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New reports by an international aid organisation, Mercy Corps, have revealed how Boko Haram insurgents use informal micro credit schemes and promises of safety to recruit hundreds of youths and pupils as fighters.

The beneficiaries, the reports funded by the Ford Foundation added, received amounts ranging from N10,000 to N1m in order to buy motorcycles, restock their trading stores and grow their small-scale businesses.

The reports, presented on Thursday in Lagos, also highlighted how repression from the military and access to interest-free finance, among others, had perpetuated terrorism and elicited sympathy from communities in the North.

However, the Lead Researcher and Global Director, Conflict Management for Mercy Corps, Rebecca Wolfe, said many of the locals did not know that
the credits were from the insurgents.
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Action movie star Jackie Chan is due to receive an honorary Oscar, the Academy said Thursday, to recognize a glittering career that has seen him become a cultural icon.

The 62-year-old martial artist, known for his comic timing and acrobatic fighting style, has appeared in more than 150 movies since becoming a child actor in his native Hong Kong in the 1960s.

Film editor Anne Coates, casting director Lynn Stalmaster and documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman will also be awarded Oscar statuettes at the Academy’s 8th Annual Governors Awards in November.

“The honorary award was created
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window just closed, the Spanish champions confirmed on Thursday.

“We needed to provide more youth to the squad, and young players of quality to keep providing results on the field,” Barca’s director of professional sports Albert Soler told a press conference.

The Catalan club spent more money than any other Spanish club over the summer, bringing in six new faces altogether.

French international defenders Samuel Umtiti, 22, and Lucas Digne, 23, were signed from Lyon and Paris Saint-Germain respectively, while Portugal midfielder Andre Gomes, 23, joined from Valencia for an initial 35 million euros.
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Wednesday interrogated a former Minister of Works and current Pro-Chancellor of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Ogun State, Senator Adeseye Ogunlewe.

It was learnt that Ogunlewe was invited to the Ibadan office of the EFCC sequel to a petition written to the EFCC by a group known as Concerned Stakeholders of FUNAAB in which Ogunlewe and the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Olusola Oyewole, and other members of the university’s governing council were accused of mismanaging N250m.

According to sources at the university, Oyewole and Ogunlewe allegedly spent N250m for allowances in four years thereby plunging the university into financial crisis.

The anti-graft agency said in a Facebook post that Ogunlewe was still being interrogated as of 4pm on Wednesday.
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Students from various schools trying to catch a glimpse of the annular solar eclipse at National Space Research and Development Agency during the 2016 Annular Solar Eclipse in Abuja …. on Thursday.
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MTN Nigeria on Thursday announced Nkem Owoh, popularly known as Osuofia, and nine other artistes as its 2016/2017 brand ambassadors.

The firm’s General Manager of Consumer Marketing, Mr Richard Iweanoge, listed the other nine as Saka, (Hafiz Oyetoro); Nedu (Steve Onu); Adamu Zango Praiz (Praise Adejo); Iyanya (Iyanya Mbuk); Chidinma (Chidinma Ekile); Falz (Folarin Falana); Tekno Miles (Augustine Kelechi) and Skales (Raoul Njeng-Njeng).

Iweanoge said this was in line with the company’s commitment to support Nigerian musicians by providing alternative platforms for them to receive lucrative value for their intellectual property.

It was also designed to continue to support the development of the entertainment industry,he said.
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President Muhammadu Buhari has said that he and members of his cabinet are aware of the pains Nigerians are going through.

The President, who said ‘change’ was aimed at restoring the nation on the path of integrity and prosperity said this in Osogbo on Thursday at the inauguration of the Osogbo Government High School built by the administration of Governor Rauf Aregbesola.

The President urged Nigerians to be patient and persevere while promising that pains would soon give way to development.

He said his administration was working hard to avoid the mistakes of the last administration in tackling insecurity and corruption and to revamp the economy which was badly affected by the drop in the price of oil.
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Samir Nasri, another City outcast, has joined Spanish side Sevilla, hours after Joe Hart completed his loan move to Torino.

The French midfielder had been deemed surplus to requirement by new coach Pep Guardiola.

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