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http://ift.tt/2pfoQNP (FILES): This file photo taken on December 31, 2016 shows Venezulean conductor Gustavo Dudamel conducting the traditional New Year's Concert 2017 with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra at the Vienna Musikverein in Vienna, Austria. "Enough is enough," world celebrated Venezuelanconductor Gustavo Dudamel said Thursday, May 4, 2017 of the increasingly deadly political crisis gripping his homeland. "Nothing justifies bloodshed," the director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic wrote on his Facebook page in a post urging Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro "to listen to the people." HERBERT NEUBAUER / APA / AFP “Enough is enough,” world celebrated Venezuelan conductor Gustavo Dudamel said Thursday of the increasingly deadly political crisis gripping his homeland. “Nothing justifies bloodshed,” the director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic wrote on his Facebook page in a post urging Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro “to listen to the ...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Innocent Anaba Lagos —A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, yesterday, convicted and sentenced an official of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Yisa Adedoyin, following a plea bargain arrangement he reached with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, in the charge brought against him, former Petroleum Resources Minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke and two other officials of the commission, Christian Nwosu and Tijani Bashir. They were alleged to have conspired among themselves to directly take possession of N500.76 million, which formed part of proceeds of unlawful act. Trial judge is Justice Mohammed Idris. The plea bargain agreement is dated May 2, 2017. The court arrived at the decision after the EFCC re-arraigned in absentia,  Alison-Madueke, alongside Christian Nwosu and Tijani Bashir, both staff of INEC. In sentencing the convict, Justice Idris held that “There is no doubt that the second defendant is an elderly man....