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Firefighters tackle "catastrophic" blazes in New South Wales as residents are urged to stay at home.

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Mr Trump described space as "the world's newest war-fighting domain" as he signed off the funding.

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The Trump administration fears the Nord Stream 2 project will increase Russia's influence in Europe.

The Nigeria Customs Service has revealed that it seized foreign rice and some food commodities in its raid of a market in Adamawa State.

The Adamawa/Taraba command in the raid led by Comptroller of Customs in charge of the two states, Kamardin Olumoh, said that contraband goods worth millions of naira smuggled into the country were seized.

 

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New advice is released to help those living with eating disorders over the festive season.

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Child prodigies are lauded for their gifts, but the road to adulthood can be harder than it seems.

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India is to hang four men for the 2012 Delhi gang rape - but globally there are now fewer executions.

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How one post from Arsenal's Mesut Ozil led to Chinese TV pulling the club's Manchester City match.

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A DNA test brought the Wheeler siblings back together after almost 50 years apart.

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The president is almost certain to be acquitted in the Senate and Democrats have delayed the start.

Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has reiterated the reason the Nigerian Government would regulate social media.

The Minister, who was represented by Memunat Idu-Lah during a roundtable discussion on culture in Imo State on Thursday, said the regulation had become necessary to curb abuses and negative effects.

He said “The resolve of the government to regulate the platform is not designed to hamper freedom of expression or gag public discourse as being alleged; rather, it is to prevent its abuse and the negative consequences.

“The phenomenon of hate speech, fake news and other forms of criminality which features regularly on the social media have the potential to harm the nation’s security, national unity and our overall national interest.”

 He said that the FG was committed to promoting national unity through culture.

“The importance of culture as the bedrock of development; the role of the Nigerian youth as key drivers of development and cultural ambassadors as well as the value of the social media in contemporary times have continued to attract the attention of government and development experts.

“It is gratifying to state that the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari acknowledges the importance of culture as one of the pillars of sustainable development and has identified culture as one of the key sectors for government’s economic diversification agenda.

“In the same vein, the present administration appreciates the place of youths in economic development and as future leaders and has put concrete policies in place for their training and empowerment to fight and reduce unemployment and enhance their relevance in the nation’s economic agenda.”

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JAMB Registrar, Prof . Ishaq Oloyede BBC

Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, Ishaq Oloyede, has disclosed that some fraudsters tampered with the CCTV cameras installed in centres to monitor Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. 

Oloyede said this during a two-day stakeholders’ meeting held at the Congo Conference Hotel, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Kaduna State.

The registrar said the board would deplore drones to monitor the centres from 2020.

He had said the act was being perpetrated with the connivance of the board’s technical official during the conduct of UTME.

He warned that anyone caught aiding and abetting any candidate to cheat would be made to face the full wrath of the law.

He warned parents to keep away from  UTME centres, pointing out that parents too encouraged their children or wards to cheat during examinations.

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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arraigned one  Gbenga Kolade on a five-count charge bothering on forgery, use of false document and stealing to the tune of N1.5m.

He was arraign on Wednesday before  Justice Mojisola Dada sitting at the Lagos State Special Offences Court in Ikeja for alleged fraud.

Kolade pleaded not guilty to the charges.

According to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Kolade sometime in October 2018 forged a Wema Bank statement of account under the pretext of facilitating an overdraft facility on behalf of one Abayomi Joseph from Ren Money Plc.

In view of the defendant’s plea, the prosecutor, C. R. Edozie, asked for a trial date and prayed that Kolade be remanded in a correctional centre pending the outcome of the case.

The defendant’s counsel, Larry Williams, while pleading for a short adjournment to enable him to file and serve the bail application, informed the court that the application had not been filed due to the fact that he got the brief late.

After listening to both parties, Justice Dada adjourned the case until January 13, 2020, for hearing of the bail application and February 17, 2020, for the commencement of trial.

The charges read in part, “That you, Gbenga Kolade, sometime in October 2018, at Lagos within the Ikeja Judicial Division, dishonestly converted for your use the sum of N1,540,000, the property of Abayomi Joseph.

“That you, Gbenga Kolade, sometime in October 2018, in Lagos, within the jurisdiction of this honourable court, with intent to defraud and, in order to facilitate your obtaining an overdraft facility for Abayomi Joseph by false pretences from Ren Money Plc, forged a Wema Bank statement of account, with account number 0221512928, purported to belong to Michael Abayomi Joseph.”

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Elizabeth Warren criticises presidential rival Pete Buttigieg over how he's funding his campaign.

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The BBC's Ros Atkins explains Australia's bushfire crisis and why people are so angry.