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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Algeria announced on Sunday the arrest of three suspected Islamists who confessed to planting a home-made bomb that reportedly killed two soldiers patrolling near the border with Tunisia. “Members of the National Guard arrested three backers of terrorist groups on June 3 at Tebessa,” about 550 kilometres (340 miles) southeast of Algiers, the defence ministry said. “They admitted to having planted the home-made bomb which exploded as a military patrol passed by” near Bir el-Ater, about 100 kilometres south of Tebessa and some 15 kilometres from the border. It is the first official confirmation of the attack, which occurred at dawn on Saturday, but the ministry did not say if there were any casualties. Security sources told AFP on Saturday that the blast killed two soldiers and wounded four. Algerians had hoped that a 2005 peace and reconciliation charter would turn the page on a 1991-2002 civil war that cost 200,000 lives. But Islamist groups remain active in...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Three men with a white van and a stash of knives. Faced with such a simple and brutal plan for slaughter, there’s not much the world’s most sophisticated police and intelligence services can do. Even monitoring suspected individuals can never absolutely guarantee they will be arrested before committing their grisly acts, if there is no sign that anything is imminent, experts and officials say. “Low-tech attacks involving vehicles and knives have been on the increase recently as they are easily accessible and the most difficult for security services to stop,” said Alan Mendoza of Britain’s Henry Jackson Society. He was speaking after Saturday night’s attack in central London which left seven dead after three knife-wielding men mowed down and stabbed revellers at the popular nightlife hub around London bridge. “We will need further details before making a final assessment but this attack fits the pattern of recent ones in the West that have, at the very least, b...

http://ift.tt/2sjk5EW US President Donald Trump announces his decision on the Paris Climate Accords in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC, on June 1, 2017. SAUL LOEB / AFP Sharp political passions over President Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris climate treaty and his links to Russia brought people onto the streets of cities around the globe on Saturday, mostly to condemn but some to praise him. The largest of the many US rallies organized as a March for Truth appeared to be in New York, where as many as 3,000 anti-Trump protesters descended on Foley Square in Lower Manhattan, with some shouting “Liar!” or “Lock him up!” or “Take back America!” Nearly as many people converged around the Washington Monument in the US capital to similarly demand a full and independent investigation of the allegations that Trump or his aides might have colluded with Russia ahead of last year’s US presidential election to help Trump win. “The president works for the Ame...

http://ift.tt/2rqLHrr Vice President Yemi Osinbajo The Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo has commended the efforts of Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) for promoting the Federal Government’s initiative on the “Ease of doing Business”. Osinbajo gave the commendation in a statement issued by Mr Bola Fashina, the Head of Public Relations of SON in Abuja on Saturday. The acting president spoke at the recent Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Clinic held in Calabar on Friday. Osinbajo said: “I know this is a new SON ready to go, a business facilitator and not one that hinders business”. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that President Muhammadu Buhari recently established the Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council, PBEC. The aim is to review and address all encumbrances in the “Ease of Doing Business’’ which includes movement of people and goods in and out of the country, transparency in government, regulations, and registering business among others. Fas...

http://ift.tt/2sjk5EW US President Donald Trump announces his decision on the Paris Climate Accords in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC, on June 1, 2017. SAUL LOEB / AFP Sharp political passions over President Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris climate treaty and his links to Russia brought people onto the streets of cities around the globe on Saturday, mostly to condemn but some to praise him. The largest of the many US rallies organized as a March for Truth appeared to be in New York, where as many as 3,000 anti-Trump protesters descended on Foley Square in Lower Manhattan, with some shouting “Liar!” or “Lock him up!” or “Take back America!” Nearly as many people converged around the Washington Monument in the US capital to similarly demand a full and independent investigation of the allegations that Trump or his aides might have colluded with Russia ahead of last year’s US presidential election to help Trump win. “The president works for the Ame...

http://ift.tt/2rqLHrr Vice President Yemi Osinbajo The Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo has commended the efforts of Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) for promoting the Federal Government’s initiative on the “Ease of doing Business”. Osinbajo gave the commendation in a statement issued by Mr Bola Fashina, the Head of Public Relations of SON in Abuja on Saturday. The acting president spoke at the recent Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Clinic held in Calabar on Friday. Osinbajo said: “I know this is a new SON ready to go, a business facilitator and not one that hinders business”. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that President Muhammadu Buhari recently established the Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council, PBEC. The aim is to review and address all encumbrances in the “Ease of Doing Business’’ which includes movement of people and goods in and out of the country, transparency in government, regulations, and registering business among others. Fas...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Chief Alex Onyido, the traditional ruler of Ogilisi, Idemili South Local Government in Anambra, has called for stringent measures to curtail the growing number of drinking joints in the state. Onyido made the call on Friday in Awka, while speaking at the the 2017 edition of Lady Victoria Onyido quiz competition, organised by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, for secondary schools. “The trend is worrisome and not in the best interest of public health. “Such facilities breed crime and criminality; the rate at which such businesses are springing up in all corners calls for concern,” he said. Onyido, who is the sponsor of the quiz competition, said that it was meant to draw government’s attention to the use of illicit drugs among secondary school students. The monarch lauded NDLEA’s commitment to the fight against drug abuse and peddling, pointing out that drug addiction and abuse could lead to other vices like kidnapping, armed robbery and prostitution. ...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J “My children will never inherit my property either dead or alive if my wife divorces me,’’ a 39-year-old fruit seller, Amidu Olalere, told an Igando Customary Court on Friday in Lagos. Olalere said this while responding to a divorce suit filed by his wife, Adeola, for the dissolution of their 11-year-old marriage on the grounds of constant battering. Olalere, who accused his wife of starving him of sex, said, “My wife is always denying me sex, and whenever I reported her to her mother, she will ask me how many times will I be having sex with her daughter. “She would ask me not to kill her with sex, instead of admonishing her.” The respondent said his wife moved out from his house with the children in January to stay with her mother and that whenever he called her, her mother would be raining curses on him. “There was a day my mother-in-law cursed me, and I also cursed her that thunder will kill her.” He said his mother-in-law was always accusing him of plan...

http://ift.tt/2qyfkGg DO you know that human beings spend roughly 30 per cent of their lives sleeping? Yes! If the average night’s sleep is about eight hours, then you can imagine how much of your lifetime you spend snoozing. If you live to 75 years old, it may add up to 25 years of your age.   This makes mattress one of the most important furniture purchases you must make for your home. Can you think of another item in your home that you use more than your bed? The reality is that, in this side of the world, we spend money more on electronics which, I believe, gives us happiness but what will give us joy, we don’t see it as a priority. The truth of the matter is that the backache, the body pains of all sorts that take money from our pockets may be avoided if we begin to shift our priority to making life comfortable for ourselves. We go out early in the morning to our various places of work, sitting sometimes in damaged seat in the bus only to get to our destination to sit on ...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Items                                                         Prices Basket of Tomatoes                                N15,500 – N25,000 A bag of Pepper  (Rodo)                          N 10,000 – N18,000 A bag of Long pepper                            N6, 500 – N7000 A bag Onion (white)                               N18, 000 – N20, 000 A bag of Onion (Red)                              N15, 000- N18, 000 50kg of lo...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) on Friday, announced the appointment of Mr Olusegun Adekunle as the Alternate Chairman of the Economic Commission Board. OPEC made the announcement in a statement released in Abuja on Friday by Mr Idang Alibi, Director Press Ministry of Petroleum Resources. Alibi said: “In a welcome development, OPEC announced the appointment of Nigeria’s Mr Olusegun Adekunle as the Alternate Chairman of the 127th OPEC Economic Commission Board. Dr Ibe Kachikwu expressed delight at the development while congratulating Adekunle and urging him to continue to work hard to justify the appointment and make Nigeria proud.’’ Adekunle was before this appointment Nigeria’s representative to the organisation. The Commission is saddled with the responsibility of writing reports and making recommendations to the Conference of OPEC Oil Ministers on oil prices and other economic issues. It also assists OPEC in promoting stability i...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J LAWYERS and  Nigerian Bar Association, NBA leaders of the Eastern Bar Forum,  EBF,  have commended  what they described as the invaluable contributions of the Chief Arthur Okafor/ EBF Unity Cup,  to the health  and unity of among lawyers  in the Forum. In a chat with journalists in Port Harcourt, Rivers State at the end of the 2nd round of the tournament which is sponsored by Chief Okafor, SAN, Chairman of the Sports Committee of the EBF, who is also the coordinator of the Chief Arthur Obi Okafor EBF Unity football tournament, Mr. Steve Ononye said: “The tournament has achieved the desired peace and unity in the EBF. All these time that we have been playing these matches, from what we have gathered, unity, peace love is now in the EBF and if this continues, EBF will be stronger. It has achieved the main purpose which is to unite lawyers within the EBF family.” On the call to make the tournament a national event for the NBA, Mr. ...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari will leave for London on Sunday for a medical check up, his spokesman said. “PMB travels tonight for medical follow-up,” presidential spokesman Femi Adesina said on Twitter. “Length of stay to be determined by London doctors.Govt to function normally under VP.” Vía The Guardian Nigeria Newspaper http://ift.tt/2pkvOQF