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Human rights lawyer , Mr . Femi Falana ( SAN ) , on Sunday called on President Muhammadu Buhari to refer the $ 25 bn contract scam allegations leveled against the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation , Mr . Maikanti Baru , to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for investigation . He also said , in a statement that , during EFCC ’ s investigation “ into the grave allegations of the reckless contravention of the provisions of the Public Procurement Act ” the President should place Baru on an indefinite suspension . He also called on Buhari to relinquish the position of the substantive Minister of Petroleum Resources due to the President ’ s “ busy schedule” and appoint another Nigerian of proven integrity and competence to take up the position . He added that if his advice was heeded to , relinquishing the said ministerial position would “ remove undue pressure on the health of the President and allow him to attend to urgent matters of t...

Space scientists in Britain have won more than 4.2 million U. S. dollars of government funding to help support exploration of life on Mars. The funding from the official UK Space Agency will also help support studies into experiments that could be built and flown to the International Space Station (ISS), which could potentially support future human exploration of space. The UK Space Agency’s Aurora Science program is exploiting data from robotic exploration, including major investment in European Space Agency’s ExoMars mission. A spokesman for the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, said British research will target questions of past and present life on Mars, investigating the presence of water and the geochemical environment, as well as atmospheric trace gases and their sources. Science Minister Jo Johnson said: “This government funding will play a vital role in ensuring UK academics can continue to study the secrets of our solar system, from the polar re...

Beijing – Chinese President Xi Jinping’s anti-graft drive,which has targeted officials at all levels, has punished more than 1.3 million people in five years, the anti-corruption watchdog said Sunday. The anti-corruption campaign, which Jinping launched shortly after becoming the Communist Party’s leader in 2012, was meant to fell both high-level “tigers” within the party and “flies” in lower bureaucratic ranks. More than 1.3 million officials at the township level or lower have been punished in the past five years, including 648,000 village officials, said the party’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. The announcement comes just as the Communist Party is preparing to convene, starting Oct.18 in a congress that takes place once every five years to anoint the party’s top leadership. Jinping is largely expected to remain president for another five years but some reshuffling might take place in the Politburo Standing Committee, the top decision-making body. Critics ...

Multiple Grammy Award-winning rapper Nelly has been arrested after a woman accused him of raping her in his tour bus. He was arrested on Saturday in Auburn, State of Washington in the northwestern part of US, according to reports. Police in Auburn said a woman called the emergency 911 just before 4:00 am local time (1100 GMT) “to report that she was sexually assaulted by a male, who is known as the rapper ‘Nelly.” After police investigated the incident, “at 4:37 AM Nelly was taken into custody and booked” at the local jail, the police statement read. The alleged assault reportedly took place on the tour bus hours after Nelly had performed at the White River Amphitheater just east of Auburn. A lawyer for Nelly vehemently denied the charges. Nelly — born Cornell Haynes Jr. — “is the victim of a completely fabricated allegation,” his attorney Scott Rosenblum told AFP in a statement. “Our initial investigation clearly establishes this allegation is devoid of credibility and ...

Schools in several cities across Madagascar will stay closed this week due to an outbreak of bubonic plague, with the death toll rising to 42, the Health Ministry said on Sunday. The government had already prohibited crowds from gathering in order to curb the further spread of the dangerous disease that had sickened 343 people as at Sunday, according to Health Ministry figures. On Friday, the ministry put the death toll at 36, with 250 sickened. “In the heavily populated capital, Antananarivo, 142 people have been infected. Schools in the affected cities of Antananarivo, Toamasina and other regions have been closed for a week,” the Healthy Ministry said. Outbreaks of bubonic plague are common in Madagascar, which lies off Africa’s south-eastern coast, but the most recent outbreak has included cases of the more serious pneumonic form of plague. About 400 cases of plague are reported in Madagascar every year, most of them bubonic, which is transmitted by flies. The much rarer...

At least seven people have died, with 132 still reported injured after the two explosions at a petrol station in Ghana’s capital, Accra, the Presidency confirmed on Sunday. A statement signed by the Information Minister, Mustapha Hamid, added that out of those injured, 64 persons had been discharged from the hospitals with 68 others receiving treatment. Hamid said the Vice President on Sunday morning visited the site of the explosion at Atomic Junction near Madina to get the first-hand update. The fire which was reported to have started at about 7 p.m. on Saturday night also caught an adjacent filling station and set ablaze many vehicles at a nearby taxi and commercial buses hub. “Government expressed its condolences to families of the deceased and injured in the unfortunate incident, it also commended the Fire Service, Ambulance Service and police for their quick control and rescue exercise. “Any injured persons who may have been evacuated from the scene on their own should...

A viral disease, monkeypox, has broken out in Yenagoa, Bayelsa capital with no fewer than 11 people under medical surveillance at a state hospital. It was learnt that a medical doctor and 10 persons suspected to be infected with the monkeypox virus had been quarantined in an isolation centre at the Niger Delta University Teaching Hospital Okolobiri in Yenagoa Local Government Area of the state. Outbreak Of Monkey Pox In Nigeria NCDC Says at least 11 cases of the disease have been identified after an 11-year-old boy in the southern state of Bayelsa presented symptoms in September. A further 32 close contacts are being monitored in case they have caught the virus, the Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) said on Thursday. What Is Monkey Pox Monkeypox is a viral zoonosis—a disease that is primarily transmitted from animals to humans—that was first identified in humans in 1970 in the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to the  World Health Organization  (WHO)....