February 24, 2021

A court sitting in Istanbul on Wednesday prescribed jail terms of four years three and two months respectively to two Turks for their role in the plot to smuggle former Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn in a musical instrument case from Lebanon to Japan.

The court jailed two pilots and an employee of a small private airline after finding them guilty of moving the former auto industry giant while he was out on bail facing financial misconduct charges in December 2019.

The pilots — Noyan Pasin and Bahri Kutlu Somek — and MNG Jet employee Okan Kosemen were facing a potential …

Veteran US diplomat William Burns, who was recently nominated by president Joe Biden to lead the CIA, on Wednesday pledged to keep the agency free of politics while maintaining that China would be his main focus should he get the nod.

Burns was picked by to replace retiring Central Intelligence Agency Director Gina Haspel and with a major mandate to restore an air of independence after former president Donald Trump allegedly tried to manipulate the country’s spies for political reasons.

Speaking on Wednesday, Burns the Senate Intelligence Committee that his career in the Middle East and Russia made him …

Popular motivational speaker Reno Omokri who is a former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan has revealed that Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, can’t run as Jonathan’s mate in the 2023 presidential election.

Omokri, to begin with, stated that his former boss has no intention to run for president in 2023. He also said Jonathan has no plan to dump the People Democratic Party for the All Progressives Congress.

Omokri made these disclosures when he spoke on Wednesday while featuring on a PUNCH Online interview programme, The Roundtable.

There have been political permutations and re-alignments amongst members of the PDP …

The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) has fired a warning to President Muhammadu Buhari to act fast and salvage the situation of the country or watch it crumble owing to the terrible trend of insecurity.

The Christian clerics lamented that recent happenings in Nigeria are pointers to the fact that the Federal Government has ‘failed’ to hold Nigeria together, which has given rise to non-state actors in self-defense and protection.

In a joint statement on Wednesday in Abuja, the President of CBCN, Archbishop Augustine Akubueze, and Secretary, Most Rev. Camillus Raymond Umoh, reiterated that the ‘survival …

The Senate has mandated the Committees on Education (Basic and Secondary) and Tertiary Institutions and TETFUND to investigate the utilisation of over $20 million (USD) funding proposed and budgeted for the initiative over the years.

The probe would cover monies donated by foreign governments and agencies to the initiative.

On Tuesday, the upper chamber considered a motion on the “Urgent need for the Restoration and Revalidation of the Safe School Initiative in Nigeria.”

The sponsor, Senator Stephen Adi Odey (PDP – Cross River North) recalled that the initiative was …

Ondo State Governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, has been sworn in for a second term in office.

Akeredolu was sworn-in alongside his Deputy, Lucky Ayedatiwa after the oath of office was administered on them by the Chief Judge of the State, Justice Olarewaju Akeredolu.

The ceremony which was held at the International Culture and Event Center, The Dome, Akure, was attended by the National Leader of APC and former Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the Chairman of Nigeria Governors’ Forum and Governor of Ekiti State, Kayode Fayemi; Governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwoolu; Governor of Osun State, Gboyega Oyetola; …

At least 7,000 people have reportedly fled rapidly-escalating communal violence in western Ethiopia, seeking safety in neighboring Sudan, the United Nations disclosed on Tuesday.

The region has long been devastated by competition over land and resources, and the UN said many people arriving in Sudan are seeking food, water, and health care.

The displacement is not related to the unrest in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region, which has pushed more than 61,000 to flee also into Sudan in recent months.

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