January 2020

Iran Minister Hints On New Deal With World Powers

January 15, 2020 2:20 pm
Iran’s Foreign Minister, Javad Zarif, said on Wednesday that an existing nuclear deal the country struck with world powers was not dead

He said he was unsure if any new pact agreed by U.S. President Donald Trump would last.

“The United States didn’t implement (the existing deal’s) …commitments, now it has withdrawn.

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“I had a U.S. deal and the U.S. broke it.

“If I have a Trump deal, how long will it last?’’ Mohammad Javad Zarif said at a security conference in New Delhi.

Zarif added that Iran is

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Gov. Wike Knocked For Attacking Traditional Rulers

January 15, 2020 2:19 pm

The recent actions of Governor Nyesom Wike against traditional stools in Rivers State have received mixed reactions from Nigerians on social media.

Governor Wike was seen in a viral video criticising traditional rulers and threatening to depose them over very flimsy reasons. He also called one of the monarchs a ‘trouble maker’.

His accusations have generated mixed reactions from Nigerians on social media.

While others hailed him for having the courage to caution the traditional rulers’ others chided him, describing his action as disrespectful.

NAN was on twitter to cull some of the reactions trailing Wike’s viral video

@M_Wizzo “This …

Remembrance Day: Buhari, Osinbajo, Honours Fallen Heroes

January 15, 2020 2:19 pm
President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday led other top government functionaries, including service chiefs and members of the diplomatic corps to honour the nation’s fallen and living heroes.

The event, which involved the laying of wreaths at the National Arcade, was one of the highlights lined up to celebrate the 2020 Armed Forces Remembrance Day Celebration (AFRDC).

First to lay the wreath was the President, followed by the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, the Senate President, Speaker, House of Representatives and Chief Justice of Nigeria, NAN reports.

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In another

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Killing Of Christians: HURIWA Takes Case To Pope, Trump

January 15, 2020 2:18 pm
The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, said it has resolved to petition the head of the Catholic Church in the Vatican and the President of the United States of America on the spate of what it called well-coordinated armed invasions of churches and Christian dormitories by suspected armed Islamists and bandits that have made Kaduna state the epicenter of these extensively coordinated attacks against Christians.

HURIWA has urged the two global leaders to compel President Muhammadu Buhari and governor Malam Nassir El’ Rufai of Kaduna state, to stop the siege and systematic genocidal killings of Christians in

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Amotekun: Akeredolu Reacts As Govt Declares Outfit ‘Illegal

January 15, 2020 2:18 pm
Governor of Ondo State, Oluwarotimi Odunayo Akeredolu has reacted to the statement by the federal government describing south-west security outfit ‘Operation Amotekun’ as illegal.

In a statement signed by the Special Assistant on Media and Public Relations to the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Dr Umar Gwandu, the government said the establishment of Amotekun is not backed by any known law in the land.

“The setting up of the paramilitary organization called “Amotekun” is illegal and runs contrary to the provisions of the Nigerian law.

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Remembrance Day: Oby Ezekwesili, Fani-Kayode Send Message

January 15, 2020 2:12 pm

A former minister of education, Oby Ezekwesili has insisted that Nigeria lacks ‘shared humanity’.

Ezekwesili said this while felicitating with fallen soldiers in celebration of Armed Forces Remembrance Day.

Every January 15th, Nigeria marks the Armed Forces Remembrance Day, a day set aside to appreciate and celebrate fallen heroes and men and women in the military, who work round the clock to keep the nation safe.

Ezekwesil in her message on her official Twitter page wrote: “I was four when that brutal war started in 1967 and the suffering forced me to grow up overnight, seeing children like me die

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Iran Vs US: Russia Finally Speaks, Warns Of World War III

January 15, 2020 2:09 pm
Russian President Vladmir Putin has warned that a full-scale war in the Middle East would be a “catastrophe for the whole world.”

Putin issued the warning in the wake of rising tensions between the US and Iran and the potential of World War 3.

For Putin, any large-scale militarisation of the Middle East between opposing forces is setting the stage for a global disaster.

Putin noted that “large-scale military conflicts” would be a “catastrophe not only for the region, the Middle East, but for the whole world” that would ultimately lead to “new flows of migrants” to Europe and other

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FRSC, Oyo Command Apprehends 1,775 Traffic Offenders

January 15, 2020 2:09 pm
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in Oyo State says it has arrested 1,775 traffic offenders since the commencement of the on-going “Operation Zero Tolerance” in the state.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that “Operation Zero Tolerance” started in Dec. 16, 2019 and would end on Jan.19.

The FRSC Sector Commander in the state, Mrs Uche Chukwurah, disclosed this in a statement issued on Wednesday in Ibadan.

Chukwurah said that out of those arraigned before a mobile court at Apata, Ibadan, 37 were convicted and six others cautioned and discharged.

She said that the exercise was to

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INEC Reacts As Fire Guts Ondo Headquarters

INEC Breaks Silence On Supreme Court Ruling On Ihedioha

January 15, 2020 2:08 pm
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it has not received the certified true copy of the Tuesday Supreme Court Judgment on Imo governorship election.

The apex court had on Tuesday removed Gov Emeka Ihedioha of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and declared the All Progressive Congress, APC’s Hope Uzodinma as the Governor of Imo State.

Delivering the judgment, Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun said 236,000 votes due to Uzodinma and APC from 318 polling units were wrongly excluded and should be added.

Reacting, INEC National Commissioner and Chairman, Voter Education Committee, Mr Festus Okoye, in an interview with the News Agency

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We Are Dying In Penury – Ex-Soldiers

January 15, 2020 2:08 pm
Chairman of the Nigerian Legion in Cross River State, Comrade Michael Ekok has said that members of the legion are dying in penury.

Speaking with newsmen in Calabar on Wednesday during the celebration of the 2020 edition of the Nigerian Armed Forces Remembrance Day, Ekok lamented what the ex-soldiers are passing through.

He said many of his members are now very weak and well beaten and afflicted by serious hunger, hence cannot feed themselves. He said ailments, inability to pay bills were characteristically what they go through. “We are weak. We need supports from well-meaning members of the public and

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Trump Under Attack For Causing Crisis In Middle East

January 15, 2020 2:06 pm
US President Donald Trump has come under fire for engineering all the crises coming in the Middle East.

During the last debate before the first votes are cast in the 2020 presidential primary, Democratic candidates on Tuesday attacked Trump for pulling out of the Nuclear deal with Iran and for ordering the assassination of Iranian army general, Qassem Soleimani.

Most of the Democrat presidential aspirants promised to stop Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon while vowing to try re-entering the landmark nuclear deal Trump discarded.

The presidential hopefuls castigated Trump for inflaming tensions with Tehran.

Ex-Vice President Joe Biden, Senator

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Amotekun

‘Hisbah Is Okay, But IPOB Are Terrorists?’ – FFK

January 15, 2020 12:12 pm

The former Minister of Aviation, Nigeria, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode has taken to his verified Facebook page to blast the Nigerian Federal Government on their recent declaration which labelled the newly formed South-south Security organisation as Illegal and how they tagged IPOB as a terrorist organisation but discreetly allowed the Hisbah (Sharia Police) to carry out their daily menaces without fear of repercussions.

 

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“Hisbah Police in North West is ok. Civilian Joint Task Force in North West is ok. Civilian Joint Task Force in North East is ok.”…

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