October 3, 2022

Coup: Fromer Burkina Faso Leader Damiba Flees To Togo

Coup: Fromer Burkina Faso Leader Damiba Flees To Togo

October 3, 2022 7:26 pm

The government of Togo has on Monday made some confirmations that the controversial ousted Burkina Faso leader, Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba has finally fled to Togo after a military coup.

It also revealed that the West African bloc ECOWAS has made some plans to send envoys to Burkina Faso after some of the troops had toppled Damiba in the country’s second putsch in nine months.

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Akodah Ayewouadan who is Togo’s Minister of Communication and government spokesman had revealed that Damiba was in Togo as part of the country’s …

More Deaths Recorded In Afghanistan Classroom Attack

More Deaths Recorded In Afghanistan Classroom Attack

October 3, 2022 7:12 pm

In the recent tragedy bombing which had recently taken place in Afghanistan, it has been reported that up to forty-six girls and young women had been among those killed in a suicide bombing on an Afghan education centre last week, as had been reported by the United Nations on Monday who had also announced that the total death toll had risen to 53.

It had been reported that a suicide bomber had blown himself up on Friday next to some women who had been at a gender-segregated study hall which had been packed with hundreds of students sitting a practice …

Human rights lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mr Femi Falana, has described as illegal the review of the Retired Justice Doris Okuwobi’s #EndSARS panel findings on the incident which occurred at the Lekki Toll Gate in October 2020. He said the White Paper committee set up by the Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu did not have the legal backing and competence to edit, modify, alter or reject the report of the commission. He said, “When the government set up a White Paper committee a fortnight ago, I questioned its legal validity. It was my view that since the committee is unknown to law, the members were not competent to edit, modify, alter, edit or reject the report of the commission, more so, that the members of White Paper committee did not have the opportunity of taking evidence from the witnesses who had testified before the commission. “The governor cannot reject the report, summary of evidence and findings of the Okuwobi Judicial Commission in any material particular. “In a bid to discredit the findings of the Lagos State Judicial Panel on Restitution for victims of SARS-Related Abuses and Other Matters, the White Paper Committee acted ultra vires by advising the governor to accept, reject or refer the recommendations of the panel to the Federal Government. Thus, the state government arrogantly stated that the claim that nine people died at LTG on October 21, 2020, from gunshots fired by the military are based on assumptions and speculations.”

It’s Unfair And Unjust Not To Inaugurate NDDC Board – Falana

October 3, 2022 7:12 pm

Femi Falana (SAN) who is a renowned constitutional and human rights lawyer has again blasted the recent action which he termed as “discriminatory, unfair and unjust” action of the President Buhari’s Federal government for its continued delay on the express inauguration of the Board of NDDC since 2019.

According to him, “whereas the North East Development Commission (NEDC) has a board in place, since May 2019, the Buhari regime has hidden under one excuse or another to treat the NDDC as an extension of the Ministry of the Niger Delta. There is no provision of the law that puts the …

Burkina Junta Leader Damiba Agrees To Step Down – Mediators

Burkina Junta Leader Damiba Agrees To Step Down – Mediators

October 3, 2022 7:37 am

Burkina Faso’s junta leader Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba agreed to step down Sunday, two days after military officers announced he had been removed from power, religious and community leaders said.

Following mediation between Damiba and the new self-proclaimed leader, Ibrahim Traore, ‘Damiba himself offered his resignation in order to avoid confrontations with serious human and material consequences’, the religious and community leaders said in a statement.

They added that Damiba had set ‘seven conditions’ for stepping down, including a guarantee of security for his allies in the military, ‘a guarantee of his security and rights’ and that those taking power must …

El-Rufai Fumes Over Lynching Of 2 Herders In Birnin Gwari

El-Rufai Fumes Over Lynching Of 2 Herders In Birnin Gwari

October 3, 2022 7:29 am

The Governor of Kaduna State, Malam Nasir El-Rufa’i has condemned in strong words, the strongest terms the killing of two herders by a mob in Birnin Gwari local government area of the state.

In a statement on Sunday, the commissioner for internal security and home affairs, Samuel Aruwan, asserted that the security agencies reported that the mob forcefully seized the two herders from security personnel, on unsubstantiated claims that they were linked with banditry.

The statement noted that the mob then lynched and burnt the herders, even though they had not been found complicit in the allegations.

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Allowance Scandal Why We Can’t Arrest PDP Officials — EFCC

Allowance Scandal: Why We Can’t Arrest PDP Officials — EFCC

October 3, 2022 7:23 am

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has disclosed that may not invite Iyorchia Ayu, nation­al chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and other members of the Nation­al Working Committee (NWC) over the financial scandal rock­ing the major opposition party.

Africa Daily News, New York had earlier reported that about six NWC members, includ­ing the Deputy National Chair­man (South), Taofeek Arapaja; National Woman Leader, Prof. Stella Effah-Attoe; National Vice Chairman (South-South), Chief Dan Orbih, and three others returned last weekend over N122 million which they described as “mysterious pay­ment” into the party’s coffers.

In separate letters to the PDP, …

2023 Election Pyrates Demands Neutrality From Buhari

2023 Election: Pyrates Demands Neutrality From Buhari

October 3, 2022 7:03 am

The National Association of Seadogs, Pyrates Confraternity has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to be neutral during the conduct of the 2023 general elections.

It has therefore made a case for the withdrawal of three nominees for the positions of Resident Electoral Commissioners (REC) over allegations of political partisanship.

Africa Daily News, New York reports shortly after the Presidency submitted the names of 19 nominees for the positions of REC, several petitions were written against the nomination of Prof Mohammed Bashir Lawal, Mrs. Queen Elizabeth Agu, and Mrs. Ugochi Pauline Onyeaka based on reports of partisanship which violates the constitutional …

Over 92 Die In Iran’s Mahsa Amini Protests – Rights Group

Over 92 Die In Iran’s Mahsa Amini Protests – Rights Group

October 3, 2022 6:54 am

No fewer than 92 people have been confirmed dead as Iran has cracked down on women-led protests which was sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini after her arrest by the notorious morality police, the group Iran Human Rights confirmed on Monday.

As protests stretch into a third week, President Ebrahim Raisi yesterday stated that the ‘enemies’ of Iran had ‘failed in their conspiracy’.

Kurdish Iranian Amini, 22, was pronounced dead two weeks after she was detained for allegedly breaching rules requiring women to wear hijab headscarves and modest clothes, sparking Iran’s biggest wave of popular unrest in almost three …

2023 Tinubu Reacts To Death Rumours, Releases Video

2023: Tinubu Reacts To Death Rumours, Releases Video

October 3, 2022 6:33 am

Ahead of next year’s general elections, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has denied reports that he has withdrawn from the race.

In a Twitter post, Tinubu posted a short video of himself on a treadmill last night, in a bid to debunk rumours making the rounds.

The former Lagos State Governor captioned it: ‘Many have said I have died; others claim I have withdrawn from the presidential campaign.

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He wrote further; ‘Well… Nope.

‘This is the reality: I am strong, …

How States Can Access, Claim $750m World Bank Loan — FG

How States Can Access, Claim $750m World Bank Loan — FG

October 3, 2022 6:26 am

The Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council (PEBEC), has stated that the state governments will need to improve four reform areas to access the $750 million approved by the World Bank to strengthen the Business Enabling Environment in states.

According to the Federal Government of Nigeria, this can only be made possible through the State Action for Business Enabling Reforms (SABER), programme.

Special Adviser to the President on Ease of Doing Business, Dr Jumoke Oduwole, listed the areas of reform to include improving land administration and land investment process; improving business enabling infrastructure; increasing sustainable large-scale investments, and enabling firm operations.…

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