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On ₦90 Billion Assets + 40 Mansions, El-Rufai Sues The Union

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<b>KADUNA, NIGERIA - After a busy few weeks as governor, Malam Nasir El-Rufai is dismayed by the blatant falsehood being practised as journalism by <i>The Union</i> newspapers. He has consequently directed his legal team to vigorously enforce his rights to protect his reputation from the vandalism of irresponsible hacks.</b></div>
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<i>The Union </i>chose to write a spurious story alleging ₦90b as his assets declaration without seeing the declaration made by Malam El Rufai.</div>
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The circle of blackmail that did the story claimed they heard a rumour, and they pursued the rumour so vigorously they transformed it into news. When some of their cohorts made contact with the governor’s media team insisting that they respond to rumour, they were told that it is better if they chose the more legitimate route of agitating for a public asset declaration.</div>
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Fair minded people who read the story will notice that it is not grounded in any evidence. It is just the animus of blackmailers who regard Malam Nasir El-Rufai as easy prey. But since his reputation is not based on purchased kudos, he cannot be compelled into accommodation with venal people masquerading as journalists.</div>
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Malam Nasir El-Rufai is a privileged Nigerian. He qualified as a chartered Quantity Surveyor early in life and became a dollar millionaire in his twenties. He is a respected leader in in his professional field but as successful as he has been in his career, he certainly has neither ₦90 billion nor 40 mansions.</div>
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He will not be distracted from his total focus on making Kaduna great again. In this endeavour, he will continue to be accessible to practitioners of responsible journalism.</div>
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<i><b>This piece was written by Samuel Aruwan, the </b><b>Special Assistant on Media to Governor Nasir El-Rufai</b></i></div>
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On ₦90 Billion Assets + 40 Mansions, El-Rufai Sues The Union

KADUNA, NIGERIA - After a busy few weeks as governor, Malam Nasir El-Rufai is dismayed by the blatant falsehood being practised as jour...

Incredible!!! Woman Claims Pig Raped And Impregnated Her

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<b>TEXAS, USA - A woman in the USA has told a local newspaper that she was raped and impregnated by a pig. Below is how <a href="http://pulse.ng/gist/story-for-the-gods-woman-claims-pig-raped-impregnated-her-id3927709.html">Pulse.ng </a>reports the hard-to-believe story of Angie Houston.</b></div>
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Most things we hear these days move from the hilarious to the outright outrageous! That is the feeling one gets when a pregnant Texas, USA woman, Angie Houston, claims she is the victim of a vicious rape that got her pregnant, reports <i>Dallas Morning News.</i></div>
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To cap it all, she said a pig raped her and took her virginity and in the process, put her in the family way.</div>
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Houston who is seven-months pregnant, said she was going back home after playing a round of Golf when the 400 pound pig named Pete, jumped on her and raped her.</div>
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People think I’m crazy and need mental help because of my story. They ask how'd the pig get my panties off to mount me? I wasn’t wearing any panties is how!</blockquote>
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This pig been hot for me for years. Constantly sniffing at my genitals. He's tried to rape me a hundred times. This is just the first time he successfully got inside me.</blockquote>
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Her parents say that they believe her and back up her story as their religion forbids sex before marriage.</div>
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Her father, Don, told the paper:</div>
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Angie knows she can't have sex until she's married and she promises she hasn't. Pete has always been a bad tempered little sod and very difficult to handle most of the time, especially when he is being sexual towards my daughter.</blockquote>
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I am not surprised that this rape has happened, I am surprised it took so long if I'm honest.</blockquote>
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After this incident, I sent Pete off to the slaughter house for sausages and bacon which is helping to feed Angela and her baby; after all, she's eating for two now and needs a lot of extra meat.</blockquote>
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Buhari Goes From Nigeria's Change Champion To 'Baba Go Slow' | Bloomberg

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<b>ABUJA, NIGERIA - President Muhammadu Buhari took office a month ago on a wave of hope that he would quickly deal with a deepening economic crisis and an Islamist insurgency in the North. So far, he hasn’t met those expectations.</b></div>
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While Africa’s biggest oil producer has been hit by a 40 per cent fall in petroleum prices in the past year that has slowed economic growth and weakened the currency, Buhari, 72, has delayed naming a cabinet until September. As the momentum of being the first opposition candidate to win power through the ballot box fades, critics are mocking him as a sluggish elderly man, or “Baba Go Slow.”</div>
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Buhari has acknowledged the crisis, saying last month that his government is facing severe financial strain, with a treasury that’s “virtually empty,” and his party is calling for patience. Yet his lack of urgency in tackling economic woes could leave Nigeria badly adrift, said John Ashbourne, an economist at Capital Economics in London.</div>
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“Every week that Nigeria goes without a cabinet, increases the chance that it will face a dangerous shock -- whether a revenue collapse or a currency crisis. “Leaving the federation without a finance minister would be a questionable choice at the best of times; doing so during a period of economic instability is difficult to explain,” Ashbourne, said by phone.</div>
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Nigeria’s currency, twice devalued in the past year in an attempt to cope with lower oil income, has weakened 7.7 per cent against the dollar this year on the interbank market. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) estimates that growth will slow to 4.8 per cent this year from 6.1 per cent in 2014. The naira was trading at 198.85 against the US dollar at 2.38p.m. in Lagos.</div>
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The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) Index hit its 2015 peak of 35,728.12 on April 2, the day after Buhari was declared the election winner. Since then it has fallen eight per cent.</div>
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The cabinet delay won’t please investors, said Alan Cameron, an economist at Exotix Partners LLP. They’re expecting tighter fiscal policy, a currency devaluation and a greater focus on tax collection after the drop in oil prices, he said.</div>
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“There was initially some hope that Buhari would be able to tackle these changes more quickly and with more credibility, but the time line has now been pushed back,” Cameron said by phone from London.</div>
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“It’s going to be a difficult pill to swallow for foreign investors,” he added.</div>
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The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has banned importers from using the foreign-exchange market to buy certain goods as it seeks to stabilise the naira and hold on to external reserves, which are down 16 per cent this year to $29 billion.</div>
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“Even what little could have been achieved so far, such as the nomination of ministers, has not been addressed, and there is a sense of inertia,” Folarin Gbadebo-Smith, Managing Director of the Centre for Public Policy Alternatives, a Lagos-based research group, said by phone on Wednesday.</div>
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Buhari’s own party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), has recognised the growing public disenchantment and pleaded for patience.</div>
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“Nigerians are right to demand even a faster pace. Nigerians are right to ask that a government be quickly put in place,” party spokesman Lai Mohammed, told journalist at a June 30 press conference in Lagos, the commercial capital. “All we ask for is a little more patience, a little more understanding,” he added</div>
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Buhari is facing a unique situation because his victory over the incumbent, Goodluck Jonathan, ended 16 years of rule by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), his spokesman, Femi Adesina, said.</div>
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“This is not a normal changeover, it is from one government to another,” he added.</div>
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Buhari, who previously governed Nigeria as military ruler in the 1980s, has moved more quickly in the fight against the Islamist militant group, Boko Haram, which has waged a violent six-year campaign in the North-east region.</div>
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He ordered the army to move its headquarters from Abuja, the capital, to the North-eastern city of Maiduguri, the scene of some of the worst fighting, and has traveled to neighbouring countries such as Chad and Niger to discuss cross-border military cooperation.</div>
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It’s the “one area in which the Buhari administration has hit the ground running,” Mohammed said.</div>
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Yet, while troops from Nigeria and Chad have largely dislodged Boko Haram members from its self-declared caliphate in the northeast this year, the insurgents have stepped up hit-and-run attacks.</div>
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Buhari will also have to deal with shortcomings in his own army, which Amnesty International said last month should be investigated for war crimes, including unlawful killings. In a step toward meeting his campaign promise to attack corruption that has crippled Nigeria for decades, Buhari disbanded the board of the state-run Nigerian National Petroleum Corporatiion (NNPC) The National Economic Council on Monday set up a four-member panel to probe its accounts.</div>
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Even some opposition lawmakers say Buhari needs more time.</div>
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“His approach may be different, but I am patient, I will give him some time,” Ben Murray-Bruce, a PDP senator, said in a June 29 interview in Abuja. Where Buhari has come up short is communicating a sense of engagement to the public, said Gbadebo-Smith.</div>
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“He doesn’t say anything about anything. The public would be satisfied with signals that say we are doing something about this, we are on top of this,” he said.</div>
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VP Osinbajo In Surprise Visit To Maiduguri, To Meet IDPs

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<b>MAIDUGURI, NIGERIA - Nigeria’s vice president, Yemi Osibanjo, on Wednesday arrived Maiduguri, Borno State on an unannounced official visit, <i>PREMIUM TIMES </i>is reporting.</b></div>
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The Vice President whose flight touched ground at exactly 10:43 a.m. is currently heading to an Internally Displaced Camp to meet with the displaced.</div>
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The roads of Maiduguri is currently filled with soldiers who barricaded the road so that Mr. Osinbajo’s convoy moves safely through the streets.</div>
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Most residents of Maiduguri who were not aware of the VP’s visit were forced to return home as soldiers barricade roads or allow vehicles to pass through single lanes.</div>
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[JUST IN]: Fani-Kayode Cleared Of Money Laundering Charges

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<b>LAGOS, NIGERIA - A Federal High Court in Lagos has discharged and acquitted a former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, of corruption charges.</b></div>
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In her judgment, the judge, Rita Ofili-Ajumogobia, said the prosecution’s case was "feeble" and failed to provide "copious evidence" linking Mr. Fani-Kayode to money laundering.</div>
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Mr. Fani-Kayode, whose trial began in 2008 before Justice Ramat Mohammed, was arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for allegedly laundering about ₦100 million while he was Minister of Culture and Tourism and subsequently, Aviation Minister.</div>
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The allegedly laundered sum was, however, reduced to ₦2.1million on November 17, 2014 after the court dismissed 38 of the 40-count charge levelled against Mr. Fani-Kayode for want of proof. The EFCC prosecutor, Festus Keyamo, while urging the court to uphold the remaining two counts and to accordingly convict Mr. Fani-Kayode, said the former minister failed to exonerate himself of the allegations.</div>
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Mr. Keyamo pointed out that the object of the charge was that Mr. Fani-Kayode transacted in cash sums above ₦500,000, which was the threshold stipulated by the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act.</div>
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Mr. Keyamo had argued that Mr. Fani-Kayode admitted making such transactions in his confessional statement of Dec. 22, 2008 made to the EFCC.</div>
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“Once you cannot explain the source of the large sum of money found on you, you are guilty of money laundering. If the prosecution must show where the money is coming from, then the whole essence of the money laundering law is defeated.</div>
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Oklahoma's highest court said the Ten Commandments chiseled into the 6-foot-tall granite monument, which was privately funded by a Republican legislator, are "obviously religious in nature and are an integral part of the Jewish and Christian faiths."</div>
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The 7-2 ruling overturns a decision by a district court judge who determined the monument could stay.</div>
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Attorney General Scott Pruitt had argued that the monument was historical in nature and nearly identical to a Texas monument that was found constitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court. The Oklahoma justices said the local monument violated the state's constitution, not the U.S. Constitution.</div>
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"Quite simply, the Oklahoma Supreme Court got it wrong," Pruitt said in a statement. "The court completely ignored the profound historical impact of the Ten Commandments on the foundation of Western law."</div>
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Pruitt said his office would ask the court for a rehearing and request that the monument be allowed to stay until the court considers his request.</div>
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Since the original monument was erected in 2012, several other groups have asked to put up their own monuments on the Capitol grounds. Among them is a group that wants to erect a 7-foot-tall statue that depicts Satan as Baphomet, a goat-headed figure with horns, wings and a long beard.</div>
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Rep. Mike Ritze, a Republican from Broken Arrow whose family paid about $10,000 for the monument's construction, pushed the bill authorizing the monument. He said Tuesday he hoped the attorney general would appeal the ruling.</div>
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The original monument was smashed into pieces in October, when someone drove a car across the Capitol lawn and crashed into it. A 29-year-old man who was arrested the next day was admitted to a hospital for mental health treatment, and formal charges were never filed.</div>
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