…“My Testimony; As an actress, I played the role of the bitch and life was all about glamour and glitz, and though I was the humanitarian, I didn’t realise that with CHRIST there are no half measures. But, Today, HE has saved me – John 3 : 16 and like the Apostle Paul – Romans 1 : 16
Nigeria’s opposition People’s Democratic Party senator-elects Tuesday backed Ali Ndume, alleged to have links to a man accused of being a spokesman of Boko Haram, for the ninth Senate president.
Ndume was nominated as a candidate for the office of the Senate president by the Isiaku Elijah Cliff, a PDP senator representing Adamawa North nominates, while Mpigi Barinda also a PDP senator representing Rivers South-East seconded the motion.
Ndume, a former majority leader, lost the poll to his party’s, All Progressives Congress, preferred candidate Ahmed Lawan.
In 2011, a PDP-led federal government charged Ndume over suspected links to a man …
He announced his intention to dissolve parliament in his inaugural speech on May 21 and signed a decree to this effect shortly afterwards.
As some political analysts called the move unconstitutional, several MPs appealed to the Constitutional
Sri Lanka’s parliament Tuesday defied President Maithripala Sirisena and resumed an investigation into security lapses surrounding the Easter suicide bombings that killed 258 people, officials said.
The Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) began hearing testimony from Muslim leaders who claimed they repeatedly alerted the authorities to dangerous radicalisation, a parliamentary official said.
President Sirisena last week asked his coalition cabinet to halt the hearings, which have already revealed senior police and security officials directly under him had ignored repeated intelligence warnings.
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Sirisena sacked his intelligence chief over the weekend after he …
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45. INT. BAR.NIGHT.
KEN and his FRIENDS sitting at the BAR, drinking and happily discussing. And a very PRETTY YOUNG WOMAN passes which obviously stirs UP ATTENTION between them.
KEN
Aren’t you tired of looking at her?
RAY
See who’s talking? Do you get tired of looking at a beautiful woman?
LUCY
Darling, is that true?
KEN
Don’t mind this Philanderer, honey; he’s always talking like someone who’s suffering from Diarrhea of the mouth.
RAY
You’re entitled to say whatever you like but you know something, boy?
KEN
No! I don’t Mr. …
Senator, Ovie Omo-Agege, has been elected as the Deputy Senate President of the country after defeating the former Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu.
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He gathered 68 votes to defeat Ekweremadu who had only 37 votes.…
Unidentified assailants killed nineteen people and wounded 13 in an attack on and around the town of Arbinda in northern Burkina Faso on Sunday, the government said.
Hundreds of people have died in Islamist violence over the past months and more than 150,000 have been forced to flee as jihadist groups spreads across the arid Sahel region.
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Canada will ban single-use plastics from 2021, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Monday, declaring it a “global challenge” to phase out the plastic bags, straws and cutlery clogging the world’s oceans.
“I am very pleased to announce that as early as 2021, Canada will ban harmful, single-use plastics from coast to coast,” Trudeau said, arguing Canada has a unique chance to lead the fight against plastic pollution as the country with the world’s longest coastlines.
Less than 10 percent of plastics used in Canada are currently recycled, he said.
Each year, a million birds and more than 100,000 marine mammals …
Botswana’s High Court, in a highly-anticipated verdict, on Tuesday ruled in favour of decriminalising homosexuality, which is outlawed under the country’s 1965 penal code.
Judge Michael Elburu “set aside” the “provisions of a Victorian-era” and ordered the laws be amended.
In a courtroom packed with activists, the judge emphasised that the current laws oppressed a minority of the population.
“There’s nothing reasonable in discriminating,” he said.
“We say the time has come that private, same sexuality must be decriminalized.”
“It is a variety of human sexuality,” he said.
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The …
Senator-Elect Ike Ekweremadu has joined joined the race to be the Deputy President of the Senate with his shocking nomination to stand for election.
Ekweremadu who never spoke of his intentions in the rundown to the elections was however nominated by senator-elect Chukwuka Utazi, a nomination which he (Ekwerenmadu) accepted.
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His nomination came after the Nomination of Senator-elect Ovie Omo Agege of the APC to stand for the position of the Deputy Senate President.
As at the time of the report, the newly elected President of the 9th Senate, …
Ahmed Lawan, the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, has been elected the president of the Nigerian Senate, he defeated his contestant, Senator Ali Ndume of People’s Democratic Party adopted candidate, also a member of the APC.
Read Also: Anxiety, intrigues as National Assembly picks leaders today
Lawan emerged the winner with 79 votes ahead of Ndume.
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The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr Zubairu Muazu, on Monday paraded 202 people, suspected of involvement in armed robbery, kidnapping, cultism and other related crimes in Lagos State.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the parading of the suspects is part of a renewed crackdown on criminals in the state, tagged “Operation Crush’’.
Briefing newsmen at the Ikorodu Police Divisional Headquarters at Igbogbo in Ikorodu, Muazu said the police had also recovered fire arms, cutlasses, phones and charms from the suspects.
“The command has painstakingly put in place measures to reclaim the destiny of our youths, who …
