Day: October 6, 2017

Religious leaders urged to preach more against women maltreatment

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The President of the Ijede Customary Court in Ikorodu, Mrs Omolara Abiola, on Friday urged religious leaders to intensify prayer, against wife battery and other forms of maltreatment against women. Abiola told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) his advice became necessary wives battery and other human rights abuses against women were still prevalent in the society. “Our religious leaders need to do more preaching against maltreatment and emotional traumatising of the female gender. ‘’The religious leaders have to condemn it, the condemnation of such anti-social acts must be backed…

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Biafra: Middle-Belt, Southern leaders blast FG, insist Nnamdi Kanu, IPOB not terrorists

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The Southern and Middle Belt Leaders Forum has condemned the labeling of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and its leader, Nnamdi Kanu as terrorists by the Federal Government. In a communiqué issued after its second Consultative Summit in Abuja on Thursday, the group rejected, “the hasty tagging of IPOB as terrorist organisation in the face of contrary evidence.” In attendance were Edwin Clark, Barnabas Gumade, Jerry Gana, Olu Falae, Tunde Ogbeha, Ayo Adebajo, Yinka Odumakin, Dan Suleiman and Stella Omu. The Forum also deplored recent developments in the South…

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U.S. Republican lawmaker resigns after sex scandal

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U.S. Republican Congressman Tim Murphy has announced his resignation after his affair with a young woman came to light, official statement said on Friday. “Upon further discussion with my family, I have made the decision to resign my position,’’ Murphy, an eight-term member of the House of Representatives, serving since 2003, said. The statement came one day after the 65-year-old said he would not seek re-election to Congress at the end of his current term, which would terminate in 15 months. The shifting position was the result of the House…

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The NNPC Act makes Ibe Kachikwu’s case difficult

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Ideally, the minister of petroleum – in this case President Muhammadu Buhari — is supposed to superintendent over the ministry while the minister of state ought to assist him, since the ministry has only one permanent secretary. And of course, the minister of state would have to clarify with the minister before taking any decision in aspects he is overseeing. But Ibe Kachikwu’s leaked letter to the president suggests that he hasn’t been in touch with president – the minister of petroleum. It also suggests that the board of the…

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2019: Why Atiku should take over from Buhari — Ally

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Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar should take over from President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019 because he possesses the ‘expertise and exposure’ needed to address the challenges facing the country, his associate has said. Alhaji Muhammadu Abdullahi Sugar, a close ally of Atiku, stated this in an interview with Daily Trust. He said if Atiku was given the mandate to pilot the affairs of the country, he would turn around its fortunes within a short period. “You know, late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua succeeded in addressing most of the challenges facing…

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UK reaffirms plegde to help Nigeria fight against terror

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The United Kingdom (UK) has reaffirmed its commitment to helping Nigeria succeed in its fight against terror. This is contained in a statement signed by Joe Abuku, the Press and Public Affairs Officer, British High Commission to Nigeria and issued in Maiduguri. The statement is coming after the official visit of the UK Minister for the Armed Forces, Nark Lancaster. Abuku quoted Lancaster as saying that the visit was a testimony to the strong defence relationship between the two countries. He added that the UK would continue to support and cooperate…

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Babachir, Baru ‘working’ for Buhari’s second term — PDP

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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), yesterday, alleged that top government officials are keeping “stolen money” in a special pool to prosecute President Muhammadu Buhari’s second term bid. But the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) had condemned the allegation and tasked PDP to provide proof. The PDP specifically alleged that the suspended Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Babachir Lawal, and the Group Managing Director of the NNPC, Maikanti Baru, were involved. ‎Addressing a news conference at the Wadata Plaza in Abuja, PDP National Publicity Secretary, Prince Dayo Adeyeye,…

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Biafra: Nigerian Army speaks on Nnamdi Kanu’s whereabouts

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The Director, Army Public Relations, Brig. Gen. Sani Usman, has maintained that family of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu knows where Kanu is hiding. Usman urged Nigerians to ask the younger brother and lawyer to the IPOB leader, Ifeanyi Ejiofor of Kanu’s whereabouts. The Army spokesman also said Kanu was somebody without any means of livelihood, but used “propaganda” to attract public sympathy. Speaking in Abuja, while rounding off a two-day media conference on the military’s enhancement of human rights, Usman said Kanu’s followers…

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British novelist Kazuo Ishiguro wins Nobel Literature Prize

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The 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature has been awarded to British novelist Kazuo Ishiguro. Born in Japan in 1954, the author’s family moved to England when he was five years old. The writer, “in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world”, said the Nobel Prize committee in a statement on Thursday. He is best known for the dystopian work Never Let Me Go and The Remains of the Day, a book Ishiguro has said he wrote in just four…

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