September 14, 2019

Trump confirms death of Osama bin Laden’s son Hamza

September 14, 2019 11:39 am

US President Donald Trump on Saturday confirmed that Hamza bin Laden, the son and designated heir of Al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden, was killed in a counter-terrorism operation along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.

US media reported in late July and early August, citing intelligence officials, that the younger Bin Laden had been killed sometime in the last two years in an operation that involved the United States.

Secretary of Defense Mark Esper confirmed the death last month, saying it was “his understanding” that Bin Laden was dead, but Trump and other senior officials had not publicly confirmed the news.

“Hamza bin …

Israel’s longest-serving premier fights for his future

September 14, 2019 10:54 am

Benjamin Netanyahu has become Israel’s longest-serving prime minister with right-wing leadership and by repeatedly besting rivals with deft political moves, but he will have to pull another rabbit out of his hat in Tuesday’s elections.

The 69-year-old is fighting his second election in five months with a potential corruption indictment looming.

After April polls, he suffered one of the biggest defeats in his political career when his Likud party along with its right-wing and religious allies won a majority, but he failed to form a coalition.

Rather than risk allowing another candidate to have a shot at doing so, he …

Election tribunal judgment saved me from trauma – Jubril

September 14, 2019 10:03 am

The impostor, Jubril Al-Sudani being paraded as President Muhammadu Buhari in Nigeria yesterday revealed that he would have been traumatised had the outcome of the Election Petitions Tribunal judgment did not favour him and his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC).

The Guardian, Nigeria reports, and addresses the impostor as President Muhammadu Buhari:

President Buhari did not hide his feelings while playing host to a delegation of State Governors elected under the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the State House, Abuja, yesterday. The National Chairman of the party, Adams Oshiomhole, led the delegation

Apparently elated by the

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Nigeria as an Army arrangement

September 14, 2019 12:00 am

By Odumodu Gbulagu

Nigeria as it stands today is simply an army arrangement.
Because of the ban on teaching of history in schools, the current generation barely know next to nothing as what has transpired in the history of our country.
Most of them are comfortable with phones and data abusing people who do not share their views in the name of working for one politician or another.

The history of Nigeria cannot be fully appreciated without taking into account the military incursion in politics. It all started with the January 15, 1966 coup d’etat led by Major Nzeogwu and …