10/06/17

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Miwa Sado

Ryoichi Ueda, the President of Japanese Broadcaster NHK, apologised on Friday to the family of a 31-year-old reporter who died in 2013 after toiling 159 hours of overtime with only two days off in a month.
From June to July 2013, Miwa Sado covered the Tokyo assembly election and the upper house election for NHK.
She died on July 24, three days after the latter race.
Her death was only made public on Wednesday by the public broadcaster, more than three years after a local labour standards office concluded the death was due to ‘karoshi,’ or overwork-related death.
“Even today, four years after, we cannot accept our daughter’s death as a reality.
“We hope that the sorrow of the bereaved family will never be wasted,’’ Sado’s parents said in a statement released by NHK.
In April 2015, 24-year-old Dentsu employee Matsuri Takahashi killed herself.
Labour standards inspectors in 2016 determined her death was caused by overwork.
Takahashi’s death prompted a national debate on Japan’s severe working conditions and forced Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to address the issue.
The Health and Labour Ministry said in its white paper that 191 cases of karoshi were reported in the fiscal year that ended in March, up slightly from 189 in the previous year.
The report also showed 7.7 per cent of the labour force put in more than 20 hours of overtime a week.
Those who work for 80 or more hours of overtime a month surpass the government’s standard for karoshi. (dpa)
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Catalonia’s move to declare independence from Spain has been scuppered by  Spain’s Constitutional Court.
The court has  ordered the suspension of Monday’s session of the regional Catalan parliament, where the declaration for unilateral independence from Spain was billed to take place.
The speaker of the Catalan parliament, Carme Forcadell, accused the Madrid government of using the courts to deal with political problems and said the regional assembly would not be censored.
But she said parliamentary leaders have not decided whether to defy the central court and go ahead with the session.
The suspension order further aggravated one of the biggest crises to hit Spain since the establishment of democracy on the 1975 death of General Francisco Franco.
But Spanish markets rose on perceptions the order might ward off, at least for now, an outright independence declaration.
Spanish Prime Mariano Rajoy called on Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont to drop independence plans or risk “greater evils”.
Secessionist Catalan politicians have pledged to unilaterally declare independence at Monday’s session after Sunday’s referendum, banned by Madrid and marked by violent scenes where Spanish police sought to hinder voting.
The constitutional court said it had agreed to consider a legal challenge filed by the anti-secessionist Catalan Socialist Party.
Spanish shares and bonds, hit by the political turmoil in Catalonia, strengthened after the news of the court’s decision. The main IBEX stock index rose 2.5 percent and the yield on Spain’s 10-year bond fell.
Spain’s Economy Minister Luis de Guindos told Reuters in an interview the turmoil was damaging Catalonia.
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The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in Ogun on Thursday said that it had taken safe delivery of a baby girl whose mother was in transit along Lagos/Ibadan Expressway.
The Public Education Officer of Corps in Ogun, Mrs Florence Okpe, said in a statement in Abeokuta that the FRSC Accident and Emergency Clinic in Sagamu took safe delivery of the baby around 1 p.m. on Wednesday.
She said: “A commercial vehicle with registration number XF 365 MKD on transit along the Lagos /Ibadan expressway drove into the FRSC Command premises.
“The driver reported that one middle-aged woman by name, Ajoke Ahmed, a passenger in the vehicle, had gone into deep labour.
“The FRSC medical team at the Sagamu Accident and Emergency Clinic immediately examined her, but since the clinic is not equipped to take delivery, the ambulance was prepared to transport her to the nearest hospital.
“Within this process the pregnant woman gave birth to a baby girl at about 1p.m. inside the command’s clinic.
“A medical examination by the medical doctor confirmed the baby and mother to be in good condition”.
Okpe added that the family of the mother had been contacted.
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The Clark County Commission Chairman Steve Sisolak and Sheriff Joe Lombardo have succeeded in raising over $9.2 million for the victims of Las Vegas shooting.
The move started by local officials set up a page on crowdfunding website GoFundMe to raise money in the wake of the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
The page says that funds raised “will be used to provide relief and financial support to the victims and families.”
By noon Thursday, the fundraiser had garnered two-thirds of its $15 million goal.
Sisolak said he pledged the first $10,000.
“Our community is grateful for the outpouring of support from folks all across the nation and all around the world,” Sisolak wrote Wednesday in an update posted on the page.
“Tens of thousands of people have made their voices heard and are standing up to hate and standing together to support the victims and their families during this difficult time,” he continued. “We want to thank you for your generous contributions.”
On Sunday night, a gunman opened fire on a music festival crowd from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, killing 58 people and injuring 489 others, according to the most recent calculations from officials.
More than 22,000 people were attending the final night of the Route 91 Harvest Festival when gunfire erupted.
Sisolak also suggested, for those who cannot afford financial donations, giving blood via United Blood Services or donating water, canned good and non-perishable items to local two local organizations, Three Square and Catholic Charities.
“We appreciate the outpouring of support, but the substations cannot currently manage the physical donations and we kindly ask you donate them to the organizations to ensure their distribution,” Sisolak wrote. (ABC News)
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The Comptroller-General of Customs, retired Col.Hameed Ali, said that the service has seized 3,665 vehicles from 2015 till date with a Duty Paid Value (DPV) of over N13 billion.
Ali said this during his lecture titled “Problem of Smuggling and its attendant Consequence on  Nigeria’ s Economy and the Way Out” at the IBB Golf and Country Club, on Thursday in Abuja.
Ali, who gave a breakdown of the seizures, said in 2015, 1,917 vehicles were seized with DPV of N3.856 billion and 1,483 vehicls were seized in 2016 with DPV of valued N2.683 billion.
He added that from January to August his year 265 were seized with DPV of N6.625 billion.
The Customs boss said that the high value recorded in 2017 was because most of the vehicles were of high value whic included 15 bullet proof vehicles.
Ali said out of the 18 vehicles seized in September in Abuja over non duty payment 13 were bullet proof vehicles of which 10 have no Customs papers.
He said that Nigeria imported about 70 per cent of its needs and that 45 per cent of all the imports were smuggled into the country.
“Lack of patriotism among the traders and complicity of Customs officers has added to the problem.
“Over 85 per cent traders are not trustworthy as they falsify documents except for about five per cent of them who can be trusted and often have their goods cleared within 48 hours,” Ali said.
He said that the four arms containers intercepted this year were concealed with many cases of under declaration and diversion of imported goods.
On the challenges of Customs in fighting smuggling, he said the Service lost three officers this year.
Ali said that Customs under him was being sanitised and now very few corrupt officers in its middt.
“Ninety  per cent of our officers are now imbibing the culture of doing the right thing.”
He urged Nigerians  to report corrupt officers to enable the service weed out the 10 per cent of the corrupt officers.
Ali said that importers must be patriotic and stop inducing officers to fast track clearance of their goods.
According to him, smuggling is a problem to the society that kills the local industries, adding that it hinders the growth of the economy.
Ali attributed the cause of smuggling to  greed. (NAN)
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Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull

(Reuters) Australian police will create a national photo database using existing identification records held by state authorities to identify terror suspects, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said on Thursday, fanning privacy concerns among rights groups.
Turnbull said the database was intended to accelerate the process of identifying potential terror suspects, replacing a time consuming system that could take up to a week when national authorities requested information from their state counterparts.
“It shouldn’t take seven days to be able to verify someone’s identity or seek to match the photo of someone, who is a person of interest,” Turnbull said in Canberra.
“It should be done seamlessly and in real time,” he said.
The biometric database stops short of enabling real-time detection of suspects by scanning large crowds and alerting authorities when people on a security watch list are identified, similar to a system in place in China.
China leads the world in the use of facial detection, even allowing education authorities to use the system to catch students cheating on exams, but Australia will limit the new database to police and intelligence agencies only.
Turnbull said the system would not be connected to Australia’s existing network of closed-circuit televisions, easing fears that authorities were seeking to create an automated system of detection.
Australia, a staunch U.S. ally, is on heightened alert after a series of “lone wolf” attacks in recent years, and has sent troops to fight alongside the U.S. and other allies in Afghanistan and Iraq.
It is also on alert for dozens of home-grown radicals returning after fighting for Islamic State and other extremist groups in Syria and Iraq.
Turnbull said police were hampered by the current outdated, state-based system but Fergus Hanson, head of international cyber policy centre at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, said the new biometric system raised concerns about potential abuses of power.
“I think most Australians would agree that using facial recognition to track down terrorists is a good idea,” he said.
“People might say using it for tracking down murderers is a good idea, but what about people who haven’t paid their parking fine?” Hanson said.
The new database was unveiled as Turnbull met state leaders and announced Australia would now double the length of time terror suspects could be held by police to two weeks after their arrest.
Australia’s detention laws came into focus earlier this year with the arrest of four men on suspicion of planning an “Islamic inspired” plot to bring down a passenger plane.
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Lagos CP Edgal Imohimi

Lagos State Police Commissioner, CP Edgal Imohimi, is set to overhaul the state crime-fighting machinery with the inauguration of a committee to reorganise Special Anti-Robbery and Anti-Kidnapping and Cultism Squads.
Inaugurating the 11-member committee, Imohimi said that restructuring the crime-fighting units was vital to achieving his goal of reducing criminality to the barest minimum in Lagos State.
“In line with the directives of the Inspector-General of Police that all police investigating units should be restructured to discharge their duties in line with international best practices and standards of policing.
” I hereby constitute a panel to look into the operations of the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad (FSARS) and the Anti-Kidnapping Squad of the Lagos State Police Command,” he said.
The police commissioner said that the committee world look into the present and past activities of SARS, Anti-Kidnapping and Anti-Cultism units and recommend ways to make them more efficient and professional.
Imohimi urged the committee to look into all allegations of human rights abuses against officers and men of the units and give recommendations to prevent reoccurrence.
He also requested the body to profile personnel currently posted to the units and determine their suitability to continue in the unit.
“The committee is also to make recommendations and suggestions for immediate training of officers and men of the units on principles and tenets of fundamental human rights and rule of law.
“The recommendations of the committee is aimed at stopping worrisome issues like investigation of civil matters, torture, illegal detentions, safety and custody of exhibits, welfare of suspects and molestation,”he said.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the committee which included Oditah Sunday, President, Crime Reporters Association of Nigeria and headed by Mr Samuel Agbebuyi, a retired commissioner of police, has two weeks to submit its report.
Imohimi urged the public to send memoranda to the committee through the secretary’s email bolajislm@yahoo.com, effy3uyah@gmail.com, or through WhatsApp on 08033011644, 08033108820 and 08125151772 or to the nearest Area Commands and Divisional Police Stations.
Responding, Agbebuyi thanked the police command for giving the committee the opportunity to serve and assured that the panel would come up with recommendations worthy of emulation by other states.
Other members of the committee were DCP Bolaji Salami of the State CID as well as ACP Abiodun Alamutu and ACP Olatunji Disu of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) commander.
Others were CSP Effiong Asuquo, CSP Adebola Ojugbele, CSP Sanusi Mohammed (O/C SARS), CSP Anthony Okosun (O/C Anti-Kidnapping), SP Kehinde Johnson-Oni (O/C Anti-Cultism) and Mr Stanley Imhanruor from Femi Falana Chambers.
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