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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Gov. Nasiru El-Rufa’i of Kaduna State on Tuesday blasted former President Goodluck Jonathan on his recent comment on the N2 billion Ecological Fund granted PDP states during his tenure. El-Rufaí said in Kaduna through his media aide, Samuel Aruwan, that the former President had failed to justify why he released the fund only to his cronies instead of all the states. The governor lamented that instead of addressing the moral issues raised in the interim report of the investigation instituted by the National Economic Council, Jonathan chose to resort to personal attacks. “He is not a man that can take responsibility for anything. “In March 2015, not long after making concession call to President Buhari, he summoned his pecks and ask them to reject the result of an election whose winner he had congratulated in private. “That effort and publicity failed spectacularly and the will of people prevailed. “So no one should be surprised that he is denying presiding ov...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Chief Rommy Ezeonwuka, an Igbo cultural leader, has called for peaceful conduct by some Igbo youths wishing to remember victims of the Nigeria civil war on Tuesday. Ezeonwuka, the founder of Ogilisi Foundation, said in Awka on Monday that there was nothing wrong in remembering loved ones provided that such action was carried out peacefully. He attributed some vices and tension in the country to the yearnings of the souls of victims of bloodshed waiting to be appeased. Ezeonwuka said  “great countries of this world like the U.S., Japan, Israel, Korea, Taiwan, Britain, Brazil, France, Vatican and the Catholic church have  never failed to remember the souls of people that died during wars or tragedies every year. “Unless you have assessed to see and know what happens in Astral World it will be difficult for the mundane people of the world to know how happy the demised souls feel when they are being remembered in the physical world. “I have been the arch...

http://ift.tt/2qScrAT Picture taken on June 25, 2013 in Aachen, western Germany, shows British actor and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Roger Moore.<br />Moore, who will forever be remembered for playing the womanising superspy James Bond, died May 23, 2017, aged 89, his family announced in a statement. / AFP PHOTO / dpa / Rolf Vennenbernd / Germany OUT British actor Roger Moore, who played the womanising superspy James Bond over two decades with a suave wit, died Tuesday aged 89, his children announced. “It is with a heavy heart that we must announce our loving father, Sir Roger Moore, has passed away today in Switzerland after a short but brave battle with cancer,” they said in a statement published on Twitter. “We are all devastated,” Deborah, Geoffrey and Christian said, adding: “Thank you Pops for being you, and for being so very special to so many people.” Moore won fame as the smooth-talking adventurer Simon Templar in British television show “The Saint” in the 196...