September 2020

Timipre Sylva: Petrol Price Should Be ₦181 Per Litre

Timipre Sylva: Petrol Price Should Be ₦181 Per Litre

September 16, 2020 2:10 pm

The Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), popularly called petrol should be sold for ₦181 per litre, if all costs implications are considered and factored in rather than the present pump price of ₦161; the Federal Government disclosed on Tuesday.

The Minister of State for Petroleum, Timipre Sylva, made this known even as he pointed out that Nigeria lost a total ₦10.413 trillion to subsidy between 2006 and 2019, while between the year 2016 and 2019, the Federal Government lost a total sum of ₦2.193 trillion on subsidy.

Sylva was speaking at the bipartite meeting between the Federal Government and the Organised …

Why Uzodinma Must Be On The U.S. Embassy Visa Ban List

Why Uzodinma Must Be On The U.S. Embassy Visa Ban List

September 16, 2020 10:11 am

The United States of America recently imposed a visa ban on some unscrupulous Nigerian politicians who she claimed undermined the conducts of the November 2019 governorship elections in Kogi and Bayelsa States. This move will serve as an open warning to other politicians in the upcoming September and October 2020 governorship polls in Edo and Ondo respectively.

In a confidential list released after the announcement, it was revealed that some well-known politicians like the former Governor of Edo State and ex-National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Adams Oshiomhole; Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje; Kogi Governor, Yahaya Bello and Governor …

WTO angers Trump administration with ruling on China tariffs

WTO Angers Trump Administration With Ruling On China Tariffs

September 16, 2020 8:15 am
The World Trade Organisation has left the Trump administration fuming after it ruled that the United States breached global trading rules by imposing multibillion-dollar tariffs in trade war with China.

The Trump administration argued its tariffs imposed two years ago on more than $200 billion in Chinese goods were justified because China was stealing intellectual property and forcing U.S. companies to transfer technology for access to China’s markets.

But the WTO’s three-member panel said the U.S. duties broke trading rules because they applied only to China and were above maximum rates agreed to by the United States.

Washington had not …

The Igbo Story Behind First City Monument Bank

The Igbo Story Behind First City Monument Bank

September 16, 2020 8:08 am

During the Nigeria-Biafra civil war, many Igbo people fled other parts of the country for the East because they were being wantonly massacred and the Federal Military Government did little about it.

Many abandoned their homes, property and business for reasons safety.

One of those who fled, was a young Igbo architect who had a young Yoruba banker as a neighbour in Apapa, Lagos.

He also abandoned his home and with his family, fled for the East.

However, the young Yoruba banker, while the war raged, rented out his neighbour’s house and kept every kobo for him while he was …

Election Rigging - 3 varsity dons to face trial, 3 INEC staff sacked

Rigging: 3 Varsity Dons To Face Trial, 3 INEC Staff Sacked

September 16, 2020 7:16 am
INEC’s Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in Akwa Ibom, Mr Mike Igini, on Tuesday said that three university lecturers had been confirmed to have been involved in electoral malpractice during the 2019 general elections.

Igini also told newsmen in Uyo, that three officials of the electoral body had also been sacked over involvement in electoral malpractice.

According to him, the three university teachers will soon be charged to court.

Igini, however, did not mention the names of the institutions and the areas where the malpractice took place.

“The lecturers, who were engaged as Collation and Returning Officers during the 2019 general …

Yoshihide Suga steps in as Japan’s 99th prime minister

Yoshihide Suga Steps In As Japan’s 99th Prime Minister

September 16, 2020 7:14 am
Japan’s Yoshihide Suga was voted as the 99th prime minister by parliament on Wednesday to become the country’s first new leader in nearly eight years.

And he straightaway appointed a new cabinet that kept about half of the familiar faces from predecessor Shinzo Abe’s lineup.

Suga, 71, Abe’s longtime right-hand man, has pledged to pursue many of Abe’s programmes, including his “Abenomics” economic strategy, and to forge ahead with structural reforms, including deregulation and shutting down bureaucratic turf battles.

Abe, Japan’s longest-serving premier, resigned because of ill health after nearly eight years in office. Suga served under him in the …

Bill Gates and His Father Bill Gates Sr.

Bill Gates Pays Tribute To His Late Dad William Gates

September 16, 2020 5:49 am

Microsoft founder Bill Gates paid tribute on Tuesday after his father, William H. Gates II., died at age 94 following a battle with Alzheimer’s disease.

Gates Sr. died peacefully at his home in Washington state. In a lengthy blog post, Gates noted the ‘quiet influence’ his father had on his personal and professional development, both in the early years of Microsoft’s rise to global success in the technology sector and later when he played a key advisory role at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Read Also: COVID-19: Delay In Test Results Is A Waste, Insane – Bill Gates

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Trump Faces Tough Questions About African-Americans

Trump Faces Tough Questions About African-Americans

September 16, 2020 5:49 am

U.S. voters had a rare opportunity to ask President Donald Trump tough questions during a town hall event on Tuesday night.

Trump fielded questions ranging from police brutality against Black people to his decision to downplay the coronavirus pandemic and his tepid support for mask-wearing.

Referring to Trump’s campaign slogan ‘Make America Great Again,’ one voter, a Black man, asked the president: “When has America been great for African-Americans in the ghetto of America?”

‘We have tremendous African-American support,’ Trump said, referring to unspecified ‘polls’ and citing pre-pandemic employment numbers.’

Trump claimed …

Barbados set to sack Queen Elizabeth as head of state

Barbados Set To Sack Queen Elizabeth As Head Of State

September 16, 2020 5:15 am

The Caribbean island of Barbados has announced its intention to sack British Queen Elizabeth as its head of state.

It said it would carry out the sack before its 55th Independence anniversary on 30 November 2021 and become a republic.

Governor General Dame Sandra Mason delivered the news Tuesday as she delivered her Throne Speech at the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre.

She said the country is moving from a parliamentary constitutional monarchy under a hierarchy monarchy, to a Republic.

“The peril and uncertainty of the times compel us to reinforce our foundation. Equally, we are challenged to shore up our …

UK Govt Makes Fresh Ban Threats Ahead Of Edo, Ondo Elections

UK Govt Makes Fresh Ban Threats Ahead Of Edo, Ondo Elections

September 16, 2020 4:44 am

The United Kingdom has threatened to ban politicians who resort to electoral violence, ahead of the Ondo and Edo governorship elections.

This was contained in a statement posted on Twitter by the UK Embassy in Nigeria on Tuesday.

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The British government warned that it would seize the assets of such persons and confirmed it would be sending observers to monitor the conduct of the polls in the two states.

‘The UK takes a strong stand against election-related violence and, just as we did in the general election in

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2023 - Northern APC Members Are Laughing At Tinubu – Adeyanju

2023: Northern APC Members Are Laughing At Tinubu – Adeyanju

September 16, 2020 4:06 am

Deji Adeyanju, a popular Nigerian activist, has suggested that Bola Tinubu, the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, will not have the support of members of the party from the core north as he aspires to take over from President Muhammadu Buhari come 2023.

Adeyanju said that APC members from the core north, who are nursing ambitions to become President in 2023, are laughing at Tinubu.

The activist was responding to Femi Fani-Kayode, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, who had earlier attacked Tinubu over his (Tinubu) broadcast ahead of the Saturday’s governorship election in Edo …

Trump says he wanted to kill Assad, but Mattis opposed

Trump Says He Wanted To Kill Assad, But Mattis Opposed

September 15, 2020 5:51 pm

US President Donald Trump said Tuesday he wanted to assassinate Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad in 2017, but that his then-secretary of defense Jim Mattis opposed the operation.

“I would have rather taken him out. I had him all set,” Trump told the morning show Fox & Friends.

“Mattis didn’t want to do it. Mattis was a highly overrated general, and I let him go.”

The revelations support reporting that came out in 2018 when Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward published his book “Fear: Trump in the White House” and which the president denied at the time.

“That was never even …

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