October 2020

World leaders condemn deadly stabbings in France

World Leaders Condemn Deadly Stabbings In France

October 29, 2020 5:56 pm

World leaders condemned fatal stabbings Thursday in the French city of Nice that France called an Islamist terrorist attack.

Condemnation came from US President Donald Trump, UN chief Antonio Guterres, as well as European, Arab and Israeli leaders.

“Our hearts are with the people of France. America stands with our oldest Ally in this fight,” Trump tweeted. “These Radical Islamic terrorist attacks must stop immediately. No country, France, or otherwise can long put up with it!”

One of the first to condemn was Turkey, embroiled in a row with France for its permitting publication of cartoons of the Prophet …

Biden Ahead Of Trump In Polls, Pollsters Vouch Accuracy

Biden Ahead Of Trump In Polls, Pollsters Vouch Accuracy

October 29, 2020 5:55 pm

2020 is not like 2016: Opinion pollsters in the United States are vouching for the accuracy of their polls this time around, saying they have taken care of those factors that made them not to predict a Donald Trump upset over Hillary Clinton.

Trump has not forgotten how the outcome of the election left the pollsters looking like fools.

Today, whenever he is confronted with polls he does not like, especially the torrent of national data showing him trailing Democratic challenger Joe Biden in public support, the president’s response is usually the same: Fake news.

Read Also: Trump Lashes Out
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Hold ‘Hitler’ Wike Responsible If Anything Happens To IPOB – Kanu

Hold ‘Hitler’ Wike Responsible If Anything Happens To IPOB – Kanu

October 29, 2020 5:51 pm

Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu has told Nigerians to hold Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike if anything should happen to his members.

IPOB members have been held responsible for the mayhem in Oyigbo, Rivers State where several people and police officers were killed and properties burnt.

Wike had signed into law and executive order outlawing an already outlawed IPOB by the Federal Government.

Read Also: Nnamdi Kanu Calls For Governor Nyesom Wike’s Head

‘It’s highly irresponsible and dangerous for Governor Wike to conclude – without any investigations – that it’s IPOB members that killed ‘security

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Abortion Very Common In Nigeria, Despite Legal Restrictions – Group

Abortion Very Common In Nigeria, Despite Legal Restrictions – Group

October 29, 2020 3:54 pm

The Performance Monitoring for Action group has raised alarm over the high rate of unsafe abortion in Nigeria, despite the legal restrictions around it.

The group through recent research revealed that Rivers and Anambra States top the charts with the highest number of abortions on a yearly basis.

Read Also: No Room For Abortions In Virus-Hit South Africa

Their findings were submitted to the Anambra State government through the state commissioner for health, Dr Vincent Okpala

Unveiling the finding of the group on Thursday, during a stakeholders meeting, the state coordinator of PMA, Mrs Nonye Emene said many women do …

At Last, US Backs Okonjo-Iweala For DG, WTO Job

‘Humbled To Be Declared Candidate With Largest Support’- Okonjo

October 29, 2020 3:52 pm

The Former Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has said she was humbled to be declared the candidate with the largest votes amongst the 164 member states of the 25-year-old global trade organisation.

Africa Daily News, New York had reported that the Former Minister of Finance, would likely emerge as the Director-General of the World Trade Organization, WTO after polling 104 votes from 164 member countries to defeat her opponent, South Korea’s trade minister, Yoo Myung-hee.

Read Also: WTO: Uncertainty As US Rejects Okonjo-Iweala Appointment

Reacting, the Former Minister in a tweet via her Twitter account on Thursday said she …

Lekki Shooting - Soldiers Used Blank Ammunition – Usman

Lekki Shooting: Soldiers Used Blank Ammunition – Usman

October 29, 2020 3:51 pm

Former Director Army Public Relations, Brigadier General Sani Usman on Thursday claimed that Military personnel who shot protesters at Lekki toll gate used ‘blank ammunition.

Usman in an interview with Arise News said the blank ammunition used to disperse protesters has little or no effect on its target.

Recall that the Army had earlier denied that its officers were present at the scene of the shooting.

But on Wednesday, the 81 Division of the Nigerian Army (NA) revealed that the Lagos State Government invited the military to intervene during the End SARS protests.

Read Also: America ‘Triple Confirmed’ Lekki

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CAN Reacts As ISWAP Confirms Abduction Of Missing Rev. Zango

CAN Reacts As ISWAP Confirms Abduction Of Missing Rev. Zango

October 29, 2020 3:34 pm

The Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, has said the body will continue to pray for the release of Rev. Polycarp Zango and other people in Boko Haram captivity.

In a chat with this reporter, on Thursday in Abuja, Rev. John Hayab said it was the desire of the CAN that they were all released from the Boko Haram den.

Read Also: ISWAP Insurgents Take Hundreds Hostage Near Lake Chad

‘As a body, our primary duty is to pray for their rescue and encourage them to have faith in God. We are with them in the spirit,’’ he said.’

He described …

Why Buratai Must Stop Overflooding Igboland With Soldiers

Why Buratai Must Stop Overflooding Igboland With Soldiers

October 29, 2020 12:39 pm

Nigeria is currently passing through turbulent times. This seems to be as a result of the growing culture of impunity, greed, and graft among the political elite, as well as the injustice, inequity in political appointments and the distribution of social amenities. While public officers and their cronies obscenely amass ill-gotten gains at the expense of the masses, the growing army of unemployed youths are daily assailed by deepening frustration as they behold a future that seems to promise them little or nothing.

Consequently, agitations of disillusionment and dissatisfaction are growing louder across the country, especially in the last two …

Nwajiuba, Best Presidential Candidate So Far - Chief Ekeh

Nwajiuba, Best Presidential Candidate So Far – Chief Ekeh

October 29, 2020 10:34 am

Political permutations ahead of the 2023 presidential election are at an all-time high despite the fact that it still remains three more years before the next general elections. The conversation on who takes the baton of leadership from President Muhammadu Buhari in 2023 has been gaining momentum with groups, coalitions, and individuals establishing arguments on where the presidency should be zoned to. But amidst all these, many have agreed that the presidential preference should be allowed to berth within the Southeast region and in accordance to this fact, the question of who would represent the region has been cropped up …

Those Seeking To Void Constitution Should Go To Court – Omo-Agege

Don’t Attack Oil Facilities – Omo-Agege Begs Niger Delta Youths

October 29, 2020 9:18 am

The Deputy President of the Senate, Ovie Omo-Agege, has appealed to members of the Reformed Niger Delta Avengers to halt their planned attacks on oil facilities in the region.

He said going ahead with their threat would create economic setback for the country and cause additional environmental degradation in the area.

Omo-Agege’s appeal, according to a statement by his media office on Wednesday, came on the heels of recent threats by a coalition of nine militant groups in the Niger-Delta region.

The coalition had expressed its preparedness to resume hostilities by attacking oil and gas facilities if the Federal Government …

'ASUU Strike Will Continue As Long As FG Withholds Our Salaries'

‘ASUU Strike Will Continue As Long As FG Withholds Our Salaries’

October 29, 2020 9:17 am

Despite pleas by stakeholders and Nigerian students to end the strike, the National President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Prof. Abiodun Ogunyemi, in this interview with IYABO LAWAL, insists that schools will remain shut until issues of members’ salaries and revitalisation are settled.

Read Also: ASUU: Why We Haven’t Called Off Strike

What is the update on the seven-month strike embarked on by university teachers?
Nothing has changed significantly. We have presented our issues. We started with five, and we now have six issues. These are revitalisaton of universities; renegotiation of 2009 agreement; visitation panels to universities; …

Buhari gives Borno youths plaudits for not looting

Buhari Gives Borno Youths Plaudits For Not Looting

October 29, 2020 9:16 am

President Muhammadu Buhari has applauded the youths in Borno State, for their decorum in the wake of looting and destruction of property occasioned by the #EndSARS protest.

Alhaji Baba-Shehuri, the Minister of State for Agriculture said the President made the commendation in a goodwill message to a Peace Stakeholders Forum on Wednesday in Maiduguri.

According to Baba-Shehuri, Buhari said the youths in Borno State demonstrated high sense of decorum and maturity by not participating in the wanton looting and destruction of public and private property in the name of protest.

He said the president also lauded Gov. Babagana Zulum and …

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