A large segment of a Chinese rocket is expected to make an uncontrolled re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere over the weekend, but Beijing has downplayed fears of damage on the ground and said the risk is minimal.
Africa Daily News recalls that a Long March-5B rocket launched the first module of China’s new space station into Earth’s orbit on April 29.
Its 18-tonne main segment is now in freefall and experts have said it is difficult to say precisely where and when it will re-enter the atmosphere.
Russian space agency Roscosmos predicted the rocket will re-enter after 2330 GMT Saturday …
Atletico went into the game two points clear of Barcelona at the top, with Madrid separating the two sides in second place ahead of their game with Sevilla on Sunday.
Barcelona were dealt a blow when Sergio Busquets was forced off with a head injury after half an hour.
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With very little to separate the two sides,
Making the announcement, she tweeted from an EU summit in Portugal saying; ‘Happy to announce that the EU Commission has just approved a contract for guaranteed 900 million doses (+900 million options) with BioNTech/Pfizer for 2021-2023,‘
‘Other contracts and other vaccine technologies will follow,’ she further promised.
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The contract, on top of the 600 million BioNTech/Pfizer doses the
No fewer than 12 rifle-bearing men yesterday staged a show of force at a hotel used as a headquarters by Libya’s presidential council as the nation’s deep divisions resurface.
The North African country was plunged into chaos after longtime dictator Moamer Kadhafi was ousted and killed in a NATO-backed uprising in 2011, and over the years the conflict has drawn in several foreign powers.
An interim unity government finally came into being in March, replacing rival administrations in east and west, and aims to lead Libya to elections later this year.
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Former Kaduna Central Senator, Shehu Sani on Saturday asserted that if there is no rotation of power in 2023, that Nigeria’s unity and peace could be threatened.
Sani, who represented Kaduna Central in the 8th National Assembly, cautioned the federal government not to use force but justice, equity, and fairness to achieve unity and peace in the country.
Speaking at a meeting organised by the Association of Eze-Ndigbo in Diaspora in Kaduna, the activist turned politician noted that the rationale behind agitations in the southeast cannot be detached from continuous injustice melted against them 51 years after the Civil War.…
Nigeria’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Zubairu Dada, has assured Nigerians abroad that the plans to commence Diaspora voting may become a reality soon.
He said Nigerians abroad are part of the county and as such should be allowed to exercise their franchise.
The minister disclosed that the Independent National Electoral Commission and the National Assembly were currently working to make this materialise.
Dada made this disclosure when he spoke during the Diaspora Quarterly lecture series of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission which was monitored online by our correspondent on Saturday.
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The Leader of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Primate Elijah Ayodele, has hinted that Nigeria will break up, noting that if it was to break up, it would not be though Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), or Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho.
Speaking with newsmen yesterday, the cleric claimed that some powerful forces like the spirit of Nigeria’s nationalist, Abubakar Tafawa-Balewa would lead to Nigeria’s peaceful break-up when it would eventually happen.
The controversial cleric warned that if Nigerians fail to appease Tafa-Balewa’s spirit and these other powerful forces, the country will break …
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has written a letter to the President of the United States of America, Joe Biden, urging him to deny the federal government of Nigeria arms which it has requested as assistance in tackling insecurity in the country.
The strongly worded letter, which was sighted by Africa Daily News, which was written by IPOB leader Nnamdi Kanu, alleged that Christians are being killed in Nigeria with arms sold to Nigeria to fight Boko Haram.
The letter reads in parts:
‘President Buhari has made Nigeria the most dangerous country in the world for Christians, Jews, and …
