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Prince Andrew Denies Orgies With Underage Girls

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<b>Prince Andrew has denied ‘any suggestion of impropriety’ after being accused of having sex with an under-age girl in a case relating to millionaire banker Jeffrey Epstein.</b></div>
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In the lawsuit brought against US prosecutors, the unnamed girl claims she was kept as a ‘sex slave’ and ‘loaned out’ to have sex with Mr Epstein’s friends across the world, including the Duke of York.</div>
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However, Buckingham Palace has stated the allegations against Prince Andrew, a known associate of Mr Epstein, are "categorically untrue" after they were included in court papers filed in Florida.</div>
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The woman was 17 at the time the offences are said to have taken place, which makes her a minor in the US state.</div>
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A statement released by Buckingham Palace reads: "This relates to long-running and ongoing civil proceedings in the United States to which the Duke of York is not a party. As such we would not comment in detail.</div>
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"However, for the avoidance of doubt, any suggestion of impropriety with under-age minors is categorically untrue."</div>
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The lawsuit claims that a woman, referred to as Jane Doe #3 in the court documents, slept with the prince in London, New York, and in the US Virgin Islands.</div>
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The court documents say: "One… powerful individual Epstein forced Jane Doe #3 to have sexual relations with a member of the British Royal Family, Prince Andrew (a/k/a Duke of York).</div>
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"Jane Doe #3 was forced to have sexual relations with this Prince when she was a minor in three separate geographical locations.</div>
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"Epstein instructed Jane Doe #3 that she was to give the Prince whatever he demanded and required Jane Doe #3 to report back to him on the details of the sexual abuse."</div>
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The woman behind the allegations told <b><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jan/02/prince-andrew-named-us-lawsuit-underage-sex-allegations">The Guardian</a></b>: "These types of aggressive attacks on me are exactly the reason why sexual abuse victims typically remain silent and the reason why I did for a long time."</div>

Prince Andrew Denies Orgies With Underage Girls

Prince Andrew has denied ‘any suggestion of impropriety’ after being accused of having sex with an under-age girl in a case relating to...

Again! 4 More Nigerian Soldiers Sentenced To Death

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<b>The General Military Court Martial set up by the authorities of the Nigerian Army to try some soldiers of the 111 Special Forces Battalion, Maiduguri, have again condemned four soldiers to death by firing squad.</b></div>
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Investigations revealed that the President of the Court, Brig.- Gen Musa Yusuf, found the four soldiers guilty of conspiracy to commit mutiny and thus sentenced them to death.</div>
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It was learnt that the court condemned the four soldiers to death on December 24, 2014.</div>
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<b><a href="http://nigerianewsroom.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/breaking-54-soldiers-sentenced-to-death.html">The GCM had earlier convicted 54 of the 59 soldiers to death</a></b> after finding them guilty of conspiracy to commit mutiny on December 17, 2014.</div>
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Five soldiers from the 111 Special Forces Battalion who were tried alongside the 54 for allegedly refusing to obey an order from their Commander, were found to be innocent of the charges and were discharged and acquitted.</div>
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Prior to the conviction of the 54 soldiers, <b><a href="http://nigerianewsroom.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/army-sentences-4-more-soldiers-to-death.html">another GCM had convicted 12 out of 18 soldiers tried for mutiny on September 14, 2014</a></b>.</div>
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The conviction of the four soldiers brought the total number of soldiers convicted and sentenced to death to 70.</div>
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Meanwhile, authoritative military sources said that soldiers of the Nigerian Army were being tried for administrative offences in designated military formations across the country.</div>
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Investigation revealed that the Commanding Officer of the Ojo Garrison Command, the General Officer Commanding of the 82 Division, Enugu and his counterpart in Kaduna are trying officers for various acts of misdemeanour on a daily basis.</div>
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These Court Martials are in addition to the General Court Martials established by the authorities of the Nigerian Army to try allegations of acts of misdemeanour against soldiers involved in the ongoing counter terrorism campaign in the North-East.</div>
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The Director, Army Public Relations, Brig. Gen. Olajide Laleye, had said in a press briefing on Wednesday that the military authorities had set up Court Martials in three military formations in Jos, Abuja and Lagos to try acts of misdemeanour emanating from the ongoing counter insurgency and counter terrorism operations in the North-East.</div>
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The GCMs are domiciled in the Ikeja Cantonment Lagos, The Headquarters of the 3rd Armoured Division, Maxweel Kobe Military Cantonment, Jos and the Nigerian Army Headquarters Garrison, Abuja.</div>
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On Friday, Laleye commented on <b><a href="http://nigerianewsroom.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/army-dismisses-203-soldiers-in-secret.html">the reported dismissal of 203 soldiers after alleged summary night trial</a></b>, saying it was not true that the Army conducted secret night trial to decide the fate of soldiers.</div>
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He said while he was neither confirming nor refuting the story, commanders of the Nigerian Army had been trying soldiers for various emerging offences in adherence with military laws and long established procedures guiding the operations of the Armed Forces.</div>

Again! 4 More Nigerian Soldiers Sentenced To Death

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Will Muhammadu Buhari Be Nigeria's Next President? - Al Jazeera

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<b>For the first time in the last 16 years - Nigeria's longest spell of democracy - there is a real chance that the president could be someone other than the candidate of the People's Democratic Party (PDP).</b></div>
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With Goodluck Jonathan's collapsing popularity, Muhammadu Buhari actually stands a chance of winning the 2015 elections.</div>
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Many times, I have described Muhammadu Buhari, the man who will face Jonathan in 2015, as a "perennially-losing presidential candidate".</div>
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In 2003 he emerged as the sole candidate of the All Peoples Party (APP), after two candidates Rochas Okorocha and Harry Akande were pressured into stepping down, while Yahaya Abubakar failed to show up on the date of the primary. In the elections, Buhari lost to then incumbent, Olusegun Obasanjo of the PDP.</div>
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In 2007, he was consensus candidate of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) after Bukar Ibrahim and Pere Ajunwa were made to back down on convention day. Buhari then lost to PDP's Umaru Musa Yar'Adua.</div>
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In 2011, he contested the elections on the platform of the Congress for Progressives Change (CPC), which he formed, losing again, to Goodluck Jonathan. In all three cases, his emergence was without intra-party opposition.</div>
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But I am first to admit that Buhari's story has changed. By contesting and winning the presidential primary of the All Progressive Congress (APC) - the first time his presidential ambition has been challenged - Buhari has recorded the most important victory of his political career. And if the 2015 election is free and fair, he could well better that record.</div>
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<b>Why Buhari May Win</b></div>
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Buhari remains the single most popular man in northern Nigeria. Despite lacking real party structure, Buhari, with CPC in 2011, defeated Jonathan in Yobe, Zamfara, Sokoto, Niger, Kebbi, Katsina, Kano, Kaduna, Gombe and Jigawa. He single-handedly polled a total of 12,214,853 votes, which amounted to 54.3 percent of Jonathan's tally. Riding on the back of APC's nationwide structure backed by 14 governors and their war chest, a Buhari victory in 2015 is quite possible.</div>
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Buhari is popular outside the north as well. Four days after he created his Twitter account (@ThisIsBuhari), he had already amassed 45,000 followers. This is testament to Buhari's growing national - not just northern - acceptability, because the north remains Nigeria's least literate zone. The north, therefore, has a sparse population of Internet users, which means that Buhari's crowd of Twitter followers probably come from across the country.</div>
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In truth, Buhari cannot take full credit for his popularity outside the north. Full marks should go to Goodluck Jonathan, the man who has unravelled as the antithesis of his opponent's unique selling point.</div>
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Presidential spokesman Reuben Abati can deliver the floweriest prose about his boss's aversion to corruption while his colleague Doyin Okupe hurls the foulest words at the opposition and other Nigerians daily puncturing the president's professed incorruptibility. But the majority of Nigerians have come to accept that Jonathan, even if re-elected for 10 terms, will never fight corruption. The courage is lacking, the political will is nonexistent, the desperation for re-election is so consuming that he would not hurt the weakest of his corrupt political allies. So Nigerians are prepared to turn to Buhari, unarguably the least stained presidential aspirant in the eyes of the people.</div>
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When APC was formed in February 2013, senior PDP figures dismissed it as a failure-bound union of four parties. Who would blame them? Many were sceptical that this merger would not survive even a year. Yet, in another two months, this merger would be two years old. But that is not the story.</div>
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The story is that all APC presidential aspirants defeated by Buhari have offered him their support. Few expected it. Atiku Abubakar, the man most expected to bolt out of APC in the event of a loss, congratulated Buhari the moment the ex-general's vote count overtook his, even though the winner had not yet been officially announced at the time. There is a massive movement for Buhari, which Jonathan didn't face in 2011.</div>
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That Buhari stands a good chance of winning does not mean he is not facing challenges. Nigerians, though forgetful, are largely an unforgiving lot. Their memories only need to be reignited by reminders of an individual's past indiscretions.</div>
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That was what Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka did, first in 2007; and his thoughts have been massively re-circulated since Buhari's emergence as the APC candidate. The unjust execution of Lawal Ojuolape, Bernard Ogedengbe and Bartholomew Owoh, through a retroactive decree, will haunt Buhari ahead of February.</div>
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There is nothing Muhammadu Buhai can do - and he himself knows - to extricate himself from his perception as a religious bigot. For the second time running, he has chosen a pastor as his running mate. But even if he chooses a pope, there are Nigerians who won't pick Buhari for fear of enthroning a religiously extreme president.</div>
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In 2011, Buhari was accused of inciting the violence that followed his loss to Jonathan. The following year, he said "the dog and the baboon would all be soaked in blood" should the 2015 election be rigged. Buhari has shed blood before for his presidential ambition, some people believe. And they think he would do it again. Such man, they reason, should never taste power.</div>
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And there are those who would never vote for a 72-year-old. How can APC be trumpeting change while fielding a man who was military president more than three decades ago? That's no change; it's recycling.</div>
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The candidature of a septuagenarian is a dent on whatever progress we think we have made as a democracy. And although there have been arguments on the immorality of voting for either Buhari or Jonathan, Nigeria badly needs the "recycled freshness" that voting Jonathan out would herald!</div>
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<b>The author, Fisayo Soyombo, edits Nigerian online newspaper TheCable</b> </div>

Will Muhammadu Buhari Be Nigeria's Next President? - Al Jazeera

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PDP Woos Atiku, Kwankwaso

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<b>The national reconciliation committee of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP has commenced intensive efforts to bring back some of its former chieftains who defected to the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) including former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and Kano state Governor, Dr Rabi Kwakwanso to its folk.</b></div>
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Fielding questions from newsmen in Ile-Ife ,the national Secretary of the Party, Prof. Wale Oladipo hinted that the party has reached out to many of its aggrieved members, especially those who have defected to other political parties.</div>
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He noted that the party’s reconciliation committee recently set up by the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party will meet with all the former members of the party in the APC and other political parties before the next general elections to ensure that the PDP wins the elections in all parts of the country.</div>
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This, he said would enhance the victory of President Goodluck Jonathan in the February Presidential poll and also brightens the chances of the PDP in other elections.</div>
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He expressed optimism that those who have left the PDP for personal and political reasons would soon join the party, going by the reconciliation efforts of the leadership of the party.</div>
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“We are reaching out to our former members particularly those who left the party for the opposition to pursue their presidential ambitions but were humiliated. People like Atiku and Kwankwanso are definitely on their way back to PDP”, he added.</div>

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Soldier Killed, 3 Injured In Philippines Rebel Raids

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<b>A soldier was killed and three others wounded when Muslim rebels simultaneously attacked military detachments in two southern Philippine provinces on Saturday, a military spokeswoman said.</b></div>
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According to <b><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-2895172/Soldier-killed-3-hurt-rebel-raids-Philippines.html">Daily Mail</a></b> UK, an hour-long gun battle broke out when separatist rebel group Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters raided a camp in President Quirino town in Sultan Kudarat province shortly after midnight, Captain Jo-ann Petinglay said in a statement.</div>
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The BIFF, which opposes current peace talks between the country’s main Muslim rebel group and the government, also launched an attack on a camp in General Salipada K. Pendatun town in Maguindanao province, she said.</div>
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The raids were meant to sabotage the negotiations, Petinglay said, adding that the separatists “will continually be a potent spoiler to peace”.</div>
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The BIFF split from the country’s main Muslim rebel group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), in 2008 to fight for a separate Islamic state in the mainly Catholic Philippines.</div>
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It made no comment about Saturday’s attacks.</div>
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The military had also blamed the BIFF for a bus bombing in the south in December that claimed 10 lives, and an ambush in November that killed an army major and two of his men.</div>
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The MILF signed a peace deal with President Benigno Aquino’s government in March last year, paving the way for an expansion of the current autonomous Muslim region.</div>

Soldier Killed, 3 Injured In Philippines Rebel Raids

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Osinbajo Visits HID Awolowo, Awujale, Akarigbo For Blessings

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<b>The running mate of General Muhammadu Buhari (retd) in the 2015 presidential elections under the umbrella of the All Progressives Congress, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, on Friday, visited the matriarch of the Awolowo dynasty, Chief (Mrs.) Hannah Awolowo at Ikenne.</b></div>
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He also visited the Akarigbo and Paramount Ruler of Remoland, Oba Michael Sonariwo and the Awujale and Paramount Ruler of Ijebuland, Oba (Dr.) Kayode Adetona.</div>
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At Ikenne, he was received by Mama Awolowo and her eldest daughter, Mrs. Omotola Oyediran.</div>
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Osinbajo said he was in Ikenne, his homestead, to receive blessings from the nonagenarian towards the February 14 polls.</div>
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He was accompanied by his wife, Dolapo, his younger brother, who was former Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice in Ogun State, Mr. Akin Osinbajo, the Iyaloja General of Remoland, Chief (Mrs.) Mercy Owolana, and Senator Olorunimbe Mamora, among others.</div>
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Mrs. Awolowo who expressed her gratitude to God over the choice of Osinbajo as the running mate of Buhari, urged the people of Ikenne in particular and Nigerians in general to support him.</div>
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She said, “I am very grateful this morning to see that Yemi Osinbajo is going to higher ground and it is my prayer that he will get there. I urged you all to support his aspiration. God will take you there.”</div>
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Osinbajo also visited notable sons of the town who include Chief Adeleke Adesina, who is the coordinator of Ikenne’s Peoples Forum and Chief Idowu Sofola.</div>
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Adesina also solicited support for Osinbajo. He also got blessings of the royal fathers he visited.</div>

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