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Trump team says he'll ditch Thursday's GOP debate MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa —   Donald Trump   and his team said Tuesday the Republican front-runner would skip Thursday's debate in protest of what he called Fox News' "wise guy" reaction to his criticism of moderator   Megyn Kelly . Trump "will not be participating in the Fox News debate and will instead host an event in Iowa to raise money for the Veterans and Wounded Warriors," said a statement from the New York businessman's campaign. Earlier in the day, before a rally in Marshalltown, Trump told reporters that he "most likely" would be skipping the debate. Shortly after that, Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski said the businessman would definitely not participate. Ted Cruz, who is battling Trump for the top spot in Monday's caucuses, told talk-show host Mark Levin on Tuesday evening he would challenge the billionaire to a one-on-one debate — "away from moderat...

Zovoe Jonathan Eritrean men have been asked by the government to marry more than one wife or risk being jailed for life. This is contained in a statement in Arabic by the Grand Mufti (the highest official of religious law in the country) which scanned copy surfaced on social media sites on Thursday last week. In the statement, Eritrea called for all men in the country to marry at least two wives and the government assured the men that it would pay for the marriage ceremonies and houses. According to the government, the order is because there is an acute shortage of men occasioned by causalities during the civil war with Ethiopia. Afkinsider.com said the document, which could not be independently verified, warned that any man or woman who opposes the decision “will face a life sentence”. TheThe document in Arabic, which is in Arabic, says, “Based on the law of God in polygamy, and given the circumstances which the country is experiencing in terms of men shortage, the Er...

Lashes Out, Slams Femi Falana As A Tool Of The Corrupt Former Minister of Finance/Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala on Monday dismissed the well-respected legal luminary, Femi Falana, as “a tool of corrupt elements” whose interests were hurt by her anti-corruption fight while she was in office. In a press statement signed by her media adviser, Paul Nwabuikwu, she described what she called Falana’s “malicious attempt” to mix her up in the $2.1 billion arms scandal of the National Security Adviser (NSA) in his letter to the International Criminal Court (ICC) as “a desperate joke by an integrity challenged charlatan”. Describing herself as “a strong transparency advocate and anti-corruption fighter,” Okonjo-Iweala diagnosed Falana’s ailment as Chronic Cerebral Amnesia (CCA) because, according to her, he has no grasp of the facts. “This misadventure shows that the so-called learned lawyer does not have any idea of what the mandate of the ICC is about,...

It’s wrong to say only Bini candidate can win By Simon Ebegbulem & Gabriel Enogholase BENIN—AHEAD of this year’s governorship election in Edo State, former governor the state and governorship aspirant of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Prof. Oserheimen Osunbor, has said that the assertion that only a Bini man can win the forthcoming governorship election in the state was wrong, adding that he remains the best aspirant of the party to succeed Governor Adams Oshiomhole and, therefore, deserves to be supported by all the leaders. He urged delegates of the party to be wary of aspirants whose only credential is money, stressing the need for them to cast their votes based on the credentials and track records of the aspirants and not how rich they are or the geographical zone they hail from. Osunbor is one of the APC governorship aspirants and hails from Edo Central senatorial zone of the state. He addressed newsmen, yesterday, at the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, s...

South Africa girls given student grants to remain virgins Women's rights activists have criticised a South African municipality for a scholarship programme that funds studies for young women if they can prove they are virgins. On Friday, the uThekela municipality, in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN), announced that 113 students would receive scholarships to pursue higher education in the country. Sixteen scholarships were specifically designated for sexually inactive students, as part of a programme called Maiden's Bursary Awards. The programme started in January 2015, but it is unclear how many students were awarded the scholarship in 2015. Sisonke Msimang, a policy development and advocacy consultant for the Sonke Gender Justice project in Johannesburg, said the municipality's decision was "a terrible idea [that] had so many layers of ridiculousness". "Being sexually active and seeking an education has nothing to do with each other," Msimang told Al ...

The US Treasury has told a BBC investigation that it considers Russian President Vladimir Putin to be corrupt. The US government has already imposed sanctions on Mr Putin's aides, but it is thought to be the first time it has directly accused him of corruption. His spokesman told the BBC that "none of these questions or issues needs to be answered, as they are pure fiction". Last week a UK public inquiry said Mr Putin had "probably" approved the murder of ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko. Secret wealth Litvinenko, a former Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) agent and fierce critic of Mr Putin, was poisoned in London with radioactive polonium in 2006. Adam Szubin, who oversees US Treasury sanctions, has told BBC Panorama that the Russian president is corrupt and that the US government has known this for "many, many years". He said: "We've seen him enriching his friends, his close allies, and marginalising those who he doesn...

Metuh gave me $2m cash to invest, says woman Olusola Fabiyi and Ade Adesomoju The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Monday called two out of the 18 witnesses it lined up against the National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Olisa Metuh, with respect to the charges of money laundering involving the sum of N400m which he allegedly collected from the Office of the National Security Adviser in November 2014. The trial commenced before a Federal High Court in Abuja after the presiding judge, Justice Okon Abang, overruled a request for an adjournment by Metuh’s lead counsel, Mr. Onyechi Ikpeazu (SAN), who had sought time to enable him and his team to have access to some documents and prepare better for the defence. The ruling by Justice Abang, dismissing the request for adjournment, paved the way for the prosecution to call its first witness, Nneka Ararume, an employee of Asset and Resource Management Company Limited, who narrated how Me...