February 2020

2nd Niger Bridge: work going on on schedule

2nd Niger Bridge: Julius Berger Gives Completion Date

February 12, 2020 5:13 am

Julius Berger Plc, which is building the second Niger River Bridge has given a definite time of completing the project which previous administrations had failed to deliver.

JB said the bridge, now being funded by Sovereign Wealth Fund will be ready in February 2022.

Project supervisor, Friedrich Wieser, gave the assurance on Tuesday when the Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola inspected the project.

He said the work had reached 23 percent completion, adding that they had 1,300 people working on the Bridge while over 400 were on the site already.

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Late High Chief Olu Benson Lulu-Briggs and wife, Mrs Seinye O. B. Lulu-Briggs

Briggs: Widow Urges Family Unity As Report Vindicates Her

February 12, 2020 5:12 am
Widow of late Nigerian industrialist, nationalist and philanthropist, High Chief Dr. O. B. Lulu-Briggs, Dr. Mrs. Seinye O. B. Lulu-Briggs, the matriarch of the O. B. Lulu-Briggs family, while thanking God for her vindication following the release of her husband’s autopsy report, has called for unity among family and community members as well as friends of the family in order to accord her late husband a befitting burial.

The widow’s call was contained in a statement made available to the media following the final release of the filed autopsy report conducted on her husband in Accra, Ghana, which showed …

Late High Chief (Dr.) O. B. Lulu-Briggs

Autopsy Finally Released, Shows Lulu-Briggs Not Murdered

February 12, 2020 5:11 am

The Pathology laboratory of the ISO-certified 37 Military Hospital in Ghana has finally released the autopsy report for revered Nigerian nationalist, and philanthropist, Chief Dr Olu Benson Lulu-Briggs.

According to the result which was released late Tuesday following the orders of the Supreme Court of Ghana, the deceased reportedly did not die a violent death and this rules out the insinuations by some quarters of his relatives that he was murdered.

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The cause of death of the High Chief as stated in his autopsy report was “right lung infarction and severe haemorrhages …

Coronavirus: WHO Warns Of Clusters With No Link To China

February 12, 2020 5:10 am

The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Wednesday warned of coronavirus “clusters with no apparent link to China”.

Giving the warning, Takeshi Kasai, who is the organisation’s director for Western Pacific, specifically cited local transmissions and said all countries in the region should “prepare for the possibility of wider transmission” of the virus, in a statement released by the WHO.

Malaysia has reported 18 cases of the virus, which the WHO has officially named Covid-19, while neighbouring Singapore’s tally is 47, over half of which are local transmissions.

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The Western Pacific Region …

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Pope To Decide On Special Exception To Priestly Celibacy

February 12, 2020 5:10 am

Pope Francis is expected to decide on Wednesday whether to make a limited exception to the celibacy rule for priests, one of the most controversial issues in the Catholic Church today.

In October, a summit of bishops known as a synod proposed allowing married men into the priesthood, only in the Amazon area, to address the serious shortage of clergy in remote parts of the rainforest region.

The pope is due to respond to the synod with an Apostolic Exhortation.

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The Vatican said the document, called “Querida Amazonia” (Dear Amazon), would …

Sudan To Hand Bashir To ICC For Darfur Crimes

February 11, 2020 4:42 pm

Sudan has agreed to hand ousted autocrat Omar al-Bashir and others to the International Criminal Court for alleged war crimes in Darfur, a member of Khartoum’s ruling body said Tuesday.

The Hague-based ICC has charged Bashir and three of his former aides with genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Sudan’s western region during a devastating conflict from 2003.

“Those who have been indicted by the ICC, they have to go there,” Mohamed Hassan Al-Taishay, a member of the ruling sovereign council, said in a statement.

“One of them is Al-Bashir and (there are) three others,” he later told …

Couple Make History With Ireland’s 1st Same-Sex Marriage

February 11, 2020 4:42 pm

A Belfast couple on Tuesday made history by becoming the first same-sex couple to get married in Northern Ireland, following a landmark change in the law last year.

Robyn Peoples, 26, and Sharni Edwards, 27, tied the knot in an afternoon ceremony in a hotel in Carrickfergus, near Belfast, after the new legislation came into effect on Monday.

The legal change followed campaigning by Amnesty International and partner organisations in the “Love Equality” coalition, which hailed it as “a landmark moment for equality in Northern Ireland”.

“We are literally living the dream, it’s incredible,” Edwards, a waitress from Brighton on

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Ultra-Rare Snowfall Carpets Baghdad

February 11, 2020 4:41 pm

Residents of Baghdad rushed to have snowball fights or take photographs Tuesday as the Iraqi capital woke carpeted in white by only its second snowfall in a century.

The last recorded snowfall in the city was in 2008, but it was a quick and mostly slushy affair — and prior to that, it had been a century since Baghdad saw any flakes.

Iraqis young and old said it was the first time they had ever seen snow falling in Baghdad.

AFP / SABAH ARARThe only previous snowfall in Baghad in the past century was a short and mostly slushy
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Syrian Helicopter Downed As Ankara Threatens Damascus

February 11, 2020 4:41 pm

Tensions escalated Tuesday between Syria’s regime and rebel-backer Turkey as a Syrian military helicopter was shot down and Ankara warned of a “heavy price” for any attacks on its forces.

The new flare-up, a day after regime shelling killed five Turkish troops, came as government forces battling rebels in northwestern Syria took full control of a key highway linking the country’s four largest cities.

The advance marked another step in President Bashar al-Assad’s campaign to retake Syria’s last rebel-held pocket, where nearly 700,000 civilians have fled violence since December in the largest exodus since the start of the war.

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British Man Linked To At Least 9 Coronavirus Cases

February 11, 2020 4:41 pm

(CNN) A British man linked to a number of coronavirus cases after traveling from Singapore to a French ski chalet to the UK has fully recovered.

The patient, Steve Walsh, is believed to have infected at least nine other people during his stay in the French Alps after contracting the virus in Singapore. He released a statement Tuesday revealing his name and thanking the UK’s National Health Service for its help and care.
Walsh had attended a conference at the Grand Hyatt hotel in Singapore in late January, hosted by the gas analysis company Servomex, which has since confirmed that
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Fresh Crisis Hits Ohanaeze Over Suspension Of Chieftains

February 11, 2020 4:40 pm

The apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo is in another round of crisis following the reported sack of its Secretary General, Uche Okwukwu.

This is contained in a press statement signed by the National Publicity Secretary of Ohanaeze, Prince Uche Achi-Okpaga, on Tuesday.

He also named the President General of Ohanaeze Youth Council (OYC), Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro as among those suspended.

He said the decision was arrived at during the Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Imeobi held on Sunday.

However, Isiguzoro has carpeted the said suspension, describing it as inconsequential.

He said in a statement signed by Mazi Okwu Nnabuike, Secretary General,

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Governor Makinde Swears-In 5 New Permanent Secretaries

February 11, 2020 4:40 pm

Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, on Tuesday swore-in another set of five Permanent Secretaries in the Civil Service of Oyo State.

The Governor while performing the swearing in, called on the new permanent secretaries to see their appointments as a call to service.

He maintained that the appointments were based on merit and qualification.

The new permanent secretaries include Mrs. Atere Aminat Bamidele, Ministry of Education; Dr. Adeyanju Olusoji Alaruru, Hospital Management Board; Mrs. Fasina Adenike Ayobami, Ministry of Finance; Mr. Segun Ajekiigbe, Ministry of Energy and Mrs. Grace Olabisi Oderinde, Teaching Service Commission.

Makinde urged the new permanent

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