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http://ift.tt/2qKMXVC Lai Mohammed The Federal Government on Sunday said that it will not relent until it has exposed those behind the fake news phenomenon in the country and bring them to justice. In a statement in Abuja, the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed said that those behind the fake news had the intention of destabilising the polity and causing disunity among the country’s various ethnic and religious groups. The statement was signed by Mr Segun Adeyemi, the Special Adviser to the Minister. The minister urged Nigerians to be extra vigilant in view of the worsening cases of fake news being spread by the unscrupulous persons. Mohammed noted that over the weekend alone, several major cases of fake news were recorded, each of them capable of causing panic, triggering chaos or setting one group against the other. He said that a gory video of a blast that occurred many years ago was being circulated along with the false news of a bomb blast in Ab...

http://ift.tt/2qKMXVC Lai Mohammed The Federal Government on Sunday said that it will not relent until it has exposed those behind the fake news phenomenon in the country and bring them to justice. In a statement in Abuja, the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed said that those behind the fake news had the intention of destabilising the polity and causing disunity among the country’s various ethnic and religious groups. The statement was signed by Mr Segun Adeyemi, the Special Adviser to the Minister. The minister urged Nigerians to be extra vigilant in view of the worsening cases of fake news being spread by the unscrupulous persons. Mohammed noted that over the weekend alone, several major cases of fake news were recorded, each of them capable of causing panic, triggering chaos or setting one group against the other. He said that a gory video of a blast that occurred many years ago was being circulated along with the false news of a bomb blast in Ab...

http://ift.tt/2rn7Etd The Director General of the Geneva-based apex aviation body, Mr Alexandre de Juniac, said the ban was one of the key issues to be discussed at IATA’s 73rd Annual General Assembly scheduled for June 4 to June 6 in Cancun, Mexico. The International Air Transport Association (IATA) says expanding the cabin ban on the carriage of large Portable Electronic Devices (PEDs) to Europe-to-US flights can lead to 1.4 billion dollar loss of productivity. The Director General of the Geneva-based apex aviation body, Mr Alexandre de Juniac, said the ban was one of the key issues to be discussed at IATA’s 73rd Annual General Assembly scheduled for June 4 to June 6 in Cancun, Mexico. He said the PED ban which was announced on March 21 by the President Donald Trump’s administration from 10 Middle Eastern and African airports to the U.S., appeared to have weighed down Middle East-North America passenger traffic. “April showed us that demand for air travel remains at very ...

http://ift.tt/2rn7Etd The Director General of the Geneva-based apex aviation body, Mr Alexandre de Juniac, said the ban was one of the key issues to be discussed at IATA’s 73rd Annual General Assembly scheduled for June 4 to June 6 in Cancun, Mexico. The International Air Transport Association (IATA) says expanding the cabin ban on the carriage of large Portable Electronic Devices (PEDs) to Europe-to-US flights can lead to 1.4 billion dollar loss of productivity. The Director General of the Geneva-based apex aviation body, Mr Alexandre de Juniac, said the ban was one of the key issues to be discussed at IATA’s 73rd Annual General Assembly scheduled for June 4 to June 6 in Cancun, Mexico. He said the PED ban which was announced on March 21 by the President Donald Trump’s administration from 10 Middle Eastern and African airports to the U.S., appeared to have weighed down Middle East-North America passenger traffic. “April showed us that demand for air travel remains at very ...

http://ift.tt/2rqWHEO British Chief of the Defence Staff Air Chief Marshal Stuart Peach (L) and Britain's Defence Secretary Michael Fallon arive in Downing Street in central London on May 10, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / Justin TALLIS Britain supports setting up an EU military centre and is “confident” that plans will be settled on Thursday, a defence ministry spokeswoman told AFP, following earlier British objections to the project. “We support the MPCC,” the spokeswoman said on Wednesday in reference to a Military Planning Conduct and Capability facility for the bloc. “We are all confident it will get finalised tomorrow” at a meeting of EU defence ministers in Brussels,” she said. The ministry’s comments come after the bloc’s foreign affairs chief Federica Mogherini said on Monday she believed the ministers would unanimously back the proposals. She told reporters in Brussels she had spoken to British defence secretary Michael Fallon on Sunday, telling him that what was import...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J An unmarried couple were stoned to death in public in northeast Mali by Islamists, the first such known occurrence since 2012, local officials said on Wednesday. “The Islamists dug two holes where they put the man and the woman who lived maritally without being married,” said a local official about the incident Tuesday. “They were stoned to death.” The stoning happened in Taghlit, close to Aguelhok in the Kidal region, and the same source disclosed that members of the public were invited to take part. “Four people threw stones at them until they died,” they said. Another local official confirmed the information, saying the Islamists had accused the unmarried couple of violating “Islamic law”, which requires punishment by stoning. Northern Mali fell to jihadist groups linked to Al-Qaeda in March 2012, and although they were driven out of key towns by a French-led military intervention the following year, the Islamists have regrouped and now have spread further...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Nwafor Sunday In Ondo State, five members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), were reported to have dumped PDP and defected to All Progressives Congress,APC. Information reaching us reads that the five are in the Ondo State House of Assembly. The lawmakers are being received by Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu and the Deputy State chairman of the party, Ade Adetimehin. Details later:   The post Breaking: Five PDP lawmakers dump party, join APC appeared first on Vanguard News . Vía Vanguard News http://ift.tt/2qwdZAA

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Oil prices climbed further Tuesday, boosting energy companies’ shares, after Russia and Saudi Arabia indicated they could extend an output cut into next year, while the euro struck a six-month dollar high. The world’s top two crude-producing nations raised the idea at the weekend, with a deal agreed between OPEC — of which Saudi Arabia is the key player — and Russia coming to an end in six weeks. The news sent oil prices soaring about two percent on Monday, and a further 0.7 percent on Tuesday, helping energy groups strengthen global stock markets. Share price gains for Royal Dutch Shell and BP on Tuesday helped push London’s benchmark FTSE 100 to a new record high of 7,517.70 points. “Another day, another record high for the FTSE 100,” said Kathleen Brooks from City Index. Volatility was at “extremely low levels and the oil price (continued) to benefit from the OPEC-effect,” she said. Vodafone was the top performer, gaining 4.5 percent, despite registering ...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Lagos – Mr Abayomi Adesanya, the Publicity Secretary of All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ondo State, on Monday urged Nigerians to pray for good health and quick recovery of President Muhammadu Buhari. Adesanya made the call while speaking with journalists in Lagos. President Buhari, had on Sunday, May 7, travelled to London for a follow-up medical consultation with his doctors. The APC spokesman appealed for more patience by Nigerians and urged them to pray for good health of the President. “Nigerians, home and abroad should continue to pray for the good health and quick recovery of President Muhammadu Buhari so that he can complete the rebuilding of a new prosperous Nigeria free of corruption and nepotism,” he said. Adesanya said the emergence of Mohammadu Buhari as President was the best thing to have happened in Nigeria at that crucial time. He said that Nigeria was on the verge of collapse when President Buhari took over from the previous administratio...

http://ift.tt/2riHhT2 “The Governing Council of the University of Ilorin has approved the change in the age limit of prospective applicants of the university’s vice chancellor to be from 60 to 65 years by October 16, 2017,’’ the statement said. The Governing Council of the University of Ilorin has increased the age limit of prospective applicants for the position of its vice chancellor from 60 to 65 years. Mr Dada Obafemi, Registrar and Secretary to Council of the University, announced this in a statement in Ilorin on Monday. “The Governing Council of the University of Ilorin has approved the change in the age limit of prospective applicants of the university’s vice chancellor to be from 60 to 65 years by October 16, 2017,’’ the statement said. The Council noted that the change in age limit was in accordance with the Universities Miscellaneous Provisions, Act No. 11 of 1993, and Universities Miscellaneous Provisions, amendment Act 2012. The university had earlier in newspa...