Nigeria is participating in the ongoing International Congress on fight against kidnapping at Cartagena, Colombia. The Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris is attending.
A statement by the police spokesperson, Jimoh Moshood says, the participation of the Inspector -General “is part of the broader effort to bring an end to the menace of Kidnapping in Nigeria and as well strengthen International Cooperation between Nigeria and other Countries of the World in the fight against Kidnapping and other violent crimes”.
Nigeria is recording increasing cases of kidnap and other highway crimes, especially along Abuja – Kaduna express way where many are kidnap almost on a daily basis.
The statement however said, “Nigeria Police Force has recorded significant successes and achievements in the fight against Kidnapping and other violent crimes since the inception of the present Police Administration”.
According to the statement “the outcome of the conference will be far-reaching and will definitely improve the capacity and capability of the Nigeria Police Force nationwide in preventing, detecting and reducing cases of kidnapping in Nigeria to the barest”.
Gombe (Nigeria) — The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, has sympathised with Journalists in Gombe of over the loss of their colleague, Daniel Nyam Gwash of Nigeria Standard Newspaper.
The Operation Controller of the DPR, Abdullahi Abawa, led officials of the Department to Nigeria Union of Journalists Correspondents’ Chapel in Gombe.
He said as a body relating with Journalists, the Department was grieved with the Mr. Gwash.
“we would like to express our deep condolences on sudden death of your member we understand the situation of your heart but you have to balance yourself and need to come out of this grief. Please accept our deep sympathy at this sad event,” he said.
Responding, Chairman of the Chapel, Abdullahi Tukur, described late Daniel Gwash as one of the gentle and hard working journalists in Gombe.
Gwash passed away on Thursday 5 October 2017, from protracted illness at a hospital in Jos, central Nigeria, where he was receiving treatment.
Before his death, Gwash who hailed from Jos, Plateau State was a practicing journalists in Gombe reporting for Nigeria Standard Newspaper since 2002.
He left behind one wife 4 children and will buried on Thursday 12 October 2017.
Donald Trump’s first wife, Ivana, has started a war of words by saying she, not Melania, is the real First Lady and by revealing that she has a direct line to the White House but uses it less than she could to avoid jealousy.
Melania is Mr Trump’s third wife, and although this is the first time she and Ivana have crossed swords in public, the first wife has certainly had harsh words for her successor, Marla, before.
All three of them were at Mr Trump’s inauguration as president in January.
Here are the stories of the three women and their marriages to Donald Trump.
Wife One
Ivana Trump (maiden name: Zelnícková)
Married to Donald 1977-1992
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Born in 1949 in Czechoslovakia, Ivana met Donald at a bar in New York and the pair were married for 15 years. She is the mother of three of his children: Donald Jr, Ivanka, and Eric.
The couple divorced after rumours surfaced that he was having an affair and he refused to tell Playboy magazine in an interview whether his marriage was monogamous.
During a divorce deposition, Ivana accused Mr Trump of raping her, but she later withdrew the comment, saying her words should not be “interpreted in a literal or criminal sense” and she meant instead that she had felt a lack of tenderness. He has said the episode was completely falsified.
The divorce is thought to have cost Mr Trump tens of millions of dollars. Ivana’s attempts to receive more money than had been laid out in a pre-nuptial agreement were extensively reported in the New York press at the time.
She even had a cameo in the 1996 film First Wives Club where she repeated the line: “Don’t get mad, get everything!”
She has married twice since, and has remained close enough to Mr Trump to be photographed next to him at functions (as above).
On becoming president, Mr Trump reportedly offered Ivana the chance to be the US ambassador to the Czech Republic but she declined, preferring to be able to summer in St Tropez.
“I’m known by the name Ivana. I really did not need the name Trump,” she told the New York Post.
The first Mrs Trump is promoting her book Raising Trump, to be released on Tuesday. In the course of it, she quipped that she is the real first lady.
Melania responded with a statement including the lines: “There is clearly no substance to this statement from an ex. Unfortunately only attention seeking and self-serving noise.”
Wife Two
Marla Maples (never changed her name)
Married to Donald 1993-1999
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Marla Maples was born into a Baptist family in Georgia in the US in 1963, making her 14 years younger than Ivana. The couple had one daughter, Tiffany.
Their relationship began in secret, as an affair that lasted for years. Before it, she had been a beauty queen who took a bit part in a Stephen King film (Maximum Overdrive) and posed for a Delta Air Lines ad.
Vanity Fair reported that Marla lived on Mr Trump’s mega yacht, Trump Princess and avoided the press. But she would soon come to the world’s attention, when she and the Trumps holidayed in the same town.
“I’m Marla and I love your husband. Do you?” are the words she reportedly said to Ivana when confronting her in Aspen in 1990.
“Stay away from him! Stay away from us!” Ivana reportedly replied.
Looking back on their divorce, Ms Maples has said she wanted to change Mr Trump but realised after some years that they were not bringing out the best in each other.
In 1990, Marla said: “I’m, like, of the soil, of the country, of a solid, firm belief in God. I would be happier living out on a farm away from everyone.” After the divorce she moved to California.
Last year when Marla competed in Dancing with the Stars she was eliminated quickly, and Ivana said she was “never happier in her life”.
Ivana took another swipe at her during book promotion interviews this week, by telling CBS Sunday Morning that Ms Maples was “a showgirl” who had never achieved anything – but she has not responded.
Wife Three
Melania Trump (nee Knavs)
Married to Donald 2005 – present
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Born as Melanija Knavs in Slovenia in 1970, Melania is seven years younger than Marla, 21 years younger than Ivana and 24 years younger than her husband, Donald.
She later changed the spelling of her first name to Melania, and moved to the US in the 1990s.
She married Mr Trump in 2005 after meeting him when she was working as a model. He was reportedly intrigued when she refused to give him her number, asking for his instead.
She is the mother of Barron, 11, and delayed their move to the White House so as not to interrupt his school year.
She is an unusual First Lady in another way: she is the first to have posed nude for a magazine.
When she found herself attacked in public by the first Mrs Trump, her scathing statement managed to take some moral high ground: “Mrs Trump has made the White House a home for [their son] Barron and The President.
“She loves living in Washington, DC and is honoured by her role as First Lady of the United States.
“She plans to use her title and role to help children, not sell books.”
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Gombe (Nigeria) — National Youth Service Corp (NYSC) in Gombe State, northeast of the country has flagged-off a Health Initiative for Rural Dwellers, for free medical services in Gombe.
Speaking at the occasion in Gombe, the NYSC State Coordinator, Ibeh Chidube said the exercise is to provide health intervention services and to improve the general wellbeing of the people.
“The idea of the Health Initiative for Rural Dwellers was conceived and will be sustained to ensure that health intervention reaches the 774 Local Government Areas in the country through the NYSC medical team,” he said.
He commanded the local government Chairman and his council members for the support given them on the exercise and called on the corps medical personnel to give the exercise maximum attention it deserves to boost healthcare delivery to rural dwellers.
Also speaking, Chairman of the local government council, Sani Sarkin-Dogare said the Council has spent about 500,000 Naira to support the programme in buying drugs and other logistics
The Chairman further applauded the initiative of the National Youth Service Corp for providing free medical treatment to people in the area, adding that “That made us to provide all logistics support and drugs for the one week exercise.
He said the initiative would go a long way in complementing the local government and the state government efforts toward providing accessible healthcare delivery to the poor and helpless in rural areas.
Sarkin-Dogare said that the initiative was timely and called on the medical team to feel at home and discharge their duties diligently, calling on the people in the community to ensure they visited health centre for the free medical services
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Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga has pulled out of October’s election re-run.
Mr Odinga said his withdrawal would give the electoral commission enough time to introduce reforms that will help deliver a more credible election.
The Supreme Court annulled the result of the original 8 August poll, which saw Uhuru Kenyatta declared winner, after finding irregularities.
But Mr Kenyatta says he is ready to proceed with the new vote as planned.
The country’s electoral commission said Mr Kenyatta had won the August vote by a margin of 1.4 million votes – or 54% of the total, compared to Mr Odinga’s 44%.
The re-run was due to take place on 26 October, but Mr Odinga said on Tuesday: “We have come to the conclusion that there is no intention on the part of the IEBC [electoral commission] to undertake any changes to its operations and personnel… All indications are that the election scheduled for 26 October will be worse than the previous one.”
As a result, he said, “considering the interests of the people of Kenya, the region and the world at large” it was best that he withdrew from the race.
The opposition party has previously made clear its participation in the election was contingent on reforms being made.
It believes the election will have to be cancelled as a result of Mr Odinga’s withdrawal, allowing “adequate time to undertake the reforms necessary to conduct an election that is in strict conformity with the constitution, the relevant laws and the constitution”.
Mr Odinga has also called on people to protest on Wednesday, using the slogan “no reform, no elections”.
But Mr Kenyatta, speaking at a rally in the southern town of Voi, said: “We have no problem going back to elections. We are sure we will get more votes than the last time.”
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Kaduna (Nigeria) — Kaduna state is commencing campaign against child molestation and abuse to curb increasing cases of child kidnap and child abuse in the state.
Commissioner for Women Affairs and social Development, Hafsat Baba told journalists on Tuesday, at a pre-launch briefing, that children in the state are been stolen for domestics work, noting that recently over 37 children have been rescued, and that the ministry is currently on the process of reuniting them to their parents and guardians.
She noted that there are many cases of violence against the girl-child which the Ministry is also working on.
“Any form of violence against children should be avoided, and no rape case should be covered-up by any Nigerian since it is already in the criminal act”, she added.
The Commissioner who said any parent who molested his or her child, violates the Child’s Right Act, thus should be reported to the police, and enjoined parents, the media, as well as other individuals to joint the government. In the fight for the safety of children.
Mrs. Baba commended the present administration in Kaduna state for the effort being taken to ensure the passage of the Child Right Bill presently before the Kaduna State House of Assembly.
According to her in the proposed law, there are sections that stipulate penalty for those who were involve in child abuse, adding that when the bill is signed into law, the people of the state would be happy.
She added that her ministry always swings to action whenever there is a report on rape, or others matters of child abuse and it also follows-up each case until justice is secured.
She stressed the need for parents to be responsible for their children at all time.
Nigeria is participating in the ongoing International Congress on fight against kidnapping at Cartagena, Colombia. The Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris is attending.
