December 2019

Lawan’s Chilling Surrender To The General

December 27, 2019 1:57 pm

The Nigerian Senate under the leadership of Senator Ahmed Lawn has fallen. It has completely surrendered to Major General Muhammadu Buhari and needs to be saved from itself before it does irreparable damage to the meaning of checks and balances in a constitutional democracy. Since Senator Lawan emerged as the Senate President, he has left no one in doubt by his utterances and body language that the National Assembly, particularly, the Senate is an extension of the executive arm of government.

Not many paid attention then when some of his colleagues who knew him well cautioned Nigerians that he was …

District Head Escapes from Captivity

December 27, 2019 1:56 pm

The District Head of Birnin Gwari, headquarters of Birnin Gwari Local Government Area of Kaduna State, Alhaji Yusuf Abubakar, who was abducted last week by gunmen has reportedly escaped from captivity.

Abubakar was abducted at gun point alongside Ibrahim Musa, a former education secretary of the local government on December 18, 2019 along the Kaduna-Birnin-Gwari highway.

The former education secretary was said to have been released following the payment of N3.5 million ransom.

After collecting the ransom paid for the release of the duo, the bandits refused to release the district head and demanded more ransom.

Similarly, the three brothers …

Solskajer Slams Festive Fixture Pile-Up

December 27, 2019 1:53 pm

Manchester United’s Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has become the latest Premier League manager to complain about the “unfair” packed programme of fixtures over Christmas and New Year.

United play their final league match of 2019 against Burnley on Saturday, just over 48 hours since competing for a 4-1 comeback win over Newcastle.

Those matches form part of a sequence of seven games in 21 days that is hard to square with modern notions of rest and recovery.

But such is the commercial appeal of the traditionally congested programme that change does …

Tour Helicopter Missing Off Hawaii With Seven On Board

December 27, 2019 1:51 pm
The US Coast Guard was Friday searching for a tour helicopter with seven people on board that went missing off the coast of Hawaii in “challenging” weather conditions.
The chopper was on a tour of the coast of the northwestern island of Kauai. A boat and a helicopter were sent to scour the area when its owner raised the alarm around 40 minutes after it was due back on Thursday evening, the US Coast Guard said.

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There is an electronic locator on board but no signals have been received, it

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China Denies Uighur Academic Was Sentenced To Death

December 27, 2019 1:47 pm
China denied on Friday that detained Uighur academic Tashpolat Tiyip was secretly tried and sentenced to death after UN experts demanded answers from Beijing.
The foreign ministry said former Xinjiang University president Tiyip’s case was still ongoing and his rights had been “protected in accordance with the law”.

Tiyip was “suspected of corruption and bribery,” foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said at a regular briefing Friday.

Amnesty International said in September that it feared Tiyip, a prominent geographer, faced imminent execution after being “convicted in a secret and grossly unfair trial”.

Tiyip was believed to have been convicted of “separatism”

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Nigerian Police Profile US Policeman As Criminal

December 27, 2019 1:47 pm
A Nigerian working with the police in Washington DC United States Akintayo Akintunde has joined the league of young people that are profiled as suspected criminals based on their looks by the Nigerian police.
Akintunde, who has a braided hair, is attached to the Washington, District of Columbia police. He narrated how the Nigeria police profiled him as a suspected criminal four days after he arrived in the country.“4 days in Nigeria & I have already been profiled as a criminal by the Nigeria police force,” Akintunde tweeted. “I work for the Washington DC as a police officer and I
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How Inmates Make Millions, Build Houses From Prison

December 27, 2019 10:29 am

Inside Nigerian prisons, some inmates are breaking new grounds and making millions of naira by venturing into productive ventures.

The most outstanding are two inmates who took to agriculture and invested their earnings on education and transportation while still in the custodian centres set up by the authorities of Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS).

The two inmates have also become their families’ bread winners with one of them maintaining two of his children up to the university level.

Although the NCoS did not disclose the record-breaking inmates’ identities, NAN learnt that one of them is at the Kaduna State Custodial Camp …

Niger Bridge At Risk Of Collapse, Igbo Group Cries Out

December 27, 2019 10:29 am

Ochie Igbo has raised the alarm that the first Niger Bridge is at risk of collapsing. The umbrella socio-political group of young Igbo professionals lamented that while work on the second Niger Bridge was proceeding at an impressive rate, the current bridge connecting the South East to the South West was being overloaded.

President-general of Ochie Igbo, Dr. Chuks Orji, accused the Delta State Command of Nigeria Police of imposing undue stress on the old bridge, raising a checkpoint at the foot of the bridge, causing vehicles, especially articulated and haulage trucks, to spend much time on the bridge.

Orji …

Nigeria To Renew Gernot Rohr’s Contract With Conditions

December 27, 2019 10:28 am

As Nigerians look forward to the New Year with better performances from the country’s national football teams, the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has revealed plans to renew the contract of Super Eagles Head Coach, Gernot Rohr for another term.

The Franco-German who was contracted in 2016 for an initial two-year contract has been threatening to open talks with other countries if the NFF fails to speak on a new deal for him before the end of next month.

But yesterday, President of the NFF, Amaju Pinnick said in Lagos that Rohr’s contract will be renewed but with stringent conditions that …

Australia: Man Kills 15ft Python Trying To Swallow Son

December 27, 2019 10:28 am

It was dragging him away.

A 15 foot scrub python has attacked a four-year-old boy in north Queensland.

He said screams of his son alerted him when the snake latched on to his son’s leg.

The brave father has told of the terrifying moment he saved his four-year-old son from a 15ft scrub python by killing it with a sledgehammer.

Mr Thompson saw the snake with its jaws locked around his son as it tried to drag the terrified youngster away.

Recalling the ordeal, he said: ‘Clifford was holding onto the side of the boardwalk and it was pulling him, …

250 Elephants Sighted In Boko Haram’s Battlefield In Borno

December 27, 2019 10:27 am

About 250 elephants have been sighted in Borno, close to the borders with Cameroon and Chad by the United Nations Humanitarian Air Service, UNHAS.

The elephants were spotted moving across the forest of Rann, Kalabalge Local Government Area of Borno State.

According to RFI, it is the first reported sighting of elephants in the region since the Boko Haram insurgency began a decade ago.

The report said further that “hundreds of elephants used to migrate through the region up until a decade ago at around the time Boko Haram began fighting to establish an Islamic state.

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Fuel Stations Sell Fuel In Daura Border Towns Despite Ban

December 27, 2019 10:26 am

Despite the Federal Government’s ban on the supply of petroleum products to filling stations within 20-kilometre radius to the country’s land borders, the product is reportedly being sold in border towns in Katsina State, THISDAY  reliably gathered.

Recall that on Thursday, November 7, the Comptroller General of the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, Hameed Ali, had directed that no petroleum products should be supplied to any filling station within 20 kilometres to the borders in the country.

However, investigations by the THISDAY revealed that some filing stations located at the border communities of Daura and Jibiya are having a field day …

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