Some communities in Gurmana Ward of Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State have been attacked by gunmen.
It was discovered that Sarkin Zama, Bakin Kogi (Lagbe), Siyiko and other adjoining villages were invaded by armed gangs who operated unchallenged for hours.
According to Co-convener, Concerned Shiroro Youths, Sani Abubakar Yusuf Kokki, some residents were killed in the attack which happened hours after students and staff were abducted at Government Science College, Kagara, Rafi Local Government Area of the state.
“Countless deadly attacks have become daily occurrences thereby compelling the affected victims to live at the mercy of hydraheaded monsters. Defenceless, unarmed and peaceful locals have been abandoned to their fate,” Kokki said.
Serena Williams has lost four Grand Slam finals since her return to the tour in 2018
Serena Williams left her Australian Open news conference in tears after her semi-final defeat by Naomi Osaka.
The American great saw her latest bid for a record-equalling 24th Grand Slam title ended by Japan’s three-time major champion Osaka, who won 6-3 6-4.
She gave the crowd inside Rod Laver Arena a long wave goodbye with her hand over her heart, leading to questions over the 39-year-old’s future.
She responded: “I don’t know. If I ever say farewell, I wouldn’t tell anyone.”
Williams became tearful when asked a further question about her unforced errors against Osaka.
“I don’t know. I’m done,” she said, before leaving the room.
Williams thanked her fans in a post on Instagram shortly after the match.
“Today was not ideal outcome or performance but it happens. I am so honoured to be able to play in front of you all,” she wrote.
“Your support, your cheers, I only wish I could have done better for you today.
She wrote on her IG
“I am forever in debt and grateful to each and every single one of you.”
Williams has been aiming to equal Margaret Court’s major record since her return from maternity leave in 2018.
Her 23 Grand Slam titles is the most by any player in the Open Era, with 13 of Court’s titles coming before the tour became fully professional.
Since her return, Williams has reached four Grand Slam finals but lost them all, including to Osaka at the 2018 US Open.
It is the first time in 18 years that Williams has lost an Australian Open semi-final.
It is also her first loss against a top five opponent at a hard court Grand Slam since she was beaten by Jelena Jankovic in the Australian Open last 16 in 2008.
Naomi Osaka claimed an impressive victory over Serena Williams to reach the Australian Open final and end the American’s latest quest for a record-equalling 24th Grand Slam title.
Three-time Slam champion Osaka withstood early pressure from Williams to win 6-3 6-4.
Osaka is on a 20-match unbeaten streak and has never lost a Slam final.
The Japanese will face Jennifer Brady in Saturday’s final after the American beat Karolina Muchova.
Brady came past the Czech 6-4 3-6 6-4 to seal a spot in her first Grand Slam final.
It will be a rematch of the 2020 US Open semi-final, which Osaka came through in three sets.
“I was really nervous and scared in the beginning and then I sort of eased my way into it,” Osaka said of her match with Williams.
“It’s just always an honour to play her and I just didn’t want to go out really dud. I just wanted to try my best.”
It is the first time Williams has lost a semi-final at the Australian Open in eight appearances in the last four.
Williams will be left to rue the opportunities she let slip and once again wonder whether she will equal Margaret Court’s major record.
Osaka holds her own
Osaka wrote a message to her sister Mari after her victory over Williams
Osaka and Williams’ last meeting at a Grand Slam came at the US Open final in 2018 – a match remembered for Williams’ outburst at the umpire and Osaka’s tears at the presentation ceremony.
Since then, Osaka has won a further two major titles and risen to third in the world rankings, as well as finding more confidence and calmness on court.
It was Williams, with all her experience, who made the better start, breaking a nervous Osaka in the first game of the match before holding her own serve to take a 2-0 lead.
Although Osaka’s serve was not at its best, her power and increasingly comfortable movement allowed her to hit back, taking advantage of a dip in Williams’ game to win six of the final seven games and take the first set.
Williams’ own serve, such a big weapon in her game, did not fire, and she grew more frustrated as her big shots missed the mark and Osaka’s found the line.
The 10th seed yelled to herself to “make a shot” as she mixed easy errors with powerful winners to go an early break down, but it looked as though the match would shift when she broke back.
A tentative Osaka, serving for a 5-3 lead, was broken to 30, with the crowd cheering Williams on, but the Japanese showed tremendous grit to instantly fire back.
She broke Williams to love and then produced four huge first serves, including one ace, to wrap up the match in 75 minutes.
Three frontline #EndSARS campaigners Damilola Odufuwa, Odunayo Eweniyi, and Feyikemi ‘FK’ Abudu have been included in Time Magazine’s Time 100 Next list for 2021.The trio’s partnership raised nearly N150 million for protesters during 2020’s #EndSARS demonstrations.
The American news magazine started publishing the Next list in 2019 to spotlight rising stars shaping the future of business, entertainment, sports, politics, science, health and more.
L-R: Damilola Odufuwa, Odunayo Eweniyi, and Feyikemi ‘FK’ Abudu were influential figures in last year’s nationwide protests against police brutality [Aisha Ife/Odunayo Eweniyi/Feyikemi ‘FK’ Abudu/TIME]
In explaining the inclusion of the Nigerians in the section of advocates, Suyin Haynes, a Senior Reporter covering gender and culture for TIME, said the trio played pivotal roles in last year’s historic #EndSARS protest.
A 10-year-old boy, Monday Omoruye, who lives at Ring Road in Edo State has been arrested by security operatives for his involvement in crime activities. In a video that has now gone viral, Omoruye confessed that he was introduced to robbery by his brother and that he had carried out four robbery operations so far.
When asked where he got his weapons from, he said during the 2020 #EndSARS protests, he alongside his brother and some of their friends broke into Oba market police station and stole arms from the station. Speaking further, Omoruye said his brother taught him how to shoot a pistol and so far he had killed two people during the course of robbery. He said, “My name is Monday Omoruye. My father, Odiom, stays at Aro Junction. My mummy stays elsewhere while I stay at Ringroad.
“I am here because of the phone matter. One of my friends, someone came to buy a chain from him, N10, 000, he gave him N8, 000. We said we should go and get the N2, 000, we held him that he won’t go unless he pays the complete money. “There’s one guy, I don’t know if he was drunk, he gave us a phone, we returned it. He told the other guy he wants to sleep, we told him not to allow him sleep because that one will steal everything, money and phone, the guy didn’t listen.
When it was daybreak, I said don’t give him your phone but he didn’t listen, the other guy told him he wanted to download lots of music but ran away so we were looking for him, the owner of the phone said if he doesn’t see him, he will hold me, that was why he held me, called vigilante for me. “My brother has two police guns that he collected from the police station at Urban market during #EndSARS protest.
“I can operate a small pistol, my brother taught me and he keeps them all. I have followed them to four robbery operations in Sapele, Siluko Road, Sakpoba. We have killed 2 people, one at Siluko Road, the other at Igan Market. I don’t know the names of those people we killed. When we finish robbing, we go to the cartel. “If you want to see my brother, go in the morning and around 8pm, you will see him.”
Authorities have this evening shut down the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Ikeja-Lagos following the obstructing of one of the runways by an AZMAN aircraft flying from Abuja to Lagos.
THE WILL gathered that the aircraft overshot the runway at the domestic terminal while trying to touch down at the airport, after being crippled by a burst tyre. Passengers successfully disembarked from the aircraft and no casualty was recorded.
Although the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) is yet to issue a statement, an airport source hinted that agency officials were busy making efforts to tow the aircraft away from the tarmac.
As at the time of filing this report, flights into the MMA Lagos airport had been temporarily suspended.
Benjamin Doma has been identified as the student of Government Science Secondary School, Kagara, Niger State, who was shot dead when gunmen invaded the school on Wednesday morning.
Daily Trust had reported how gunmen broke into the school abducting students and staff.
Doma was gunned down while trying to escape , while some students and staff were whisked away after the gunmen held them hostage within the school premises for a while.
A source told Daily Trust that while the number of abducted students had not been accounted for, two teaching staff, one clerk and 12 family members are among those abducted.
The kidnappers are yet to make contact with family members or school authorities as of the time of filing this report.
The incident happened barely 48 hours after some persons were abducted while heading to Minna, the state capital.
1) With the appointment of Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as the Director-General of the World Trade Organisation, the rank of Nigerians on the international scene has swelled. DR Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala’s tenure as the first African and female to head the WTO will begin March, 2021.
Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
2) Akinwumi Adesina: He is currently serving his second term as president of Africa Development Bank.
Akinwumi Adesina
3)Amina Mohammed: She is the Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations and Chair of the United Nations Sustainable Development Group.
Amina Mohammed
4)Chile Ebeo-Osuji: He is the President of the International Criminal Court.
Chile Ebeo-Osuji
5)Tijjani Muhammad-Bande is the President of the 74th United Nations General Assembly. UNGA is the main deliberative, policy-making, and representative organ of the UN.
Tijjani Muhammad-Bande
6) Mohammad Sanusi Barkindo: He is the Secretary-General of Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries.
The government’s travel restrictions have effectively shut down UK aviation and “permanently damaged” the careers and livelihoods of thousands of travel industry employees: that is the claim from the leading pilots’ union in a letter to the prime minister.
The British Airline Pilots’ Association (Balpa) has written to Boris Johnson saying that coronavirus lockdown decisions “have huge knock-on effects, and in the case of the air transport industry, extremely serious ones”.
Brian Strutton, the general secretary of Balpa, wrote: “Government policy has effectively shut down UK aviation. We understand the reasoning behind those decisions, but the effects have already been disastrous.
“Covid has seen permanent closure of Flybe and Norwegian Air UK. Thousands of pilots in airlines across the country have lost their careers or are furloughed, along with tens of thousands of other front-line staff members
“These are the same people who, in the face of this terrible virus, repatriated British citizens and ensured important cargo made it to the UK to protect the NHS and save lives. Now their careers and livelihoods have been permanently damaged.”
Mr Strutton described calls by ministers not to book summer holidays as “damaging”.
On 10 February, the transport secretary, Grant Shapps, told the BBC’sToday programme: “Please don’t go ahead and book holidays for something which at this stage it is illegal to actually go and do – whether it’s here or abroad.”
There has also been dismay in the aviation industry about the hotel quarantine scheme that took effect on 15 February, requiring arrivals from 33 “red list” countries to stay in “managed isolation” for 11 nights.
But speaking in the Commons about hotel quarantine plans, the health minister Jo Churchill said: “As we take the necessary steps at the border, we recognise the challenges they present to industry.
“We continue to support our air transport sector, including airlines, airports and related services, and by the end of April the sector will have received some £3 billion of support through the Covid corporate finance scheme and the job retention scheme.”
Meanwhile the Kremlin has announced that the ban on flights from the UK to Russia will continue to mid-March at the earliest.
In a tweet, the government in Moscow said: “Russia has extended suspension of air traffic with the UK until 16 March.”
Normally Aeroflot and British Airways operate daily services between London Heathrow and airports in Moscow.
The National Reconciliation Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) led by former Senate President Bukola Saraki is currently meeting with ex-President Goodluck Jonathan.
Details of the meeting are sketchy butit was gathrre gathered that it may not be unconnected to the party’s plan for the 2023 election.
Alongside key PDP leaders, Saraki stormed President Jonathan’s residence at Maitama, Abuja, around 1:00pm.
Former governors of Katsina, Gombe and Cross Rivers states; Ibrahim Shema, Ibrahim Dankwambo and Liyel Imoke, are among those in attendance.
Others at the closed-door meeting include former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Senator Anyim Pius Anyim; and erstwhile House of Representatives leader, Hon. Mulikat Adeola-Akande.
Saraki’s committee was inaugurated months after the PDP lost the presidential election to the All Progressive Congress (APC) in 2019.
Among its objectives is reconciling aggrieved members who have left the party and as well wooing new members to the party ahead of the next general election.
It had been reported how some kinsmen and political allies of Jonathan intensified their move to woo the Nigerian leader into 2023 presidential race.
Although the All Progressives Congress (APC) has refuted the claim that it is planning to make the former president its candidate in 2023, reports on such move have been flying around.
Some of Jonathan’s allies, especially in Bayelsa, where he hails from, have been pushing him for the 2023 election.
Jonathan’s kinsman from Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State and pro-democracy advocate, Comrade Wisdom Ikuli, revealed that the former president is very eligible to contest the 2023 presidential election and that most Nigerians are yearning for his return.
Abdulrasheed Bawa, the new helmsman of the Economic Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has about 16 years of experience on job.
At 40, he is the youngest person to chair the Commission. The founding chairman, Nuhu Ribadu, was appointed at the age of 43 in 2003.
Before his new appointment, the Kebbi-born lawyer worked as the Zonal Head of the EFCC in Lagos and Oyo States.
Below are 10 things to note about the anti-graft czar.
He was born in Jega, Kebbi State, 40 years ago. This makes him the first person to be appointed to the EFCC job from anywhere in Nigeria other than the North-East zone.
Bawa is the first career operative to head the EFCC. His appointment puts to rest agitation by “core EFCC staff” to have one of their own to head the commission.
Bawa served under all EFCC past chairpersons, starting with Nuhu Ribadu, who recruited the first set of civilians into EFCC (including Bawa) in 2005.
The operative started work with EFCC from its Lagos office, after his recruitment in 2005. He went on to work at the headquarters in Abuja, and for a year in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
He was educated at the Usman Danfodio University, Sokoto, where he obtained a bachelor’s degree in Economics in 2001 and master’s in International Relations and Diplomacy in 2011.
He is a Deputy Chief Detective Superintendent, a position he was promoted to in 2016.
Bawa has led a number of key corruption and financial crimes investigations including the infamous case of former Petroleum Minister, Mrs Diezani Allison-Madueke, the case of former Niger State governor, Muazu Babangida Aliyu and that of the Controversial crude oil swap. He was also involved in the investigation of petroleum subsidy fraud (2012-2015).
Bawa has headed EFCC zonal offices in Ibadan and Port Harcourt between June 2018 and December 2019.
From Port Harcourt, Bawa was posted to Abuja as head of Capacity Development Division of the EFCC Academy, Karu.
Bawa was trained by the FBI, KPMG and many other institutions in the UK, United States and Nigeria
At least 40 people have been killed after a bus plunged into a canal in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.
Some 60 people were on board when the packed bus veered off a bridge and fell into the canal on Tuesday in Sidhi district.
Officials say that seven passengers, including the driver, managed to swim to the shore. Rescue teams are looking for the remaining passengers.
The state government has ordered an inquiry into the accident.
Eyewitnesses say that the driver lost control and the bus hit the boundary of the bridge before falling into the Sharda canal.
image captionRescue teams are looking for passengers
Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said that two ministers were heading to the site of the accident to monitor rescue efforts.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has tweeted, expressing his condolences for the families of the victims.
He also announced compensation for the victims’ families as well as those who have been injured in the accident. The bus was on its way from Sidhi to Satna district.
Buses are a common mode of transport between smaller towns and districts in India. But operators often flout safety rules and pack them beyond their capacity.
There was a mass protest in Mauritius on Saturday as thousands of citizens stormed the capital Port-Louis, calling for the government to resign over alleged corruption and fraud.
The demonstrators who heeded the calls of opposition parties to call into question the responsibility of those who hold political power, reportedly marched up to the office of Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth, carrying different placards to register their displeasure with the government.
Crimes, drugs that wreak havoc, there is no transparency. We cannot say that we live in a democracy,” one of the leaders of the protest was heard saying.
“I’m here because I want there to be a change. If I stay at home there will be no change,” another echoed.
All these parties that have governed us have ruined our lives, If we are in this current situation, it is because of these political parties which have governed us for the last 50 years. So my presence here is to be in solidarity with the whole Mauritian Nation, to say “NO” to these mafia systems,” another protester said.
The government is also facing criticism over its lack of transparency, and mismanagement of a massive oil spill involving a Panamanian-flagged MV Wakashio ship which ran aground in July, spilling 1,000 tonnes of fuel near two environmentally protected marine ecosystems and the Blue Bay Marine Park reserve.
The protesters, according to reports, numbered about 25,000, the largest major rally that the small island African nation had seen in over 40 years.
Mauritius is currently on the European Union’s blacklist of third world countries that pose a risk to the bloc due to its anti-money laundering deficiencies.
The island nation is also under pressure with the coronavirus pandemic and its effect on tourism.
Our Man Crush Monday(MCM) is Richard Eyimofe Evans Mofe-Damijo popularly known as RMD. He is a stylish Nigerian actor, writer, producer, and lawyer.
RMD was born on July 6th in Aladja, Delta State. He studied Theatre Arts at University of Benin and later returned to the prestigious University of Lagos to study law.
Richard Mofe-Damijo(MCM)
Richard initially worked as a reporter with Concord Newspapers and Metro Magazines before taking part in a television soap opera in the late 80’s called ‘Ripples’. In 2005, at the maiden edition of the African Movie Academy Awards, he won the award for Best Actor in a Leading Role and he also received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 12th edition of the same awards in 2016. He was formerly a Special Adviser of Culture and Tourism and Commissioner for Culture and Tourism to the Governor of Delta State between 2008 and 2015.
Following the death of his first wife in 1996, Richard Mofe-Damijo married Jumobi Adegbesan and they are blessed with lovely children.
The O’odua Peoples Congress (OPC) has called on President Muhammadu Buhari and the Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde to investigate last Friday’s clash between Yoruba and Hausa in Shasha community in Akinyele Local Government Area of the state.
Daily Trust reports that the clash led to the loss of lives and massive destruction of properties and goods in the market. This prompted the state governor to declare a curfew in Ibadan.
OPC in a statement by its Publicity Secretary, Barrister Yinka Oguntimehin, expressed concern that a minor misunderstanding between a pregnant woman and a Hausa man later degenerated into tribal crisis leading to death and destruction of properties in the community.
The OPC publicity scribe said such crisis could have been avoided, saying the Yoruba are very peaceful and accommodating people.
He said, “It is unfortunate that a short misunderstanding between two traders eventually led to killing and destruction. Yoruba are every where in Nigeria, especially, in the North, mostly in Kano and Kaduna, however, it is on record that no Yoruba native has ever instigated any crisis in the north.
“Therefore, I am using this opportunity to call on President Muhammadu Buhari to investigate the circumstances surrounding the ugly incident, so as to bring the culprits to book and also forestall further crisis” he said.
Condemns shooting of Amotekun operative by police personnel
Oguntimehin also condemned the report that a Divisional Police officer (DPO) in charge of Ile-Igbon Division, Surulere Local Government Area of Ogbomoso in Oyo State, Adepoju Ayodeji shot an operative of Amotekun for arresting Fulani herdsmen that allegedly destroyed a cassava farm.
“The police officer should be made to face the music for shooting an Amotekun corp. No matter who was involved and the circumstances surrounding the incident, the police boss should be professional enough to know when to pull the trigger.”
“It is a grave error of judgment for such a senior officer of the police to shoot an Amotekun corp knowing full well that the south west security outfit was backed by the law.
“So for a police officer to have shot such a corp is not only a disgrace to the police hierarchy, but a sad reminder of the systemic failure of an institution that is supposed to protect the citizens, maintain law and order, now becoming the law breaker and a threat to the peace of the society,” Oguntimehin said.
Boris Johnson has insisted US democracy remains “strong”, despite the “kerfuffle” over former President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial.
The Senate acquitted Mr Trump of incitement to insurrection following the storming of Congress on 6 January.
Mr Johnson told US broadcaster CBS his relationship with new President Joe Biden was “excellent”.
And he promised the American and UK governments would work well together on issues like climate change and defence.
Mr Biden, who was inaugurated on 20 January, has never met the prime minister in person, but this is set to change later this year, with the UK hosting the G7 summit in the summer and the COP26 climate change gathering in the autumn.
During his interview for CBS’s Face the Nation show, Mr Johnson was keen to stress that their two countries were “coming together” on the environment, ways of dealing with Iran and the future of Nato.
These were all issues on which Mr Trump took a different line to the UK government, but the prime minister called recent statements by Mr Biden “incredibly encouraging”.
Having previously condemned the violence inside Washington’s Capitol building last month, he was asked about the impeachment trial of Mr Trump, in which prosecutors failed to get the two-thirds majority in the Senate needed to convict the ex-president.
“I think the clear message that we get from the proceedings in America is that, after all the toings and froings and all the kerfuffle, American democracy is strong,” he said.
“And the American constitution is strong and robust. And we’re delighted now, I’m very delighted, to have a good relationship with the White House, which is an important part of any UK prime minister’s mission.
“I’ve had some good conversations already with President Biden, fantastic conversations about the way he sees things.”
image captionJoe Biden said the substance of the charge against Donald Trump was not in dispute
Five people died in the violence in Washington on 6 January.
Earlier on Sunday, Mr Biden described democracy – in contrast to Mr Johnson – as “fragile” in the face of “violence and extremism”.
He said of Mr Trump’s trial: “While the final vote did not lead to a conviction, the substance of the charge is not in dispute.”
But Mr Trump welcomed his acquittal, calling his impeachment a “witch hunt”.
In his first telephone call to the prime minister last month, Mr Biden said he wanted to “strengthen the special relationship” between the US and UK.
US President Joe Biden has said his predecessor Donald Trump’s acquittal for inciting mob violence is a reminder that “democracy is fragile”.
Seven Republicans joined Democrats in voting to convict, falling short of the two-thirds majority needed to do so.
Mr Biden said the charge, relating to Mr Trump’s role in the Capitol riot last month, was “not in dispute”, while seeking to move on from the process.
Mr Trump has welcomed his acquittal, calling his impeachment a “witch hunt”.
In the Senate on Saturday, the trial ended with a 57-43 vote in favour of conviction.
The vote split largely along party lines, with the seven Republicans joining the Senate’s 48 Democrats and two independents in voting to convict.
Mr Trump faced a single charge of incitement to insurrection after pro-Trump supporters stormed Congress on 6 January. Five people died.
Democratic prosecutors argued he stoked the mob with false claims the election was stolen. Mr Trump’s lawyers denied his words amounted to incitement, and said the Senate should not try a former president.
Impeachments of US presidents are rare. Only two other presidents have been impeached, while Trump is the only man to face the process twice.
‘A sad chapter’ – Biden
Responding to the acquittal, President Biden said: “While the final vote did not lead to a conviction, the substance of the charge is not in dispute.
“This sad chapter in our history has reminded us that democracy is fragile. That it must always be defended. That we must be ever vigilant. That violence and extremism has no place in America. And that each of us has a duty and responsibility as Americans, and especially as leaders, to defend the truth and to defeat the lies.”
Mr Biden has kept his distance from the impeachment process, not watching the trial live. Aides were reportedly worried that it would distract from his early plans for office.
In his reaction, Mr Trump called the trial “yet another phase of the greatest witch hunt in the history of our nation”.
A conviction could have seen him barred from elected office. Mr Trump’s statement hinted he would continue to play a role in US politics.
“Our historic, patriotic and beautiful movement to Make America Great Again has only just begun,” he said.
Mitch McConnell blames Trump for riots
After the vote, the senior Republican in Congress, Senator Mitch McConnell, said Mr Trump had been “responsible” for the assault on the Capitol.
This was despite him voting against conviction, arguing it was unconstitutional now that Mr Trump was no longer president. Mr McConnell was instrumental in delaying Mr Trump’s trial until after he left office, on 20 January.
“The abuse of power and betrayal of his oath by President Trump meet the constitutional standard of ‘high crimes and misdemeanours’ and for those reasons I voted to convict Donald J Trump.”
The Democratic Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, called Republicans who did not support conviction “cowardly”.
That the bulk of Republicans backed the former president suggests his enduring influence over the party and its voters.
Republican Senator Ted Cruz said the trial “merely satisfied Democrats’ desire to once again vent their hatred of Donald Trump and their contempt for the tens of millions of Americans who voted for him”.
Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu has asked Ibadan residents not to take laws into their hands, following the violence that erupted in Shasha area of Oyo State. Akeredolu in a statement he personally signed Saturday night said the south-west governors “note with deep concern,6 the most unfortunate and avoidable orgy of violence in Shasha, Ibadan, the Oyo State Capital.”
The governor said he is compelled to address all residents of the area, especially the Yoruba speaking people, in his capacity as the Chairman, South-West Governors’ Forum over the recent happenings bordering on security.
“Without doubt, the situation we have found ourselves as a people is most despicable and contends violently against, and abhorrently at variance with the values and hospitality for which our people are known. “We have been known for thoroughness. We have identified with legality over the centuries; and our ethos as a civilised breed of people is such that we do not identify with lawlessness, not even illegality,” Governor Akeredolu added.
He also asked residents to be law-abiding, saying he understands “the height of provocation in the light of recent happenings as regards Shasha, Ibadan, I, alongside my other brother governors in the region are against the willful appropriation of Laws into one’s hands. “We do not support violence and in particular, brigandage, jungle justice and unnecessary self-help. We note with delight, the oyo State who has taken very bold steps to stave off the further escalation of the violence by imposing curfew in the affected areas.
“He deserves every support in his vowed commitment towards peace and security in Oyo State. We shall all survive these times and live peacefully, once again in our lands.”
Following his release from the police custody after joining the #occupylekkitollgate protest, MC Macaroni has released a video. Listen to what he said!
Former President Donald Trump has received enough not guilty votes to be acquitted in his Senate impeachment trial, which requires a two-thirds vote for conviction. Now, he has been acquitted.
The move to the trial’s finishing stages was a final twist after the House managers’ surprise request for witnesses had appeared to extend the trial indefinitely.
The Senate voted 55 to 45 to consider witnesses — with five Republican joining Democrats — after the managers said they wanted to hear from Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, a Washington Republican who had told CNN new details about House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s phone call with Trump.
After several hours of intense negotiations between Senate leaders, the managers and Trump’s legal team, the managers agreed to enter Herrera Beutler’s statement into the trial record as evidence and move forward without hearing from witnesses.
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