October 2019

UK Police Search Properties After 39 Found Dead In Truck

UK Police Search Properties After 39 Found Dead In Truck

October 24, 2019 6:32 am
British police have searched properties in Northern Ireland hours after launching a major murder investigation into the discovery of 39 dead bodies inside a truck at an industrial park near London.

Officers raided two addresses late Wednesday in County Armagh, which are believed to be linked to the truck driver, a 25-year-old man from the UK-ruled province, according to multiple reports.

Investigators have said the man — named in the media as Mo Robinson from the Northern Irish town of Portadown — was arrested on suspicion of murder and remained in custody on Thursday.

The dozens of corpses were found

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Tanzania Court Upholds Ruling To Ban Child Marriage

Tanzania Court Upholds Ruling To Ban Child Marriage

October 24, 2019 6:24 am

A Tanzanian court has upheld a ruling banning the marriage of girls under the age of 18 and won praise from rights activists.

The High Court in 2016 ruled that laws allowing girls as young as 15 to be married with the permission of their parents, or even 14 with the permission of a court, were unconstitutional and discriminatory.

However, the state had appealed.

“We reject this appeal as it has no foundation,” the appeals court judges wrote in their ruling on Wednesday, giving the government one year to amend the law.

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President Trump Insists On Building A Wall In Colorado

President Trump Insists On Building A Wall In Colorado

October 24, 2019 6:16 am
Donald Trump has made building a barrier to stop migrants on the US-Mexico border a central plank of his presidency, but on Wednesday, he came up with a puzzling new twist to the initiative: a wall in Colorado.The problem? Colorado lies well within the United States, though its large southern neighbour New Mexico does border Mexico.

“You know why we are going to win New Mexico? Because they want safety on their border,” Trump said during a speech in Pittsburgh.

“And we are building a wall on the border of New Mexico, and we are building a wall in Colorado,”

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Anambra Govt To Compensate Onitsha Fire Victims In December

Onitsha Fire Victims Cry That No Donation Has Come To Them

October 24, 2019 6:10 am

Victims and landlords of last week’s fire disaster in Onitsha, Anambra State, have cried out that they have not received any money or donation from many Nigerians who visited the scene to commiserate with them.

The victims who disclosed this when they stormed the office of Chairman of Onitsha South Local Government Area Mr. Emeka Asanya in protest, saying they only got a cheque of ₦1m and nothing more from the Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige who visited the scene last week Saturday.

The spokespersons of the victims Mr. Anthony, Chinedu Okonkwo, and Chief Uchenna Udaegbe who …

Buhari Dismisses Captain Usman As NCAA Director General

Buhari Dismisses Captain Usman As NCAA Director General

October 24, 2019 5:59 am

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday sacked the Director-General of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), Capt Muhtar Usman and replaced him with Capt Musa Nuhu.

This was contained in a statement signed by the Aviation Ministry’s Spokesman, James Odaudu.

The reason for Usman’s disengagement was not immediately known as at press time. He was appointed NCAA boss in September 2014 by President Goodluck Jonathan for an initial five-year tenure that is renewable.

His successor, Capt. Nuhu was Nigeria’s Permanent Representative to the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO).

He is an airline pilot, a safety expert, a quality assurance lead auditor, …

Nigerian Lady Dies After Hospital Rejects Her - Othniel

Nigerian Lady Dies After Hospital Rejects Her – Othniel

October 24, 2019 5:51 am

In a recent tweet, a man named Othniel Anselm narrated how a drunk driver hit his sister and her friend in a tricycle, popularly known as “Keke”, the Keke driver died immediately, however, his sister and her friend were alive and rushed to the hospital.

“The drunk driver whose birthday was on Sunday, confessed to be drunk after celebrating overnight. He survived the accident. The keke driver died on the spot.”

The two ladies were rejected in the federal hospital they rushed them to because it was not the police who brought them in.

“Sissy and her friend were still

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FG Will Reopen Enugu Airport Before Easter 2020 – Sirika

FG Will Reopen Enugu Airport Before Easter 2020 – Sirika

October 24, 2019 5:20 am

The Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, has given assurance that Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu, would be reopened before the 2020 Easter celebration.

Sirika gave the assurance during the ministry’s budget defence before the House Committee on Aviation at the National Assembly, Abuja.

He also promised that the airport would be one of the best in the country at the end of the reconstruction work.

This is a departure from the earlier statement made by the minister that the airport would be reopened in time for the Christmas celebration this year.

Earlier in the month, President Muhammadu Buhari approved …

Peter Obi Has A Share In Obiano’s Failure – G.U. Okeke

Peter Obi Has A Share In Obiano’s Failure – G.U. Okeke

October 24, 2019 5:15 am

Popular transporter, Chief Godwin Okeke (GUO) has said former governor, Peter Obi, has a share in the failure of Governor Willie Obiano in Anambra State.

Chief Okeke spoke, yesterday, during the installation of Pharm Chris Ukachukwu as the new President of Onitsha Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (OCC IMA) at the Patterson Hall of All Saints Cathedral Onitsha.

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He said the in eight years Obi was governor, the people of the state offered him all possible support and because he did well, he was granted the liberty to choose his successor. He …

Atiku’s Son, 22 Others Make Adamawa Commissioner List

Atiku’s Son, 22 Others Make Adamawa Commissioner List

October 24, 2019 5:09 am

Governor Ahmadu Fintiri of Adamawa has nominated Adamu Atiku, eldest son of former vice president, Atiku Abubakar, and 22 others as commissioners.

The list was read out at plenary of the Adamawa House of Assembly, yesterday, by Speaker Aminu Iya-Abbas.

Secretary of the  PDP in the state, Alhaji Abdullahi Prambe, also made the list.

Ibrahim Mijinyawa and Umaru Daware who resigned their position as commissioners under former Governor Muhammadu Bindow’s administration and defected to the PDP to work with the Atiku Abubakar Presidential campaign team were also nominated.

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House Committee …

Evacuation Protocol Activated At American Consulate, Lagos

Evacuation Protocol Activated At American Consulate, Lagos

October 24, 2019 5:02 am

• ‘Strange white powder may be anthrax, other toxic agents’
• We’re verifying substance, says embassy staff member

Visitors at the United States Consulate, Victoria Island, Lagos, were compelled to vacate the main building yesterday following a security threat.

The evacuation, which happened at about 12.20 p.m., was the climax of repeated radio warnings that began a few minutes earlier.

Armed and unarmed security operatives immediately took strategic positions within the premises.

Visa applicants and a group of teenagers who had come for an education programme, were among persons ushered out of the building on account of the development.…

How States Radically Spent ₦2.67tr In 2018, By BudgIT

How States Radically Spent ₦2.67tr In 2018, By BudgIT

October 24, 2019 4:53 am

States expended a whopping ₦4.319 trillion to fund their operations in the 2018 fiscal year, according to a survey by BudgIT, a fiscal governance organisation.

According to the survey released in Abuja yesterday, of the amount, recurrent spending gulped ₦2.67 trillion, while a paltry ₦1.648 trillion was devoted to capital projects.

Capital projects are supposed to touch the lives of the masses.

The survey also revealed that most of the states were grossly unable to realise their revenue targets, due to grossly inadequate Internally-Generated Revenue (IGR); hence their over-reliance on the Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) takings.

It cited …

‘Fintech; Panacea For Exclusion, Funding Impasse In Nigeria

‘Fintech; Panacea For Exclusion, Funding Impasse In Nigeria

October 24, 2019 4:36 am

The advent of Financial Technology (Fintech), a combination of technology and innovative business models in financial services, has gained considerable momentum in recent times, with global investments rising at exponential rates.

It holds the potential to revolutionise the Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) financing, as it can offer unprecedented solutions to deal effectively with the main barriers that SMEs face in financial markets- information asymmetries and collateral shortage.

Indeed, digital technologies, such as online and mobile banking and payment solutions, have had an important impact on traditional SME financing.

They allow financiers to considerably lower transaction costs when reaching out …

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