Month: June 2017

Why Nnamdi Kanu Was Not Invited For Osinbajo’s Consultation With South East – Presidency

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Special Adviser to the President on Political Matters, Senator Babafemi Ojudu, has explained why the leader of the indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu was not invited for Acting President Yemi Osinbajo’s consultation with leaders of the South East. Osinbajo, on Sunday, met with South East leaders in continuation of his consultations with leaders of the region following the quit notice given to Igbos living in the North by some northern youth groups. Following backlash by some groups that the IPOB leader was ignored in the consultation, the Presidency…

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One killed, 10 injured as van strikes crowd near mosques in London

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LONDON — A van plowed into a group of Muslim worshipers as they were leaving prayers at a pair of north London mosques early Monday, witnesses said, in an incident police said had caused “a number of casualties.” The incident occurred when the van sped off the roadway and swerved onto a sidewalk, which was crowded with hundreds of people who had just finished the day’s final prayers for the holy month of Ramadan, witnesses reported. In a statement, police said that one person had been killed and that 10 were…

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Google plans to scrub ‘inflammatory’ and terror vids from youTube

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Google’s revealed its plans to remove terror-related content from YouTube and decided the investment community should hear about it before the rest of us. The plan emerged in a post first published in the Financial Times and later popped online, the company’s revealed a four-point plan. As was the case in Facebook’s anti-terror plan, AI isn’t front and centre because Google says “a video of a terrorist attack may be informative news reporting if broadcast by the BBC, or glorification of violence if uploaded in a different context by a different user.” The…

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Vanuatu president Lonsdale dies of heart attack

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The President of Vanuatu, Baldwin Lonsdale, has died of a heart attack, the Vanuatu Daily Post reported Saturday. He was 67. Lonsdale, who sacked his government two years ago over a massive corruption scandal, passed away in the Pacific island nation’s capital of Port Vila, the AFP reported. “National Flag is at half staff early this morning. His body is reportedly at the Vila Central Hospital,” the newspaper said. Former Vanuatu MP Sela Molisa told Radio New Zealand that “Vanuatu has lost one of its greatest leaders.” Lonsdale, a civil…

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Macron’s party set for sweeping majority

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French voters head to the polls on Sunday for parliamentary elections set to hand a landslide victory to the Republic On The Move (REM) party of President Emmanuel Macron. The expected victory would complete Macron’s stunning reset of French  politics, the AFP reported. The new assembly is due to be transformed with a new generation of lawmakers — younger, more female and more ethnically diverse — winning seats in the afterglow of Macron’s success in presidential elections last month. The scale of the change is set to be so significant…

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U.S. Signs $469m Nigeria HIV/AIDS COP 2017

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The U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator, Ambassador-at-Large, Deborah L. Birx, on Friday, signed the Nigeria HIV/AIDS Country Operational Plan, COP 2017. The Country Operational Plan is an annual program plan for U.S. government investments in the Nigeria National HIV/AIDS Response through the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, PEPFAR. With the signing, the U.S. government will be committing about $469 million including centrally funded initiatives, to support HIV prevention, care, and treatment programs in the country. Speaking at the signing ceremony, U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. W. Stuart Symington, described…

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7 missing US sailors found dead after collision with container ship

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The U.S. Navy says its divers have accessed a flooded compartment on the USS Fitzgerald and found the bodies of a number of the sailors missing in a collision between the Navy destroyer and a merchant vessel. It is not clear how many bodies were recovered. The search will continue Sunday both on the ship and at sea until all of the missing sailors are found. The USS Dewey and other American and Japanese vessels and aircraft are involved in the search, the U.S. Navy said. Collision at sea The…

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Beyonce gives birth to twins

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U.S. singer Beyonce has given birth to twins in Los Angeles, several celebrity news websites reported on Saturday, citing unidentified sources. Beyonce, 35, and rapper and music producer Jay Z, already have a five-year-old daughter, Blue Ivy. E! News, citing multiple unidentified sources, reported the birth and that Jay Z and Blue Ivy were seen at a Los Angeles area hospital on Thursday. Us Weekly, also citing multiple unidentified sources, reported that the couple welcomed twins earlier this week. “Bey and Jay are thrilled and have started sharing the news…

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Why The Biafran Struggle Have Persisted – Ben Bruce

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The senator representing Bayelsa west constituency, Sen. Ben Murray Bruce, has explained the reason behind the prolonged struggle for Biafra actualization and restoration. The senator, in a video clip went back to history, detailing the psycho-causes of Nigerian Civil war in 1967 and the consequences of ignorance and negligence of the federal government over what he called non-inclusion of the ‘bight of Biafrans’ on the Nigeria map. Ben Bruce explained that the reason behind the continued agitation was because the Federal Government erased the civil war from the consciousness of…

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Is Buhari Nigeria’s Last President?

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Tangentially, I take the title of this article to be humdrum. Why? Goodluck Jonathan was prognosticated to be the last president of composite Nigeria, but the doom prognosis is now legend. Without obviating the trepidation and tension that eclipsed the country before and during the 2015 general election, Nigeria survived Jonathan; I believe it will survive President Muhammadu Buhari. However, the whirling of events in the past few weeks gives me colly-wobbles. The unity of Nigeria is not only held by a tenuous thread at this time, the country is…

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