Politics

New Travel Misery In France As Unions Warn Of Fresh Turmoil

December 7, 2019 2:03 pm

The most serious nationwide strike to hit France in years caused new misery for weekend travellers on Saturday, with unions dismissing proposals by the government and warning walkouts would last well into next week.

The challenge thrown down to President Emmanuel Macron over his plans for radical pension reform has prompted hundreds of thousands to take to the streets and brought key transport services to a standstill.

The strikes, which began on Thursday over the plans for a single points-based pension scheme, recall the winter of 1995, when three weeks of huge stoppages forced a social policy U-turn by

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Military Base Shooter Assailed US As ‘Nation Of Evil’

December 7, 2019 2:02 pm

A Saudi military student reportedly condemned America as a “nation of evil” in an online manifesto prior to opening fire Friday at a US naval base, killing three people before being shot dead by police.

The shooting, which took place in a classroom building at Naval Air Station Pensacola in Florida, left eight others wounded, including two sheriff’s deputies who responded to the attack.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said the shooter was from Saudi Arabia — the same nationality as 15 of the 19 men involved in the 9/11 attacks, some of whom attended civilian flight school in Florida.

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Anger, Criticisms Trail DSS Re-Arrest Of Sowore

December 7, 2019 8:15 am
  • Atiku: It’s a rape of democracy
  • Soyinka: State disobedience eventually leads to civil disobedience
  • Falana: We won’t allow anybody to treat rule of law with scorn
  • Ezekwesili: It’s an aggression against Judiciary by Executive
  • PDP: Nigeria sliding into frightening dictatorship

The re-arrest of convener, #RevolutionNow protest, Omoyele Sowore by operatives of the Department of State Service (DSS) yesterday morning in Abuja has continued to receive heavy condemnation from concerned Nigerians, who felt pained by what they described as an assault on the Constitution, the judiciary, the rule of law and desecration of the hallowed temple of justice.

Sowore and his …

Only 4 Political Parties Will Participate In Ekiti LG Poll

December 7, 2019 8:14 am

The Ekiti State Independent Electoral Commission (SIEC) yesterday said a total of 14 political parties will participate in today’s local government polls. SIEC’s Chairman, Justice Jide Aladejana spoke in Ado Ekiti’ yesterday during the distribution of sensitive election materials to the 16 local government areas for the conduct of the chairmanship and councillorship election.

He said the Commission decided to allow those whose Permanent Voter Cards had either got lost or defaced to vote with driver’s licence or national identity to allow more grassroots people to participate in the election. We have decided that those without PVCs but have

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2023: Northern Group Advocates Power Shift To The South

December 7, 2019 8:12 am

A Northern youth group has advocated power shift to the Southern part of Nigeria, after the expiration of President Muhammadu Buhari’s tenure in 2023. The group noted that this should be so for the sake of national cohesion, peace and unity. It insists that the next president of Nigeria should come from Southern part of the country. National Coordinator of the group, Comrade Alhassan Anas Muhammad, who spoke to journalists shortly after their sensitisation rally urged the Northwest region to rally together and support power shift to the Southern part of the country.  While commending the giant strides of President …

We Never Sponsored Thugs To Harass NPA MD – OMSL

December 7, 2019 8:03 am

The management of Ocean Marine Solutions Limited (OMSL) has debunked any knowledge or involvement in the physical attack of the Managing Director of Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Ms. Hadiza Bala Usman, at the National Assembly.

NPA boss Ms. Hadiza Usman petitioned the President of the Senate, Dr. Ahmad Lawan alleging that hoodlums at the premises of the National Assembly in Abuja physically attacked her on Tuesday.

She claimed that her attack was sponsored by Chairman of Messrs Ocean Maritime Solutions Limited (OMSL), Captain Wells Okunbo apparently over the decision of the NPA on the Secure Anchorage issue after attending …

Oshiomhole Absent As Buhari, APC Governors Meet In Aso Rock

December 7, 2019 5:05 am

The  National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole was conspicuously absent Thursday, when President Muhammadu Buhari met with Progressives Governors in the State House, Abuja.

The two-hour meeting held at the conference room of President Buhari, had in attendance Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, chairman of progressive forum and Governor of Kebbi State, Abubakar Bagudu, governors of Ekiti, Kayode Fayemi, Borno, Babagana Zulum, Edo, Godwin Obaseki, Kaduna, Nasir El-Rufai, Gombe, Muhammad Inuwa Yahaya, Ogun, Dapo Abiodun, Nasarawa, Abdullahi Sule, Plateau, Simon Lalong, Osun, Gboyega Oyetola, Jigawa, Badaru Abubakar and the deputy governors of Niger and Kogi.

They governors …

US Lawmakers Move Ahead With Articles To Impeach Trump

December 7, 2019 5:01 am

The Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, Thursday said she had directed the House Committee on Judiciary to start drafting articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump.

In her announcement Pelosi said she had found enough evidence that Trump had committed criminal offences strong enough to support his impeachment from office.

“The facts are uncontested,” Pelosi said in the televised announcement. “The president abused his power for his own personal political benefit, at the expense of our national security.”

The Speaker, according to Premium Times, made the announcement a day after three constitutional lawyers invited …

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Sowore: Falana Tells NBA To Discipline Osinbajo

December 7, 2019 2:51 am

Human rights lawyer, Mr Femi Falana (SAN), who leads Mr Omoyele Sowore’s defence team, has asked the Nigerian Bar Association to take disciplinary actions against lawyers in President Muhammadu Buhari’s cabinet over what he described as desecration of the court with Sowore’s rearrest at the Federal High Court in Abuja, causing a disruption of court proceedings.

He said his legal team would meet on Saturday to determine the next line of action.

He said there were 10 lawyers with four of them Senior Advocates of Nigeria, who ought to live up to their oath to defend the Constitution and other …

APC Chairmen To Buhari: Some Govs Don’t Mean Well For You

December 7, 2019 2:49 am

The All Progressives Congress state chairmen have warned President Muhammadu Buhari to be wary of governors working against the interest of the party because of their 2023 presidential election.

They said the governors were behind the plot to remove the APC National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, because they saw him as a threat to their presidential aspiration.

The chairmen expressed concerns that the concerned governors had been working day and night to get signatures for Oshiomhole’s removal.

The chairman of the Forum of APC State Chairmen, who is the party’s chairman in Zamfara State, Ali Bukar, said these at their meeting …

Hospital Linked To Okorocha Forfeited To Federal Govt

December 7, 2019 2:49 am

Okorocha forfeits state-of-the art hospital to Federal Government

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC secured another victory Friday in its campaign against grand corruption in public service as Justice T.G Ringin of a Federal High Court sitting in Owerri, ordered the final forfeiture of a hospital linked to former governor Rochas Okorocha.

Dews of Hope Hospital, located in the heart of Imo capital of Owerri Dews of Hope Hospital is a N1.5 Billion state-of-the-art 200-bed hospital, whose ownership was denied by a former aide to Okorocha.
The forfeiture came a day after the commission secured the conviction and sentencing …

Theft In Bayelsa Government House: Policemen Arrested

December 7, 2019 2:48 am

Three policemen, four personnel of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, and one maintenance staff attached to the office of the Deputy Chief of Staff to the Bayelsa State Government House, Mrs. Ebizi Ndiomu-Brown were on Thursday arrest over alleged involvement in the theft of ₦ 3.5 million from the office.

The alleged theft, which reportedly occurred on Wednesday night, was discovered on Thursday morning with the safe where the cash was kept reportedly vandalised.

Sources close to the office of the Deputy Chief of Staff confirmed that the office where the money was kept, which had …

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