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INEC office in Qua’an Pan has been engulfed by fire causing a setback for the preparations for the general elections in the Local Government Area,” the official wrote. “A drunken security man was said to have caused the fire outbreak. The office is completely burnt with all its content ie Ballot Boxes, Generators serviced and filled with fuel, cubicles, newly printed electronic and manual Voters Register, uncollected PVCs, materials for the preparations of RAC and other materials yet to be identified.” The official said a management team led by the Plateau INEC Administrative Secretary, Gbadamasi Rasheed, was on its way to the area to assess the situation. Qua’an Pan LGA is among the six LGAs in the Southern senatorial district of Plateau State. View image on Twitter okwoche ✔ @okwoche INEC office in Qua'an Pan Plateau State completely burnt with all its content ie ballot boxes, generators newly printed electronic and manual voters registers an...

Sergio Aguero equalled the record for Premier League hat-tricks as a rampant Manchester City thrashed Chelsea 6-0 at home to leapfrog Liverpool and return to the table's summit. Chelsea were hammered 4-0 at Bournemouth in their last away league match and Maurizio Sarri's side were taken apart by the defending champions at the Etihad Stadium on Sunday, the Blues suffering their heaviest ever Premier League loss. Raheem Sterling struck in the fourth minute and Ilkay Gundogan rapidly made it four after Aguero's first-half double, with Chelsea unable to muster any response in the face of City's incredible intensity. Aguero, who also hit a treble in City's last home league game against Arsenal, stroked home a penalty after the break to join Alan Shearer on 11 Premier League hat-tricks and Sterling struck late to complete the scoring. Pep Guardiola's side move above Liverpool on goal difference, with the Catalan coach enjoying a crushing victory against a sid...

Latest odds Having lost 2-0 in the reverse encounter at Stamford Bridge, they are  4/9 (1.44)  favourites with bet365 to lay down a marker with a big win here. The Blues have lost two of their last three league matches, and are  11/2 (6.50)  outsiders to strike another blow to the hosts' title bid by pulling off a shock victory. None of the last nine meetings between this pair have resulted in draws, but there are odds of  7/2 (4.50)  available on this one finishing up all square.  Team news Claudio Bravo and Vincent Kompany remain long-term absentees, although Benjamin Mendy could be fit to rejoin the squad as he struggles with an ongoing knee issue. With the luxury of a fully fit squad to choose from, the guests may choose to bring Antonio Rudiger back into the line-up after he was left on the bench for last weekend's 5-0 win over Huddersfield. Big win While their title rivals will be viewing this as a potential banana skin for the Citiz...

© AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro © JUAN BARRETO/AFP/Getty Images Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro delivers a speech in Caracas on February 8, 2018. - Maduro rejected 'one-sided' international forum on Venezuela, after ministers from more than a dozen European and Latin American countries on Thursday called for 'free, transparent and credible presidential elections' as a solution to the roiling political crisis in the country. (Photo by JUAN BARRETO / AFP) (Photo credit should read JUAN BARRETO/AFP/Getty Images) Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said on Friday the U.S.-backed humanitarian aid being stockpiled in the Colombian border city of Cucuta for his country should be distributed to poor Colombians as Venezuelans are not "beggars." The day after trucks carrying medicine and food arrived in Cucuta, Maduro, who has become increasingly isolated internationally, told a news conference that Venezuela did not need the a...

Position Player Club Monthly wage 1 Messi Barcelona €8.3m 2 Ronaldo Juventus €4.7m 3 Griezmann Atletico Madrid €3.3m 4 Neymar PSG €3.06m 5 Suarez Barcelona €2.9m 6 Bale Real Madrid €2.5m 7 Coutinho Barcelona €2.3m 8 Alexis Man Utd €2.28m 9 Mbappe PSG €1.73m 10 Ozil Arsenal €1.6m

He was born in a log cabin and went to school for less than one year. But despite his humble background, Abraham Lincoln became one of the great presidents of the United States. As the 16th president, Lincoln ended slavery and held the nation together during the Civil War, America’s biggest and bloodiest crisis. People often remarked on Lincoln’s striking looks. He was tall and thin with long arms and large hands. Lincoln wore a type of tall hat that looked like a stove pipe. Sometimes, he carried important papers under his hat. When Lincoln was running for president, he grew a beard after a young girl suggested it. FRONTIER CHILD Abraham Lincoln was born on the Kentucky frontier in 1809. Lincoln shared a one-room log cabin with his sister and parents. It had one door, one window, and a dirt floor. In 1816, the family moved to nearby Indiana. Lincoln’s mother died soon after. Lincoln helped his...

The universe contains everything that exists: Earth, the Sun, the stars, galaxies (collections of billions of stars), and everything else in space. People have wondered how the universe got started for thousands of years. Most scientists now think they have the answer. They think the universe began about 14 billion years ago with a kind of big explosion. They call the explosion the big bang. WHAT HAPPENED AFTER THE BIG BANG? No one knows what caused the big bang, but scientists think they know what happened all the way back to the first seconds after the big bang. The brand new universe was very hot and very small. It blew outwards very fast. In the first three minutes, matter started to form. Hundreds of years later, the universe looked like a big ball of fire. You can picture the universe as something like a black balloon with white dots painted on it. The black represents space and the white do...