SOURCE(NAIJAPALABA.COM)-An assailant has stabbed to death the son of former German president Richard von Weizsaecker in attack at a Berlin hospital that left one other person seriously injured, police said Wednesday. The motive for the attack on Fritz von Weizsaecker, 59, on Tuesday evening was unclear. Von Weizsaecker, a doctor, had just delivered a lecture on liver diseases at the Schlosspark hospital in the western Berlin neighbourhood of Charlottenburg when he was stabbed, a police spokesman said. He died at the scene despite efforts to save him. The suspect was overpowered by other people present, one of whom was severely injured by the attacker.

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SOURCE(NAIJAPALABA.COM)-Ethiopia caused the first real shock of the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers when they came from behind to stun the Ivory Coast with a 2-1 victory in their Group K clash in Bahir Dar on Tuesday. Serge Aurier gave the Ivorians an early lead when he knocked in a rebound after Max Gradel’s free-kick had been parried into his path by home goalkeeper Abel Mamo. Yet Ethiopia was level on 16 minutes as Surafel Dagnachew’s free-kick was deflected in off the wall before Shemeles Bekele shrugged off two defenders, and a shout for handball, to score the winner midway through the opening period.

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SOURCE(NAIJAPALABA.COM)-African countries should hasten the adoption of the Chinese legal tender — yuan — as a reserve currency amid increased bilateral trade with China, a Kenyan economist said. Bernard Ayieko, a Nairobi-based economist said in a commentary published by the Business Daily newspaper that the adoption of the yuan would boost the ability of African countries to attract new investments and trade favourably at the global market. “The Chinese growing influence and the increase in Sino-Africa relations have brought to the fore a debate on the African countries’ need to adopt the renminbi as a currency reserve,” Ayieko added.

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SOURCE(NAIJAPALABA.COM)-Senator representing Nasarawa West Senatorial District, Adamu Abdullahi, has appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari, to resist pressure on him to open the nation’s land borders for now. Abdullahi, who is a former governor of Nasarawa State, commended Buhari for standing out to the challenges of insecurity. He argued that the border closure was curing many ills afflicting the nation, including the failing economy and corruption menace. The Senator, who addressed journalists on Wednesday on the issue said that the opposition to border closure was coming mainly from two main quarters.

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SOURCE(NAIJAPALABA.COM)-The Federal Controller of Works in Lagos State, Mr Adedamola Kuti on Tuesday said that contrary to misleading media reports, “the Eko Bridge is open and not closed.’’ Kuti said this during a joint media briefing with the Special Adviser to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Works and Infrastructure, Mrs Aramide Adeyoye and the Commissioner for Transportation, Dr Fredrick Oladeinde, at Alausa. He explained that work was rather ongoing on Apongbon Bridge to replace an earlier palliative work to change the road from flexible to the rigid pavement that would last longer.

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SOURCE(NAIJAPALABA.COM)-Japan’s new Emperor Naruhito will on Thursday perform an elaborate and secretive ritual dating back 1,300 years, giving thanks to the Sun Goddess Amaterasu as part of his enthronement rites. The Daijosai, considered the most important ritual for Japan’s imperial household, comes three weeks after Naruhito proclaimed his ascension to the Chrysanthemum Throne and is performed only once in an emperor’s reign. Later Thursday, the emperor will take a ritual bath in a specially constructed complex of wooden buildings in the imperial palace known as the Daijokyu and then slip into white silk vestments.

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SOURCE(NAIJAPALABA.COM)-Ahead of the November 16 gubernatorial election in Bayelsa state, some ex-militants under the aegis of Niger Delta Revolutionary Crusaders, (NDRC) have accused the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Governor Seriake Dickson, of importing and recruiting thugs from neighbouring states to disrupt the polls. The group also said it received intelligence report that some notorious cultists and renowned PDP thugs from the state were contracted to import mercenaries from Ondo and Rivers states to hijack election materials and to unleash terror on APC strongholds in the state.

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SOURCE(NAIJAPALABA.COM)-The Senate on Tuesday appealed to the Federal Government to ban importation of textiles for a period of five years to allow for the production of local textiles. This followed the debate on a motion sponsored by Senator Kabir Barkiya (APC-Katsina Central) during plenary session on “Urgent need to revamp the nation’s comatose textile industry”. The upper chamber also appealed to the Federal Government to provide the necessary infrastructural facilities especially power supply to local textile manufacturing companies to revamp the industry.

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SOURCE(NAIJAPALABA.COM)-The International Air Transport Association has asked the Nigerian government and other governments in Africa to address charges being slammed on airlines. The IATA stated that airlines in the region were burdened by excessive charges, which accounted for 11.4 per cent of their operating costs. “User charges are excessive. They account for 11.4 per cent of African airlines’ operating costs. That is double the industry average. And there is a plethora of taxes and charges, some unique,” the Chief Executive Officer of the IATA, Alexander de Junaic said.

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SOURCE(NAIJAPALABA.COM)-A Federal High Court sitting in Awka, Anambra State, has ordered the destruction of fake shoe polish confiscated in some markets in Onitsha. The court presided over by Justice I. B. Gafai said the 1,600 tins of fake Kiwi polish worth about N42m should be destroyed by burning. In addition to the destruction of the fake products, the court ordered the seizure of the property of the importers and awarded N2m against them.

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SOURCE(NAIJAPALABA.COM)-Liverpool struck a potentially decisive blow in the Premier League title race as victory over reigning champions Manchester City at Anfield opened up an eight-point lead at the top of the table. The confrontation between the two domestic superpowers had been billed as a defining moment in Liverpool’s 30-year quest to land the title – and this outcome leaves them with a commanding advantage over Leicester City in second place.

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SORUCE(NAIJAPALABA.COM)-Three months after demanding an apology from an Afenifere chieftain, Senator Femi Okurounmu, over alleged libelous publications against him, a former Ogun State governor, Olusegun Osoba, has dragged him before a state High Court sitting in Abeokuta, demanding N3bn damages. Osoba, through his lawyer, Chief Wole Olanipekun (SAN), on Friday, urged the court to compel Okurounmu to retract the said publications.

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SOURCE(NAIJAPALABA.COM)-Thousands of people with mental health conditions across Nigeria are chained and locked up in various facilities where they face terrible abuse, Human Rights Watch said in a report on Monday. It noted that detention, chaining, and violent treatment were pervasive in many settings, including state hospitals, rehabilitation centres, traditional healing centres, and both Christian and Islamic facilities. The Human Rights Watch also called on the Federal Government to order investigation into the abuses.

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SOURCE(NAIJAPALABA.COM)-The Federal Ministry of Justice owes private lawyers engaged to prosecute a retired judge of the Federal High Court, Justice Adeniyi Ademola, and two former co-defendants, to the tune of N164m, the private legal practitioners have alleged. Sunday obtained their letter dated October 21, 2019, sent to the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN), demanding to be paid their legal fee. A copy of the letter bearing the AGF office’s acknowledgment stamp dated October 25, 2019, stated that the unpaid N164m was the fee for the lawyers’ handling of the appeals challenging the judgment of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory in Abuja which had in April 2017 exonerated Justice Ademola and his co-defendants.

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SOURCE(NAIJAPALABA.COM)-The drop in the supply of Liquefied Petroleum Gas, popularly known as cooking gas, to Lagos has led to an increase in the retail price of the commodity, raising fears of an imminent scarcity in the state and many parts of the country. The Nigerian Association of Liquefied Petroleum Gas Marketers said last Wednesday that terminal owners had increased the price of 20 metric tonnes of the LPG by 33 per cent to N4.2m within five days. NALPGAM said efforts to extract the cause of the sudden price increase from the terminal operators had not been successful.

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SOURCE(NAIJAPALABA.COM)-Golden Eaglets captain, Samson Tijani, has apologised for the team’s elimination at the FIFA U-17 World Cup holding in Brazil. Nigeria bid bye to the U-17 World Cup in Brazil after losing 3-1 to The Netherlands in their Round of 16 clash in Goiania in the early hours of Wednesday. The Netherlands forward Sontje Hansen netted a hat-trick to propel the Oranje past Nigeria 3-1 and into the quarter-finals at the tournament.

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SOURCE(NAIJAPALABA.COM):Zlatan rocks DJ Cuppy on stage HomeEntertainment Zlatan rocks DJ Cuppy on stage Chinonso Okonkwo 0 November 7, 2019 9:06 am DJ Cuppy appears to be having her moments with Nigerian artistes of late. The daughter of billionaire businessman Femi Otedola has trended for appearances with Naira Marley, Broda Shaggi and now rapper Zlatan. She was excited as she performed alongside Zlatan for her hit single “Gelato” which features Zlatan. Zlatan who held his “Zanku to the world” concert in Abuja rocked her on stage while she performed.

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SOURCE(NAIJAPALABA.COM)Oyo State Governor, Mr Seyi Makinde, said he was set to institutionalise the democratically elected local government system at the grass roots. Makinde, who spoke while inaugurating the boards of the Local Government Service Commission; the Post-Primary Teaching Service Commission and the state Universal Basic Education Board, said his government would turn local governments to real centres of development.

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SOURCE(NAIJAPALABA.COM)-The Federal High Court in Abuja will on November 7 decide if it will allow Mrs Natasha Akpoti of the Social Democratic Party to participate as a candidate in the November 16 governorship election in Kogi State. Justice Folashade Ogunbanjo-Giwa picked the date for judgment after parties to the suit challenging SDP’s exclusion from the election by the Independent National Electoral Commission made their final submissions on Thursday. Akpoti, her running mate, Adams Khalid, and SDP had, on October 3, jointly filed the suit after INEC refused to accept the nomination of Khalid as a replacement for Mohammed Yakubu, who was originally nominated for the position.

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SOURCE(NAIJAPALABA.COM)That curvaceous actress, Amara Maduka, has one of the biggest backsides in the Nigerian entertainment industry is not in doubt. The Anambra State-born role interpreter, who has featured in movies such as ‘Okrika’, and ‘Maduka’s Daughter’, said curvy women are better lovers.

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The Are Onakankafo of Yorubaland, Chief Gani Adams, has said that the Odua Peoples Congress may switch from being a socio-cultural entity to become a full-fledged political organisation

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