ISRAEL AND LEBANON AGREE TO EXTEND US-BROKERED CEASEFIRE BY 45 DAYS, STATE DEPARTMENT SAYS. (PHOTO).
Israel and Lebanon agree to extend US-brokered ceasefire by 45 days, State Department says Israel and Lebanon have agreed to extend a U.S.-brokered ceasefire by 45 days, according to U.S. officials, in an effort to allow further progress in ongoing negotiations aimed at reducing hostilities along their shared border. A State Department spokesperson said the April 16 cessation of hostilities would be extended by an additional 45 days following what officials described as “highly productive” talks held in Washington on Thursday and Friday. The two sides are expected to resume negotiations on June 2 and June 3. The discussions mark the third round of meetings between Israel and Lebanon since renewed fighting escalated earlier this year, including Israeli airstrikes following missile fire from Hezbollah and subsequent Israeli ground operations in southern Lebanon. While the conflict has continued in parallel with broader regional tensions, officials said violence has largely remained ...
45 Years old Hajara Egbara,a female staff of the Federal capital development Authority,Abuja was arrested for allegedly obtaining the sum of N25million under false pretence.DSP Ngozi,said the suspect was arrested following a written complaint by a female victim to the Commissioner of police,CP Tunde Ogunsakin,that the suspect sold a plot of land to her within Asokoro extension,Abuja,in 2009 for the sum of N25million.The victim alleged that she paid the money in three installments.She said she paid N10million each for the first two instalments and the suspect issued receipts with invoice Number 0073 and 0201 to her as proofs of purchase respectively,while the last payment of N5,million was made in 2012 through an old generation bank cheque number 0179593.The petitioner stated that she discovered that she had been duped by the suspect.When she was trying to process the documents of the land.When she confrounted the suspect,the suspect took her to another land as compensation and she use about N450,000 to fence off the new land.The petitioner reported the matter to the police when the suspect came back to tell her that the land did not belong to her again.Hajara later confessed to the police that she duped the woman that she gave N8.5 million to a developer,Mohammed Sodiq,now at large,while she took the balance for her services.She would be arraigned in court after the investigation of the matter.
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