January 2020

Ghosn Lawyer Feels Betrayal, Sympathy Over Tycoon’s Escape

January 5, 2020 4:21 pm

A lawyer for former Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn said Saturday he felt betrayed by his client’s escape from Japan but still understood his act, claiming it resulted from Japan’s inhumane justice system.

The international tycoon, who faces multiple charges of financial misconduct that he denies, jumped bail and fled to Lebanon in late December to avoid a Japanese trial.

“First, I was filled with a sense of strong anger. I felt betrayed,” Ghosn’s lawyer Takashi Takano wrote in his blog, stating that he had not been informed about the plan in advance.

“But anger was turning to something else as …

Amid Tech Turmoil, Celebration At Global Electronics Sow

January 5, 2020 4:20 pm

The Consumer Electronics Show opening Tuesday offers a chance to showcase the newest and shiniest gadgetry, looking past the turmoil engulfing the global technology industry.

The annual Las Vegas gathering with more than 4,500 exhibitors brings out about 175,000 attendees searching for innovations of the future.

For an industry facing unprecedented turbulence, the hope is that what happens in Vegas does not stay in Vegas after it closes on Friday, but filters into the world where consumers can adopt new technologies for health, communication, transportation, the home and lifestyles.

The show opens against the backdrop of mounting concerns on how …

Trump Says US Targeting 52 Sites In Iran As Tension Mounts

January 5, 2020 4:17 pm

President Donald Trump warned Saturday that the US is targeting 52 sites in Iran and will hit them “very fast and very hard” if the Islamic republic attacks American personnel or assets.

In a saber-rattling tweet that defended Friday’s US drone strike assassination of a powerful Iranian general in Iraq, Trump said 52 represents the number of Americans held hostage at the US embassy in Tehran for more than a year starting in late 1979.

Trump said some of these sites are “at a very high level & important to Iran & the Iranian culture, and those targets, and Iran …

2020: Ohanaeze Youths Task Buhari On Enugu Coal Mines

January 5, 2020 2:18 pm
The Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youths Council Worldwide at the weekend called on President Mohammad Buhari to ensure immediate revamping of Enugu coal mines, rebuild the numerous dilapidated railway stations and train coaches abandoned across the South-East zone.

The group made this known in a statement signed by the President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide, Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro and the secretary General Mazi Okwu Nnabuike and forwarded to DAILY POST in Abakaliki, the capital of Ebonyi State.

Ohanaeze youths also lamented the death trapped nature of Federal roads in the Southeast zone, calling for an urgent attention of the Federal

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Ethiopian Airlines To Fly Directly To Houston From Nigeria

January 5, 2020 2:17 pm

Firiehiwot Mekonnen is the General Manager of Ethiopian Airlines in Nigeria. The airline made history recently when it launched its direct flight from Africa to Houston, Texas, United States. Mekonneh in this interview tells Funke Olaode about the airline’s vision and mission as it continues to break more boundaries

Congratulations on Ethiopian Airline’s recent achievement. What are the strategies deployed to keep this route alive as some airlines open a route and after some time shut it down?

As a company, the management is working tirelessly to continue to consolidate on its service of excellence that we are known for. …

Philippines President Takes Action After Death Of Soleiman

January 5, 2020 2:15 pm
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Sunday directed the country’s military to prepare to evacuate thousands of Filipinos in Iran and Iraq if hostilities escalate in the Middle East.

Duterte issued the directive during an emergency meeting with defence, military and police officials, said Arsenio Andolong, spokesman for the Department of National Defence.

“The sole agenda was how to ensure the safety of our countrymen in the Middle East, especially those in Iraq and Iran as the tension between the United States and Iran rises,” Andolong said in a statement.

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Real Reasons Igbo Should Not Be Talking Of Presidency Now

January 5, 2020 2:14 pm
The Senate Minority Leader, Eyinnaya Abaribe, has pointed out reasons why the South East should not be talking about 2023 presidency now.

Abaribe stated that the South East should be talking about teaming up with others to make Nigeria a better place and not 2023 presidency.

The Abia South Senator in a chat with Vanguard also lamented that the structure of the country was very bad, hence the need to jettison calls for presidency.

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He said: “I think what you are doing now is that you are also creating

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PDP Attacks Govt Over Increase In Electricity Tariff

January 5, 2020 2:14 pm
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, rejected the over 200 percent increase in electricity tariff announced by the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration.

PDP described the decision as “draconian” and completely against the interest and wellbeing of Nigerians.

A statement by PDP’s spokesperson, Kola Ologbondiyan on Sunday charged the Federal Government to immediately rescind the obnoxious and provocative policy and consult further with Nigerians before any such tariff hike.

PDP described the increase in electricity tariff as a furtherance of the fleecing of Nigerians, who are already overburdened and groaning under the weight of high costs, economic repression and heavy taxes foisted

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FG Wants El-Zakzaky To Die In Detention – Shi’ite Group

January 5, 2020 2:14 pm
Members of Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) otherwise known as ‘Shi’ites’ have raised the alarm that Nigerian government is not willing to release their leader, Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky ‘but wants him to die in detention’.

A disciple of the religious preacher and national president of the association of Shi’ite singers called ‘ Ittihadus Shu’ara Harakatil Islamiyya’, Malam Mustafa Umar Gadonkaya made the allegation over the weekend during the lunching of 100 songs in solidarity of the detained sheikh composed by the association.

According to him, their leader was arrested and held by security agents since December 2015, noting that the

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Troops Overrun B /Haram With MRAP, Free More Captives

January 5, 2020 2:12 pm
The Nigerian Army on Sunday said its troops in the North East theatre of operations have tested the recently inducted indigenous Mines Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles against Boko Haram terrorists in recent encounters.

The Nigerian Army Operations Media Coordinator, Col. Aminu Iliyasu, in a statement on Sunday, disclosed that the deployment of the MRAP dealt a deadly blow on the terrorists.

Iliyasu disclosed that recent attempts by the terrorists to infiltrate Michika and Madagali in Adamawa state on Jan. 2 was repelled by the combined troops of 217 Tank Battalion and elements of 144 Battalion.

He explained that the

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Police Reacts To Video Of Its Men Beating Man With Gun

January 5, 2020 2:12 pm
The Police Command in Enugu State has commenced investigation into an alleged misconduct by four policemen which was shown in a video clip in Enugu metropolis.

A video showing four policeman beating a young man with gun had on Saturday emerged online.

In the video, the policemen were seen chasing, assaulting the young man identified as Justice Obasi for refusing to unlock his phone.

It was alleged that the policemen accused Obasi of being a yahoo boy.

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Reacting, the Command’s Public Relations Officer, SP Ebere Amaraizu, in a statement

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Oyo Main Market, Akesan Gutted By Early Morning Inferno

January 5, 2020 10:34 am

Residents of Oyo town in Oyo state on Sunday woke up to the news of an early morning inferno that gutted more than half of the town’s main market, Akesan.

As at the time of filing this report, no one could quantify the worth of property lost in the inferno.

It was gathered that more than half of the market wasl gutted by the fire which started around 2.00am.

Witnesses say only a filling station xlose to the markwt waa spared.

Our correspondent gathered that the inferno consumed almost the entire market as a result of poor response from the

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