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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Britain’s main political parties suspended campaigning Sunday for this week’s election after an attack in London left seven people dead — although the UK Independence Party (UKIP) said it would carry on. The truce is the second in the race for the June 8 vote, after campaigning was halted for several days following the Manchester concert attack on May 22. But with the race tightening between Prime Minister Theresa May’s Conservatives and the main opposition Labour party, the suspension is only for national events — and is likely to last only a few hours. “The Conservative party will not be campaigning nationally today. We will review as the day goes on and as more details of the attack emerge,” a spokesman for the centre-right party told AFP. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said: “The Labour party will be suspending national campaigning until this evening, after consultations with other parties, as a mark of respect for those who have died and suffered injury.” T...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Britain’s main political parties suspended campaigning Sunday for this week’s election after an attack in London left seven people dead — although the UK Independence Party (UKIP) said it would carry on. The truce is the second in the race for the June 8 vote, after campaigning was halted for several days following the Manchester concert attack on May 22. But with the race tightening between Prime Minister Theresa May’s Conservatives and the main opposition Labour party, the suspension is only for national events — and is likely to last only a few hours. “The Conservative party will not be campaigning nationally today. We will review as the day goes on and as more details of the attack emerge,” a spokesman for the centre-right party told AFP. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said: “The Labour party will be suspending national campaigning until this evening, after consultations with other parties, as a mark of respect for those who have died and suffered injury.” T...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J The Commissioner of Police in Adamawa, Mr Moses Jitoboh, has confirmed the arrest of five suspects for beating a pregnant woman to death for alleged witchcraft. Jitoboh told newsmen in Yola on Saturday that the 32 year old woman, Ayina Afraimu of Falu village in Guyuk Local Government Area of the state was killed by the suspects who used sticks and rope. “She was attacked with sticks, rope and killed by five suspects on allegation that the deceased was a witch, who was responsible for the deaths and sickness of persons in the town of Falu. “Suspects who committed this nefarious offence are: Abraham Adamu, 18, Malachi Yilafane, 35, Thomas Aji, 54, Zakariya Chorum, 56 and Miss Newana Ilihal, 20”, Jitoboh said. He added that the suspects would be charged to court for culpable homicide, criminal conspiracy and defamation of character. The commissioner said that apart from the five suspects, the command had within the three weeks of his assumption of office arrest...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J The Commissioner of Police in Adamawa, Mr Moses Jitoboh, has confirmed the arrest of five suspects for beating a pregnant woman to death for alleged witchcraft. Jitoboh told newsmen in Yola on Saturday that the 32 year old woman, Ayina Afraimu of Falu village in Guyuk Local Government Area of the state was killed by the suspects who used sticks and rope. “She was attacked with sticks, rope and killed by five suspects on allegation that the deceased was a witch, who was responsible for the deaths and sickness of persons in the town of Falu. “Suspects who committed this nefarious offence are: Abraham Adamu, 18, Malachi Yilafane, 35, Thomas Aji, 54, Zakariya Chorum, 56 and Miss Newana Ilihal, 20”, Jitoboh said. He added that the suspects would be charged to court for culpable homicide, criminal conspiracy and defamation of character. The commissioner said that apart from the five suspects, the command had within the three weeks of his assumption of office arrest...

http://ift.tt/2oVi6bN Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. PHOTO: Mark Wilson/Getty Images/AFP Hillary Clinton went a step further Wednesday in blaming her election loss to Donald Trump on Russian cyberattacks, saying Americans including associates of the Republican president likely had a hand in the effort. The Democratic nominee in last year’s bitterly fought White House race addressed a technology conference in California, speaking at length about what she termed a Moscow-led campaign of “disinformation” against her that influenced the vote. “The Russians, in my opinion, and based on the intel and counter-intel people I’ve talked to, could not have known how best to weaponize that information unless they had been guided,” Clinton told the Recode conference, referring to an avalanche of false information, social media bots and hacks of Clinton campaign emails. Some of those people helping the Russians, she said, had access to “polling and data information.” Asked b...

http://ift.tt/2rU7Xg6 Real Madrid's Welsh forward Gareth Bale attends a training session at Valdebebas Sport City in Madrid on May 30, 2017 at the Media Day event prior to the UEFA Champions League football match final Juventus vs Real Madrid. / AFP PHOTO / PIERRE-PHILIPPE MARCOU Playing in a Champions League final in his home city was beyond Gareth Bale’s dreams as a youngster, but Saturday’s Cardiff showpiece catches the Welshman at a career crossroads. Real Madrid can make history by becoming the first team to retain the Champions League and complete a first La Liga and Champions League double in 59 years in the process. Yet, the fact most of the road to Cardiff has been travelled without an injured Bale this season and that there is little desire in Madrid for him to be rushed back to face Juventus shows how his fortunes have changed over the past year. “It is massively special for me personally, as it is where I was born, where I grew up,” said Bale on his impendin...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J   By Edmund Achuzia The recently launched Economic Recovery Growth Plan (ERGP) of the federal government is perhaps the most ambitious economic recovery programme of any government in recent memory. The plan, which covers the period from 2107 to 2020, is designed to, among other objectives, enhance the country’s economic recovery, and also serve as the much needed catalyst for growth and sustainable development. It has been widely acknowledged that the problem with Nigeria has never been a dearth of ideas or lofty programmes. Successive governments have had the benefit of having experts draw up beautiful programmes that were capable of lifting the country out of the economic wilderness in which it has been for decades, and setting it on the path of recovery and growth. The problem has always centred on implementation. Indeed, if half of the economic recovery programmes of past administrations had been painstakingly implemented to the letter, the country wou...

http://ift.tt/2o3meRK Candidates at a post-UME centre The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says it is monitoring the ongoing Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), through its central Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras in Abuja. Its Niger Coordinator, Mr Muhammed Ibrahim, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday in Minna that all the examination centres were linked to the CCTV. “Our staff, candidates and supervisors in all examination centres are being watched and recorded; it is part of our efforts to reduce or eliminate malpractices in the conduct of the test,” he said. The Coordinator said that 32, 000 candidates registered for the examination in Niger and were writing the test in 14 centres. He said that the exercise was smooth in many centres except at Jumai Aliyu Babangida Development Centre, Minna where a system failure was recorded. “The issue lingered a bit, so we immediately moved the candidates to the zonal office to wr...

http://ift.tt/2q1MGj1 PHOTO:AFP Justin Bieber mania swept Mumbai on Wednesday as the Canadian pop star hit town to give his first concert in India in front of 45,000 fans. “Beliebers” from across the nation have flocked to the commercial capital to see their idol perform hits like “Baby” and “Sorry” on the latest stop of his “Purpose World Tour”. “I’ve been listening to his music for five years. I absolutely love him as an artist and I’m very excited to be seeing him,” 18-year-old student Rahul Tiwari, who had travelled from neighbouring Gujarat state, told AFP. Fans who gathered outside Mumbai’s airport got their first glimse of the superstar when he touched down in the city at 1:30 am on a chartered flight from Dubai. Indian television channels aired mobile phone footage of Bieber carrying a bouquet of flowers and wearing a pink hoodie, dark shorts and white trainers as he walked from the airport to a waiting car with his entourage. The 23-year-old is to perform to a se...

http://ift.tt/2qVbPt8 Two leading female empowerment groups in Nigeria are planning a joint programme for professional women. Tagged “Career Conversation and Cocktails,” the organisers of the programme, Inspired by Glory and Her Network , a foremost networking platform for women, said it would afford career women to network with like minds in a relaxed atmosphere. “The event…promises to be bags of fun! From speed networking games, lively debates, career conversations, giveaways and off course cocktails, you can be sure of quite a memorable time with like minded women and stimulating conversations,” the organisers said in a statement. “Light but impactful career development tips will also be given by Forbes West Africa Correspondent, Peace Hyde, senior special assistant to the commissioner of women’s affairs in Lagos State, Chioma Dike and head, marketing and communications, United Capital, Toyin Awesu.” The programme which is set to hold on May 11 at the Eve Restaurant 234b...

http://ift.tt/2pfE7C9 PHOTO:AFP Zimbabwe’s 93-year-old President Robert Mugabe has flown to Singapore for a “routine medical check-up”, state media reported Tuesday. “President Mugabe yesterday (Monday) left Zimbabwe for Singapore for his routine medical check-up,” The Herald newspaper reported. “He is expected back in Zimbabwe at the weekend.” The leader who has been in power since 1980 regularly travels to the city state for health check-ups and private holidays and his last medical trip was in March. The leader who now walks with difficulty and sometimes dozes off during meetings made his last public appearance at the World Economic Forum on Africa last week. At the meeting in South Africa’s port city of Durban, he addressed delegates in a slurred tone while slumped in his seat. His health has been the subject of increased speculation in recent years and authorities in March arrested two journalists over a report alleging that he was “in bad shape”. In 2016, the gove...

http://ift.tt/2q6dS11 Seven killed and Six others sustained various degrees of injuries The Borno Police Command on Friday confirmed the killing of seven persons after two suspected female suicide bombers attacked Mandarari ward in Konduga Local Government Area of Borno. Malam Murtala Ibrahim of the Borno Police Command Public Relations Unit, confirmed the incident in statement he issued in Maiduguri. Ibrahim said that the attack took place on Thursday. “Yesterday at about 22.45 hours, two suspected female suicide bombers detonated explosives strapped to their bodies at Mandarari ward in Konduga LGA, killing themselves and five others. “Six persons sustained various degrees of injuries. “The corpses and injured persons were evacuated to General Hospital Konduga, and normalcy restored to the area.” The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), recalled that three suspected female suicide bombers were killed while attempting to attack a military outpost near Muna garage in the outskir...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J An estimated 24,600 refugee children are “living in limbo” waiting to join their families in Western Europe, UNICEF said on Thursday in New York. The organisation said that single mothers and children were among the nearly 75,000 refugees and migrants stranded in Greece, Bulgaria, Hungary and the Western Balkan Country. According to Afshan Khan, the UNICEF Regional Director and Special Coordinator for the Refugees and Migrant Crisis in Europe, the family reunification process is slow, and its outcome is uncertain. “This uncertainty can cause significant emotional distress and anxiety for children and families, setting them back for years to come,” Khan added. The organisation said that the migrants were waiting to find out when and whether or not they could join their male relatives, who had gone ahead of them to the EU countries, the organisation said in a statement. “We are seeing single mothers and children stranded in Greece, Serbia and Bulgaria, who have...