June 2019

Unfathomable Mercy: A full length TV drama series 16

Unfathomable Mercy: A full length TV drama series 16

June 11, 2019 9:31 am

By Nze Ujunwa MarkAnthony

(All Rights Reserved)

 

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. …

Nineteen killed in attack in Burkina Faso

Nineteen killed in attack in Burkina Faso

June 11, 2019 8:55 am

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.

Read Also: Gunmen kill priest, 5 others during mass in Burkina Faso

Once a pocket of calm in the Sahel, Burkina has suffered a spillover of Islamist violence from neighboring Mali, where an attack on a village on Sunday left at least 95
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Canada to ban single-use plastics from 2021

Canada to ban single-use plastics from 2021

June 11, 2019 8:31 am

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 High Court decriminalises homosexuality

Botswana High Court decriminalises homosexuality

June 11, 2019 8:10 am

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.

Read Also: Gay Rights: Botswana to rule on scrapping anti-gay laws

The …

APC vows to appeal Ekweremadu’s victory

Breaking: Ekweremadu joins race for Deputy Senate President

June 11, 2019 7:50 am

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.

Read Also: I won’t run for Senate again, Ekweremadu opens up

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, …

Lagos police launch ‘Operation Crush’

June 11, 2019 2:13 am

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 …

Ogun Assembly passes motions against false evidence, others

June 11, 2019 1:56 am

Former Deputy Speaker of Ogun State House of Assembly Kunle Taiwo Oluomo has been elected the Speaker of the state’s All Progressives Congress (APC)-dominated Ninth Legislative Assembly.

The 26-member legislators at their maiden sitting presided over by Oluomo has also passed four motions, including two which empowered the Assembly to “move with utmost severity against anybody”, who gives “false  evidence” on any matter being investigated by it.

The assembly has also resolved to treat as “high  crime” and “move with severity against anybody that attempts to obstruct or interfere with witness” in matters before it.

Oluomo, an APC lawmaker, is …

Okorocha: INEC to meet today on Certificate of Return

Okorocha: INEC to meet today on Certificate of Return

June 11, 2019 1:43 am

Except by a miracle, former Imo State Governor Rochas Okorocha will not be part of the inauguration of the ninth National Assembly today.

He will not be among those to elect the leadership of the Senate to which he won election early this year but has not been given the Certificate of Return.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said it will meet today to look at the court rulings on the former governor’s Certificate of Return.

The ninth National Assembly will be inaugurated today and the election of leadership of the Senate and House of Representatives is also expected …

Atiku: I’m appealing tribunal verdict to ensure votes count

Tribunal hears objections to Atiku, PDP petition today

June 11, 2019 1:27 am

•Presidency lauds rival’s withdrawal of application

The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal (PEPT) yesterday resumed sitting 19 days after its last adjournment with the presiding justice of the Lagos Division of the Court of Appeal, Mohammed Lawal Garba, as new chairman.

The pioneer chair and president of the Court of Appeal, Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa, had recused herself from the panel following a petition by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar alleging likelihood of bias against him and his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on account of the judge being married to an All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain.

A platform that sponsored Jubril (President …

Struggling begins for ₦10b N/Assembly supply contracts

Anxiety, intrigues as National Assembly picks leaders today

June 11, 2019 1:07 am
The opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) held a series of meetings yesterday night aimed at advising its lawmakers on whom to vote for ahead of today’s election of presiding officers of the National Assembly.

The first meeting, between the party’s leadership and its 16 governors, was held at the Bayelsa State governor’s lodge. Thereafter, they all proceeded to the Rivers State governors lodge in Asokoro, Abuja, where an enlarged caucus meeting involving all senators-elect was held.

Invitations to all the meetings were sent out as early as Monday morning.

This was as the deputy minority leader of the Eighth Senate,

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