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Outrage As Council Boss Empowers Youths With Wheelbarrows

January 14, 2020 5:26 am

The Transition Committee Chairman of Nsukka Local Government Area, Hon. Mrs. Chinwe Ugwu has drawn the ire of residents of Enugu State and beyond after she rolled out a wheelbarrow empowerment program.

DAILY SUN reports that Ugwu is one of the chairmen that were appointed last December, ahead of the Local Government election slated for February this year.

However, in a move many have described as ‘shocking and insulting’, she launched a wheelbarrow empowerment scheme on Monday, at the Council secretariat.

Just last week, some youths had besieged the

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NY: Outrage As Teacher Tells Pupils Santa Isn’t Real

December 8, 2019 1:23 pm

Holiday spirits in one Brooklyn first-grade classroom got doused in ice water Monday when a teacher told his young pupils Santa Claus doesn’t exist, according to a report.

A substitute teacher at Public School 321 in Park Slope ruined Santa and the tooth fairy in one fell swoop while doing some age-inappropriate myth-busting during a lesson on “convincing,” angry parents told News 12 Brooklyn.

One first grader came home asking, “’but that’s not right, right?’” his concerned mom told News 12.

“Stuff like this, that their parents lie to them, I think is damaging to kids,” the mom said.

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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 …

SA: Outrage As Swazi King Gets 120 BMWs,19 Rolls-Royces

November 12, 2019 4:50 pm

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Outrage Over Alleged Plot To Arrest Undercover Journalist

October 23, 2019 2:24 am

• Prisons service condemns report as tissue of lies
• Identify security operatives trailing you, police tell Soyombo
• NUJ, editor’s guild, others caution govt, urge probity

Nigerians yesterday condemned an alleged plot by security operatives to seize investigative journalist, Fisayo Soyombo.

The reporter, whose undercover stories exposed corruption in Nigerian police cells and prisons, has since gone into hiding. The “threat is real,” he told The Guardian, noting, however, that he is “safe and calm.”

The first installment of the three-part investigation by Soyombo, a former editor of The Cable and a contributor to Al Jazeera, detailed how …

Outrage as attacks on Nigerians in South Africa persist

September 3, 2019 1:04 am

Nigerians yesterday condemned the Federal Government’s seeming inability to confront the persistent attacks on its citizens in South Africa.

It was learnt that South Africans started fresh attacks, looting and burning of businesses and property belonging to foreigners including Nigerians. In the process, they killed three people, while another one is receiving treatment for smoke inhalation.

The President of the Nigeria Union in South Africa (NUSA), Adetola Olubajo, said yesterday that the attacks began on Sunday morning in Jeppestown area of Johannesburg when a building was set ablaze by an angry mob.

“The mob also looted several shops that were

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Outrage as hoodlums kill LUTH doctor just after graduation

April 6, 2019 2:30 am

Tempers rose and tears flowed freely yesterday following the death of a fresh medical doctor, barely 24 hours after graduating from the University of Lagos. He was stabbed on Thursday by suspected hoodlums but gave up the ghost yesterday.

The victim, Dr Stephen Urueye, was a house officer at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital(LUTH).

Two suspects have already been arrested by the police in connection with the murder.

Lagos State Police Command Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Bala Elkana, a Deputy Superintendent (DSP), who described those arrested as “hoodlums,” said they were arrested at the spot where the late Urueye was …