June 4, 2019

UN chief pledges support for UNGA’s President-elect

June 4, 2019 11:48 pm

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres yesterday pledged his support to the vision of the President-elect of the 74th UN General Assembly (UNGA), Ambassador Tijani Mohammad-Bande.

Guterres gave the assurance in his statement shortly after the election of Mohammad-Bande at the 87th plenary meeting of UNGA in New York, United States (U.S.).

The president-elect, who is Nigeria’s Permanent Representative to the UN, emerged through acclamation at an event witnessed by world diplomats and government officials from Nigeria.

Guterres said: “It is my pleasure to congratulate Prof. Tijani Mohammad-Bande as President of the 74th session of UNGA.

“Prof Bande, you bring many …

Unfathomable Mercy: A full length TV drama series 10

June 4, 2019 9:25 am

By Nze Ujunwa MarkAnthony

30. INT. KEN’S OFFICE.DAY.

KEN is standing in his OFFICE, in front of a NEW DESIGN he’s making and close by on the STOOL is his LAPTOP that he punches intermittently on the KEYBOARD and a TAP comes on the DOOR and gently, it opens and NGOZI comes in clutching her HAND BAG.

KEN

Hi sweetie! You look splendid.

NGOZI

Why didn’t you show up in church yesterday?

KEN

You mean church?

NGOZI

No! I mean mosque!

KEN

I’m sorry, I was kind of busy that yesterday you.

NGOZI

You don’t need …

Ebola cases in DR Congo break 2,000 mark

June 4, 2019 9:08 am

DR Congo’s health ministry said late Monday that it had recorded more than 2,000 cases of Ebola, two-thirds of which had been fatal, since the disease broke out in the country’s east 10 months ago.

“Since the start of the epidemic, the total number of cases stands at 2,008, of which 1,914 have been confirmed [by lab test] while 94 are probable,” it said in an update.

“In all, there have been 1,346 deaths (1,252 confirmed and 94 probable) and 539 people have recovered.”

The ministry said it was important to retain …

$267m Abacha loot recovered from British Virgin Islands

June 4, 2019 8:43 am

More than $267 million traced to the family of late Nigerian despot General Sani Abacha has been seized from a British Virgin Islands bank and paid into government coffers in an American state of Jersey.

The money was a part of more than $300 million stash the Jersey State government said on its website was “laundered through the US banking system by people including President Abacha’s son Mohammed” during the military regime of General Sani Abacha.

“On Friday 31 May 2019 US$267,751,992.02 was paid into the Civil Asset Recovery Fund,” Jersey State said.

“This fund is managed by the Minister …

Trump forgets own gift to Queen

June 4, 2019 8:23 am

The US President’s memory lapse regarding a gift he’d presented wasn’t the first, as in December his eldest son Donald Trump Jr. confessed that his father was known to be something of a “regifter”.

In a saving face moment, first lady Melania Trump appeared to come to her husband President Donald Trump’s rescue during their UK state visit on Monday when he seemingly failed to recognise a pewter horse statue he had previously given as a gift to Queen Elizabeth II, writes the Guardian.

As the Trumps

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