Day: March 18, 2018

Batshuayi keeps Dortmund in top three

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Borussia Dortmund’s Michy Batshuayi scored a spectacular first-half winner to lead his team to a 1-0 home victory over Hanover 96 on Sunday that kept them on course for a top-three Bundesliga finish. The 24-year-old Belgium striker, who arrived on loan from Chelsea in January, grabbed his sixth Bundesliga goal in seven games with an eye-catching backheeled volley in the 24th minute from a corner. Batshuayi also hit the woodwork at the start of the game as did teammate Maximilian Philipp late on. It was by no means a dominant…

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Ethnic violence in DR Congo’s northeast displaces at least 60 000

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Officials say violence in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo between the Hema community and the Lendu ethnic group has now killed at least 150 people and has forced more than 32 000 people to flee to Bunia, where humanitarian assistance is strained and the suffering are eager for improved conditions. According to the UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs, another 28 000 have also fled into Uganda. There is a long history of tensions between the Lendu and Hema groups, whose ongoing battles since 1999 already have killed…

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Sergey Lavrov: Syria’s partition must stop

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The foreign ministers of Turkey, Russia and Iran have met in the Kazakh capital Astana and issued a joint statement which emphasised the territorial integrity of Syria. “Those who, in violation of all norms of international law, in violation of Resolution 2254, obviously seek to divide Syria, to replace the regime so that this important Middle Eastern country is replaced by small principalities, controlled by external players, certainly do not welcome what we are doing in Astana, we are trying to achieve in Astana,” Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in…

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Seven firms bid to buy Zambia’s oil refinery

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Seven firms have submitted bids to buy majority stake in Zambia’s sole 24,000 barrels per day Indeni Petroleum Refinery, an executive at the agency handling the bidding said on Saturday. Zambia Development Agency (ZDA) procurement specialist Mwila Kapita said Glencore Energy UK Ltd, Vitol SA, China Petroleum Technology and Development Corporation and Philia Trading were among the firms that had submitted bids. The others are Joint Stock Company Global Security of Russia, Sahara Energy Resources Limited and a consortium of Beijing Huiersanji Green Chem Company Limited and AVIC International Holding.…

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Sevilla suffer Man United hangover

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Sevilla crashed to a 2-1 league defeat to Leganes on Sunday just days after they pulled off the surprise elimination of Manchester United in the Champions League. The loss means Sevilla are increasingly unlikely to qualify for the Champions League through La Liga this season. Unai Bustinza put Leganes ahead four minutes before halftime with a superb header in their Butarque Stadium in the Madrid suburbs. Javi Eraso doubled the lead in the 69th minute. Mexican international Miguel Layun pulled a goal back for Sevilla in the 90th minute when…

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Shehu Sani: There is civil, cold war in APC

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The Senator representing Kaduna Central District, Shehu Sani, has said despite the reconciliation undertaken by a leader in the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Bola Tinubu, there is still a ‘civil and cold war’ within the party. Sani, who spoke in Ibadan, Oyo State, during an interview on Fresh F.M, a privately owned radio station, said Tinubu, who chairs the party’s reconciliation committee, was given the task of “bringing peace between Arab and Israeli,” wondering if the task could be undertaken before the 2019 elections. The civil rights advocate Senator,…

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Peace Corps Bill and National Assembly shenanigans

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I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion– Alexander the Great In 1994, a certain Dickson Akoh founded a group called the “Nigerian Leadership and Marshall Corps” (NLMC). As the years passed, he mooted the idea of a name change and, finally, in 1998, he settled for Nigerian Peace Corps, which he registered as a non-governmental organization. The non-governmental organization is modeled after a similarly named volunteer programme in the United States of…

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Ex-President Obasanjo: Nigeria too solid to collapse

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Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Saturday said Nigeria has become too solid as a country for any force, calamity or misgovernance to destroy it. Mr. Obasanjo, who spoke from Azerbaijan where he is chairing a meeting of the InterAction Council of Former Heads of State and Government, was responding to reports quoting him as saying Nigeria would collapse if President Muhammadu Buhari is reelected to office in 2019. The reports claimed that the former president made the comment in a speech at the Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University, on…

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