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London - Chelsea's new striker
Diego Costa, a 32 million
pound ($54.87 million) signing
from Atletico Madrid at the
start of the month, has
completed his transfer and signed a five-year deal, the
Premier League club said on
Tuesday. "I am very happy to sign for
Chelsea. Everybody knows it is
a big club in a very
competitive league, and I am
very excited to get started in
England with a fantastic coach and team mates," Costa, 25,
was quoted as saying on the
club's website
(www.chelseafc.com). "I know the high quality of the
squad I am joining. "I would like to thank
everybody at Atletico who
made me into the player I am.
It was an incredible time for
me, but now I am starting a
new adventure and I hope to win many trophies with
Chelsea." Powerful and direct, the
Brazilian-born striker built a
strong reputation in Spain as a
fine finisher, scoring 64 goals
in 134 appearances for
Atletico, and helping them to the Spanish title last season
and the Champions League
final. http://m.news24.com/nigeria/Sport/Football/Striker-Costa-signs-five-year-deal-at-Chelsea-20140715

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wetin carry u enta here?

englishmart: that doesn't mean you should spell forecast erroneously.

correct me na.

i dönt count on cortana.i count on myself cous muller is gonna lift d cup

una still dey bbm? Nawao

youngdoctor: As a doctor..i can tel yu ds FG is schizophrenic...we ve made a mistake electing ds bastards.
Ok,wat do dey expct frm d debate...we call of d strike?IMPOSSICANT..dey re jst making us feel more special and needed..
1).poly guys on strike
2).college of edu.guys on strike.
3).no intrvention into O.A.U's mata.
4).Chibok girls ve bn frgotten.
5)football has bn banned.
6).me nd ma colleagues and seniors on strike.
7)total blackout here in akure.
Nd yu cal ds a government...i laff in physics....F*ckd up pipu..shioor

as learned as u are,must you use insultive words to air your opinion? I guess even if you are selected as one of the debating candidates,you are going to speak provocatively instead of deplomaticly.or have u been infected with naiiraland virus?

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Obugi ihenine na tö nwanyi uto na ato ya amú. translate: Not everything that sweeten a woman makes her laugh!

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The Council, PREMIUM TIMES learnt, may take a decision to either appoint a new Inspector General of Police… ————————————— ——————– The National Council of States
meeting, chaired by President
Goodluck Jonathan, is currently
in session at the Presidential
Villa. The meeting, the second in 2014, is being attended by all former Nigerian leaders except a former presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari. The former Nigerian leaders present at the meeting are Olusegun Obasanjo, Shehu Shagari, Yakubu Gowon, Ibrahim Babangida, Ernest Shonekan, and Abdusalami Abubakar. The Council of State, which is the highest advisory body to the serving president, consists of the Vice President, former heads of states, governors of the 36 states including the Abuja minister, former and present the Chief Justices of the Federation, the Senate President, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and the Inspector General of Police. The Council, PREMIUM TIMES learnt, may take a decision on a new Inspector General of Police to replace Mohammed Abubakar, the outgoing police boss. Mr. Abubakar is due to retire at the end of this month after serving for 35 years. Details later…http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/164567-buhari-absent-obasanjo-ibb-present-as-council-of-state-meets.html

The Council, PREMIUM TIMES learnt, may take a decision to either appoint a new Inspector General of Police… ————————————— ——————– The National Council of States
meeting, chaired by President
Goodluck Jonathan, is currently
in session at the Presidential
Villa. The meeting, the second in 2014, is being attended by all former Nigerian leaders except a former presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari. The former Nigerian leaders present at the meeting are Olusegun Obasanjo, Shehu Shagari, Yakubu Gowon, Ibrahim Babangida, Ernest Shonekan, and Abdusalami Abubakar. The Council of State, which is the highest advisory body to the serving president, consists of the Vice President, former heads of states, governors of the 36 states including the Abuja minister, former and present the Chief Justices of the Federation, the Senate President, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and the Inspector General of Police. The Council, PREMIUM TIMES learnt, may take a decision on a new Inspector General of Police to replace Mohammed Abubakar, the outgoing police boss. Mr. Abubakar is due to retire at the end of this month after serving for 35 years. Details later…http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/164567-buhari-absent-obasanjo-ibb-present-as-council-of-state-meets.html

Baghdad - Self-proclaimed
caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
made an unprecedented
appearance in the Iraqi city of
Mosul, which his forces helped
capture last month, and ordered Muslims to obey him,
according to a video posted
online.
That marks a significant
change for the shadowy
jihadist, whose ISIL group led a lightning offensive that
overran swathes of five
provinces north and west of
Baghdad.
The onslaught has alarmed
world leaders, displaced hundreds of thousands and
piled pressure on Prime
Minister Nuri al-Maliki as he
seeks a third term in office
following April elections.
The video posted on Saturday showed a portly man clad in a
long black robe and turban
with a long greying beard
addressing worshippers at
weekly prayers at Al-Nur
mosque in central Mosul. "I am the wali [leader] who
presides over you, though I am
not the best of you. So if you
see that I am right, assist me,"
said the man, purportedly
Baghdadi. "If you see that I am wrong,
advise me and put me on the
right track, and obey me as
long as I obey God." Pan-Islamic 'caliphate' Text superimposed on the
video identified the man as
"Caliph Ibrahim", the name
Baghdadi took when the
group on 29 June declared a
"caliphate", a pan-Islamic state last seen in Ottoman times, in
which the leader is both
political and religious.
The video is the first ever
official appearance by
Baghdadi, said Aymenn al- Tamimi, an expert on Islamist
movements, though the
jihadist leader may have
appeared in a 2008 video
under a different name.
Baghdadi is believed to have been born in the Iraqi city of
Samarra in 1971, and joined
the insurgency against the US
military following the 2003
invasion that ousted dictator
Saddam Hussein. He spent time in a US military
prison and eventually took
over leadership of a group,
then affiliated with al-Qaeda
and known as the Islamic
State of Iraq, in 2010. At the time, the group was
believed to be on the ropes,
but Baghdadi led it back to
prominence.
Last year, the organisation
expanded into Syria, becoming a major player in the war to
oust President Bashar Assad.
Baghdadi subsequently cut all
ties to al-Qaeda, and his
influence now rivals that of
that group's global chief, Ayman al-Zawahiri.
Influential Sunni Muslim
scholar Yusef Al-Qaradawi,
meanwhile, warned that the
establishment of a caliphate
by "a group known for its atrocities and radical views
does not serve the Islamic
project".
The title of caliph can only be
"given by the entire Muslim
nation", not by a single group, the cleric added.
ISIL is known for its brutality,
executing and crucifying
opponents, and photographs
emerged on Saturday showing
its militants demolishing Sunni and Shi’ite mosques and
shrines in Mosul and
surrounding Nineveh province.
Iraqi security forces wilted
when faced with the initial
ISIL-led onslaught, and while they have since performed
more capably, they have
struggled to retake territory
from insurgents.
An assault on Saddam's
hometown of Tikrit has gone on for more than a week
without retaking the city,
while a suicide car bomb killed
15 people on Friday near the
sensitive shrine city of
Samarra. The group, formerly called the
Islamic State of Iraq and the
Levant, renamed itself simply
the Islamic State last week.
Iraq has reached out for
international assistance and Washington has sent military
advisers, but Baghdad's
request for American air
strikes against the militants
has been rebuffed.
Tehran has also pledged assistance, and state media
reported on Saturday that an
Iranian pilot was killed in Iraq,
without providing details on
whether he died while flying
sorties or fighting on the ground.
Maliki's security spokesperson,
meanwhile, told AFP Saturday
that ground forces commander
Ali Ghaidan and federal police
chief Mohsen al-Kaabi have both been sacked, the most
senior officers to be dismissed
since the militant offensive
began. Government formation deadlock The crisis has polarised Iraq's
Shi’ite Arab, Sunni Arab and
Kurdish communities, just as
their leaders look to form a
new government following
April elections. Maliki, labelled at home and
abroad as authoritarian and
sectarian, insisted on Friday
that he would not give up on
his quest for a third term. He
pointed to his strong electoral mandate, in which his bloc
won nearly three times more
seats than its closest
challenger.
His remarks came after a
farcical parliamentary session in which Iraq's various
factions - many of which
strongly oppose him staying -
failed to unite and choose a
speaker.
That sparked criticism from abroad and from the country's
top Shi’ite religious leader.
Further highlighting Iraqi
disunity, the leader of the
country's autonomous Kurds
has called on their lawmakers to work towards holding a
referendum on independence.
The Kurds' long-held dream of
statehood has been advanced
by the latest crisis, with their
forces having moved in to take control of disputed territory
they want to incorporate over
Baghdad's strong objections.http://m.news24.com/nigeria/World/News/Jihadist-caliph-demands-obedience-from-Muslims-20140706-2

source. http://m.news24.com/nigeria/National/News/Taraba-crisis-50-000-displaced-20140706