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AMERICA’S Youngest Scientist is HEMAN BEKELE, 14-year-old Ethiopia born High School American who invent SOAP that cures Cancer, received $25,000 cash prize

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YOUNGEST DEE JAY IN THE WORLD: 6 year old South African Genius, DJ Arch Jnr wins Guinness World Records Award…Emerged South Africa Got Talent Winner at the age of three * Started disc-jockeying at the age on ONE, Had impact on America’s Got Talent * Shows off skills, professionalism in outdoor ceremonies as youngest entertainer in Africa * Performance much sought-after by top Celebrities in Africa, Europe and United States * Performed at South African Film Awards and All Africa Music Awards in Nigeria BY HARRIET IVANA/ENTERTAINMENT CORRESPONDENT IN JO’BURG (SOUTH AFRICA)

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Education

YOBE STATE UNDER ATTACK IN 30 MINUTES: Boko Haram Invades Government Girls Technical College to Harass, RAPE, Abduct 100 Teenage students in Dapchi village…President BUHARI orders Investigation, Assures Families of abductees that kidnapped girls will be brought back alive *Militants wear full military attires, wield machine-gun mounted trucks, opened fire on school * Other lucky students and teachers flee, climbing fences to escape * ‘More than 50 students still missing’-Yobe state government officials * ‘I saw the Militants. They arrived about 5:30 p.m. in the village. The school girls were in dorms and I was in my dorm when we heard gunshots and screaming. I counted nine of their vehicles — two were land cruisers with machine guns on top — filled with fighters in military uniforms’-Mohammed Bilal, an Islamic studies teacher at the school * “The entire country stands as one with the girls’ families, the government and the people of Yobe State. This is a national disaster. We are sorry that this could have happened and share your pain. Our gallant armed forces will locate and safely return your missing family members”-President BUHARI BY NURENI MUMMINU/CRIME REPORTER, YOBE STATE

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FACE-OFF: FOX News is a FRAUD-TUCKER CARLSON, former TV Host …My deal on the cable station runs until January 2025, I feel humiliated for been yanked off the air as part of the Dominion settlement, I will be suing for a breach of signed contract soon *Vow: ‘I am launching a new version of my show on Twitter which we have been doing for the last six-and-a-half years, I will anchor the program on cyber space with same staff, same known people who worked with me on my previous show’ *“Fox employees, including Rupert Murdoch broke promises to Carlson intentionally and with reckless disregard for the truth. We are accusing Fox executives of making material representations, or promises, to Carlson that were intentionally broken, constituting fraud. Fox broke an agreement with Carlson not to leak his private communications to the media and not to use Carlson’s private messages to take any adverse employment action against him. Fox broke promises not to settle with Dominion Voting Systems in a way which would indicate wrongdoing on the part of Carlson and not to take any actions in a settlement that would harm Carlson’s reputation”-Carlson’s lawyer Bryan Freedman writes Fox officials Viet Dinh and Irena Briganti *Fox sends out a cease-and-desist letter to Media Matters to stop publishing leaked Tucker Carlson videos *BY SAMSON SHOAGA/GROUP MANAGING Editor & GEORGE ELIJAH OTUMU/AMERICA Senior Investigative Editor
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WORLD EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Everyone is asking how Nigerian Politicians raise N100million to buy Presidential Nomination Forms as Public Office Holders -SEYE KEHINDE, City People Media Group Publisher…My colleagues and I led Investigative Guerrilla Journalism in Nigeria fighting oppressive Military Junta to a standstill as Editor of TEMPO Magazine, we were publishing underground * Missing $75,000 cash at the political convergence of the All Progressive Congress ought to have been captured on CCTV, monumental fraud have the support of some insiders who are so sure that nothing will come out of it *Big time Nigerian political players deliberately raised the bar of nomination forms to edge out the youths, Plans on-going to expand City people magazine into other African countries *Commend senior colleagues who were founding fathers of The News Magazine: Mr Bayo Onanuga, Senator Babafemi Ojudu, Mr Idowu Obasa; Mr Dapo Olorunyomi and Mr Kunle Ajibade, Mother raised him to be humble in life *General ethics of the press comes with good journalism practice, relationship with Kunle Bakare, Femi Akintunde-Johnson, Dele Momodu; Mayor Akinpelu always intact *“Media practitioners have been holding the government accountable. Public office holders don’t care any longer. No one cares and things are done with impunity. So bad is the situation that corruption is now so rampant. And public office holders have become so brazen in the way they mismanage funds” *BY GEORGE ELIJAH OTUMU/AMERICAN Senior Investigative Editor
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SO INSPIRING: NIGERIAN-IRISH American Ace Broadcaster, ADAORA UDOJI Shines as ADJUNCT PROFESSOR at New York UNIVERSITY…Acclaimed by TIME Magazine as ‘Anchor of Future News on News Deeply’-famous media tech startup *Earlier worked for Cables News Network, ABC News *Reports international stories covering Africa, the Middle East and Europe *Co-host of ‘The Takeaway with John Hockenberry and Adaora Udoji in 2008’, a nationally syndicated co-production on WNYC, The New York Times, BBC, WGBH-Boston and PRI *Covered Wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Vatican, World Economy, Sporting events as in British Open and the Tour De France *Contributes to Good Morning America, World News Weekend, ABC Radio *Writes extensively on topics of being a Nigerian woman, beating cancer and Hurricane Katrina *Served as Board-member of the Montclair Film Festival, Women’s Advisory Board at NBC Universal and still a Woodrow Wilson fellow *NAMED one of 25 Most Influential African Americans by Essence Magazine, Honoree for the World Diversity Leadership Conference at the United Nations *HER Father is Godfrey Udoji, former chief engineer for the city of Dearborn, Michigan and mother Mary, former director of Washtenaw County Library in Ann Arbor, Michigan BY GEORGE ELIJAH OTUMU/FOREIGN BUREAU CHIEF, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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5TH YEAR MEDIA ANNIVERSARY: NIGERIA’S Foremost HUMAN RIGHTS AMAZON, DR JOE OKEI ODUMAKIN Wins NAIJA STANDARD Newspaper ‘Person of the YEAR 2017’…Receives International Women of Courage Award from the United States Department of State *ATIKU ABUBAKAR, Nigeria’s Former Vice President, BOLA AHMED TINUBU, National Leader of All Progressives Congress are ‘NAIJA STANDARD Most Iconic Politicians of the Year’ *Lagos State Governor, AKINWUNMI AMBODE is Naija Standard Newspaper Most Performing/Entrepreneurial Governor of the Year 2017 in Nigeria’ * NIGERIA’S Most Famous EDITORS of the Year 2017: SAM OMATSEYE, MARTINS OLOJA, SIMON KOLAWOLE *NIGERIA’S Genius, OYINLOLA OLUWATOBI Emerges ‘Most Creative Technology Expert in Diaspora’ *IKECHI UKO, DR RAPHAEL JAMES, WALE OJO-LANRE, AKILE OF DALLAS become ‘Nigeria’s Leading Cultural Ambassador of the Year in Diaspora’ #QUOTE: ‘A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots’-Marcus Garvey BY GEORGE ELIJAH OTUMU/FOREIGN BUREAU CHIEF, UNITED STATES & LOLA ENIFEMI/STAFF WRITER, ABUJA
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