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Justin Rose captures US Open

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ARDMORE, Pennsylvania (AFP) – Justin Rose became the first Englishman to win the US Open since Tony Jacklin in 1970 with a tension-packed par-70 final round Sunday that delivered his long-sought first major title.

Rose, who also became England’s first major champion since Nick Faldo at the 1996 Masters, finished 72 holes on one-over 281 to defeat US star Phil Mickelson and Australian Jason Day by two strokes at formidable Merion Golf club.

Rose, a 32-year-old who was born in South Africa, clung to a one-shot lead when he put his 18th-hole tee shot in the fairway near a plaque where legend Ben Hogan hit a famed one-iron shot to seal a 1950 US Open victory at Merion.

Justin Rose of England kisses the trophy after winning the US Open during the fourth round at Merion Golf Club June 16, 2013 in Ardmore, Pennsylvania. AFP

Justin Rose of England kisses the trophy after winning the US Open during the fourth round at Merion Golf Club June 16, 2013 in Ardmore, Pennsylvania. AFP

“When I saw my shot lying in the fairway, I thought, ‘This is my moment,’” Rose said. “I’ve seen the Hogan photograph a million times and now it was me hitting the shot. I hit a 2-iron into the green and it all worked out.”

The ball rolled to the back edge of the green and Rose used a hybrid to knock the ball an inch from the cup and tapped in for par to take the clubhouse lead, although his triumph was not yet secure.

Mickelson, the three-time Masters champion who sought his first US Open title after five runner-up efforts, came to 18 needing a birdie on his 43rd birthday to force an 18-hole Monday playoff with Rose.

No player in the third or fourth rounds had managed a birdie at the fiendish finishing hole and the US left-hander did not help his chances when his tee shot found the left rough and his approach was short of the elevated green.

Phil Mickelson: misses the 18th hole

Phil Mickelson: misses the 18th hole

When Mickelson’s third shot sped inches to the right of the cup, Rose had his long-sought win in his 37th major start and on Father’s Day.

“For it all to work out for me, it was such an emotional day, I couldn’t help but look up at the heavens and think my old dad had something to do with it,” Rose said.

Rose had received an encouraging and prophetic e-mail message from pal Adam Scott after the Aussie won his first major title two months ago at the Masters, saying, “You’re time is coming soon.” It could not have come any sooner.

“He is a wise man,” Rose said.

Rose, 32, produced his best prior major finish of third at last year’s PGA Championship, although he might have been best known for his share of fourth at the 1998 British Open as a teen amateur.

Mickelson took a closing bogey and finished in a share of second with Australia’s Jason Day on 283 after a closing 74, his result giving him a sixth runner-up finish at the US Open after 1999, 2002, 2004, 2006 and 2009.

“For me it’s very heartbreaking,” Mickelson said. “This week, I thought, was my best opportunity. This is probably the toughest for me because at 42, to be so close, you know, it was really set up for me.”

Mickelson, who made a stunning eagle at the 10th from 76 yards, lamented numerous birdie chances that went wanting, notably lipouts on the first two holes, and double bogeys at the third and fifth.

“I should have made bogeys at those holes where I made doubles,” he said.

Reigning British Open champion Ernie Els of South Africa shared fourth on 285 with Americans Jason Dufner, Billy Horschel and Hunter Mahan. England’s Luke Donald and American Steve Stricker shared eighth on 286.

The back-nine title hunt came down to Mickelson, Rose, Day and Mahan.

Rose missed a 13-foot par putt at the 16th and fell into a share of the lead at one-over with Mickelson and Mahan with Day only one shot back.

At the 15th, Mickelson botched a wedge and he and Mahan each missed long par putts. Mickelson made a two-footer for bogey but Mahan missed from three feet and made double bogey.

Day, the 2011 US Open and Masters runner-up, missed a four-footer for par at the 18th and that left him with a final-round 71 in the clubhouse on 283, level with Mahan but one back of Mickelson and two adrift of Rose.

Mahan took a bogey at 17 and only Mickelson could deny Rose from there, but instead, he found only heartache.

World number one Tiger Woods fired a 74 to finish on 13-over 293 — his worst 72-hole US Open score over par as a professional — and shared 32nd.

“It was a very good week overall,” Woods said. “I’m just sorry the golf was not where I would have liked it to be.”

Donald hit a woman with his tee shot at the third hole on his way to a bogey and was undone after that, with four more bogeys and a double bogey on the rest of the front nine alone.

Stricker, who at 46 would have been the oldest champion in US Open history, went out of bounds off the second tee and shanked his approach on the way to a triple-bogey eight, a career worst one-hole score that helped doom his dream.

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Kano Transfers Over 1,000 Almajiris To Different States Amidst COVID-19 Pandemic

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The Kano State Government on Saturday said it has transferred 1,098 ‘almajiris’ to different states of the country.

The commissioner for local government, Murtala Garo, disclosed this while presenting a report before the state’s task force on COVID-19 at the government house, Kano.

Almajiris are children who are supposed to be learning Islamic studies while living with their Islamic teachers. Majority of them, however, end up begging on the streets of Northern Nigeria. They constitute a large number of Nigeria’s over 10 million out-of-school children.

Mr Garo said the Kano government transported 419 almajiris to Katsina, 524 to Jigawa and 155 to Kaduna. He said all of them tested negative for coronavirus before leaving the Kano State.

Despite the coronavirus test done in Kano for the almajiris, the Jigawa government earlier said it would quarantine for two weeks all the almajiris that recently arrived from Kano.

Mr Garo said another 100 almajiris scheduled to be taken to Bauchi State also tested negative to COVID-19.

In a remark, Governor Abdullahi Ganduje said the COVID-19 situation in Kano was getting worse. He appealed for a collaborative effort to curtail the spread of the virus in the state.

Mr Ganduje, who commended residents for complying with the lockdown imposed in the state, said the decision was taken to halt the spread of the virus.

Kano State, as of Saturday night, has 77 coronavirus cases, according to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control.

The decision to transfer the Kano almajiris is part of the agreement reached between Northern governors that almajiris in each state be transferred to their states of origin.

However, even before the latest agreement by the governors, the Kano government had been transferring almajiris to other states and neighbouring countries after it banned street begging in the state, most populous in Northern Nigeria.

Despite the transfers, however, no concrete step has been taken to ensure such children do not return to Kano streets as there is freedom of movement across Nigeria although interstate travel was recently banned to check the spread of the coronavirus.

 

Sourced From: Premium Times Nigeria

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COVID-19: ‘Bakassi Boys’ Foil Attempt To Smuggle 24 Women Into Abia In Container

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Operatives of the Abia State Vigilante Service, AVS, popularly known as ‘Bakassi Boys’ have arrested 24 market women hidden in a container truck, at Ekwereazu Ngwa, the boundary community between Abia and Akwa Ibom states.

The market women, said to be  from Akwa Ibom State, were on their way to Aba, when they were arrested with the truck driver and two of his conductors for violating the lockdown order by the state government.

Driver of the truck, Moses Asuquo, claimed he was going to Aba to purchase stock fish, but decided to assist the market women, because they were stranded.

A vigilante source told Sunday Vanguard that the vehicle was impounded while the market women were sent back to Akwa Ibom State.

Commissioner for Home Land Security, Prince Dan Okoli, who confirmed the incident, said that  smuggling of people into the state poses great threat to the state government’s efforts to contain the spread of COVID- 19.

 

Sourced From: Vanguard News

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Woman Kills Her Maid Over Salary Request

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Operatives of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (SCIID), Yaba of the Lagos State police command have arrested one Mrs Nene Steve for allegedly killing her maid, Joy Adole

The maid was allegedly beaten to death by Nene for requesting for her salary at their residence located at 18, Ogundola Street, Bariga area in Lagos.

Narrating the incident, Philips Ejeh, an elder brother to the deceased said that he was sad when they informed him that his sister was beaten to death.

He explained that the deceased was an indigene of Benue State brought to Lagos through an agent and started working with her as a maid  in January 2020.

‘’She reported that her boss refused to pay her and anytime she asked for her salary she will start beating her.

She was making an attempt to leave the place but due to the total lockdown she remained there until Sunday when her boss said she caught her stealing noodles and this led to her serious beating and death,’’ Ejeh said.

He called on Lagos State Government and well- meaning people in the country to help them in getting justice for the victim.

The police spokesman, Bala Elkana, stated that the woman and her husband came to Bariga Police  Station to a report that their house girl had committed suicide.

Detectives were said to have visited the house and suspected foul play with the position of the rope and bruises all over the body which confirmed that the girl had been tortured to death and the boss decided to hang up the girl to make it look like suicide.

He said: “The police moved on with their investigation and found a lot of sign of violence on her body that she has been tortured before a rope was put on her neck.’’

He added that the police removed the corpse and deposited it in the mortuary for autopsy to further ascertain the cause of the death.

Elkana said the matter has been transferred from Bariga police station to Panti for further investigation while the couple have been arrested and will be charged to court.

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Boko Haram Attacks: Buhari Summons Urgent Meeting Of Service Chiefs

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President Buhari and the Service Chiefs in a meeting. (File photo)

Ostensibly alarmed by the latest killings of dozens of soldiers by Boko Haram insurgents, President Muhammadu Buhari has summoned an urgent meeting of Service Chiefs to find ways to stop the trend. 

He has also dispatched the Minister of Defence, Mansur Dan Ali, to the neighbouring Republic of Chad for an urgent meeting with President Idris Deby and his defence counterpart. 

Knowledgeable sources said in Abuja on Friday that the president is worried by on the deterioration of security situation on the Nigeria – Chad Border that has led to the recently increased Boko Haram terrorism in the area.

The sources which did not want to be named in Abuja said: “Nigeria has a Chad  problem in the Multi-National Joint Task Force (MNJTF) put together to secure the Lake Chad basin areas and repeal the Boko Haram terrorist attacks against all the countries neighbouring the Lake.”

The sources noted that Chad is believed to be having their own internal security challenges and this has reportedly led to their pulling away their own troops manning their own border around Lake Chad,  saying: “That lacuna is being exploited by the Boko Haram terrorists, who go in and out of Nigeria, Niger and Cameroon to launch terrorist acts.  This is a clear illustration of the fact that terrorism is beyond national borders.”

When contacted, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, confirmed that the Defence Minister is going to Chad but said he is unaware of the purpose. 

Meanwhile, the military authorities are said to be in the process of identifying the families of the latest victims with a view to making contact with them. 

Credible sources revealed that it is the reason the president is yet to make any pronouncement on the matter. 

“The President has called an urgent meeting with the Service Chiefs, as well as the fact that families of the latest victims of the Boko Haram are being identified and contacts made before a government pronouncement on the tragic attacks. This, it is understood, is the reason for the silence of the government over the incident,” the source said. 

 

Sourced From: Tribune

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