Doctors who go on strike faces jail threat

A Kenyan Court on Thursday ordered doctors to end a strike in the next five days or face jail after a stoppage of more than six weeks that has plunged state hospitals into crisis at the start of an election year.

Justice Hellen Wasilwa had initially handed union leaders a suspended one-month sentence on January 12 after they defied a December ruling declaring the strike illegal.

She had also given them a two-week period for negotiations to avoid jail.

On Thursday, she extended the period for the doctors to call off the strike by five days.

“The role of this court is to bring a solution, and an amicable solution,’’ she said when announcing the extension.

Several thousand doctors and their supporters marched from the court to the centre of Nairobi for a meeting where union leaders were to discuss their response to the court order

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TRUMP TAKES A STEP IN FULFILLING HIS PROMISE BY SIGNING ORDER TO START MEXICO BORDER WALL PROJECT

US President Donald Trump took a first step toward fulfilling his pledge to “build a wall” on the Mexican border Wednesday, signing two immigration-related decrees.

Trump visited the Department of Homeland Security to sign an order to begin work to “build a large physical barrier on the southern border,” according to the White House.

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FOUR PERSONS, INCLUDING EX NBC BOSS ARRAIGNED FOR 2.8bn FRAUD BY EFCC

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Tuesday arraigned a former Director General of the National Broadcasting Commission, Emeka Mba,  on 15 counts of money laundering and procurement fraud involving N2.8bn.

Mba and his co-accused persons were arraigned before Justice Gabriel Kolawole of a Federal High Court,  Abuja

Mba was arraigned alongside a former Director of Finance of the NBC, Patrick Areh; Basil Udotai, (who was said to be trading in the name and style of Technology Adviser) and Babatunji Amure (trading in the name and style of Divine Partners).

They were alleged to have at various times connived and transferred a sum of N2,899,723,500 from the account of NBC through various proxies for their personal gains.

Mba was also alleged to have used his office as the Director General of the NBC to award contracts without following due procurement process.

The defendants pleaded not guilty when the charges were read to them

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Courtesy of Fayose, DSS plan of arresting apostle Suleiman in the middle of the night fails

The Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, in the early hours of Wednesday prevented the operatives of the Department of State Services from arresting the founder of The Omega Fire Ministries Worldwide, Apostle Johnson Suleiman, in Ado Ekiti.

The Pastor, who is in Ekiti for a two-day crusade that began on Tuesday, was alleged to have been preaching against Islamising Nigeria and asked members of his church in Auchi, Edo State to resist killings by suspected Fulani herdsmen.

Fayose, who had participated in the first day of the programme, received a distress call from the pastor after paying a courtesy call to the Government House.

It was learnt that the operatives of the DSS stormed the hotel room of the pastor in Adebayo area of the State capital and almost forced their way to his room.

They were, however, resisted by security men of the hotel that insisted on knowing their mission.

Minutes later, Fayose led a rescue mission to the hotel and saved the pastor from being arrested by the operatives.

Narrating his ordeal to journalists around 2am on Wednesday, Suleiman said, “I came to Ado Ekiti for a crusade. But I had a premonition that I was being trailed after I preached that Christians should retaliate any attack or killings by the Fulani herdsmen. These Fulani herdsmen had turned many Christians to orphans and widowers but the time has come to protect ourselves.

“I received several calls from hidden numbers trying to locate where I am and I had warned my security not to allow any Fulani man to come nearer me. So when the men of DSS came in the middle of the night I knew their mission and I had to call the Governor because if they arrest me, they will put this country on fire.”

Fayose, who criticised the DSS for ambushing a man of God on crusade, said he expected the security agency to show decorum.

“I expected the security operatives to invite him if they have any issue with him instead of arresting him in the dead of the night after a powerful andw spirit-filled crusade in my State.

“I personally attended his crusade and I think it is wrong for a man of God, who is armless, that could be invited to be ambushed. If they have any issue against him. Are Christians and Moslems under different dispensation of the rule of law?. That’s why I went there to rescue him. Let them kill two of us together. But when they saw my vehicles and the crowd, they fled

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ALGERIAN COACH QUITS WORK AFTER HE FAILED TO GET ALGERIA PAST GROUP STAGE

Algeria’s Belgian coach Georges Leekens quit Tuesday after the side crashed out of the Africa Cup of Nations.

Algeria were one of the pre-tournament favourites for the competition in Gabon but failed to win a game in their opening group.

“For the good of all I decided to quit even though I do it with heart ache, and I wish all the success in the world to the national side,” he said in a statement on the Algerian Football Federation website.



Algeria bowed out of the tournament after their 2-2 draw with Senegal on Monday. Senegal join Tunisia in qualifying from the group for the quarter-finals.

After the game in Franceville, Leekens indicated he hoped to continue as coach, with the next target qualification of the 2018 World Cup in Russia.

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PRESIDENCY DENIES MAGU'S CONFIRMATION LETTER

The Presidency has distanced itself from reports that President Muhammadu Buhari has written a fresh letter to the Senate insisting on confirming the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mr. Ibrahim Magu.

The Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (Senate), Mr. Ita Enang, said he was not aware of such letter.

Enang was reacting to media reports that the President, who is currently on a 10-day annual vacation, had sent a letter to the Senate insisting on the confirmation of Magu


The Presidency has distanced itself from reports that President Muhammadu Buhari has written a fresh letter to the Senate insisting on confirming the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mr. Ibrahim Magu.

The Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (Senate), Mr. Ita Enang, said he was not aware of such letter.

Enang was reacting to media reports that the President, who is currently on a 10-day annual vacation, had sent a letter to the Senate insisting on the confirmation of Magu

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