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Missing 18-year-old girl found dead in Tagum City, Davao del Norte

TAGUM CITY — An 18-year-old Grade 12 student who was reported missing on Saturday, April 22, was
found dead in a grassy area here on Tuesday.

The body of Nike Andyriana Kasim was discovered in Purok Pine Tree, Barangay Magugpo North at
around 2 p.m., police said.

According to the victim’s relatives, Kasim was last seen outside a convenience store along Mirafuentes
Street in the same village past 11 p.m. on Saturday.

The victim was a stay-in worker at a spa salon in Seminary Drive, Suaybaguio, in nearby Magugpo
Poblacion village. She was a student at La Filipina National High School.

She was seen on the closed-circuit television footage inside the convenience store wearing green scrub
suit pants and a green puff top off-shoulder dress.

Kasim’s death came as police have yet to identify the suspect in the murder of Grade 1 pupil Monalisa
Pagharion whose decomposing body was found in a grassy area in Barangay Apokon last Thursday, April
20, four days after she failed to come back home after taking her younger sister to a Kindergarten class
at Apokon Elementary School.

Acting Tagum City police chief Lt. Col. Edgardo Bernardo said investigators are looking into a “person of
interest” behind Pagharion’s murder.

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Missing 18-year-old girl found dead in Tagum City, Davao del Norte

tAGUM CITY An 18-year-old Grade 12 student who was reported missing on Saturday, april 22, was found
dead in a grassy area here on tuesday.

The body of nike andyriana Kasim was discovered in purok Pine Tree, Brgy. Magugpo north at around 2
p.m., police said.

According to the victim’s relatives, Kasim was last seen outside a convenience store along Mirafuentes
Street in the same Villiage past 11 p.m. on Saturday

The victim was a stay-in worker at a spa salon in Seminary Drive Suaybaguio, in nearby Magugpo
Poblacion village. She was a student at la Filipina National High School.

She was seen on the closed-circuit television footage inside the convenience store wearing green scrub
suit pants and a green puff top off-shoulder dress.

Kasim’s death came as police have yet to identiefy the suspect in the murder of Grade 1 pupil Monalisa
Pagharion whose decomposing body was found in a grassy area in Barangay Apokon last Thursday, April
20, four days after she failed to come back home after taking her younger sister to a Kindergarten class
at apokon elementary school.

Acting Tagum City police chief Lt. Col. Edgardo Bernardo said investigators are looking into a “person of
interest” behind Pagharion’s murder.
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DICT: Low SIM registration turnout not due to lack of gov’t IDs

MANILA, Philippines — The low SIM card registration turnout is not because of the lack of government
IDs but because of “hard-headed” Filipinos who have a “bad habit” of delaying their tasks until “the
last minute.”

Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) Secretary Ivan Uy made this
comment on Tuesday after the government extended the SIM card registration for 90 more days.

The DICT had initially balked on extending the April 26 deadline only to eventually recommend it to
the President.

Uy said their initial reluctance to extend the deadline had a “very positive effect” since there was a
surge of registrants in the past two weeks with one million a day average from the previous 100,000 a
day.

The low SIM card registration turnout is not because of the lack of government IDs but because of “hard-
headed” Filipinos who have a “bad habit” of delaying their tasks until “the last minute.”

Secretary Ivan John Enrile Uy of the Department of Information and Communications Technology FILE
PHOTO

MANILA, Philippines — The low SIM card registration turnout is not because of the lack of government
IDs but because of “hard-headed” Filipinos who have a “bad habit” of delaying their tasks until “the last
minute.”

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Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) Secretary Ivan Uy made this
comment on Tuesday after the government extended the SIM card registration for 90 more days.

The DICT had initially balked on extending the April 26 deadline only to eventually recommend it to the
President.

Uy said their initial reluctance to extend the deadline had a “very positive effect” since there was a surge
of registrants in the past two weeks with one million a day average from the previous 100,000 a day.

“Kung nag-announce ng extension nang napaaga, hindi tayo aabot ng quota natin. Clearly, matitigas lang
ang ulo ng ating mga kababayan. They’re hoping for an extension kaya we had to adopt a stronger stance
against these extensions,” he said in a Palace briefing.

(If we earlier announced an extension of registration, we wouldn’t have reached our quota. Clearly,
Filipinos are just hard-headed. They’re hoping for an extension so we had to adopt a stronger stance
against these extensions.)

He added that the low turnout of registration is also not because of lack of government IDs but of the
“bad habit of delaying to the last minute the compliance to the law.”

“In the last two weeks, we were averaging more than a million SIM card registrations per day. So that just
goes to show that the issue is not really limited ID or anything; it’s just our bad habit of delaying to the
last minute the compliance to the law,” the DICT official said.

Uy said President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. on Tuesday approved the DICT’s recommendation to
extend SIM registration period because 20 million SIM cards remain unregistered.

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