Brazil sacks President for budget padding

 

Brazil’s Senate has voted in favour of permanently removing President Dilma Rousseff from her office, in an impeachment trial set to end 13 years of leftist rule in the country, Al Jazeera reports.

Sixty-one of 81 senators voted against Rousseff on Wednesday after a five-day trial and a lengthy overnight debate.

“Today is the day that 61 men, many of them charged and corrupt, threw 54 million Brazilian votes in the garbage,” Rousseff tweeted minutes after the decision.

In a separate vote senators decided not to ban Rousseff from seeking a public office for the next eight years.

Al Jazeera reported that Rousseff was watching the session from the presidential palace and would speak a couple of hours after the vote at a news conference.

She also said that the case was not expected to go any further as the charges were political, not criminal.

Allies of Rousseff have signalled that they would take the case to the Supreme Court. But several motions filed to the country’s highest court throughout the impeachment proceedings have failed.

Rousseff’s former vice-president turned rival Michel Temer, 75, was sworn in as president on Wednesday until the next scheduled election in late 2018.

Rousseff, from the leftist Workers’ Party, is accused of taking illegal state loans to patch budget holes in 2014, masking the country’s problems as it slid into its deepest recession in decades.

She told the Senate that she was innocent, saying the impeachment trial amounted to a right-wing coup d’etat.

Rousseff asserted that impeachment was the price she paid for refusing to quash a wide-ranging police investigation into the state oil company Petrobras, saying that corrupt politicians conspired to oust her to derail the investigation into billions in kickbacks at the oil giant.

She said it was “an irony of history” that she would be judged for crimes she did not commit, by people accused of serious crimes.

The Workers’ Party under Rousseff and her predecessor Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is credited with raising around 29 million Brazilians out of poverty.

But many now blame the party and Rousseff in particular for the country’s multiple ills.

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Kuje riot: NPS plans forensic test on recovered handsets

The Nigerian Prisons Service would subject handsets and SIM cards that were recovered from the Kuje Prison inmates including a Boko Haram prisoner to forensic analysis, The PUNCH learnt on Wednesday.

One of our correspondents learnt that the analysis would allow the authorities to determine who the inmates had been communicating with while in custody.

The service had seized about 25 cell phones from the inmates on Monday resulting in a riot, which led to the lockdown of the facility.

The officers fired gunshots and tear gas to subdue the unruly inmates.

The NPS’ Public Relations Officer, Francis Enobore, told one of our correspondents that the seized handsets would be subjected to analysis after which a full investigation would commence to determine how the handsets found their way into the prison cells.

Enobore explained that cell searching operation was normal, adding that the prison authorities usually carried out periodic and routine searches of cells, workshops and other places the inmates could hide weapons or prohibited substances.

He said, “The seized objects will be subjected to analysis after which a report would be collated and necessary investigation initiated; that is the tradition. Indicted officers will also be sanctioned.

“The analysis of the phones will help us to know who the inmates have been talking with; this will give you a good lead on the investigation. When you hear cases of riots or jailbreaks, it is usually carried out through unauthorised communication. That is why the CG has made it very clear that he will not tolerate trafficking of banned materials in the prisons.

“Our existence as the prisons service rests on our ability to maintain tight security in the prisons and the CG is bent on ensuring that any trafficking of articles will not be tolerated.”

Enobore added that any officer indicted for bringing the prohibited materials into the prison yard would be sanctioned.

“Am not denying that some unscrupulous members of staff may be involved, but there are so many means through which unauthorised articles go into the prisons — from relatives, lawyers and even our members of staff.

“If you don’t have people compromising standards, where will the inmates have access to these banned articles?” he said.

The spokesman observed that it was normal for the inmates to resist the search because they were always looking out for things that could aid their escape from custody.

“From time to time, we carry out searches and remove these things; there is nothing unusual in finding all these things (banned materials). You are keeping people against their wishes, and it is natural for them to want to look for things they could use to escape incarceration,” he stated.

Meanwhile, the Indigenous People of Biafra has alleged that the Federal Government masterminded the failed jailbreak at the Kuje prison in order to assassinate its leader, Nnamdi Kanu.

IPOB also added that the Federal Government used her secret police, the DSS through the prison authorities and warders in Kuje prison to execute its plans against Kanu.

In a statement on Wednesday in Umuahia, the Abia State capital, by the Publicity Secretary of IPOB, Mr. Emma Powerful, the group said it observed through an intelligent unit that the US Secretary of State, John Kerry’s visit to the North was a plan to teargas those in Kuje prison.

He added that the riot was targeted to make Kanu die a systematic death through a poisonous teargas shot to his room.

The statement partly read, “No wonder, the DSS and prison authority in Nigeria had deals to break so many prisons in Nigeria to deceive the general public to penetrate into Nnamdi Kanu’s cell    in Kuje prison where the leader of IPOB is being detained.

“We also accuse the Federal Government and the DSS of the incessant jailbreaks since three months or more, it was a ground to perfect plans to kill Nnamdi Kanu, there were a series of jailbreaks in the country starting from Kogi State, Nsukka in Enugu State and Abakiliki in Ebonyi State where they killed seven prison inmates in the name of attacks on those who break jail.

“They were on a mood to kill Nnamdi Kanu and claim that he was among those inmates who wanted to run out of the prison.

“We are calling the international community to provide medical experts to examine the health condition of Kanu because the teargas thrown into his cell room was a poisoned one.”

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Chelsea have re-signed David Luiz from Paris St-Germain for £30m

Chelsea re-signed David Luiz from Paris St-Germain for a fee believed to be in the region of £30m.

Luiz passed his medical and completed his return to Stamford Bridge five minutes before the summer transfer window was due to close.
Luiz arrived in London at St Pancras train station ahead of his proposed move and eventually completed terms on a three-year contract.
 
He was in Paris on Tuesday and, when he heard PSG had rejected Chelsea's interest in him, he sought out both PSG's president Nasser Al-Khelaifi and their sporting director - his fellow countryman Leonardo - in an attempt to convince them to let him go.
 Luiz said: "I'm delighted to return to Chelsea. We had a fantastic story during my first time at the club and I want to help the team and Antonio Conte achieve a lot of success.
 "I always had a wonderful relationship with the fans and I am looking forward to wearing the blue shirt at Stamford Bridge once again."
 The 29-year-old Brazilian left Stamford Bridge for France two years ago for £50m, which remains a world record fee for a defender.

Mario Balotelli leaves Liverpool for French club Nice on a free transfer

Mario Balotelli has left Liverpool and joined Ligue 1 club Nice on a free transfer.

The Italian striker spent most of Tuesday on the south coast of France where he agreed to a permanent move away from Liverpool.
Palermo had also expressed an interest in Balotelli who has not played for Liverpool since April 2015, having moved to Anfield the previous summer.
Balotelli joined the Reds from Milan in a £16m deal during a major recruitment haul in the summer of 2014, but has scored only four goals and just one in the Premier League.
He spent last season on loan back at Milan and has made a total of just 28 appearances in two years for Liverpool

BPL Transfer window Officially closed,Deadline Day: Completed transfers and deals.

 
Deadline Day deals
Premier League:
David Luiz - Paris Saint-Germain to Chelsea, three-year deal
Moussa Sissoko - Newcastle to Totteham, £30m five-year deal
Hal Robson-Kanu - Free agent to West Brom, two-year deal
Jack Wilshere - Arsenal to Bournemouth, season loan
Islam Slimani - Sporting Lisbon to Leicester, five-year deal
Enner Valencia - West Ham to Everton, season loan
Alvaro Arbeloa - Free agent to West Ham, one-year deal
Mario Balotelli - Liverpool to Nice, free transfer
Matt Miazga - Chelsea to Vitesse, season loan
Joel Castro Pereira - Manchester United to Belenenses, season loan
Dieumerci Mbokani - Dynamo Kiev to Hull City, loan
Joselu - Stoke to Deportivo La Coruna, season loan
James Weir - Manchester United to Hull City, three-year deal
Lazar Markovic - Liverpool to Sporting Lisbon, season loan
Jason Denayer - Manchester City to Sunderland, season loan
Dominic Calvert-Lewin - Sheffield United to Everton, four-year deal
Pau Lopez - Espanyol to Tottenham, season loan
Juan Cuadrado - Chelsea to Juventus, three-year loan
Georges-Kevin Nkoudou - Marseille to Tottenham, £11m
Allan Nyom - Watford to West Brom,£3m four-year deal
Andre Wisdom - Liverpool to Red Bull Salzburg, season loan
Joe Hart - Manchester City to Torino, season loan
Samir Nasri - Manchester City to Sevilla, season loan
Wilfried Bony - Manchester City to Stoke, season loan
Luis Alberto - Liverpool to Lazio, £6m
Shani Tarashaj - Everton to Eintracht Frankfurt, season loan
Gokhan Inler - Leicester to Besiktas, three-year deal
Lee Grant - Derby to Stoke, short-term loan
Cristian Cuevas - Chelsea to Sint-Truiden, season loan
Franck Tabanou - Swansea to Granada, season loan
Didier Ndong - Lorient to Sunderland, £13.6m five-year deal
Serge Gnabry - Arsenal to Werder Bremen, undisclosed fee
Shay Facey - Manchester City to Heerenveen, loan
Jeff Hendrick - Derby to Burnley, undisclosed fee
Adama Traore - Aston Villa to Middlesbrough, four-year deal
Bruno Martins Indi - Porto to Stoke, loan
Marcos Alonso - Fiorentina to Chelsea, £24m
Eliaquim Mangala - Manchester City to Valencia, season loan
Philipp Wollscheid - Stoke to Wolfsburg, loan
Cameron  McJannett - Luton to Stoke, undisclosed fee
Baily Cargill - Bournemouth to Gillingham, season loan
Mihai Dobre - Viitorul Constanta to Bournemouth
Diego Poyet - Released by West Ham
Sky Bet Championship
Christian Atsu - Chelsea to Newcastle, season loan
Marvin Emnes - Swansea to Blackburn Rovers, loan
Rickie Lambert - West Brom to Cardiff, two-year deal
Saidy Janko - Celtic to Barnsley, loan
Chris Martin - Derby County to Fulham, season loan
Ikechi Anya - Watford to Derby County
Adam Reach - Middlesbrough to Sheffield Wednesday, £5m
Lucas Piazon - Chelsea to Fulham, loan
Aiden McGeady - Everton to Preston, season loan
Lars Veldwijk - Nottingham Forest to KV Kortrijk
Sebastien Pocognoli - West Brom to Brighton, season loan
Alex Baptiste - Middlesbrough to Preston, season loan
Jamie Ward - Nottingham Forest to Burton, season loan
Marnick Vermijl - Sheffield Wednesday to Preston, undisclosed fee
Eunan O'Kane - Bournemouth to Leeds, two-year deal
Emmanuel Riviere - Newcastle to Osasuna, season loan
Richard Stearman - Fulham to Wolves, loan
Lukas Jutkiewicz - Burnley to Birmingham, loan
Cole Kpekawa - QPR to Barnsley, three-year deal
Mustapha Carayol - Middlesbrough to Nottingham Forest, two-year deal
Nicolao Dumitru - Napoli to Nottingham Forest, loan
Rhoys Wiggins - Bournemouth to Birmingham, loan
Gustav Engvall - Gothenburg to Bristol City, undisclosed fee
Jonny Williams - Crystal Palace to Ipswich, season loan
Ivan Cavaleiro - Monaco to Wolves, five-year deal
Adam Le Fondre - Cardiff to Wigan, season loan
Albert Adomah - Middlesbrough to Aston Villa, four-year deal
Rico Henry - Walsall to Brentford, £1.5m
Sullay Kaikai - Crystal Palace to Brentford - season loan
Charlie Mulgrew - Free agent to Blackburn Rovers, three-year deal
Lica - Porto to Nottingham Forest, two year deal
Pawel Wszolek - Hellas Verona to QPR, season loan
Dael Fry - Middlesbrough to Rotherham, loan
Nathan Byrne - Wolves to Wiga
Sam Morsy - Wigan to Barnsley, loan
Sky Bet League One
Andre Wright - West Brom to Coventry, loan
Ben Alnwick - Free agent to Bolton
Cameron Dummigan - Burnley to Oldham, two-year deal
Keshi Anderson - Crystal Palace to Bolton, season loan
Jack Grimmer - Fulham to Shrewsbury Town, season loan
Sammy Ameobi - Newcastle to Bolton, loan
Haris Vuckic - Newcastle to Bradford, loan
Jamie Sterry - Newcastle to Coventry, loan
Marvin Johnson - Motherwell to Oxford United, three-year deal
Danny Lafferty - Burnley to Sheffield United, season loan
Fredrik Ulvestad - Burnley to Charlton, season loan
Tom Walker - Bolton to Bury, season loan
Marc McNulty - Sheffield United to Bradford, loan
Harry Toffolo - Norwich to Scunthorpe, loan
Keith Keane - Cambridge to Rochdale, loan
Tom Anderson - Burnley to Chesterfield, loan
Ryan Colclough - Wigan to MK Dons, loan
Scott Laird - Scunthorpe to Walsall, loan
Kieran Wallace - Sheffield United to Fleetwood, loan
Kean Bryan - Manchester City to Bury, season loan
George Moncur - Barnsley to Peterborough, short-term loan
Sean Murray - Watford to Swindon, free
Ethan Ebanks-Landell - Wolves to Sheffield United, season loan
Ryan Innis - Crystal Palace to Southend, loan
Charlie Raglan - Chesterfield to Oxford, loan
Paul Anderson - Bradford to Northampton
Richie Smallwood - Rotherham to Scunthorpe
Conor Wilkinson - Bolton to Chesterfield, loan
Alex Jakubiak - Watford to Fleetwood, loan
Charlie Colkett - Chelsea to Bristol Rovers
Jake CLarke-Salter - Chelsea to Bristol Rovers
Nathan Oduwa - Tottenham to Peterborough, loan
Luke McGee - Tottenham to Peterborough, loan
James Henry - Wolves to Bolton, loan
Jack Hendry - Wigan to MK Dons, loan
Sky Bet League Two
James Jennings - Cheltenham to Morecambe, loan
Glen Kamara - Arsenal to Colchester United, loan
Kyle Cameron - Newcastle to Newport, loan
Alex Iacovitti  - Nottingham Forest to Mansfield, season loan
Luke Croll - Crystal Palace to Exeter, loan
Alex Gilliead - Newcastle to Luton, loan
Shaun Tuton - Barnsley to Grimsby Town, loan
Paul-Arnold Garita - Bristol City to Plymouth, loan
Dean Lyness - Burton to Blackpool, free transfer
Reece Grego-Cox - QPR to Newport, loan
Zak Vyner - Bristol City to Accrington, loan
Jack Stacey - Reading to Exeter, loan
Tyler Walker - Nottingham Forest to Stevenage, season loan
Dean Henderson - Manchester United to Grimsby Town, loan
Aaron Collins - Wolves to Notts County, loan
Aliu Kaby Djalo - PS Kemi to Crawley
Ulrich N'Nomo - Chateauroux to Leyton Orient
SPFL
Brad McKay - Free agent to Inverness CT, two-year deal
Nicky Clark - Bury to Dunfermline, two-year deal
James Maddison - Norwich to Aberdeen, loan
Joe Gormley - Peterborough to St Johnstone, short-term loan
Juanma Delgado - Hearts to Murcia, loan
Philippe Senderos - free agent to Rangers, one-year deal
Others
Nigel de Jong - LA Galaxy to Galatasaray
Asamoah Gyan - Shanghai SIPG to Al-Ahli (Dubai), season loan
Source: SKYSPORTS