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January 31, 2019 The Ogun State Police Command, on Wednesday, announced that its operatives had arrested a 45-year-old man, Idowu Owolabi, for allegedly raping his 21-year-old daughter. Owolabi, who has three wives, was accused of having carnal knowledge of his daughter since last year. The state Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said this in a statement made available to journalists in Abeokuta. Oyeyemi said both the suspect and the victim were residents of the Papa Olosun area of Oja-Odan in the Yewa South Local Government Area of the state. The PPRO explained that Owolabi was arrested on January 28, 2019, following a complaint by the victim at the Oja-Odan Divisional Police Headquarters. He said, “The victim reported that she followed her father to the farm at Fagboun village and the said father forcefully had carnal knowledge of her right there on the farm sometime in March 2018. “She stated further that since then, her father had continuously been having unlawful ...

January 31, 2019 The Director, Strategic Communications, Buhari Campaign Organisation, Mr. Festus Keyamo (SAN), says one of the reasons the United States dropped on the Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index was that the US gave the Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, a visa. Keyamo said this in a tweet while reacting to America’s slide on TI’s corruption perception index. The spokesman, who posted a link to TI’s report said, “Anything that gravitates towards Atiku is always tainted with corruption. Now, the US gives him a ‘special waiver’ as a candidate to come in for a few days and see the result. The senior advocate had in the past alleged that the US had secretly indicted Atiku for corruption hence the former Vice-President’s reluctance to travel. Keyamo had dared Atiku to travel to US and see if he would not be arrested. However, when Atiku travelled two weeks ago, Keyamo said the PDP candidate paid a lobbyist to help him trave...

January 31, 2019 Venezuela’s self-declared interim President Juan Guaido has revealed “clandestine meetings’’ between opposition figures and representatives of the armed forces in a bid to oust President Nicolas Maduro, local media reported on Thursday. “We have had clandestine meetings with members of the armed forces and the security forces. “We have offered amnesty to all those who are found not guilty of crimes against humanity. “The military’s withdrawal of support from Mr. Maduro is crucial to enabling a change in government. “The majority of those in service agree that the country’s recent travails are untenable,’’ Guaido wrote in an opinion piece published in the  New York Times . The 35-year-old speaker of Venezuela’s opposition-controlled National Assembly declared himself interim president during nationwide protests against Maduro’s rule recently. US President Donald Trump has recognised Guaido in the role, however, the EU has yet to do so. Germany and several other Euro...

January 31, 2019 Dozens of Indonesians who served jail time for corruption are running for public office, the electoral agency said on Thursday, as the world’s third-largest democracy gears up for national polls. The 49 candidates belong to more than half of the 16 political parties contesting April elections, including President Joko Widodo’s Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle. Half a dozen represent Gerindra, a party led by former military general Prabowo Subianto, who is challenging Widodo for Indonesia’s top job, according to the General Elections Commission. They’re among more than 8,000 people vying for seats in parliament and regional councils, with 192 million registered voters eligible to cast a ballot on April 17. The Southeast Asian nation is riddled with corruption at all levels of society and its House of Representatives is widely viewed as one of its most graft-hit institutions. Legislative hopefuls must publicly declare their previous convictions to stand for of...

January 31, 2019 The owner of Etashol Hotel and Suites, located on Budland Street in the Ojodu Berger area of Lagos State, Mrs Abimbola Olusola, and the manager, Tunji Omikunle, have been murdered. PUNCH Metro  gathered that the deceased were drugged, tied up and strangled by a gang that included some workers at the hotel. Olusola, who had lived in London, the United Kingdom, for 35 years, was said to have returned to Nigeria recently and opened the hotel for business in March 2018. Our correspondent learnt that the 56-year-old had issues with some of the workers, who allegedly defrauded the hotel of millions of naira. Two of the workers were reportedly sacked after the police were invited to look into the matter. Last week Thursday, a gang said to have consisted some of the sacked workers and some still in the employment of the hotel, allegedly conspired among themselves and drugged Olusola and Tunji. They allegedly deactivated the Closed Circuit Television cameras on the premises...

January 31, 2019 Britain may need to delay Brexit to pass legislation to implement the split with the European Union, Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said Thursday. As the March 29 withdrawal date looms, the government is still trying to convince MPs to support a version of the divorce deal it has agreed with the bloc. Even if it is passed, legislation putting the treaty into effect would then have to go through both the House of Commons and the House of Lords. “If we ended up approving a deal in the days before March 29 then we might need some extra time to pass critical legislation,” Hunt told  BBC radio. “But if we are able to make progress sooner then that might not be necessary. We can’t know at this stage exactly which of those scenarios would happen.” The government is considering extending parliamentary hours and cancelling the February holiday of MPs to allow more time to debate Brexit legislation. But there are still eight laws needed to prepare for Brexit, not just on the ...

January 31, 2019 China and the United States are ahead of the global competition to dominate artificial intelligence, the UN World Intellectual Property Organisation published on Thursday. The study found US tech giant IBM had, by far, the biggest AI patent portfolio, with 8,920 patients ahead of Microsoft with 5,930 and a group of mainly Japanese tech conglomerates. China accounted for 17 of the top 20 academic institutions involved in patenting AI and was particularly strong in the fast-growing area of “deep learning”, a machine-learning technique that includes speech recognition systems. “The US and China obviously have stolen a lead. “They’re out in front in this area, in terms of numbers of applications and in scientific publications,’’ WIPO Director-General, Francis Gurry, told a news conference. US President Donald Trump has accused China of stealing American innovations and technology and has slapped trade tariffs on $234 billion of Chinese goods to punish Beijing. China said i...

January 31,2019 Ahead of the National Assembly election schedule to hold on 16th of February 2019, youth groups under the aegis of Wogada Youth Leaders Forum, WYLF, has passed vote of confidence on Hon.Jarigbe Agom Jarigbe. This was made known by Coordinator, WYLF, Hon.Emma Odey, as he explained why his organisation passed vote of confidence on the Lawmaker for his re-election, which Emma said was based on the achievement of the Jarigbe  led administration for almost four years, and added that the lawmaker deserves second term in office. Emma, who has been an advocate of good governance and participatory democracy in the state, maintained that his association has also endorsed the lawmaker based on the participation of Constituents  in socio-political issues that concerns their welfare and wellbeing without denial of their fundamental human rights. He said: “We are living witnesses of the massive transformation that Ogoja/Yala has experienced after Jarigbe was elected as the L...