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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Sokoto, June 10, 2017 (NAN) Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND) spent N7 billion for projects execution and man power development in Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, from 2011 to date, Dr Abdullahi Baffa, the Executive Secretary of the fund, has said. Baffa made the disclosure on Saturday in Sokoto when he inaugurated the Centre For Advanced Medical Research and Training (CAMRET) worth N300 million at the University Teaching Hospital. He said the projects were executed at the two campuses of the university, as well as the teaching hospital. He enumerated some of the projects to include, the centres of Urology and Nephrology, centre for research in physical sciences, video conferencing centres, as well as extension of fibre optic cables for internet, among others. He said that some staffs of the institution were sponsored to attend various conferences within and outside Nigeria. He added that others were sponsored for post graduate studies within and o...

http://ift.tt/2qF491m ISIL Members of the Islamic State group have ‘executed’ 19 civilians including two children in a village held by anti-jihadists in eastern Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Saturday. “IS fighters entered Jazrat al-Boushams village on Friday evening and executed 19 civilians, including two women and two children, with bullets to the head before torching the corpses,” Rami Abdel Rahman of the Britain-based monitor told AFP. “Some were rounded up in the street before being killed, and others were executed at home,” said the head of the Observatory, which gathers its information from a large network of sources across the war-torn country. He said the jihadists also abducted three members of the US-backed anti-IS Kurdish-Arab Syrian Democratic Forces alliance (SDF) before withdrawing from the village. Jazrat al-Boushams village is in Deir Ezzor province, which is largely controlled by the jihadists. It was captured by the SDF when allian...

http://ift.tt/2rzM1mB Manchester City's Spanish manager Pep Guardiola gestures on the touchline during the English Premier League football match between Manchester City and West Bromwich Albion at the Etihad Stadium in Manchester, north west England, on May 16, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / Anthony Devlin /  Pep Guardiola has questioned the need to ban players for diving, suggesting instead that it would be better to concentrate on giving Premier League referees help by using more video technology. Guardiola believes referees need more assistance from television because they find it difficult to keep up with play because the game is so quick. The Football Association has passed new rules to come into force in England next season, which will allow them to use television evidence to sanction divers. Under the new set-up, a panel will review footage each money to examine cases of alleged diving, with suspensions to be given to any player unanimously found guilty. However, Mancheste...

http://ift.tt/2q07y70 Former national security adviser (NSA), retired Col. Sambo Dasuki PHOTO: NAN<br /> The claims read like the plot of a best-selling thriller, with secretive arms dealers and a corruption-riddled government fighting jihadists. The weapons deal collapses in acrimony but instead of a shoot-out, the embittered parties fight it out in court. In this real life saga, Ara Dolarian is the US arms dealer, Hima Aboubakar the weapons contractor and the foreign government Nigeria, which has been locked in a battle with Boko Haram since 2009. The $246 million (221 million euros) order at the height of the jihadists’ insurgency in 2014 was for weapons and equipment, including helicopters, bombs and ammunition. It could have given over-stretched and under-resourced Nigerian troops a boost, as the better-armed rebels captured territory across northeast Nigeria, often without a fight. But the deal collapsed in 2015 and the arms never arrived. Aboubakar sued Dolar...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Delta State Governor, Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa has urged Nigerians to go for regular health check to enable them identify early signs of health issues. The Governor made the call  today while flagging off free eye screening, tests, glasses and surgery at Ozoro, Isoko North local government area of the state.  The ceremony was the second phase of its kind sponsored by the administration of Hon. Emmanuel Egbabor as the Chairman, Isoko North local government council. According to the Governor, “this screening exercise is a wakeup call for a genuine need for us to go for health check regularly.” “Most people die gradually because they don’t see the need to go for health check,” the Governor said, noting that local government councils in the state should emulate what was done in Isoko North by partnering with stakeholders to improve on the health status of their indigenes. He emphasized, “I believe that with partnership with the right people, we can do mo...