December 11, 2020

Hon. Ejiogu Gets Ambassadorial Appointment With UN

Hon. Ejiogu Gets Ambassadorial Appointment From UN

December 11, 2020 1:16 pm

The performing lawmaker representing Owerri North State Constituency in the Imo State House of Assembly, Honourable Engr. Philip Ejiogu, popularly called Mr. Integrity, has been appointed as an International Peace Ambassador by the United Nations Polac.

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Taking to his personal Facebook account, Honourable Philip Ejiogu shared the good news as he unequivocally stated that his new position is only a new avenue for him to impact on people’s lives better.

Honourable Ejiogu’s post reads:

‘Please allow me re-introduce myself: My name is Hon Amb Philip Chukwuma Ejiogu…as

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Gani Adams: The Phenomenal Leader Of The New Yoruba Nation

December 11, 2020 9:27 am

It is an incontrovertible fact that good and purposeful political leadership is the precursor and prerequisite for development in any group or tribe which is why the Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland, Otunba Gani Adams has shown with good, honest leadership comes swift development of the people.

Two years after being installed as the 15th Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland which came twenty years after the demise of the former holder of the title, Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale, he has completely revamped and rejuvenated the socio-political structure of Yoruba land while introducing new leadership strategies and notions.

The positon was …

INEC: Yakubu Assumes Office For Second Tenure

December 11, 2020 4:19 am

The Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, on Thursday, assumed office to commence his second tenure for a period of five year.

Speaking during a takeover ceremony at the commission headquarters in Abuja, Yakubu said that quick passage of the Electoral Act amendment remained a top priority.

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‘You will recall that I appealed to the Senate Committee on INEC during my screening two weeks ago to conclude work for the passage of the Electoral Act amendment by the first quarter of 2021.’

‘I am glad that in

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Gunmen Killed A Female Journalist In Afghanistan

December 11, 2020 3:42 am

A female television journalist, Malalai Maiwand, was killed in Afghanistan on Thursday. The journalist who is also a women’s rights activist, was shot and killed along with her driver in an incident that underscores an increasing trend of violence against journalists in the country.

Malalai Maiwand, a reporter at Enikas Radio and TV in Nangarhar, was killed along with her driver in an attack on their vehicle in Jalalabad, capital of the eastern province of Nangarhar. Her death has taken the total number of journalists and media workers killed this year in Afghanistan to 10.

‘She was on the way

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Trump’s Second Impeachment Trial Begins In US Senate

U.S. Senate Backs Arms Sales To UAE After Trump Veto Threat

December 11, 2020 3:41 am

The United States of America is to proceed with its plan to sell high tech weapons to UAE after an effort to stop President Donald Trump’s high-tech weapons deals with the United Arab Emirates failed to succeed on Wednesday in the U.S. Senate as Trump’s fellow Republicans opposed resolutions of disapproval seeking to block the sale of drones and advanced F-35 fighter jets.

The Senate voted 50-46 and 49-47, mostly along party lines, to stop consideration of the resolutions, killing them at least until President-elect Joe Biden takes office on Jan. 20.

The Trump administration had issued a formal notice …

‘ICC Prosecutor Drops Alleged UK War Crimes In Iraq’

December 11, 2020 3:36 am

The International Criminal Court of Justice has dropped the war crime case against the United Kingdom despite finding evidence of war crime, the report says.

The prosecutor in a statement on Wednesday said she was dropping a preliminary probe into alleged war crimes by British troops in Iraq, even though she found a reasonable basis to believe they committed atrocities.

Information available said that the probe never rose to the level of a full investigation and Fatou Bensouda’s office concluded that British authorities had examined the allegations. It also said the ICC only intervenes when it finds that a state …

We’ve Not Agreed On Date To Call Off Strike, FG Lied – ASUU

December 11, 2020 3:35 am

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has stated that the Federal Government lied against the union on the date to call off strike.

The body denied that it reached an agreement with the federal government, to call off its ongoing strike on December 9, 2020.

Nigeria’s Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, had on Tuesday claimed that ASUU promised to call off their nine-month old strike before Wednesday. The Minster further stated that the government has delivered on offers made to ASUU.

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Amnesty Int’l Indicts Nigeria Military On Rights Abuses

December 11, 2020 3:30 am

Amnesty International has accused the Nigeria Military for human right abuses indicating that at least 10,000 civilians have died in Nigerian military custody since 2011.

The civilians were mostly those detained in connection with the Boko Haram insurgency in the northeast states of Borno, Adamawa and Yobe.

Amnesty International in its report said that many of the deaths were recorded at the ‘infamous Giwa Barracks’ in Maiduguri, capital of Borno state.

‘In April 2017 alone, 166 corpses were transferred from Giwa to the mortuary,’ the report said.

‘Severe overcrowding, scarce food and water, extreme heat, infestation by parasites and insects,

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