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Osinbajo Didn’t Pray for Buhari’s Death, Says Aide

November 14, 2019 7:37 am

Senior Special Assistant to Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo on Media and Publicity, Mr. Laolu Akande, has denied allegations that his principal visited a parish of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) where he and other congregants allegedly prayed for the death of President Muhammadu Buhari.

Akande said this in an article published in reaction to columnist, Dr. Festus Adedayo’s opinion piece.

Adedayo had, in an article published last Sunday in several online platforms (titled, ‘The Trials of Brother Osinbajo,’ said he received information that Osinbajo, who is a Senior Pastor with the RCCG, had, in a gathering with members …

Outrage Greets Senate’s Death Penalty For Hate Speech

November 13, 2019 3:28 am

The Senate came under fire yesterday for proposing the Hate Speech Prohibition Bill, which seeks to criminalise the offence with death as a penalty.

The bill, which passed first reading at the plenary yesterday, seeks to establish a federal government agency to check hate speech.

But senior lawyers, activists and a chieftain of Afenifere, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, who spoke with THISDAY, condemned attempts to make hate speech a capital offence and urged the National Assembly to tread carefully on the issue.

The bill, sponsored by a former Senate spokesperson, who is now the Deputy Senate Whip, Senator Sabi Abdullahi, is …

Senate May Approve Death Penalty For ‘Hate Speech’

November 12, 2019 7:50 am

A law to establish a National Commission for the Prohibition of Hate Speech has passed first reading on the floor of the Senate. The Bill is being sponsored by the the Deputy Chief Whip of the Senate, Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi.

The 8th Senate tried without success to pass the Bill in 2017. The same Senator Abdullahi had sponsored it.

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The lawmaker, who was the spokesman of the last Senate, had proposed a death penalty for people found guilty of Hate Speech. Following a nationwide outcry that greeted the move, …

Kogi Guber: Monarch Decrees Death For Irate Politicians

November 11, 2019 3:31 pm

Ahead of Saturday’s governorship election, in Kogi State, the Olu of Magongo, Obin Sam Bola Ojo, has placed a curse on whoever brings violence to his kingdom, declaring that the person will die a mysterious death before the end of this year.

The monarch stated this recently during a door-to-door sensitization programme in Ogori Magongo Local Government which was organized by the Challenge Parenthood Initiative, CPI.

He said the peace of Magongo community remains paramount, stressing that, he won’t sit on the throne and allow selfish politicians to bring pains on his people all in the guise of winning

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Commercial Sex Worker Stabbed To Death Over Price

November 11, 2019 9:28 am

A  commercial sex worker was at the weekend, stabbed dead by a customer at the popular Edo Hotel, Atan street, Empire area of  Surulere, Lagos.

Babatunde, a regular caller at the hotel, had attacked one of the commercial sex workers, Elochukwu, with a knife over  argument on the price of sex.

A witness, Wasiu, said: “Babatunde, who is a frequent caller to the hotel, stabbed a sex worker with a kitchen knife that was used for cutting vegetables.

“He attacked two other men who tried to stop him from fleeing the spot. The woman and two others were rushed to

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NY: Man Found Stabbed To Death At Homeless Shelter

November 10, 2019 1:43 pm

A young man was found stabbed to death at a homeless shelter in Manhattan early Sunday, police said.

Two men were discovered with knife wounds by police responding to a 911 call at Basics Housing Men’s Homeless Shelter on West 83rd Street near Columbus Ave. on the Upper West Side at about 1:50 a.m. Sunday, authorities said.

The victim, 22, whose name was not immediately released, was found on the building’s third floor with multiple stab wounds to his body, cops said.

Medics rushed him to Mount Sinai St. Luke’s Hospital, but he could not be saved, cops said.

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Nato Alliance Experiencing Brain Death, Says Macron

November 7, 2019 3:47 pm

President Emmanuel Macron of France has described Nato as “brain dead”, stressing what he sees as waning commitment to the transatlantic alliance by its main guarantor, the US.

Interviewed by the Economist, he cited the US failure to consult Nato before pulling forces out of northern Syria.

He also questioned whether Nato was still committed to collective defence.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, a key ally, said she disagreed with Mr Macron’s “drastic words”.

Russia, which sees Nato as a threat to its security, welcomed the French president’s comments as “truthful words”.

Nato, which celebrates 70 years since its founding at …

Lagos Roads Of Death And Distress

November 6, 2019 4:34 pm

“In Lagos, you don’t avoid potholes and craters; you choose the ones to plunge into.” That is one of the popular jokes currently making the rounds among commuters and motorists across Lagos State.  

But in truth, it is no idle joke. It is a graphic illustration of the nightmare that Lagos roads have descended into. Roads in Lagos have collapsed, transforming into highways dotted in all areas by monstrous potholes. Each day, commuters groan that they are dying slowly as a result of the state of Lagos roads.

A report by the Federal Bureau of Statistics (FBS) states that Lagos …

Trump Calls For ‘War’ On Cartels After Death Of Mormons

Trump Calls For ‘War’ On Cartels After Death Of Mormons

November 6, 2019 3:20 pm
President Donald Trump offered Tuesday to help Mexico hunt the killers of nine Mormon women and children shot dead in a lawless border area and said the United States stood ready to back its southern neighbour in a “war” on drug cartels.
Gunmen ambushed the members of the LeBaron family — a large clan of Mormons who emigrated to Mexico in the late 19th century — on Monday on a rural road between the states of Sonora and Chihuahua, which border the United States.

Three women and six children were killed, including a set of twin babies, said, relatives and

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Man Stabbed To Death After Argument Over Popeyes Chicken

Man Stabbed To Death After Argument Over Popeyes Chicken

November 5, 2019 3:18 pm

A man was stabbed to death Monday at a Maryland Popeyes after what appears to have been an argument over the restaurant’s re-released chicken sandwich, police said.

The victim, a 28-year-old man, was stabbed outside the restaurant around 7p.m., Prince George’s County Police spokeswoman Jennifer Donelan said at a news conference Monday. He had been in line for a chicken sandwich when he and another man got into an argument, which spilled onto the street, Donelan said. Police believe the argument began over someone cutting in line.
“For you to get that angry over anything … and to develop into
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Boyfriend Of Teacher Stabbed To Death In Appears In Court

Boyfriend Of Teacher Stabbed To Death In Appears In Court

October 31, 2019 12:26 am

Allison Plaatjies and her boyfriend of three years, Philip April, in happier times. April has been charged for her brutal murder.

Allison Plaatjies and her boyfriend of three years, Philip April, in happier times. April has been charged for her brutal murder.

The boyfriend of 26-year-old schoolteacher Allison Plaatjies – who was found dead in her apartment in Clanwilliam, north of Cape Town, on Sunday – appeared in the Clanwilliam magistrate’s court on Wednesday.

Philip April, a 24-year-old student teacher, was arrested after police discovered that Plaatjies had sustained multiple stab wounds.

April and Plaatjies had been dating since 2016 and met in Wellington, where they studied together at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT)

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Onitsha-Owerri Road Now Death Trap – HURIDE Rights Group

Onitsha-Owerri Road Now Death Trap – HURIDE Rights Group

October 23, 2019 4:56 pm

The Human Rights, Liberty Access, and Defenders, Peace Foundation (HURIDE) has decried the deplorable state of the Anambra State end of the Onitsha-Owerri road, describing it as a death trap where a lot of vehicles had fallen and many lives lost.

The group appealed to the Federal Government and Governor Willie Obiano of Anambra State as a matter of urgency to repair the Upper Iweka section of Onitsha-Owerri Road which has become a death trap where articulated vehicles fall on a regular basis, injuring and killing innocent souls.

In a statement signed by the Chairman of HURIDE, and Secretary, Mr. …

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