*249 Nigerians Return From Libya*

Another fresh 249 Nigerian migrants on Thurday evening returned to the country with the aid of the International Organisation for Migration and EU.

They arrived aboard Afriqiyah Airbus A330-300 with Registration number 5A-ONR which landed at the Cargo Wing of MMIA, Ikeja Lagos.

The new arrival consisted of 52 adult female, four female children and 10 female infants, 173 adult male, two male children and 9 male infant making a total of 249 returnees.

Mustapha Maihajja recieved the returnees and implored them to be champions of positive change amongst the youths who are still nursing the idea of seeking greener pastures outside the country.

"You should let them know that you're always second citizens outside your country and your rights can be violated without opportunity for you to seek redress at all," he said.

*300 doctors abandon Nigeria*

Three hundred Nigerian doctors left the country in 2016, the National President, Nigerian Medical Association, Prof. Mike Ogirima has revealed.

He said more doctors have already joined the migration train this year. He did not give any statistics, although_ NAN_ learnt that 500 doctors sat for qualifying foreign medical exams to move out.

Ogirima made this revelation at the association’s National Executive Council meeting held on Thursday in Lagos.

According to some reports, an estimated 35,000 Nigerian doctors are practising abroad, out of the_ _ 72,000 registered with the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria_._ The United Kingdom and the United States are the top destinations of the migrant doctors.

In August, an official of the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD), Dr. Abimbola Olajide, revealed that no fewer than 2,500 doctors would leave the country this year.

*DPR sanctions 10 filling stations over price hike*

The Department of Petroleum Resources on Friday said it had sanctioned 10 petrol filling stations in Zamfara for selling fuel above official pump price.

Audu said DPR had visited 35 filling stations across the state in the past one week and discovered that 10 out of the stations were selling fuel above N145 per litre.

"Members of the public should assist us with information on malpractices by owners of filling stations that sell fuel above official pump price, under dispensation, hoarding, and diversion, among others."

The Chairman, Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, Gusau Depot Branch, Alhaji Sirajo Kamba, however, said that the increase in pump price followed a unilateral decision by private depots to increase the price of the commodity.

"Members of IPMAN are law-abiding, we are ready to cooperate with the government and other stakeholders to ensure that fuel supply has improved."

*Accountant General engaging in Paris Club scam cover-up — Ogunye*

A Lagos-based lawyer, Jiti Ogunye, in this interview with TOBI AWORINDE, faults the claims of the Federal Government and the Accountant General of the Federation that expenditure of the Paris Club refund by states is confidential.

"I was shocked when I heard the position of the Federal Government of Nigeria on the issue. I’m a Nigerian and I don’t expect an official of my country at the federal level to say such provocative things, which are not supported by the constitution and the laws of our country.

"My belief is that the government is a legal entity which should not engage in illegal and unlawful acts. If what the Accountant General said is the position of the Federal Government of Nigeria, it would be tragic. Expenditure of government cannot be a secret thing; it cannot be confidential.

"It is not covered by the Official Secret Act. It is expenditure, for God’s sake. It is not personal expenditure; it is public expenditure. Therefore, that statement to us is regrettable."

*China 🇨🇳 investigates attack 👀 on South Korea photographer*

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China says it is investigating an incident that saw a South Korean photographer beaten during a visit by President Moon Jae-in.

President Moon's visit was intended to improve relations, which had cooled after South Korea agreed to have a US missile defence system located on its territory to defend against possible attack from North Korea.

Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Lu Kang said there was "concern" at the injury but added that the event had been organised by South Korea, which had also hired the security guards.

The South Koreans should have "found an equilibrium" between the media's needs and the guards' "professional requirements... [to] sufficiently guarantee the safety and dignity of the people they protect", Mr Lu said.

Mr Moon had his first three meals in China without any Chinese officials present, a lunch with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang was cancelled and he was met off the plane by an assistant minister, unlike other regional leaders, South Korean media said.

*Japan 🇯🇵 court rules father legally responsible 😱 for secret IVF child*

A Japanese court has ruled a father legally responsible for a child who was born after his ex-partner impregnated herself with a frozen embryo without his knowledge.

But he disputed his legal paternity status because he had no say in whether she would be born.

Although the couple had separated a year and a half before the girl was born, they were still married.

But the court in Nara Prefecture ruled that, under Japanese law, the husband is presumed to be the father if the wife falls pregnant during the marriage - and the fact that they were separated did not matter.

The Japan Times reports that clinic staff told the court they assumed both parents consented to the second pregnancy, because they had not requested for the frozen embryo to be disposed of.