April 2020

IPOB Donates More Food Supplies To South-East Region

IPOB Donates More Food Supplies To South-East Region

April 12, 2020 10:10 am

Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) opens up on the efforts which IPOB members are putting in to cushion the effects of the dreaded coronavirus and the toll the lockdown is taking on the South East region.

“He shares some videos of the newly delivered food supplies meant for distribution on his verified Facebook page.”

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“The second batch has arrived, third batch will be delivered direct to a location in Anambra.”

“Distribution to homes and families started yesterday and will continue …

Boris Johnson To Hospital Staff - I Owe You My Life

Boris Johnson To Hospital Staff: I Owe You My Life

April 12, 2020 7:17 am

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has thanked staff at St Thomas Hospital for taking care of him while he recovers from COVID-19.

“I can’t thank them enough. I owe them my life,” Johnson said in a brief statement issued late on Saturday.

The 55-year-old conservative politician was hospitalised last Sunday running a high fever.

He spent three days in the intensive care unit after his health deteriorated.

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He was moved back to a normal ward on Thursday.

When the prime minister will be able to return to work …

Meet the Proud Father Who Impregnated His Own Daughter

Meet The Proud Father Who Impregnated His Own Daughter

April 12, 2020 7:17 am

A father has hit the headlines after he had a child by his own daughter who also expresses happiness about their union.

Incest is not against the law in Spain as long as it is carried out between consenting adults, but a father and daughter are appealing after a judge awarded temporary custody of their child to the state pending a full investigation.

The 36-year-old man insists he is in a “unique and loving relationship” with his 18-year-old daughter Sara and that they should be allowed to keep his newborn baby girl who is also his granddaughter.

The man, who …

Wike Makes U-turn, Cancels Easter Services In Rivers

Wike Makes U-turn, Cancels Easter Services In Rivers

April 12, 2020 7:16 am

Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has cancelled the concession granted to churches to hold Easter Church services in the state.

Recall that the Catholic Church in Rivers State on Friday, asked its members to stay safe and observe Easter Sunday at home.

Wike had relaxed the lockdown order in the state on Thursday.

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A statement he signed had said the decision was taken to enable Christians to observe their religious obligations during Easter.

But the Catholic church in reaction said in view of the threat COVID-19 poses, it was better

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Chad 'll No Longer Jointly Fight B'Haram With Any Country

Chad ‘ll No Longer Jointly Fight B’Haram With Any Country

April 12, 2020 7:15 am
President Idriss Deby has declared that Chadian troops will no longer participate in military operations outside the country’s borders.

He said this was as part of National Army campaigns against Boko Haram and armed groups active in the Lake Chad region.

“Our troops have died for Lake Chad and the Sahel. From today, no Chadian soldiers will take part in a military mission outside Chad,” Al-Jazeera quoted him as telling Chadian national TV.

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Deby’s lamented failures by allies to do more in the fight against Boko Haram and

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Ogun Indigenes Call For Removal Of Gov Abiodun

Ogun Indigenes Call For Removal Of Gov Abiodun

April 12, 2020 7:02 am
Indigenes of Ogun State are calling for the removal of Governor Dapo Abiodun, following series of armed robbery attacks ravaging Ifo, Agbado, Ijoko, Sango-Ota, Iju and adjoining communities.

In a video made available to DAILY POST, the people of the areas covering Ifo and Ado-Odo/Ota Local Governments, want President Muhammadu Buhari to declare a state of emergency in Ogun.

DAILY POST reported yesterday that 19 suspected cultists, who have reportedly resorted to armed robbery since the beginning of COVID-19 lockdown, were arrested by the police.

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But, instead

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COVID-19 - Ghana’s High Commissioner To UK Tests Positive

COVID-19: Ghana’s High Commissioner To UK Tests Positive

April 12, 2020 7:01 am
Ghana’s High Commissioner to the UK and Ireland, Papa Owusu Ankomah, has tested positive for COVID-19.

Ankomah has been admitted in the Intensive Care Unit of a London Hospital after testing positive for the virus on Friday April 10.

The diplomat was appointed as the head of Ghana’s Mission in the UK and Ireland in June 2017.

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So far, Ghana has recorded 408 confirmed cases and 8 deaths.

Meanwhile, the global death toll from coronavirus has surpassed 100,000.

The figure, which was released by Johns Hopkins University, said

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Uzodimma Flags Off Distribution Of Food Items In Imo

Uzodimma Flags Off Distribution Of Food Items In Imo

April 12, 2020 7:01 am

Governor Hope Uzodimma of Imo State on Saturday began the distribution of relief materials and food items to the 27 local government areas of the state.

This is part of the efforts to ensure that the global emergency caused by COVID-19 with its attendant economic stagnation does not strangulate the people.

Delivering the items to the Interim Management Committee Chairmen of the various local government areas after flag-off, Uzodimma tasked them to liaise with all political appointees in their domain and ensure that the items get to the vulnerable and less privileged in the communities.

He warned that any act …

Russia Defends WHO Against Trump Criticism

Russia Defends WHO Against Trump’s Criticism

April 12, 2020 7:00 am

Russia has defended the World Health Organisation (WHO) against recent criticism by U.S. President Donald Trump, arguing that the UN body is contributing significantly to the fight against the coronavirus pandemic.

Last week, Trump said the WHO “really blew” its response to the virus by focusing too much on China and giving the U.S. bad advice at the beginning of the outbreak.

In a tweet, he also said Washington would take a “good look” at its WHO funding.

The WHO “is now doing a lot to curb the pandemic,” Russian President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, told state television on …

Notorious kidnapper Shot Dead In Rivers, Guns Recovered

Notorious kidnapper Shot Dead In Rivers, Guns Recovered

April 12, 2020 6:58 am

The Rivers State Police Command has killed a suspected kidnapper, Samuel Nakpoo, who was said to be among hoodlums responsible for all criminal activities along Ogoni-Uyo axis of the East West road.

Kidnapper Samuel Nakpoo who had earlier been arrested and confessed to the crime led the officers to their camp in a forest at Ogu/ Bolo Local Government Area of Rivers State and attempted to escaped but was shot in the leg.

He was confirmed dead at the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital.

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According to the spokesman of …

Assange Of WikiLeaks Had 2 Sons While Hiding In Ecuador

Assange Of WikiLeaks Had 2 Sons While Hiding In Ecuador

April 12, 2020 6:57 am

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange secretly fathered two sons while holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London.

The Mail on Sunday made the shocking revelation today.

It said the mother of the kids, is 37 year-old South African-born lawyer, Stella Morris.

She and Assange fell in love in 2015 at the time he was running away from Swedish authorities and extradition to the U.S.

She had visited him to work on a legal bid to halt his extraditions.

According to the report, the couple got engaged in 2017.

The children are now aged two and one.

When the elder child …

Bangladesh Executes Assassin Of Country’s First Leader

Bangladesh Executes Assassin Of Country’s First Leader

April 12, 2020 6:56 am

Bangladesh has executed a military captain less than a week after he was arrested after nearly 25 years on the run over the assassination of the country’s founding leader, a minister said Sunday.

Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, father of current Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, was killed along with most of his family in a military coup on August 15, 1975,

The assassination occurred , nearly four years after he led Bangladesh to independence from Pakistan.

In 1998 Abdul Majed was sentenced in absentia to death along with a dozen other army officers over the murders.

Bangladesh’s Supreme Court upheld the verdict …

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