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The Game of Thrones star was spotted wearing a morning suit as he entered the Rayne Church in Aberdeenshire ahead of his wedding on Saturday.
The father of the bride, Sebastian Leslie, said he was "thrilled" for his daughter as she prepared to wed Mr Harington.
The couple, who played on-screen lovers in the epic TV drama, are tying-the-knot at Leslie's 12th Century family castle in Scotland.

Fans of Game Of Thrones have been gathering outside Wardhill Castle in Aberdeenshire hoping to catch a glimpse of the couple.


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Congo has confirmed a case of Ebola in Mbandaka, a city of 1.2 million, marking the first urban case in the latest outbreak, which is now the most serious since the epidemic that raged across West Africa between 2014 and 2016.

Ebola is much harder to contain in urban areas, so this development compounds the risk of contagion. The World Health Organization’s lead response official called the new confirmed case “a game changer.”

Read full story at: http://www.thengtimes.com/2018/06/congo-confirms-first-urban-ebola-case.html?m=1

Barely a week after search for arms operation at Kuriga village by security operatives, armed bandits have stormed the village along Birnin-Gwari-Kaduna road and killed five people while 12 others sustained bullet wound.

A member of Birnin-Gwari Vanguards for Security and Good Governance said that victims of the attack included women and children.

Meanwhile in an official statement by the group after the attack, it said that “The armed bandits had a field day from 2.05pm today, when the Muslim Juma’at congregation is halfway to conclude, shooting sporadically at the worshippers as well as house to house operations unchallenged.
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A Non-Governmental Organisation, NGO, Network on Police Reforms in Nigeria, (NOPRIN) has expressed fear over the safety of two suspects, Adikwu and Kayode, who were arrested over the bloody April 5 2018 Offa robbery but were not paraded alongside other suspects by the police.

At a press conference addressed by its National Coordinator, Okechukwu Nwanguma last Wednesday in Lagos, the organisation therefore called on the police to produce the suspects alive in order to have their day in court, to corroborate or rebut the police narrative that it was the Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki who provided the weapons which were used during the robbery operation

Read full story at http://www.thengtimes.com/2018/06/offa-robbery-if-youve-not-killed-adikwu.html?m=1

Chelsea are haggling to get a discount on Antonio Conte’s pay-off because they feel the Italian cost the club millions of pounds with his treatment of Diego Costa.

The Blues have lined up Maurizio Sarri, Napoli's coach for the past three seasons, to take over on a two-year contract.

But the unhappiness with Conte at Stamford Bridge – allied with a new financial reality at the Roman Abramovich-owned club — has seen them reluctant to pay up £9million for his contract’s final year.

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For allegedly threatening his neighbour’s life, a 36-year-old man, Emeka Chukwu, was on Friday brought before an Epe Magistrates’ Court in Lagos State.

He was, however, released on bail in the sum of N50, 000.
Mrs O.A. Fowowe-Erusiafe, who gave the ruling, also granted him one surety after he pleaded not guilty
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Lagos – The Nigeria Communication Commission (NCC) is looking to release a new price for data,

Prof. Umar Danbatta, the Executive Vice Chairman of NCC, has said.
Danbatta was inducted along with 11 others at the investiture of Prof. Fola Lasisi as the 10th President of the academy.

He said that the commission had completed a new framework that would give telecommunication companies

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The state’s Commissioner of Police, Mr Austin Iwar, disclosed this in a statement signed by the Public Relations’ Officer (PRO) Mr Muhktar Aliyu in Kaduna,
Aliyu also confirmed the killing of a police officer during the attack.
He said the command had deployed men from its intelligence unit to trail the leaders and coordinators of the attack.


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The Plateau State Police Command on Thursday confirmed the killing of four persons by suspected Fulani herdsmen in Kai village of Barkin Ladi LGA of the state.

The spokesman of the command, ASP Mathias Terna Tyopev, confirmed the killings to journalists in Jos.

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The Ondo State Command of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) says it has quizzed five of its officers accused of invading some private hostels of students of the Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko (AAUA)

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Three days to the national convention of the All Progressives Congress (APC), a chairmanship aspirant, Osereimhen Osunbor, has withdrawn from the race.
Mr Osunbor, a former Edo State governor, in a statement made available to PREMIUM TIMES on Wednesday, said this was done out of respect for President Muhammadu Buhari

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Three people have been confirmed dead after piles of plywood fell off a truck on the Ojuelegba Bridge, Lagos State, on Tuesday .

It was learnt that officials of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency rounded off rescue operations around 4 am on Wednesday.

See some of the photographs of the accident

Link: http://www.thengtimes.com/2018/06/photos-scene-of-ojuelegba-truck-accident.html?m=1

The embattled executive secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), Usman Yusuf, has once again been linked to a fresh fund controversy after he allegedly invested N25billion 'idle funds of the NHIS against the minister of health's advice.
Yusuf, who was suspended by the Minister of Health, Isaac Adewole, in July 2017, following allegations of gross misconduct and reinstated by President Muhammadu Buhari in February 2018, is neck deep in fresh trouble, Premium Times reports.

In August, 2017, the minister had gave approval to the acting executive secretary of the NHIS, Attahiru Ibrahim, to invest “idle funds” of the agency in federal government securities.

However, 11 days later, the minister wrote again to the acting executive secretary to reverse his approval, stating that the minister of finance, Kemi Adeosun, has advised against such investment.

The later letter appeared to have put closure on the idea to invest the NHIS “idle funds”, until Yusuf regained his office in February.

Documents revealed that shortly after his reinstatement, he engaged one of the certified investment firms, Cowry Asset Management Limited, as financial adviser and directed it to proceed with the investment, relying on the original letter of the minister conveying approval but ignoring the other letter withdrawing the approval.

He directed that N25billion be invested in five tranches of five billion Naira each and to mature in 2034.

This, according to sources in the NHIS, was also in defiance of advice of officers at the agency, some of whom later decided to frustrate the process pending the inauguration of the governing board.

Following the council’s resolution, Mr Yusuf on May 3 wrote Cowry Asset Management Limited to inform it that the council stated clearly that “there should be no payment of any commission to a third party” for the investment.

He, however, stated: “The Scheme will therefore engage Cowry Asset Management Ltd in a similar way it did its Forensic Auditors and retained Lawyer with initial engagement fee and any subsequent payments of fees presented for work done by your Company will be subject to the approval of the Tenders Board.”

After the approval, aghast insiders at NHIS made the council aware of the advice of the minister against the investment when the idea was initially muted in 2017.

Irked that the executive secretary had only presented to it the initial letter of the minister conveying his approval, it directed that no further action be taken on the investment.

The council also issued Yusuf a query for misleading it to give approval for a course of action that is against the policy directive of government.

According to the query issued by the Chairman of the Governing Council, Mrs Ifenne, the council noted that its provisional approval was for “Management to initiate due process and submit a proposal to enable Council seek authorisation by the Honourable Minister of Health.”

Ifenne’s letter continued: “As it stands, Council attention has been drawn to new information which you failed to disclose in your earlier presentation.”

The council said Yusuf withheld from it a letter from the minister which expressly stated that the Minister of Finance advised against investing NHIS funds in securities.

It also accused the executive secretary of engaging the financial adviser without stating the terms and conditions of engagement.

Other charges are that Yusuf approved “wholesale” the proposal of the firm he engaged as financial adviser on the eve of the inauguration of the council, and directed a general manager of the scheme to expedite disbursement of N25 billion for long-term investment without obtaining prior approval of the minister of health as required under the NHIS Act.

He was also accused of engaging the investment advise on “vague and elastic terms”, and instructing an official to process the firm’s engagement without further reference to council for approval.

The Super Eagles held a crisis meeting behind under -fire Nigeria coach Gernot Rohr on Monday night as they try to turn things around their precarious position at the Russia 2018 World Cup ahead of their next fixture against Iceland on Friday .Nigeria are in grave danger of an early World Cup exit after opening their campaign in the tournament with a 2- 0 defeat to Croatia in Kaliningrad on Saturday . The three- time African champions must win the clash at Volgograd Arena to keep alive their hopes of advancing to the second round of the championship .

A below - par Croat side fired by La Liga stars Lukas Modric and Ivan Rakitc ran out winners after an analogue Nigerian team failed to deal with dead ball situations.

New Stoke City midfielder Oghenekaro Etebo, who was the shining light in the hapless Rohr’ s side , inadvertently directed the ball into his own net, while William Troost- Ekong gave away a needless penalty converted by the Man- of - Match Real Madrid midfielder Modric .

Our correspondent learnt that the players were not happy with Rohr ’s team approach to the encounter in which China - based forward Odion Ighalo was isolated, Chelsea wing - back Victor Moses rendered a mediocrity showing and young Arsenal attacker Alex Iwobi was anonymous until he was substituted .

Camp sources told our correspondent on Tuesday that the seething players allegedly held a meeting where they resolved to give their all against the fearless Nordic side who made Argentina superstar Lionel Messi look ordinary in their 1 - 1 draw at the Spartak Stadium in Moscow on Saturday .

“The players reviewed their performances in the match against Croatia and resolved to hold talks with the coach before the game,” the source said .

The source also claimed that captain Mikel Obi has come under pressure from his colleagues to persuade Rohr to feature players in their natural positions and also to play two strikers upfront.

Meanwhile , Israel - based John Ogucould land a starting role with Leicester City midfielder Wilfred Ndidi dropping to the bench.

Ndidi, whose fitness has a question mark , emerged as one of the flops against Croatia, a tie in which Etebo was a revelation .

It was also learnt that Rohr wants players who can match the combative and athletic Iceland side , with players of an average 1 .90m in height.

It was also learnt that the former Gabon manager could retain striker Odion Ighalo in his line - up and hand Ahmed Musa a starting role as he seeks to break down Iceland ’s

Source: http://www.thengtimes.com/2018/06/2018-world-cup-super-eagles-hold-crisis.html?m=1

Diamondwriter:
It's not. Those ones are showing a wrestling match.
It ought to be on sselect 1 but mine is blocked

he's right..match on ss3n .channel 223...

opeyemicollins:
What i will advise you to do is to make your self also relevant so that you can be among BMC if that is paining you.i can understand vividly that the money paying you is not enough or may be you should change your direction.

Apc don loot ur sense? Common sense is not common oo.

The author of this post na first class idiot.infact na alkamo.. Tony nwulu of pdp deserves all the praise cos he was d one dat propose d bill.

SirBunky85:
are u sure of wat u just wrote?

question?

Roman abramovic got israel citizenship so as to have easy access to UK..d rule states that israel citizen can enter UK without Visa..simple logic..

Smart move.. Uk will b devastated now...Israel citizens can enter UK without visa.... A clear path To Uk for abramovich..now he will enter UK as an israelite and not as a russian..COMMON SENSE..