial nominees penciled in and those submitted by the All Progressives Congress (APC) hierarchy and sent to the DSS, EFCC, ICPC, CBN, the Force Criminal Investigations Department (FCID), and the Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA)  for forensic screening, only three nominees came out unscathed.</div>
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President Buhari had insisted that he wanted to appoint people without corruption baggage that could taint administration and inhibit his anti-corruption drive. </div>
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Sunday Tribune gathered that the president was dumbfounded as to the mind-boggling amount of money quantified in several transactions cutting across several sectors of the economy, including oil and gas, finance, power, governance and infrastructural commitments, where the persons involved failed the nation, thus contributing to its current decadence.</div>
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Consequently, President Buhari is said to have rescheduled the new date for the submission of his list of ministerial nominees to the Senate for approval to September, during which it is hoped that he would have prepared a new list that will be screened and those that scaled the integrity huddle, presented for confirmation.</div>
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A source said: "Buhari has said anybody with skeleton in the closet will not work with him irrespective of the role he or she played. If such persons are around him, it means he may be pressurised to compromise his principled stance".</div>
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"So they are trying to push him to a corner, because the truth is that they cannot seem to read or understand his body language. They have now seen that Buhari is ready to sacrifice anybody for Nigeria to move forward", the source stated.</div>
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19 Jul 2015

[TWEETS]: Troops Clear Damaturu-Biu Road of Mines - Nigerian Army

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<b>ABUJA, NIGERIA - The Nigerian Army said on Sunday morning that its troops, working in collaboration with sister security organisations have cleared Damaturu-Biu Road, Yobe State, of mines planted by the terrorists group, Boko Haram.</b><br />
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During D painstaking & thorough operation, 4 Improvised Explosives Devices planted by suspected terrorists were successfully detonated. 2/4</div>
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19 Jul 2015

INVESTIGATIONS: Boko Haram Takes Down Surveillance Plane

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<b>ABUJA, NIGERIA - Last week a military plane allegedly carrying foreign mercenaries was shot down by suspected Boko Haram terrorists in Borno state. However, this news did not make headlines.</b></div>
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Five Ukrainian mercenaries and a Nigerian pilot were allegedly on board. The foreign soldiers did not survive, while the pilot reportedly suffered critical injuries and might be alive.</div>
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The Embassy of Ukraine in Abuja did not comment on the issue, and recommended enquirers to contact the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev.</div>
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The aircraft was most likely a surveillance plane that was carrying out reconnaissance and photographing over Sambisa forest, a notorious stronghold for the Islamist Boko Haram sect.</div>
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The plane was most-likely hit by a ZU-23-2 twin anti-air gun. It is capable of engaging low-flying targets at a range of 2.5 km. Terrorists possess many of them, and can shoot a plane easily, especially during take off and landing.</div>
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The spokesperson of the Nigerian Air Force, Commodore Alonge, said he was not aware of the crash.</div>
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The spokesperson of the Nigerian Army, Colonel S.K Usman, promised to reply later, but he had not done it for more than 48 hours after the initial request.</div>
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Two other officials at the Defence headquarters in Abuja refused to discuss the alleged air crash.</div>
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According to the report by <i>SaharaReporters</i>, the Nigerian military maintains an air unit composed of mercenaries and foreign specialists of all kinds. This unit is distinct from the NAF, to the point that the two are often in conflict over air operations in the north east.</div>
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Buhari Orders Re-opening of Case File on $182m Halliburton Scandal

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<b>ABUJA, NIGERIA - As President Muhammadu Buhari travels to  the United States (US) today to engage President Barack Obama  in talks  on  economic, security, financial and anti-graft issues, it has emerged that he has ordered the preparation of the case-file that would lead to the prosecution of the indicted persons  in the $182 million Halliburton bribery scandal.</b></div>
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<i>Sunday Vanguard </i>gathered that the President's  directive  followed  the requirement by the US government of evidence to show that Buhari was ready to prosecute the suspects  in Nigeria for their roles in the bribery scandal before it  could  partner other European countries in releasing the $141 million allegedly looted from Nigeria  and lodged  in various overseas  banks.</div>
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According to top security sources, Buhari, based on the outcome of investigations by  the panel set up to look into the scandal, is scheduled to tell  American officials during this week's visit that all those indicted, including former Heads of State, a former Vice President, two former Group Managing Directors of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, will face prosecution to defend themselves.</div>
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To further convince the US officials  that the kangaroo trial that took place during the Jonathan administration, which saw a former Special Assistant on Domestic Affairs to the President being  arraigned and then let off the hook following alleged connivance of certain government institutions, will not re-occur, the President will tell them that private legal practitioners, who cannot compromise because of past government patronage, will be commissioned to handle the case.</div>
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It will be recalled that the recent directive by Buhari to reopen the Halliburton bribery case led to the discovery that the $26.5 million plea bargain money released by the  oil servicing firm as part of efforts to shield the company from prosecution was not in any government account.</div>
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