Day: April 30, 2018

The Nigeria of our daydream

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Around 9am on Friday, April 20, 2018, I grabbed my phone to check my messages. My wife and I had taken an early morning walk and I had been separated from my phone for over an hour. It was inevitable that there would be many missed calls and messages patiently waiting for my attention. The first message I saw was from Imam Imam, spokesman of Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal of Sokoto state and my former colleague at THISDAY. It came in at 8:23am. He wrote: “Oga good morning. Are you…

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NUJ begs FG to declare state of emergency on media industry

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Rafat Salami, the Secretary of the FCT Council of the Nigerian Union of Journalist (NUJ), has called on the Federal Government to declare state of emergency on the media industry in order to check the maltreatment of journalists. She made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Abuja. Salami, who participated in the recent convention of the Muslim Media Practitioners of Nigeria, described the nonpayment of salaries by most media owners as unfortunate. “It is a threat to the survival of democracy. “It…

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Germany triples compensation for victims of terrorism

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The German government plans to triple the compensation it gives to victims of terror to 30,000 euros (36,400 dollars), a reaction to an outcry after the 2016 terrorist attack on a Berlin Christmas market. “The attack [on the Christmas market in Berlin] in December 2016 showed that great improvements have to be made,” the government’s commissioner for the victims of terror, Edgar Franke, told the local newspaper Rheinische Post. He said current levels of compensation – 10,000 euros for the loss of a child, parent or spouse and 5,000 euros…

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British PM appoints Sajid Javid interior minister

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British Prime Minister, Theresa May, appointed Sajid Javid as the new Home Secretary on Monday after the previous Interior Minister, Amber Rudd, quit over the treatment of some long-term Caribbean residents wrongly labeled illegal immigrants. Javid, 48, a former Managing Director at Deutsche Bank, was previously Communities and Local Government Secretary. Rudd resigned on Sunday after May’s government faced an outpouring of indignation over its treatment of some long-term Caribbean residents who were wrongly labeled illegal immigrants. The loss of one of May’s closest allies is a blow as she…

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Woman cut off boyfriend’s penis for leaking their sex tape

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An Argentine woman Brenda Barattini accused of cutting off her boyfriend’s penis with gardening scissors said she was provoked because he showed his friends their homemade sex tape, according to reports. The 26-year-old Barattini, allegedly committed the revenge attack in the Nueva Cordoba area of the Argentine city of Cordoba last November, which left her 40-year-old boyfriend with 90 percent of his penis chopped off, and in life-threatening condition. Barattini, who is serving imprisonment without bail ahead of her trial, said she suffered great psychological harm because of the leaked tape…

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