July 4, 2020

Turkey - Fireworks factory employees detained after explosion

Turkey: Fireworks Factory Employees Detained After Explosion

July 4, 2020 1:27 pm

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s official news agency says three people have been detained in connection to a massive explosion at a fireworks factory that left at least four people dead.

Anadolu news agency reported Saturday that a manager and two supervisors were detained following Friday’s explosion in northwestern Sakarya province.

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Three workers are still missing, and rescue teams continued their search in a forest and fields near the factory. The cause of the blast, which injured some 114 people, was under investigation.

Television footage on Friday showed a large, mushroom-shaped …

Police Arrest Ebonyi NUJ Chairman, Tony Nwizi

Police Arrest Ebonyi NUJ Chairman, Tony Nwizi

July 4, 2020 1:25 pm

The Ebonyi State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists was in the early hours of Saturday shocked to know that its Chairman, Comrade Tony Nwizi, was arrested by operatives of the Nigeria Police Force.

Although details of the arrest remains hazy at the time of this reports, it was gathered that the Police detectives came from the Police headquarters in Abuja, purportedly on the orders of the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu.

He was suspected to have been picked as a result of an undisclosed petition against him from yet to be known quarters.

When contacted over the …

Diplomats Believe Joe Biden Will Repair The Damage Done By Trump

Diplomats Believe Biden Will Repair The Damage Done By Trump

July 4, 2020 1:23 pm

Joe Biden’s election as US president in November would restore UK-US relations, repair the diplomatic damage caused by the Trump administration, and boost the prospects of a transatlantic trade deal, according to European diplomats and trade experts.

The transatlantic alliance between the US and its European allies has been under growing strain since Trump’s election in 2016.

The president’s attacks on multilateral institutions such NATO, his attacks on Europe’s rapprochement with Iran, and his decision to pull out of the Paris climate accord have all tested the long-standing “special relationship” with the UK and other European allies.

The damage has …

Lagos tragedy - Five persons perish in boat mishap

Lagos Tragedy: Five Persons Perish In Boat Mishap

July 4, 2020 12:48 pm

Five people have drowned in a  boat mishap which occurred at Ikorodu area of Lagos, Southwest Nigeria on Friday night.

The incident occurred around 8.00pm on Friday.

The mishap occurred after a 20-passenger capacity commercial ferry with 21 passengers on board took off illegally from Èbúté Ẹrọ Jetty at about few minutes past 8.00pm heading towards Ikorodu, ran into an unforeseen object on the Waterways causing the boat to capsize.

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The immediate rescue efforts deployed saved 16 alive, five dead with one survivor in critical condition.

Following the mishap, the …

9 Nigerians Stopped From Boarding Evacuation Flight

9 Nigerians Stopped From Boarding Evacuation Flight

July 4, 2020 12:47 pm

Nine Nigerians on Friday night were excluded from the second evacuation flight from the United States for flouting Government’s COVID-19 guidelines.

Among them is a family of five, according to Mr. Benaoyagha Okoyen, the Consul General of Nigeria in New York, who oversaw the evacuation activities.

Okoyen told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) at the airport that they were not allowed to check-in after five of them failed to present a negative coronavirus test result.

The negative COVID-19 test result is one of the requirements for evacuation under the Revised Quarantine Protocol of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19.…

COVID-19 May Trigger Prolonged Erection – Experts Warn

COVID-19 May Trigger Prolonged Erection – Experts Warn

July 4, 2020 9:15 am

Medical practitioners have warned that the novel coronavirus may trigger priapism ― an erection lasting longer than four hours.

The scientists made this warning after an unidentified 62-year-old man from France suffered the painful condition while receiving care in the hospital for a severe bout of COVID-19.

His erection was reportedly caused by trapped blood in the penis, which was found to be full of blood clots when it was drained by medics.

Thrombosis or blood clotting has been reported as a dangerous complication in up to a third of coronavirus-infected patients.

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Plot To Discredit, Smear My Image Exposed – Amaechi

July 4, 2020 9:14 am

Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi has called out an unnamed group plotting to tarnish his image by alleging he has a phantom interest in a court case involving the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State.

Amaechi raised the alarm in a statement by his media office, Friday, warning that no one should drag his name into any court matter involving the APC in Rivers or anywhere else as he is not involve in any APC court matter.

The statement read, “We are aware of

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Popular Cosmetic Surgeon, Dr Anu Arraigned Over Botched Surgery

Popular Cosmetic Surgeon, Dr Anu Arraigned Over Botched Surgery

July 4, 2020 9:13 am
Controversial Lagos based cosmetic surgeon, Dr. Anuoluwapo Adepoju popularly known as Dr Anu, has been arraigned before Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos state by the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission FCCPC.

Dr Anu who owns Med Contour, was arrested and charged to court over allegations of a botched surgery she allegedly conducted that led to the death of a patient, one Mrs. Nneka Onwuzuligbo.

FCCPC had accused her of obstructing the investigation by its officers into the case and also disregarding several summons sent to her to appear before the agency and summons by the agency …

Woodberry Olalekan Ponle Faces Separate Charge In Chicago

Woodberry Olalekan Ponle Faces Separate Charge In Chicago

July 4, 2020 9:12 am
Raymond Hushpuppi’s comrade-in-cyber crime, Olalekan Jacob Ponle, also known as “Mr. Woodberry” or “Mark Kain,” was arraigned on a separate charge in Chicago today.

The 29 year-old who was arrested in Dubai last month, was charged in U.S. District Court in Chicago with conspiracy to commit wire fraud.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeffrey T. Gilbert set a detention hearing for July 9, 2020, at 4:00 p.m.

The criminal complaint accuses Ponle of orchestrating “business email compromise” schemes to defraud several U.S.-based companies.

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The schemes resulted in attempted or actual …

Southern Kaduna Crisis: NAF Deploys 32 Special Forces

Nigerian Air Force Receives Spy ATR-42 Aircraft

July 4, 2020 9:10 am

The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has taken delivery of another reactivated aircraft, an ATR-42 (NAF 930) for Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) in its fight against insurgency.

Air Commodore Ibikunle Daramola, NAF Director of Relations and Information, who made this known in a statement in Abuja, said that NAF took delivery of the aircraft on Friday.

Daramola said that the effort was in furtherance of NAF’s sustained efforts at ensuring the availability of more serviceable ISR platforms for the prosecution of war against insurgency and other forms of criminality in the country.

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Hushpuppi’s Trial Suspended Till March 2021

Football Fans React To Hushpuppi’s Attempt To Dupe EPL Club

July 4, 2020 7:50 am

Football fans took to social media on Friday after Ramon Olorunwa Abbas a.k.a. “Ray Hushpuppi” was accused of conspiring to steal £100 million from an unnamed Premier League club in the UK.

The Nigerian 37-year-old, who resides in Dubai, is known for posting photographs of luxury cars and five-star hotels on Instagram.

Abbas was arrested in UAE last month and then extradited to the US when FBI agents obtained custody of Abbas, who faces charges of conspiring to engage in money laundering that is alleged in a criminal complaint filed on June 25.

He made his initial court appearance in …

Canada’s Banks Join Campaign To Boycott Facebook

Canada’s Banks Join Campaign To Boycott Facebook

July 4, 2020 7:50 am

Canada’s biggest lenders confirmed on Friday they had joined a widespread boycott of Facebook Inc. begun by U.S. civil rights groups.

The groups are seeking to pressure the world’s largest social media platform to take concrete steps to block hate speech.

More than 400 brands have pulled advertising on Facebook in response to the “Stop Hate for Profit” campaign, begun after the death of George Floyd, a Black man who died in police custody in Minneapolis on May 25.

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Among Canadian lenders who have vowed to pause advertising on Facebook …

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