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Shutdown of PH DisCo Plunges Bayelsa into Darkness

January 3, 2020 8:53 am

People of Bayelsa State celebrated the Christmas and New Year festivities in darkness as the power outage occasioned by the altercation between Ijaw youths and Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company (PHEDC) entered day 10 thursday.

Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) had after almost a year of unbearably erratic power supply in the state besieged the offices of PHEDC, forcing the staff to ground operations or improve on their services.

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The youths have since occupied the premises to protest the poor power supply to residents after several negotiations for PHEDC to supply …

NY: Man Falls Off Bronx Fire Escape, Plunges To His Death

December 8, 2019 1:20 pm

A Bronx restaurant delivery worker fell to his death from the fire escape of his Bronx apartment building early Thursday, and his distraught family is demanding answers.

Police believe Gerardo Villano, 24, slipped on a patch of ice on the fire escape of his building on Grand Concourse near E. 178th St. in Mount Hope and plunged four stories to an interior courtyard at about 5:20 a.m. He was declared dead at the scene.

“We don’t know what’s going on. We don’t know who he was with or what happened,” said his brother, Carmello Villano, 32. “We want a full

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19 Killed As Bus Plunges Onto Frozen River In Siberia

December 1, 2019 3:06 pm

A passenger bus plunged off a bridge onto a frozen river in Siberia on Sunday, killing 19 of the more than 40 people on board, authorities said.

A tyre on the bus burst as it was crossing the bridge over the Kuenga river in eastern Siberia’s Zabaikalsky region.

The vehicle, which was travelling from Sretensk to Chita and carried 40 passengers, skidded off the road and onto the ice.

“Nineteen people died and 21 received various injuries,” the office of the governor of the Zabaikalsky region said in a statement.

Two preschool-aged children were reportedly among the dead.

National television …

Impeachment Horror Plunges US Into Early Halloween

October 25, 2019 10:25 am

The calendar says Halloween is still a week away, but impeachment is delivering the horror show early to Washington.

A city renowned for elegant, neo-classical buildings and buttoned-down bureaucrats has become the set for a political slasher movie.

Fighting for political survival before he can even focus on reelection in 2020, President Donald Trump has the leading role.

He denounced anyone in his party who won’t stick by him as “human scum.”

A gang of loyal Republican congress members stormed a secure briefing room to stop a Democratic-led impeachment hearing, claiming that a “Soviet style” process was underway. Then …