What Tambuwal, Bala Said About Gov. Wike, Major Mustapha
The Governors of Sokoto and Bauchi States, Aminu Tambuwal and Bala Mohammed respectively, have hailed their Rivers counterpart, Nyesom Wike’s achievements. Both Governors spoke at the 2020 Rivers State New Year Banquet at the Government House Port Harcourt on Wednesday night. Tambuwal commended Rivers people for standing firm to defend their mandate, in the face […]
Presidency Reacts As DSS Denies Abducting Dadiyata
President Muhammadu Buhari’s Personal Assistant on New Media, Bashir Ahmad has reacted as the Department of State Services, DSS, denied abducting Abubakar Idris, aka, Dadiyata. Dadiyata a strong critic of Federal and Kano State governments was abducted by some men believed to be operatives of the DSS few months ago from his residence. However, DSS […]
Falana Reacts As President Buhari Rejects Third Term Agenda
Legal luminary, Femi Falana (SAN) has commended President Muhammadu Buhari for disowning the group advocating for his third term. Falana said Buhari’s decision not to seek reelection for a third term was in the right direction. The senior lawyer stated this in a statement on Wednesday in reaction to President Buhari’s New Year broadcast. “It […]
Dadiyata: Aisha Reacts As DSS Denies Keeping Buhari Critic
Aisha Yusufu, co-convener of the BringBackOurGirls (BOG) advocacy group, has dismissed the denial by the Department of State Services (DSS) that Abubakar Idris (aka Dadiyata) was in its custody. Dadiyata is a strong critic of the governments of President Muhammadu Buhari and Abdulahhi Ganduje, the Kano State governor. Peter Afunanya, the spokesman, in a statement […]
Oluwo Of Iwo Sends Message To Buhari
The Oluwo of Iwo in Osun State, Oba AbdulRasheed Akanbi, has appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to site one of the six newly approved Federal Colleges of Education in Iwo. The Yoruba monarch lamented that his town had, over the years, been marginalised in terms of federal presence. Oluwo, in a statement he personally signed […]
Police Fire Tear Gas As Hong Kong Rings In New Year
Hong Kong police fired tear gas a few minutes into 2020 as pro-democracy protesters marked the New Year with midnight countdown rallies and a massive march planned for January 1. The city has been battered by more than six months of unrest with marches attended by millions, as well as confrontations in which police have […]
Paris Opera Musicians Chime In With Strike Concert
Paris Opera musicians on Tuesday gave a symphonic show of support for the grinding transport strike over the French government’s pension overhaul. The orchestra musicians set up on sunlit steps outside the Bastille Opera to play for several hundred passers-by, many capturing the concert on cellphone cameras as cars clogged the nearby roundabout. It […]
Hong Kong Readies For New Year Democracy Rally
Hong Kong was readying for a massive pro-democracy rally Wednesday after seeing in the New Year with an evening of peaceful protests that morphed into tear gas-choked clashes between hardcore demonstrators and police. The city has been battered by more than six months of unrest with millions marching, as well as confrontations in which police […]
Pope Sorry For Slapping Devotee
Pope Francis apologised Wednesday for slapping a woman who had grabbed him as he greeted a crowd of devotees, shortly before he delivered a speech denouncing “every form of violence against women.” The image of a visibly annoyed Francis slapping his way free from the clutches of an admirer as he walked by Catholic faithful […]
Massive Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Rally End In Police Clashes
A huge New Year’s Day pro-democracy rally in Hong Kong ended in mass arrests and clashes between police and hardcore protesters, as demonstrators sought to carry their movement’s momentum into 2020. Hong Kong has been battered by nearly seven months of unrest — its biggest political crisis in decades — which has seen millions come […]
Pro-Iran Protesters Leave US Embassy In Baghdad
Pro-Iran demonstrators left the besieged US embassy in Baghdad on Wednesday after the Hashed al-Shaabi paramilitary force ordered them to withdraw a day after their dramatic incursion. Thousands of Iraqi supporters of the largely Iranian-trained Hashed had encircled and vandalised the embassy compound Tuesday, outraged by US air strikes that killed 25 Hashed fighters over […]
Dwarf T-Rex Dinosaurs Probably Did Not Exist: Study
For three decades, paleontologists the world over have been split over a provocative finding: did a dwarf species of Tyrannosaurus rex really once exist? In 1988, paleontologist Robert Bakker and his colleagues at the Cleveland (Ohio) Museum of Natural History reclassified a specimen first discovered in 1942 and displayed at the museum. It was, they […]