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Wednesday, 15 August 2018 06:02

Ajimobi settles rift with Olubadan as monarch celebrates 90th birthday

Funmi Olaitan, IbadanThe face-off between Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State and the Olubadan of Ibadanland, Saliu Adetunji, over the elevation of some Ibadan High Chiefs and Baales in the ancient city to Obaship status, may have come to an end, as the governor is set to grace the 90th birthday of the Olubadan, which will commence on Sunday.It will be recalled that the Olubadan had few days ago made peace with the High Chiefs, who he equally had a face - off with him since their elevation to Obaship status in August, 2017.The Chairman of the Olubadan's 90th birthday…

Wednesday, 15 August 2018 05:46

UK police treat Parliament crash as terrorism, seek motive

Police flooded central London streets and cordoned off the city’s government district Tuesday, after a speeding car plowed into cyclists and crashed outside Parliament in what authorities were treating as an act of terrorism.With the driver in custody, counterterror detectives were working to uncover the motive behind what they suspect is the fourth vehicle attack in Britain — and the second on Parliament — in 18 months.“Given that this appears to be a deliberate act, the method and this being an iconic site, we are treating it as a terrorist incident,” Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu, Britain’s top counterterrorism officer, told…

Wednesday, 15 August 2018 05:29

Italian bridge collapse sends cars plunging, killing 26

A 51-year-old highway bridge in the Italian port city of Genoa collapsed in a driving rain Tuesday, killing at least 26 people and injuring 15 others as it sent dozens of vehicles tumbling into a heap of concrete and twisted steel.Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte called it “an immense tragedy ... inconceivable in a modern system like ours, a modern country.”The disaster, on a major interchange connecting Genoa and other northern cities with beaches in eastern Liguria into France, focused attention on Italy’s aging infrastructure, particularly its concrete bridges and viaducts built in the postwar boom of the 1950s and 1960s.What…

Wednesday, 15 August 2018 05:21

Trump campaign takes legal action against Omarosa

Donald Trump's election campaign has begun legal action against an ex-White House aide and reality TV star for allegedly breaching her contract.Donald J Trump for President, Inc has filed for arbitration against Omarosa Manigault Newman, claiming she violated a 2016 non-disclosure agreement.A feud between the two has escalated as Mrs Newman promotes a new book that is very critical of him.On Tuesday, Mr Trump angrily denied her claim he was taped using the N-word.He tweeted: "I don't have that word in my vocabulary, and never have."Mrs Newman - a former star of The Apprentice who was fired after a stint…

Wednesday, 15 August 2018 05:18

Pennsylvania report details decades of sexual abuse by Catholic priests

Roman Catholic priests in Pennsylvania sexually abused thousands of children over a 70-year period and silenced victims through “the weaponization of faith” and a systematic cover-up campaign by their bishops, the state attorney general said on Tuesday.An 884-page report made public by Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro after a two-year investigation contained graphic examples of children being groomed and sexually abused by clergymen. It was largely based on documents from secret archives kept by the dioceses, including handwritten confessions by priests, he said.“It was child sexual abuse, including rape, committed by grown men - priests - against children,” Shapiro told…

Tuesday, 14 August 2018 05:55

Senators sue AGF, DSS, police over alleged plot to remove Saraki

Two Senators, Rafiu Adebayo and Isa Misau, have sued the Attorney-General of the Federation, the police, the Department of State Services, the Senate and seven others in order to stop the attempts to remove Senate President Bukola Saraki.Adebayo and Misau, who are supporters of Saraki, instituted the fresh court action marked FHC/ABJ/CS/872/2018 before a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Monday.Other defendants in the suit are: the majority and deputy majority leaders of the Senate, the Clerk of the Senate, the Deputy Clerk of the Senate, the Senate President, the Deputy Senate President and the Deputy Minority Leader.In the…

Tuesday, 14 August 2018 05:52

Appeal Court suspends order for arrest of INEC Chairman

The Court of Appeal in Abuja on Monday suspended the bench warrant issued for the arrest of chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mahmood Yakubu.A Federal High Court judge in Abuja, Stephen Pam, had given the order on August 8, after Mr Yakubu failed to appear in his court for the third time, over a case involving the Anambra State politics.The case was brought before the lower court by an Anambra State politician, Ejike Oguebego, challenging the commission’s refusal to recognise him as Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Anambra in compliance with a Supreme Court…

Tuesday, 14 August 2018 05:47

What happened to Daura was finger of God - Fayose

The Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose has called on Nigerians to pray for divine intervention regarding the state of the country under the All Progressives Congress (APC).Fayose, while speaking at a meeting with Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) aspirants for the next national and state House of Assembly elections, stated that the APC has allegedly eroded democratic gains made by Nigeria when the party came to power in 2015.Fayose said God would intervene in the political and leadership affairs of Nigeria and put a stop to the level of intimidation by the APC-led administration.He said: “It is unfortunate that the…

Tuesday, 14 August 2018 05:41

Reality White House: Trump, Omarosa trade insults, charges

President Donald Trump and former aide Omarosa Manigault Newman faced off Monday in a messy clash that involved an explosive tell-all book, secret recordings, an ethnic slur and plenty of insults — reviving their roles as reality show boss and villain.Late Monday, Trump tackled Manigault Newman's claim that she had heard an audiotape of him using the N-word.He tweeted that he had received a call from the producer of "The Apprentice" assuring him "there are NO TAPES of the Apprentice where I used such a terrible and disgusting word as attributed by Wacky and Deranged Omarosa."Trump insisted, "I don't have…

Tuesday, 14 August 2018 05:38

Turkey vows action against 'economic terrorists' over lira plunge

President Tayyip Erdogan on Monday accused “economic terrorists” of plotting to harm Turkey by spreading false reports and said they would face the full force of the law, as authorities launched investigations of those suspected of involvement.The lira currency, which has lost more than 40 percent against the U.S. dollar this year, pulled back from a record low of 7.24 earlier on Monday after the central bank pledged to provide liquidity, but it remained under selling pressure and its meltdown continued to rattle global markets.“There are economic terrorists on social media,” Erdogan told a gathering of Turkish ambassadors at the…

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Tuesday, 14 August 2018 05:32

After sanctions, Iran's economy is nearing a crisis

In the runup to the Aug. 7 resumption of U.S. sanctions against Iran, the country’s beleaguered president, Hassan Rouhani, got stern directives from a few corners of the Islamic Republic. Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, urged him to deal with corruption. The powerful Revolutionary Guards commander told him to focus on Iran’s slumping currency, the rial, while a sizable chunk of Parliament summoned Rouhani to harangue him about the sinking economy. None of them, however, had any advice on how to ease the growing sense of despair and outrage in the streets.Over the past few weeks, record temperatures, power outages,…

Tuesday, 14 August 2018 05:21

British MP accuses UN official, Ravi Karkara, of sexual harassment

A British member of parliament has said that he was among the men allegedly sexually harassed by a top United Nations official. Lloyd Russell-Moyle told Newsweek he decided to speak out after reading the Newsweek exclusive story on allegations against Ravi Karkara, a senior advisor at the U.N. Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women.Karkara, a former senior advisor to the Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations, is accused of sexually harassing young men. Russell-Moyle, 31, worked with him at the U.N. and several international events before he was elected in 2017 to represent Brighton Kemptown as…

Monday, 13 August 2018 05:43

PDP alleges fresh plot to arrest Saraki, Ekweremadu

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday alleged that there is a fresh plot by the All Progressives Congress (APC) and “the cabal in the Buhari Presidency to use compromised security agencies and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to invite, arrest and detain Senate President Bukola Saraki and Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu.”This comes as the party disclosed that it had unraveled fresh facts confirming that the pressure by the presidency for the reconvening of the Senate was out of a sinister motive and not for any emergency in the approval of the budget of the Independent National Electoral…

Monday, 13 August 2018 05:41

NASS invasion: Northern elders, Afenifere, Ohanaeze, others demand judicial probe

Leaders of Nigerian socio-cultural groups, Afenifere, Northern Elders Forum and Ohanaeze -Ndigbo, on Sunday, called on President Muhammadu Buhari to “stop running Nigeria asif he is the head of a military junta.”The socio-cultural groups, which also included the Pan-Niger Delta Forum and the Middle Belt Forum, said they rejected any attempt to make the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, to investigate the crime of the invasion of the National Assembly last Tuesday, noting that they had “perused the wishy-washy interim report submitted to the Acting President” and they did not believe in it. I The groups, in a statement on…

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