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Republican Donald Trump will not be president because it's a "serious job", President Barack Obama has said. "I continue to believe that Mr Trump will not be president. And the reason is because I have a lot of faith in the American people," said Mr Obama. Mr Trump, a billionaire businessman, is the frontrunner in the race to be his party's choice for the White House. He has won one state primary already, and leads the polls in South Carolina, where Republicans vote on Saturday. Speaking at the Asean economic summit in California, the president was asked by a reporter about Mr Trump. The electorate will not pick him, said Mr Obama, because "they recognise that being president is a serious job". "It's not hosting a talk show or a reality show, it's not promotion, it's not marketing, it's hard. It's not a matter of pandering and doing whatever will get you in the news on a given day." Mr Trump responded by sa

Weirdly, commentators seem unable to put their fingers on the precise source of Donald Trump’s appeal. His fans say they love him because he isn’t politically correct—he speaks his mind, they say, and damn the torpedoes. Some point to his business success—I’m really, really rich, Trump often boasts—although great wealth seems generally more likely to alienate candidates from voters. Others say it’s because Trump is a celebrity. Actually, all of these are part of the puzzle, but the central piece is this: Trump parlayed his business background and his celebrity into the role he became known for during the decade-long run of The Apprentice. He’s a reality-TV judge, a member of the very tiny fraternity of men and women whom we have gifted the right to publicly identify and separate winners from losers. Put simply, Americans admire those who can pick a winner and identify a loser—and that’s why Donald Trump has been leading the polls as the Republican nominee for president. Think

On Monday, the Afghan Football Federation (AFF) confirmed that Ahmadi will now get a chance to meet his football hero. "We've been contacted by Messi's management team and they have expressed their interest in meeting the boy," AFF spokesman, Syed Ali Kazemi, told Al Jazeera. "We are doing our best to coordinate their meeting. The date and the venue is still not confirmed yet, but there are chances of Ahmadi flying to Spain to meet his idol (Messi)." Kazemi added that "the passion that Murtaza carries for football, we will do everything in our capacity to train him to be a part of our Afghanistan football team". Murtaza's brother Homayoun was the one who made the improvised shirt - that perfectly fit the little boy - and scribbled Messi's name and the No 10 in it. "Murtaza found a plastic bag and ran towards me asking me to make a jersey out of it for him," 15-year-old Homayoun told Al Jazeera. "We can

Leave it to Donald Trump to tangle with every adversary he can. After taking on all of his main Republican competitors at one time or another, sometimes in the harshest of terms, the GOP presidential front-runner is turning his attention more fully to President Barack Obama, who started the latest fuss with negative comments about Trump. Reacting to Obama's arguments that the American people are too sensible to elect him president and that he is too much of a show-business figure, Trump told reporters late Tuesday in Beaufort, South Carolina, "For him to say that actually is a great compliment if you want to know the truth." Trump added: "He has done such a lousy job as president. You look at our budgets. You look at our spending. We can't beat ISIS. Obamacare is terrible. We're going to terminate it. Our borders are like Swiss cheese." The real-estate developer added that Obama is "lucky I didn't run last time" because Trump

Beijing: China has deployed a surface-to-air missile system on one of its contested islands in the South China Sea, a report said on Tuesday just as President Barack Obama called for "tangible steps" to reduce tensions in the region. Fox News said that images from civilian firm ImageSat International show two batteries of eight missile launchers and a radar system arrived within the past week on Woody Island, part of the Paracels chain. A US warship last month sailed close to another island in the chain -- which is claimed by China, Taiwan and Vietnam -- in a gesture to assert freedom of navigation in the region which drew a quick protest from Beijing. The report on the missile batteries came as Obama wrapped up a two-day Southeast Asian summit in California where leaders voiced concern over Beijing`s military build-up in the strategic and resource-rich area. "We discussed the need for tangible steps in the South China Sea to lower tensions," Obama said,

Political manoeuvring engineered by the Governor of Ekiti State, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, led to the appointment of a former Governor of Borno State, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff as the national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party in Abuja on Tuesday, investigations by our correspondents have revealed. His emergence was, however, received with discordant tunes from some members of the party, who felt he was not the right person for the job. Sheriff’s name was not among those who had shown interest in leading the former ruling party until Fayose allegedly sold the idea to the PDP governors and the members of the party’s national caucus at their meeting in Abuja on Monday night. The meeting was held at the Ondo State Governor’s Lodge, Asokoro, Abuja. The meeting of the caucus continued at the national headquarters of the party located at Zone 5, Abuja, on Tuesday morning and lasted till evening. Our correspondents gathered that Sheriff’s name was not considered among those

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Wednesday re-arraigned a former Chairman of DAAR Communications Plc, Chief Raymond Dokpesi, before a Federal High Court in Abuja on six counts of money laundering and other charges relating to procurement fraud. The charges involve N2.1bn which he allegedly received from‎ the Office of the National Security Adviser between October 2014 and March 19, 2015 to prosecute Peoples Democratic Party’s 2015 presidential media campaign. The re-arraignment followed the withdrawal of the case by the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice Ibrahim Auta from the former trial judge, Justice Gabriel Kolawole, and the subsequent transfer of the matter to Justice James Tsoho. Dokpesi and his firm, Daar Investment and Holdings Ltd, had earlier denied the charges when they were initially arraigned before Justice Kolawole on December 9, 2015. The judge had subsequently on December 14, 2015,  granted bail to Dokpesi in the sum of N200m with tw