Human Smuggling into Southern Nigeria: Beware of Greeks Bearing Gifts

Disecting this strange phenomenon of hundreds of teenage Northern boys, no girls among them, hiding among cattle in trailers, others in minibusses, traveling in the dead of night, trying to sneak into Yorubaland but more especially into the Southeast and South-South zones. For those unfamiliar with Homer’s tome the Iliad, the mythological story of the ten-year siege by forces from a coalition of Greek states circa 670 B.C. against the city-state of Troy, this saying...

‘Selma’ Snubbed at 2015 Oscars After Cast Protested Police Violence, Actor Oyelowo Says

The civil rights movie “Selma” was made free for rental on Friday, a day after actor David Oyelowo said Oscar voters had deliberately snubbed the film in 2015. Oyelowo, who played Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in the movie, said members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences objected when “Selma” cast members protested the death of a black American. “I remember at the premiere of ‘Selma’ us wearing ‘I Can’t Breathe’ T-shirts in protest,” said Oyelowo, referring to...

How Police Extort Money at COVID-19 Checkpoints In Adamawa and Taraba

Travellers pay security operatives for passage We’re not aware, say police Ibrahim Abdul’ Aziz (Regional Correspondent)  For now, the police and other security operatives in uniform and plainclothes has been accused of profiteering from the lockdown put to contain the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Some residents in Yola,Zing, Numan, Jalingo,Wukari  and other major towns said  that rather than enforce the restriction, the operatives, including military and immigration personnel, were helping themselves to pecuniary gains. The border...

UNO: Nigeria Won’t Lose 24 Local Councils To UN, Says Ex- NBC DG, Dahiru Bobbo

Amid reactions, Alhaji Dahiru Bobbo,  a former Director-General of the National Boundary Commission has described as untrue reports that Nigeria may lose 24 local councils, by way of ceding, to a new country to be known as United Nations Organisation (UNO) State of Cameroon at its borders with la Republique du Cameroun by July 10 this year. Guardian, Thisday and some online media on Friday referenced the agreement, which gave July 10, 2020, as the...

COVID-19: Fidelity Bank Donates N10m to Kano Govt

The management of Fidelity Bank Plc has donated N10 million to the Kano Government for the prevention and control of COVID-19 pandemic in the state. Mr. Hassan Imam, Executive Director, Northern operation of the bank who presented the cheque on Friday in Kano, said that the gesture was part of the bank’s social responsibility and contribution to the fight against the dreaded disease. Imam, who lauded the commitment of the state government said that the...

Speaker Gbajabimila to Engage State Assemblies on Domestication of Anti-Rape Laws

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rep. Femi Gbajabiamila, says he will engage Speakers of State Houses of Assemblies on domestications of laws against rape. Gbajabiamila said this while receiving a delegation of 12 Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), in his office on Friday in Abuja. Gbajabimila said that he would engage state assembly speakers on the urgent need to domesticate the Child Right Act and the Violence Against Persons Act. “I am aware that...

Biden Clinches Democratic Bid to Face Trump in Election

Former vice president Joe Biden on Friday claimed victory in the Democratic Party race to take on President Donald Trump in the November election. “It was an honor to compete alongside one of the most talented groups of candidates the Democratic party has ever fielded – and I am proud to say that we are going into this general election a united party,” Biden said in a statement. Biden passed the 1,991-delegate threshold required to...

UI Postgraduate Student Murdered in Ibadan

Shomuyiwa Azeezat, a female postgraduate student of the University of Ibadan, was  on Friday murdered in her rented apartment at Aba Ijefun, Akinyele area, by yet-to be identified persons. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Azeezat, said to be seven-months pregnant, was a postgraduate student of the Department of Social Work in the Faculty of Education. The university’s Students’ Union President, Akeju Olusegun, in a statement said the deceased was hit with a heavy...

NCDC announces 328 New COVID-19 Cases, Total Infections Now 11,844

The Nigeria Center For Disease Control (NCDC) has recorded 328 new cases of the COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 11, 844. The NCDC announced this on Friday through it’s official Twitter handle, saying that as at June 5, 2020, 328 new confirmed cases and 10  deaths were recorded in the country. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that no new state has reported a case in the last 24 hours....

Protests Against Police Violence Sweep Across Small-Town America

ANNA, Illinois/NEW YORK  – Before sundown on Thursday around 150 protesters marched down the main street in Anna, Illinois, past Bob’s Tavern, Oasis of Grace Church, Douglas Skating Rink and Casey’s General Store holding homemade signs and chanting “black lives matter.” Nearly a century ago this southern Illinois town of 4,200 residents expelled most of its African-American residents, according to historians. The rally was held in solidarity with others protesting the death of George Floyd...

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