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Saturday, 24 September 2016

Manhunt after Burlington shootings

A manhunt is under way for a shooter who killed five people at a shopping centre in Washington state on Saturday.

Police have released a photo of the suspect, who is described as a male in his late teens or early 20s wearing a black shirt and shorts. The shooter's motive is unclear.

The deaths took place inside Macy's department store at Cascade Mall in Burlington, near Seattle.

The FBI said there is no evidence that the shooting was linked to terrorism.

Police confirmed four women were killed inside Macy's. A man later died in hospital. They have not been identified.
Speaking at a news conference on Saturday morning, Lt Chris Cammock said security footage showed the suspect entered the mall without a weapon. Ten minutes later the video shows the suspect entering Macy's with a rifle.

The United Kingdom, U.K, has commended the Nigerian armed forces the successes so far in tackling the Boko Haram insurgency in the North East.

The U.K. Assistant Chief of Defence Staff, Rear Admiral Simon James Ancona gave this commendation when he led a delegation of the UK Ministry of Defence and Engagement on a courtesy visit to the Nigeria Chief of Defence Staff, General Gabriel Olonisakin.

Troops of Operation Lafiya Dole and Multinational Joint Task Force, MNJTF, recently captured Mallam Fatori , a town in northern Borno state, during which it killed several of the Boko Haram terrorists.
Olonisakin had before now stated that troops operating in the North East have so dealt with Boko Haram sect that they can no longer launch attacks and claim territories, assuring that the military will continue its onslaught against Boko Haram insurgents.

The controversial prophet Ouwsu Bempah has predicted again ahead of this year's election.He says the EC boss will die,if she rigs the election in favor of the NDC,come 7th December.
Founder of Glorious Word Power Ministry International,Prophet Dr Bempah,HAS indicated that Mrs Charlotte Osei the Chairperson of the Electorial Commission(EC),will die,if she conspires with the ruling party NDC to rig the elections in favor of Presideent Mahama.

The Prophet has claimed that God will strike her with a strange desease which will send her to grave,should she falsely pronounce Mahama winner.
Speaking on Oman FM,on Wednesday,the Prophet reportedly spoke about his recent revelation,that the EC boss has connived with NDC to rig the elections in their favor.

UN Calls for Calm,awaiting for court ruling-Gabon

Ban Ki-moon,Secretary General United Nation(UN), has asked leaders in Gabon to exercise “maximum restraint” as they await the constitutional court ruling on the August 27 presidential election result.

Gabon, a central Africa oil producer is reportedly in a tense mood as it awaits for the court to rule whether ‘irregularities’ in the polls as asserted by opposition candidate Jean Ping is enough to alter the declaration of incumbent Ali Bongo as winner of the polls.

The United States ambassador to the UN, Samantha Power, also made a similar call on Friday when she met with Gabon’s Foreign Minister, who represented the president at the UN General Assembly.

The presidential nominee of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Akufo-Addo, has stated that, President John Mahama’s continuous stay in office after the December elections, will threaten Ghana’s future.Addressing party supporters at a rally in Tema West in the Greater Accra region as part of his campaign tour, he said, “The continued stay in office of John Dramani Mahama is a threat to the future of our country. This is why we are coming to change things in this December election.” “Everywhere I go, I have realised that people want a change of government. I believe Sege will be part of the change. I want the people of Sege and everybody to know that I have better policies to implement for Ghana’s development.

The Minister of Budget and National Planning, Senator Udoma Udo Udoma, has reacted to the recent call for his removal by members of the National Assembly, insisting that he is not a square peg in a round hole as claimed by some members of the National Assembly.
Some senators had on Tuesday called for the removal of Udoma alongside two other key officials saddled with the responsibility of economic management in the cabinet of President Muhammadu Buhari, with the Deputy Senate President, Chief Ike Ekweremadu, categorically saying; “Distinguished Senators, look at my friend Senator Udoma Egba, Minister of Budget and National Planning, as a lawyer, what can he do? He can be at his best in a sector related to his area of competence.”
But reacting to the call for his removal from the Ministry of Budget and National Planning, the former senator enjoined the lawmakers to go back and objectively review his antecedents, adding that they should be guided by fairness when making utterances about the personality of a fellow public servant.

The Deputy Minister of Education in charge of Tertiary Education, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has revealed that government has not budgeted for promises contained in its recently launched manifesto.

According to him, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) government will determine the cost for all the promised in the manifesto in the 2017 budget after its re-election on December 7.

“The manifesto of the NDC has not yet been costed. The 2017 budget God-willing when we are elected and President Mahama returns for his second and final term, that will be presented to parliament will spell out the details, that is when Ghanaians will know how much this particular manifesto pledge will cost,” Ablakwa

Support ''Change Begins with Me''-Bishop Onuoha

Dr David Onuoha,the Anglican Bishop of Okigwe South Diocese, has urged Nigerians to support the

recently launched “Change Begins with Me” initiative of the Federal Government.

He made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) at his Ehime Mbano Bishop Court on Friday.

He said attitudinal change was a joint task for both government officials and the citizenry, stressing that
Nigerians should not trivialise, sectionalise or politicise the programme.

He added that the initiative was key to socio-economic advancement of the country in the face of daunting economic challenges.

The Ghana Police Service has calling on all Ghanaians to be cautious about a new wave of scamming activity it has identified in the country.

The Police Service in a statement signed by its Director of Public Affairs, Supt Cephas Arthur, said “scammers operate under the guise of Police and create accident scenarios to hoodwink unsuspecting members of the public.”

It further noted that “victims receive unexpected calls indicating that some supposed relations of theirs have hit the rear of Police vehicles and that the occupant police officers are demanding money instantly through a given mobile money transfer line,

16,432 graduate teachers have been posted:Ministry of Education

Ministry of Education has posted 16,432 graduate teachers from public and private colleges of education.
A statement from the Ministry of Education noted that, this development is expected to put to bed fears that a significant number of the graduate teachers would not be absorbed following the scrapping of the quota system.A statement released on Friday, stated that “we hope the postings would put to rest claims in certain quarters that newly-trained teachers would not be absorbed this year because of the high numbers of graduates as a result of government’s decision to abolish the quota system.

Femi Adesina, the Special Adviser to President Muhadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, has asserted that nobody is immune to the current hardship ravaging the country, stressing that he took a pay cut to join the current government.

In an article he titled “After Ye Have Suffered A While,” the Presidential Media aide, urged Nigerians not to lose hope in the government.

Attributing the current economic crisis to the mismanagement of previous administrations, Adesina assured Nigerians that hard times would soon be over.
He write: “Here comes the preacher. What does he want to tell us? Doesn’t he know that we are hungry, and the din of hunger makes one deaf to reason? The rumble in our tummies, as the worms compete for the little food left there, will surely be louder than what anybody can say now. True? Not exactly. Come, let us reason together.

Some Members of Parliament and Civil Society Organisations are pushing for an alcohol law that will restrict the sale of alcohol to between 5pm and 1am.
Violators of the law will pay a fine of 2 million shillings ($590) or serve jail term of one year or both, according to the Alcoholic Drinks Control Bill 2016 draft.
The proponents of the bill are led by the MP Betty Nambooze who launched the campaign after a resident in her constituency asked for the law to help him stop drinking, local media Daily Monitor reported.
“I am also an alcohol drinker and I have just found out that I am a risk drinker because on a particular day I can take more than four units. We are not after those people who take alcohol responsibly or use it as culture. We just don’t want our young people to get addicted and live by alcohol,” she is quoted to have said on Thursday.

Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa Deputy Education Minister in charge of Tertiary,has described the claims made by Dr. Bawumia in the education sector as untrue.

In a Facebook post on his timeline, Okudzeto Ablakwa called on Dr Bawumia to substantiate his claims.

Dr Bawumia in a lecture about the economy themed “The State of the Ghana Economy – A Foundation of Concrete or Straw " said the NDC government used GHC 900,000 to build a teacher’s bungalow at Dambai College of Education. He said the NPP constructed a similar bungalow on the same campus at GHC 195, 000.

In a response to this claim, Ablakwa said “there is no Teacher's Bungalow project at Dambai College of Education built at GHS 900,000 in 2011. We have checked the records and hereby challenge him to prove his allegation.He asked Dr Bawumia to explain why the NPP could not fulfil its promise of establishing one Polytechnic in each District promised during the 2000 campaign season.

Meet the Woman who wants to be so Fat

Monica and Sid plan on having children together

She’s already 50st, but this woman wants to keep putting on weight until she cannot move.
Monica Riley, who is a model, wants to become the world’s fattest woman – 70st. This is not a record we would recommend anyone to try and beat.
Her boyfriend, Sid Riley, is a feeder and he spends his day cooking for Monica, feeding her through a tube at their home in Fort Worth, Texas.
She said: ‘The plan is to reach 1,000lbs [50st] and become immobile. I would feel like a queen because Sid would be waiting on me hand and foot and he’s excited about it too.
‘It’s a sexual fantasy for us and we talk about it a lot. He already has to help me get off the sofa and get me out of bed.

Would you want to make love to the cold, lifeless body of a machine?
It might happen sooner than you expect.
Experts are predicting that sex with robots will become widespread within the next decades – and robots could be better in bed than any fleshy partner, an expert has revealed.oel Snell, a robotics expert from Kirkwood College in Iowa, ‘Because they would be programmable, sexbots would meet each individual user’s needs.’

School Headteacher Sends More than 20 Pupils Away For Wearing Wrong Uniforms

A headteacher embroiled in a school uniform row with parents has turned away another 20 pupils for wearing the wrong .
Matthew Tate, the headteacher of Hartswood Academy in Margate, sent 50 pupils home on Tuesday for wearing the wrong clothes.
Police were called to the scene after a disturbance was reported at the school when a large number of pupils and parents congregated outside the school gates.
Having only taken up the post recently, Mr Tate said he contacted parents over the summer outlining a stricter uniform code.

Akua Oparebea 23-years-old is in police custody by Accra Regional Police command, for allegedly stabbing her 36-years-old boyfriend to death.The suspect is said to have escaped with the children after the incident, leaving her boyfriend in a pool of blood in their makeshift wooden structure at Taifa in Accra.

Narrating the incident, the Crime Officer of the Accra Regional Police Command, Chief Superintendent of Police Edward Kumi Faakye, said the deceased, Moro Okai, was a driver who lived with Oparebea and her two children in the makeshift structure.

He said Okai had returned home from work at about 11p.m. but realised that his girlfriend was not at home.

The victim picked up a quarrel with his wife when she returned home as he was not satisfied with the response given him.

More than 150 unclaimed corpses at the Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital (EKSUTH) mortuary would be given mass burial, the hospital authorities had said.
Chairman, Medical Advisory Committee of the hospital, Dr Kayode Ajite, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Ado-Ekiti.
Ajite said that some families abandoned their relatives’ corpses in the hospital morgue, adding that the unclaimed bodies had congested the hospital’s morgue.
He said that some of the corpses were accident victims and armed robbers whose families were not even aware of their whereabouts, adding that it was the reason for the proposed mass burial of the corpses.
Ajite told NAN that management of the hospital would through media announcements give 14 days for owners of the corpses to collect them.

The Rumour Mill spent time in Talksport Towers yesterday morning, helping to probe the soul of Bournemouth chairman Jeff Mostyn as he discussed his relationship with the club’s manager Eddie Howe, their owner Maxim Denim and their audacious coup in bringing Jack Wilshere to the south coast last week. During the course of an interesting hour, Mostyn said he was not concerned that Howe might be headhunted by other clubs in the near future, stating the 38-year-old is “Bournemouth through and through” and has every intention of finishing the work he started eight years ago by establishing the Cherries as a Premier League force before taking his highly regarded management skills elsewhere.

President Ali Bongo, has criticized the EU Observer Mission which observed his country’s presidential poll last week.
Ali Bongo said the EU’s Observer Mission lacked fairness as it did not find ‘anomalies’ in the results of his rival, Jean Ping.
The European Union has questioned the validity of the election which the opposition has dismissed as a sham.
France has said a recount would be wise something Bongo has refused to do telling France’s RTL radio, “What people should be asking me to do is apply the law. I cannot violate the law. As far as a recount is concerned … that’s done at the level of the Constitutional Court.”
Opposition leader Jean Ping, who has said the election was stolen, on Tuesday called for help from the international community saying, “Everybody knows the result and everybody knows that Bongo is doing everything not to accept it.”

Troops of 4 Brigade Nigerian Army have arrested a suspected militant, one Mr. Gabriel Ogbudje.
He is also the alleged leader of the “Otugas Fire Force”, a militant group threatening to attack Utorogu Gas Plant.
A statement from Acting Director Army Public Relations Officer, Col Sani Usman Kukasheka said he was alleged to be responsible for the recent act of economic sabotage perpetrated on NPDC/Shoreline major delivery trunk line within Ogo-Oteri general area on the 26th of last month.
The statement also reads: “The suspected militant, who was trailed, was arrested by troops along Agbor-Abraka road, Edo State on Tuesday 6th September 2016.“He has been on the run since he was declared wanted because of his public declaration as the leader of the militant group “Otugas Fire Force” and his

President John Dramani Mahama has denied attacking the person of his main contender in the elections, Nana Akufo-Addo on the campaign trail adding that, Nana Addo and his team attacked him first.

According to the president, such claims are unfair since he has rather been castigated by Nana Addo and the NPP over the years.

President Mahama, who is seeking a second term, has apparently made the character of the NPP flagbearer the centre of his campaign.

He has criticised Akufo-Addo for "sleeping" during his tour of the Western Region when he said roads in the region are in a bad state

Alpha Blondy questions AU's Role in amidst of Violence in Africa

Legendary Ivorian reggae musician, Alpha Blondy, known in private life as Seydou Kone may appear to have gone off the radar a bit, especially after the release of his 2015 studio album, Positive Energy.
The 12-track album, is his seventeenth studio release since he bust onto the music scene in the early 1980s.
He sings about “Rainbow in the Sky”, a promise of better days to come as well as “Freedom”, themes ever present in the works of the 63-year-old singer / songwriter.
Currently in the United States where he’s been performing, the Cocody Rock hit maker who is also a UN Ambassador for Peace for his native Ivory Coast, shared his thoughts on recent happenings in Africa and around the world with Africanews.

Ghana's capital city, Accra has turned out to be the most polluted city on earth followed by Lebanon's Beirut.

Accra led with a pollution index of 102.13 whilst Beirut followed closely with 97.71.

The ranking was published by numbeo.com, a website that tracks several countries with respect to pollution, health, crime, among others.

The ranking is based on surveys from visitors of the website. Each entry in the survey is saved as the number in the range [-2, +2], with -2 having meaning of strongly negative and +2 meaning of strongly positive.
Surveys were filtered to eliminate potential spam, like people entering the large amount of data which are differentiating from the median value.

The European Union’s Election Observer Mission (EU EOM) in Gabon says it has found an obvious anomaly in the analysis of the final results of the presidential election held on August 27.
In a statement published on their website, the mission chief, Mariya Gabriel said they deplored the deaths and violence that broke out after the official announcement of results and extended condolences to affected families.
‘‘The EOM noted substantial differences between the various local and provincial election commissions in procedures and deadlines applied, and access provided to observers, during the phase of the consolidation of results,’‘ the statement read.

President of the Republic of Ghana ,John Dramani Mahama as part of his campaign tour of the Central Region, has promised to give each household in the Abura community one electricity meter, to eliminate the trend where several households are hooked onto one meter

“In Abura, I know your major concern is about electricity, a lot of you do not have meters. In most of the houses, the meters are shared. So I’ve asked that 1500 meters should be made available to you so that each house will have one meter,” the president said.

Rodrigo Duterte the president of the Philipines have expressed some regret over his explicit comments about President Barack Obama in a statement Tuesday and said a meeting between the two leaders would be rescheduled for a later date.
The two leaders were supposed to meet Monday before Obama flew to Laos. However, their meeting was canceled after Duterte called Obama a “son of a whore” and warned Obama not to question him over extrajudicial killings. More than 2,000 suspected drug pushers and users have been killed since Duterte launched a war on drugs after taking office on June 30.
“While the immediate cause was my strong comments to certain press questions that elicited concern and distress, we also regret it came across as a personal attack on the US president. Our primary intention is to chart an independent foreign policy while promoting closer ties with all nations, especially the US with which we had had a longstanding partnership,” Duterte said in a statement.

Nigeria is among13 countries listed under the lower Middle-Income Countries, MICs.
This was contained in a report on industrialisation in Africa and least developed countries, which the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) submitted to the Group of 20 (G20), Development Working Group (DWG).
The 12 other countries classified under the lower-middle-income countries along with Nigeria are Cape Verde, Cameroon, Republic of Congo, Côte d’ivoire, Djibouti, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Mauritania, São Tomé and Príncipe, Swaziland and Zambia. African MICs are highly diverse.he UNIDO’s report seeks to achieve a wide consensus on issues including promoting the implementation of UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Dr. Edward Omane Bomah minister of communication says President Mahama will increase his vote margin astronomically in the northern region compared to what he got in the 2012 elections.

He says his conviction stems from the unprecedented and massive show of love by the people in the region for the president and for the NDC as a party.

Dr Omane Boamah said these when he joined his colleague minister for employment minister Haruna Iddrisu to launch his campaign over the weekend. Dr Omane Boamah who is also the spokesperson for the president Mahama told a mammoth crowed of NDC supporters who had gathered at his campaign launch at the Tamale Vitting Senior High School park that the northern region just like the other regions in the country have never disappointed the NDC and for that matter will come out even more to show their appreciation to the president for what he has done for them come December 7.

Gunmen attack the offices of an international charity in the centre of the Afghan capital, Kabul, has left at least one civilian dead, officials say.

Gunfire erupted when four armed men stormed the building of the aid group Care in the Shar-e-Naw area following a car bomb explosion.
All attackers were killed. No group has admitted carrying out the attack, the fifth to hit the city in 24 hours.
Taliban militants have increased their attacks in Kabul recently.
On Monday, a series of blasts claimed by the group hit a busy part of the city, close to the defence ministry building.
Officials now say 35 people were killed, including an army general and four senior police officers. Some 103 others were wounded, they added.

A Nigerian journalist with access to Boko Haram insurgents, Ahmad Salkida, has been arrested at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport on his arrival to the country, Sahara Reporters is reporting.
The journalist, is one of three others who were declared wanted by the Nigerian army in the middle of last month over the links to Boko Haram.
According to Sahara Reporters, Salkida was picked up by security forces at the door of the Emirates Flight EK785 aircraft that brought him to Abuja from Dubai.

Robber caught sleeping during Robbery

The Asamankese Police in the Eastern Region has arrested a suspected robber after he was caught sleeping in the bedroom of an SDA pastor. The 27-year-old suspect, was found half naked and deeply asleep on the bed of Pastor Asare Nyarko having broken into the room through the ceiling to steal properties of the Pastor.

Narrating the incident to Starr News’ Eastern regional Correspondent Kojo Ansah, Mr. Nyarko explained that, the incident occurred Sunday morning after he and his family had left for Church.

According to him, upon their return home, they realized all the outside lights in the house had been put off. They also noticed someone had forcefully entered the house and quickly rushed to the Police Station to lodge a report.

China’s leaders have been accused of delivering a calculated diplomatic snub to Barack Obama after the US president was not provided with a staircase to leave his plane during his chaotic arrival in Hangzhou before the start of the G20.
Chinese authorities have rolled out the red carpet for leaders including India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, the South Korean president, Park Geun-hye, Brazil’s president, Michel Temer, and the British prime minister, Theresa May, who touched down on Sunday morning.
But the leader of the world’s largest economy, who is on his final tour of Asia, was forced to disembark from Air Force One through a little-used exit in the plane’s belly after no rolling staircase was provided when he landed in the eastern Chinese city on Saturday afternoon

Chakale Traditional Area, in the Wa East constituency of the Upper West Region, the Chief and the people have give the title “Chief of Patience” on the 2016 presidential candidate of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.

The ceremony took place in the palace of the Bulenga Naa, on Sunday, September 4, when the NPP flagbearer paid a courtesy call on the Paramount Chief of the Chakale Traditional Area, Bulenga Naa Seidu Nawalogne IV, on the 2nd day of his tour of the region.

In Ankaful Maximum Security Prison in the Central Region ,inmate is accused of cutting off the penis of another prisoner who refused him “sex”.
The incident is said to have happened on Monday at about 9:00am in one of the cells.

The victim, name withheld, was rushed to the Prison’s infirmary with just a thin layer of flesh holding his penis to his scrotum, 3news.com reported.

He was given a first aid and transferred to the Interberton Hospital in Cape Coast for surgical procedure.

According to 3news.com, the suspect was said to have moved out of his Cell 12 to Cell One where he tried to force the victim to have sex with him.

When he failed, he slashed off the victim’s penis with a razor blade.

A one nil victory for Uganda over Comoros on Sunday started a huge party in the east African country to celebrate their qualification for the Africa Cup of Nation 2017 in Gabon.
At the end of the match in Kampala, the ecstatic Uganda Cranes fans stormed the field to cheer the team as a hundred others in the stadium including Uganda’s first lady couldn’t contain their joy.
The jubilation extended to the political class and social institutions who sent their heartfelt congratulations to the team.

Majority leader of Parliament, Hon. Alban Kingsford Sumana Bagbin, has marketed the Member of Parliament for Tamale South, Hon Haruna Iddrisu, as a good presidential material capable of leading the National Democratic Congress (NDC) for future elections.

According to him, the Tamale South Legislator known as the NDC’s heavyweight champion in the Northern Region, possesses all the qualities of a good politician to lead the nation.

He thus cautioned NDC supporters in the Tamale South Constituency against truncating Haruna Iddrisu’s parliamentary career at the 2016 polls. Hon. Alban Bagbin was speaking at the Tamale South Legislator’s official campaign launch dubbed, “Operation 70,000 votes” for Haruna Iddrisu and President John Dramani Mahama in 2016. He touted Haruna Iddrisu’s credentials saying, “You have a capable, competent and affable Member of Parliament who deserves to represent you in Parliament for over 20 terms than me.”

The Government is not serious in the Education:NAGRAT

The National Association of Graduate Teachers, (NAGRAT), has hit hard on the government of not devoting ample time and resources to education in the country.

According to the President of NAGRAT, Christian Addae-Poku, Government’s policy of building schools across the country is more for the approval of voters than it is for the benefit of the sector.

“We don’t think it’s prioritized. It’s a lip-service that government pays to education trying to tell everybody that education is a priority. As far as we practitioners are concerned, education is never a priority. If education was a priority, teachers would not be recruited and made to serve for two or three years without a salary. If education was a priority, why are district offices suffering with their subventions in arrears for four years.? If education is a priority, why is government concentrating only on building schools and not on other aspects of the system that will education run on,” he said

Controversial social commentator and daughter of a former governor of Oyo state, Kemi Olunloyo, has stated that there is more to the death of wives of Nollywood actor, Jide Kosoko, following the death of his third wife, Henrietta, alleging that the women may have been used for ritual by the actor.
She said, “Actor Jide third wife just died.
“The light skin bleaching Nollywood actor. This makes it three wives dead.
“He is now technically a black widower.
“He should be investigated for ritualism and the occult world.
“Something I hear is very prevalent in Nollywood.”

Odunlade Adekola, has addressed claims that he made it to the top by visiting and patronizing witch doctors.
The Renowned Yoruba movie actor, said he will never and had never been involved in such act.
Speaking with the Punch, the ‘Oko Ashewo’ actor said, “Some people say that I used voodoo or metaphysical powers to be successful. I hear when they say such but I tell everyone that I can never do such. During the graduation of my students last year, I addressed this issue because it was during that time people were peddling rumours of my demise.

A British woman was raped before allegedly being strangled to death by her ex-husband, police have said.

Samia Shahid, from Bradford, was found dead in July in a village in Pakistan's eastern Punjab province.
Her death was assumed to be of natural causes and the 28-year-old was buried in a local cemetery.
But an inquiry was ordered after Ms Shahid's husband, Mukhtar Kazim, accused her family of killing her because she divorced her first husband in 2014 and married him.
It was concluded that Ms Shahid - who is of Pakistani origin - had been strangled and her first husband Mohammad Shakeel was detained as the prime suspect.

22 Baby Gorillas naming Ceremony were held today in Rwanda

Paul Kagame president of the Republic of Rwanda attended an event where 22 baby gorillas were named in the country’s annual Gorilla naming ceremony. The president was joined by senior government officials, diplomats, stakeholders in conservation and local residents
The names include characters and qualities like ‘self-reliance,’ ‘grateful,’ and ‘mediator;’ others are descriptions like ‘The Beautiful One,’ ‘I’m Rwandan,’ and ‘The most beautiful girl,’ etc.
Below are the names and their meanings

When life gets stressful--and it does, especially for leaders and managers--it's easy to feel like you are losing your balance.

The next time that happens, call on one of these simple tricks to help you relax, unstress, get grounded, and find an emotional boost:

1. Take a break.

Just stop. Take a moment or an hour or an afternoon to re-elevate, reenergize, and rethink what is happening so you can make the best choices.

2. Stretch and sweat.

Take a long run, go to a dance or yoga class, play a game of basketball--anything that will get your heart pumping and your mind disconnected from your negative feelings.

3. Get inspired.

If you're stressed out because you've lost your motivation, take a little time to read a book, watch a video of a speaker you like, or have coffee with a friend who inspires you, and watch it all come back.

China's law makers has approve the Paris global climate agreement, state news agency Xinhua reports.

The country is the world's largest emitter of harmful CO2 emissions, which cause climate change.
China and the US are expected to jointly announce ratification at a bilateral summit later on Saturday.
In a landmark deal struck in December, countries agreed to cut emissions enough to keep the global average rise in temperatures below 2C.
Members of China's National People's Congress Standing Committee adopted "the proposal to review and ratify the Paris Agreement" on Saturday morning at the end of a week-long session.

MP Pushes for to recognise intersex people in Kenya

In Kenyan Parliament a Member of Parliament has asked the House to pass a law to recognise a third gender to end discrimination against those who identify as intersex.

Isaac Mwaura is also asking for funding for gender alignment surgery and a public awareness campaign to end stigma against intersex people.
"They see me as a curse," one person born female who later developed male physical characteristics told the BBC.
Intersex are people whose sex is neither completely male nor female.
James Karanja, who identifies as a male, told the BBC's Idris Situma in Nairobi of the anguish he's been experiencing.

Braimah Kamoko, popularly known as Bukom Banku, Ghana light heavyweight boxer who slapped and punched a lady for refusing him a kiss, has been charged for assault. The boxer-turned-musician was said to have slapped the hairdresser, Martha Nelson who lives at Chorkor in Accra twice on August 11 before punching her on the right ribs. He faces additional charge of causing unlawful damage He has been granted a police bail and is expected to be put before court on Monday, September 5, 2016 for criminal proceedings to begin. Bukom Banku has in recent time grabbed headlines for the wrong reasons, including assault of women.

Court Grants Bail To 10 Prostesters in Zimbabwe

Zimbabwean court has granted bail to 10 out of 68 people arraigned over public violence. They were charged for their part in an opposition protest a week ago.
A united opposition front took to the streets to demand electoral reforms ahead of 2018 polls in the southern African country rocked by an economic crisis.
A group called the Zimbabwe lawyers for Human Rights, who have been representing some of the accused confirmed the bail via their twitter handle, ‘‘10 out of the 68 who are being charged with public violence over last Friday’s demo have just been granted bail by Magistrate Tendai Mahwe,’‘ they tweeted.10 out of the 68 who are being charged with public violence over last Friday's demon have just been granted bail by Magistrate Tendai Mahwe

Several years after his rather infamous comment to the effect that ‘corruption was as old as Adam’, Former President John Agyekum Kufuor, has explained that, the comment was not an endorsement of corruption, as some have frequently referred to it in their justification of government’s inability to tackle the canker effectively.
Mr. Kufuor said this while addressing a group of young people at the ‘DreamOval Thoughts Transfer Series’, which is a monthly forum that focuses on inspiring and nurturing young minds to do.

The comment, which is many years old, had been interpreted to mean that, corruption was not a new thing. Others also concluded that the comment exposed Mr. Kufuor as someone who was not committed to fight the canker, by cracking the whip on corrupt officials in his administration at the time.
But several years down the line, Mr. Kufuor has had to clarify the comment.

Melania Trump the wife of the Republican Candidate is suing a British newspaper and a US blogger for $150m (£114m) over allegations she was a sex worker in the 1990s, her lawyer says.

The Daily Mail suggested Mrs Trump may have worked as a part-time escort in New York, and met husband Donald Trump, who is now running for the White House, earlier than previously reported.
The claims were "outright lying", lawyer Charles Harder said.
Both the blogger and the Daily Mail have since retracted their articles.
"These defendants made several statements about Mrs Trump that are 100% false and tremendously damaging to her personal and professional reputation," Mr Harder said in a statement.
"Defendants' actions are so egregious, malicious and harmful to Mrs Trump that her damages are estimated at $150m," Mr Harder's statement said.

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