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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he is tapping former Justice Department official Christopher Wray to serve as his new FBI director, on the eve of critical testimony by his ousted predecessor. Wray, a partner at King & Spalding law firm in Washington and Atlanta, served as assistant attorney general in charge of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division from 2003 to 2005, working closely with the FBI. “I will be nominating Christopher A. Wray, a man of impeccable credentials, to be the new Director of the FBI. Details to follow,” Trump wrote on Twitter. At King & Spalding, the Yale Law School graduate chairs a unit representing entities and individuals in white collar criminal and regulatory enforcement issues, civil litigation and internal corporate investigations, according to the law firm’s website. At the Justice Department, he helped handle corporate fraud scandals, served on the president George W. Bush’s Corporate Fraud Task Forc...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J The family planning clinics installed by the Nigerian Urban Reproductive Health Initiative (NURHI) in selected Primary Healthcare Clinics (PHCs) in Lagos State are yielding the desired benefits, the users say. To assist Lagos State residents to attain quality life, NURHI in 2016 began a 72-hour renovation and equipping of family planning clinics in 50 selected public health facilities in the state. A tour of the facilities by an NGO, Development Communications (DEVCOMS) with the media showed that the residents in the areas that have the facilities had begun to reap the benefits through safe childbirth. Dr Edun Omasanjuwa, Lagos State Team Leader of NURHI, told NAN on Wednesday in Lagos that NURHI embarked on the project because of the connection between family planning and quality of life. He defined Family Planning as “childbirth spacing and having the number of children one can cater for, which is of immense value to maternal health, the economy, sexuality a...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he is tapping former Justice Department official Christopher Wray to serve as his new FBI director, on the eve of critical testimony by his ousted predecessor. Wray, a partner at King & Spalding law firm in Washington and Atlanta, served as assistant attorney general in charge of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division from 2003 to 2005, working closely with the FBI. “I will be nominating Christopher A. Wray, a man of impeccable credentials, to be the new Director of the FBI. Details to follow,” Trump wrote on Twitter. At King & Spalding, the Yale Law School graduate chairs a unit representing entities and individuals in white collar criminal and regulatory enforcement issues, civil litigation and internal corporate investigations, according to the law firm’s website. At the Justice Department, he helped handle corporate fraud scandals, served on the president George W. Bush’s Corporate Fraud Task Forc...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J The family planning clinics installed by the Nigerian Urban Reproductive Health Initiative (NURHI) in selected Primary Healthcare Clinics (PHCs) in Lagos State are yielding the desired benefits, the users say. To assist Lagos State residents to attain quality life, NURHI in 2016 began a 72-hour renovation and equipping of family planning clinics in 50 selected public health facilities in the state. A tour of the facilities by an NGO, Development Communications (DEVCOMS) with the media showed that the residents in the areas that have the facilities had begun to reap the benefits through safe childbirth. Dr Edun Omasanjuwa, Lagos State Team Leader of NURHI, told NAN on Wednesday in Lagos that NURHI embarked on the project because of the connection between family planning and quality of life. He defined Family Planning as “childbirth spacing and having the number of children one can cater for, which is of immense value to maternal health, the economy, sexuality a...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Henry Umoru ABUJA-CHAIRMAN, Senate Committee on Finance, Senator John Enoh, Cross River Central on Tuesday told the Senate that he has dumped his party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP for the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC. With Senator Enoh’s defection, the number of PDP Senators has now reduced to 41 while that of APC has risen to 66. Reacting to the announcement, Senate deputy Minority leader, Senator Emmanuel Bwacha who described the movement as a recurring tradition and a political tourism, said that Enoh and others who are joining the APC, would return to the PDP when the party resolved its problems and return to government. It would be recalled that Senator Andy Uba, Anambra South, had in February this year dumped the PDP for the APC. Also recall that Senator Uba’s defection came barely a month and two days after Senator Nelson Asuquo Effiong, Akwa Ibom South January 19, dumped the PDP for the APC. Senator Joshua Dariye, PDP, Plateau Cent...

http://ift.tt/2qSw4Yx Handbags are pictured through a window of a Coach store in Pasadena, California (photo Reuters) Handbag maker Coach Inc (COH.N) said it would buy Kate Spade & Co (KATE.N) for 2.4 billion dollars as it looks tap the smaller rival’s popularity among millennials. The 18.50 dollar per share cash offer represents a premium of nine per cent to Kate Spade’s Friday close. Kate Spade’s stock was trading above the offer price at 18.95 dollar premarket on Monday. The stock has risen 17 per cent since Dec. 27, a day before the Wall Street Journal reported the company was looking to sell itself. The deal is expected to close in the third quarter of 2017 and add to adjusted earnings in fiscal 2018, Coach said. Reuters reported in April, citing sources, that Kate Spade would need a few more weeks negotiating a sale of the company after receiving an offer from Coach. Coach expects to have a run rate of about $50 million in savings within three years of the clos...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Osogbo – The Osun Police Command has said that a suspected explosive device in a car stereo, chopped-off four fingers of an Osogbo resident, who attempted to dismantle the stereo from a damaged car. A statement issued by Mrs Folashade Odoro, the command’s Public Relations Officer, said the incident happened on Sunday, at about 3.30 p.m, at Ajegunle Area in Osogbo. The statement was made available to newsmen on Tuesday in Osogbo. “Information was received at the Police division, Dugbe, Osogbo that one Nasiru Ibrahim got four fingers on his right arm chopped-off while dismantling a damaged car stereo in front of his house. “Police Explosive Ordnance Disposal experts were quickly deployed to the scene to examine the scene and recover the remains of the car stereo for further examination. “The circumstances surrounding the incident are yet to be determined. “An investigating team comprising of EOD, SIB, SCIID and police medical personnel has been set up to unrav...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Ilorin – Prof. Abdulganiyu Ambali, the Vice–Chancellor(V-C), University of Ilorin (Unilorin), on Tuesday gave herdsmen encroaching on the institution’s land a seven-day ultimatum to quit. The Vice-Chancellor gave the ultimatum at a meeting he held with the representatives of the herdsmen and other stakeholders on the campus. He said that their presence there was a violation of the laws governing the university. “Your activities are affecting our research works. Plants grown for research works are being destroyed, slowing down the pace of research work. “We must ensure we do not hinder and frustrate each other, as we are members of the same society,” Ambali said. Ambali said that the meeting was called because the institution believed in dialogue and peaceful resolution of conflicts. “People are building permanent structures on our land. When we went round, we counted about 16 structures. “We want to use these plots for the purpose for which the university w...

http://ift.tt/2pn6Gw1 A woman prepares to cast her ballot to vote for the Italian Democratic Party (PD) primaries on April 30, 2017 at Piazza de Popolo in Rome. Italians vote today for the Democratic Party leadership between candidates Michele Emiliano, Governor of Puglia, Justice Minister Andrea Orlando and Former Prime Minister Matteo Renzi. Renzi is seeking to be re-elected PD leader with a fresh mandate after stepping down as premier in December when his flagship Constitutional reform was rejected in a referendum. / AFP PHOTO / Vincenzo PINTO Former Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi has bounced back to the forefront of national politics with a resounding primary election win to regain leadership of the ruling Democratic Party (PD). Renzi won 70.01 percent of votes in a internal party ballot of 1.85 million people, according to final tallies Monday. This represented an emphatic victory for the 42-year-old, although turnout was well down on the 2.8 million who voted in his su...

http://ift.tt/2pOTmSP The state Chairman of the NLC, Mr Titus Abana, gave the advice during the 2017 Workers’ Day Celebration in Maiduguri with the theme, “Labour Relation in Economic Recession”, an Appraisal.’’ The Borno chapter of the Nigeria Labour Congress(NLC), on Monday urged Borno Government to channel its bailout and Paris club refund loan to offset workers’ outstanding salaries, leave grants and pensions. The state Chairman of the NLC, Mr Titus Abana, gave the advice during the 2017 Workers’ Day Celebration in Maiduguri with the theme, “Labour Relation in Economic Recession”, an Appraisal.’’ He also called on the state government to urgently release substantial amount of money to clear the backlog of workers’ demands. “The state labour movement has watched with keen interest the release and utilisation of the bailout funds and Paris club refunds. “The Federal Government has directed specifically that the refund should be used in offsetting workers’ outstanding sal...