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he Obong of Calabar, Ekpo Abasi-Otu V, has called on the Cross River Police Command to arrest any masquerade found along the streets of Calabar begging for money.

Abasi-Otu made the call on Thursday in Calabar during the formation of Eminent People’s Forum organised by the Commissioner of Police, Mr Jimoh Ozi-Obeh.

The Obong, who was represented by Etubom Bassey Duke, the Chairman of Etubom’s Traditional Rulers Council in the palace, said the call became necessary following series of negative complaints about some masquerades.

He said that the palace of the Obong had received several petitions that some people were hiding under the guise of `masquerade’ to extort money from innocent residents of the state.

“The palace of the Obong of Calabar has received several petitions about the wicked act of some masquerades in Calabar.

“Some of these people hide under the guise of masquerades to extort money from people. They also carry out heinous crimes while pretending to be spirits.

“We don’t permit masquerades to go about in the street begging for money unless it is a very big cultural event.

“I am calling on the police to arrest any masquerade found begging for money along the streets of Calabar,’’ he said...Read more http://www.aproko9ja.com/2016/09/08/arrest-masquerade-begging-money-obong-calabar-tells-police/

A doctor said on Thursday that a Vietnamese man is recovering from a penis reattachment operation after the husband of his mistress allegedly sliced off his Instruments.

Dr Nguyen Van-Dong of Bac Giang General Hospital said in Hanoi that the patient’s condition is stable, but it will take some days to learn if the function returns to the victim’s genitals.

He added that adding it took half a day to reattach the penis.

A media report stated that the suspect, 29-year-old Nguyen Van-Huan from Bac Giang Province, began stalking his wife after he suspected that she was having an affair.

It said that he allegedly caught her with an unnamed 32-year-old man at a hotel where he allegedly chopped off the man’s penis...Read further



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After losing N22,000 to sports betting, a man identified only as who is in his mid 30s, has hanged himself in his room along Abak road in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom state capital.

According to a report by DailyTrust, Uchenna who was a perpetual sports gambler with Naija Bet, took the said sum he lost from his boss in the hope that he would replace it when he wins.

His roommate, Ifiok, said the deceased had been lamenting after losing the money and got himself into a terrible state of mind.

“I went out to buy something from Plaza (the city center) and on getting back I found that everywhere was locked. I knew Uchenna hasn’t gone out and I wondered what must have made him to lock up himself.

"I tried to open the door for several minutes without success until I had to force it open. I then found him hanging from the ceiling fan in our room and his eyes had popped out," Ifiok said.

Speaking to a correspondent, the neighbour of the victim, Uto Udobia, decried the high rate of sports betting which has become prevalent among the youths and even elders.

She called on government and other regulatory agencies to check the sports betting activities, stressing that it is pure gambling and it is already fuelling crime among the youths and also derailing their career...Read more http://www.aproko9ja.com/2016/09/08/suicide-mission-man-hanged-n22000-loss-sports-betting-uyo/

President Francois Hollande said on Thursday he would not letFrance's image deteriorate "over the coming months or coming years", his clearest indication yet that he intends to run for a second term in office next year.

In an hour-long speech on "democracy and terrorism", Hollande, a Socialist, took a swipe at his right-wing opponents, saying their hardline reactions to a wave of militant attacks demonstrated an intent to destroy France's social model.

"I won't let the image of France, the influence of France, deteriorate over the coming months or coming years," said Hollande, who opinion polls show is the most unpopular French leader of modern times.

Hollande has come under attack from right-wing opponents, in particular former president Nicolas Sarkozy, over his track record on security. More than 230 people have been killed in militant Islamist attacks on French soil since January 2015.

Sarkozy, who announced last month his candidacy for the April 2017 presidential poll, has said France needs to be "merciless" in its response to the attacks and that there is no place for "legal niceties" in the fight against terrorism.

Without mentioning Sarkozy by name, Hollande said: "Constitutional principles are not legal niceties."

"Is the freedom to come and go a legal nicety? Is freedom of expression a legal nicety? Is freedom to worship a legal nicety? Is being presumed innocent - something that's useful when defending one's self - a legal nicety?" Hollande said at the left-wing Jean Jaures Foundation, drawing warm applause.

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Hollande, who defeated Sarkozy in the 2012 presidential race, was speaking on Thursday amid lingering security fears and this summer's debacle over a burkini ban, a saga which encapsulated secular France's difficulties responding to the threat posed by homegrown jihadists and foreign militants.

Worryingly for Hollande, an opinion poll published by Elabe on Wednesday showed almost nine in 10 voters did not want the president to seek a second five-year term.

Further underlining the uphill battle Hollande would face in winning re-election, respondents were damning in their assessment of his performance on the two key themes set to dominate the campaign: security and the economy.

More than two thirds of respondents held a negative view of...Read more http://www.aproko9ja.com/2016/09/08/france-president-gives-clearest-hint-quest-second-term/

Brazilian researchers have begun test trial of a vaccine against cocaine addiction on animals.

Prof. Angelo de’Fatima, of the Organic Chemistry department at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), said on Thursday in Rio de Janeiro that the vaccine has been under development for more than two years.

"We are developing a molecule to stimulate the production of antibodies by the immune system against cocaine.

"These antibodies bind to the cocaine, preventing it from reaching the brain and reducing the drug's euphoric effects, which is what will lead users to lose interest in its use,’’ she said.

De’Fatima said similar research is being done in the United States, but with what could be a decisive difference.

She, however, said that the Brazilian molecule is different from the American one, as theirs doesn't have the protein part.

De’ Fatima disclosed that Brazil team's molecule has yet to be patented.

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), has observed that the cocaine use in Brazil is four times higher than the world average..http://www.aproko9ja.com/2016/09/08/vaccine-cocaine-addiction-starts-test-trials-animals/