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Monday, 11 September 2017
Court orders continuation of Dino Melaye's recall
An Abuja division of the Federal High Court has dismissed an application filed by the representative of the Kogi West Senaorial constituency, Dino Melaye, seeking to nullify his recall.
Mr. Melaye had approached the court presided by Justice Nnamdi Dimgba ahead of his recall exercise earlier scheduled to begin in July.
Following Mr. Melaye’s application, the court ordered Nigeria’s electoral body, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to halt the recall exercise, pending the determination of Mr. Melaye’s application.
In its ruling, Monday, the court presided by Mr. Dimgba said contrary to the arguments of Mr. Melaye that he was not granted fair hearing, the constitution does not require a special provision that mandates INEC to grant the senator an opportunity of fair hearing.
The court then ruled that INEC provides Mr. Melaye with the recall petition, schedule of signatures attached to the petitions and a full list of persons in support of the recall process, within two weeks before an amended time table for the recall would be made.
Details of Apple's new premium iPhone, the 'iPhone X', revealed in leak.
Apple is expected to reveal three new devices on Tuesday
Apple's latest special edition of the iPhone will be called the iPhone X, according to an apparent leak.
The name of the device was reported by two news sites given access to an unreleased version of the iOS operating system.
The sites also reported that two other new phones would be called the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus.
The leak came ahead of the technology giant's launch of its new models at its California headquarters on Tuesday.
The event will mark the tenth anniversary of the smartphone, which first went on sale in June 2007.
The special edition device, rumoured to be priced as high as $1,000, is reported to come with a new edge-to-edge screen and wireless charging capability for the first time.
It could also feature a 3D face-scanning camera and remove the traditional home button from the front of the device for the first time.
A new Apple Watch and a 4K resolution Apple TV are also reportedly due to be announced at the event.
Industry analyst Ben Wood, from CCS Insight, said despite the range of announcements expected from Apple, little will change in the smartphone arena.
Nigeria: Trouble Looms for Nigeria As China Plans to Ban Petrol, Diesel Vehicles
China, world's biggest car market, plans to ban the production and sale of diesel and petrol vehicles, further threatening the future profitability of oil -- Nigeria's major revenue source.
The development is coming two months after the UK, like Germany, France, India, Norway and Netherlands, revealed plans to ban fuel-run cars, as part of efforts to reduce air pollution.
The ban will lead to a reduction of oil demand in China, as the country is currently the world's second-largest oil consumer after the United States, US.
China wants electric battery cars and plug-in hybrids to account for at least one-fifth of its vehicle sales by 2025.
Hurricane Irma: Storm hits west coast of Florida
Strong rain and fierce wind pulling down structures in miami
Hurricane Irma is blasting up the west coast of Florida after buffeting the city of Miami, with dangerous flooding along long stretches of coast.
It has been downgraded from category three to one but still has maximum sustained winds of 75mph (120km/h).
More than 3.4 million homes in the state are without power, with parts of the city of Miami under water.
At least four deaths have been linked to the storm and several areas have brought in curfews.
Florida's Director of Emergency Management, Bryan Koon, said late in Sunday he could not yet confirm or deny reports of multiple deaths and extensive damage.
Search and rescue efforts are due to begin on Monday morning, he said.
Irma cut a devastating track across 10 Caribbean countries and territories, killing at least 28 people there.
President Donald Trump has approved a major disaster declaration and emergency federal aid for Florida, describing the hurricane as a "big monster".
Some 3m people live in the Tampa Bay area. The region has not been hit by a major hurricane since 1921.
Irma is expected to weaken into a tropical storm over far northern Florida or southern Georgia later on Monday but first its centre will continue to move over the western Florida peninsula, the NHC said.
IRMA pummelting a gas station
Storm surge warnings are in effect for:
The South Santee river southward to Jupiter Inlet
Cape Sable northward to the Ochlockonee river
Tampa Bay
How did it arrive in Florida?
Irma made landfall on Marco Island off Florida's west coast at 15:35 local time (19:35 GMT) on Sunday, with winds of up to 120mph.
After leaving the coast of Cuba, Irma had barrelled through the Florida Keys, a chain of low-lying islands to the south, on Sunday morning.
The whole of the southern tip of Florida has seen high winds, driving rain and storm surges.
About 2ft of water has been seen in Miami's financial district, where one major street resembled a river, but the worst damage is expected on the west coast. Two cranes have collapsed in high winds in the city.
How have residents felt the impact?
At least four deaths have been connected to the storm:
A police officer working at a hurricane shelter in Hardee County was killed driving home when she collided with another vehicle being driven by a fellow officer, who also died
A person died in a single-car crash in Orange County
A man died in Marathon, Monroe County, on Saturday when his truck hit a tree, the sheriff's office said, adding that it was unknown if the crash had been weather-related or not
Some 6.3 million people in the state were told to evacuate before the storm.
As many as 4.4 million homes and businesses have lost power, Reuters news agency reports, quoting Florida Power & Light and other utilities.
There is major disruption to transport, with Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport and Miami International Airport closed for Monday.
Amid fears of debris and reports of looting, curfews have been imposed in areas such as Miami-Dade County.
Irma is the most powerful Atlantic storm in a decade, and has already caused widespread destruction on several Caribbean islands:
Cuba: Officials have talked of "significant damage", without giving further details, but no casualties have been reported. Electricity is out across the capital, Havana
St Martin and St Barthelemy: Six out of 10 homes on St Martin, an island shared between France and the Netherlands, are now uninhabitable, French officials say. They said nine people had died and seven were missing in the French territories, while four are known to have died in Dutch Sint Maarten
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Turks and Caicos Islands: Widespread damage, although extent unclear
Barbuda: The small island is said to be "barely habitable", with 95% of the buildings damaged. Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne estimates reconstruction will cost $100m (£80m). One death has been confirmed
Anguilla: Extensive damage with one person confirmed dead
Puerto Rico: More than 6,000 residents of the US territory are in shelters and many more without power. At least three people have died
US Virgin Islands: Damage to infrastructure was said to be widespread, with four deaths confirmed
Haiti and the Dominican Republic: Both battered by the storm, but neither had as much damage as initially feared
Another hurricane, Jose, has been weakening over the western Atlantic, with swells due to affect parts of Hispaniola (the island split into Haiti and the Dominican Republic), the Bahamas, and the Turks and Caicos Islands, over the next couple of days.
