tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53139064592716465622024-03-05T19:31:42.099-08:00 Dream Newz BlogAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09036774143646904232noreply@blogger.comBlogger804125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5313906459271646562.post-33920197694080640752016-05-26T07:20:00.001-07:002016-05-26T07:23:08.961-07:00 The Nigeria's No 1 building construction company "Concurrent Construction Company"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Concurrent Construction Company Nig is one of the fastest growing
construction company in the southeast of Nigeria and the best as far as
construction company in Nigeria is concern, the terms and conditions of the
company is so affordable like wise the building cost.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Concurrent Construction is a household
name in as far as construction company in Nigeria is involved and also very
reliable when it comes to contract agreement.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Our structures are so solid and our
service goes beyond Nigeria and extends to other part of Africa and nation
wide.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We specialize on<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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drawing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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wiring<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> Our aim</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Our aim is to draw and build a structure that can stand the test of time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Call at Concurrent for quick delivery and a delightful work, a trial will
convince you.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> Branch office: Awolowo avenue
lekki Lagos, Lagos state.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Head office: No 49 independence layout Enugu, Enugu state.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Email: <a href="mailto:concurrentcontractors@gmail.com">concurrentcontractors@gmail.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Phone: +2348065336502
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Om Hussein is a mother close to breaking point. Along with her husband and their four young children, she is struggling with poverty like millions of other Iraqis.</div>
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Her husband, Ali, is unemployed. He is diabetic and has heart problems. She has been the breadwinner for the past nine years, eking out a living as a housemaid. But she is now exhausted, and can no longer work.</div>
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"I am tired and we cannot make any money to pay for the rent, medicine, children's needs and food," Ms Hussein said at the family's temporary one bedroom home in eastern Baghdad.</div>
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Their dilapidated house collapsed a few months ago, and they have survived thanks to the help of friends and relatives.</div>
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Her husband added: "I worked at everything you could think of. As a butcher, a day labourer, a rubbish collector. I would not ask for money, but they would give it to us. I would not ask for food.</div>
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"I would tell my son to collect waste bread from the street and we would eat it, but I never asked for food or money."</div>
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Facing such poverty, Ms Hussein was driven to make a huge sacrifice.</div>
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"I decided to sell my kidney," she said. "I could no longer provide for my family. It was better than selling my body or living on charity."</div>
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The couple approached an illegal trader to sell their kidneys, but initial tests proved their organs were not healthy enough for transplant.</div>
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Disappointment followed, and the couple considered taking a desperate solution.</div>
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"Because of our miserable conditions we even thought of selling our son's kidney," Ali said, angrily, while pointing at his nine-year-old son, Hussein.</div>
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"We would do anything but beg. Why on earth were we in this position?"</div>
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The family did not go that far, but they said just the thought of it left them heartbroken.</div>
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The organ trade</h2>
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Grinding poverty has made the trafficking of kidneys and other organs a phenomenon in Baghdad.</div>
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About 22.5% of Iraq's population of nearly 30 million people live in abject poverty, according to World Bank statistics from 2014.</div>
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Gangs, offering up to $10,000 (£7,000) for a kidney, have increasingly targeted the country's poor, making it a new hub for the organ trade across the Middle East.</div>
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"The phenomenon is so widespread that authorities are not capable of fighting it," said Firas al-Bayati, a human rights lawyer.</div>
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"I have personally dealt over the past three months with 12 people who were arrested for selling their kidneys. And poverty was the reason behind their acts," he said.</div>
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"Picture this scenario: an unemployed father who does not have any source of income to cater for his children. He sacrifices himself. I consider him a victim and I have to defend him."</div>
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In 2012, the government approved a new law in an attempt to combat the trafficking of humans and organs.</div>
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Only relatives are allowed to donate their organs to one another and by mutual consent. Traffickers then usually forge the identity documents of both the buyer and the seller to prove they are related.</div>
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Penalties vary from three years in prison to the death sentence and judges, al-Bayaty says, do not consider poverty as justification for the deals.</div>
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"It is very easy to forge identity papers. But the government will soon introduce new biometric identity cards, which are impossible to counterfeit," he said.</div>
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Business gone wrong</h2>
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We were granted rare access to an Iraqi prison to meet a man who was caught offering kidneys for sale.</div>
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After going through multiple security checkpoints, we met Mohammed - he would not give us his full name.</div>
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He is serving time in a maximum security facility, along with 10 others convicted of organ trafficking.</div>
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"In the very beginning I did not feel guilty," said Mohammed, a father of two.</div>
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"I used to look at it as a humanitarian cause, but after a few months in this trade I started questioning the morality - mostly because of the miserable conditions of the organ sellers. It broke my heart seeing young people doing this for money."</div>
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He was arrested in front of a government hospital in Baghdad in November 2015 after a police officer posed as a potential buyer.</div>
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The majority of the illegal organ transplants take place in private hospitals, especially in Iraqi Kurdistan, according to Mohammed, where he says restrictions are more relaxed than in Baghdad.</div>
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But such operations can still take place in state-run hospitals as surgeons admit it is very hard to scrutinise the documents of each case.</div>
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"There is no law in the world that holds the surgeon accountable for this," said Rafed al-Akili, a surgeon at the Kidney Diseases and Transplantation Centre in Baghdad.</div>
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"It is true that, in some cases, we have doubts, but this is not enough to stop the surgery because without it people will die."</div>
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But nothing of this seems to be of any comfort to the Husseins.</div>
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A Kenyan hospital is to provide free cancer treatment to 400 patients from Uganda as the neighbouring country's only radiotherapy machine has broken.</div>
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The Aga Khan University Hospital said it would do all it could to help and encouraged others to do the same.</div>
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The breakdown of the machine in Uganda has left thousands at risk of missing potential life-saving treatment.</div>
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Uganda's government has said it will cover the travel and other costs for the 400 going to the Nairobi hospital.</div>
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The private, not-for-profit hospital in the Kenyan capital has two radiotherapy units and six radiation oncologists.</div>
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Radiotherapy treatment can be expensive - and most patients in Uganda are unable to afford to pay for the treatment.</div>
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"We are committed to working with the government of Uganda to help save the lives of cancer patients in need of treatment while it works to re-establish its radiation therapy capacity," Aga Khan University Hospital's CEO Shawn Bolouk said in a statement.</div>
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"Our values as an institution dictate nothing less. While we can only treat a small fraction of those requiring care, given our resources and the tremendous need that exists, we will do all we can to help, and we encourage others to follow our lead."</div>
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Details of how to transport the patients were being worked out by the relevant authorities, the hospital statement added.</div>
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The BBC's Catherine Byaruhanga in Uganda's capital, Kampala, says the Ugandan government has also agreed to pay for the 400 patients' accommodation and food as well as for those of a relative or friend if an attendant is needed.</div>
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The government says it has purchased a new radiotherapy machine and it should be up and running in six months, once a special bunker has been built to house the radioactive equipment at Mulago Hospital in Kampala.</div>
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Other treatments are still available in Uganda, but the cancer institute at Mulago Hospital says that three-quarters of the 44,000 new cancer patients in Uganda last year needed radiotherapy.</div>
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Patients from Rwanda, Burundi and South Sudan are also referred to Mulago Hospital for radiotherapy.</div>
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The treatment uses radiation to target and kill cancerous cells in a specific part of the body, and can be used for many types of cancer.</div>
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The incidence of cancer is on the rise in Africa overall as life expectancy increases.</div>
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The US ambassador to the UN has expressed her "great sorrow" after her motorcade accidentally hit and killed a seven-year-old boy in Cameroon.</div>
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Samantha Power was in Cameroon to show US support for the campaign against militant Islamist group Boko Haram when the accident happened on Monday.</div>
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She said she met the boy's family to offer "profound condolences".</div>
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An armoured jeep knocked the boy as he tried to cross a road when the convoy was heading towards a refugee camp.</div>
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"Although the boy received immediate medical care from an ambulance in our convoy, he died shortly thereafter," Ms Power said.</div>
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US officials were unable to say whether their government will pay compensation to the boy's family who lived in a village in northern Cameroon. AFP news agency reports.</div>
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Ms Power's motorcade was moving at a fast speed when the sixth vehicle in it hit the boy after he darted on to the two-lane highway near the small city of Mokolo, the Associated Press news agency reports.</div>
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The vehicle that struck the boy stopped, but was then ordered by US security forces to continue travelling through the unsecured area, AP reports.</div>
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Ms Power later met children at a camp for people who fled attacks by Boko Haram, which is fighting to establish an Islamic state in the region.</div>
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"All of you who are attempting to fight this terror, the United States stands with you,'' she said, AP reports.</div>
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Boko Haram is the most dangerous militant group in the region.</div>
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It launched its insurgency in northern Nigeria in 2009, but has increasingly targeted neighbouring Cameroon, Chad and Niger.</div>
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The conflict has led to the deaths of some 17,000 people, destroyed some 1,000 schools and displaced 2.5 million people.</div>
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Boko Haram at a glance:</h2>
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The Indian government says it is still seeking to reclaim the priceless Koh-i-noor diamond from Britain, despite the Supreme Court being told otherwise.</div>
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The gem came into British hands in the 19th Century and is part of the Crown Jewels on show at the Tower of London.</div>
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Ownership of the famous gem is an emotional issue for many Indians, who believe it was stolen by the British.</div>
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On Monday, India's solicitor-general had told the court it was "neither stolen nor forcibly taken".</div>
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Ranjit Kumar, who was representing India's government in the hearing, had said the 105-carat diamond had been "gifted" to the East India company by the former rulers of Punjab in 1849.</div>
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But a statement by India's ministry of culture on Tuesday said the government "further reiterates its resolve to make all possible efforts to bring back the Koh-i-noor diamond in an amicable manner".</div>
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Mr Kumar's comments, which elicited surprise in India, did not represent the views of the government, the statement said. The official submission to the court has yet to be made, it added.</div>
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The case is being heard by the Supreme Court after an Indian NGO filed a petition asking the court to direct the Indian government to bring back the diamond.</div>
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The court is still considering the issue, and said it did not want to dismiss the petition as it could "stand in the way" of future attempts to bring back items that once belonged to India.</div>
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Tushar Gandhi, the great-grandson of independence leader Mahatma Gandhi, said in 2009 that it should be returned as "atonement for the colonial past".</div>
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However, successive British prime ministers have refused to do so. Most recently, David Cameron said that returning it would set an "unworkable precedent".</div>
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"If you say yes to one, you suddenly find the British Museum would be empty," he told Indian media during a trip to the country in 2010.</div>
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The diamond was last worn by the late Queen Mother and was displayed on her crown when her coffin lay in state after her death in 2002.</div>
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Diamond's long and bloody history</h2>
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Attempting to sum up its worth, the 18th Century Afghan queen Wufa Begum said: "If a strong man were to throw four stones, one north, one south, one east, one west, and a fifth stone up into the air, and if the space between them were to be filled with gold, all would not equal the value of the Koh-i-Noor."</div>
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The stone was originally found in India's Golconda mines and measured 186 carats when it was eventually handed to the British in 1849 under the terms of a punitive treaty following the Anglo-Sikh war. It was signed by the 10-year-old Sikh ruler after his mother was thrown in jail.</div>
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However, the diamond's traditional rose cut did not impress visitors to the Great Exhibition in 1851 and so it was re-cut as an oval brilliant, gaining sparkle but losing about 40% of its weight in the process. The 105.6 carat stone - the size of a hen's egg - is currently set in the Crown of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother.</div>
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It is said to be unlucky for men to wear the Koh-i-Noor diamond owing to its long and bloody history. Some Indian and Pakistani visitors to the Tower of London hiss as they pass it - they want it returned to the Indian subcontinent, though to which country remains unclear.</div>
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Aid agencies are stepping up help following Saturday's devastating earthquake in Ecuador, amid concerns over the conditions faced by survivors.</div>
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Thousands of people were left homeless, making them vulnerable to dirty drinking water and disease.</div>
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The World Food Programme and Oxfam are sending supplies, while the UN said it was preparing a "major airlift".</div>
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The 7.8-magnitude earthquake left at least 480 people dead, more than 4,000 injured and 231 missing.</div>
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The cost of rebuilding is likely to be in the billions of dollars, President Rafael Correa said during a visit to the worst-affected region.</div>
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Six survivors were pulled from the rubble of a hotel near the town of Manta but despite the efforts of emergency teams hope is fading that others will be found.</div>
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The smell of rotting bodies is filling the air in the worst-hit areas, witnesses said.</div>
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From Tuesday, rescue efforts would become more of a hunt for corpses, Ecuador's Interior Minister Jose Serrano told Reuters.</div>
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Focus is turning to the survivors. The quake damaged communications, transport links and sanitation, hampering relief efforts.</div>
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Major international and aid organisations are sending help:</div>
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Foreign nationals from Northern Ireland, Canada and the US have been confirmed among the dead and the death toll is likely to rise further.</div>
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"I fear that figure will go up because we keep on removing rubble," Mr Correa said in a televised address.</div>
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Reconstruction costs are likely to be huge at a time when the oil-producing country is already reeling from the slump in global crude prices.</div>
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Funerals for some of those killed have been held in Portoviejo and Pedernales, two towns that were the worst hit.</div>
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The US Geological Survey said the earthquake struck at a fairly shallow depth of 19.2km (11.9 miles), about 27km from Muisne in a sparsely populated area.</div>
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Scientists say there is no connection between the quake in Ecuador and a severe tremor in southern Japan, which also occurred on Saturday.</div>
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As a musical group, the Okoye twins – Peter and Paul – have come a long way. After ruling the entertainment scene in Nigeria and Africa for about 14 years, winning many laurels in the process, it is unthinkable that they are about to tear the union apart at a time that the group has almost evolved into an institution.</div>
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The group known as P-Square started in St. Murumba Secondary School in Jos, capital of Plateau State, in the 1990s. Peter and Paul Okoye cut their teeth as singers and dancers in the school music and drama club before forming a group known as the Smooth Criminals in 1997.</div>
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Later, the brothers enrolled in a music school to receive formal training on how to play the keyboard, drums, bass and rhythm guitars. When the Smooth Criminals got disbanded, the twins, who were already household names in Jos, founded their own group. At different times, they named the group Double P and Da Pees before finally settling for PSquare.</div>
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<br />A few months later, the PSquare was nominated for the KORA Awards of the same year in the Most Promising African Group category. The icing on the cake came when the group won the 2003 Amen Award for Best R&B Group.Initially managed by Bayo Odusanmi, aka Howie T, a seasoned concert promoter, the PSquare started its musical journey on a sound note. The group won the Benson and Hedges Grab Da Mic talent hunt competition in 2001 and earned a well-deserved sponsorship for its debut album, titled Last Nite.</div>
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The PSquare had since gone ahead to win more awards. In its 14 years of existence, it recorded a total of six studio albums, including Game Over, the group’s best-selling album that sold over 8 million copies all over the world.</div>
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An electrician has died after falling 53 storeys from a construction site in Los Angeles.</div>
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Police were quoted as saying the man struck the rear of a car on Wilshire Boulevard when he fell.</div>
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It was reportedly only the man's second day working on the project.</div>
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The man died at the site of the Wilshire Grand Center, part of a $1bn (£690m) development which will be the tallest building on the US West Coast when completed.</div>
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Officials from the construction company said the man was not supposed to be above the third floor and had removed his hard hat.</div>
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An eyewitness told AP the driver of the car that was struck was "hysterical", waving her hands in the air and holding her head. She was later taken to hospital.</div>
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The construction company said work on the project would not take place on Friday "to honour our workforce and out of respect" and counsellors would be available to help workers through "this very difficult situation".</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09036774143646904232noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5313906459271646562.post-26024566503000871712016-03-18T03:20:00.000-07:002016-03-18T03:20:02.481-07:00South Africa Gupta row: ANC's Mantashe warns of 'mafia state'<div class="story-body__introduction" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 28px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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South Africa risks turning into a "mafia state", a senior governing party official has warned, as pressure grows on President Jacob Zuma over his links with a wealthy family.</div>
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Gwede Mantashe made the comments after deputy Finance Minister Mcebesi Jonas alleged the Gupta family had offered him a government promotion.</div>
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During a rowdy parliamentary session, Mr Zuma denied the family had influenced cabinet appointments.</div>
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The opposition called on him resign.</div>
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Mr Mantashe is the third most powerful person in the governing African National Congress (ANC), and his remarks suggest Mr Zuma may be losing the confidence of influential members of the party as well, correspondents say.</div>
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Mr Zuma's presidency has been marred by allegations of corruption, cronyism and incompetence, amid a worsening economic situation.</div>
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The crisis deepened on Wednesday, when Mr Jonas said that a member of the Gupta family had made "a mockery of our hard-earned democracy" by offering to promote him to the minister's job last year.</div>
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The family also denied the allegation.</div>
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In an interview with Bloomberg, Mr Mantashe, the ANC secretary-general, said: "We need to deal with this; it will degenerate into a mafia state if this goes on."</div>
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He told the BBC that Mr Zuma was not "untouchable", but denied that the party planned to oust him.</div>
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The ANC would, however, deal with the "corporate capture" of government, Mr Mantashe said.</div>
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Questioned by the opposition in parliament about Mr Jonas' allegation, Mr Zuma said: "I'm in charge of the government. There is no minister who was ever appointed by the Guptas."</div>
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The speaker ordered opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) leader Mmusi Maimane to leave the chamber for breaching parliamentary rules, prompting the party's MPs to walk out in solidarity with him.</div>
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The Zumas and the Guptas - the 'Zuptas'</h2>
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Earlier, Mr Maimane said power had shifted from the government to the Guptas.</div>
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"You and your family are getting richer while South Africans are getting poorer," he told Mr Zuma.</div>
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The party said in a statement that Mr Zuma's position was becoming "increasingly untenable", and he should resign or be sacked by the governing party.</div>
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The left-wing Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party boycotted the parliamentary session, saying it did not recognise Mr Zuma as leader of South Africa.</div>
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President Zuma's simple denial of his toxic relationship with the Gupta family seemed to sum up the view held by many here, that he is not fully engaged in running the country.</div>
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"Deny, deny, deny" is the same strategy the 73-year-old employed when he came under fire over the use of government money to upgrade his private home in the rural area of Nkandla - until he was forced to make a U-turn when the opposition took him to South Africa's highest court.</div>
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The court is yet to make a ruling on whether he breached his oath of office by failing to repay the money, despite an anti-corruption watchdog finding that he had "unduly benefited" from the renovations.</div>
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In parliament, Mr Zuma seemed detached from the crisis gripping South Africa.</div>
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Nor did the speaker, a senior member of the governing party, inspire confidence in South Africa's 22-year-old democracy when she threw out opposition leader Mmusi Maimane, as he challenged the president.</div>
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The opposition has long accused Mr Zuma of letting the Guptas wield excessive influence.</div>
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The Guptas, who arrived in South Africa from India in 1993, have huge interests in computers, air travel, energy, and technology.</div>
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They said Mr Jonas' statement was political point-scoring.</div>
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In 2013, there was an outcry after a private jet carrying guests to the wedding of a Gupta family member was allowed to land at a South African military air force base in Pretoria.</div>
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The opposition has said that links between President Zuma and the Guptas were so close that they have been nicknamed the "Zuptas".</div>
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On the face of it the small Finnish town of Nokia looks wholly unremarkable. A few squat blocks of flats are nestled in the winter snow, and along the heavily gritted main road is a small strip of shops, restaurants and a discount supermarket.</div>
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There's little sign that this quiet backwater once gave its name to the company that revolutionised the mobile phone industry in the late 1990s and helped turn Finland's economy into one of the most prosperous in the world.</div>
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At its peak in the early 2000s Nokia supplied 40% of the world's mobile phones, creating Finland's first globally recognised consumer brand.</div>
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At home its impact was even greater. According to the Research Institute of the Finnish Economy it contributed a quarter of Finland's growth between 1998 and 2007 - a period Finnish finance minister Alexander Stubb calls an "economic miracle".</div>
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But as quickly as it emerged, Nokia's dominance of the mobile phone market came crashing down, hitting Finland's economy hard and coinciding with the longest recession in the country's history.</div>
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"Nokia was huge in Finland by all indicators, and when that was scaled down we were horrified about the possible consequences," says Kari Kankaala, director of economic and urban development for the city of Tampere.</div>
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'Backbone of everything'</h2>
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Tampere is about 15 minutes down the road from the town of Nokia, and the site of the company's biggest research and development site, at its peak employing 4,000 high-tech, skilled workers.</div>
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The city's old redbrick smokestacks tell the story of its 19th Century industrial past, but the rise and fall of Nokia's mobile phone business has dominated its more recent history.</div>
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"It was the backbone of everything here," says Mr Kankaala. "The universities relied on collaboration with Nokia, the subcontractors depended on Nokia, the kids relied on being employed by Nokia."</div>
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"Now we have an horrendous unemployment situation of the order of 14-15%."</div>
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Other high-tech firms have since moved in to fill the void. And Nokia's separate networks business, focusing on telecoms infrastructure, remains a successful Finnish enterprise. But a wider economic malaise in Finland means fewer people are hiring now.</div>
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In Tampere former Nokia employees still ponder how the company went from world leader in mobile phones as recently as 2007 to the struggling takeover target for Microsoft in 2014.</div>
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"I think one of the high points was when we'd shrunk the mobile phones smaller than Motorola," says Mika Grundstrom, a former senior manager at Nokia's R&D site in Tampere. "That was around 1997-1998. It was kind of an engineering dream."</div>
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For Mika the brief in the early days was simple - make the phone with the best battery life in the smallest case possible.</div>
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But then all that changed with the rise of the smartphone, and in particular the launch of Apple's iPhone in 2007.</div>
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"Things became much more complex. We were not so sure anymore what we should actually target. Is it ease of use, is it battery life, is it size?" he says.</div>
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"If you think about the battery life - we had devices that could last for a week. Then you have this new device, it's excellent but you need to charge it every day. Ok so how do you actually sell that to the customer?"</div>
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Nokia played catch-up in the smartphone market until 2014, when its mobile phone business was sold to Microsoft and the Nokia name was removed from its devices all together.</div>
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But despite its effective demise, many Finns say there is a positive legacy to appreciate.</div>
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"Giving Nokia shares to workers made it accepted that your next door neighbour could be a millionaire," says Kari Kankaala. He says Nokia's biggest impact was to revolutionise Finland's business culture.</div>
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"That acceptance that someone can actually make money, combined with the new approach to entrepreneurship - that was a major change."</div>
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Two hours to the south in Helsinki there are already signs of that new business culture taking hold in the post-Nokia world.</div>
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Tuomas Kytomaa is a software engineer who spent most of his career working for Nokia, including stints in the US and Germany.</div>
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Last year he returned to Finland to work for the online retailer Zalando and set up a tech hub on the site of an old cable factory in the Finnish capital, now converted into trendy office space.</div>
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For him Nokia's legacy is a wealth of talent and expertise waiting to be tapped.</div>
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"The talent hasn't really gone anywhere," he says. "The sheer magnitude of Nokia in Finland means that there's a pool of tech talent that has deep specialised knowledge."</div>
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"Finland's buzzing with high-tech skills and start-ups."</div>
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Whatever the future of Finland's tech industry, few believe that a company of Nokia's size and influence will appear again.</div>
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"When Nokia was a dominant player in this business, there were a lot of good things that happened in Finland," says Seppo Haataja, another former manager at Nokia's research and development site.</div>
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"Now the situation is changing. the innovations are not coming through the big companies - it's small companies, the start ups.</div>
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Cameroon has sentenced 89 members of Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram to death, local media report.</div>
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They were convicted on terror charges by a military court for their roles in several attacks in Cameroon's northern region which borders Nigeria.</div>
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Hundreds of people have been killed in a spate of attacks in Cameroon since it joined a regional force set up to tackle the militants last year.</div>
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Manchester United and Liverpool have been charged by Uefa following crowd trouble during the Europa League last-16 second leg at Old Trafford.</div>
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Rival fans were seen fighting in the stands, seats were thrown and flares were lit at Thursday's match, during which five men were arrested.</div>
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Both clubs have been charged with crowd disturbances and throwing of objects.</div>
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North Korea has test-fired two ballistic missiles, the latest in a series of rocket launches.</div>
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US officials said the medium-range missiles, launched off the east coast, flew about 800km (500 miles) before falling into the water.</div>
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Afterwards, the US called for Pyongyang to refrain from raising tensions.</div>
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It comes a day after US President Barack Obama imposed new sanctions, following North Korea's "illicit" nuclear test and satellite launch.</div>
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His executive order freezes North Korean government property in the United States. It bans US exports to - or investment in - North Korea and also greatly expands powers to blacklist anyone, including non-Americans, dealing with North Korea.</div>
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The 6 January nuclear test and 7 February satellite launch were violations of existing UN sanctions, as are ballistic missile tests.</div>
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US defence officials said two launches had been tracked of what appeared to be Nodong missiles fired from road-mobile launch vehicles.</div>
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With a maximum range of 1,300km, the Nodong would have the capability to reach all of South Korea and parts of Japan. North Korea's last Nodong test was in March 2014.</div>
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Japanese PM Shinzo Abe condemned the launch and said his government would work with the US and South Korea to coordinate a response.</div>
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Lt Col Michelle Baldanza, from the US defence press office said: "We call on North Korea to refrain from actions that further raise tensions in the region."</div>
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Amid the heightened tensions, the North sentenced a US student to 15 years hard labour on Wednesday for "severe crimes" against the state.</div>
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The US demanded North Korea immediately release Otto Warmbier, 21, who was arrested for trying to steal a propaganda sign from a hotel while on a visit in January.</div>
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The US and South Korea are also holding their biggest annual military drills this month, which routinely generate tension.</div>
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But this year North Korea threatened to launch a "pre-emptive nuclear strike of justice" against the US and South Korea.</div>
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A Beijing-based columnist has gone missing while on his way to Hong Kong, his lawyer has told the BBC.</div>
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No-one has had contact with Jia Jia since Tuesday night when he was set to board his flight. His wife has reported him missing.</div>
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He is said to have warned an editor friend about publishing an anonymous letter calling for President Xi Jinping's resignation.</div>
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The letter appeared on a state-linked site but was swiftly taken down.</div>
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It is unclear who authored the letter, which had the byline "loyal Communist Party supporters". Mr Jia had reportedly insisted he had no connection to the letter.</div>
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The incident appears to be the latest in a string of high-profile censorship incidents, amid a ramp-up of state campaigns aimed at burnishing Mr Xi's image.</div>
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What we know</h2>
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Mr Jia, who is in his 30s, is known for writing socio-political commentaries for the online news portal Tencent. He was due to fly from Beijing to Hong Kong on Tuesday when he became uncontactable.</div>
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The newspaper Apple Daily quoted Mr Jia's wife as saying she last spoke to him at 20:00 local time on Tuesday, and he told her he was about to board the plane to Hong Kong.</div>
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She added that Mr Jia was due to arrive at a friend's home that night, but he never arrived. He also missed a lunch appointment the next day.</div>
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His lawyer, Yan Xin, told the BBC: "We don't have any clue who took him away and why... there is [a] great possibility that he was taken away from the airport."</div>
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"His wife has not received any official document on Jia Jia's whereabouts and status."</div>
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Mr Yan added that attempts to find Mr Jia's flight booking record had failed, and he and Mr Jia's wife were checking with immigration authorities.</div>
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What the letter said</h2>
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The letter in question raised eyebrows when it appeared on the state-linked news site Watching, also known as Wujie News, on 4 March.</div>
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Addressed to Mr Xi, it called for him to step down, accusing him of gaining "excessive power" and creating a "personality cult", and ran through a list of criticism of his rule ranging from his diplomatic policies to his economic decisions.</div>
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Analysis: John Sudworth, BBC News, Beijing</h2>
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Apart from the whereabouts of the missing blogger apparently caught up in all of this, the big mystery is how on earth the letter appeared on a Chinese news website in the first place.</div>
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That people may hold these kinds of views is entirely possible, of course. But that anyone might take the risk of openly publishing, on a government-backed website, a call for the Chinese President's resignation would be extraordinary.</div>
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That's why there is speculation that the website was hacked in some way.</div>
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The Chinese authorities will, we can be certain, be trying to find out the truth, although probably not with a view to sharing the results of that investigation with the outside world.</div>
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Mr Jia is said to have cautioned his friend Ouyang Hongliang - an editor at Watching - after he saw it published.</div>
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The BBC tried to contact Mr Ouyang on his mobile phone but he could not be reached.</div>
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A colleague at Watching told the BBC that those involved with the letter's publication were "under investigation".</div>
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Watching stated it had reproduced the letter from another site, Canyu, an overseas-based portal known for carrying articles critical of China's government.</div>
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Canyu's version of the letter is still online.</div>
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Uganda's main opposition leader Kizza Besigye has been taken into police custody after vowing to lead a protest march against President Yoweri Museveni's election victory.</div>
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Mr Besigye was bundled into a police van when he tried to leave his home, where he had been under house arrest.</div>
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His wife Winnie Byanyima said it was like a "military barracks" outside their home in the capital, Kampala.</div>
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Mr Museveni won Thursday's poll by a landslide to extend his 30-year rule.</div>
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Mr Besigye said the result had been rigged, while foreign observers said the poll had been marred by fear and intimidation.</div>
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In a BBC interview, Mr Museveni rejected allegations of vote rigging, and accused Mr Besigye of planning to incite violence.</div>
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Responding to criticism from European Union observers that the electoral commission "lacked independence and transparency", Mr Museveni told the BBC's Zuhura Yunus that "those Europeans are not serious".</div>
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"Transparency is what we've been voting for," he added.</div>
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Mr Besigye had vowed to march to the headquarters of the Electoral Commission to ask for a copy of the official declaration of results.</div>
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Official results gave Mr Museveni nearly 61% of the votes, with Mr Besigye taking 35%.</div>
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It was the fourth time Mr Besigye, candidate for the opposition Forum for Democratic Change party, had lost to Mr Museveni.</div>
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The two men were once allies, with Mr Besigye serving as Mr Museveni's personal doctor when they were guerrilla fighters.</div>
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Mr Museveni, a key ally of the West in the campaign against militant Islamists in the region, seized power in 1986 and is credited with restoring stability to Uganda.</div>
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However, critics say he has become increasingly authoritarian.</div>
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On Friday, the US said Mr Museveni should "rein in" his security forces after they briefly arrested Mr Besigye, and fired tear gas to disperse his supporters in Kampala.</div>
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Fire at Sea, a documentary about Europe's migrant crisis, has won the Golden Bear award for best movie at the Berlin Film Festival.</div>
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Gianfranco Rosi's harrowing movie depicts life on the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa.</div>
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The best director award went to Mia Hansen-Love for Things to Come.</div>
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Majd Mastoura won best actor for his role in Inhebbek Hedi, while Trine Dyrholm took best actress for her part in the movie, Kollektivet.</div>
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Accepting the award for Fire at Sea (Fuocoammare) from the jury led by American actress Meryl Streep, Rosi said: "I hope to bring awareness. It's not acceptable that people die crossing the sea to escape from tragedies."</div>
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The movie contrasts the ordeal of migrants as they make the sea crossing to Europe with the everyday life of the people of Lampedusa, to whom Rosi dedicated the film.</div>
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Streep said: "It's a daring hybrid of captured footage and deliberate storytelling that allows us to consider what documentary can do. It is urgent, imaginative and necessary filmmaking."</div>
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The French film Things to Come stars Isabelle Huppert as a teacher coping with the death of her mother and disintegration of her marriage.</div>
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Tunisian Majd Mastoura's best actor award was for his role in a love story following the Arab Spring, while Denmark's Trine Dyrholm plays a wronged wife in Kollektivet (The Commune).</div>
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The Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize was awarded to Death in Sarajevo and its director Danis Tanovic.</div>
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Samsung's latest flagship phones restore a couple of popular features dropped from the previous generation.</div>
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The Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge both accept MicroSD cards, allowing their storage to be expanded, and can also be submerged underwater.</div>
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In addition, they feature new gaming tech and a rear camera that should cope better in low-light conditions.</div>
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Their overall design, however, is similar to the Galaxy S6 line-up.</div>
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Some experts suggested that could pose a challenge.</div>
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"Although there are significant improvements under the bonnet with the camera, the chipset, the removable storage and the water resistance, Samsung will have to make sure that's visible to consumers," commented Ian Fogg from the IHS Technology consultancy.</div>
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"Because at a glance they look to be the same as last year's model."</div>
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Samsung does not disclose smartphone sales numbers. However its share of the market dropped by 2% in 2015, according to research firm IDC, at a time when Apple, Huawei and Xiaomi made gains.</div>
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Even so, IDC's data still indicates the South Korean firm remains the bestselling brand by a wide margin.</div>
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1. Samsung Galaxy</div>
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2. Samsung Galaxy S</div>
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3. Samsung Galaxy S2</div>
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4. Samsung Galaxy S3</div>
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5. Samsung Galaxy S4</div>
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6. Samsung Galaxy S5</div>
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7. Samsung Galaxy S6</div>
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Samsung’s first Android-powered phone ran version 1.5 (Cupcake) of Google’s mobile operating system.</div>
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It had a 3.2in (8.1cm) screen and was the first Android phone to include a 3.5mm headphone jack, allowing normal headphones to be easily connected.</div>
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March 23 2010: Samsung Galaxy S</h2>
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The first of Samsung’s S-branded series had a 4in (10.2cm) screen, ran Android 2.1 (Eclair) and could shoot video in 720p high definition.</div>
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A 4G variant of the device attracted the ire of Apple’s lawyers, and became part of a high-profile patent case fought by the two rivals.</div>
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13 Feb 2011: Samsung Galaxy S2</h2>
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The S2 was marketed as the world’s thinnest smartphone, measuring less than 8.5mm (0.33in) thick.</div>
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It had a 4.3in (10.9cm) screen and was powered by Android 2.3 (Gingerbread).</div>
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Samsung promoted the “zero lag” shutter speed of its main camera as being suitable for snapping fast-moving objects.</div>
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3 May 2012: Samsung Galaxy S3</h2>
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The S3 used eye-tracking software to detect when it was being looked at, keeping its screen bright until its owner turned away.</div>
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It had a 4.8in (12.cm) screen and ran Android 4.0.4 (Ice Cream Sandwich).</div>
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The phone also introduced S-Beam, a way to send files and contacts between Samsung handsets.</div>
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14 March 2013: Samsung Galaxy S4</h2>
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The S4 bordered on “phablet” status with a 5in (12.7cm) touchscreen, which could be used while wearing gloves.</div>
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Running Android 4.2.2 (Jelly Bean) it introduced a dual-video capture mode, allowing users to record footage from both cameras simultaneously.</div>
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24 February 2014: Samsung Galaxy S5</h2>
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The S5 added dust and water resistance, promising to work after being submerged 3ft (0.9m) deep.</div>
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It came pre-installed with Android 4.4.2 (KitKat) and introduced a fingerprint scanner and heart rate monitor.</div>
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Samsung promoted its “ultra power saving mode”, which let the device eke out a day of life when its battery fell below 10%.</div>
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10 April 2015: Samsung Galaxy S6/S6 Edge</h2>
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Samsung launched two models of its flagship phone – the Edge version had a screen that curved round its sides and was more expensive.</div>
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The phones had brighter, more detailed screens than before, and supported the firm’s new smart wallet service Samsung Pay.</div>
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However, their metal frames and glass-backed designs led to some of the S5’s features being jettisoned, including water resistance and the microSD slot.</div>
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The new devices were unveiled in Barcelona on the eve of the Mobile World Congress tech show.</div>
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While the Galaxy S7 retains the same sized screen as the S6, the S7 Edge's display has grown slightly from 5.1in (13cm) to 5.5in (14cm).</div>
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The Edge version is also slightly curvier than before and its camera protrudes less far out.</div>
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In addition, the "edged" parts of the screen now provide shortcuts to email, different photo modes and third-party apps.</div>
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They also feature processors that are faster than before and capable of supporting the Vulkan API (application program interface).</div>
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This is an open standard that lets games make more efficient use of a chip's graphics processing units (GPUs). Modern PCs and games consoles can already support Vulkan, but Samsung says its smartphones are the first to do so.</div>
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The firm has also added a "thermal spreader" to the phone's innards. This is a 0.4mm-deep band of water that turns to steam, cooling down the processor, when required.</div>
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It should allow the handset to better handle graphics-intensive titles without overheating.</div>
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In addition, Samsung has made it easier to record gameplay for later playback.</div>
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Dual pixel autofocus</h2>
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The new rear camera introduces two innovations.</div>
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Firstly, it has a bigger aperture of f/1.7 rather than f/1.9. This means the lens lets in nearly double the amount of light than before. The pixels are also slightly bigger, which should mean the phones are more capable at taking low-light photos without the need for flash.</div>
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Secondly, its sensor is the first on a smartphone to feature "dual pixel autofocus".</div>
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This means each pixel can be used to both record the image and determine focus rather than just one or the other. This enables the phone to lock focus to an object more quickly for stills, and deliver smoother focus tracking in video mode.</div>
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The technology was first developed by Canon, and until now was limited to the Japanese firm's DSLR (digital single-lens reflex) and Cinema cameras.</div>
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"It's not easy to explain or even show off at the point of sale, and that's something Samsung will struggle with," commented IDC analyst Francisco Jeronimo.</div>
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"But I believe those users who start using it will quickly realise it does make a difference and will help them get better pictures."</div>
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One consequence of adding the new technologies is that the camera's resolution has had to decrease from 16 megapixels to 12MP.</div>
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Virtual reality camera</h2>
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The South Korean firm also introduced a 360-degree camera that can film footage for playback on its virtual reality headset.</div>
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The Gear 360's interactive pictures and videos can also be uploaded to Facebook and YouTube.</div>
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The device is only compatible with the firm's own handsets. That contrasts with a similar camera unveiled by LG that works with both Android and iOS phones.</div>
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One analyst suggested such kit could "add a new dimension" to weddings and other big occasions.</div>
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"These cameras will allow users to easily create their own 360-degree content, and this will help fuel demand for virtual reality accessories and broader acceptance of the new types of photos and videos," said Ben Wood from CCS Insight.</div>
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Sales dilemma</h2>
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One company watcher suggested it was a "no brainer" to pick the new phones over the Galaxy S5 and earlier handsets, but a harder sell when compared to the S6 range.</div>
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"Samsung has a problem that is actually shared by most smartphone companies today," said Carolina Milanesi from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech.</div>
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"Each year's phones look more and more alike and what gets tweaked is more of a finesse to what's inside, and that's really hard to convince customers to pay extra for in stores."</div>
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Even so, a spokesman for Samsung said it intended to leave the S6 phones on sale alongside the new devices.</div>
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Ahmed Mansour Karni was convicted of four counts of murder, eight counts of attempted murder, vandalising security property and threatening soldiers and police officers in a military court in Cairo this week.</div>
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He was not in court when he was convicted.</div>
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The boy was among 115 defendants who were given life sentences for the crimes committed in early 2014 in his home province of el-Fayoum, 70km south of Cairo.</div>
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But his defence lawyer, Faisal al-Sayd, said Ahmed’s name was added to the list by mistake.</div>
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He said the court did not pass the boy’s birth certificate to the judge to show that he was born in September 2012.</div>
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“The child Ahmed Mansour Karni’s birth certificate was presented after state security forces added his name to the list of accused, but then the case was transferred to the military court and the child was sentenced in absentia in an ensuing court hearing,” Mr al-Sayd told the <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: LiberationSerifItalic, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Jerusalem Post</span>. “This proves that the judge did not read the case.”</div>
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Egypt has been ruled by a military dictatorship under President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi since 2013.</div>
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Another Egyptian lawyer, Mohammed Abu Hurira, said the case showed that the “Egyptian scales of justice are not reversible” and that “there is no justice in Egypt”.</div>
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“Logic committed suicide a while ago. Egypt went crazy. Egypt is ruled by a bunch of lunatics,” he said.</div>
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An explosive <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: LiberationSerifItalic, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">60 Minutes</span> investigation, which airs on Channel 9 on Sunday, has discovered banks are irresponsibly loaning large amounts of money to people who just can’t pay it back due to a collapse in the property market.</div>
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The 24-year-old, who was an ordinary income earner, was loaned $6.5 million by a bank and encouraged to invest in a “highly volatile” market in the little mining town of Moranbah in Queensland — she bought 10 properties.</div>
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She has now obtained documents from the bank that loaned her the money, which show they knew there was a medium to high risk of the values collapsing and her homes being left abandoned by potential renters.</div>
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Reporter Ross Coulthart said he thought the case was an isolated incident, until he delved deeper and discovered this was what banks were doing in remote communities in Queensland, Western Australia and the Northern Territory.</div>
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“It raises a question mark about the rationality of lending practises and why thousands of investors are looking at bankruptcy because they can’t get tenants into their investment apartments or residential homes,” Mr Coulthart told news.com.au.</div>
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“The investors bought their properties during a peak in the market, some were $600,000 or $700,000 for ordinary buildings, but now some are worth just $100,000.”</div>
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Renowned investment expert Jonathan Tepper, who has predicted mortgage bubble bursts in both Ireland and the United States, told Mr Coulthart Australia would be next.</div>
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Mr Tepper believes property values will plummet by 30 to 50 per cent, leaving investors with incredibly high loans to pay back and a lack of return from their investments.</div>
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Mr Tepper told <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: LiberationSerifItalic, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">60 Minutes</span> he had gone undercover to see how willing banks and brokers are to loan obscene amounts of money to people with average incomes.</div>
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The expert pretended to be somebody with a yearly income of $110,000 and spoke to property moguls developing multi-million dollar apartments.</div>
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He was offered assistance to buy a million-dollar apartment on 95 per cent borrowings.</div>
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“When he asked property developers about how he was going to get a loan, they boasted about having someone on the inside that could help get the money,” Mr Coulthart said.</div>
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“That shows through Australian lending practises, especially through brokers, there’s a lot of improper behaviour going on, and in some cases there are claims of pay slips being forged.”</div>
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Mr Tepper told Mr Coulthart Australia is already seeing signs of the mortgage bubble burst and he thinks property in the country is ridiculously overvalued.</div>
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Mr Coulthart said people with an average income who wanted to buy an investment property</div>
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had to borrow 10 and 20 times their gross income.</div>
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“That is a preposterous amount of lending,” he said. “Property values in Australia are out of control and the level of mortgage debt in Australia is something like 3.8 times the gross domestic product.”</div>
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Mr Tepper said the mortgage bubble burst was a disaster waiting to happen, and while he doesn’t know when Australia will suffer from this, he thinks it is imminent within the next year.</div>
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He questioned why people are being encouraged to borrow 10 to 20 times their gross income.</div>
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“It’s an unsustainable level of borrowing,” he said.</div>
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The 24-year-old featured in the <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: LiberationSerifItalic, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">60 Minutes</span> report doesn’t entirely blame the bank for the millions she borrowed, admitting to being greedy.</div>
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But she said while she didn’t look closely enough at her capacity to repay the loan, she believes the banks also had a duty of care.</div>
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“What this has taught her is banks are throwing money at people in the good times and now in the bad times banks will blame the borrower and say it’s their fault for borrowing all this money,” Mr Coulthart said.</div>
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“To some degree that’s true, but they should have a duty of care to make sure people have the capacity to repay.”</div>
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The documents the 24-year-old got her hands on in relation to her loan show the bank knew her investment was risky.</div>
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“So it doesn’t make a great deal of sense why the bank loaned this money,” Mr Coulthart said.</div>
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“The woman’s point is, yes she accepts some of the responsibility, but believes the bank has to acknowledge it made a mistake loaning the money.”</div>
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The <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: LiberationSerifItalic, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">60 Minutes</span> investigation also tells the story of couple Simone and Shane James, who are $2.3 million in debt.</div>
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They invested in apartments in a remote mining town, which they can’t fill with tenants.</div>
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When applying for the loan, they put down their family home as security, and now they have to sell up and declare bankruptcy.</div>
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“They are shattered,” Mr Coulthart said. “They freely admit they made a terrible mistake.”</div>
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The reporter said the couple knew this would make them the subject of public ridicule, but believed it was more important for other people to be aware of the lending practises.</div>
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“They think there was a mistake made in lending the money,” Mr Coulthart said. “They are not blaming the bank entirely but there needs to be a debate that banks, despite what they are saying, are not in fact following due diligence or normal lending practises.”</div>
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The <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: LiberationSerifItalic, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">60 Minutes</span> report reveals people are borrowing 95 or sometimes 100 per cent of the cost of their investments.</div>
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A lack of tenants and a struggle with repayments mean it’s resulting in multi-million dollar white elephants in Australia’s mining towns.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09036774143646904232noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5313906459271646562.post-75086961185954080502016-02-21T10:04:00.000-08:002016-02-21T10:04:01.060-08:00Notorious criminal Peter Walker is back in jail<img src="http://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/63d324c723a58c4abdcea496503a5977" /><br />
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Crime is the one thing that Peter Walker has always known.</div>
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He started off committing petty thefts but as he grew older, his law-breaking became much more wicked.</div>
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Innocent people were terrified by his behaviour, others were killed, he was even a fugitive with one of Australia’s most feared criminals, Ronald Ryan.</div>
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Walker is now back in the slammer for a crime he committed in 2014 after being a free man for exactly three decades.</div>
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Walker was arrested at Perth airport, he was armed with $100,000 and a fake passport and was attempting to flee the country.</div>
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He was trying to escape Australia because he was the subject of a police investigation after a clandestine drug lab and guns were found in 2013 in Yaapeet.</div>
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He was jailed just days ago for seven years and two months.</div>
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He will be eligible for parole after four years and four months.</div>
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The County Court heard Walker stole the identity of a deceased neighbour.</div>
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Walker’s criminal history has been shadowed by his former inmate Ryan, the last person to be hanged at Pentridge Prison and the mastermind behind the 1965 prison break.</div>
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Walker was mainly known as Ryan’s accomplice.</div>
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Walker grew up in London, handed from foster home to foster home.</div>
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His mother gassed herself in her bed when Walker was seven and he became estranged from his father when he was just eight.</div>
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As he grew older he began stealing cars and when he reached his 20s, he committed an unsuccessful armed robbery.</div>
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For that crime in 1965, he was sentenced to nine years in prison.</div>
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Later that year was when he pulled of the daring escape with Ryan.</div>
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Trapped by cold, stone, prison walls, Ryan and Walker plotted to flee.</div>
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On December 19, 1965 when the two scaled the walls, Walker watched Ryan shoot prison officer George Hodson dead as he grabbed Walker to stop him escaping.</div>
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Hodson was hitting Walker over the head with a piece of pipe but Walker broke free and ran for Ryan.</div>
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Ryan shot Hodson in his chest and he died.</div>
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The pair then got away from other officers chasing them after they hijacked a car.</div>
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They were on the run for 19 days, during that time they robbed an ANZ bank in Orman and stole £4500.</div>
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On Christmas Eve, an award was offered for the capture of Walker and Ryan.</div>
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The Victorian Government would give away £5000 ($10,000) for information that resulted in a capture and one prison officer wanted them both hanged when caught.</div>
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Ryan and Walker were hiding out in a safe house in Kensington before moving into a flat in Elwood, owned by Christine Aitken.</div>
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On Christmas Eve, they carelessly threw a party and Aitken’s boyfriend, Arthur Henderson, was there.</div>
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When they ran out of beer, Henderson and Walker went on a quest for grog but an hour later, Walker was alone.</div>
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He brutally shot Henderson in the head in a toilet block.</div>
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<img alt="George Hodson was killed by Ronald Ryan during his escape with Peter Walker." height="421" src="http://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/764cc5fdbf886832534d3e04d898bfc2" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="316" /></div>
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<img alt="Arthur James Henderson was murdered. Peter John Walker was sentenced to 12 years for his manslaughter." height="421" src="http://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/31d6e478449bdc3fffef8e4f4cad7923" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="316" /></div>
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Fairfax Media reported Walker said he was forced to shoot Henderson because he was being attacked.</div>
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On New Year’s Eve, Walker and Ryan moved towards Sydney because Ryan wanted to meet up with a woman.</div>
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The woman’s daughter recognised Ryan from reports on the fugitives and told the police.</div>
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They were later caught.</div>
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For the murder of Henderson, Walker was found guilty of manslaughter and was sentenced to 12 years in prison.</div>
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Ryan was sentenced to death for killing the prison officer.</div>
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When Walker was released to freedom, he lived a humble life out of the spotlight, until now.</div>
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Walker is now 74, and it is likely he will end his life the way he started it.</div>
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With a thirst for crime despite him successfully turning around his life for 30 years.</div>
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Irish-born graduate Eimear Ni Ghiallgairrh, 29, whipped off her skirt in the customs area in protest over delays. She was left standing in her black tights before the officers attempted to preserve her modesty and prevent any further revelations.</div>
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The trained architect claims she broke her arm in the scuffle as she was arrested. She was held in a cell for 12 hours and ripped up a police code of conduct handbook, a court heard.</div>
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Ghiallgairrh pleaded guilty to disorderly behaviour and criminal damage when she appeared before Chelmsford magistrates today.</div>
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Prosecutor Karen Phillips told how Ghiallgairrh was running late for a flight to Ireland and became “frustrated at the situation” as she was held up in security.</div>
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Miss Phillips added: “She refused to be searched, became heated, got agitated and removed her skirt, standing in her tights.</div>
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“Members of the public around were distressed as she was undressing. She also banged on the desk angrily.”</div>
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But Ghiallgairrh blamed the incident on the overzealous security.</div>
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She said: “I was becoming increasingly frustrated by the airport staff. A police officer came from behind me as I leant casually on the table, I turned around to hear him tell me to calm down.</div>
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“He said ‘you’re on drugs. I said I’m not on drugs. He said I shouldn’t talk to him like that because he had a machinegun.</div>
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“I asked why he would need to use a machine gun on me. He said that if I didn’t shut up he was going to arrest me. I asked ‘Why? What for?</div>
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“He aggressively handcuffed me and shouted “section four” while lifting me up by my wrist, breaking my thumb as a consequence. I screamed in pain.”</div>
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The architect’s arm was broken when two officers arrested her. She was fined £150 ($300) after pleading guilty to disorderly behaviour and criminal damage.</div>
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District Judge John Woollard fined Ghiallgairrh $160 with $40 victim surcharge and $100 costs as she sat with her arm in plaster.</div>
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He added: “I have to take into account the stress you were in which led to your behaviour and the fact you were surrounded by thousands of other people also stressed.”</div>
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Ghiallgairrh has been in the UK for 18-months and the court was told she is planning on going back to Ireland.</div>
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A FIVE-year-old albino girl has been kidnapped and killed by gunmen – who cut off her arm to use in WITCHCRAFT, it is feared.</div>
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The bandits stormed into the child's home in Burundi in the early hours of Wednesday morning, attacking her parents before abducting her.</div>
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They were pursued by the family's neighbours, who later discovered the girl's dismembered body.</div>
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In neighbouring Tanzania, a worryingly lucrative black market trade in the organs and body parts of albino people means an entire corpse can sell for as much as £50,000.</div>
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The UN's top climate diplomat, Christiana Figueres, has said she will leave her post in July.</div>
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Ms Figueres said she would not accept an extension of her appointment which finishes this summer.</div>
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As executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, she played a key role in the talks that lead to the Paris Climate Agreement.</div>
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Her contribution to the negotiation process was praised as "really extraordinary".</div>
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Ms Figueres became executive secretary in the wake of the Copenhagen climate conference in 2009, widely perceived to have been a failure.</div>
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Over the past six years she helped rebuilt the momentum for a global compact, which saw 195 nations sign the Paris Climate Agreement after weeks of intense negotiations in the French capital last December.</div>
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In her letter to the UN confirming that she was standing down, the 59-year-old Ms Figueres highlighted the importance of that deal.</div>
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"The Paris Agreement is a historical achievement, built on years of increasing willingness to construct bridges of collaboration and solidarity. It has been an honour to support you along this path over the past six years," she wrote.</div>
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Before taking the UN post in 2010, Ms Figueres had been part of Costa Rica's climate negotiating team since the mid 1990s.</div>
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Her contribution to the successful outcome of the talks in Paris was praised by climate economist Lord Stern.</div>
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"Christiana's contribution to international climate negotiations over the [past] six years has been really extraordinary," he said.</div>
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"She is gifted with an outstanding ability to see where we need to go as a world and to bring people together.</div>
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"Christiana is one of the great leaders of our time. She no doubt has much more to contribute in the coming years. The challenge for everyone is to build on her achievements, and I am sure she will be part of that."</div>
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Ms Figueres has announced her decision to stand down in the same week as the President of the Paris conference, Laurent Fabius, announced he was stepping aside from that role. He is being replaced by French environment minister Segolene Royal.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09036774143646904232noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5313906459271646562.post-81348077465182180792016-02-21T05:27:00.000-08:002016-02-21T05:27:26.687-08:00No special centre for 2016 UTME, says JAMBLagos – The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Sunday, said it would not create any special centre for the 2016 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). The UTME, which will be Computer Base Test (CBT) mode all through, is expected to begin on Monday, Feb. 29. <br />
<a name='more'></a>In a statement by Head, Media and Information of the board, Dr Fabian Benjamin, said the attention of the board was drawn to protests by some alleged prospective candidates in Edo and Lagos states over the closure of the board’s registration portal in preparation to the UTME. “The board sincerely sympathises with the plight of these prospective candidates. CANDIDATES WRITING UTME IN ABUJA “It is indeed the wish of the board that the Nigerian youth desirous of tertiary education are given ample opportunity to register for its examination. “This is why it began the sale of its application document in August 2015, which is about seven months ago. “In the advertisement for the sale of the registration documents, the board clearly stated that the sales would close by January. “But due to public appeal it extended the registration process to February,” the statement read in part. The board further stated that it could not allow candidates to register perpetually, adding that it had a time table and it adheres strictly to it. It noted that this was to allow tertiary institutions to begin admission processes early. “We all must work to enshrine the culture of discipline in the system and ensure that tertiary institutions calendars are not truncated. “It is most unfortunate that some candidates waited until our website was withdrawn before making attempts to register,” the board stated. It noted that every aspiring candidate was expected to know the procedure as proper publicity involving the media was done. More than one million candidates have so far registered for the examination on the all CBT platform within and outside the country. More than 500 centres were also accredited for the conduct of the examination within and outside Nigeria. (NAN)<br />
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Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/02/no-special-centre-for-2016-utme-says-jamb/Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09036774143646904232noreply@blogger.com0