Tens of thousands have rallied across the world to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, as France unveiled new measures to combat domestic violence.
Demonstrators on Monday gathered in countries as diverse as Guatemala, Russia, Sudan and Turkey, where riot police in Istanbul blocked the path of roughly 2,000 protesters before firing tear gas and plastic bullets to disperse them.
AFP / Maryam EL HAMOUCHIWomen murdered worldwideThe French government announced it would make it easier for doctors to share information on vulnerable women and write into law the concept of psychological “entrapment”,
Russia’s anti-doping chief said Tuesday he expected the country to be barred from all sporting competition for four years, after a bombshell recommendation from the World Anti-Doping Agency that shocked Russia.
WADA’s Compliance Review Committee recommended the ban on Monday, accusing Moscow of falsifying laboratory data handed over to investigators.
It recommended Russia also face a four-year ban from staging or bidding for major international sporting events.
The International Olympic Committee said in a statement it supported the “toughest sanctions” against Russia for “flagrant” manipulation of the doping data.
The recommendation is set to go before WADA’s Executive Committee at …
US President Donald Trump said in an interview posted online Tuesday that he planned to designate Mexican drug cartels as terror groups.
The move comes after Trump called for a “war” on the cartels in early November when nine women and children from a Mormon community in northern Mexico were killed in a hail of gunfire. The victims were dual US-Mexican citizens.
“Are you going to designate those cartels in Mexico as terror groups and start hitting them with drones?” asked Bill O’Reilly, a conservative media personality, in an interview posted on his personal website.
“I don’t want to say …
The Kremlin on Wednesday said it regrets a proposed four-year ban for the country’s athletes over doping but Russia is still open to cooperation to resolve the scandal.
“This is definitely concerning information. We regret this,” President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists.
Anti-doping watchdog WADA’s compliance review committee on Monday recommended a four-year sporting ban over falsified lab data it received from Russia.
If WADA chiefs adopt the review committee’s recommendations, Russia faces exclusion from key sporting events including the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
In the Kremlin’s first reaction, Peskov stressed that Moscow was still open to cooperation with …
Emergency workers on Wednesday pulled dust-covered corpses from the ruins of an earthquake that has claimed nearly 30 lives in Albania, as aftershocks hampered the second day of search efforts for survivors.
The 6.4 magnitude earthquake that rattled the Balkan state early Tuesday morning was the most powerful and damaging in decades.
In the hard-hit coastal city of Durres and the town of Thumane, apartments and hotels collapsed into mountains of rubble, trapping residents beneath.
With the help of dogs and 200 experts flown in from across Europe, rescuers raced against time to clear away the wreckage after 45 people …
Police in Anambra state have discovered the dead and decomposing body of a 65-year-old medical doctor in his hospital, months after he died.
The medical doctor, Dr Gilbert Afam Gini is said to be occupying two flats, which he uses to run his hospital, Santa Cruz clinic at No 9 Eze Crescent Ezinifite Okpuno, near Awka.
A press statement by the Police PRO in Anambra, SP Haruna Mohammed stated that one Barr Duke Onyebuchi Ezeonwuka discovered the body on Tuesday when he visited the property which he manages and found it locked, and a strong stench emanating from it.
Haruna …
The much touted hate speech Bill being proposed by the Senate Wednesday received another vituperation, as a legal luminary, Chief Afe Babalola (SAN), described it as a slide into dictatorship.
Babalola, founder of Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti (ABUAD), said it was needless and unwarranted for anyone to contemplate another law to deal with false publications, when there were laws already promulgated to take care of such situation.
The bill, sponsored by the Deputy Chief Whip, Aliyu Abdullahi, has passed the first reading at the Senate, prescribing death penalty for anyone found guilty of spreading falsehood that led to the …
An aircraft operated by British Airways from London to Abuja on Tuesday made air return as a result of technical problem.
A statement issued by the airline, confirmed that BA 083 flight returned to Heathrow and was met by the emergency services as a precaution measure after experiencing a minor technical issue.
The aircraft took off from Heathrow airport Tuesday night and was airborne when pilot announced that the aircraft would be returning to its port of departure
Intending British Airways passengers to London from Abuja left the …
The governor of Imo State, Mr. Emeka Ihedioha has promised to set up a committee on prerogative of mercy aimed at setting free at least 48 juvenile offenders in the Imo State Command Correctional Service.
He disclosed this while declaring open a 3-day reformation, reorientation programmme. The programme is sponsored by the state government through the office of the Senior Special Assistant on Advocacy, Adaora Onyechere for juvenile offenders in the state with the theme “save them young”.
The governor regretted that there are only three Borstal training institutions in the country for reforming the juveniles, just as he clamoured …
“It is fake news, just disregard it,” Wilson Uwujaren, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission spokesman, told The Guardian Nigeria in a phone conversation.
Asked if there was an amendment of charges against the former minister, Uwujaren again said it is all “fake news.”
The EFCC spokesman in a statement explained that prosecution of Diezani for a 14-count charge has suffered
Construction work at the Anambra Cargo Airport would be completed in less than 18 months, Governor Willie Obiano has said.
The assurance came four years after the project cited at Umueri community, Anambra East Local Government Area, was flagged off.
There have been series of attacks and criticisms on the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA)-led government over the alleged slow pace of work on the site with many calling it white elephant project.
But Obiano, while speaking during the third Anambra Business and Investment Roundtable at the Governor’s Lodge, Amawbia promised to do everything possible to complete the project.
He
Academic Staff Union of Universities, University of Benin chapter, yesterday, said it will resist any attempt by the office of the Accountant General of the Federation (AGF) to force its members to register with the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS).
This was contained in a statement entitled: “IPPIS- The Truth of The Matter,” signed by its Chairman and Secretary, Messrs Monday Joy and Fabs Amaechina, respectively.
The union said compelling its members to register with IPPIS negates the autonomy of federal universities as enshrined in the Universities Amendment Act 2003 (also called Universities Autonomy Act No1., 2007) and
