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A jury in Atlanta, Georgia United States has found a Nigerian guilty on federal charges related to hacking universities.

Prosecutors said in a news release Monday that 34-year-old Olayinka Olaniyi and co-defendant 29-year-old Damilola Solomon Ibiwoye ran several phishing scams targeting employees at U.S. colleges and universities, including Georgia Tech and the University of Virginia.

Prosecutors say they obtained employee logins and passwords and used them to steal payroll deposits and to file fraudulent tax returns...

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The Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company (PHED) has urged both the Federal and State Governments to pay the N10.2 billion electricity bill they owed the company.

A statement issued by PHED’s Manager of Corporate Communication, Mr John Onyi, on Monday in Port Harcourt quoted the company’s Chief Executive Officer, Mr Naveen Kapoor, as demanding the payment of the debt.

It said Kapoor made the appeal when officials of the Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (NACCIMA) visited PHED’s headquarters in Port Harcourt....

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Georginio Wijnaldum has said he was baffled by reports linking him with a move from Liverpool to Turkey earlier in the summer.

Reports in Turkey last month claimed midfielder Wijnaldum was close to moving to Fenerbahce, where he would have been reunited with his former PSV Eindhoven boss Phillip Cocu.

“That was the speculation of the media. I laughed about it,” he told reporters. “I also read that I asked the club if I could leave. I never had a conversation with the club.

“People from the outside just see Liverpool is buying players, so players who are already here are going to leave. Liverpool will always buy good players, even if they already have good players. That’s normal.....

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Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State has assured his supporters and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that the mandate which he said Ekiti people gave to his deputy, Kolapo Olusola Eleka, would be reclaimed through the Tribunal.

The governor, who insisted that the All Progressives Congress (APC) stole the people’s mandate from Eleka, urged the members of PDP and his supporters in the state to be hopeful, saying “I beileve that God will reclaim the July 14 mandate for us.”

Governor Fayose gave the assurance while meeting with aspirants for the Federal and state Houses of Assembly, at the weekend, at the Governor’s Office in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital....

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The death toll of an explosion at a weapons depot in northwestern Syria has risen to 69, mostly civilians including 17 children, a monitor said Monday as search operations continued.

Sunday’s blast of unknown origin in the town of Sarmada in Idlib province took the lives of 52 civilians, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said....

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President Muhammadu Buhari is said to be angry over last week’s sack of Lawal Daura, former Director-General, Department of State Services (DSS), by Acting President Yemi Osinbajo.

Investigations by Daily Independent in Abuja at the weekend indicated that the president and those close to him were unhappy given the manner Daura was abruptly relieved of his job by Osinbajo.

Daura was fired following last Tuesday’s early morning invasion of the National Assembly by masked security operatives which prevented lawmakers and members of staff, including the Clerk of the National Assembly, Alhaji Mohammed Sani Omolori, from accessing their offices....

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The Rivers state government has confirmed the death of its Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Honourable Emmanuel Chinwenwo Aguma.

He died on Friday at a hospital in London, a statement by the state Commissioner for Information and Communications, Emma Okah, said.

According to Okah, until his death, Aguma served with an amazing sense of responsibility, commitment, passion, competence and courage.

“At all times, even in his sick bed, his exemplary zeal to serve Rivers State never waned,” he added...

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R&B group Dru Hill is preparing a comeback and they just made a major announcement about the future of the group. According to a press release, they added two new members just in time for their upcoming sixth studio album, “The Second Coming.

They are merging with 90’s R&B group Playa, best known for their song “Cheers 2 U.” The two new members include Jawann “Smoke” Peacock and Benjamin “Black” Bush. The news comes after the 4th member of Dru Hill, Larry “Jazz” Anthony, decided to leave the group.

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The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Lagos zone, yesterday, appealed to the Oyo and Osun State Governments to find a lasting solution to the lingering crisis rocking their jointly-owned Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomosho.
LAUTECH

The union, who spoke at a press conference held at the Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta (FUNAAB), ordered a two-week “warning strike,” after which, if solutions are not found to the crisis, which according to them is hindering smooth academic work, “then, we should not be blamed for further disruption of academic activities.”

The Zonal Coordinator, Prof Olusiji Sowande, said it was high time the two state governors, Abiola Ajumobi and Rauf Aregbesola, came together to fashion out ways on how to properly fund the university, suggesting that for proper funding and management, the institution should be ceded to one of the states.....

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The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), has deplored prevailing defections by politicians from political parties ahead of 2019 general elections, saying it can affect the integrity of democracy in the country.
Chairman of the congress’ chapter in Bayelsa, Mr John Ndiomu, made the remarks in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Yenagoa, and urged politicians to play politics by the rules, especially by constitutional provisions.

Ndiomu urged them to drop the trend and focus on what would drive development for citizens.

He cautioned against repeating old mistakes of politics and said that defection would not impact in any form on national development like job creation and provision of basic amenities....

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The death toll from a devastating earthquake on the Indonesian island of Lombok jumped to 319 Thursday, as strong aftershocks triggered panic among traumatised survivors waiting for aid in the worst-hit regions.

The shallow 6.9-magnitude quake Sunday levelled tens of thousands of homes, mosques and businesses across Lombok, with relief agencies only just starting to reach survivors in some of the worst-hit areas four days later.

“Our latest update is that 319 people died,” said Indonesia’s chief security minister Wiranto, who like many Indonesians goes by one name, adding that rescue efforts were ongoing and complicated by aftershocks.....

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