Gov Fayose stops his convoy to interact with an old woman in Ekiti
While talking, the old woman
complained that she had been trying to reach him on the mobile number he
gave out to the state residents but had not been successful.
Tuesday 3 November 2015
Gov Fayose stops his convoy to interact with an old woman in Ekiti
President Buhari insists some ministers will not get any portfolio
President Buhari insists some ministers will not get any portfolio
"The constitution certainly said there must be one member of the cabinet from all the states but the constitution did not say I must have 36 ministries so I will exploit that detail because of the economic imperative to have lots of ministers, substantive ministers, let me put it that way. I think that the economy as I have seen it now since my sitting here for the last four months, that we are so much battered.
Although some people are saying I am giving bad publicity and scaring away investors. Any investor who is interested in investing in Nigeria will seem to know more about the economy more than ourselves. So when I come and tell the truth about the position of the economy of the country, I am going out looking for investors. But I am confirming to them that we are truthful, that we need them to come and help us help ourselves by getting in industries, manufacturing and services. They know our needs. The economy of human resources, I believe will make them eventually come and help us"he said
Former Super Eagles Dickson Etuhu arrested In Sweden after brawl at a Nightclub
Former Super Eagles Dickson Etuhu arrested In Sweden after brawl at a Nightclub
According to reports, Dickson and two other men were denied entrance to the club venue, before the police were called to the scene. He has since released a statement via his club website confirming the incident. Here is what he wrote
“I want to confirm that I am the AIK player that was involved in the incident that has been reported in the media during the last two days. I’m coming forward because I don’t want any more speculation surrounding my team-mates about who was involved and I have always stood up for my actions. I have talked to my club and the police about what in my opinion happened on Sunday night, and I will today file a report to the police about what I believe caused the incident and the way the security staff acted. I have no further comments since it is now an ongoing police investigation.”. His club director of football, Björn Wesström said" It’s never good news when anyone in our club is involved in this kind of matter. I have been in contact with the player and had a good conversation with him in which he calmly gave his version of the story.”
US detects heat around doomed Russian jet just before crash
US detects heat around doomed Russian jet just before crash
U.S. satellite imagery detected heat around a Russian
passenger jet just before it went down in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, two U.S.
officials said Tuesday. But the discovery doesn't resolve the mystery of why
the plane crashed, killing all 224 aboard.
A missile striking the Metrojet Airbus A321-200 was ruled
out because neither a launch nor an engine burn had been detected, one of the
officials said. The infrared activity that was detected could mean many things,
including a bomb blast or that an engine on the plane exploded due to a
malfunction. Aviation analyst Paul Beaver said the heat picked up by the
satellite "indicates that there was a catastrophic explosion or disintegration
of the airplane," but doesn't reveal the cause.
"It doesn't tell us if it was a bomb ... or if somebody
had a fight in the airplane with a gun — there is a whole raft of things that
could happen in this regard," he said. It also could indicate a fuel tank
or engine exploding, although "engines are designed so that if something
malfunctions or breaks off, it is contained within the engine," Beaver
added.
A woman reacts standing at pictures of the plane crash
victims are attached to the fence at Dvortsov . Both U.S. officials spoke
on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to discuss the
information publicly.
Some aviation experts had earlier suggested a bomb was the
most likely cause of Saturday's crash, while some others pointed at a 2001
incident in which the jet damaged its tail during landing.
The Metrojet was flying from Egypt's Red Sea resort of Sharm
el-Sheikh to St. Petersburg when it crashed in the Sinai Peninsula after breaking
up at high altitude, Russian aviation officials said.
Islamic State militants said they had "brought
down" the Russian plane because of Moscow's recent military intervention
in Syria against the extremist group. But the group did not provide any evidence
to support its claim, and militants in northern Sinai have not shot down any
commercial airliners or fighter jets.
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi called that claim
"propaganda" aimed at damaging the country's image, and he insisted
the security situation in the Sinai Peninsula is under "full
control."
Pictures of the plane crash victims are attached to the
fence at Dvortsovaya (Palace) Square in St.Petersburg. In an interview with the
BBC, el-Sissi also reiterated that the cause of the crash may not be known for
months and said there should be no speculation about it. President Vladimir
Putin said Russia will keep fighting terrorism in Syria and elsewhere, adding
that no one will succeed in scaring it.
His spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, rejected any connection
between the crash and the Russian military action in Syria, saying there is no
reason to link them. An international team of experts prepared to analyze the
plane's flight data and cockpit voice recorders, the so-called "black
boxes."
The joint investigation committee, which includes Egyptian,
Russian, French and German experts as well as representatives from Ireland,
where the plane was registered, was wrapping up its last field inspection at
the crash site. It will start working on the recorders, said Egyptian Civil
Aviation Minister Hossam Kamal.
People light candles and lay flowers in memory of the plane
crash victims at Dvortsovaya (Palace) Sq …
Kamal says it "will take some time" to produce the
final report and that the committee "has all the tools and experts to deal
with the investigation." Russian
Transport Minister Maxim Sokolov said in televised remarks that Russian experts
already had conducted a preliminary inspection of the recorders and had seen
information from Egypt's flight control radars, but he wouldn't give further
details.
As the investigation moved forward, more of the dead were
brought to St. Petersburg. Alexei Smirnov of the Russian Emergency Situations
Ministry said government planes have brought 140 bodies and other human remains
so far, and families have identified 19 victims.
Mourners continued to come to St. Petersburg's Pulkovo
airport to lay flowers, toys and other tributes. On the outskirts of town,
tearful relatives of the victims left a crematorium where the identification
process took place.
Alexander Agafonov, head of the Russian rescue mission in
Egypt, said in a televised conference with other officials that searchers found
no more bodies Tuesday after combing an area of 28 square kilometers (10.8
square miles). Emergency Situations Minister Vladimir Puchkov said the site
"should be studied centimeter by centimeter."
"If you need to sift through the sand where the remains
or pieces of the fuselage could be, do it," he said.
Associated Press writers Vladimir Isachenkov and Nataliya
Vasilyeva in Moscow, Brian Rohan in Cairo, Jill Lawless in London, Lolita C.
Baldor and Ken Dilanian in Washington, and Ivan Sekretarev in St. Petersburg
contributed to this report.
Source: AP
Russia says Syria 'opposition' guided warplanes to bombing targets
Russia says
Syria 'opposition' guided warplanes to bombing targets
Russia has carried out an air campaign in Syria since
September, raising criticisms that Moscow is propping up the regime of
embattled leader Bashar al-Assad.
Russian jets bombed 24 targets in Syria Tuesday
using coordinates supplied by "opposition representatives" -- the
first time Moscow has claimed to work with opposition groups since the start of
its air offensive.
"The coordinates of all of these targets were given to
us by opposition representatives," senior military official Andrei
Kartapolov said, without specifying which groups Moscow had cooperated with.
Kartapolov said Moscow's jets hit targets close to Palmyra,
Deir Ezzor, Ithriya and eastern Aleppo with assistance from the opposition,
destroying "terrorist" command posts, munition stores and
anti-aircraft artillery.
Moscow has been bombing targets in Syria since September 30,
when it launched an offensive in support of forces loyal to President Bashar
al-Assad against Islamic State jihadists and other "terrorist" groups.
"Our aim both in Syria and anywhere else is to fight
terrorism first of all," Putin said in Moscow on Tuesday.
But the US and its allies, who are involved in a separate
air campaign against IS, have accused Moscow of primarily hitting more moderate
groups fighting Assad's regime.
Moscow said it had set up "working coordination
groups" aimed at bolstering the fight against the IS, but said the
identities of those involved were being kept secret.
"Such close cooperation will allow us to unite the efforts
of the government troops with other patriotic forces in Syria that used to be
in the opposition and act as a united front against the common enemy --
international terrorism," the defence ministry said in a statement.
Deputy foreign minister Mikhail Bogdanov said the contact
with the opposition groups was "useful", both in terms of
"fighting terrorism and promoting the political process," speaking to
Interfax news agency.
The defence ministry said Tuesday that since the start of
the operation it had hit 2,084 targets in 1,631 sorties, including 52 training
camps and 287 command posts.
It said it has managed to cause "significant losses to
the terrorists" and to "undermine their morale."
Source: AFP
Kylie Jenner Reveals She's Broken Up With Tyga in the Past
Kylie Jenner Reveals She's Broken Up
With Tyga in the Past
While it
may seem like Kylie Jenner lets her fans see quite a bit of her personal life
on social media, the reality star is still pretty guarded.
Kylie
landed the cover of ELLE Canada, and in her interview with the fashion
magazine, opened up about how she determines what she'll share with her
millions of Instagram and Snapchat followers. The 18-year-old recently started
posting pics and videos of herself with boyfriend Tyga, but don't expect Kylie
to share much more than that.
"I do think that if you let people in too deep, it
gets hard -- your fans get too invested, and then they know when you break up
and make up," she said. "I don't want people to know every time we
fight or break up, so I'd rather keep some things private."
That said, Kylie does enjoy opening up her life to the
public. "I always try to remind myself that it comes with the lifestyle.
If you look at other celebrities who get the same sort of attention as I do,
they are barely on Instagram or they don't even Snapchat -- but I love to
share!" she touted. "And I can't live my life reading all the
negative comments because there is still so much positive stuff out there.
There's good and bad with everything."
The Keeping Up With the Kardashians star also wants
to be a good example to her fans. "I don't want to be a bad role model. I
don't want my fans to think they have to get lip fillers or look like me in any
way," Kylie explained. "When I see my fans and they have blue hair or
dress like me, it's really cool and makes me feel good. But I don't want them
to think they have to look like me! I want to inspire them to be themselves and
not listen to anybody else."
So, what's next for the youngest Jenner sister? We might
be seeing her on the big screen!
"I remember telling my mom a year ago that I wanted
to do some acting, and she said, 'Kylie, you're a businesswoman,'" she
recalled. "Now I feel like I'm getting there. I don't know, I just love
doing new things... I'm a mini-businesswoman!"
Crocodiles starve after US Govt freezes elite Honduras family's assets
Crocodiles starve after US Govt freezes elite Honduras family's assets
More than 10,000 crocodiles
are starving to death on a farm in Honduras after the wealthy family
owning them had their assets frozen because of US accusations they
laundered money for drug traffickers.
AFP journalists visiting the 30-hectare (70-acre)
property called Cocodrilos Continental, in San Manuel near the city of
San Pedro Sula, also saw seven scrawny lions kept in cages.
"The
crocodiles and lions are dying of hunger, and we are too because we
haven't been paid the last two weeks," said one worker at the entrance
to the farm who asked to go by the pseudonym Jose.
"Forty animals have already died. They were taken away in boxes by trucks to be buried," he said.
The
farm is owned by the Rosenthal family, a powerful clan in Honduras with
interests spanning banking, media, property, tourism, livestock and
agriculture.
On October 7, the US Treasury Department said it was
targeting the family's 79-year-old multimillionaire patriarch, Jaime
Rosenthal, his son Yani Rosenthal, and his nephew Yankel Rosenthal "for
their money laundering and drug trafficking activities".
It imposed an asset freeze on them and barred US businesses
from dealing with them, which notably affected their Banco Continental.
The bank, headquartered in San Pedro Sula, is being liquidated on orders
of the Honduras' Banking Commission. A newspaper owned by the family
has also been shut.
Yankel Rosenthal was arrested in Miami by US authorities the day before the Treasury announcement.
The
US accusations and sanctions have rocked Honduras, which had long
perceived its wealthiest families to be untouchable. That held
especially true for the Rosenthals: Jaime Rosenthal was vice-president
of the country from 1986 to 1989; his son Yani was a minister in the
government from 2006 to 2009.
Although the crocodile farm was not
one of the seven Rosenthal businesses designated for US sanctions, it
has found itself caught up in the freeze affecting other parts of the
business empire.
An official at Honduras' state Forest Conservation Institute
(ICF), Pablo Dubon, said the executives running Cocodrilos Continental
told authorities the freezing of the Rosenthals' assets led to the
accounts used to pay the workers and buy animal feed being blocked.
Dubon
said the municipality and animal protection groups were working on an
emergency plan to temporarily care for the animals while a permanent
solution was found. One option was to have the employees work for food
while the legal status of the farm was assessed.
A week ago, the
ICF delivered 1.5 tons (3,000 pounds) of chicken meat to the farm but
workers refused to feed it to the animals until they were paid their
monthly wages of $340 each.
"The 3,000 pounds doesn't amount to
much because a crocodile eats the equivalent of half a horse in a day,"
said Jose, the worker at the gate.
"But at least something is being done," he added.
According to security
guards at Cocodrilos Continental, there are 11,000 American crocodiles
spread out over 135 pools hidden by weeds and bushes turned green by
recent rains. Some 60 newborn crocs are among them. An on-site clinic
meant to look after around 70 ailing crocodiles has ceased to function.
The
farm's website says the crocodile business was created to generate
profits by exporting meat and skin to the United States, while also
"preserving the species". It had a yearly budget of $1 million to pay
employees' wages and food for the animals.
Three
farm employees who refused to give their names told AFP they were
thinking of looking for jobs elsewhere because they haven't been paid
beyond the second week of October.
But if they did so, they warned, people living nearby would likely rush in to grab the crocodiles to eat
Source: AFP
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