18042019 - PRESIDENTIAL TUSSLE:I always beat you in every election, Buhari tells Atiku

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OGUN: From right; Prince Kunle Adesina, APC chairman, Yemi Sanusi,
former CBN Deputy Governor, Committee chairman, Mr Tunde Lemo;
Governor-elect Prince Dapo Abiodun, his Deputy, Mrs Noimot Salako-
Oyedele during the inauguration of economic transition committee and work
groups. Photo: Wunmi Akinola.
Rotn Sanjeev Tandon, Past President, Rotary Club of Lagos Island, with Rotn Lalwani
Manu, a Trustee, Geeta Ashram Foundation and his colleague, Rotn Anil Gopwani,
encouraging a beneficiary of the Free Eye Cataract Surgical Operation sponsored by
Rotary Club Lagos Island District 9110 Nigeria, Rotary Intl and Geeta Ashram
Foundation, Lekki, Lagos at General Hospital, Lagos Island, recently.
Enugu State Police Command Public Relations Officer and the National Coordinator
of Police Campaign Against Cultism and other Vices, POCACOV, SP Ebere Amarizu,
presenting anti-cultism and social behaviour awareness to the Inspector-General of
Police, Adamu Mohammed at the Force headquarters, Abuja, recently.
From left; Opeyemi Awojobi, Product Placement/Sponsorship Manager, Tolaram
Group, Miss. Jackie Ibiso, 2019 Lagos NYSC (First Batch) Miss Bold and Beautiful,
Prince Mohammed Momoh, Camp Coordinator, Lagos State NYSC, Mrs. Omotayo
Azeez- Abiodun, Public Relations Manager, Tolaram Group during 2019 NYSC Miss
Bold and beautiful contest sponsored by LUSH Hair, Lagos NYSC Orientation Camp.
Peru's ex-President kills himself
to avoid arrest
PERU’s former pres
ident Alan Garcia
died in a hospital in Lima
on Wednesday, hours after
shooting himself in the head
to avoid arrest in connection
with a bribery probe, authorities
said on Wednesday.
Garcia, who had six adult
children, was 69.
A skilled orator elected
president twice, first as a
firebrand leftist and then as
a champion of foreign investment
and free trade,
Garcia had been dogged by
allegations of corruption in
recent years that he had repeatedly
denied.
Garcia was one of nine
people a judge had ordered
to be arrested on Wednesday
for alleged involvement
in bribes distributed by Odebrecht,
a Brazilian construction
company that triggered
Latin America’s biggest graft
scandal when it admitted in
2016 that it had paid kickbacks
to politicians across
the region to secure lucrative
contracts.
While three former presidents
in Peru have also been
ordered to jail in connection
with Odebrecht, Garcia had
blamed his legal troubles on
political persecution, accusing
President Martin Vizcarra
without evidence of trying
to silence him.
“Others might sell out, not
me,” Garcia said in some of
his last broadcast comments
on Tuesday, repeating a
phrase he has used frequently
as his political foes became
ensnared in the Odebrecht
investigation. Members
of his once-powerful
Apra party announced his
death to crowds gathered
outside of hospital Casimiro
Ulloa, where he suffered
three cardiac arrests
and underwent emergency
surgery.
“Apra never dies!” his
supporters chanted to news
cameras as police in riot
gear stood by.
Vizcarra’s government
ordered flags to be flown at
half mast. “I’m dismayed
by the death of former president
Alan Garcia,” Vizcarra
said on Twitter. “I send
my condolences to his family
and loved ones.”
Toppled Bashir moved from residence
to Khartoum's Kobar prison
* Uganda says it is willing to consider asylum
FORMER Sudanese
president Omar al-
Bashir has been moved to
Kobar prison in Khartoum
from the presidential residence,
family sources said
on Wednesday, and a prison
source said he was being
held under tight security
in solitary confinement.
Sudan’s military ousted
Bashir after weeks of mass
protests that climaxed in a
sit-in outside the Defence
Ministry compound. Protests
are continuing and
their leaders say the unrest
will not cease until the ruling
Transitional Military
Council (TMC) hands
power to a civilian-led authority
ahead of elections.
The Sudanese Professionals’
Association (SPA),
leading the revolt, has
Notre Dame probe ramps up as
investigators question workers
PROSECUTORS in
vestigating the causes
of the inferno that tore
through Notre Dame cathedral
in Paris have interviewed
construction workers
and security staff, as
more details emerged about
US slaps new sanctions on Cuba,
Venezuela to pressure Maduro
called for sweeping change
to end violent crackdowns
on dissent, purge corruption
and cronyism and ease
an economic crisis that
worsened during Bashir’s
last years in power.
In initial steps to tackle
corruption, the TMC ordered
the central bank to
review financial transfers
since April 1 and to seize
“suspect” funds, state news
agency SUNA said on
Wednesday.
SUNA said the TMC also
ordered the “suspension of
the transfer of ownership of
any shares until further notice
and for any large or
suspect transfers of shares
or companies to be reported”
to state authorities.
Bashir, 75, had been detained
under heavy guard
THE Trump administra
tion on Wednesday
imposed new sanctions and
other punitive measures on
Cuba and Venezuela, seeking
to ratchet up U.S. pressure
on Havana to end its
support for Venezuela’s socialist
president, Nicolas
Maduro.
Speaking to a Cuban exile
group in Miami, U.S.
national security adviser
John Bolton said the United
States was targeting Cuba’s
military and intelligence
services, including a military-owned
airline, for additional
sanctions and was
tightening travel and trade
restrictions against the island.
Bolton’s speech followed
the State Department’s
announcement on
Wednesday that it was lifting
a long-standing ban against
U.S. citizens filing lawsuits
against foreign companies
that use properties seized by
Cuba’s Communist government
since Fidel Castro’s
1959 revolution.
President Donald Trump’s
decision, which the State
Department said could unleash
hundreds of thousands
of legal claims worth tens of
billions of dollars, drew swift
criticism from European and
Canadian allies, whose companies
have significant interests
in Cuba.
in the presidential residence
inside the compound
that also houses
the Defence Ministry, before
being shunted to
Kobar prison late on Tuesday,
the family sources
said.
Kobar, just north of central
Khartoum adjacent to
the Blue Nile river, housed
thousands of political
prisoners under Bashir’s
repressive rule and is
Sudan’s most notorious
jail.
Meanwhile, Uganda
said it will consider offering
asylum to al-Bashir
despite his indictment by
the International Criminal
Court (ICC), a foreign affairs
minister said on
Wednesday.
the effort to contain the
blaze.
Thirty employees working
at the Paris landmark
before the fire broke out
were interviewed by Paris
prosecutors , the Paris
prosecutor's office said.
The Paris fire service,
meanwhile, said the ninehour
battle to save the
building was one of them
most complex it had ever
undertaken.
At one point, it was
feared that the entire
structure might be lost
"If the flames had actually
got to the timber
frames of the belfries then
we would have lost the cathedral
completely because
it would have led
to a chain reaction of collapse,"
said Gabriel Plus,
a spokesman for the fire
service.