tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90788181379231185922024-02-08T00:28:29.374+01:00Osbert Agho's Blog.This Blog is by Osbert E. Agho, a Benin City, Edo State based businessman and a prominent politician. On this blog, you will get first hand, and hard to find news items, commentaries and events happening around the World and Nigeria. News about the every day people and their environment. Enjoy reading news will uplift mankind.Osbert Agho Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05216687055290256977noreply@blogger.comBlogger647125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9078818137923118592.post-62334506330768948852019-03-30T22:05:00.003+01:002019-03-30T22:05:20.390+01:00ELECTRICITY SUPPLY AND THE INHERENT FRAUD IN RATIONING.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A few weeks
back, the minister of power Barrister Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN) quipped that
some states in Nigeria are already enjoying 24 hours electricity supply. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Though opinion molders have taking him to task
saying his assertions were all fallacy. They mused that his appointment does
not fit his training. That it is a round peg in a square hole. Wetin concern lawyer
with electricity?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">My take is
that if the minister in charge of electricity says his outfit is supplying 24
hours electricity to some states and the consumers are saying they are not
getting that much supply, it then shows there is a mystery somewhere down the
line. It is that mysterious ‘disappearance’ of electricity that I want us to
look at using Edo State as an example. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It is a
known fact that electricity cannot be stored. So as it is generated it is
supplied to the consumer for usage. But in Edo State there is a phenomenon
introduced by the Benin Electricity Distribution Company, BEDC <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of rationing electricity to consumers. For
example, they will supply electricity to a community for 3 three hours and turn
off for another 3 hours. Some are could be on a 4 four hours rotation. If you
happen to be in these neighbourhoods when the lights are suppose to come on at
say 9am and to go off by 12noon, you will notice the promptness and the
regularity of the switching off and switching on. This goes to show that the
electricity is always available to them for onward supply at the promised time.
What this is telling us is that BEDC has access to 24 hours electricity supply
from the national source, but choose to buy less and supply to the people on
rationing. The little they bought from the national is now shared for few hours
to the local consumer. Because, as at the time A is turned off another B is receiving
supply. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Fashola was
right there is 24 hours electricity supply but companies like BEDC has chosen
to short change their costumers by undersupplying them due their gross inefficiency.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">BEDC should
buy enough electricity and truly supply the people with 24 hours electricity,
supply them with meters and let the people pay for their fair consumption. The
economy will grow and BEDC will be profitable. What BEDC is doing right now is
pure economic sabotage.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Osbert Agho Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05216687055290256977noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9078818137923118592.post-80778842229165575642019-03-29T10:49:00.000+01:002019-03-29T10:49:00.976+01:00In Memory of Col. Muammar Qaddafi<div>
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Before the West murdered Ghadaffi</div>
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1. There was no electricity bill in Libya, electricity is free for all its citizens.</div>
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2. There was no interest on loans, banks<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;"> in Libya are state-owned and loans given to all its citizens are at a 0% interest by law.</span></div>
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3. Home was considered a human right in Libya. Gaddafi vowed that his parents would not get a house until everyone in Libya had a<br />home.</div>
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4. All newlyweds in Libya received $60,000 Dinars (US$50,000) from the government to buy their first apartment.</div>
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5. Education and medical treatments were free in Libya. Before Gaddafi started ruling Libya, only 25% of Libyans were literates. Before he was murdered, the figure stood at 83%.</div>
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6. Libyans took up farming as a career, they received farm land, a farming house, equipment, seeds and livestock to kick- start their farms – all for free.</div>
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7. If Libyans could not find the education or medical facilities they needed in Libya, the government funded them to go abroad for it.</div>
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8. In Gaddafi's Libya, if a Libyan buys a car, the government subsidized 50% of the price.</div>
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9. The price of petrol in Libya was $0. 14 per liter.</div>
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10. Libya had no external debt and its reserves amount to $150 billion – now frozen globally.</div>
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11. If a Libyan is unable to get employment after graduation, the state would pay the average salary of the profession as if he or she is employed until employment is found.</div>
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12. A portion of Libyan oil sale is credited directly to the bank accounts of all Libyan citizens.</div>
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13. A mother who gave birth to a child under Gaddafi, received US $5,000 as child benefit upfront.</div>
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14. 40 loaves of bread in Libya cost was $ 0.15</div>
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15. 25% of Libyans had a university degree.</div>
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16. Gaddafi carried out the world’s largest irrigation project, known as the Great Man- Made River Project, to make water readily available throughout the desert country.</div>
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Is this the definition of a Dictator?<br />I wonder what type of Leadership Democracy provides!</div>
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In memory of Col. Muammar Gaddafi.</div>
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Some people are wired to succeed in queer ways.</div>
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You remember that traffic gala-selling dude, who on seeing a Nigerian Prisons black Maria filled with hungry prisoners yelling for help, decided to give out all the gala he had for sale free-of-charge so these prisoners could feed.</div>
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Well, his kind gesture has earned him bigger things.</div>
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He is now into wholesaling.......</div>
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He said he did what he did cos those prisoners were really begging and he could feel their plight.</div>
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One thing he said that made him empty his gala carton was that when he started squeezing each gala through the little air duct, he was scared that the armed-prison warders were going to harass him, however he was dazed that they let him continue giving out the gala to these court-bound inmates. That made him continue till he was empty......</div>
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I think someone recorded his kind gesture, days later, some good samaritan, in fact, 2 at first found their way to his usual traffic-sale point and gave him some cash....</div>
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Today, more has come as he now owns this wholesale store.......</div>
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It is cool to be good.</div>
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Stop enjoying alone........</div>
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Share as much as you can....</div>
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Loads of people are hungry and need help.</div>
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Give without expecting good in return.</div>
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God wouldn't let a giver run dry cos God knows when you have, you share.....</div>
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Stop the aka-gum lifestyle you live......</div>
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, the bus conductor jumped out and landed by my side. I was about to be robbed!<br />However, the conductor had other plans...<br />'Oshodi Oshodi Oshodi o...'<br />I heaved a sigh of relieve and breathed deeper, then I saw a guy I'd known for long. Years of separation couldn't play on me any trick. He was one of the brightest guy in our class, and had won for us a couple of Inter-School competition.<br />He was of a modest middleclass family that valued education and when he says a word is 'adjectival proverb' or 'future present past participle', we dared not argue because he was usually right.<br />Always ahead. He had a way of mentally working out complex mathematical equations without writing. He was a silent threat to the 'booboo' teachers and would sometimes challenge their answers' which later earned him cold hates. Gbenga was that hot and was named one of the most likely to succeed in our class.<br />'Oshodi…Oshodi…Oshodi oke o…' He continued.<br />I pushed out my head from the car and 'hala' his nick name.<br />'Gbengene!'<br />He was shocked. Only his old allies would know that name, I guessed. He looked intently at me and then screamed. I came out of the car and we hugged fiercely, like old thieves, gallons of his sweat rubbing all over me, but I cared not. I was happy to see my old friend.<br />‘Viko ómó'lòpè, what’s up? O ti sha-pra-pra gan o...'<br />He hailed loudly in street parlance. We however couldn't talk as he had to get back to work, and his driver 'oga' was blaring the horn angrily. So I took his phone number and watched him go adoringly.<br />Gbenga ran back to the moving Danfo bus, jumped in and clung tightly to the door as if his entire life depended on it. He gave me a parting smile and flashed a decolorized teeth supposedly darkened by excessive marijuana smoking and deepseated apathy to dental hygiene.<br />God, what happened?<br />I stood, rooted to that spot and sadly watched him disappear into the fast moving Lagos metro.<br />Then came flurry of emotion.<br />I cried.<br />As I drove on, I flashed back to another flip-sided slice of life that made me conclude afterall that life is a scam.<br />I was on Admiralty Way in Lekki and stopped at AP/Tantalizer Junction to shine my shoe. I was admiring the Aboki doing his work with much passion when a black Range Rover halted suddenly behind me and the screech of the tyres made me dive for safety.<br />God forbid bad thing!<br />While on the safer side, I glanced back to see the idiot behind the wheel, then I saw a familiar face. 'No! Haba! It couldn't be him' I argued within me, then wiped my face for a clearer vision. The loser was still there, smiling stupidly. The face rang a louder bell, and of course, I remembered him.<br />'What in hell could Bala be doing inside this Range Rover?' I queried myself.<br />It is tragic to be dumb, and a tragedy to be stupid, but it is a curse to be both. Bala was dumb and stupid! His parents were extremely poor! That, conjoined with his non-existent academic performance which affected his confidence and social life, he was simply termed a failure and had severally been assured he wouldn't amount to anything in life. He agreed, and we all agreed with him. So we treated him as nobody, a scumbag.<br />‘Well, maybe Bala had finally fulfilled his destiny and become a driver as predicted' I concluded, grinning sheepishly.<br />What a stupid miscalculation!<br />Balarabe, the dullest guy in my class was the proud owner of the R2. Back then, this guy could not even write a decimal point with a bottle, but now signs cheques with gold pen and cruises posh SUVs about Lagos. 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His boss loved him and mentored him in shipping and importation business until he stated his own company.<br />Wow!<br />Balarabe!<br />A CEO of a Shipping Company!!!<br />Bala!<br />A scum of the earth?!<br />I couldn't sleep that night as I kept musing over Gbenga and Bala.<br />So I concluded.<br />The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor riches to men of understanding, nor favour to men of skill; but time and chance happen to them all.<br />It is not over until it is over.<br />Gbe body é<br /><span class="_5mfr" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px 1px;"><span class="_6qdm" style="background-image: url("https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t4b/1/16/2796.png"); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: contain; color: transparent; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; height: 16px; text-shadow: none; vertical-align: text-bottom; width: 16px;">➖</span></span><span class="_5mfr" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px 1px;"><span class="_6qdm" style="background-image: url("https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t4b/1/16/2796.png"); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: contain; color: transparent; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; height: 16px; text-shadow: none; vertical-align: text-bottom; width: 16px;">➖</span></span><span class="_5mfr" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px 1px;"><span class="_6qdm" style="background-image: url("https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t4b/1/16/2796.png"); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: contain; color: transparent; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; height: 16px; text-shadow: none; vertical-align: text-bottom; width: 16px;">➖</span></span><span class="_5mfr" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px 1px;"><span class="_6qdm" style="background-image: url("https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t4b/1/16/2796.png"); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: contain; color: transparent; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; height: 16px; text-shadow: none; vertical-align: text-bottom; width: 16px;">➖</span></span><span class="_5mfr" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px 1px;"><span class="_6qdm" style="background-image: url("https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t4b/1/16/2796.png"); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: contain; color: transparent; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; height: 16px; text-shadow: none; vertical-align: text-bottom; width: 16px;">➖</span></span><br />DON'T WRITE YOURSELF OFF.<br />_The Movie is still on and it could soon start to favour you_<br /><span class="_5mfr" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px 1px;"><span class="_6qdm" style="background-image: url("https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t4b/1/16/2796.png"); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: contain; color: transparent; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; height: 16px; text-shadow: none; vertical-align: text-bottom; width: 16px;">➖</span></span> Reinvent Yourself<br /><span class="_5mfr" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px 1px;"><span class="_6qdm" style="background-image: url("https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t4b/1/16/2796.png"); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: contain; color: transparent; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; height: 16px; text-shadow: none; vertical-align: text-bottom; width: 16px;">➖</span></span> Get started again with much agility and faith!<br /><span class="_5afx" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"type":104,"tn":"*N"}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/copied?source=feed_text&epa=HASHTAG" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;"><span aria-label="hashtag" class="_58cl _5afz" style="font-family: inherit; unicode-bidi: isolate;">#</span><span class="_58cm" style="font-family: inherit;">COPIED</span></a>The Ups and Down</span></div>
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THE DEPOSITION OF THE ENOGIE OF UROMI : IT MAYBE US TOMORROW.</div>
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I woke up this morning to hear about the sad news of the deposition of Enogie of Uromi and this came to me as a huge shock. I have tried not to make any comment on this matter since he was suspended for assaulting a woman because of its sensibility but I am coerced by circumstance to speak on it knowing very well history will judge me if I decide to be silent or even take side out of political partisanship.</div>
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One of the reason why many people in APC accuse me of anti party activity is because I don't always support every action of the Edo State Government as everybody will do, this is because I have a conscience that I will not want to mortgage for party loyalty and my professional background as a lawyer who sworn an oath to stand on the side of justice, fairness and equity, and protect the Constitution will not let me keep quiet or take side with my party even when I know the action is wrong.</div>
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This action by Edo State Government to depose the crown king of Uromi , Oba Aslem Adonije after the woman he was accusd of assaulting has even apologize and mend fence with the Enogie of Uromi must be condemn by all of us, whether you are Benin or from Edo North because it may happen to your Oba tomorrow. We cannot adore,reverend respect and celebrate our king and support the humiliation of another, we can not see our oba as a Lord and see another one as a servant, we not see our our Oba as someone who is ordained by God and see another as an appointee of the Government, we cannot apply the ideal that the king does no wrong to our oba and see another as an exception. We must totally resist and condemn any act that will divide us as a people or denigrate our traditional institutions and make mockery of it.</div>
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We as a people who respect tradition should not be seen to be supporting this type of executive rascality. If this was the Oba Of Benin even if he kills somebody would the State Government even suspend him to the extent of deposing him? If this was the Otaru of Auchi would the State Government do same knowing well they are guided by the same purported weird law of 1979 which I think was even a photocopy of the Colonial masters Law which they used in deposing our obas .The Bible instructed us to do unto others the way we want them do unto us. If the woman that was allegedly assaulted has decided to apologize knowing very well the the tradition, what gave the State Government the moral and legal right to maltreat and humiliate him this way? Maybe there is more to this they are not letting us know. This is a case of sowing a seed of discord and disaffection among the people and hereby promoting ethnic antagonism and Ill-feelings. As a member of APC, I won't support this action and it will even become crazy for me to start celebrating it. What is wrong is wrong, we should not play politics with everything. The members of APC from Uromi and all stakeholders should as a matter of urgency call the government to order because this is not good for our state and not even at this time when the current government is about to leave the office.</div>
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The said Section 28( I & 2) of the Traditional Rulers and Chiefs Law, 1979 relied upon by the State Government to depose the oba was misinterpreted in error and in mystery. The State Government only gave the law that gave them power to depose a monarch who was not crown by them but did not tell us under what grounds can they exercise such Power. The said Law is archaic , repugnant to natural justice, good conscience and good conscience . The oba was accuse of allegedly assaulting a woman and told to apologise without given fair hearing and this is a breach of his fundamental Human Right under Section 36 of the 1999 constitution, apology itself is a punishment for a crime and not and not a trial or a call for defence itself . The monarchy was by inheritance and confirmed by the Chiefs or whatsoever name they might be called in Uromi Land and not by appointment , and any Law that directly or indirectly either by expression or interpretation gives the State government the power to suo moto or arbitrarily depose a sitting oba for allegedly assault is void, mischievous and not certainly a good Law. The Oba is not immune from prosecution and if he is alleged to have committed and crime or offence, he should be arrested and tried in the regular court , If the State Government can do so, it is making the monarch an appointee of the government who will always dance to the tune of the government and can be fire anytime.</div>
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I WITHDRAW MY CONGRATULATORY MESSAGE TO OBASEKI, AND I REJECT THE APC PRIMARY</div>
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I FELIX OSEMWENGIE ISERE wish to withdraw my congratulatory message earlier sent to the self acclaimed winner of the June 18th<br />APC primary, Godwin Obaseki who even knew what he will score a day before the election. The message was hasty and sent in error thinking that the primary was free and fair as shown live on air and people were deceptively meant to believe not knowing it was a mere charade , formality and a stage managed fraud.</div>
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I have been waiting for my principal Dr. PIUS ODUBU to come out with a statement and position but he decided to not to speak for reasons best known to him. As a lawyer and a patriotic party man who was shocked by the results, I decided to embark on my personal investigation from delegates and persons who are close to the two petitioner Barr. Ken Imasuangbon and Dr. Chris Ogiewonyi and are privy to their petition. I was speechless by the revelations I got. It was revealed that it was the National Organising Secretary of the party Senator Osita Ozinaso, who was compromised, That the National Chairman of the party and the Chairman of the committee that organised the primary were not away of this wicked conspiracy to pervert the will of the delegates .It was the National Organising Secretary who has the responsibility to print ballot papers and after he was bought by these desperadoes in Edo State , he gave the contract to Comrade ADAMS Oshiomhole who printed it in Benin. The machine that was used to print the ballot papers was bought from China and all the ballot papers were programmed in a way to show green at Obaseki space in the ballot paper with the reflection of mercury light in the faces of agents and every other observer at night and the scores of the other aspirants were also programmed and allocated in a way that after two minutes of voting for them the ink will dry. The entire votes were allocated that was why the least popular aspirant alone could get 1600 votes. And delegates also corroborated that the ink put in their fingers did not last up to two minutes in their fingers.</div>
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It will be interesting for you to know that about 1700 delegates have jointly signed a petition to the Bamidele led Appeal panel that they never voted for Obaseki and some of them are in Abuja to give evidence before the panel. It was further revealed that it was around 4am that night that somebody called Ken Imasuangbon and told him details of this dubious activity and how they bought the machine from China, hence the reason for the vexatious reaction from Imasuangbon.</div>
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Furthermore, I found out that the reason why the Governor was restless at the stadium that day jumping from one place to another like squirrel was because he was afraid their evil plans may fail or it will be discovered . And when they realised that the figures they programmed was higher than the accredited delegates the Governor had to use his influence in the stadium to bring non delegates to votes so as to ensure that the total numbers of accredited voters tally with what they have prior arranged and that was the reason for the protest and and shouting from agents of some aspirants on air live that night at the stadium.</div>
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It was when the Governor discovered their fraudulent activities was later discovered that he started running up and down meeting people to help him beg the aspirants. Consequently, he wanted to use the presidency and that was the reason the SGF<br />heard meeting with all the aspirants in Abuja last week and he made some offer but Ken Imasuangbon and Chris Ogiewonyi openly rejected the offer made to them and demanded for Forensic analysis of the ballot because they are very sure of their claims.</div>
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Let me state here and now that despite my principal Dr PIUS ODUBU has not said anything neither has he informed me personally of his decision to accept or reject the result, however as a member of APC and someone who believes in Justice, fairness and democracy, I totally join Barr. Ken Imasuangbon and Chris Ogiewonyi to demand for a forensic analysis of the ballot papers and cancellation of the purported result, anything short of that will be unacceptable. I vehemently reject the purported results of the primary. it was a fraud, a clear sham, and the greatest evil conspiracy of the century. I demand the immediate resignation and prosecution of the National Organising Secretary of our party, he has shown to be a true Igbo man who can easily be compromised with money. I reject the reconciliation moves and all attempts to cover this mega evil and anti democratic practice, It will not stand and shall never stand because you cannot put something on nothing and expect it to stand. I vow to mobilise other Comrades in the party to seek justice anywhere and anyhow within the ambit of the Law if the party does not give us Justice. I know president Mohammed Buhari will not support this evil neither will he be an accessory to it. This is not about me or any individual,but it is about the integrity of of the largest party in Africa and it internal democracy. Obaseki who mastered this fraud should not only be disqualified but he must be arrested and prosecuted.</div>
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I REJECT EDO APC PRIMARY AND I REJECT OBASEKI WHO IS THE PRODUCT OF SUCH EVIL.</div>
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The most iconic image of the late Muhammad Ali, <a data-rapid_p="11" href="https://www.yahoo.com/sports/news/muhammad-ali--simply--the-greatest---dead-at-74-042902069.html" style="color: #324fe1; text-decoration: none;">who died Friday at 74</a>, is likely that of him standing triumphantly over the fallen Sonny Liston in 1965.</div>
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The most important image might be something else entirely.</div>
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It was taken on this day – June 4 – in 1967, at a news conference in Cleveland. Ali is speaking into a microphone. On his right, listening intently, sits Bill Russell. On his left sits <a class="yom-entity-link yom-entity-sports_player" data-rapid_p="12" href="http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaaf/players/208229/" style="color: #324fe1; text-decoration: none;">Jim Brown</a> and Lew Alcindor (now Kareem Abdul-Jabbar). Assembled there, in one photo, are four of the greatest athletes in history. They are flanked by other athletes, including future NFL Hall of Famer Willie Davis, and community leaders such as Carl Stokes, who would become the first black mayor of a major U.S. city. They are not at the news conference to speak about sports.</div>
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They were there to lend visible support to Ali's decision to object to his induction into the war in Vietnam. The "Ali Summit," as it later came to be known, was pulled together by Brown at the offices of the Negro Industrial Economic Union and became a crucial step in the civil rights movement. As Bill Rhoden of the New York Times <a data-rapid_p="14" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/29/sports/football/ex-brown-walter-beach-recalls-black-athletes-support-of-ali.html?smid=tw-share&_r=1" style="color: #324fe1; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">described the scene in a 2014 story</a>, "the moment itself would be remembered as the first – and last – time that so many African-American athletes at that level came together to support a controversial cause."<div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;">
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It's hard to imagine anything like this happening today. There have been sporadic sports protests in recent years, like <a class="yom-entity-link yom-entity-sports_player" data-rapid_p="15" href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/players/3704/" style="color: #324fe1; text-decoration: none;">LeBron James</a> and others decrying Clippers owner Donald Sterling's racist remarks, or NBA players wearing "I Can't Breathe" T-shirts to call out police brutality, or even the U.S. Women's National Team filing a lawsuit against U.S. Soccer, but the power of that 1967 conference is as resonant now as it was then. They are not in warm-ups or T-shirts or uniforms; they're in business suits.</div>
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"The Liston image, that's what most people wanted to see – black men fighting each other," says Lou Moore, a professor at Grand Valley State University who specializes in boxing history. "They wanted you to be a tiger in the ring but a pussycat when it comes to politics. That picture of them standing together is them being a tiger off the field."</div>
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The bravery of this is hard to overstate. This was even before the era of free agency, before the era of the seven-figure endorsement contract, long before athletes worked with consultants to come up with cute logos for their "brand." Athletes now can carve their reputations with edited essays or carefully produced ads. Back then there was no filter, and the media was often antagonistic in a way we can't grasp today. And the hate went way beyond the sports world; Ali was refused service at a whites-only restaurant after he was already an Olympic gold-medalist. His anti-war stance cost him his U.S. passport and very nearly his career. Two weeks after the news conference, he was banned from boxing and sentenced to prison.</div>
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On his Facebook page Saturday morning, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar <a data-rapid_p="16" href="https://www.facebook.com/kaj/" style="color: #324fe1; text-decoration: none;">wrote about Ali's power</a>:</div>
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"At a time when blacks who spoke up about injustice were labeled uppity and often arrested under one pretext or another, Muhammad willingly sacrificed the best years of his career to stand tall and fight for what he believed was right. In doing so, he made all Americans, black and white, stand taller. I may be 7'2" but I never felt taller than when standing in his shadow."</div>
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Ali didn't just mention his beliefs on occasion, or when there was a news story on a topic he cared about. Ali was a constant reminder of injustice. He made people see what they did not want to see. There were others who spoke up before and during the Civil Rights Era, like <a class="yom-entity-link yom-entity-sports_player" data-rapid_p="18" href="http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaaf/players/232038/" style="color: #324fe1; text-decoration: none;">Jackie Robinson</a>and Joe Louis, and Brown and Abdul-Jabbar voiced unpopular views for decades (and still do), but Ali was brash and flash, exposing inconvenient truths with beautiful boxing and turns of phrases.<div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;">
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"I am America," he once said. "I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me."</div>
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There are few comparable quotes to that in today's sports world. <a class="yom-entity-link yom-entity-sports_player" data-rapid_p="19" href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/24788/" style="color: #324fe1; text-decoration: none;">Cam Newton</a> drew a lot of controversy earlier this year when he said, "I'm an African-American quarterback that may scare a lot of people because they haven't seen nothing they can compare me to." That was refreshing honesty from the NFL MVP, but Newton did not risk government backlash with his words. Ali and the others risked everything.</div>
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"We didn't care about any perceived threats," former Browns lineman John Wooten <a data-rapid_p="20" href="http://www.cleveland.com/sports/index.ssf/2012/06/gathering_of_stars.html" style="color: #324fe1; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">told the Cleveland Plain Dealer in 2012</a>. "We weren't concerned because we weren't going to waver. We were unified. We all had a real relationship with each other and we knew we were doing something for the betterment of all."</div>
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Most of today's athletes (and people) seek to make others like them. Ali sought to disrupt, to discomfit, to dare. Saying, "I'm the greatest" and "I'm so pretty" wasn't just the trash talk we know today. It was political, cultural, iconoclastic.</div>
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"When he said, 'I'm the greatest' – people realized they treat [black people] like animals," says Moore. "People would say our skin is ugly. He's saying 'I'm pretty.' That's a big deal."</div>
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Sometimes it was crass or callous, but that's part of the genius of it: Words were never near as ugly as the truth Ali illuminated.</div>
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"There were plenty of other young activists," Moore says. "But he's an athlete. America has never allowed athletes to do that in their prime. They had to wear the mask. Ali didn't have to do that. He refused to do that."</div>
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President Barack Obama <a data-rapid_p="22" href="http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/boxing/president-obama---muhammad-ali-was-a-man-who-fought-for-what-was-right-155216879.html" id="yui_3_18_1_1_1465074099197_1814" style="color: #324fe1; text-decoration: none;">released a statement on Ali's passing on Saturday morning</a>, saying, "His fight outside the ring would cost him his title and his public standing. It would earn him enemies on the left and the right, make him reviled, and nearly send him to jail. But Ali stood his ground. And his victory helped us get used to the America we recognize today."</div>
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Obama's presidency itself is evidence of Ali's legacy.</div>
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In his statement, Obama mentioned that he has a copy in the White House of that iconic photo of the fighter – the one of Ali standing over Liston. That moment, albeit sterling, was a sports moment.</div>
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But the photo of him, and Brown and Alcindor and the others, in Cleveland: that was a group of athletes shining a flashbulb in the faces of an incongruous, unfair society. That was bravery beyond sports.</div>
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That was the truest image of a champion.</div>
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Muhammad Ali, the eloquent, colorful, controversial and brilliant three-time heavyweight boxing champion who was known as much for his social conscience and staunch opposition to the Vietnam War as for his dazzling boxing skills, died Friday.</div>
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Ali, who had a long battle with Parkinson's disease, was taken to a Phoenix area hospital earlier this week where he was being treated for a respiratory issue. He was 74.</div>
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Once the most outrageous trash talker in sports, he was largely muted for the last quarter century of his life, quieted by a battle with Parkinson's.</div>
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Born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. on Jan. 17, 1942, in Louisville, Ky., Ali learned to box after his bicycle was stolen when he was 12 years old. When young Clay vowed to "whoop the behind" of the thief, a local police officer encouraged him to learn to box to channel his energy.<div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;">
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He would go on to become known as "The Greatest," and at his peak in the 1970s was among the most recognizable faces on Earth.</div>
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He was known for his tendency to recite poems while making predictions about his fights – "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. The hands can't hit what the eyes can't see." – as well as for giving opponents often unflattering nicknames. He referred to Sonny Liston as "the big ugly bear," George Chuvalo as "The Washerwoman," Floyd Patterson as "The Rabbit" and Earnie Shavers as "The Acorn."</div>
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But his most controversial, and some would say cruel, nicknames were reserved for his fiercest rival, Joe Frazier. He first dubbed Frazier "Uncle Tom" and then later called him "The Gorilla."</div>
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When Ali prepared to meet Frazier for a third time in Manila, Philippines, on Oct. 1, 1975, he frequently carried a toy rubber gorilla with him. At one news conference, he pulled the gorilla out of his pocket and began punching it as he said, "It's going to be a killa and a thrilla and a chilla when I get the gorilla in Manila."</div>
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Frazier, though, took it personally and harbored a decades-long grudge.</div>
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"It sure did bother him," Gene Kilroy, Ali's friend for more than 50 years, told Yahoo Sports.</div>
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Kilroy said Ali was simply promoting the fights and meant no harm, and said Ali regretted the impact his words had upon Frazier.</div>
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"I used to tell Ali, 'Someday, me, you and Joe are going to be three old men sitting in the park laughing about all that [expletive],' " Kilroy recalled. "And Ali said, 'That would be great!' I talked to Joe and Joe said, 'No, [expletive] him. I don't want to be with him.' But he loosened up later and they mended fences."</div>
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Not long before Frazier's death in 2011, he attended an autograph signing and memorabilia show in Las Vegas. Frazier grabbed a copy of an old Sports Illustrated magazine that had a photo of the two fighters and promoter Don King on the cover.</div>
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"Man," he said, sounding wistful, "we gave the people some memories, me and Ali."</div>
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Ali was at the peak of his professional powers after knocking out Zora Folley in New York on March 22, 1967. He battered Folley throughout and stopped him in the seventh.</div>
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After the bout, Folley shared his thoughts with Sports Illustrated.</div>
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"The right hands Ali hit me with just had no business landing – but they did. They came from nowhere," Folley said. "… He's smart. The trickiest fighter I've seen. He's had 29 fights and acts like he's had a hundred. He could write the book on boxing, and anyone that fights him should be made to read it first."</div>
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Ali's boxing career came to a screeching halt after that fight. He'd refused induction into the U.S. Army because he stated he was a conscientious objector.</div>
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Ali had converted to Islam in 1964 after the first of his two wins over Liston, and changed his name from Cassius Clay. He said Islam was a religion of peace and that he had no desire to engage in combat with those who'd done him or his family no harm.</div>
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This all went down at the height of the civil rights movement.</div>
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"Shoot them for what?" Ali asked in an interview after he refused induction. "They never called me nigger. They never lynched me. They never put dogs on me. They didn't rob me of my nationality, rape and kill my mother and father. What do I want to shoot them for, for what? Why do I want to go shoot them, poor little people and babies and children and women? How can I shoot them? Just take me to jail."</div>
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He went on trial in Houston on June 20, 1967. The jury deliberated for only 21 minutes before finding him guilty. He was fined $10,000, faced five years in jail and had his passport taken.</div>
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He was stripped of the crown and deprived from making a living, but he wasn't silenced. Ali would go on a lecture circuit, speaking at colleges for as little as $1,500 and as much as $10,000.</div>
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He desperately needed the money because he wasn't making a lot after being stripped and he was paying an expensive team of attorneys.</div>
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Always conscious of his image, Ali joked in one interview that he couldn't allow people to see his car.</div>
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"I didn't want people to see the world heavyweight champion driving a Volkswagen, while all them guys were driving their Cadillacs," he said.</div>
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At first, there was a lot of tension in the crowds, as opposition to the Vietnam War had only just started. Gradually, though, Ali swung the crowds to his point of view as the country's opinion of the situation in Southeast Asia turned dramatically.</div>
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Ali said that on one series of lectures he was set to make $1,500 a speech for talking to students at Canisius, Farleigh Dickinson and C.W. Post. He opened his wife's piggy bank and found, he said, $135, which he needed to buy gas and food for his trip.</div>
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Kilroy said that whenever Ali was paid, the first thing he did was find a Western Union.</div>
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"Whenever he'd get paid, he'd go send some money to his mother and father so they were OK and then he sent what was left to his wife and kids," Kilroy said.</div>
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Despite his financial difficulties, Ali never lost the courage of his convictions. At one of his speeches, he insisted he had no regrets.</div>
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While many tried to convince him of the errors of his ways, he remained steadfast and resolute. He told the crowd that sticking for his beliefs led him to come out on top.</div>
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"There have been many questions put to me about why I refused to be inducted into the United States Army," Ali said in the speech to students. "Especially, as some have pointed out, as many have pointed out, when not taking the step I will lose so much. I would like to say to the press and those people who think I lost so much by not taking the step, I would like to say I didn't lose a thing up until this very moment. One thing, I have gained a lot. Number one, I have gained a peace of mind. I have gained a peace of heart. I now know I am content with almighty God himself, whose name is Allah. I have also gained the respect of everyone who is here today.</div>
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"I have not only gained the respect of everyone who is here today, but worldwide. I have gained respect [from] people all over the world. By taking the step, I would have satisfied a few people who are pushing the war. Even if the wealth of America was given to me for taking the step, the friendship of all of the people who support the war, this would still be nothing [that would] content [me] internally."</div>
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The Supreme Court would reverse Ali's conviction in 1971 by an 8-0 vote. But by then, Ali was already back in the ring.</div>
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He actually returned from exile in 1970. Georgia didn't have an athletic commission and so he wasn't banned there. He faced Jerry Quarry on Oct. 26 in Atlanta, a fight Ali won via a third-round stoppage.</div>
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After one more fight, a knockout of Oscar Bonavena in the 15th round, Ali was ready to face the undefeated Frazier.</div>
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According to boxing promoter Bob Arum, the fight nearly took place in Las Vegas, with then-Nevada Governor Paul Laxalt endorsing the fight.</div>
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"The bad luck was [when arranging the fight] we stayed at the Desert Inn," Arum told Yahoo Sports.</div>
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The Desert Inn was owned by Moe Dalitz, a one-time bootlegger and racketeer who was the most powerful figure in Las Vegas. He was also a reputed mobster.</div>
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Dalitz didn't care for Ali because he didn't serve in the war.</div>
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He saw Arum and Conrad eating breakfast and asked Conrad why they were there. Dalitz went crazy, Arum said.</div>
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"He said, 'I don't want that [expletive] draft dodger in this town,' " Arum said. " 'It's not good for the town.' "</div>
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And so the biggest fight in history went not to Las Vegas but to New York a few months later.</div>
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Joe Frazier, left, hits Muhammad Ali during the 15th round of their 1971 title fight. (AP)</div>
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It was an epic night that featured scores of celebrities in the crowd. Frank Sinatra was a ringside photographer. Burt Lancaster did color commentary.</div>
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It was an outstanding fight, but Frazier's pressure carried the day. He floored Ali in the 15th round with one of the most famous and perfectly executed left hooks in boxing history, sealing the fight.</div>
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But Ali would have his days against Frazier, defeating him twice, in a non-title bout on Jan. 28, 1974, in New York, and for the heavyweight title in Manila on Oct. 1, 1975. That was a fight for the ages, remembered as one of a handful of the best in boxing history.</div>
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Ali won by 14th-round stoppage when Frazier's trainer, Eddie Futch, asked referee Carlos Padilla to stop the fight. There has long been question about whether Angelo Dundee, then Ali's trainer, would have allowed Ali to go out for the 15th had Futch not stopped it.</div>
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In his brilliant 2001 book, "Ghosts of Manila," Mark Kram wrote, "After the press conference, Joe retired to a private villa for rest. He had been sleeping for a couple of hours when George Benton entered with a visitor. The room was dark. 'Who is it?' Joe asked, lifting his head. 'I can't see. Can't see. Turn the lights on.' A light was turned on and he still could not see. Like Ali, he lay there with his veins empty, crushed by a will that had carried him so far and now surely too far. His eyes were iron gates torn up by an explosive. 'Man, I hit him with punches that bring down the walls of a city. What held him up?' He lowered his head for some abstract forgiveness. 'Goddamn it, when somebody going to understand? It wasn't <em>just</em>a fight. It was me and him. Not a fight.' "</div>
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Ali wasn't nearly the same fighter after that. He'd taken a fearsome pounding in his second career, after his return from exile. His three fights with Frazier, his 1974 fight with George Foreman in Africa and his 1980 bout with Larry Holmes were particularly brutal.</div>
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Ali's win over Foreman became known as "The Rumble in the Jungle," fought in then what was called Zaire and is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo.</div>
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He employed his famous "Rope-A-Dope" strategy in that fight. Foreman was a fearsome opponent at the time, the hardest hitter in boxing with a 40-0 record and 39 knockouts.</div>
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There were many sportswriters and boxing experts of the day who feared for Ali, such was Foreman's reputation at the time.</div>
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"I thought I was going to go in there and just go out and go, 'Boom, boom, boom,' and hit him and get him out of there and then go home," Foreman told Yahoo Sports in 2014. "That was my mistake. This was Muhammad Ali. He was 'The Greatest,' and they called him that because he was, but he was also the smartest. He knew what to do. And he did a great job of it."</div>
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Ali no longer had the foot speed or the elusiveness to dance away from Foreman as he'd done with Liston a decade earlier. Instead, he figured out the best strategy was to lay back against the ropes, lean back as far as he could, cover his face with his gloves and as much of his body as he could with his arms and let Foreman pound at him.</div>
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Foreman obliged and threw crunching, punishing shots. Ali took them and waited until Foreman became so tired he could no longer raise his arms. When he couldn't, Ali struck back and knocked out Foreman in the eighth round in the most remarkable upset of his career.</div>
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"It was my honor to get beaten up by that man," Foreman said, chuckling, in 2014. "I hated him at the time, because I didn't understand. But we grew to love each other. I love him like a brother."</div>
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Ali slowed down even more after the win over Frazier and never again looked like the electric, blazing-fast athlete he'd been years earlier.</div>
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"Nobody would have beaten Ali prior to the three-and-a-half years he lost [objecting to the Vietnam War]," Arum, who has promoted boxing for 50 years, told Yahoo Sports. "Nobody, and I mean nobody, could have come close to him. He was as fast and as elusive as Sugar Ray Robinson and Sugar Ray Leonard, and he was a heavyweight. His punching power was way better than people gave him credit for, but you never saw it a lot in those days because he was up on his toes moving."</div>
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After the Frazier fight, Ali became a personality as much as an athlete. He appeared on CBS' "Face the Nation" in 1976 during the Ford-Carter presidential race. He was asked whom he favored, and he declined to answer, saying he didn't know enough and didn't want to influence people who followed him and would vote for whomever he would say.</div>
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He officially retired from boxing in 1981 after a unanimous decision loss to Trevor Berbick, ending his career with a 55-5 record. He remains the only three-time lineal heavyweight champion, having won titles in 1964, '74 and '78.</div>
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As he aged, Ali began to think of his role in the world and what he could do to improve it. And he talked on "Face the Nation" about his desire to do charitable acts.</div>
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"We only have so many hours a day to do what we have to do, so many years to live, and in those years, we sleep about eight hours a day," Ali sad. "We travel. We watch television. If a man is 50 years old, he's lucky if he's actually had 20 years to actually live. So I would like to do the best I can for humanity.</div>
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"I'm blessed by God to be recognized as the most famous face on the Earth today. And I cannot think of nothing better than helping God's creatures or helping poverty or good causes where I can use my name to do so."</div>
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In a 1975 interview with Playboy that was released around the time of his third fight with Frazier, he spoke of how his view of the world had changed.</div>
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He said it was his responsibility to take advantage of his notoriety by helping his fellow man.</div>
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"You listen up and maybe I'll make you as famous as I made Howard Cosell," he said in the Playboy interview. "Wars on nations are fought to change maps, but wars on poverty are fought to map change. The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.</div>
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"These are words of wisdom, so pay attention, Mr. Playboy. The man who has no imagination stands on the Earth. He has no wings, he cannot fly. When we are right, no one remembers, but when we are wrong, no one forgets."</div>
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Kilroy, King and Arum said they knew of many charitable acts Ali had done. Kilroy said Ali, who was the most popular athlete in the world for years and commanded attention everywhere he went, would always be willing to do charitable acts, but said he didn't want cameras or reporters around because he didn't want anyone to think he was doing it for the publicity.</div>
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In 1973, for example, Ali learned that a home for elderly Jewish people was going to close because it was out of money.</div>
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"I'll never forget that night," Kilroy said. "It was a cold January night and we saw it on the news. Ali really paid attention to it and you could tell it bothered him, that all these people were going to be put out. They had nowhere to go. He told me to find out where it was, so I called the TV station and got the address.</div>
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"We drove over there and walked in and some guy comes up to me. I said, 'We're looking for the man in charge. Where is he?' And the guy says, 'I am. What do you want?' And Ali tells him he wants to help. He wrote him a check for $200,000 and tells him to put it in the bank that night. And then he writes another check for $200,000 and tells him to wait four days, because he has to get home and put some more money in the bank to cover the check."</div>
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President Bush presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Muhammad Ali in 2005. (AP)</div>
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In 1990, shortly before the first Gulf War between the U.S. and Iraq, he flew to Baghdad to speak with Saddam Hussein to secure the release of 15 U.S. hostages.</div>
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Hussein agreed to release the hostages.</div>
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For the rest of his life Ali worked to promote the cause of peace and charity. In December 2015, he condemned ISIS and took a shot at Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump (without mentioning Trump's name) when Trump suggested temporarily banning all Muslims from entering the U.S.</div>
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After the terrorist shootings in San Bernardino, Ali released a statement through his publicist. The headline said, "Statement From Muhammad Ali Regarding Presidential Candidates Proposing to Ban Muslim Immigration to the United States."</div>
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"I am a Muslim and there is nothing Islamic about killing innocent people in Paris, San Bernardino or anywhere else in the world," Ali said in the statement. "True Muslims know that the ruthless violence of so-called Islamic Jihadists goes against the very tenets of our religion.</div>
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"We as Muslims have to stand up to those who use Islam to advance their own personal agenda. They have alienated many from learning about Islam. True Muslims know or should know that it goes against our religion to try and force Islam on anybody.</div>
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"Speaking as someone who has never been accused of political correctness, I believe that our political leaders should use their position to bring understanding about the religion of Islam and clarify that these misguided murderers have perverted people's views on what Islam really is."</div>
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It's the last major public statement Muhammad Ali ever made.</div>
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Most of South Africa's land remains in white hands and many commercial and small-scale farmers are currently facing tough times because of the worst drought in at least a century.</div>
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The bill, in the works since 2008, will enable the state to pay for land at a value determined by a government adjudicator and then expropriate it for the "public interest", ending the willing-buyer, willing-seller approach to land reform.</div>
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Experts say it will not signal the kind of often violent land grabs that took place in neighbouring Zimbabwe, where white-owned farms were seized by the government for redistribution to landless blacks.</div>
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The ruling African National Congress (ANC) said the bill, criticised by some opposition parties and farming groups, would tackle injustices imposed during white-minority rule.</div>
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"The passing of the bill by parliament is historic and heralds a new era of intensified land distribution programme to bring long-awaited justice to the dispossessed majority of South Africans," the ANC said in a statement.</div>
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Some economists and farming groups have said the reform could hit investment and production at a time when South Africa is emerging from drought - pointing to the serious economic damage arising from farm seizures in Zimbabwe. They have also complained about a lack of clarity on how it will all work.</div>
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Around 8 million hectares (20 million acres) of land have been transferred to black owners since apartheid, equal to 8 to 10 percent of the land in white hands in 1994. The total is only a third of the 30 percent targeted by the ANC.</div>
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The national assembly initially passed the bill in February before it was sent for amendments and it remains only for President Jacob Zuma to sign it into law. [nL8N1624QW]</div>
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After announcing the first successful penis transplant operation in the United States, officials at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston discussed the patient, Thomas Manning, and the surgery with the news media.</div>
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A man whose penis was removed because of <a class="meta-classifier" href="http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/disease/cancer/overview.html?inline=nyt-classifier" style="color: #326891;" title="In-depth reference and news articles about Cancer.">cancer</a> has received the first penis transplant in the United States, at <a class="meta-org" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/m/massachusetts_general_hospital/index.html?inline=nyt-org" style="color: #326891;" title="More articles about Massachusetts General Hospital">Massachusetts General Hospital</a> in Boston.</div>
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Thomas Manning, 64, a bank courier from Halifax, Mass., underwent the 15-hour transplant operation on May 8 and 9. The organ came from a deceased donor.</div>
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“I want to go back to being who I was,” Mr. Manning said on Friday in an interview in his hospital room. Sitting up in a chair, happy to be out of bed for the first time since the operation, he said he felt well and had experienced hardly any pain.</div>
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“We’re cautiously optimistic,” said Dr. Curtis L. Cetrulo, a plastic and reconstructive surgeon and a leader of the surgical team. “It’s uncharted waters for us.”</div>
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The surgery is experimental, part of a research program with the ultimate goal of helping combat veterans with severe pelvic injuries, as well as cancer patients and accident victims.</div>
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If all goes as planned, normal urination should be possible for Mr. Manning within a few weeks, and sexual function in weeks to months, Dr. Cetrulo said.</div>
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Mr. Manning welcomed questions and said he wanted to speak out publicly to help dispel the shame and stigma associated with genital cancers and injuries, and to let other men know there was hope of having normal anatomy restored.</div>
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“Don’t hide behind a rock,” he said.</div>
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He said he was not quite ready to take a close look at his transplant.</div>
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He will have to take several anti-rejection drugs for the rest of his life. One of them, tacrolimus, seems to speed nerve regeneration and may help restore function to the transplant, Dr. Cetrulo said.</div>
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Another patient, his penis destroyed by burns in a car accident, will receive a transplant as soon as a matching donor becomes available, Dr. Cetrulo said.</div>
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Surgeons at the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/07/health/penis-transplants-being-planned-to-heal-troops-hidden-wounds.html?_r=0" style="color: #326891;">Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine</a> are also planning to perform penis transplants, and have had a combat veteran, injured in Afghanistan, on the waiting list for several months.</div>
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Dr. Cetrulo estimated the cost at $50,000 to $75,000. Both hospitals are paying for the procedures, and the doctors are donating their time.</div>
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Worldwide, only two other penis transplants have been reported: a failed one in China in 2006 and a successful one in South Africa in 2014, in which the recipient later fathered a child.</div>
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Veterans are a major focus of transplant programs in the United States because suicide rates are exceptionally high in soldiers with severe damage to the genitals and urinary tract, Dr. Cetrulo said. “They’re 18- to 20-year-old guys, and they feel they have no hope of intimacy or a sexual life,” he said. “They can’t even go to the bathroom standing up.”</div>
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Given the psychological toll, he said, a penis transplant can be lifesaving.</div>
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Dr. Cetrulo said the team would most likely perfect its techniques on civilian patients and then move on to injured veterans. It will also train military surgeons to perform the transplants. The Department of Defense, he said in an email, “does not like to have wounded warriors undergo unproven techniques — i.e., they do not want them to be ‘guinea pigs,’ as they have already sacrificed so much.”</div>
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His team is working on ways to minimize or even eliminate the need for anti-rejection medicines, which transplant patients typically have to take. That research is especially important for veterans, he said, because many are young and will risk serious adverse effects, like cancer and <a class="meta-classifier" href="http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/disease/injury-kidney-and-ureter/overview.html?inline=nyt-classifier" style="color: #326891;" title="In-depth reference and news articles about Injury - kidney and ureter.">kidney damage</a>, if they have to take the drugs for decades.</div>
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From 2001 to 2013, 1,367 men in the military suffered so-called genitourinary injuries in Iraq or Afghanistan, according to the Department of Defense Trauma Registry. Nearly all were under 35 and had been hurt by homemade bombs, commonly called improvised explosive devices, or I.E.D.s. Some lost part or all of their penises.</div>
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The Massachusetts General team spent three years preparing for the penis transplants. The team did meticulous dissections in a cadaver lab to map out anatomy, and operated on five or six dead donors to practice removing the tissue needed for the transplants. Mr. Manning’s operation involved about a dozen surgeons and 30 other health care workers.</div>
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Dr. Dicken Ko, a team leader and the director of the hospital’s regional urology program, said the team had not planned a set number of transplants. Instead, he said, the hospital would evaluate candidates one at a time and decide whether to allow surgery. For now, he said, the transplants will be limited to cancer and trauma patients, and will not be offered to transgender people.</div>
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An accident at work in 2012 brought Mr. Manning to the hospital, and ultimately to the transplant team. Heavy equipment had fallen on him, causing severe injuries. The doctors treating him saw an abnormal growth on his penis that he had not noticed.</div>
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Tests revealed an aggressive and potentially fatal cancer. <a class="meta-classifier" href="http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/disease/cancer-penis/overview.html?inline=nyt-classifier" style="color: #326891;" title="In-depth reference and news articles about Cancer - penis.">Penile cancer</a> is rare, with about 2,030 new cases and 340 deaths expected in the United States this year.</div>
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If not for the accident, Mr. Manning said, “I would’ve been in the ground two years ago.”</div>
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Doctors said that to save his life, they would have to remove most of his penis, in an operation called a partial penectomy. Mr. Manning’s urologic oncologist, Dr. Adam S. Feldman, estimated that a few hundred men a year needed full or partial penectomies because of cancer.</div>
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Mr. Manning was left with a stump about an inch long. He had to sit to urinate. Intimacy was out of the picture. He was single and was not involved with anyone when the cancer was found. After the amputation, new relationships were unthinkable. “I wouldn’t go near anybody,” he said.</div>
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He continued: “I couldn’t have a relationship with anybody. You can’t tell a woman, ‘I had a penis amputation.’”</div>
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Some people close to him urged him to keep the operation a secret, but he refused, saying that was like lying, and he had nothing to be ashamed of.</div>
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“I didn’t advertise, but if people asked, I told them the truth,” he said, adding that a few male friends made “guy talk” jokes at his expense, but that it toughened him up.</div>
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“Men judge their masculinity with their bodies,” he said.</div>
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Before he had even left the hospital after the amputation, he began asking Dr. Feldman about a transplant. No one at the hospital was considering the idea yet, and Dr. Feldman admits that he thought it was a bit outlandish.</div>
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But Mr. Manning never gave up hope. “I kept my eye on the prize,” he said.</div>
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Soon Dr. Cetrulo and Dr. Ko began talking about transplants. About three years later, Dr. Feldman called Mr. Manning to ask if he still wanted the operation.</div>
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After a battery of medical tests, interviews and psychological grilling — typical for transplant candidates, to make sure they understand the risks and will take anti-rejection medicine — Mr. Manning was on the waiting list. Two weeks later, a donor with the right blood type and skin tone became available.</div>
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Mr. Manning was stunned that it had happened so fast. Dr. Cetrulo credits the New England Organ Bank, which asks families of some dying patients to consider organ donation. The organ bank said the donor’s family wished to remain anonymous but had extended a message to Mr. Manning saying they felt blessed and were delighted his recovery was going well.</div>
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So far, Mr. Manning has had one serious complication. The day after his surgery, he began to hemorrhage and was rushed back to the operating room.</div>
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Since then, his recovery has been smoother, he said. He has no regrets. He looks forward to going back to work and hopes to eventually have a love life again.</div>
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A joint military taskforce from Cameroon and Nigeria captured Boukar Kaou, a Boko Haram leader, during a raid in which 58 militants died, according to Cameroon’s government.<br />
Kaou and five of his aides were captured in fighting in the Madawaya forest in northeastern Nigeria near the border with Cameroon on May 10 and 11, Issa Tchiroma Bakary, a spokesman for Cameroon’s government said in a statement read on state radio.<br />
No soldiers died and 46 hostages were freed, including 18 women and 28 children, according to the statement. Three Boko Haram camps were destroyed and a consignment of weapons was found, he said.<br />
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Hollande will attend a meeting Saturday in the Nigerian capital of Abuja. Presidents of the former French colonies of Cameroon, Niger, Chad and Benin, as well as representatives of the U.S., U.K and European Union, are expected to attend.<br />
Since taking power in May last year, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari relocated the army’s headquarters from the capital to Maiduguri, the epicenter of the insurgency, replaced his top military chiefs and vowed to recover billions of dollars stolen in defense spending corruption scandals. The Abuja talks are the second regional security summit after a meeting in Paris two years ago.</div>
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Osbert Agho Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05216687055290256977noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9078818137923118592.post-91726637899004687852016-05-04T22:45:00.000+01:002016-05-04T22:53:48.204+01:00Edo 2016 a speech to the delegates.<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">SPEECH TO MY
FELLOW DELEGATES @ A WORKSHOP<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">DON’T WASTE YOUR VOTE @THE EDO STATE APC PRIMARIES IN JUNE 2016<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Good morning my fellow
delegates. Let me thank the organizers of this beautiful workshop for helping
Nigerians to reinforce the importance of democracy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Looking at this mammoth crowd
of delegates from across the three senatorial districts, it is obvious that you
have done your home work, a wonderful job for the state in particular and the
nation as a whole.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The theme of this workshop
speaks volumes, ‘Don't waste your vote @ the APC Primaries in June 2016’. This workshop
is an opportunity for us, the delegates to rub minds as the future of Edo State
rests upon what will do at the APC primaries.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> My names are <span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px; text-indent: 0px;">Jacob Omoragbon</span>. I am one of you. I
am an LGA delegate from Oredo. We are now the beautiful Bride in
today’s Edo State governorship primaries. We are the delegates that have the
final say on this issue of who becomes the governor in 2016. Please sing along
with me.. Who has the final say …. The Delegates have the final say.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Our party, the
All Progressives Congress, APC is a brand new party which came about with the
merger of ACN, ANPP, CPC, APGA a faction of PDP called the New PDP. The Leadership
gave the party a very democratic constitution. Before now, na ear we dey take
hear say they don anoint person for governor. No be so? We are the very first
set of delegates in APC history that will truly elect a representative governor
in Edo State. If our leaders knew that this was going to be the case, that they
were not going to be able to control us by telling us who to vote for, they
will never have elected us as delegates. They would have anointed their wives
and children. Now if they could remove us and replace us with their girlfriends
they would have gladly done so. But that is not possible. Do not let them
deceive you, nobody can remove you as a
delegate.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Let me tell you
this short story so you can situate the assignment God has given us delegates
to do for Edo people. The story of Joseph in the Bible starting from Genesis
37. You know how Joseph brothers sold him into slavery and how he became a
governor in Egypt. How his brother came to buy food from Egypt and when they
came the second time how he revealed himself to them. When his brothers started
crying for fear of the evil they did to Him. Joseph reassured them, he told
them not to worry about the past, that God used them to achieve a purpose for
the people. That if they have not sold him people would have starved to death. He
said their action was for a set time like this.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">My dear delegates
just like Joseph; God has assigned you for a special purpose. Your political
assignment in life is to change the destiny of our people. This is the reason
that brought you into politics and this is the reason God allowed you to be elected
as a delegate. You are destiny changers. When you vote for a candidate that has
a verifiable track record, a man who has managed men and resource far greater
than Edo State budget, a man who has paid his due to the people. Vote for a man
that has what it takes to change the life of the people. If you vote the right
person, your destiny will change forever for good. My life will change and your
life will change too. Lastly, do not waste your vote for any candidate that
will come and learn how to manage at the level of a governor. You must vote
your conscience and don't let governor say sway your mind. On that day the
governor will cast his one vote and go just like you will cast your one vote
and go. Nobody will intimidate you because the whole world is going to be
watching on live television.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">About five months
ago, I was at the government house to complain about thugs harassing market
women and bus drivers for revenue. The people were paying to the thugs who
instead of remitting the money to government coffers. They were using our tax
revenue to building their private hotels all over the state. When I got there I
saw people massing to see the Comrade Governor. So I asked who they were and
what were they doing. One of them told me that they were serving Commissioners,
Advisers, Senior Advisers, junior Advisers, Special Advisers, Senior Special Advisers,
Executive Directors, Personal Assistants, revenue collectors, clearing and Forwarding
agents in government. I asked again what their purpose was. He said they were
there to ask the Comrade Governor to run for a third term. Wao, third term? I
queried. As we were just talking Adams Oshiomhole walked in, climbed the podium
to address the crowd. They were shouting third term, third term, third term,
continuity, continuity, continuity. It was then it dawned on me that this self-serving
people some of whom has been in government for more than 7 years wanted their
salaries of #350,000 a month and other entitlements to continue for a new tenure.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Comrade told them
that it was not possible for him to do a third term but he has one of them in
mind. Right there he introduced one Godwin Obaseki and the crowd shouted no,
no, no, but the Comrade said he has
already anointed him. He said Godwin Obaseki’s mother is from Etsako. In anger
and frustration they dispersed back to their offices. Three days later, the
anointed aspirant wanted to go on tour to visit delegates. I heard that Oshomhole
knelt down to beg the Commissioners to go with Obaseki. When they refused to go,
it was said that he took a koboko,(Horse whip) to chase them. When they saw his
countenance they reluctantly accompanied his anointed aspirant on the tour of
some Local government secteriat.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">In life there is
a time for everything under the sun. A time to live and a time to die. Live and
let's live. I have always said that four years or eight years tenure is not
forever. Some have been there for 16 years, Dr. Only Me. Those who were lucky
to serve in this government have had their share of our commonwealth. When they
were busy enjoying government patronages did any of you here border them? No.
Now it is your turn to shine. It is now the turn of you the DELEGATES.(Sing a
song)( Rise and shine, for the light is come 2 times, The glory of the Lord is
come. The glory of the Lord is risen, the glory of the is risen up on me) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">I have a question for
all of you. Dem dey forbid if any of you is made a commissioner or an ED, SSA
or a PA? Those doing the job now, do they have two heads? Are they better than us?
Is it not our political labour and sweat that they are enjoying? The only
aspirant that can give us that true change and a fresh start is Engr. Chris Ogiemwonyi.
It is only Ogiemwonyi that is going to build from the scratch and he will
engage you first. A vote for Obaseki or Odubu is a vote to continuously make
those in government comfortable at our expense. Monkey dey work, Bamboo they
chop. Una non see say wahala full ground.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Let me talk about
our own local rabble rouser, the RICE MAN, Barr. Kenneth Imasuagbon. The
opposition party in Edo State, the PDP, has cleverly zoned their governorship
ticket to Edo South and everybody in that party are working towards that
objective. Even popular politicians in PDP in Edo Central are working serious
to reach that goal. Ken Imasuagbon was
there in PDP and did not know that there was a need for an Esan Agenda. He did
not fight it there, he cowardly jump ship to APC after all elections has been
concluded. Upon getting into our party he started making noise that it was Esan
Agenda. My fear is that Ken who can be referred to as a nomadic politician because;
he keeps jumping from one party to the other. He is posed to cause disaffection
in APC and between the people of Edo Central and Edo South. Ken knows that
since PDP governorship ticket is coming from Edo South, APC will be political
foolish if they bring an Edo Central candidate because the votes in Edo South
will go to PDP. I told you earlier that four years and eight years is not
forever. The governorship will definitely come to Edo Central and an Edo
Central person will rule Edo State for eight years. The Esan Agenda now should
include searching for and grooming a viable person, build up his profile and be
able to present a united front when the time comes. When Oshiomhole came in, 2016
was like eternity but today the time has come for him to exit. Finally, the delegates
should know that RICEMAN is playing a spoiler role gimmicks. In fact it looks
like his party, the PDP, sent him to come and destabilize the APC. He may be a
mole in our midst.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">My dear delegates
make una shine una eyes. Our MUMU Don Do. On that day at the Stadium show them
say you don wise finish, collect their money, na our money anyway, collect it,
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Freedom is apparently bad for business. That’s the message from the private prison industry which is threatening to sue states if they don’t start locking more people up.</div>
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The private prison companies, well-known for profiting off of incarceration and crime, is now saying that the state’s they have contracted with aren’t keeping up their end of the bargain. The private prisons rely on a certain number of inmates for free and virtually-free slave labor.</div>
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That labor is used for a variety of trades, including making uniforms for popular restaurants like McDonalds and Applebee’s. But if the private prisons don’t have enough inmates locked up then production goes down correlative with the decrease in free labor (i.e. slavery).</div>
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It comes as a surprise to many Americans, but slavery was never actually abolished in the United States. That’s not a metaphor, it’s a matter of careful reading of the 13th amendment to the Constitution. That amendment – often lauded for abolishing slavery – actually makes an exception for prisons. Slavery is still completely legal as “punishment for a crime.”</div>
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Ratified at the end of the Civil War, the amendment abolished slavery, with one critical exception: Slavery and involuntary servitude actually remain lawful “as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted.” In other words, according to this so-called <a href="http://www.uclalawreview.org/?p=335" rel="nofollow" style="color: #004276; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">punishment clause</a>, if you get pulled over with the wrong controlled substance in your trunk, there’s nothing in the 13th Amendment to ensure you can’t be considered a slave of the state.</div>
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The punishment clause was <a href="http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/GPO-CONAN-1992/pdf/GPO-CONAN-1992-10-14.pdf" rel="nofollow" style="color: #004276; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">taken directly</a> from the <a href="http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=8" rel="nofollow" style="color: #004276; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Northwest Ordinance of 1787</a> and reflected the belief of the time that hard work was essential to prisoners’ moral rehabilitation. But the language was also ambiguous enough to be grossly abused. Soon, the clause was being used to reinstitute slavery under another guise.</div>
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Consider that there are more African Americans behind bars today than there were enslaved at any given time in American history and it becomes clear how corporations got their “work around” to keep slavery 100% legal. This is nothing new. This is the way it has been since slavery was supposedly abolished.</div>
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Now, the private prison industries say the government isn’t keeping up their end contracts for this slave labor.</div>
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Those government agencies signed contracts guaranteeing a minimum occupancy or quota of prisoner-slaves</div>
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California guarantees that prisons will be filled to 70% capacity at all times. Arizona promises almost 100% occupancy.</div>
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With crime dropping, the private prison industry is losing money and they are none too pleased.</div>
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In order to avoid these lawsuits, judges will have to dish out extra-long maximum sentences – not because the defendant deserves it, but because the state wants to keep these contracts in good standing with the private prison industry.</div>
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A Pennsylvania judge was just sentenced to 28 years in prison for selling “kids-for-cash.”</div>
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The bribery scandal made headlines when Former Luzerne County Judge Mark Ciavarella Jr. was alleged to have taking $1 million in bribes from juvenile detention centers to fill their cells with children who came before him in court.</div>
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The Pennsylvania Supreme Court tossed about 4,000 convictions issued by Ciavarella between 2003 and 2008, saying he violated the constitutional rights of the juveniles, including the right to legal counsel and the right to intelligently enter a plea.</div>
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Ciavarella, 61, was tried and convicted of racketeering charges earlier this year. His attorneys had asked for a “reasonable” sentence in court papers, saying, in effect, that he’s already been punished enough.</div>
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“The media attention to this matter has exceeded coverage given to many and almost all capital murders, and despite protestation, he will forever be unjustly branded as the ‘Kids for Cash’ judge,” their sentencing memo said.</div>
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<em><a href="http://www.timesleader.com/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #004276; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">The Times Leader</a> </em>reports that the court house in Scranton was overflowing as over a dozen people who had been essentially “sold” to prisons by the judge turned out to exchange horror stories.</div>
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Jeff Pollins’ stepson was convicted by Ciavarella. He turned out to eagerly awaiting the judge’s sentencing.</div>
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“These kids are still affected by it. It’s like post traumatic stress disorder,” Pollins said to the <em>Times Leader</em>. “Our life is ruined. It’s never going to be the same… I’d like to see that happen to him,” he added.</div>
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Now that Ciaverella has been locked up, that solves one problem, but raises an important question that few are asking: was this an isolated incident, or are there more just like him who have made similar deals with prisons across the United States.</div>
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The fact that this sort of bribery would even be proposed to the judge suggests that this is a much broader problem, and this one incident was just the tip of the proverbial iceberg.</div>
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TORTOLA, British Virgin Islands (AP) — A thriving financial services industry that evolved over the last 30 years in the British Virgin Islands made it one of the most popular places in the world to form a corporation, turning a sleepy cluster of Caribbean islands into a global hub of finance.</div>
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Now the British Virgin Islands has come under scrutiny like never before thanks to the leak of confidential documents from a Panama-based law firm that specializes in offshore finance.</div>
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More than half the 200,000 offshore companies set up by the <a href="http://www.chron.com/search/?action=search&channel=news%2Fworld&inlineLink=1&searchindex=gsa&query=%22Mossack+Fonseca%22" style="color: #777777; display: inline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Mossack Fonseca</a> law firm, including ones owned by the father of British Prime Minister <a href="http://www.chron.com/search/?action=search&channel=news%2Fworld&inlineLink=1&searchindex=gsa&query=%22David+Cameron%22" style="color: #777777; display: inline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">David Cameron</a> and relatives of Chinese leader <a href="http://www.chron.com/search/?action=search&channel=news%2Fworld&inlineLink=1&searchindex=gsa&query=%22Xi+Jinping%22" style="color: #777777; display: inline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Xi Jinping</a>, were registered in the BVI, according to reports coordinated by the <a href="http://www.chron.com/search/?action=search&channel=news%2Fworld&inlineLink=1&searchindex=gsa&query=%22International+Consortium%22" style="color: #777777; display: inline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">International Consortium</a> of Investigative Journalists.</div>
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BVI officials have sought in recent days to address the reports while defending financial oversight in a territory where incorporated entities outnumber residents by a ratio of more than 10-to-1 and blue-suited lawyers and bankers on the streets of Tortola often outnumber tourists.</div>
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"If you see articles that say jurisdictions like the BVI are facilitators of illegitimate activity, that is incorrect," Financial Secretary Neil Smith said Friday. "Yes, it occurs, but it also occurs in jurisdictions that are not seen as offshore financial centers."</div>
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The British Virgin Islands, an overseas British territory of about 30,000 people near Puerto Rico, is the world's leading center for company incorporation, according to the Tax Justice Network. More than 1 million enterprises have been incorporated since 1984. There were 450,000 active ones at the end of last year, according to the <a href="http://www.chron.com/search/?action=search&channel=news%2Fworld&inlineLink=1&searchindex=gsa&query=%22Financial+Services+Commission%22" style="color: #777777; display: inline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Financial Services Commission</a>.</div>
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The problem, as critics of offshore financial secrecy see it, is that the BVI and other jurisdictions enable the hiding of the true owners of companies in ways that allow corruption and criminality to flourish. "We're not saying that shell companies or tax shelters need to be done away with, we're saying that more of this needs to be out in the open," said <a href="http://www.chron.com/search/?action=search&channel=news%2Fworld&inlineLink=1&searchindex=gsa&query=%22Mark+Hays%22" style="color: #777777; display: inline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Mark Hays</a>, a senior adviser with Global Witness.</div>
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The Tax Justice Network says the BVI has a "lax, flexible, ask-no-questions, see-no-evil company incorporation," system. "The BVI has long been linked to wave after wave of scandals," the organization said in a report that ranked the BVI at number 21 on its financial secrecy index. The U.S. was No. 3 and Switzerland No. 1.</div>
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But the Tax Justice Network also notes that the British Virgin Islands has made significant improvements.</div>
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An amendment to the territory's <a href="http://www.chron.com/search/?action=search&channel=news%2Fworld&inlineLink=1&searchindex=gsa&query=%22Business+Companies%22" style="color: #777777; display: inline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Business Companies</a> Act that went into effect Jan. 1 requires companies to keep their beneficial ownership information within the BVI. There is also a new requirement for companies to file a list of their registered directors with the Financial Services Commission. The changes are expected to help curtail money laundering and other criminal activities.</div>
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Defenders of the offshore industry say that the BVI is no different than other places that offer anonymous corporate registries, including Delaware, but that some people would prefer to do business in an established, stable, low or no tax jurisdiction outside the United States. The BVI had traditionally attracted Asian and European clients, which may be one reason so few U.S. citizens have been named in the reports on the leaked documents.</div>
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Even people who have criticized the offshore industry in the past for weak regulation say there are legitimate reasons to set up a corporation or trust in a place like the BVI. Some businesses need offshore entities to run subsidiaries and people who live in dangerous places may have legitimate reasons to disguise their assets.</div>
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"The mere fact that a foreign national has an offshore account is not evidence of illegality," said <a href="http://www.chron.com/search/?action=search&channel=news%2Fworld&inlineLink=1&searchindex=gsa&query=%22David+Marchant%22" style="color: #777777; display: inline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">David Marchant</a>, the editor of the OffshoreAlert newsletter and conference, scheduled for Miami early next month. "It's certainly suspicious, but you need some kind of corroborating evidence."</div>
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Reports based on the leaked files have so far revealed assets held by trusts and companies registered overseas by a large number of foreign leaders and global celebrities.</div>
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No one at the Mossack Fonseca branch in the BVI would comment but a former administrator, <a href="http://www.chron.com/search/?action=search&channel=news%2Fworld&inlineLink=1&searchindex=gsa&query=%22Byron+Hodge%22" style="color: #777777; display: inline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Byron Hodge</a>, said employees were instructed not to proceed with a registry without confirming the identity of the true owner of the entity being incorporated while he worked there from 2008-2015.</div>
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"The checks and balances to ensure this were enforced," he said. "With that being said, if there was any wrong doing that occurred, it wasn't in the (BVI) office."</div>
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The BVI government said in a statement after the first accounts began to emerge that it would conduct a "thorough investigation" to detect and prosecute any illegal activities.</div>
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Premier <a href="http://www.chron.com/search/?action=search&channel=news%2Fworld&inlineLink=1&searchindex=gsa&query=%22Orlando+Smith%22" style="color: #777777; display: inline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Orlando Smith</a> said an investigation, which was being conducted by the Financial Services Commission, had already begun. It wasn't his only concern, though. He also wanted to make sure the revelations don't damage an industry that supplies more than 60 percent of his government's revenue, surpassing tourism as the most important industry for the BVI.</div>
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<b style="box-sizing: border-box;">The claim by western heart associations over the years that palm oil is harmful to the heart has been challenged by the Nigerian Heart Foundation, international heart bodies and experts across the globe. Instead, they believe palm oil is a healthier oil for the heart than western vegetable oil. Martins Ifijeh chronicles this argument</b></div>
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Palm oil, which has been the toast of vegetable oil in West African and Asian continents, soon gained prominence in other continents of the world, with North America and Europe leading the pack among regions that had joined in embracing the oil for their diet. The Americans once referred to it as the magic oil, because of the unique flavour, flair and many desirable characteristics it gave to food.</div>
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But many decades after, America and some western countries have launched a campaign against the oil which has been used as a staple for diets, even in their countries, for several decades. According to them, it contains an artery clogging saturated fat that causes heart disease. A campaign that has gained prominence in those countries through their various heart foundations, associations, and most significantly, through their media apparatus, thereby preventing their citizens and visitors from patronising the use of the staple, for any of their diets.</div>
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By extension, the campaign has been taken to other countries of the world, including Nigeria, so as to convince them to de-emphasise the use of the oil, while denying them the benefits that come with it, as well as to convince them to embrace the use of foreign vegetable oil, like the Soy beans oil, which they say is a lot more healthier domestic oil than the palm oil. They also argued that, since they have branded it unfriendly for the heart, there was need to replace it across the globe, even in countries like Nigeria where over 70 per cent of its citizens use it, almost for every meal.</div>
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In these western countries, it wasn’t long before food companies began to dissociate themselves from the once-regarded magic oil, while switching to their own indigenous soybean oil, for fear of not getting a heart disease.</div>
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According to the Australian Heart Foundation (AHF), American Soy beans Association (ASA), the Centre for Science in Public Interest (CSPI), which has been spearheading the campaign across various regions of the world, they argued that since palm oil contains saturated fatty acids, it must therefore contain cholesterol, or it may raise blood cholesterol, which in some way can promote heart disease.</div>
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They are also pushing for the ban of palm oil because, according to them, those who patronise it were likely to die earlier than those who don’t. They believed people from Nigeria, Malaysia and other palm-oil-loving countries would have higher heart attacks and strokes, than them who no longer see need to patronise it.</div>
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But in a swift response, experts across the globe, professional health bodies, several heart foundations, including the Nigerian Heart Foundation, (NHF) wondered how this deduction came about, considering that palm oil contains enormous health benefits, including the ability to prevent the same heart diseases, cancers, night blindness, as well as provide vitamin A and E to the body.</div>
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They also believe the campaign was a misplaced one targeted at making the Tropical oil unpopular, while theirs (the western oil, like the Soy beans oil) gain prominence in a bid to boost its economic value across the globe, while the palm oil business suffer, and at the detriment of palm oil lovers, who also benefits from the health benefits associated with it.</div>
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For instance, according to a cardiovascular health physician and the Executive Director of the Nigerian Heart Foundation, Dr. kingsley K. Akinroye, palm oil, which is Nigeria’s most popular vegetable oil, and which has served the country since its birthing, is heart friendly and consideration should be given to the documented addictive effect of Oleic and Linoleic acids in the oil that has the capacity to reduce the level of cholesterol.</div>
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“If you look at the argument by these various anti-palm oil ‘activists’ you will agree with me that it lacks scientific proof, because even Nigeria where 90 per cent of rural dwellers use the oil and almost 70 per cent of urban dwellers use it, we are less prevalent to ischemic heart disease than them who claim not to use it. The prevalence of ischemic heart disease in Nigeria is even less than 10 per cent, compared to theirs.</div>
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He therefore pushed that the country’s heart foundation was committed to having a healthy population given the benefit of the rising profile of unhealthy lifestyle in the population.</div>
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But in a broadened response to the campaign against palm oil, the author of Palm Oil Miracle, Dr. Bruce Fife, believed the claim that palm oil contains substances which trigger heart disease was only a matter of greed and selfish interest by the promoters, and that the claim was devoid of any medical inference.</div>
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According to him, the attack against the oil was a cleverly designed publicity campaign sponsored by the vegetable oil industry in the United States, as a means of increasing profits for their own type of oil.</div>
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“The domestic vegetable oil in the US has been trying to capture the imported oil market for decades, because their indigenous oil is not the most patronised across the world,”</div>
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Fife said when the bodies first started the campaign, it was about pricing, but when they discovered they couldn’t lower their prices below how much the palm oil sells, they focused on other means of subduing their competitors.</div>
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“In 1930s, they were successful in getting Congress to impose sales tax on palm oils. This then increased the price of palm oil, which made many customers switch to their domestic oil. Though this strategy worked until 1966 when the tax was suspended, hence the palm oil again started to gain prominence around the world. I believe this new pattern, which is to brand palm oil as an unfriendly oil for the heart, is again aimed at subduing the oil.</div>
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He said as the attack on palm oil continued, researchers, experts and some heart foundations who knew much about the benefits of palm oil, came to the defence of the West African/Asian oil, hence the resolve for a congressional hearing in 1988 to finally settle which oil to adopt and which to discard.</div>
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The experts against tropical oil (which the palm oil belongs) made presentations and gave reasons why the oil was not good for the heart, while lipid and cardiovascular researchers not on the payroll of the big anti-palm oil groups made their claims as well.</div>
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A Harvard Medical School Researcher, Dr. George Blackburn, testified that this oil does not have a harmful effect on blood cholesterol, even in situations where they serve as the sole source of fat. It was opined that palm oil and coconut oil have been consumed as a substantial part of diets by many groups of people for thousands of years, with absolutely no evidence of any harmful effect.</div>
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At the end of the hearing, the evidence against the tropical oils didn’t stack up. It was also concluded that those against palm oil do not have enough information on the benefits of the magic oil.</div>
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It is to this end that the Nigerian Heart Foundation, aims to hold a national summit on ‘Lipids and Cardiovascular Health in the Nigerian Population’ in a bid to define the NHF position on cardiovascular health with reference to palm oil and its derivative effect on the population, level of lipid profile in vegetable oils and what zero cholesterol in vegetable oil means to the health of the people. Also, the significance of the high level of saturated fatty acid contained in palm oil needs to be ascertained in the African population through evidence-based research.</div>
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The summit, which will be held <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_871182374" style="box-sizing: border-box;" tabindex="0">April 21st</span>, at the National Institute of Medical Research, Yaba, from <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_871182375" style="box-sizing: border-box;" tabindex="0">9am to 2:30pm</span>, would have the Federal Government fully represented, as well as stakeholders in the health, pharmaceutical and vegetable oil industry, in order to put to rest the controversy surrounding the benefits and ‘curses’ of palm oil. It would also aim to discuss how best to boost the country’s economy through the cultivation of palm oil and its exportation to other countries.</div>
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<cite class="el-editorial-source" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: CNN, 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700;">Washington (CNN)</cite>President Barack Obama said Donald Trump's suggestion that Japan and South Korea should consider obtaining nuclear weapons demonstrates the Republican presidential front-runner's lack of understanding about foreign policy and the world at large.</div>
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"The person who made the statements doesn't know much about foreign policy or nuclear policy or the Korean Peninsula or the world generally," Obama said at a news conference at the close of the Nuclear Security Summit.</div>
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Obama described the U.S. nuclear umbrella for Japan and South Korea, in place of their own arsenals, as "one of the cornerstones of our presence in the Asia Pacific," which has provided the U.S. peace, prosperity and flowing commerce.</div>
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"It has prevented the possibilities of a nuclear escalation and conflict," he added. "You don't mess with that. It's an investment that rests on the sacrifices that our men and women made" in World War II.</div>
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He concluded, "We don't want someone in the Oval Office who doesn't recognize how important that is."</div>
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The summit came as the Republican front-runner to replace Obama in the White House made several controversial nuclear proposals this week.</div>
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Trump said that nuclear proliferation is the world's biggest challenge, but also suggested at a CNN town hall on Tuesday that it may be time for Japan and South Korea to develop their own nuclear arsenals so the U.S. can pull back from Asia.</div>
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Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida squelched the idea of his country developing its own nuclear weapons, saying, "It is impossible that Japan will arm itself with nuclear weapons."</div>
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The island nation is the only country to experience a nuclear attack, when the U.S. ended World War II by dropping bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and has been committed to a non-nuclear defense posture since then.</div>
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Trump has also suggested redrawing U.S. security relationships in other regions, arguing that Germany and Saudi Arabia need to do more in their own defense or pay the U.S. more for the protection it offers.</div>
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And he's proposed using nuclear weapons to put a swift and definitive end to the threat of ISIS.</div>
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"I would never take any of my cards off the table," Trump told MSNBC.</div>
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The summit, the final of four Obama has held during his presidency, drew leaders from around the world to discuss ways to prevent the use of nuclear weapons and better secure nuclear materials, especially from the threat of nuclear terrorism.</div>
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Obama said global efforts to improve nuclear security have removed from circulation material that is equivalent to 150 nuclear weapons, safeguarding it from extremists.</div>
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"That's material that will never fall into the hands of terrorists," Obama said.</div>
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Non-proliferation efforts mean the entire continent of South America is free of nuclear materials. If Poland and Indonesia meet commitments this year, Central Europe and Southeast Asia will follow suit, he said.</div>
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"As terrorists and criminal gangs and arms merchants look around for deadly ingredients for a nuclear device, vast regions of the world are now off-limits, and that's a remarkable achievement," he said, admitting that much work remains.</div>
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Obama said that while leader-level summits are ending, the delegates have agreed to create a new nuclear security contact group of more than 30 countries to institutionalize their work and build on their achievements.</div>
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Obama said he realized that "our vision will not happen quickly, perhaps not in my lifetime, but we have begun."</div>
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He noted that nuclear stockpiles are the lowest they've been in six decades. "I'm extremely proud of our record," he said.</div>
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The summit focused particular attention to ISIS, devoting a special session to the group, which has demonstrated an interest in nuclear materials, Obama said. After the Paris attacks in November, investigators found hours of footage tracking the movements of a Belgian nuclear official.</div>
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Obama said earlier Friday that it was likely that as the anti-ISIS coalition continued to make gains against the terrorist group, the organization would try to conduct more attacks outside the Middle East.</div>
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"As ISIL is squeezed in Syria and Iraq, we can anticipate it lashing out elsewhere, as we've seen most recently and tragically in countries from Turkey to Brussels," Obama said Friday, using another acronym for ISIS.</div>
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At the opening of the nuclear conference's Friday session, Obama said the summit's work -- mostly done quietly behind the scenes in the months between high profile gatherings -- served the crucial purpose of reducing the chances that nuclear materials could be stolen.</div>
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"The single most effective defense against nuclear terrorism is fully securing this material so it doesn't fall into the wrong hands in the first place," Obama said.</div>
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He called on the attending countries -- more than 50 -- to improve intelligence sharing and do more to cut off the flow of foreign fighters going to Syria and Iraq.</div>
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"The sense of urgency that we've shown in destroying ISIL in Iraq and Syria also has to infuse our efforts to prevent attacks around the world," Obama said. "We simply cannot afford to have critical intelligence not being shared as needed, whether between governments or within governments."</div>
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The summit meeting offered an opportunity to "explore ways to step up those efforts," Obama said.</div>
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Over the four meetings that have taken place since 2010, the nations involved have made 260 commitments to improve nuclear security and implemented three-quarters of them, the president said.</div>
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Nuclear non-proliferation has been a focus for the President since his days as a junior senator from Chicago. He co-wrote legislation on nuclear controls and travelled to inspect safety measures at nuclear sites in Eastern Europe and Russia while in the Senate.</div>
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Much of the nuclear summit's work has focused on reducing countries' levels of highly enriched uranium or improving training for handling nuclear materials.</div>
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Critics have said that the efforts fall short because discussions haven't focused on military stockpiles of highly enriched uranium or civilian plutonium, seen by resource-poor countries as a potential source of energy.</div>
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And they point to Russia's decision not to send high-level representation as a setback, given that the U.S. and Russia between them control the vast majority of nuclear materials.</div>
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But Obama claimed progress Friday, announcing that 102 nations have ratified what he called "a key treaty," a Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material which will enter into force in coming weeks.</div>
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That, Obama said, gives "us more tools that we need to work together in the event of theft of nuclear material or an attack on a nuclear facility."</div>
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Leaders wrapped up the meeting with a communique that pledged to use the foundation built during the four summits to guide future work.</div>
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"Sustaining security improvements requires constant vigilance at all levels, and we pledge that our countries will continue to make nuclear security an enduring priority," the statement said.</div>
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Billionaire Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Trolls Trump: ‘I Bailed You Out Twice’</h1>
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The prince has offered to bail Trump out a third time, too.</h2>
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A Saudi prince may have just beaten Donald Trump at a game of Twitter trolling.</div>
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Prince Alwaleed bin Talal said on Twitter that he’s bailed the billionaire out twice — and suggested the GOP presidential frontrunner might need his help a third time.</div>
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The exchange was initiated by Trump, who had <a data-beacon="{"p":{"mnid":"entry_text","lnid":"citation","mpid":0}}" href="http://www.snopes.com/fox-news-saudi-megyn-kelly/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2e7061;" target="_blank">retweeted a badly Photoshopped image</a> showing the prince with Fox News host Megyn Kelly, calling him a co-owner of the network: </div>
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The reply from bin Talal:</div>
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The prince’s tweet<a data-beacon="{"p":{"mnid":"entry_text","lnid":"citation","mpid":9}}" href="http://81.21.59.58/news/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&layout=edit&id=303" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2e7061;" target="_blank"> included news stories</a> showing that he bought Trump’s yacht in 1991, <a data-beacon="{"p":{"mnid":"entry_text","lnid":"citation","mpid":10}}" href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/set-an-open-course-for-the-virgin-sea?utm_term=.lca5oX6MN#.lalpkgZPY" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2e7061;" target="_blank">which had been turned over to creditors when he was $900 million in debt</a>, according to Buzzfeed. </div>
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He also included a link to a story showing that he was part of the group that bought New York City’s Plaza Hotel from Trump in 1995. As part of the deal, bin Talal paid off Trump’s debt on the hotel in what the New York Times said was “<a data-beacon="{"p":{"mnid":"entry_text","lnid":"citation","mpid":11}}" href="http://www.nytimes.com/1995/04/12/business/trump-is-selling-plaza-hotel-to-saudi-and-asian-investors.html" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2e7061;" target="_blank">a defeat for the real estate developer</a>.”</div>
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Trump’s tweet also claimed bin Talal is “co-owner” of Fox News. While the prince is an investor in News Corp, <a data-beacon="{"p":{"mnid":"entry_text","lnid":"citation","mpid":12}}" href="http://money.cnn.com/2015/02/04/media/prince-alwaleed-news-corp/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2e7061;" target="_blank">his stake is worth 1 percent</a>, according to CNN.</div>
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Trump and bin Talal also <a data-beacon="{"p":{"mnid":"entry_text","lnid":"citation","mpid":13}}" href="http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/saudi-prince-prince-alwaleed-bin-talal-calls-trump-disgrace-n478926" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2e7061;" target="_blank">tangled on Twitter last month</a>. </div>
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After the candidate’s incendiary call to ban Muslims from entering the United States, bin Talal urged him to quit the race: </div>
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<em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Note to our readers: Donald Trump is <a data-beacon="{"p":{"mnid":"entry_text","lnid":"citation","mpid":19}}" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-911_565b1950e4b08e945feb7326" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2e7061;">a serial liar</a>, <a data-beacon="{"p":{"mnid":"entry_text","lnid":"citation","mpid":20}}" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/9-outrageous-things-donald-trump-has-said-about-latinos_55e483a1e4b0c818f618904b" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2e7061;">rampant xenophobe</a>, <a data-beacon="{"p":{"mnid":"entry_text","lnid":"citation","mpid":21}}" href="http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/12/donald-trump-death-penalty/420069/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2e7061;" target="_blank">racist</a>,<a data-beacon="{"p":{"mnid":"entry_text","lnid":"citation","mpid":22}}" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/megyn-kelly-donald-trump-misogyny_us_56aa4143e4b05e4e37037cb5" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2e7061;">misogynist</a>, <a data-beacon="{"p":{"mnid":"entry_text","lnid":"citation","mpid":23}}" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-stephen-colbert-birther_56022a33e4b00310edf92f7a" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2e7061;">birther</a> and <a data-beacon="{"p":{"mnid":"entry_text","lnid":"citation","mpid":24}}" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-black-lives-matter-protester_5651ea96e4b0258edb31dd7e" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2e7061;">bully</a> who has <a data-beacon="{"p":{"mnid":"entry_text","lnid":"citation","mpid":25}}" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-muslim-immigration-us_us_5665f75de4b072e9d1c7252b" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2e7061;">repeatedly pledged to ban all Muslims</a> — 1.6 billion members of an entire religion — from entering the U.S.</em></div>
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It’s not every day you’re stuck behind an plane in downtown traffic.</div>
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But this aircraft was spotted weaving in and out of cars in the streets of the Chinese city of Xi’an.</div>
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Luckily for motorists, the wings of the plane were removed in order for the craft to make it down narrow roads. Well, more narrow than a runway, anyway.</div>
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The sight of the 30m (100ft) long jet in midday traffic caused drivers and pedestrians to pause and take pictures.</div>
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The 30-tonne aeroplane was on its way to a local aviation school, where it will be used to train flight attendants.</div>
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The aircraft, which has been decommissioned, was bought from a local domestic airline by the school.</div>
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It took several minutes for the plane to be transported by a lorry through the streets, and pictures were posted on social media.</div>
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One web user who photographed the plane wrote: “I hear you have traffic jams in big cities – ours are quite different.”</div>
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A London doctor today thanked well-wishers who donated almost £200,000 to cover treatment while he was fighting for his life after being hit by a lorry in Las Vegas.</div>
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Dr Sebastian Kola-Bankole, 35, from Camden, told how the money has helped pay for operations on his spine, ears and arteries – as well as a specially-arranged flight back to the UK – to put him on the road to a full recovery.</div>
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Thousands of people from all over the world donated to a<a href="http://www.gofundme.com/59q92jcs?utm_source=internal&utm_medium=email&utm_content=cta_button&utm_campaign=upd_n" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ff970d; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">GoFundMe page</a> set up by his friends after the horrific accident near the Hard Rock Hotel during a holiday in the US six weeks ago.</div>
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Speaking to the Standard from the north London rehabilitation unit where he is recovering, Dr Kola-Bankole said: “My best friend Alex told we had the GoFundMe and he told me how much was raised and I just burst into tears because it was so overwhelming.</div>
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Fighting for life: Dr Sebastian Kola-Bankole in a US hospital a few days after the crash</div>
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“He explained what it meant and how it had spread all over the world.</div>
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“I just cried tears of joy. I had no idea the world could be so nice.</div>
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“I don’t use Twitter, but I heard there was even a hashtag using my name that was trending.”</div>
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Dr Kola-Bankole’s rehabilitation is expected to take time but doctors are hopeful of him making a full recovery.</div>
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The medical professional, who specialised in sexual health and HIV when he worked at the Royal London Hospital, is now the patient himself and spends two to three hours a day undergoing intensive physiotherapy.</div>
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'Overwhelmed': Dr Kola-Bankole</div>
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He has two broken ankles, a fractured scapula restricting movement in his arm, and neuropathic pain in his hands due to nerve damage.</div>
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He said he regretted not taking out travel insurance before flying out to the US after deciding he could not afford it - and urged others not to make the same mistake.</div>
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“I need to tell people don’t be like me,” he said.</div>
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“It might seem expensive but it could definitely help in the long run. The costs needed to get me back were astronomical.”</div>
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He added: “It could happen to anyone. What I did probably anyone has done. I’m not a person that would normally do such a thing.</div>
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“Yes it’s my fault but everyone makes those kinds of mistakes.”</div>
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Mr Kola-Bankole, who says he recalls nothing of the crash on February 15, paid tribute to his “amazing” friends and expressed his deep gratitude to all those who contributed to his GoFundMe campaign.</div>
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“I’m overwhelmed and completely speechless,” he said.</div>
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“All I can say is thank you very much. The generous donations will not go to waste. Every day I’m getting stronger.”</div>
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Mohammed Dewji has ambitious plans to take on big brands in Africa.</h2>
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Top of his list of targets:<span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> Coca-Cola</span> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">(<span class="inlink_chart" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><a class="inlink" href="http://money.cnn.com/quote/quote.html?symb=KO&source=story_quote_link" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1173b4; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">KO</a></span>)</span>, Red Bull and Fanta.</div>
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"We're taking on Coca Cola with our own brand called Mo Cola. We're fighting Red Bull with Mo Energy Drink, and like they have Fanta - we have our own brands," the CEO of MeTL Group told CNNMoney.</div>
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Coca-Cola has been in Africa for 88 years and is everywhere. But the 40-year old is undaunted.</div>
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Dewji's brand of the fizzy drink has taken 3.5% of his home market in Tanzania since launching two years ago.</div>
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"If I take it to 15% I will be in the money big time," he says.</div>
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Dewji isn't new to big challenges. He took his father's $30 million business and grew it to a pan-African conglomerate with revenues of $1.5 billion in 10 years.</div>
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The company group now spans 31 industries in 11 countries, including businesses in agriculture, manufacturing, consumer goods, finance, mobile telephony, real estate, oil and logistics.</div>
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Competing with big players like Coca-Cola and <span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Pepsi</span> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">(<span class="inlink_chart" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><a class="inlink" href="http://money.cnn.com/quote/quote.html?symb=PEP&source=story_quote_link" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1173b4; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">PEP</a></span>)</span> means that he has to manufacture and distribute on a mass scale. But that's not his biggest challenge. Persuading people to dump the big brands is much more of an uphill battle, partly because — as he freely admits -- "they have this amazing formula."</div>
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"But [Mo-Cola] is a little different. I think it's more sugary. In Africa, I think people prefer drinks that are more sugary."</div>
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He can offer another sweetener for consumers - his drinks are 25% cheaper than the major competitors.</div>
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And he's not just taking on Coca-Cola. He is going up against big multinationals like <span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Nestle</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">(<span class="inlink_chart" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><a class="inlink" href="http://money.cnn.com/quote/quote.html?symb=NSRGF&source=story_quote_link" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1173b4; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">NSRGF</a></span>)</span>, <span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Unileve</span> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">(<span class="inlink_chart" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><a class="inlink" href="http://money.cnn.com/quote/quote.html?symb=UL&source=story_quote_link" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1173b4; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">UL</a></span>)</span>r and <span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Procter and Gamble</span> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">(<span class="inlink_chart" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><a class="inlink" href="http://money.cnn.com/quote/quote.html?symb=PG&source=story_quote_link" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1173b4; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">PG</a></span>)</span> in Tanzania.</div>
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"We've got almost 60% market share in oil, 60% in soap," he said in an interview. " If you look at Unilever and Proctor and Gamble in terms of their detergents and edible oils, they are merely at 5% or lower."</div>
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Dewji is the 31st richest man in Africa and has no plans of slowing down. His business contributes 3% to Tanzania's GDP and employs 28 000 people. That's nearly 5% of the country's workforce.</div>
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If he gets his formula right, he's hoping to grow revenues to $5 billion and employ 100 000 people across Africa by 2018.</div>
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<span class="cnnStorySource" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">CNNMoney (New York)</span><span class="cnnDateStamp" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">First published March 24, 2016: 8:06 AM ET</span></div>
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