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House Of Reps Member, Olaide Akinremi Jagaban, Passes On At 51.
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The member representing Ibadan North federal constituency of Oyo State in the House of Representatives, Hon. Olaide Akinremi Jagaban, is d£ad.
Hon. Akinremi who served as Chairman of the House Committee on Science Research Institutions, passed away on Wednesday morning, July 10.
He was aged 51 A statement signed by House Spokesman Chairman, House Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Rep. Akin Rotimi, Jr., said Akinremi di£d after a brief illness.
 
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Kano Hisbah Arrests Jigawa Commissioner With Married Woman In An Uncompleted Building
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The Kano State Hisbah Board has arrested the Jigawa State Commissioner of Special Duties, Auwal Danladi Sankara, after he was allegedly found in an uncompleted building with a married woman.
The board’s Director General, Dr. Abba Sufi, in a statement on Friday, October 18, said the arrest was made possible through intelligent tracking following multiple complaints from the woman’s brother-in-law about the commissioner’s alleged immoral activities with her.
According to the statement, “Yes, it is true, we have arrested Auwal Danladi Sankara, the Jigawa Commissioner, with a married woman in an uncompleted building that belongs to him.
Unknown to him that we were tracking him based on reports against him that we received.
Nasiru Bulama filed the complaint with the Kano State Police Command, the Department of State Services and the Hisbah Board, alleging Sankara’s involvement in illicit s+xual activities with his wife.
We have been having problems with Sankara because he is operating illicit dr+g centres in the names of hotels with pros§it¥tion and dr+g addiction activities.”
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Russia Proposes New Round Of Istanbul Talks; Ukraine Pushes For Memorandum
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The renewed diplomatic push comes under growing pressure from Trump and heavy bombardments. Russia has proposed a new round of direct talks with Ukraine in Turkiye’s Istanbul on Monday with the goal of securing a lasting ceasefire, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says, after heavy bombardment of its neighbour and aerial exchanges in the past week. “We hope that all those who are sincerely, and not just in words, interested in the success of the peace process will support holding a new round of direct Russian-Ukrainian negotiations in Istanbul,”  Lavrov said in a statement on Wednesday. Kyiv responded a short time later, saying it had already submitted its version of the memorandum on peace to the Russian delegation. Ukrainian Defence Minister Rustem Umerov urged Moscow to share its version without delay: “We are not opposed to further meetings with the Russians and are awaiting their ‘memorandum’, so that the meeting won’t be empty and can truly move us closer to ending the war”, he said. “The Russian side has at least four more days before their departure to provide us with their document for review,” he added. The Moscow proposal followed a rare meeting between Russian and Ukrainian officials in Istanbul on May 16, the first direct contact in more than three years since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The talks resulted in an exchange of 1,000 prisoners of war each, but failed to produce a ceasefire, which remains a key demand of Ukraine and its Western allies. Moscow has insisted that certain conditions must be met before halting military operations. Vladimir Medinsky, the head of Russia’s delegation, said on Telegram that he had contacted Umerov to suggest a date and venue for the next meeting. “Let me emphasise: right there, on the spot, we are ready to begin an essential, substantive discussion of each of the points of the package agreement on a possible ceasefire,” Medinsky said, adding that he expected a reply from Ukraine. Al Jazeera’s Dorsa Jabbari in Moscow said the Russians had been preparing this for the last few days after a meeting with Turkish officials on Tuesday. At the top of Russia’s agenda is “likely to be a list of demands, about what a possible ceasefire deal would look like. Russia has made it very clear that they are not going to back down by ensuring their security is a top priority,” she said. Al Jazeera’s John Hendren, reporting from Kyiv, added that from the Ukrainian perspective, Russia is making “maximalist demands” by blocking Ukraine from joining NATO, asking Kyiv to withdraw troops from Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine, and imposing limits on the size of the Ukrainian military – all of which Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said is off the table. The renewed diplomatic push from Moscow comes after growing pressure from United States President Donald Trump. Speaking on Wednesday, he suggested that Russian leader Vladimir Putin might be stalling the peace process. “We’re going to find out whether or not he’s tapping us along or not, and if he is, we’ll respond a little differently,” Trump said, likely referring to imposing more sanctions on Moscow as Ukraine’s European allies have done recently. Kremlin foreign policy aide Yuri Ushakov said Trump appeared “not sufficiently informed about what is really happening in the context of the Ukrainian-Russian confrontation”. Trump, who has previously expressed scepticism about the effectiveness of sanctions, said he was reluctant to impose new penalties on Moscow, fearing they could derail the fragile ceasefire efforts. “If I think I’m close to getting a deal, I don’t want to screw it up by doing that,” he told reporters in the Oval Office. Trump warned on Tuesday that Putin was “playing with fire” and suggested “really bad” things would have already happened to Russia were it not for his intervention. On Monday, Trump lambasted Putin, describing him as “absolutely crazy” after Moscow launched its largest aerial attack of the war on Ukraine, killing at least 13 people. It was a rare rebuke of Putin from the US president. In the meantime, Lavrov spoke with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday to discuss preparations for a next round of direct negotiations between Moscow and Kyiv, Russia’s Foreign Ministry said. The ministry said Lavrov briefed Rubio on Russia’s efforts to implement agreements reached after a phone call between Putin and Trump on May 19. Putin previously said Moscow was ready to work with Ukraine on drafting a memorandum for a future peace accord, but nevertheless has resisted any move towards an immediate, unconditional ceasefire. Meanwhile, Germany and Ukraine announced plans to jointly develop long-range missiles as part of their deepening defence cooperation. “Our defence ministers will sign a memorandum of understanding today regarding the procurement of Ukrainian-made long-range weapons systems,” German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said during a joint news conference in Berlin with Zelenskyy on Wednesday. “There will be no range restrictions, allowing Ukraine to fully defend itself, even against military targets outside its own territory,” he added. Merz had announced two days earlier that Ukraine’s Western allies had lifted range restrictions on the weapons they have been supplying. The Kremlin has previously warned that any long-range Western-provided weapons, such as Taurus missiles, striking inside the country would be seen as an escalation. Follow Al Jazeera English:...
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Why This Fall May Outrank Summer As The Years Hot Homebuying Market
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Housing market conditions are moving in favor of buyers as real estate experts see the home buying season shift away from a normally busy summertime into the fall.
With mortgage rates falling this year, the housing market may see more activity after facing a year of elevated mortgage rates and limited housing inventory. Easing borrowing costs may not only tempt buyers, but could potentially encourage more 'locked-in' homeowners to put their properties up for sale. 
Anticipated cuts to interest rates next week may drive down mortgage rates even further and more inventory coming to the market could have potential buyers busy house hunting in the coming months, Zillow reports.
“Affordability has improved substantially for homebuyers, and competition among them could extend into the fall instead of fading away as is typical at this time of year,” the report said. 
Several factors were moving in favor of homebuyers, starting with mortgage rates, which have moved low enough to make homeownership affordable again, the Zillow report found. After being over 7% in September of last year, mortgage rates have now dropped close to a full percentage point.
"Late summer may be an opportunity for buyers who have been waiting in the wings for a monthly mortgage payment they can qualify for," said Skylar Olsen, chief economist at Zillow.
Borrowing costs have fallen enough nationally to cut $100 from the typical monthly home payment, down from peak levels in May. Average payments are now less than one-third of the U.S. median household income, the report showed, meeting a widely-used definition of home affordability. 
Another positive sign for potential homebuyers is increased inventory, with 1.18 million homes now on the market—the most since September 2020. Also, 26% of the listings saw price cuts in August which was relatively high for the fall season, the Zillow report noted.
“More inventory is becoming available— enough to improve buyer negotiating power,” Olsen said.
There are opportunities for sellers too, as well-marketed houses were selling at a relatively quick pace of 20 days, almost a week faster than fall sales in the pre-pandemic era. And a third of home sales in July went for higher than the asking price, Zillow reported.
Zillow isn't the only organization tracking improvements in the housing market. A recent report from Realtor.com forecast that the week of Sept. 29 through Oct. 5 would be the best time to buy a house this year. 
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