February 28, 2020

Turkey-Russia Tensions Soar After Deadly Syria Strike

February 28, 2020 5:02 pm

The leaders of Russia and Turkey held crisis talks Friday after 33 Turkish soldiers died in a regime air strike in Syria, prompting President Donald Trump to urge an end to the Moscow-backed Syrian offensive against rebel holdouts.

The attack by Syrian forces took place late Thursday in the northwestern province of Idlib, where President Bashar al-Assad is waging a fierce campaign to oust rebels from their last stronghold.

Trump “condemned” the attack on Turkey’s troops and joined his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan in calling jointly on Russia and Syria to “halt” the Idlib operation, the White House said.…

Mexico Court Jails Man Over Murder Of Journalist Valdez

February 28, 2020 5:01 pm

One of the murderers of acclaimed journalist and AFP contributor Javier Valdez Cardenas was sentenced Thursday to 14 years and eight months in prison by a Mexican court.

Heriberto Picos Barraza, nicknamed “El Koala”, was one of the perpetrators of the crime committed in the northwestern city of Cualiacan in May 2017, according to the prosecution.

He had served as a driver for two men, Juan Francisco Picos Barrueto and Luis Idelfonso Sanchez, who shot Valdez outside his office.

A co-founder of the weekly newspaper Riodoce, Valdez, 50, was one of the most prominent chroniclers of Mexico’s deadly drug …

FIFA Warns Coronavirus Could Postpone Intl Matches

February 28, 2020 5:01 pm

FIFA president Gianni Infantino has refused to rule out postponing international football matches in response to the escalating global threat of the coronavirus.

This weekend’s matches in the leading two divisions in Switzerland, where football’s global governing body FIFA has its headquarters, were postponed on Friday after the government banned all events involving more than a thousand people.

Meanwhile five Serie A games in Italy will be played behind closed doors, with leagues in Japan and South Korea postponed earlier this week.

“The health of persons is much more important than any football game,” said Infantino as he arrived …

Tiger To Skip Bay Hill With Stiff Back As Masters Looms

February 28, 2020 5:00 pm

Reigning Masters champion Tiger Woods will skip next week’s Arnold Palmer Invitational to rest a stiff back and continue preparations for Augusta National, according to multiple reports Friday.

ESPN and Golf Digest reported that the 15-time major winner will not compete at Bay Hill, a course where he has captured eight titles.

“He’s not going to play,” Woods’s agent, Mark Steinberg, told ESPN. “Back still stiff and just not quite ready.”

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Woods, 44, felt back stiffness at Riviera two weeks ago, saying it was his new normal after multiple …

Cyclists Await Test Results After Covid-19 Hits UAE Tour

February 28, 2020 5:00 pm
Cyclists including Britain’s Chris Froome awaited the results of coronavirus tests from their hotel lockdown Friday, after the UAE Tour was abandoned when two Italian staff members tested positive.“The decision has been taken to ensure protection of all the race’s participants,” the UAE Tour organising committee said in a statement.

It said the United Arab Emirates health ministry would screen all the race’s participants, administrative staff and organisers, and adopt measures “including quarantine” to prevent the spread of the disease.

“It’s a shame that the #UAETour has been cancelled but public health must come first,” tweeted Froome, a four-time …

Coronavirus: Why Lagosians Do Not Need To Fear – Obasa

February 28, 2020 1:53 pm

Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, on Friday, called for calm among residents of the state following the detection of the first case of Coronavirus brought in by an Italian.

Obasa said the need by Lagos residents not to panic over the incident stems from the fact that the state government has always been proactive in relation to the safety of lives.

According to the Speaker, prior to the confirmation of the first case of Coronavirus in Lagos, the state government had kept its antennae alert and had constantly enlightened the people concerning the health

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Coronavirus: 28 Persons Quarantined In Ogun – Gov Abiodun

February 28, 2020 1:53 pm

The Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, said a total of 28 persons have so far been quarantined in Ogun State.

Those who were quarantined were those who had contacts with the Italian, who was the first person that tested positive to the coronavirus.

At a press conference on Friday, Gov Abiodun said the state government was leaving no stone unturned as items needed for health workers had been procured so that they can arrest the situation immediately.

Read Also: ‘There’s No Money In Our State’ – Abiodun Tells Indigenes

According to him, the state is also tracing those who

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Edo State,

Thugs Distrupt Federal Lawmaker’s Youth Programme In Edo

February 28, 2020 1:52 pm

Suspected thugs believed to be agents of the chairman of Owan East Local Government Area in Edo State, Andy Osigwe, have disrupted an orientation programme said to have been facilitated by the lawmaker representing Owan Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Professor Julius Ihonvbere, as part of his zonal intervention programme for the people.

The action is seen by many as a fall-out of the crisis in the state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

The programme was a three-day sensitization programme on drug abuse for youths in Owan Federal Constituency holding at the Michael Imoudu College …

Edo Guber: Shoot Me If I Fail To Perform – Aspirant

February 28, 2020 1:52 pm
A 38-year-old Ambassador Dion Osagie, who has declared his intention to contest for the Edo state governorship position in the forthcoming election has, said he should be shot if he failed to live up to expectations if eventually, he becomes the governor.
He said this in his office in Benin City while declaring his interest in contesting the forthcoming election in the state.
“If I come into power and I don’t perform what I said in my manifesto, shoot me, yes, shoot me” he said with emphasis.
Dion who has not disclosed his choice of political party, said he was
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Imo: Uzodinma’s Flawed 388 Polling Units And Review

February 28, 2020 1:52 pm

I strongly feel the pains and anguish of  Imolites whose polling units were among the fabricated  388  the Supreme Court relied on to award 213,456 votes to Senator Hope Uzodinma and on the basis of that declared him winner of the 2019 Imo governorship election. More so for those who religiously undertook their civic responsibility on March 9, 2019, by  going to their polling units to vote for the governor of their choice. The worrisome outcome of their efforts has naturally etched in their minds a lasting devastating impression, which the apex court is fascinatingly set to amend by …

Imo Guber: Anxiety As PDP, APC Await Supreme Court Review

February 28, 2020 1:52 pm

There is palpable tension among members of the  All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as leaders of the two political parties and the people of Imo, await the decision of the Supreme Court on a suit filed by Emeka Ihedioha, seeking a review of the apex court’s judgment on the state’s governorship election.

The Supreme Court fixed March 2 to hear the application, which was originally slated for hearing on February 18.

In a unanimous judgment on January 14, the apex court nullified the election of Ihedioha who was the candidate of the PDP in the …

We’ve Lost Faith In Nigeria, Say Akwa Ibom Elders

February 28, 2020 9:06 am

Elders in Akwa Ibom State, under the aegis of Akwa Ibom Leaders’ Vanguard, have expressed their lack of faith in Nigeria.

Addressing a press conference, yesterday at the Correspondents’ Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, Uyo, the leader of the group, Anietie Okon, said in the face of obvious nepotism, corruption, marginalization and security threat, there was nothing left to be identified with in Nigeria.

“So, as far as I am concerned, the Nigeria I was born into had ceased to exist. We are now groping around either for a rebirth or the end of whatever is Nigeria.…

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