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http://ift.tt/2nXp5Ay Nigeria police. PHOTO: GOOGLE Alhaji Haliru Jika, Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Police Affairs, says the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) will soon recruit an additional 35, 000 rank and file into the force. Jika, representing Ganjuwa/Darazo Federal Constituency in Bauchi State on the ticket of APC, disclosed this while answering questions from newsmen in Bauchi on Friday. “We’ve just concluded the recruitment of 10, 000 police men and women of the Nigeria police Force in the country and we will soon kick start 35,000. “The last 10,000 we did was 1,500 for officers, 1,000 for specialists – that is for mechanics, nurses and others. “And then another 7, 500 for rank and file that is the normal conventional police which is the one you are seeing here working with us. “And now these 35, 000 that we are going to start soon, is going to be strictly rank and file because this country is grossly under-policed. “It is part of our legislative agen...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Some people, suspected to be hoodlums have attacked fire service personnel while performing their lawful duty at Hayin-Buba quarters in Gusau, Zamfara. An eyewitness told newsmen on Sunday in Gusau that the event happened on Saturday. He said the fire service personnel were attacked when they went to the area, in response to a distress call, to put out a fire which gutted a house . The witness further said, as the firemen were trying to put out the fire, the hoodlums stormed the scene and disrupted their intervention with the use of force. According to the eyewitness, the hoodlums attacked the firemen to pave way for looting within the vicinity of the incident. The Commissioner for Works and Transport, Alhaji Mu’azu Nalado, who visited the injured personnel at the Yariman Bakura Specialist Hospital, Gusau on Sunday, condemned the attack, describing it as unfortunate. Nalado said the victims should have been appreciated for their efforts to save lives an...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J No fewer than 5,000 farmers in Bauchi state are expected to benefit from agricultural loan facility initiated by a Bauchi-based firm, Greenland Farmers and Business Solutions Ltd, in collaboration with Tijarah Micro-Finance Bank, Bauchi. Chairman of the firm, Alhaji Ahmed Tahir, who disclosed this to newsmen on Sunday in Bauchi, said the beneficiaries were drawn from seven local government areas of the state, namely Bauchi, Damban, Dass, Ganjuwa, Shira ,Toro and Ningi. He said the facilities, to be funded by the African Development Bank, would enable each of the 5,000 farmers to secure input worth N230, 000 to N250, 000, for the cultivation of sorghum, maize, sesame, soya beans and rice. “Under the arrangement, each farmer is to select a crop and cultivate one hectare; will be provided with seeds, fertilizer, pesticides, herbicides, as well as money for labour and transportation, covering an amount of between N230, 000 and N250, 000. “After harvest, the produc...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J As the annual Lagos State Secondary Schools Handball Championships, tagged “Opeifa Cup’’, begin on Monday, the sponsor, Kayode Opeifa, has urged individuals and corporate organisations to invest in the sport’s development. Opeifa told newsmen on Sunday in Lagos that the call became necessary for corporate bodies to partner with the Lagos State Handball Association (LSHA) to sustain the competition. Newsmen report that the maiden edition of the championships organised by the LSHA held in 2015, and the second in 2016 under the sole sponsorship of Opeifa, who is also the association’s patron. “At this point, the foundation has been laid as my little contribution to the growth of the sport and importantly, to identify with grassroots handball development in Lagos State. “I am still a part and parcel of this tournament, my commitment remains but I need to ask others to join in the sponsorship because some outstanding players from less privileged homes need sponsors...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J A theatre art practitioner, Peter Badejo, on Sunday called on the Federal Government to appoint seasoned and tested theatre administrators to manage the National Theatre so that it could boost its operations and become lively again. Badejo told newsmen that the National Theatre would be restored to its pride of place with seasoned administrators as its head. “It is not about privatizing it that will bring about efficiency. “Rather, it is through the vision, mission, national and international experiences of the calibre of those appointed by the Federal Government to handle the complex that will bring about the needed change there,’ Badejo said. NAN reports that Badejo is a recipient of Queen Elizabeth II’s Order of the British Empire (OBE) award for his promotion of African and Nigerian Dance, art and music in the United Kingdom. Badejo, one of those that participated in FESTAC 77, however, said that he was sad with what the edifice had been turned into at pr...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Rev. Soji Adeniyi of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Lokoja, has appealed to Nigerians to pray for President Muhammadu Buhari,as he traveled out of the country on health ground. ‎Adeniyi made the appeal on Sunday in Lokoja, his sermon entitled, “The need to always pray for a nation.” The cleric said there was a need for the people to always seek the face of God for their leaders and country. The Reverend, who prayed for the quick recovery of Buhari, said he would triumph over the sickness and return in good health to continue his duty to the nation. He advised people who form the habit of wishing their fellow human death to eschew such attitude, adding that it was against the scripture. Adeniyi, however, urged leaders to always have the fear of God in their actions toward the led and make it a duty to serve the people. He expressed the hope that Nigeria would soon be ranked among great nations of the world. The post Cleric calls on Nigerians to pray f...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J *** Has an Increase of N10 Billion as against N115 of last year *** Legislative Aides to spend N9,602,095,928; By Henry Umoru & Emman Ovuakporie ABUJA- THE National Assembly has made open its budget for 2017, with a total sum of N125, 000,000,000 to be spent this year. With the figure, there is an increase of N10,000,000,000 as against the N115,000,000,000 approved for National Assembly in 2016. The breakdown shows that of the N125 billion approved for the National Assembly, the Management has a vote of N14,919,065,013; the Senate has an allocation of N31,398,765,886 while the House of Representatives would spend N49,052,743,983. The breakdown further shows that the total allocation for the Legislative Aides is N9,602,095,928; National Assembly Commission gets N2,415,712,873; Public Accounts Committee, PAC for the Senate was allocated a total sum N118,970,215 while House of Representatives PAC got 142,764,258. The breakdown of the proposed N125billion w...

http://ift.tt/2oiTS9s The North has arrested and jailed several US citizens in the past decade, often releasing them only after high-profile visits by current or former US officials or former US presidents. PHOTO: Ed Jones / AFP North Korea announced on Sunday that it had detained a US citizen, the fourth American in custody there, as tensions rise between Pyongyang and Washington. The North has arrested and jailed several US citizens in the past decade, often releasing them only after high-profile visits by current or former US officials or former US presidents. These are the US citizens now being held: Kim Hak-Song Kim Hak-Song had been working for the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology (PUST) before he was arrested on Saturday, according to the official Korean Central News Agency. The university was founded by evangelical Christians from overseas and opened in 2010, and is known to have a number of American faculty members. Pupils are generally children fro...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J English Premier League table after Saturday’s early match (played, won, drawn, lost, goals for, goals against, points): Chelsea 34 26 3 5 72 29 81 Tottenham 35 23 8 4 71 23 77 Man City 35 20 9 6 70 37 69 Liverpool 35 20 9 6 71 42 69 ————————————- Man Utd 34 17 14 3 51 25 65 Arsenal 33 18 6 9 64 42 60 Everton 35 16 10 9 60 40 58 ————————————- West Brom 34 12 8 14 39 43 44 West Ham 36 11 9 16 45 59 42 Southampton 33 11 8 14 39 44 41 Bournemouth 35 11 8 16 50 63 41 Leicester 34 11 7 16 42 54 40 Stoke 35 10 10 15 37 50 40 Watford 34 11 7 16 37 55 40 Burnley 35 11 6 18 35 49 39 Crystal Palace 36 11 5 20 46 61 38 Hull 35 9 7 19 36 67 34 ————————————- Swansea 35 9 5 21 40 69 32 Middlesbrough 35 5 13 17 26 45 28 Sunderland 34 5 6 23 26 60 21 — relegated Note: top four qualify for Champions League; teams finishing fifth to seventh qualify for Europa League; bottom three relegated to Championship The post English Premier League table appeared first...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J An 85-year-old ex-Gurkha who was attempting to reclaim his title as the world’s oldest person to summit Mount Everest died at base camp on Saturday. Min Bahadur Sherchan was on a bid to reclaim a title that he lost to Japanese mountaineer Yuichiro Miura in 2013. “He passed away at the base camp today at 5:14pm,” Gyanendra Shrestha, an official with the tourism ministry who is at the 5,380 metres (17,600 feet) camp, told AFP. The former soldier became the world’s oldest climber to summit Everest in 2008 when he was 76, but he lost the record five years later when Miura summited the 8,848-metre peak at the age of 80. Speaking to AFP this year before returning to Everest, the slightly hard of hearing grandfather said he just wanted to prove to himself that he could still make it to the top of the world. “My aim is not to break anybody’s record, this is not a personal competition between individuals. I wish to break my own record,” Sherchan told AFP from Kathmand...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Gunmen mugged 129 migrants on a rubber dinghy headed for Europe and also stole the craft’s engine, abandoning them off the Libyan coast, Libya’s navy said on Saturday. Navy spokesman General Ayoub Qassem said the gunmen in a speedboat chased the dinghy on Friday, boarded it around five nautical miles off the town of Zuwara and stole the migrants’ possessions. The migrants from sub-Saharan Africa, including 27 women and two children, were stranded at sea for several hours before being rescued by Libyan coastguard alerted by a local fisherman, Qassem told AFP. The International Organization for Migration said a total of 371 migrants were rescued on Friday thanks to the intervention of fishermen in three separate incidents off Zuwara. The Libyan coastguard said on Saturday it rescued another 168 migrants whose boat had run into trouble off Tripoli but was unable to assist a second vessel with an unknown number on board around two nautical miles away. “This type ...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J At least 29 schoolchildren were killed in a bus crash in northern Tanzania on Saturday, along with two teachers and the driver, the school’s director said. “We lost 29 students and two of our staff, and the driver died too,” said Innocent Mushi, director of the Lucky Vincent Primary School in the northern city of Arusha, where the children were pupils. The dead included 12 boys and 17 girls, he said. “It’s a huge tragedy,” Mushi added. The accident happened early on Saturday when the bus went off the road and into the Marera river gorge in Karatu district where the pupils were to sit mock examinations. The post 29 schoolchildren killed in Tanzania bus crash appeared first on Vanguard News . Vía Vanguard News http://ift.tt/2pRzRpv