November 22, 2020

We’ll Follow Election Laws – Republican Lawmakers Tell Trump

November 22, 2020 5:14 am

Republican Lawmakers from Michigan have told President Trump that they will still stick to the states’ election laws of awarding the state’s electors to the candidate that won the popular votes.

This follows a meeting they had with Trump where the president persuaded them to award him the state’s electors despite losing the state to Biden with 154,000 vote margin. Critics have accused the U.S. President Donald Trump for trying to leverage the power of the Oval Office to block President-elect Joe Biden’s victory as stating that his futile efforts to subvert the results of the 2020 election could do …

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Stop Demolishing Palestinians Homes – UN Experts Tell Israel

November 22, 2020 5:12 am

UN human experts have called on Israel to immediately stop its demolition of Palestinian homes forth with; calling on them ‘to ensure that its actions are strictly compliant with its international humanitarian and human rights obligations and to provide protection for, rather than displacement of, the protected population.’

Michael Lynk, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territory; and Balakrishnan Rajagopal, Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living in statement, have condemned the demolition by Israel of the homes and property belonging to a Palestinian Bedouin …

Nigeria’s Future Lies In The North Central – Saraki

November 22, 2020 5:12 am

Former Senate President, Bukola Saraki Friday insisted that the North Central Region of Nigeria will determine the future of the country.

Senator Saraki, a former governor of Kwara state, while arguing that the region would further develop the country, said the mineral resource deposits in the region was a huge source of income in the future.

The former Senate President stated this when he was visited by the leaders of the North Central People’s Forum (NCPF) in his Abuja home also added that the North-Central region belongs to Nigeria and deserves every consideration others will get in the 2023 permutations.…

33 SARS Officials For Prosecution – NHRC

November 22, 2020 5:07 am

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has revealed that it has given the office of the Attorney-General of the Federation and its 36 state counterparts sufficient materials to prosecute 33 operatives of the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad indicted in last year’s report of a Presidential Investigative Panel.

This was made known by the Executive Secretary of the NHRC, Mr Tony Ojukwu while fielding questions from journalists at the headquarters of the commission in Abuja. This is a counter to the statement by the Attorney General’s office who in a report published around Nov. 8 declared that there was no sufficient …