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There are indications that the United States are interested in buying Greenland, an autonomous country and the world's largest island, from Denmark.

The current US President, Donald Trump, wants to take his real estate acquisition skills to another level with this move.

According to CNN, Greenland is home to 56,000 people, and the notion of buying an indigenous people and their ancestral lands smacks of colonialism and is deeply problematic. Given how Trump's real estate projects worked out for the islanders of New York City — $360 million in forgiven or uncollected taxes with another $885 million in tax breaks going to luxury apartments, hotels and office buildings — it would be financially savvy for Denmark to steer clear of President Trump's crony capitalism.

You need to watch your diet, as poor diet could lead to early death.  

Police in Dubai are sure leading the world when it comes to hover technologies. They are set to start training on the use of hovering motorbikes. 

Art, Science and Technology are as important as air on earth.  I remember when we were in secondary school and we all thought only the smart ones deserve to study science courses.

Alas, we were wrong. Good music has been able to cure several mental illnesses just like medicine. Technology has reached great heights, but what's the use of a great flat screen TV without a good movie to watch alongside.

Appreciate arts, appreciate science, appreciate technology, for they all require creativity and hardwork, and our lives depend on them all. The people good at art are smart too. Not just the science and tech guys.

Global Warming, Climate Change. When you hear these things, you think scientists and researchers are trying to play with some fancy words?

Herdsmen farmers' clashes have cost several lives in Nigeria this year alone. The casualty, even as big as it seems, is just a tip of the iceberg of other products of the impending climate crises.

Desert is taking over more fertile lands. Antarctica is getting warmer, and ice melting, which only increases the volume of the oceans. This rise in sea level swallows more lands. Resources will get scarce and when the little left isn't managed and shared properly - crises.

I'm not a prophet of doom, but I preach climate change and global warming. Preach as much as you can because we have no other planet, yet.

- Ekene Onuorah

Cristiano Ronaldo says he deserves to win the Ballon d'Or for a sixth time, over rivals including Antoine Griezmann, Luka Modric, Kylian Mbappe and Lionel Messi.

Ronaldo helped fire Real Madrid to a third consecutive Champions League crown before joining Juventus and he is in no doubt he should win the Ballon d'Or for a record-breaking sixth time.

"I said many times, winning a sixth Ballon d'Or is not an obsession," Ronaldo said in a France Football interview . "And I do not ask the question in these terms.

"I already know, in my heart, that I am one of the best players in history. Of course, I want to win, this sixth Ballon d'Or!

"It would be a lie to tell you the opposite. I work for that. As I work to score goals and win games without being an obsession. The Ballon d'Or, yes, I think I deserve it."

Five-time world football of the year Cristiano Ronaldo became the most following person on Instagram on Monday.

A 150-year-old church in Wakefield, Mass., was engulfed in flames on Tuesday after being struck by lightning during a storm. Remarkably, the one thing to survive the blaze was a large painting of Jesus.

The fire was first reported on Tuesday evening, when members of the church were meeting inside. Everyone evacuated the burning building safely, but it took hours and more than 100 firefighters to tame the flames destroying the First Baptist Church. People from the community were reluctantly saying goodbye to the community landmark, built in 1872, as it burned to the ground, when one first responder emerged from the structure with a painting that was miraculously undamaged.

Source: https://news.freepopulation.com/2018/10/26/painting-jesus/

A helicopter belonging to Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, the billionaire owner of Premiership club, Leicester City burst into flames after it crashed yards away from the King Power stadium after taking off from the pitch, on Saturday night.

The owner of Leicester City, the Sporting Director and pilot have been pronounced dead, reasons being 3rd degree burns and spinal injury. Families of the deceased are being called and made aware of the loss of their loved ones. A sad day for football.

Compare the following photos taken at night without flash and what a Google Night Sight Camera app would turn it to.

Shots were taken with Google pixel 3 XL

Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State has taken exception to the remark of the Acting Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, Mallam Lanre Issa-Onilu, who described him as a bad loser in politics.

Issa-Onilu, had in a statement on Thursday, described some APC governors including Okorocha as bad losers in respect of the governorship primaries of the party.

A statement issued in Owerri on Saturday, by the Chief Press Secretary to the governor, Sam Onwuemeodo explained that Okorocha, contrary to what Issa-Onilu would want people to believe and other governors, are working for the progress of the party with the National Chairman of the party, Adams Oshiomhole.

The governor observed that disagreements with the party leadership were bound to arise and advised the National Publicity Secretary on the need to exercise caution in order not to create a wrong impression.

Okorocha warned against castigating governors, who worked for the party from the onset, insisting that Issa-Onilu misfired by doing so and had sent a bad signal to the world. 

A political group, Operation Deliver Your Unit (ODYU), says President Muhammadu Buhari will defeat Atiku Abubakar, an Adamawa indigene and presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Adamawa State.

The group vowed to work for Buhari's victory on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2019 general election.

ODYU, believed to have been founded by the Crown Prince of Yola Emirate and Commissioner for Local Government Affairs, Mohammed Barkindo, has strategically constituted supporters in all the 2,609 polling units in the state.

Barkindo's support for Buhari is also aimed at challenging the ambition of Atiku, who is also the Wazirin Adamawa (number two man in the Adamawa Emirate).

At least six persons including a police corporal were on Friday killed by gunmen in Gurbin Bore village, Zurmi Local Government Area of Zamfara State, the News Agency of Nigeria has reported.

The state police spokesperson, Mohammed Shehu, said the community was attacked at about 10 pm by assailants numbering about 100.

It was not immediately clear why the village was targeted.

Zamfara, located in Nigeria’s north west, has been hit by several deadly attacks in the last one year by people described by authorities as “bandits”, who also steal livestock.

The police spokesman said three people were severely wounded in Friday’s attack.

“Eleven vehicles including a police vehicle, three motorcycles and five kiosks were set ablaze by the hoodlums,” he said.

Mr Shehu said the “bandits” who were suspected to have come from Dumburum forest were engaged by a combined team of counterterrorism operatives, comprising police Mobile Force, and Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad (FSARS) personnel stationed in the area.

He said the attackers were being trailed and would be arrested and brought to justice.

The vice chairman of Zurmi Local Government Council, Abubakar Dauran, told journalists that 13 shops and 15 vehicles were burnt.

(NAN)

Source:  https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/292843-100-gunmen-attack-zamfara-community-kill-policeman-others.html

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