With the gruesome murder of an African-American by a ‘white’ cop still causing widespread outrage across the world, some Nigerians in Lagos, on Monday, staged a walk in condemnation of the dastardly act. The Black Lives Matter Movement in Nigeria (BLMMN), stormed the streets of Nigeria’s commercial capital despite the heavy downpour, in total condemnation of the indiscriminate killing of coloured people in the United States of America. George Floyd died on May 25th after Derek Chauvin, then an officer with the Minneapolis Police Department, pressed his knee into his neck for nearly nine minutes. On May 29th Mr Chauvin…
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has directed political parties wishing to adopt the Direct Primary mode to elect their candidates for the Edo and Ondo governorship elections to submit their membership register to the Commission. The Commission noted this will allow for effective monitoring of the party primaries. It also requested to be furnished with the list of delegates by the political parties that opted for the Indirect Primary mode. INEC National Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, who announced the request during a virtual meeting with political party leaders, charged the parties to ensure rancour-free primaries, adding that party primaries…
As part of steps to curtail the spread of COVID-19 in Ekiti State, the state government on Monday commissioned a mobile laboratory to facilitate COVID-19 testing in the state. The Molecular Laboratory is installed at the Ekiti State Teaching Hospital, Ado-Ekiti in partnership with 54gene, a company set up to provide genomic data for Africa. This comes barely a month after the State unveiled the Ekiti State COVID-19 Response Hub, a Geographic Information System-based application created to manage data on the pandemic in the state. The COVID-19 mobile laboratory acquired by the State Government is fully equipped with vital testing…
The Abia State Government has directed members of the State Executive Council and Inter-Ministerial Committee on COVID-19 to undergo COVID-19 tests. The Commissioner for Information, John Okiyi-Kalu, made the disclosure in a statement in Umuahia on Sunday. Okiyi-Kalu said the directive followed the outcome of tests conducted on the close family members of a late commissioner in the state and member of the inter-ministerial committee on COVID-19. He said: “Abia State Governor, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu, has directed all members of the committee and those of the Executive Council, who might have recently come in contact with the late commissioner, to…
Hundreds of people protested, in solidarity with demonstrations in the United States over the death of a black man, George Floyd, shown on video gasping for breath as a white policeman knelt on his neck in Minneapolis, stormed the streets of London in United Kingdom (UK) and Berlin in Germany to express their displeasure. The protesters knelt in central London’s Trafalgar Square, chanting “No justice, no peace”, and then marched past the Houses of Parliament and finished up outside the U.S. Embassy. Several hundred protesters also staged a rally outside the U.S. Embassy in Berlin, holding up posters saying “Justice…
In celebration of this year’s special June 12 anniversary, the Special Adviser to the President on Political matters, Babafemi Ojudu, Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, Chief Olisa Agbakoba, Aare Ona Kankanfo, Gani Adams and Dr. Joe Okei-Odumakin will lead several other pro-democracy activists to recount their contribution towards the return of democracy to Nigeria.Others expected to join the discussion on activities before and after June 12, 1993, presidential election won by Late Chief Moshood Abiola were: Chief Frank Kokori, daughter of the deceased, Dr. Hafsat Abiola, Bashorun Dele Momodu, Lanre Suraj, Wale Okunniyi, Kayode Ogundamisi, Dr. Ayo Obe, former commissioner…
The Central Bank of Nigeria has adjusted timelines for reversals or resolution of refund complaints on electronic channels with effect from June 8. The CBN Director, Corporate Communications, Isaac Okorafor, made this known in a statement in Abuja on Sunday. Okorafor explained that the move was aimed at further enhancing service quality, particularly quick refunds when customers experience failed transactions, dispense error or dispute. He said the adjustment on failed: “On Us Automated Teller Machine (ATM) transactions,” when customers use their cards on their bank ATMs, would now be instantly reversed from the current timelines of three days. He added…
Bob and Alyssa recently posted 30 flyers advertising an Avengers-themed orgy around South Philadelphia. Bob and Alyssa, orgy co-organizers. They’re gonna flatten a whole lotta curves. In an effort to give their neighbors a laugh during the coronavirus pandemic, a couple recently posted 30 flyers advertising an Avengers-themed “Post Pandemic Pan-Philadelphia Orgy” around their South Philly neighborhood. While the event started as a joke, the pair have received so many inquiries that they now intend to actually host it. “The orgy is on,” the couple — a lighting engineer named Bob and a sex therapist named Alyssa, who withheld their last names —…
The coronavirus has killed over 365,000 people worldwide in just five months — but that’s nothing compared to what could be coming if humans don’t clean up their act when it comes to chickens. In his new book, “How to Survive a Pandemic,” Dr. Michael Gregor, a scientist and physician who once testified for Oprah Winfrey in her “meat defamation” trial, warns that an apocalyptic virus emanating from overcrowded and unsanitary chicken farms has the potential to wipe out half of humanity. Greger, a vegan, writes that “In the ‘hurricane scale’ of epidemics, COVID-19, with a death rate of around…
The Presidency says there is no going back on its decision to implement the newly signed Executive Order 10 which grants financial autonomy to two other arms of government – state legislature and judiciary, across the 36 states. Senior Special Assistant to the President on Niger-Delta Affairs and Secretary of the Presidential Committee on implementation of the Executive Order 10, Senator Ita Enang, reiterated this position in Abuja at a press briefing during weekend. The state governors were reported to have insisted on constitutional provisions in meetings with President Muhammadu Buhari and the Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN) on…
