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Court Jails Applicant 2 Months For Stealing Street Lamp

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A Wuse Zone 2 Chief Magistrates’ Court, Abuja, on Friday sentenced a 25-year-old applicant, Salisu Ali, to two months imprisonment for stealing a street security lamp.

Ali of no fixed address was arraigned on a one-count charge of theft.

The Senior Magistrate, Teribo Jim, convicted Ali after he pleaded guilty and begged the court to temper justice with mercy.

Jim, however, did not give the convict an option to pay a fine, hold that the sentence would serve as a deterrent to others.

Prosecutor Haruna Alfa had told the court that a police patrol team attached to Wuse Police Station arrested the convict on October 19.

Alfa said that the convict was arrested at the Wuse axis with a street security lamp that he cut off from the fence.

He said the convict was arrested with a plier and could not give a satisfactory account of what he was doing with the items.

The prosecutor said the offence contravened Sections 297 of the Penal Code.

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Court jails applicant 2 months for stealing street lamp

Zika Virus Persisted In Man’s Semen For 2 Months

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A man in Britain who was infected with Zika while traveling to the Cook Islands showed evidence of the mosquito-borne virus in his semen for two months, health officials said Friday.

The finding raises new questions for health authorities as they scramble to learn more about Zika — linked to a surge in birth defects in Brazil — and the risk of transmission through sex.

The case involved a 68-year-old man who was infected with Zika in 2014 while traveling.

He complained of a fever, rash and lethargy upon return to Britain, where he was tested and the results came back positive for Zika.

Though Zika symptoms are often mild and resolve themselves in about a week, the virus was found during tests of semen taken 27 and 62 days after the man’s initial infection, said a report from Public Health England, published online in the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Emerging Infectious Diseases Journal.

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Buhari To Appoint Ministers In 2 Months

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President Muhammadu Buhari’s ministers may come in two months at the earliest as the new administration seeks to come to grip with what its officials claim as the rot it inherited.

Insiders in the new government claim that this is due to the acute state of affairs of government finances and resources. It was also disclosed that President Buhari would in the next few days take very painful decisions akin to “pulling off the tooth” of a man without painkillers.

A source close to the president, who made these known to reporters at the weekend, spoke in reference to assertions of the president’s slow take-off as reflected in the failure to appoint key actors of government. The source dismissed suggestions that the activities of government had been crippled on account of the failure to appoint ministers as a blackmail by politicians keen to get into the pie.

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