NATIONAL BROADCAST BY PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI ON DEMOCRACY DAY, JUNE 12TH 2020 Fellow Nigerians, The 2020 celebration of Democracy Day marks 21 years of uninterrupted civil administration in our dear country. This day provides us an opportunity to reflect on our journey as a nation, our achievements and struggles. It is a day to honour our founding fathers who toiled to establish our republic and every Nigerian who has worked tirelessly to sustain it. We are...
On the morning of 24 October 2014, 20-year-old Jane *(not real name), was happy to set out on a trip to attend her uncle’s wedding in Kogi State. By the end of that day, her crisis-free life had taken a traumatic turn — she was gang-raped by three men somewhere in Kogi State. “There was terrible traffic on the way especially around Okene, we ended up getting to Lokoja around 7:30 pm. I boarded a...
President Muhammadu Buhari has assured Nigerians that his administration remains unshaken in its decision to protect lives and properties in the country and as well ends the insurgency and banditry troubling the country. Buhari said this during his speech in commemoration of the country’s Democracy Day celebration in Abuja on Friday. He reiterated that his administration is committed to protect on-shore and off-shore oil installations, secure our territorial waters and ends piracy in the Gulf...
The politics of the National Chairman of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Hammed Tinubu, is more technical than what people might be seeing. His silence over the disagreement between the National Chairman of the APC and the Governor of Edo State, Godwin Obaseki, could be a strategy to test the popularity and who is more loyal to the party between them. Although Oshiomhole appears to be Tinubu’s ally from the look of things,...
Residents of Toungo border community and it’s environs may have a sigh of relief as thunderstorm reportedly killed 18 suspected Kidnappers in Toungo forest while sharing largesse. An official of Toungo Local Council who preferred anonymity confirmed that the local hunters couldn’t retrieve the corpses. “The bandits that gathered, had collected over 20 million from their wealthy victims at a remote village between Koncha in Cameroon and Toungo in Nigeria. “Angered by the incessant attacks...
The two chambers of the National Assembly on Thursday, raised the N10.509 trillion budget proposed by the executive as revised budget for 2020 fiscal year by N301billion, passing N10.810 trillion as aggregate expenditure for the 2020 revised budget. The N301 billion added to the earlier proposal made by the executive arose from increases made on Capital expenditure proposal, which was raised from N2.230 trillion to N2.488 trillion, recurrent expenditure jerked up from the earlier proposed...
The Enugu State House of Assembly on Thursday considered and approved the participation of Enugu State in the Central Bank of Nigeria national healthcare intervention fund. All members of the State’s House of Assembly unanimously supported the State’s participation having found the intervention fund to be favourable, in the public interest, and a boost to the healthcare system. The Central Bank of Nigeria Health Sector Intervention Fund is a facility mapped out for financing the...
TERVUREN, Belgium — When it comes to ruthless colonialism and racism, few historical figures are more notorious than Leopold II, the Belgian king who held Congo as his personal property and may have been responsible for the deaths of millions of Congolese more than a century ago. Yet across Belgium, the monarch’s name is still found on streets and tunnels. Cities are dotted with his statues and busts, even as evidence of his misdeeds has...
CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Collins Khosa was killed by law enforcement officers in a poor township in Johannesburg over a cup of beer left in his yard. The 40-year-old black man was choked, slammed against a wall, beaten, kicked and hit with the butt of a rifle by the soldiers as police watched, his family says. Two months later, South Africans staged a march against police brutality. But it was mostly about the killing...
For much of its seven-year existence, the Black Lives Matter movement has been seen by many Americans as a divisive, even radical force. Its very name enraged its foes, who countered with the slogans “Blue Lives Matter” and “All Lives Matter.” Times have changed — dramatically so — as evidenced during the wave of protests sparked by George Floyd’s death at the hands of Minneapolis police. Black Lives Matter has gone mainstream — and black...
