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http://ift.tt/2ryQidd Director of Veterinary and Pest Control Services, Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development raised the alert at a meeting with state Commissioners of Agriculture in Abuja on Friday. The Federal Government on Friday alerted the public to the outbreak of Avian Influenza or Birdflu in the FCT and seven states of the country. Dr Gideon Mshelbwala, the Director of Veterinary and Pest Control Services, Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development raised the alert at a meeting with state Commissioners of Agriculture in Abuja on Friday. Mshelbwala listed the states affected by the outbreak to include Bauchi, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Nasarawa, Plateau, FCT and lastly Kaduna, which reported a case in May 30. He said that the disease had spread across 26 states of the federation and the FCT since it started in 2008 affecting 800 farms in no fewer than 123 local government areas. Mshelbwala, who said that there were no scientifically proven vac...

http://ift.tt/2ro9niu Former Real Madrid's Montenegrin football player Predrag Mijatovic looks on during an AFP interview in the grandstand of the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid, on May 29, 2017. As Real Madrid and Juventus prepare to lock horns once more in a Champions League final, memories of their first final meeting 19 years ago come flooding back for one of Madrid's unlikely heroes Pedrag Mijatovic. Mijatovic scored "the most beautiful and important" goal of his career and one of the most vital in Madrid's history as Real shrugged off the unusual tag of underdogs to beat a fearsome Juventus side 1-0 in Amsterdam in the 1998 final. / AFP PHOTO / PIERRE-PHILIPPE MARCOU As Real Madrid and Juventus prepare to lock horns once more in a Champions League final, memories of their first final meeting 19 years ago come flooding back for one of Madrid’s unlikely heroes Pedrag Mijatovic. Mijatovic scored “the most beautiful and important” goal of his career an...

http://ift.tt/2rfsDPc Manchester United midfielder at Islam's holiest site in Saudi. PHOTO: INSTAGRAM/PAUL POGBA The world’s most expensive footballer Paul Pogba has posted pictures of himself at the holiest site of Islam, days after helping Manchester United to victory in the Europa League final. He also issued greetings for the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan, which began on Saturday. On Instagram, the Frenchman posted a photo of himself standing in front of the Kaaba, a black cube towards which Muslims turn for their five daily prayers. “Most beautiful thing I’ve seen in my life,” wrote Pogba, shown wearing the white cloth of Muslims performing umrah, the lesser pilgrimage which is popular during Ramadan. “Ramadan Kareem bon Ramadan #makkah #blessed”, Pogba, 24, wrote on his Twitter account where he posted a selfie of himself in front of the throng surrounding the Kaaba. Ramadan Kareem Bon Ramadan #makkah #blessed A post shared by Paul Labile Pogba (@paulpogba...

http://ift.tt/2oYv3ga Trading floor of NSE, Lagos Some financial experts on Monday called on the Federal Government to introduce tax incentives that would aid listing of blue chips on Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE). They told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos, while assessing the administration’s second anniversary, that the incentives should be considered to deepen the market. Prof. Sheriffdeen Tella , professor of economics, Olabisi Onabanjo University Ago-Iwoye, Ogun, said that introduction of tax incentives would make blue chip companies such as telecommunication firms to enlist on the exchange. Tella said that the stock market had lost ground in the last two years and needed to be resuscitated through good policies to boost investor confidence. “With respect to development in the capital market, particularly the stock market, the market has lost ground in the last two years. “However, this has been the case since the world depression of the 2007/2008 when lots...

http://ift.tt/2qWGWp4 German Chancellor Angela Merkel / AFP PHOTO / TOBIAS SCHWARZ Europe “must take its fate into its own hands” faced with a western alliance divided by Brexit and Donald Trump’s presidency, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Sunday. “The times in which we could completely depend on others are on the way out. I’ve experienced that in the last few days,” Merkel told a crowd at an election rally in Munich, southern Germany. “We Europeans truly have to take our fate into our own hands,” she added. While Germany and Europe would strive to remain on good terms with America and Britain, “we have to fight for our own destiny,” Merkel went on. Special emphasis was needed on warm relations between Berlin and newly-elected French President Emmanuel Macron, she said. The chancellor had just returned from a G7 summit which wound up Saturday without a deal between the US and the other six major advanced nations on upholding the 2015 Paris climate accords. Merkel o...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Nollywood star Mercy Aigbe is in London for medical check up. She announced on her Instagram page that she is in UK to see her “Oral and Maxilloficial Surgeon”. //storify.com/Adekunle2/mercy-aigbe-in-in-london-for-medical-check-up/embed?border=false //storify.com/Adekunle2/mercy-aigbe-in-in-london-for-medical-check-up.js?border=false [ View the story “Mercy Aigbe in in London for medical check up” on Storify ] She did not indicate the ailment, but her post suggests that it is still about the domestic abuse she suffered in the hands of her estranged husband, Lanre Gentry. Mercy says: “No woman should go through these much pain, anguish and trauma all in the name of marriage.” Until she surfaced in London, she was expected at the Ogba Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday, where Lanre is facing trial for assaulting her. While Lanre and his relations came, Mercy Aigbe was absent. Chief Magistrate Court Folakemi Davies-Abegunde had fixed Wednesday for Gentry to show c...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J The Senate, Thursday, broke the 17 years jinx by passing into law the age long Petroleum Industry Governance Bill. Senate President, Bukola Saraki while commenting on the bill said “this is a Bill # PIGB that has been here for many years, we made a commitment and it’s being fulfilled.” Continuing, Saraki said, “this Bill is not only for Nigerians but for our investors. We are proud of what has been done.” The PIG bill was read the third time at the Senate’s plenary before it was passed.   The post Breaking: Senate passes PIB into law appeared first on Vanguard News . Vía Vanguard News http://ift.tt/2rl2sXQ

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Sokoto State Government said it had deleted 13, 415 ghost names from the payrolls of the 23 local councils of the state. Newsmen reports that the Commissioner for Local Governments and Community Development, Alhaji Mannir Dan-Iya made the disclosure in Sokoto on Thursday. The commissioner, who briefed newsmen on the activities of the ministry in the last two years, said the ghost names were deleted after two verification exercises of workers were conducted in 2016 and 2017. He said: ”After the two exercises, 12,915 junior staff, comprising of sit-at-home and ghost workers were flushed out from the payrolls. ” Similarly, senior staff verification exercise was conducted, whereby 500 staff, comprising of those due for retirement, dead and ghost workers were removed from the payrolls.” Dan-Iya further stated that the government had centralized the payment of the salaries of local government workers, to enhance accountability. He added that payments were now mad...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J An Ebute Meta Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos on Thursday ordered the remand of Daniel Johnson, 28, after he pleaded guilty of sucking the sexual organ of an underage boy. The Chief Magistrate, Mr A.T. Elias, ordered the remand of the accused standing trial on a charge of indecent assault and adjourned the case until May 31for a review of facts and sentencing. Earlier, the prosecutor, Sgt. Kehinde Omisakin, had told the court that the accused committed the offence on May 21 at about 10.00 a.m., at No. 83, Coker Road, Orile Iganmu in Lagos State She told the court that Daniel was caught sucking the sexual organ of an 11-year-old boy. The offence, Omisakin said, contravened Section 135(1) and (2) of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015. The post Court remands man allegedly caught sucking underage boy’s sexual organ appeared first on Vanguard News . Vía Vanguard News http://ift.tt/2qSMPWl

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J The Police Command in Lagos State on Thursday said investigation had commenced to fish out hoodlums that allegedly stoned an official of the state’s Kick Against Indiscipline (KAI) Brigade to death. The Command’s Spokesperson, ASP Olarinde Famous-Cole, said that investigation had started immediately and perpetrators would be brought to book to serve as deterrent to others. “Investigation had commenced on the case and the command would not relent until the perpetrators were arrested,” he said. An official of the Lagos State KAI Brigade was reportedly lynched by street hawkers at Iyana-Oworo area of Lagos on Tuesday. The victim, Moshood Ayeni, was said to have been lynched when he apprehended a trader who was hawking in traffic. Other hawkers then mobilised and attacked the vehicle of the KAI Brigade. Spokesperson of the brigade, Alabi Rahmat, said the law enforcement environmental sanitation officials were on their way back to office when they saw the traders...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Repentant Boko Haram Arabic teacher Ibrahim Suleiman has described the group’s practices in Sambisa Forest as barbaric and unislamic. Suleiman revealed this in an interview with the Newsmen  in Maiduguri on Wednesday. Suleiman willingly surrendered to the military after escaping from Sambisa Forest along with his three children. Narrating his experiences, he said he was forced to join the group following an unsuccessful mission to rescue his children aged between four and 10, who had been enlisted by his elder brother. According to him, they were with the insurgents for six years. “My brother was a member of Boko Haram and has been with the group for a very long time. “When they were dislodged by the army in Maiduguri, he ran down to me in Kano and stayed with me for about one year. As at then, I never knew what he was up to. “I was teaching Arabic students in Kano and at the same time doing small-scale business. “Unfortunately my business crumbled and...

http://ift.tt/2poohEJ Nigerian Stock Exchange Stanbic IBTC Holdings Plc has emerged the best performing stock in percentage terms on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) in Aril, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports. Data obtained by NAN from the exchange for the period showed that the stock increased by 48.98 per cent to close at N26.25 per share in contrast with the month’s opening price of N17.62. Mr Ambrose Omordion, the Chief Operating Officer, InvestData Ltd, attributed the stock’s growth to impressive 2016 full year result for the financial year ended Dec. 31, declared by the bank during the period. Omordion said that investors embraced the stock in spite of low dividend payout, adding that improved 2017 first quarter earnings contributed to the rally. NAN reports that Air Service came second with a growth of 40.32 per cent, having closed at N4.35 against N3.10 achieved in March, C &I Leasing improved by 36 per cent to close at 66k per share against the openin...

http://ift.tt/2qdp1gA Another 33 people were injured, Sarr said, explaining that the minibus was "packed" with passengers up to "the luggage rack", some of whom were on their way to a wedding. At least 21 people, mostly women, were killed in a head-on crash between a truck and a minibus packed with passengers in Guinea, police said on Sunday. The deadly crash took place on Saturday just north of the capital Conakry, with the minibus crushed by a truck which was carrying sand, authorities and AFP correspondents at the scene said. “The toll from the deadly accident on Saturday near Dubreka is at least 21 dead, including 12 women,” said road police official Babacar Sarr, referring to a town some 50 kilometres (30 miles) north of the capital. Another 33 people were injured, Sarr said, explaining that the minibus was “packed” with passengers up to “the luggage rack”, some of whom were on their way to a wedding. The minibus driver “made a dangerous passing” on the...