June 13, 2022

US Woman Who Got STD In Car Gets $5.2m In Damages

US Woman Who Got STD In Car Gets $5.2m In Damages

June 13, 2022 2:14 pm

A bizzre case between a United States woman who contracted a sexually transmitted disease from her partner during romantic encounters in his car and his insurance company has ended with her being awarded $5.2 million in damages from his vehicle insurance company.

The woman in the state of Missouri successfully claimed her partner had negligently infected her with HPV, and that his policy covered her for “injuries and losses.”

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Referred to in court documents only as M.O., the woman had requested an award of $9.9 million before an …

10 Years Prison Term Slammed On Bolivian Ex-President Anez

10 Years Prison Term Slammed On Bolivian Ex-President Anez

June 13, 2022 2:14 pm

After months of slugging it out in court, the Bolivian ex-president Jeanine Anez has been slammed with a 10 years prison sentence which comes more than a year after her arrest for an alleged plot to oust her rival and predecessor Evo Morales.

Anez, who has been held in pre-trial detention since March 2021, has consistently denounced what she calls political persecution.

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The former interim leader will serve 10 years in a women’s prison in La Paz, the administrative capital’s First Sentencing Court announced in a decision that comes …

APC Senatorial Candidacy: INEC Boots Akpabio Out

APC Senatorial Candidacy: INEC Boots Akpabio Out

June 13, 2022 2:03 pm

Fresh reports hitting the desk of Africa Daily News, New York have revealed that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has rejected the All Progressives Congress (APC) primary that produced Godswill Akpabio as the party’s candidate in the Akwa Ibom North-West senatorial district.

Akpabio, who stepped down for Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the ruling party’s Presidential Candidate, was proclaimed the victor of a senatorial primary held on Thursday.

Stephen Ntukekpo, the State APC Chairman, stated that he was asked by the national party to conduct a re-run due to alleged breaches.

Read Also: 2023: INEC Rejects Akpabio As APC Senatorial

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Buhari Never Committed To Zoning Presidency To South – Adamu

Buhari Advices Against Do-Or-Die Affairs For 2023 Elections

June 13, 2022 2:00 pm

The Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari has told reiterated to the presidential candidates and others political candidates that they should not handle the 2023 general elections as a do-or-die affair.

The president spoke in a nationwide broadcast to mark June 12 Democracy Day on Sunday.

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According to Buhari, “as we move into the general election campaign season, we must sustain this mature attitude to campaigning and ultimately, voting.

“We must never see it as a “do or die” affair. We must all remember democracy is about the will of

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Atiku, Tinubu, Obi, Others Should Publish Their Assets - SERAP

Atiku, Tinubu, Obi, Others Should Publish Their Assets – SERAP

June 13, 2022 1:37 pm

As Nigerian political parties openly field their candidates for the 2023 general elections, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent an open letter to presidential candidatess ahead of the February 2023 presidential election, which urges them to urgently publish details of their assets and liabilities, and to publicly commit to rejecting vote-buying and electoral bribery before and during the elections.

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SERAP said: “While there is no constitutional requirement for presidential candidates to publish their assets and liabilities before elections, doing so would show that you can

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Pollution: Osun Stakeholders Urge FG To Curb Illegal Mining

Pollution: Osun Stakeholders Urge FG To Curb Illegal Mining

June 13, 2022 1:36 pm

The rising spate of illegal mining in the Osun State have seen some stakeholders motioning to the Federal Government and the National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency (NESREA) to deal with the heavy contamination of Osun River as urgently as they can.

The Statement has reiterated that the Federal Government, through the Ministry of Mines and Steel, the Federal Ministry of Water Resources, and NESREA to set up a committee to deal with mining activities in Osun State, which has polluted Osun River.

They make the call in a communique after a Twitter Space themed “The Gold Curse: Poverty, …

INEC Insists On Rejecting Akpabio, Lawan's Senatorial Tickets

Akwa Ibom APC Guber Seat Is Vacant – INEC Declares

June 13, 2022 12:16 pm

In a fresh announcement, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Akwa Ibom State have made an open announced that there will be no subsequent All Progressives Congress, APC, governorship candidate for the state for the 2023 general elections.

This was announced despite the fact that it was Mr. Akanimo Udofia who was declared the winner of the APC governorship primary with a total vote of 1227 to defeat eight other aspirants at an exercise held at Ekpo Obot, Uyo, the state capital.

But, the Resident Commissioner, INEC, Mr Mike Igini, who did not recognise the exercise in his …

Owo Church Massacre: Osun Govt Declares 3-Day Mourning

Owo Church Massacre: Osun Govt Declares 3-Day Mourning

June 13, 2022 8:52 am

In a bid to commiserate with the victims of the Owo church massacre, the Osun State Government has on Monday declared that three-day mourning should be observed across the state as a mark of solidarity and commiseration with the people of Ondo State over last weekend’s terror attack that left many church worshippers dead and injured.

The three days of mourning, according to a statement signed by Funke Egbemode, the state’s Commissioner for Information and Civic Orientation, will be observed from Monday, June 13; to Wednesday, June 15.

During the mourning, the statement added, all flags will be flown at …

You Have The Most Corrupt Regime - Oyedepo Blasts Buhari

You Have The Most Corrupt Regime – Oyedepo Blasts Buhari

June 13, 2022 8:34 am

Bishop David Oyedepo who is the Founder and President of Living Faith Church Worldwide, has minced no words as he lambasted President Muhammadu Bubari’s administration, tagging it the most corrupt regime the country has ever seen so far.

Oyedepo, who spoke during a church programme, Special Prayer for The Nation, on Monday lamented the level of hardship imposed on Nigerians through corruption.

According to Oyedepo, the Federal Government claimed to be fighting corruption but the officials are also corrupt.

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He said the ₦80 billion allegedly stolen by the …

Bandits Abduct Dozens Of Wedding Guests In Zamfara

Bandits Abduct Dozens Of Wedding Guests In Zamfara

June 13, 2022 5:28 am

Gunmen suspected to be terrorists yesterday abducted no fewer than 29 people in Zamfara State, police have confirmed.

Africa Daily News, New York gathered that the victims were travelling back home from a wedding ceremony when the armed men ambushed a convoy of their vehicles.

The victims were mostly mobile phone dealers from a popular market in Gusau, the Zamfara state capital – who had attended the wedding of one of their colleagues in neighbouring Sokoto state.

One man who survived the attack told the BBC the gunmen had mounted three roadblocks on Saturday evening, trapping vehicles and opening …

2023 INEC Rejects Akpabio As APC Senatorial Candidate

2023: INEC Rejects Akpabio As APC Senatorial Candidate

June 13, 2022 5:03 am

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has rejected the primary election which purportedly produced former Senate Minority leader, Godswill Akpabio as the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate in Akwa Ibom North-West Senatorial District.

Africa Daily News, New York recalls that Akpabio had last week stepped down for the National Leader of the APC, Bola Ahmed Tinubu during the party’s presidential primaries on Tuesday.

He was later declared winner of a senatorial primary election conducted on Thursday.

The Akwa Ibom State APC Chairman, Stephen Ntukekpo, had said he was directed by the ruling party’s national body to conduct a re-run over …

Muslim-Muslim Ticket Unacceptable To Christians – Bishop Warns

Muslim-Muslim Ticket Unacceptable To Christians – Bishop Warns

June 13, 2022 5:00 am

The presiding Bishop and General Superintendent of Grace of God Mission International, Bishop Paul Nwachukwu, has reiterated that Nigeria is a secular state and that a Muslim-Muslim ticket for the 2023 presidential election would never be acceptable to Christians all over the country.

Nwachukwu admonished two leading political parties that have chosen Muslims as their flag bearers to remember that picking Muslims as their running mates also will amount to neglect of Christians.

Delivering his sermon on Sunday, with the title, ‘the battle I will like to lose’, he said: ‘I want the political class to bear in mind that …

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