November 13, 2019

Jeanine Anez: Stand-In President Vowing To Pacify Bolivia

November 13, 2019 2:14 pm

Conservative senator Jeanine Anez was unknown to many Bolivians before she stepped out beaming and waving a Bible on the balcony of the government palace.

A longtime critic of her leftist predecessor Evo Morales, she stepped into the power vacuum left when he suddenly fled the country to escape a violent crisis.

Now all eyes in the country are on Anez, a 52-year-old lawyer from the northeastern region of Beni, bordering Brazil.

As second deputy speaker of the Senate, Anez was sworn in by her allies after all the other officials in line to act as interim president had fled.

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Kanye West Is Taking “Sunday Service” To Joel Osteen Church

November 13, 2019 2:13 pm
“Christian Genius Billionaire” Kanye West will be paying a visit to televangelist Joel Osteen’s Houston megachurch this Sunday.

West, who released his first gospel album, Jesus is King, last month, will be having a 15-to-20-minute conversation with Osteen at Lakewood Church’s 11 a.m. service, the Houston Chronicle reports.

Lakewood spokesperson Donald Iloff Jr. told the Chronicle that the conversation will revolve around West’s journey to faith.

The rapper will reportedly make another appearance at the evangelical church’s 7 p.m. young adult service, this time with his Sunday Service choir.

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Carvajal

Venezuela Ex-Intel Chief Missing Ahead Of US Extradition

November 13, 2019 2:11 pm

Venezuela’s former military intelligence chief has gone missing in Spain just days after a court-approved a request for his extradition to the United States on drug trafficking charges, police said Wednesday.

“They are currently looking for him,” said a spokeswoman for Spain’s national police, referring to General Hugo Armando Carvajal who served as intelligence chief under the late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez.

Judicial sources said police had gone to Carvajal’s house in Madrid to arrest him after Friday’s court decision but could not find him.

Carvajal’s lawyer

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Former Super Eagles Player Found Guilty Of Match-Fixing

November 13, 2019 2:08 pm
A former Nigeria international Dickson Etuhu has been found guilty for attempted match-fixing by a Swedish appeals court.
The Court of Appeals in Stockholm in a release on Wednesday said that Etuhu and an unnamed former player tried to influence AIK keeper Kyriakos “Kenny” Stamatopoulos to fix a match in Sweden’s top division in 2017.

“The content of what the men submitted to the player (Stamatopoulos) was so clear that it should be considered a criminal offer of bribe,” the court said.

Etuhu escaped a jail sentence but

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Drought

AgriSA Wants Limpopo To Be Declared A Drought Disaster Zone

November 13, 2019 12:48 pm

There are fears that the situation might worsen if heavy rainfall is not experienced soon.

On Tuesday, AgriSA released their 2019/2020 drought report which highlights the effect drought has had on agriculture over the past five years.

According to Polokwane Review, the report suggests: “The current hot temperatures in major parts of the country have plunged three provinces to stress levels as their dam levels dropped to below half in the past two weeks.”

The department of water and sanitation recently reported that the dam levels in Limpopo, Eastern Cape and North West have dropped to below 50%. There are

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Boy, 12, Allegedly Raped By Three Psychiatric Patients

November 13, 2019 12:45 pm

The incident allegedly took place on Tuesday at Durban’s RK Khan hospital where it is alleged psychiatric and non-psychiatric patients are currently in mixed wards.

The Democratic Alliance (DA) in KwaZulu-Natal has said it will seek answers from the province’s Health MEC, Nomagugu Simelane-Zulu after being reliably informed that a 12-year-old boy has been allegedly raped by three psychiatric patients at Durban’s RK Khan Hospital.

The DA’s member of the provincial legislature, Dr Rishigen Viranna said the information of the alleged rape was made available to the party by sources within the hospital.

The incident is believed to have taken

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SA: Bosasa Lays 171 Charges Against Agrizzi For Stolen R37m

November 13, 2019 12:43 pm

Facilities management company Bosasa laid criminal charges on Wednesday against, among others, their former chief operating officer, Angelo Agrizzi, and former chief financial officer, Andries van Tonder, both of whom testified against the company earlier this year at the state capture commission.

The charges were laid in person at the Krugersdorp police station by the late Gavin Watson’s nephew Jared Watson, who is representing his uncle as the executor of his estate and, as a chartered accountant, was assisting Gavin with his submission to an SA Reserve Service inquiry into his finances and those of several others at Bosasa.

He …

SA: Two Women Killed In Bronkhorstspruit Bus Crash

November 13, 2019 12:41 pm

Two women have been killed in a bus crash on Moloto Road in Bronkhorstspruit, Tshwane, in the early hours of Wednesday morning.

“Circumstances surrounding the incident are not yet known, but it occurred this morning between 05:00 and 06:00 while it was raining. The accident happened around a curve,” Tshwane Metro Police Department (TMPD) spokesperson Isaac Mahamba told News24 on Wednesday afternoon.

The two women killed were aged 40 and 16. Authorities are not able to disclose their details until the next of kin is informed.

A total of 41 passengers, as well as the driver, sustained injuries, according to …

Doctor

SA: Doctor Shoots Wife In The Head, In Front Of Kids

November 13, 2019 12:36 pm

A doctor is in hospital after being shot in the head, allegedly by her estranged husband, who is also a doctor, in Summerstand, Port Elizabeth, over the weekend, police said on Monday.

Police spokesperson Capt Sandra Janse van Rensburg said the woman, 36, and her sister went to the house on Saturday morning to fetch some of her belongings, when they were attacked by her husband.

“A shot was fired, injuring the woman in her head,” Van Rensburg said. The woman survived the shooting and was taken to hospital.

The attack occurred in front of the couple’s three children. …

IGP

Modern Policing No Longer Driven By Brute Force – IGP

November 13, 2019 11:22 am

Inspectors General of Police(AIG), have been decorated with their ranks with a warning that modern policing is no longer driven by application of brute force.

The Inspector General of Police(IGP), Mohammed Adamu, who gave the warning, said modern policing involves the deployment of intellect, respect for extant laws, civility to citizens, knowledge, and sound professional judgement.

Adamu, spoke at a ceremony held to decorate the officers with their new ranks held at the force headquarters in Abuja.

The police boss while noting that crime has become more dynamic and increasingly complex phenomenon,  said “the engagement of community-driven, intelligence-led and technology-guided …

Privatisation: BPE Complete Transactions On 234 Enterprises

November 13, 2019 11:20 am

The Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) on Wednesday disclosed that it has so completed transactions on 234 enterprises since the inception of the Federal Government’s privatisation programme in 1999.

It further disclosed that plans were afoot to divest from the 10 newly-built gas-fired National Integrated Power Projects (NIPPs) when completed.

The Director-General of BPE Mr Alex Okoh made the disclosures recently at the Nigerian Investment Showcase at Guildhall, London, with the theme: “Public Sector Deals Recently”.

A BPE statement said Okoh listed the milestones recorded by the privatisation programme to include: expanding private sector participation in the Nigerian economy; attracting

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In South Africa, Ayade Woos Investors

November 13, 2019 11:14 am
Cross River State Governor Ben Ayade Wednesday launched a charm offensive in South Africa , wooing investors at the Africa Investment Forum (AIF), to invest in the state.
A statement issued by Ayade’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr Christian Ita, said
Governor Ayade was at the Summit on the invitation of the President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Dr. Akinwumni Adesina, along side the Chairman of the Nigeria Governors Forum, Dr Kayode Fayemi, his Kwara and Abia states counterparts, Dr  Abdulrasaq Abdulraman and Dr Okezie Ikpeazu respectfully.
While speaking at the cluster session on the opportunities Investors
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