June 2019

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

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

June 10, 2019 7:13 am

Botswana could decriminalise gay sex on Tuesday when its high court is due to rule in a landmark case being watched across Africa after Kenya recently upheld its own anti-homosexuality laws.

Homosexual acts are outlawed in Botswana — one of Africa’s most stable, democratic nations — under the country’s penal code of 1965.

An unnamed applicant is challenging two sections of the code that threaten offenders with a jail sentence of up to seven years.

Last month, Kenya’s high court refused to scrap laws criminalising homosexuality, dealing a blow to the country’s gay community that rippled across a continent where …

Unfathomable Mercy: A full length TV drama series 15

Unfathomable Mercy: A full length TV drama series 15

June 10, 2019 2:15 am

By Nze Ujunwa MarkAnthony

(All Rights Reserved)

 

41. INT. CAROL’S RES. NIGHT

In her BEDROOM before going to BED, CAROL kneels down PRAYING fervently for JEFF.

 CAROL

My father and my God, I thank you for your faithfulness and mercies upon my life, Lord I give you praise, ancient of days, I honour you; be thou exalted!

My Lord and my savior, your word says we should seek, we shall find, ask it shall be given unto us, knock and the door would be opened for us; my God, at this hour; I come to you on bended knees …

₦900b probe: Senators, Reps to return fake projects funds

Nigerians insist on NASS to stop ₦4.68b ‘welcome package’

June 10, 2019 1:40 am
Some concerned Nigerians have filed a suit against the payment of over N4.68 billion as ‘welcome package’ to the incoming members of the ninth National Assembly.In the suit filed at the Federal High Court, Lagos at the weekend, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), BudgIT and Enough is Enough Nigeria (EiE), are asking the court to restrain, prevent and stop the National Assembly Service Commission from paying individually and/or collectively, the ‘welcome package’.The defendants are the senate president, speaker of the House of Representatives, National Assembly Service Commission and the Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC).

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Angry Katsina youths carry three bodies to Emir’s palace

Angry Katsina youths carry three bodies to Emir’s palace

June 10, 2019 1:16 am

Angry youths from Safana Local Government Area of Katsina State, Saturday evening, stormed the Katsina Emir Palace with three bodies of victims killed at Zaka village.

The three bodies, all from the same mother, were brought to the palace of the Emir, Alhaji Abdulmumin Kabir Usman and accompanied by the aged mother of the victims

The palace spokesman, Mallam Iro Bindawa, told the youths and relatives of the victims, who came in two J5 buses, to return the bodies to their village for burial.

Read Also: Banditry, kidnappings, and killings in the North

Bindawa told the aggrieved protesters that the …

Oil prices rise on likelihood of OPEC supply cuts

Oil prices rise on likelihood of OPEC supply cuts

June 10, 2019 12:48 am

Oil prices rose on Monday after Saudi Arabia said producer club OPEC and Russia were likely to keep withholding supplies, and in relief that the United States and Mexico averted a trade war that would have damaged the global economy.

Front-month Brent crude futures, the international benchmark for oil prices, were at $63.71 at 0017 GMT, 42 cents, or 0.7%, above Friday’s close.

U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures were at $54.43 per barrel, 44 cents, or 0.8%, above their last settlement.

Read Also: Minister allays fears over 2019 budget oil price benchmark

Traders said crude prices were rising …

Nigeria : A productive place for Cocoa business

Nigeria : A productive place for Cocoa business

June 10, 2019 12:22 am

Cocoa bean or simply Cocoa is a plant product from which varieties of chocolate are produced. It mainly grows in the tropical areas, and brings to mankind adequate benefits both medicinal and for food production.

Without Cocoa, most of the delicious beverages the world enjoy today, wouldn’t have been possible. Sweet chocolate is produced by adding sugar to cocoa powder. And most food and beverage companies rely heavily on Cocoa to make their products.

In medicine, it is used to treat complications of diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol levels, chronic fatigue syndrome, and constipation but getting the cocoa in sufficient amount …

Ex-U.S. President Carter resumes teaching at 94

Ex-U.S. President Carter resumes teaching at 94

June 10, 2019 12:02 am

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter resumed teaching Sunday school at Maranatha Baptist Church in his hometown of Plains, Georgia, on Sunday after recovering from hip surgery, a spokeswoman for the Carter Center said.

WSB-TV streamed Carter’s lecture, showing the 94-year-old ex-president smiling and talking while seated in a white cushioned chair at the podium.

Read Also: Jimmy Carter breaks his hip, goes for surgery

He was released from the hospital on May 16 after falling and breaking his hip as he was preparing to leave for a turkey-hunting trip, the Carter Center said at the time.

Carter has lived longer …

NNPC reports $226m oil revenue drop in June

NNPC records ₦174.63b petroleum products sales in March

June 9, 2019 2:08 pm

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) recorded N174.62billion sale of white products in March 2019, the corporation’s Monthly Financial and Operations Report (MFOR) for March 2019 has stated.

A release on Sunday in Abuja by NNPC Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, Mr. Ndu Ughamadu, disclosed that the March sales figure is higher than the N168.65billion recorded in February 2019.

The statement explained that the total revenue generated from the sale of white products from the period March 2018 to March 2019 stood at N2,780.79billion, with Premium Motor Spirit, otherwise called petrol contributing about 91.09 per cent or N2,533billion.…

Music producer to sue EFCC for parading him as ‘Yahoo Boy

Music producer to sue EFCC for parading him as ‘Yahoo Boy

June 9, 2019 1:50 pm

An Abuja-based music producer and photographer, Mr Nasiru Ali, popularly known as “Kozzographa”, on Sunday threatened to sue the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for wrongly calling him a fraudster (Yahoo boy).

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Ali was among 10 suspected internet fraudsters paraded on May 17 by the  EFCC operatives.

The EFCC personnel raided suspects residence at Favour Land Estate, Life Camp, Abuja.

According to the EFCC, they were arrested following a tip-off by an anonymous source.

The agency said that the suspects would be charged to court as soon as investigations were concluded.…

14.2m Nigerians consumed illicit drugs in 2018 – NDLEA

14.2m Nigerians consumed illicit drugs in 2018 – NDLEA

June 9, 2019 10:55 am

No fewer than 14.2 million Nigerians consumed illicit drugs in 2018, the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has disclosed.

Chairman of the agency, Col. Mohammad Abdallah (rtd) told reporters in Ilorin, at the sideline of sent forth ceremony organised for the retiring commander of Kwara state command, Ona Ogilegwe.

Represented by his Chief of Staff, Femi Oloruntoba, Abdallah said “everybody is alarmed at the with which abuse drugs these days.”

Making reference to United Nations statistics, NDLEA boss said: “The recent United Nations drugs survey put it that 14.2 million Nigerians consumed illicit drugs in 2018. This is higher …

No Going Back On 2023 Igbo Presidency - Ohanaeze

Igbo leaders remind Ndigbo to get ready for self-defence

June 9, 2019 10:35 am

After an Emergency Consultative Caucus meeting in Enugu, a follow up call by Concerned Pan-Igbo organisations for the Igbo to get ready to defend themselves of the threat of impending attack by some jihadist organizations was issued.

The apex Igbo organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo had earlier last week issued such a call to Ndigbo.

Convened by Professor Uzodimma Nwala led Alaigbo Development Forum (ADF), the groups after exhaustive discussions came out with the following decisions:

“That there is obvious agenda of a bloody Islamization and jihad to conquer, occupy, take over and enslave Alaigbo and elsewhere in the Federal Republic of …

Censors Board caution youths against pornography

Censors Board caution youths against pornography

June 9, 2019 10:23 am

Mr Adedayo Thomas, Executive Director, National Film and Video Censors Board (NFVCB), has advised youths against watching and sharing pornographic, violent and other unwholesome video contents on the internet.

He gave the advice on Sunday at a capacity building on film classification and rating for youths in Darazo Local Government Area of Bauchi State.

Over 200 youths, including young filmmakers, were trained by officials of the board as ‘Community Ambassadors’ of the NFVCB against unclassified films and harmful video contents.

According to Thomas, there is urgent need to caution young Nigerians against the moral implications of pornographic and violent motion …

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