11/15/17

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President Muhammed Buhari has ordered the police to restore security of Anambra governor Willie Obiano and called for massive support to Mr Tony Nwoye, APC’s governorship candidate.
He was in Akwa, capital of Anambra state, in continuation of his two-day visit to some states in South East.
He called on the people of Anambra to vote Nwoye of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the Nov. 18 election.
Buhari who made the call in a short speech at the grand finale of the governorship rally held for the APC governorship candidate.
He said Anambra people would benefit much if they voted for APC.
The president said aside Anambra, the other states in the South-East would equally gain as a lot of infrastructure have been earmarked for construction in the South-East in the next year’s budget.
Buhari was accompanied by 12 APC governors who converged at Dr Alex Ekwueme’s Square, Awka via Nigeria Force aircraft mark NAF-540 at about 1.20 pm and departed about 5.25pm.
The rally was attended by crowds of APC supporters as well as serving national and state lawmakers, ministers, former governors and litany of APC bigwigs.
Dr Chris Ngige, the Minister of Labour and Productivity, who spoke at the occasion said APC in Anambra was thorough in her choice of Nwoye and Dozie Ikedife candidates.
Ngige who also hails from Anambra, noted that the massive crowd that took part in the rally was a sign that the party is on ground in Anambra.
“We have toured the nook and carnies of the state during our campaign tour we are ready for the election and the people are behind APC.
“The other political parties also in this contest are only afraid because they have done nothing to show the people that their parties deserve the mandate of Anambra people again’’, he said.
“If you are a governor, your reward will come from the people when you perform well. The roads I built more than 14 years ago are standing, while the ones they built just yesterday are in bad shape, yet they want another mandate.
“My position here today is to sign a surety on behalf of the Nwoye and Ikedife, that the two will not fail our people if voted into office’’, he said.
The Minister of Science and Technology, Dr Ogbonnaya Onu, who also spoke said Anambra people should see the visit of Buhari to Awka as a royal opportunity which should be appreciated with massive support to APC on Nov.18 election.
“The visit of Buhari to the South-East after his overseas trip is mark of love for the Igbo people and Anambra people, I appeal to you to return the love by voting our party on Saturday’’, he said.
Others who spoke were former Senate President, Chief Ken Nnamani, and billionaire businessman Chief Arthur Eze among others
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The Comptroller of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Zone `C’ Compliance Team, Ahmed Azarema, announced in Benin on Wednesday that the team had impounded contraband worth N95 million.
Azarema, who is the National Coordinator of the team, disclosed this at the public destruction of banned poultry products with a market value of N41.7 million in Benin.
The Comptroller also said that the team handed over to the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), some uncertified and banned pharmaceutical products valued at about N33.4 million.
He said that 800 bags of 50 kg imported parboiled rice, valued at N20.4 million, had also been impounded by the compliance team.
A breakdown of the seizures and the public destruction included 2,480 cartons of frozen poultry products, 665 cartons of pharmaceutical products, which included 490 cartons of Tramadol and 165 cartons of Really Extra.
The National Coordinator of the compliance team said that the NCS would not relent in its fight against the smuggling of contraband, in spite of the smugglers’ innovative tricks.
Azarema said that the seizures were a pointer to the resilience and commitment of officers of the Federal Operations Unit in Benin.
He advised members of the public to desist from buying banned poultry products, stressing that only such would discourage smugglers from continuing in the act.
Azarema, however, said that at the coming of the yuletide, a machinery had been put in place to ensure that banned poultry products did not find their way into the markets.
He said the NCS officers had been fully trained and ready to combat whatever devices smugglers might adopt to perpetrate their crimes.
The state NAFDAC coordinator, Mrs Esther Itua, who received the banned pharmaceutical products, commended the NCS for its efforts at ensuring that the country was rid of substandard and harmful products.
The NCS Zone `C’ Command is comprised of 10 states: Edo, Delta, Imo, Cross River and Bayelsa.
Others are: Akwa-Ibom, Abia, Ebonyi , Enugu and Anambra. 
(LR News)
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The Inspector General of Police (I-G), Ibrahim  Idris, has directed the immediate arrest of politicians or group either inciting or making financial inducement to influence the outcome of Saturday’s Anambra governorship elections.
The I-G handed down the directive on Wednesday in Abuja while addressing officers and men of the Force Headquarters.
He, therefore, ordered all police officers to wear their conventional police attires, displaying their name tags for easy identification and  warned against any acts inimical to the success of the election.
The number one cop advised them to do their best by avoiding issues capable of tarnishing the image and reputation of the police both during and after the elections.
” You must avoid extortion of money  from either politicians or the electorate; any act that will infringe on the Electoral Act and the peaceful conduct of this election will not be tolerated.
” You must do your utmost best to protect the electorate, INEC officials and the election materials ,” he said.
He urged them to refrain from all corrupt practices and work toward the success of the election.(NAN)
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(dpa/LR News) A powerful earthquake struck the South Korean city of Pohang on Wednesday, with local media reporting that resulting tremors were felt hundreds of kilometres away in Seoul.
“The 5.4-magnitude quake struck at 2:29 p.m. (0529 GMT) north of Pohang,” the Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA) said on its website.
The KMA also reported other earthquakes in short succession in Pohang afterward.
“So far, there have been no reports of casualties or damage to the nuclear power plants south of Pohang,” the Korea Times reported, citing local utilities.
It noted that the quake was felt across South Korea, including the capital and on the southern island of Jeju, with reports that the buildings were shaking and picture frames falling off walls.
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President Muhammadu Buhari has on Tuesday called for calm, peace and respect for the constitution in Zimbabwe.
In  a statement signed by Mr Femi Adesina, Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, he urged all political and military stakeholders in Zimbabwe to avoid any action that may plunge the country into unnecessary conflict and impact negatively on the region.
“Every attempt must be made to resolve all contentious issues by constitutional means in Zimbabwe to save the country from avoidable political instability.”  he said
It will be recalled that Zimbabwe’s military took over control of the country but the army generals said they have not staged a coup yet and that President Robert Mugabe is safe.
According to reports, the generals used state television on Tuesday night to vow to target “criminals” close to Mugabe.
Presently, the Zimbabwean army had cordoned off the Presidential seat of power and Parliament Building in the capital while helicopters circled the city centre, after the military announced it had taken over control of all government institutions.
The Zimbabwe Republic Police was not visible in the streets as soldiers controlled traffic movement while unconfirmed reports say a number of cabinet ministers and some top ruling Zanu-PF officials have been arrested.
Meanwhile, the ruling ZANU-PF party on Tuesday accused army chief General Constantino Chiwenga of “treasonable conduct” after he criticised Mugabe for sacking vice president Emmerson Mnangagwa.
Mnangagwa’s dismissal left Mugabe’s wife Grace, 52, in prime position to succeed her husband as the next president — a succession strongly opposed by senior ranks in the military.

(LR News)
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President Jacob Zuma

(Reuters/LR News) President Jacob Zuma of South Africa expressed hope on Wednesday that there would not be unconstitutional changes of government in Zimbabwe after the military seized power in Harare.
Zuma also called for the Zimbabwean government and army to resolve their differences amicably.
He said the Southern African Development Community, on whose behalf Zuma was speaking, was ready to help resolve the impasse in Zimbabwe.
Zimbabwe’s military seized power early on Wednesday targeting “criminals” around President Robert Mugabe but gave assurances on national television that the 93-year-old leader and his family were “safe and sound”.

Soldiers and armoured vehicles blocked roads to the main government offices, parliament and the courts in central Harare, while taxis ferried commuters to work nearby, a Reuters witness said.
“We are only targeting criminals around him (Mugabe) who are committing crimes that are causing social and economic suffering in the country in order to bring them to justice,” Zimbabwe Maj.-Gen.l SB Moyo, Chief of Staff Logistics, said on television.
“As soon as we have accomplished our mission, we expect that the situation will return to normalcy.”
Neither Mugabe nor his wife Grace, who has been vying to succeed her husband as president, have been seen or heard from.
Zimbabwe’s opposition Movement for Democratic Change called for a peaceful return to constitutional democracy.
The opposition said it hoped the military intervention would lead to the “establishment of a stable, democratic and progressive nation state”.
The leader of Zimbabwe’s influential liberation war veterans called for South Africa, southern Africa and the West to re-engage Zimbabwe, whose economic decline over the past two decades has been a drag on the southern African region.
“This is a correction of a state that was careening off the cliff,” Chris Mutsvangwa told Reuters.
“It’s the end of a very painful and sad chapter in the history of a young nation, in which a dictator, as he became old, surrendered his court to a gang of thieves around his wife.”
Mugabe, the self-styled ‘Grand Old Man’ of African politics, has led Zimbabwe for the last 37 years.
In contrast to his elevated status on the continent, Mugabe is reviled in the West as a despot whose disastrous handling of the economy and willingness to resort to violence to maintain power destroyed one of Africa’s most promising states.
Soldiers deployed across the Zimbabwe capital Harare on Tuesday and seized the state broadcaster after Mugabe’s ruling ZANU-PF party accused the head of the military of treason, prompting frenzied speculation of a coup.
Just 24 hours after military chief Gen. Constantino Chiwenga threatened to intervene to end a purge of his allies in Mugabe’s ZANU-PF, a Reuters reporter saw armoured personnel carriers on main roads around the capital.
Aggressive soldiers told passing cars to keep moving through the darkness.
“Don’t try anything funny. Just go,” one barked at Reuters on Harare Drive.
Two hours later, soldiers overran the headquarters of the ZBC, Zimbabwe’s state broadcaster and a principal
Mugabe mouthpiece, and ordered staff to leave.
Several ZBC workers were manhandled, two members of staff and a human rights activist said.
Shortly afterwards, three explosions rocked the center of the southern African nation’s capital, Reuters witnesses said.
The United States and Britain advised their citizens in Harare to stay indoors because of “political uncertainty.”
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No fewer than 12,000 young Nigerians are in prisons or stranded in different parts of North African country, Libya.
The National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons (NCRMI) has confirmed and said that 3,887 have been deported since February this year.
Eight days after 149 Nigerians voluntarily returned from Libya, another batch of 258 were received in Lagos on Tuesday night.
They were deported from the North African country where they had been stranded enroute Europe.

The returnees were brought back aboard a Libyan Airlines aircraft with Registration Number 5A-LAU.
The Airbus 330-200 aircraft touched down at the Cargo Wing of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos at about 8.45pm on Tuesday.
The returnees, who were assisted back to Nigeria by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), comprised of 238 female adults, seven teenage girls and one infant, while the male were seven adults, two teenage boys and three baby boys.
No fewer than 149 Nigerians had on Nov. 6 returned from Libya.
The NCRMI South-West Zonal Director, Mrs Magret Ukegbu, said the whole of the deportees were received from Feb. 1 to Nov. 6.
Ukegbu said that the commission had been working with the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) and other relevant organisations in receiving the deportees.
“These young Nigerians, mostly girls from age 14, were received in different weeks during the period.
“We have found out that the IOM, European Union (EU), Dutch and Swiss governments are involved in the deportation of these Nigerians from Libya,’’ she said.
She said that some of the young people returned with pregnancy.
According to her, there are more than 12,000 young Nigerians in prisons or stranded in different parts of Libya.
Ukegbu expressed worry at the situation.
She said that the commission was working to ensure durable integration of the deportees into the Nigerian society.
“The commission believes that it is not enough to receive these young Nigerians; it is important that they are urgently given the needed mentoring, training and rehabilitation.
“My federal commissioner is really working at ensuring that durable solutions are sustained,’’ she said.
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Zimbabwe’s military has taken over control of the country but the army generals said they have not staged  a coup yet and that President Robert Mugabe is safe.
According to reports, the generals used state television on Tuesday night to vow to target “criminals” close to Mugabe.
Mugabe’s decades-long grip on power was dramatically weakened as military vehicles blocked roads outside the parliament in Harare and senior soldiers delivered a late-night television address to the nation.
“We wish to assure the nation that his excellency the president… and his family are safe and sound and their security is guaranteed,” Major General Sibusiso Moyo said, slowly reading out a statement.
“We are only targeting criminals around him who are committing crimes… As soon as we have accomplished our mission we expect that the situation will return to normalcy.”
Moyo said “this is not a military takeover of government”.
But the generals’ actions posed a major challenge to the ageing Mugabe, 93, who has ruled Zimbabwe since independence from Britain in 1980.
Tensions between the veteran leader and the military, which has long helped prop up his authoritarian rule, have erupted in public in recent days.
The ruling ZANU-PF party on Tuesday accused army chief General Constantino Chiwenga of “treasonable conduct” after he criticised Mugabe for sacking vice president Emmerson Mnangagwa.
Mnangagwa’s dismissal left Mugabe’s wife Grace, 52, in prime position to succeed her husband as the next president — a succession strongly opposed by senior ranks in the military.
As the situation deteriorated overnight, prolonged gunfire was heard near Mugabe’s private residence.
The US embassy warned its citizens in the country to “shelter in place” due to “ongoing political uncertainty”.
Armoured vehicles in the capital alarmed residents as Chiwenga had warned of possible military intervention. The army’s spokesman was not available to comment.
“The government’s silence on the military deployments seem to confirm that President Mugabe has lost control of the situation,” Robert Besseling, of the London-based EXX Africa risk consultancy, said.
“Any coup would be likely to involve the imposition of a curfew.
“The main indicator of a broader outbreak of violence would be the reaction of the Presidential Guard, which remains loyal to President Mugabe.”
Mugabe is the world’s oldest head of state, but his poor health has fuelled a bitter succession battle as potential replacements jockey for position.
In speeches this year, Mugabe has often slurred his words, mumbled and paused for long periods.
His lengthy rule has been marked by brutal repression of dissent, mass emigration, vote-rigging and economic collapse since land reforms in 2000.
The main opposition MDC party called for civilian rule to be protected.
“No one wants to see a coup… If the army takes over that will be undesirable. It will bring democracy to a halt,” shadow defence minister Gift Chimanikire, told AFP on Tuesday.
Speculation has been rife in Harare that Mugabe could seek to remove Chiwenga, who is seen as an ally of ousted Mnangagwa.
Mnangagwa, 75, was widely viewed as Mugabe’s most loyal lieutenant, having worked alongside him for decades.
Earlier this year the country was gripped by a bizarre spat between Grace and Mnangagwa that included an alleged ice-cream poisoning incident that laid bare the pair’s rivalry.
Grace Mugabe — 41 years younger than her husband — has become increasingly active in public life in what many say was a process to help her eventually take the top job.
She was granted diplomatic immunity in South Africa in August after she allegedly assaulted a model at an expensive Johannesburg hotel where the couple’s two sons were staying.
As the economy collapsed, Zimbabwe was engulfed by hyperinflation and was forced to abandon its own currency in 2009 in favour of the US dollar.
The country, which has an unemployment rate of over 90 percent, is due to hold elections next year with Mugabe pledging to stand for office again.
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