September 2022

IPOB Nobody Can Threaten Buhari, Imo Govt Blows Hot

IPOB: Nobody Can Threaten Buhari, Imo Govt Blows Hot

September 11, 2022 4:06 am

The Government of Imo State has dismissed as laughable the threat issued by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) ahead of the visit of President Muhammadu Buhari to the state this week.

The State’s Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Declan Emelumba while speaking at a press conference which was monitored by Africa Daily News, New York declared that IPOB couldn’t threaten Buhari.

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Emelumba, who was reacting to a threat earlier issued by IPOB declaring a sit-at-home in the state on Tuesday, insisted that security operatives were ready for the president’s visit …

Vote Of Confidence Can’t Save Ayu, Wike Tackles On Secondus

Vote Of Confidence Can’t Save Ayu, Wike Tackles On Secondus

September 11, 2022 4:00 am

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has declared that no vote of confidence can save the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Iyorchia Ayu, just as the tool of assurance that was passed by the party’s National Executive Committee in April 2021 failed to save Ayu’s predecessor, Uche Secondus.

Speaking yesterday, Wike said; ‘I was listening, watching, they said there is one man they call Secondus. They said he was dancing, celebrating that NEC gave their person a vote of confidence.

“He (Secondus) forgets history that the same NEC through Aliyu Babangida who moved a motion for a …

Mixed Reactions As Russia Pulls Back Troops In Kharkiv

September 11, 2022 3:55 am

Russia’s Defense Ministry on Sunday morning announced that it has resolved to pull back troops from two areas in Ukraine’s eastern Kharkiv region where a Ukrainian counter-offensive has made tremendous advances in the past week. 

Africa Daily News, New York reports that the news is coming days after of apparent advances by Ukraine south of Kharkiv, the country’s second-largest city, in what could become the biggest battlefield success for Ukrainian forces since they thwarted a Russian attempt to seize the capital of Kyiv at the start of the almost seven-months war.

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Strike UNIBEN Staff Commits Suicide Over Financial Crisis

Strike: UNIBEN Staff Commits Suicide Over Financial Crisis

September 11, 2022 3:52 am

Amidst the ongoing strike in the country’s universities, a data entry staff of the University of Benin (UNIBEN), Prince Carter Oshodin, reportedly committed suicide on Saturday over his inability to cope financially.

He was reporrted to have taken his own life yesterday in Umelu community in Upper Sakponba area of Benin City.

Africa Daily News, New York gathered that although the non-academic staff union to which the deceased belonged called off its strike recently, the members were yet to be paid their salaries. The deceased, who described himself as Craze J. A on his Facebook page, had a message on …

Science Near Me An Exciting New Way to Learn About

Science Near Me: An Exciting New Way to Learn About Science

September 11, 2022 3:44 am

Nowadays, it is not out of place to say, a quick Google query is the reflex for curiosity. Whether you are wondering where the nearest eatery is located or what the scientific justification for any phenomenon is, punch the question into a search engine, and only a few seconds after, there will be many answers. The question is, how can science educators and researchers use this widespread search-engine satiated curiosity to promote public science engagement? Science education researcher, Kimberley Preston from Oregon State University and her colleagues have created ScienceNearMe to cater for that

According to Oberlo, there are 8.5 …

Five Perish As New Zealand Boat Collides With Whale

Five Perish As New Zealand Boat Collides With Whale

September 10, 2022 9:18 pm

Five people have been reported dead after a boat had flipped over in waters off of New Zealand’s South Island on Saturday, with some alleged “indications” that the vessel had capsized after colliding with a whale.

The boat, which had 11 people on board who were mostly from a bird-watching group, had capsized in calm waters soon after 10 am at Goose Bay, about 15 kilometres (nine miles) south of Kaikoura, according to local officials.

Read Also: 14 Perish, 26 Missing As Boat Sinks Off Northern Brazil

A rescue operation that shad panned nearly seven hours ended when a police …

Queen Elizabeth: UK Police Announces Plans To Step Up Security

September 10, 2022 8:17 pm

As the British government prepares to stage their first state funeral in nearly six decades, the security officials are also planning what has been slated to be the “biggest policing and protective operation” in UK history.

The Police has also announced that they are dusting off long-standing plans to keep safe attendees — including some of the global political leaders and royalty — at Queen Elizabeth II’s historic funeral, as well as the millions which had been predicted to flock to London around the time of the event.

Read Also: Goodluck Jonathan, Peter, Atiku Mourn Queen Elizabeth II

No date …

Federal Court Nullifies All Ogun State PDP Primary Elections

APC Wants To Launch Insurgency Agenda In Osun – PDP Alleges

September 10, 2022 8:04 pm

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Osun State has alleged that the state All Progressives Congress (APC) has launched a statewide insurgency agenda and a fictional security report that had been made to create a false security alarm.

The party had also alleged that the plans were hatched to boost its petition to relocate the Osun Election Petition Tribunal sitting from Osogbo to Abuja.

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The party chairman, Akindele Adekunle, made this revelation in a signed statement on Saturday in Osogbo. Adekunle in the statement had also revealed that the …

Naira Grows Marginally As It Exchanges At 441.25 To Dollar

Naira Crashes Slightly Against United States Dollar

September 10, 2022 7:22 pm

The Nigerian Naira on Friday has slightly crashed to the dollar while getting to exchange at ₦436.33 as compared with the exchange rate of ₦436.32 on Thursday.

The open indicative rate had also closed at ₦433.83 to the United States dollar on Friday.

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An exchange rate of ₦437 to the dollar was the highest rate which had also recorded within the day’s trading before it had also settled at ₦436.33.

The Naira had also sold for as low as ₦425 to the dollar within the day’s trading. A total of 66.02million dollars …

UK Rail, Postal Staff End Strikes Following Queen’s Death

UK Rail, Postal Staff End Strikes Following Queen’s Death

September 10, 2022 7:01 am

British railway and postal workers, at the forefront of sector-wide strikes over a cost-of-living crisis, have suspended upcoming walkouts following the death of Queen Elizabeth II.

The Communication Workers Union had planned to continue a 48-hour stoppage Friday but it was called off ‘out of respect for’ the queen, CWU general secretary Dave Ward said in a statement following the queen’s passing in Scotland on Thursday.

The Trades Union Congress said it had postponed its four-day annual conference due to have begun Sunday.

‘The UK’s trade union movement sends our condolences to the Royal Family on the death of …

17 Civilians Killed By Rebel Group In DR Congo

17 Civilians Killed By Rebel Group In DR Congo

September 10, 2022 6:56 am

Seventeen people died yesterday during a militia attack on a village in northeastern DR Congo, a local civil society head announced.

Gunmen from the feared CODECO militia stormed Mbidjo in Ituri province’s Djugu territory during the morning, said Jules Uwechi, chairman of the village’s civil society group.

‘They opened fire, set houses ablaze, and pillaged the property of villagers… I myself narrowly escaped,’ Uwechi said in the provincial capital Bunia.

‘When we went back we found 17 people had been killed — seven women, eight men, and two children.’

Eleven of the bodies had been buried in a mass …

US Must Develop Chips To Keep Up With China, Biden Admits

US Must Develop Chips To Keep Up With China, Biden Admits

September 10, 2022 6:42 am

President Joe Biden while speaking yesterday at a ceremony to break ground on a semi-conductor plant that making sophisticated computer chips is a matter of US national security in the face of an ‘assertive’ China.

‘All of this is in our economic interest, and it’s in our national security interest as well,’ Biden said at the site where Intel plans to build a $20 billion factory.

Biden made the trip to highlight recent legislation passed at his behest setting aside $52 billion to boost US semiconductor production. He said the initiative was part of the broader rivalry between the United …

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