Month: February 2018

Boko Haram member gets 60 years jail term

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The Federal High Court sitting in Wawa, Niger State has sentenced a 22-year-old Boko Haram member, Abba Umar, to sixty years in prison. The court found Umar guilty of four terrorism-related charges, including membership of the proscribed Boko Haram sect, which earned Umar 15 years imprisonment. He is also to serve 30 years for attempting to commit an act of terrorism and another 60 years in prison on count three for committing an act of terrorism on Bama community, Gwoza, and military barracks in Borno, where people were killed and…

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Liberia’s George Weah gets panel to review concession agreements

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Liberia’s new President George Weah has set up a nine member panel to review concessions entered into by previous administrations. Concessions generally cover government grants of rights, land or property. The committee would “review and ensure that all contracts entered into by the government of Liberia and concessionaires are executed according to agreed-principles via Liberia-laws.” It will also determine if the those agreements had been fully implemented and met their performance requirements. During the 12-year rule of Weah’s predecessor, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the government attracted around 15 billion dollars in…

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Governor Fayose backs Wole Soyinka’s call for organized resistance against killer herdsmen

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Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State has thrown his weight behind the call by Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, for an organized resistance against the incursion of herdsmen. While calling on governors in all states affected by the herdsmen menace to adopt such measure to protect their citizens, Fayose stressed that Nigeria and Nigerians must be protected at all cost. Governor Fayose said: “The comfort our leaders enjoy from their office is momentary. But the suffering of the people may be permanent if the leaders continue to look away as…

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Nothing is impossible – Neymar

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Neymar insisted that Paris Saint-Germain can still qualify for the Champions League quarterfinals despite losing 3-1 to Real Madrid in the first leg of their last-16 tie on Wednesday. “My analysis is that we committed errors at certain moments. We were not mature enough at the end of the match,” the world’s most expensive player told Brazilian media after PSG squandered the lead at the Santiago Bernabeu. Adrien Rabiot had put the French side ahead, but Cristiano Ronaldo’s double strike and a Marcelo goal turned the game on its head…

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Malnutrition of children under five years worsens – UNICEF

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Despite budgetary allocations towards tackling the menace of malnutrition and the constant on-going enlightenment on the need for proper nutrition in the early stages of a child’s life, the spate of malnutrition has continued to increase. United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) specialist on monitoring and evaluation, Ms. Maureen Zubie-Okolo, revealed this in Enugu, during a two-day media dialogue on data-driven reporting. The research is in collaboration with the National Bureau of Statistics in the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) 2017 in which 33,901 households and 2,239 enumeration areas across the…

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Don’t use ZTE, Huawei phones – US intelligence chiefs

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The heads of six major US intelligence agencies have warned that American citizens shouldn’t use products and services made by Chinese tech giants Huawei and ZTE. According to a report from CNBC, the intelligence chiefs made the recommendation during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Tuesday. The group included the heads of the FBI, the CIA, the NSA, and the director of national intelligence. During his testimony, FBI Director Chris Wray said the the government was “deeply concerned about the risks of allowing any company or entity that is beholden…

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Ronaldo double as Real defeat PSG

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Cristiano Ronaldo scored twice as Real Madrid came from behind to stun Paris Saint-Germain 3-1 in the first leg of their heavyweight Champions League last-16 tie on Wednesday. Ronaldo scored his 100th Champions League goal for title-holders Real from the penalty spot late in the first half to cancel out Adrien Rabiot’s opener for the French side at the Santiago Bernabeu, set up by Neymar. The Portuguese star then turned the ball home from close range with seven minutes left before Marcelo secured what could turn out to be a…

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Rex Tillerson demands Iran-backed militias out of Syria

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US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Wednesday called for Iranian-backed militias to withdraw from Syria after meeting with opposition negotiators from the war-torn nation during a visit to Jordan. Washington’s lead diplomat said the US was “quite concerned” by a recent confrontation that saw ally Israel bomb what it described as Iranian targets in Syria. “This again illustrates why Iran’s presence in Syria is only destabilising to the region,” Tillerson said at a press conference with his Jordanian counterpart. “We think Iran needs to withdraw its military, its militia…

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‘Mahrez performing better than ever’

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Leicester City winger Riyad Mahrez is performing better than ever since ending his 10-day absence from the club, manager Claude Puel said on Wednesday. Mahrez, 26, returned to training last week for the first time since handing in a transfer request last month, with local media reporting he was absent because he was “depressed” after Leicester rejected Manchester City’s deadline day bid to sign him. The Algerian, however, described assumptions about his absence from the club as “completely untrue”. He appeared as a second-half substitute in Leicester’s 5-1 Premier League…

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Public servants to be barred from medical tourism?

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A Bill for an Act to amend the National Health Act to regulate and prohibit medical trip abroad by public servants has passed through second reading at the House of Representatives on Wednesday. Sponsor of the bill, Rep. Sergius Ogun (Edo-PDP), while leading the debate, said the amendment seeks to curb the huge foreign exchange loss to medical tourism. This is by facilitating the development of effective healthcare facilities as well as strengthening existing public and private health institutions for efficient service delivery. Ogun stated that over 5,000 Nigerians fly…

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