Biafra: IPOB members storm Abuja court in Jewish apparels ahead of Kanu’s trial [PHOTOS]

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Members of the Indigenous People of Biafria, IPOB, dressed in their Jewish apparels, today gathered at the Federal High Court, sitting in Abuja, as they await the continuation of the trial of their leader, Nnamdi Kanu.

Members of the pro-Biafra group were seen singing and praying in the court premises ahead of their leader, Nnamdi Kanu’s arraignment.

Kanu and other defendants, have been arraigned at the Federal High Court for hearing of the bail application before the presiding Judge, Justice Binta Nyako.

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Donald Trump lashes out at a Republican representative who declines to embrace him

(Jeff Flake.AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Donald Trump lashed out at Sen. Jeff Flake on Sunday after the Republican from Arizona said he wasn't prepared to vote in favor of Trump.

"The Republican Party needs solid and submitted pioneers, not feeble individuals, for example, @JeffFlake, in the event that it will stop unlawful movement," Trump said on Twitter Sunday night.

He then tweeted a hour later: "The Great State of Arizona, where I simply had a huge rally (astonishing individuals), has an exceptionally frail and insufficient Senator, Jeff Flake. Tragic!"

In a meeting with Jake Tapper on CNN's "Condition of the Union," Flake, a vocal Trump depreciator, said he "basically can't" bolster Trump.

"I would not vote in favor of Hillary Clinton, and starting now, I would even now not vote in favor of Donald Trump," Flake said.

"I simply realize that I might want to vote in favor of Donald Trump. It's not happy to not bolster your chosen one," he included. "In any case, given the positions he's taken, and the tone and tenor of his crusade, I essentially can't."

Chip additionally proposed that Trump is in risk of losing Arizona to Democratic hopeful Hillary Clinton, a conviction he's held openly since June. Arizona has voted Republican in each race aside from one since 1952. Charge Clinton in 1996 was the main Democrat to convey the state in that range.

"Arizona ought to in any case be a red state. Be that as it may, Donald Trump, with the talk that he's under and the portrayals of, you know, a hefty portion of the state's populace, have put the state in play," Flake said.

Arizona is more than 30 percent Hispanic, as indicated by the most recent Census information.

Autonomous presidential applicant, Evan McMullin, came to Sen. Drop's resistance with a hit at Trump, saying the GOP chosen one is "[demonstrating] his delicacy" by assaulting individuals who contradict him.

Clinton joined the fight, including, "There will be nobody left in Washington for Trump to work with who he hasn't offended."

The land investor has been scrutinized from both sides of the walkway in the wake of multiplying down on his hard-line movement stage, which incorporates building a divider along the US-Mexico outskirt.

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Jonathan requested Dasuki to give me N100m – Says Okupe

A previous Senior Special Assistant on Public Affairs to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Dr. Doyin Okupe, says the troubled previous National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd.), gave him N100m on the direction of Jonathan.

Okupe, who served as Jonathan's representative from 2012 to 2015, included that he got N10m month to month from Dasuki to pay compensations and run a week after week program on NTA.

The previous presidential assistant said this in a Facebook post on Sunday while responding to his capture and cross examination by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.

The EFCC had asserted that Okupe got N85m from Dasuki at various times.

In his response, Okupe said, "The underlying N50m was affirmed by the President (Goodluck Jonathan) to be paid to me from his security vote. N10m was to outfit my leased living condo and another N10m for my office. The parity N30m was affirmed as take-off award.

"The N10m I got from the ONSA month to month was to run my office, pay rates of individuals from staff, including overheads, pay costs for our various question and answer sessions, pay for distributions in daily papers, magazines, neighborhood and outside, TV projects, releases, and media experts who help and encourage our work. I had around 23 (individuals from ) staff, 11 were graduates out of which five were Master's degree holders.

"The second N50m was endorsed again by Mr. President when I answered to him that the month to month stipend had been sliced from N10m to N5m and that I was no more in a position to continue running a one-hour NTA system program called INSIGHT which was disclosed 9am to 10am each Friday.

"We paid NTA about N1.2m month to month for broadcast appointment. Two moderators were paid N600,000 month to month. The lead moderator on INSIGHT earned N400,000 and the second moderator earned N200,000. Complete N600,000.

"We paid for tapes and altering per program. Moreover, we likewise paid honorarium for visitors either specifically or in type of inn bills for those outside Abuja, or transportation.

"This expense averagely N500,000 week by week or about N2m month to month. With everything taken into account, we spent about N4m month to month on the system. Mr. President guaranteed to help with the costs. Around a couple of months after the fact when we had brought about a few obligations the NSA sent me this N50m which was to take care of the expense of the system for 12 months."

Okupe further illuminated that his month to month remittance was not his pay but rather implied for the running of his office. He said out of the N10m given to him by Dasuki month to month, 40 for every penny went on pay rates.

"Pay sheets with names and workplaces of representatives were submitted to the EFCC. I was paid my pay of N853,000 every month through the workplace of the Secretary of the Government of the Federation," he said.

Okupe, who was additionally tested for supposedly accepting some questionable contracts from a nearby board in Niger State to the tune of N76.5m, said his organization, Romix Soilfix, was one of the more than 20 development organizations who were properly honored contracts for rustic streets somewhere in the range of five years back by the Niger State Government.

He disclosed that because of absence of assets, temporary workers were paid sporadically making the employment to drag.

"The occupation is as yet progressing. The relationship of this to my administration as senior uncommon colleague to President is still not clear," Okupe said.

The previous presidential assistant reprimanded the EFCC for purportedly discharging insights about his wellbeing.

Okupe affirmed that he endured a heart issue and he just disclosed this to examiners to keep him from being kept.

He included, "I was conceived with sinus bradycadia, a non-infection based gradualness of the heart. It blocked me from energetic activity from youth however I have, by God's effortlessness, possessed the capacity to carry on with a typical and dynamic life.

"With age, the gradualness deteriorated and life-debilitating. I looked for medicinal help and experienced a method at the Arrhythmia Cardiac Research Center in Atlanta, where this deformity was adjusted. It was only a year back and I am still under satellite screen from the USA. This is the thing that I uncovered to the EFCC and they made it an open issue."

Okupe kept up that he was not a hoodlum, including that he had just two houses: one in Lagos and one in the place where he grew up.

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Reasons why FG can’t implement 2016 budget – SGF

The Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Babachir David Lawal, on Wednesday proclaimed the Federal Government can't completely execute the N6.06 trillion 2016 spending plan as went by the National Assembly.

Lawal told a joint Senate council on Appropriations, Finance and Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions that the incomes of the administration had dropped by 50 to 60 for every penny in spite of projections.

The SGF was welcomed by the Senate to clarify his remark that the 2016 body electorate ventures as caught in the financial backing would not be executed.

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He distinctly faulted the drop in Nigeria's income for exercises of activists in the Niger Delta.

Lawal noticed that the oil benchmark of $38 per barrel settled by the Federal Government has been radically separated.

He included that the benchmark has been terribly influenced by exercises of aggressors in the Niger Delta.

The SGF said, "The announcement is right. That is my announcement, we can't promise the usage of voting demographic undertakings in the 2016 spending plan. As an administration, body electorate ventures are championed by individuals from the National Assembly. Like the governing body, individuals from the official are legislators who campaigned for votes.

"Officials know that oil barrels had dwindled to around 800,000 every day. This has prompted the powerlessness of government to fund the financial plan. It is the obligation of government to set up the brains of Nigerians ahead that there will be difficulties in executing the financial plan.

"Government construct its guideline with respect to zero planning this year. Assets will be discharged to back key undertakings in accordance with the execution arrangements of the administration. I will clarify why it will be hard for the legislature to execute the financial plan.

"I talked with the Minister of Budget toward the beginning of today and I solicited him the income base from the legislature. We are currently getting around 50 to 60 profit from what we anticipated."

"A few Ministries, Department and Agencies (MDAs) may think that its difficult to execute ventures appropriated in their financial plans. We need to re-organize. I like us to comprehend this is the foundation whereupon I put forth that expression. "

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People Are Sharing This Quote From George W. Bush's Speech at the Dallas Memorial Like Crazy

Previous President George W. Hedge joined current President Barack Obama and Police Chief David Brown at a commemoration administration in Dallas on Tuesday to respect the five fallen officers who passed on a week ago amid a rifleman assault. The killings happened at a Black Lives Matter rally and were conferred by a man shocked over the passings of Philando Castile and Alton Sterling on account of police.

Strains encompassing the officers' passings have been high as far back as — the words "Blue Lives Matter" have been coursed as a counter-reaction to "Dark Lives Matter," further expanding pressures between energetic sides of an unpredictable level headed discussion. So when Bush made that big appearance at the commemoration administration, he shared a discourse empowering a "solidarity of trust" instead of hostility.

"Too often, we judge other groups by their worst examples while judging ourselves by our best intentions."

"Now and again, it appears like the powers pulling us separated are more grounded than the powers restricting us together," Bush said to the group at the Dallas remembrance administration, including: "Contention transforms too effectively into enmity. Difference grows into dehumanization. Over and over again, we judge different gatherings by their most exceedingly bad cases while judging ourselves by our best goals."

While Bush was never commended as an awesome speaker amid his administration, he positively hit a note with audience members with his motivational discourse. "We are bound by things of the soul, by shared responsibilities to normal goals. Getting it done, we hone compassion, envisioning ourselves in the lives and circumstances of others," Bush reminded grievers. "This is the extension over our country's most profound divisions. What's more, it's not simply a matter of resistance, but rather of gaining from the battles and stories of kindred residents and discovering our better selves all the while."

Did you ever think you'd see this numerous individuals citing George W. Shrub in 2016? It appears this moving discourse was precisely what individuals expected to hear amid this tumultuous time.

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