addiction to mobile phone from early age could lead to poor academic performance, skiving of class, sleep disturbances and mental problems in more serious cases, a medical doctor in Kano State, Dr Tijjani Haruna, has said.
Haruna, who is working with the Mohammed Abdullahi Wase Specialist Hospital, Kano, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kano on Sunday that the trend could make users prone to obesity, lack of concentration and other diseases.
He said that schools and the family have an important role to play in checking the ugly trend by preventing children from using mobile phones from childhood, before they become addicted to it.
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Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, one of the numerous presidential aspirants of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has taken his campaign to another aspirant, Sen. Ahmad Makarki.
Abubakar was Nigeria’s former Vice President on the platform of PDP from 1999-2007 and Makarfi, a former governor of Kaduna state was also the immediate past National Chairman of PDP.
Abubakar, on Saturday visited Makarfi, at his residence in Kaduna to seek blessings of the PDP chieftain ahead of the party’s presidential primary for the 2019 general elections.
Atiku said the visit was aimed at seeking the support of Makarfi, who is also a presidential aspirant, as the party struggles to wrest power from the All Progressives Congress (APC).
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September 09, 2018

Hundreds of trucks carrying thousands of troops lined a Pyongyang riverbank in the pale light of dawn early Sunday, as nuclear-armed North Korea prepared to celebrate its birthday with a huge show of military strength.
Sunday is the 70th anniversary of the 1948 foundation of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, as the North is officially known, three years after Moscow and Washington divided the peninsula between them in the closing days of the Second World War.
Such set-piece dates are a mainstay of the North’s political calendar, particularly when round numbers are involved, and have traditionally been occasions for showing off its latest hardware.
“Anniversaries are important in the DPRK, and this one is particularly so,” said Evans Revere of the Brookings Institution think-tank in Washington.
“These celebrations are also occasions for the leader to demonstrate accomplishments and national power, and to take credit for them.”
The displays — overseen by leader Kim Jong Un, the third member of his family to rule the country — are crucial to Korea-watchers, who observe them closely for clues about its latest advances.
First, companies of soldiers goose-step through Kim Il Sung Square, then the material becomes steadily more intimidating, with
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Mr Alex Nwegbu, Director-General, Nigerian Geological Survey Agency (NGSA) has assured the general public not to panic over the earth tremor experienced in Mpape district of Abuja.



According to him, the monitoring involves reflecting seismic and gravity measurement.

Nwegbu said that the agency dispatched a team of geologists and geophysicists, immediately it received the news of a disturbing ground shaking, experienced by the inhabitants of Mapape.

“From the interview we conducted with people and the reconnaissance survey carried out, we found out that the vibration started around 2.30p.m on Sept. 5 which lasted about a second but reoccurred three hours later around 5.30p.m.

“The vibration was again felt around 8.00p.m which lasted for 10 seconds,’’ he said.

The Director-General said the survey carried out also showed that there were no cracks on the buildings or on the ground.

He advised that once people notice such earth tremor, they should move out of the house and monitor the progress.

Nwegbu, however, advocated increased funding to enable the agency properly carry out its mandate.

According to Nwegbu, earthquakes tend to be concentrated in particular zones which coincide with the boundaries of the tectonic plates into which the earth is divided.

The Director-General said that it was erroneous to think that countries or zones not contiguous with plate boundaries were aseismic.

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The news that is trending on the internet as the minister of health
In South Africa Aaron motsoaledi who spoke on the negatives effect on having doggy style during sex. The minister who said after much research it was discovered the doggy style during sex have many negatives effect that surrounded it, among them it cause cancer and stroke.
He found out that the high blood pumping out during sex is standing or kneeling overheads the veins in the leg which
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A Reuters investigation published on August 15 documented how Facebook was failing in its efforts to combat vitriolic Burmese language posts about Myanmar's Rohingya Muslims. Some 700,000 Rohingya have fled Myanmar over the past year amid a military crackdown and ethnic violence. In late August, United Nations investigators said Facebook had been "a useful instrument for those seeking to spread hate" against the Muslim minority group.

The Reuters article also showed that the translation feature was flawed. It cited an anti-Rohingya post that said in Burmese, "Kill all the kalars that you see in Myanmar; none of them should be left alive." Kalar is a pejorative for the Rohingya. Facebook had translated the post into English as "I shouldn’t have a rainbow in Myanmar."
A spokeswoman for Facebook said the Burmese translation feature was "switched off" on August 28. She said the Reuters article and feedback from users "prompted us to do this."

"We are working on ways to improve the quality of the translations and until then, we have switched off this feature in Myanmar," the spokeswoman wrote in an email.

Facebook has had other problems interpreting Burmese, Myanmar's main local language. In April, the California-based social-media company posted a Burmese translation of its internal "Community Standards" enforcement guidelines.

Many of the passages were botched. A sentence that in English stated "we take our role in keeping abuse off our service seriously" was translated into Burmese as "we take our role seriously by abusing our services."

The Reuters investigation found more than 1,000 examples of hate speech on Facebook, including calling the Rohingya and
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Amazon.com Inc on Tuesday joined Apple Inc in the $1 trillion club, becoming the second member of the group after its stock price doubled in 15 months.
If the online retailer's share price continues at its recent pace, it will be a matter of when, not if, Amazon's market valuation eclipses that of iPhone maker Apple, which reached $1 trillion on Aug. 2.
Apple took almost 38 years as a public company to achieve the trillion dollar milestone, while Amazon got there in 21 years. While Apple's iPhone and other devices remain popular and its revenues are growing, it is not keeping up with Amazon's blistering sales growth.
Amazon has impressed investors by successfully diversifying its business into virtually every corner of the retail industry, altering how consumers buy products and putting major pressure on many brick-and-mortar stores.
It also provides video streaming services and bought upscale supermarket Whole Foods. And its cloud computing services for companies have become a major driver of earnings and revenue.
"Amazon's a little bit more dynamic than Apple because the iPhone has become more mature. Amazon's cloud business is an extra growth driver that Apple doesn't have," said Daniel Morgan, portfolio manager at Synovus Trust in Atlanta, Georgia who describes Amazon's cloud services as its "crown jewel."
In the second quarter the unit accounted for 55 percent of Amazon's operating income and
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Chinese attitude to Indebtedness is the HARDEST in the world. I know, because one had to deal with it in the course of my work @ the World Bank, helping African countries to get the HIPC Debt Cancellation.

It ANNOYS ME TO NO END to see our countries BINGING on Chinese Loans.
Most annoying of this latest round of RISING SCALE of Public Debt by countries of the continent is that the politicians are behaving EXACTLY like the ones who PILED UP DEBTS in the 80s & 90s.
“Just sign up for plenty Loans...forget about imperatives of Debt Sustainability.” KAI!!
The Chinese KNOW EXACTLY what they are doing. If you read their Loan Agreements with African countries, you will see how TIGHT they cover their exposure. Meanwhile, our own Leaders go there to naively, gleefully and with huge dose of inferiority complex, sign on to BAD DEALS.
Our Teams put so much effort into helping countries which received significant Debt Reductions under HIPC to build up Debt Management capacities.
The idea was to help avoid a REPEAT of the DEBT ALBATROSS of the 80s, 90s and early 2000s. Alas, the REPEAT is on @ a LARGE SCALE.
For the massive Investment that our continent needs for even basics like Infrastructure (some $93B annually from one of the studies by our
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Serious crisis is brewing in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kano, as the state chapter has rejected in totality the purported dissolution of the state executive committee by the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party.

Mr Sarki Labaran, a chieftain of the party declared the stand of party stakeholders while addressing hundreds of supporters who converged on the state Headquarters of the party on Monday in Kano.

News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Labaran spoke on behalf of the executive committee members of the party who were also present at occasion.

He said it was unfortunate that the PDP National Working Committee took the decision despite the court order retraining it from taking the action.

“The Peoples Democratic Party in Kano state has rejected the dissolution of the state executive committee as the action was a complete violation of the court order which was issued on Aug. 28.

He wondered why the National Working Committee of the party took the decision knowing fully well that the state party leaders were elected to serve a four year tenure.

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President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday Aug. 26 declared open the 2018 Annual General Conference of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), at the International Conference Centre Abuja, to kick-start his presidential villa activities for the week.
In his remarks the President said: “The rule of law must be subjected to the supremacy of the nation’s security and national interest. The law can only be optimally practiced in a Nigeria that is safe, secure and prosperous.”
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo was also busy in faraway Minnesota, United States of America, on Sunday Aug. 26, where he attended a town hall meeting with Nigerians in the diaspora, during his two-day visit to the US.
In his remarks, Prof. Osinbajo spoke against calls for geographical restructuring, noting that proper utilization of resources and good governance was what Nigeria required to achieve its development aspirations.

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo holds Town Hall Meeting with U.S. based Nigerians in Minnesota, U.S.
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo holds Town Hall Meeting with U.S. based Nigerians in Minnesota, U.S.

According to the Vice President, “the problem with our country is not a matter of restructuring and we must not allow ourselves to be drawn into the argument that our problems stem from some geographical restructuring.
“It is about managing resources properly and providing for the people properly, that is what it is all about.”
On Monday, August 27, the President received the outgoing Denmark Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr Torben Gettermann, at the State House, Abuja.
The President in his remarks noted that an initiative on dairy farming, being championed by Denmark and Kaduna State government, would curb clashes between cattle herders and farmers.

President Buhari receives the outgoing Denmark Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr Torben Gettermann, at the State House, Abuja
President Buhari receives the outgoing Denmark Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr Torben Gettermann, at the State House, Abuja

According to a statement by the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, the President noted that the establishment of
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No fewer than three soldiers were among the seven people on Sunday killed in a suicide car bomb in Mogadishu, Somali.

The Mogadishu Regional Administration spokesman, Mr Salah Omar Hassan, said the dead also two children and two adult civilian pedestrians.

“We shall let the media know about the final casualty levels, but this is what we have so far identified,” Mr Hassan said, adding that 14 other people were wounded in the incident.

The car packed with explosives exploded at the Howlwadag, one of the 17 districts of Mogadishu.

It exploded after it hit the perimeter wall of the compound, located in a residential area.

Most impact was absorbed by a Quran school and a nearby mosque next to the district administrative centre.

“Courageous army officers guarding the district headquarter confronted the attacking car-bomb, preventing it from entering the compound,” added the regional spokesman.

The casualty figures were expected to rise, considering that many houses close to the target compound were severely damaged in the densely populated area.

Soon after the blast,
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The tiny Gulf kingdom of Bahrain finished joint-top of the Asian Games athletics table with 12 golds — but not everyone is rushing to congratulate them.

That is because not a single track win at Asia’s regional Olympics would have been achieved without “naturalised” athletes who were born in Africa.

Bahrain’s policy of scouting and offering nationality to talented foreign athletes — which is entirely legal — has stoked controversy for years, but the results have been particularly stark at this Games in Indonesia.

All 10 individual athletics gold won by Bahrain were earned by runners born on the African continent — Nigeria, Ethiopia, Kenya and Morocco.

Of the two gold-winning relays teams, all but two athletes were also of African origin.

For the athletes themselves, the appeal of switching allegiance is obvious — financial security is key, but tales of poor treatment or lack of opportunities in their countries of birth are commonplace.

“Bahrain was good pay, a good treatment,” explained 1,500m and 5,000m gold winner Kalkidan Befkadu, 27, who says she moved to the Gulf nation six years ago.

“There’s so many strong athletes in Ethiopia so it’s a challenge to compete, so that’s also why I changed.”

“Yes I’m pleased with my decision,” she told AFP with a beaming smile, minutes after winning her second gold of the meet.

But for
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MTN Nigeria on Thursday refuted the claims by the Central Bank of Nigeria that it illegally, in collusion with four Nigerian banks repatriated $8.1billion from its Nigerian operations to offshore investors.

The CBN said the remittances between 2007 and 2015, in tranches of of 2.63 billion dollars, 1.766 billion dollars and 348 million dollars were done in flagrant violation of the rule that says it can only be done with regular ‘Certificates of Capital Importation (CCIs)’ issued by the apex bank.

The CBN said MTN did the repatriation after illegally converting shareholders’ loan of $399, 594,146 to preference shares. As part of the sanctions, four banks, Stanbic IBTC Nigeria, Citibank Nigeria and Diamond Bank Plc,were fined by the CBN.

Standard Chartered Bank would pay a fine of N2.47 billion, Stanbic IBTC, N1.88 billion, Citibank Nigeria, N1.26 billion and Diamond bank, N250 million.

Mr Funso Aina, Public Relations Manager, Corporate Affairs/Corporate Relations MTN denied the claims by the CBN

“MTN Nigeria received a letter on Aug 29 from Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) alleging that Certificate of Capital Important (CCIs) issued in respect of the conversion of shareholders’ loans in MTN Nigeria to preference shares in 2007 had been improperly issued.

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Project-2019 (P2019), a civil society organisation on Thursday said that President Muhammadu Buhari ‘s statement on national interest and the rule of law is legal and constitutional.

Mr Wale Ogunade, Convener of the group told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos, that President Buhari ‘s statement was a restatement of the provisions of the laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

According to him, the President’s statement takes its foundation from the fact that, the rule of law can only exist when the national interest and security is secured in a state of peace and tranquility. Otherwise, it is a farce.

President Buhari while flagging off the 2018 Annual General Conference of the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) in Abuja on Sunday, asserted the supremacy of national security and interest over and above the rule of law, quoting a judgment of the Supreme Court.

He said: “Rule of law must be subject to the supremacy of the nation’s security and national interest.

“Our apex court has had cause to adopt a position on this issue in this regard and it is now a matter of judicial recognition that; where national security and public interest are threatened or there is a likelihood of being threatened, the individual rights of those allegedly responsible must take second place in favour of the greater good of the society”.

Ogunade said that fundamental rights of citizens are not absolute as there could be limitations.

”As active stakeholders in the political development of the country, it becomes imperative to examine the statement dispassionately and objectively for the collective good.

”While it is a recognised fact that the rights of citizens are fundamental according to the constitution and international treaties of which Nigeria is a signatory, it’s also a fact that such rights are not absolute on their own, but with limitations.

”For example, the right to free speech is limited by the aftermath of libel or slander by whoever has been defamed.

”Also, the fundamental right of a citizen to free movement can be limited in the public interest or national security, if his or her actions constitute a threat to societal order through the provocative act of assaulting public sensibilities. For example, exercising the right to movement naked.

‘‘Again, the right of an individual or group to practice his/their religion is not an absolute right to permit the infringement on the rights of other citizens through making the public space inaccessible to them in the discharge of one’s religious rights. This is tantamount to a threat to public or national interest.

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Nigerians has maintain that the Nigeria president muhammadu buhari is lifeless and incompetent. The speech of the US president Donald Trump's who called lifeless.
Nigeria Former Senate President, Ameh Ebute Writes President Trump on noting that such statement is insult to our nation.
Nigerians who took to social media to defend the US president Trump's statement over buhari reacted to Ameh Ebute. Ameh Ebute who writes open letter to US president Trump's saying
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May I salute the 45th President of the United States of America, President Donald John Trump. Though, I know you are infatuated with perverse leadership ideologies, barren of humanism and confined to a culture imprisoned in the walls of your white skin.

But, at least, you are the political leader of America, a country truly great by all nuances. It is one nation, which unceasingly strives to make the world better and habitable for all races. So, my salutation is indirectly to America.

But I dare say, America has been unfortunate to have a President in your personality, Mr. Trump. I am aware history, has recorded your parentage as either migrants from Germany or Sweden into America’s New York City, the largest base of migrants at that point in history.

But whatever interpretation anyone gives to it, it does not obviate the immutability of your life as basically shrouded in controversies and confused history, which you seek today to trumpet in racial bigotry.

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Trump's: buhari has caused our nation international embarrassment.
The people democratic party PDP said president muhammadu buhari and his handlers have open our nation for international ridicules arising from report quoting United States president Donald Trump's, describing president of Nigeria buhari lifeless.
The party PDP said such embarrassment is a backlash a nation get when incompetent leaders out of inferiority complex resort to jumping around the world, desperately shopping for endorsement from the world leaders.the party said president buhari has been seeking international recognition that is not predicated on any archivement on his three years in office.
PDP hereby charges mr.president buhari to take cue to the statement ascribed to US president Donald Trump's by settling down at home and discharge his responsibility to Nigerians or humbly accept his failings.
While PDP has strong reservation on the reported comment by president Trump's. For which will demand response from buhari presidency the US white house.
The party PDP further holds that had our dear president buhari not cheaper the exalt of the federal republic of Nigeria by his woeful outing during his visit to United States of America. President Trump's would not had have the opportunity to access president buhari level of incompetent and make such embarrassing statement about our president.
PDP and indeed all well meaning Nigerians are now sore worry about how other world leaders have been perceiving our president who have not only failed in governance but continue remarket our nation to international community.
PDP however urge Nigerians not to be downcast by the embarrassing situation the nation has found itself.especially as 2019 general election, which comes in the next 6 months. offer the nation ample opportunity to get it right on the choice of competent leadership Nigerians can be proud of.
The press statement which was signed by the PDP national publicity secretary
Kola ologbondiyan.
The US president Trump's today gives strong reason why he called mr. President buhari lifeless.
The US president Donald Trump's said.
"If after 50 years of independence you have not built the necessary infrastructure for your people, are you humans?


"If you sit on gold, diamond, oil, manganese, uranium... and your
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By Chimezie Anaso
Ifeanyi Ubah, President of Nnewi-based FC Ifeanyi Ubah, has admitted that the club was owing its players but said that their welfare was still being taken care of.
Ubah said this during an interactive session with some youths in Awka on Tuesday.
He said indebtedness to players was common to most clubs in the country because of the inability of the League Management Company (LMC) to pay the clubs what was due to them.
The business mogul said the players were right to demand for their pay but decried social media attacks on him as if his was the only club owing.
“The players can agitate because it is their due, they deserve their pay, but the LMC is owing all football clubs in Nigeria for two years now, they have not paid a dime.
“They have been collecting rights from Television, Radio, Adverts running into billions but they have not paid anything to us.
“Governments use their clubs for politics but we are using our own to keep our youths gainfully busy.
“My players are all being taken care of irrespective of the fact that they are being owed like most clubs owe
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Bride abandons fiancé over poor wedding arrangement
A bride simply identified as Susan, has shocked her family members and friends after she cancelled her dream wedding for not being able to raise $60,000 to organise the show.
The woman’s outburst and frustration over the incident has gone viral on social media and has received a massive response after being shared on Facebook and Reddit by a woman identified as the bride’s cousin.
The Facebook post starts with, “It comes with great sadness that I am announcing the cancellation of the [censored] Wedding. I apologise for cancelling only 4 days beforehand.”
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Bride abandons fiancé over poor wedding arrangement
A bride simply identified as Susan, has shocked her family members and friends after she cancelled her dream wedding for not being able to raise $60,000 to organise the show.
The woman’s outburst and frustration over the incident has gone viral on social media and has received a massive response after being shared on Facebook and Reddit by a woman identified as the bride’s cousin.
The Facebook post starts with, “It comes with great sadness that I am announcing the cancellation of the [censored] Wedding. I apologise for cancelling only 4 days beforehand.”
The bride revealed that she and her

NOLLYWOOD ACTOR, JIM IYKE, ARRESTED FOR SLAPPING DANA AIR EMPLOYEE

Nollywood actor, Jim Iyke, was on Monday afternoon arrested at the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos, for slapping an employee of Dana Air.

It was gathered that the actor arrived late for his 12:15pm Abuja flight and the airline’s security personnel tried to help him to meet up with the flight by searching him.

According to eye witnesses, Iyke refused to be searched and pushed the man away, but the man insisted that he must
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As the presidential aspirants of the Peoples open event (PDP) secure their fortunes in the future of the organization primary, Sen. Ahmed Makarfi, has boasted he will defeat other contestants.

The primaries are expected to be apprehended in September forward of the 2019 genral elections permanent for February.

The News society of Nigeria (NAN) news that Makarfi, a past administrator of Kaduna State, and served as the Chairman, PDP nationalized concierge board and right now one of the supplementary than 12
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National tragedy averted as Tekno, Gordon, Flavor and others escape plane crash today on their way to Ghana
Gordon who took to his Instagram page asking Nigerian in joining him to thank God for saving their lives.
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Here I am, laughing at the President’s hilarious clarification of his famous 800m walk�.

It was misdirected. Why?

It was his media team that hung him, not Nigerians.

President should call his media team to a meeting. Warn them seriously to avoid talking gibberish next time.

Don’t blame your Citizens.
To those minions that expect the rest of Nigerians to join their Choir of worshippers of VACUITY and then throw tantrums on our TL when we don’t, all I can say is *Ndoo o*.

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