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Saturday, 13 October 2018

US Pastor, Andrew Brunson Has Been Finally Released From Detention After 2 Years

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Andrew Brunson was released yesterday after being detained in Turkey for two years. The American pastor landed at Ramstein Air force Base in Germany.

Brunson is also expected to spend a brief time at Ramstein before flying to Washington today where he will meet Donald Trump

Andrew was charged with helping to plot against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

On Friday, a Turkish court sentenced Brunson to three years and one month in prison, but chose to release him based on his time already served, and also because of his manner during the proceedings.

According to reports, Prosecutors were seeking a 10-year jail term. After he was released, Mr Brunson left his home in Izmir, Turkey immediately, and headed to the airport. Two US defense officials said that the US had put a military aircraft on standby from Europe to transport Brunson to the US from Turkey. A senior administration staff said that Andrew Brunson's wife flew with him.

President Donald Trump, while speaking at a rally in Ohio said, "earlier today we secured the release of pastor Andrew Brunson." Bunson, he said, is "free from jail" and was "in the air" on his way to Germany, where he will undergo a "brief check. He's coming to Washington, DC, tomorrow and we'll say hello. He went through a lot ... and he's on his way back."

Thierry Henry Becomes The New Monaco Club Coach

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Thierry Henry Becomes The New Monaco Club Coach

Thierry Henry was named the FC Monaco Coach on Saturday, the struggling Ligue 1 club announced.

The 41-year-old former Arsenal star will be joined by Joao Carlos Valado Tralhao, under-23 coach at Benfica, and Patrick Kwame Ampadu, coach at the Arsenal Academy. Henry knows Monaco pretty well having graduated through the youth system and also played for the Principality club between 1993-1999

Drake Officially Ends His Beef With Chris Brown As He Brings The Singer On Stage During His Concert

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Drake Officially Ends His Beef With Chris Brown As He Brings The Singer On Stage During His Concert

Drake has officially ended his long-running feud with Chris Brown.

The Canadian super star brought out Chris Brown during his Aubrey and The The Migos Tour in Staples Center, Los Angeles, last night.

The duo who had a serious clash over their ex-girlfriend Rihanna in 2012, shared photos of themselves performing together on stage, on their respective Instagram accounts to end their 7-year old feud.

Drake took to his Instagram page with a picture of himself and Chris Brown on stage, and wrote: 'This is not a fan edit Last time I was on stage with Breezy was 2009 at Virginia Commonwealth University...tonight I got to reconnect with him for the first night at Staples! I love a good full circle moment. Thank you.'

Chris Brown also posted and captioned his photos with Drake: 'DOUBLE DRAGONS @champagnepapi.'

Drake also ended his beef with Meek Mill, by also bringing out the rapper during a concert at the TD Garden in Boston.

See some photos below

Atiku Abubakar Confirms Peter Obi As His Running Mate (READ FULL STATEMENT)

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Atiku Abubakar Confirms Peter Obi As His Running Mate (READ FULL STATEMENT)

Atiku Abubakar, the Presidential flagbearer of The People's Democratic Party (PDP), has officially confirmed the former Governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi, as his running mate, for the general elections come 2019.

This was confirmed in a statement issued by the Director General of the Atiku Abubakar Campaign Organisation, Mr Gbenga Daniel, on Friday.

Read the full statement below:

The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, has chosen former Chairman of Fidelity Bank Plc and former Governor of Anambra State, Mr Peter Obi, as his running mate for the 2019 presidential election.

Born 19th July, 1961, Peter Obi attended the Christ the King College, Onitsha and later proceeded to the University of Nigeria, Nsukka where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy.

He is also a graduate of several international and national institutions such as the Lagos Business School, Harvard Business School, London School of Economics, Columbia Business School, Institute of Management, Switzerland, Kellogg Graduate School, Oxford University and Cambridge University.

In public service, he has led various divisions some of which includes: Member, Presidential Economic Management Team; Vice-Chairman, Nigeria Governors’ Forum; Chairman, South-East Governors’ Forum, and the Governor of Anambra State.

Peter Obi is an astute professional who has laid his footprints across the corporate world. He was the Chairman, Board of Security and Exchange Commission (SEC); former Chairman, Fidelity Bank PLC; former Chairman, Guardian Express Mortgage Bank; former Chairman, Future Views Securities; former Chairman, Paymaster Nigeria; former Chairman, Next International Nigeria; former Director, Guardian Express Bank PLC; former Director, Chams Nigeria PLC; former Director, Emerging Capital: former Director, Card Centre PLC.

He is a member of the British Institute of Directors (IOD), Nigerian Chartered Institute of Bankers and Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG).

Mr. Obi’s choice was largely influenced by his youthfulness, vast knowledge of global and local economics as well as being a financial expert, all experience which Nigeria is in great need at this point in time.

This ticket will be able to steer our nation back on the path of progress, economic prosperity and unity.

Signed
His Excellency,
Otunba (Engr.) Gbenga Daniel, FNSE, FNAEng
Director General,
Atiku Presidential Campaign Organization (APCO)

Facebook Says That Hackers Accessed The Data Of 29 Million Users

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Facebook Says That Hackers Accessed The Data Of 29 Million Users

On Friday, Facebook said that hackers accessed the personal data of 29 million facebook users in a breach.

The company had initially said up to 50 million accounts were affected in a digital assault that misused a trio of programming blemishes to take "access tokens" that allow users to automatically log back into the platform..

“We now know that fewer people were impacted than we originally thought,” Facebook VP of item administration Guy Rosen said in a conference call updating the investigation.

He said the hackers, whose identities are still a mystery, accessed the names, phone numbers and email addresses of 15 million users, he said.

For another 14 million individuals, the hacking was more damaging.

Facebook also said that cyber attackers accessed that data plus additional information including gender, religion, hometown, birth date and places they had recently “checked in” to as visiting.

Rosen also said that, No data was accessed in the accounts of the remaining one million people whose “access tokens” were stolen, according to Rosen.

The attack did not affect Facebook-possessed Messenger, Messenger Kids, Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus, Workplace, Pages, installments, outsider applications or promoting or designer accounts, the organization said.

Weakness in the code

He also said that Facebook engineers discovered a breach on September 25 and had it fixed after two days.

That breach purportedly identified with a "view as" highlight, depicted as a security device to give users a chance to see how their profiles look to other people. That capacity has been removed until further notice.

Facebook reset the 50 million records accepted to have been influenced, which means clients would need to sign back in using passwords.

The cyber attack was the latest privacy embarrassment for Facebook. Recall that earlier this year, millions of users had their personal data hijacked by Cambridge Analytica, a political firm working for Donald Trump.

In Mark Zuckerberg's reaction, he said, “We face constant attacks from people who want to take over accounts or steal information around the world.While I’m glad we found this, fixed the vulnerability, and secured the accounts that may be at risk, the reality is we need to continue developing new tools to prevent this from happening in the first place.”

Facebook said it made a prudent stride of resetting "access tokens" for another 40 million records which had gotten to the "view as" work.

According to Rosen, The hackers started the cyber attack on September 14 with 400,000 “seed accounts” they had a hand in or were otherwise close to, according to Rosen.

He said, "The hackers began with an arrangement of records they controlled directly, at that point moved to their friends, and their friends friends, and so on, each time exploiting the weakness"

The exploit allowed hackers to steal copies of access tokens from accounts of “friends” by using the “view as” feature.

Once they had access to accounts, hackers had the ability to get into them and control them as though they were the real owner.

Hackers could have seen the last four digits of Mastercard information in individuals' records, with the rest covered up for security, however there was no sign that information was taken, said Facebook.

Rosen also said that they found no reason yet to trust hackers were in interested in individuals' data, rather that it showed up the mission was to collect access tokens from companions related with ruptured accounts.

He declined to discuss progress regarding figuring out who was behind the attack, saying Facebook had been asked by the FBI to remain quiet on the topic.

The California-based informal organization says it is coordinating with the FBI, US Federal Trade Commission, Irish Data Protection Commission and different experts in regards to the break.

Rosen said the FBI examination additionally restricted what he could reveal about what the hackers' true objective may have been, yet kept up that Facebook had "no motivation to trust this assault was identified with the mid-term elections" in the US.

Atiku Abubaker Picks Peter Obi As His Running Mate

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Atiku Abubaker Picks Peter Obi As His Running Mate

Atiku Abubakar, the Presidential flagbearer of the People's Democratic Party (PDP), has reportedly picked the former Governor of Anmabra State, Peter Obi, as his running mate for the upcoming 2019 general elections.

According to reports, Atiku's Campaign Organisation has not issued a statement, sources close to him said that the deal was sealed during an informal meeting between the two men, in Abuja, on Friday.

Shortly after the reports spread, Ben Murray-Bruce, the Senator representing Bayelsa East senatorial district in the National Assembly, congratulated Peter Obi on his emerging as Atiku's running mate.

Mr Peter Obi served as the Governor of Anambra State between June 2007 and March 2014.

See Ben Murray's tweet below:

Ben Murray-Bruce

✔@benmurraybruce

Congrats my friend and brother, Mr. Peter Obi on your selection as vice presidential candidate to H.E @atiku. Without doubt, this is a solid team that will lift Nigeria to her rightly place amongst the assembly of nations. #LetsGetNigeriaWorkingAgain

5:31 PM - Oct 12, 2018

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Nigerians Reacts To Aisha Buhari's Bombshell Statement Against APC Leaders

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Nigerians Reacts To Aisha Buhari's Bombshell Statement Against APC Leaders

On Sunday morning, Nigeria's first lady, Aisha Buhari issued a very strongly worded statement accusing Adams Oshiomole and APC leaders of 'impunity' and 'unfairness'.

According to her words, the First Lady said: 'It is disheartening to note that some aspirants used their hard earned money to purchase nomination forms, got screened, cleared and campaigned vigorously yet found their names omitted on Election Day, these forms were bought at exorbitant prices'.

Below are the reactions of Nigerians to her statement