The United States on Friday slapped a visa ban on 76 Saudi individuals in what it calls the “Khashoggi Ban”. This followed a U.S. intelligence report accusing Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of approving the 2018 gruesome murder of exiled journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who announced the measure, alleged that the affected individuals were involved in “threatening dissidents overseas, including but not limited to the Khashoggi killing. He said the ban was part of measures by the U.S. government to “reinforce the world’s condemnation of that crime”. The aim, he said, is to stop governments…
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
Aisha Yesufu, the co-convener of the Bring Back Our Girls group, BBOG, has criticised President Muhammadu Buhari for the growing kidnappings in the country. “The body language of President Muhammadu Buhari enables the terrorists. They know that we have an ineffective President and Commander-In-Chief, we have an incompetent one, a clueless one, who does not even bother about what is happening in the country”, Yesufu said. She spoke on a ChannelsTV programme Friday evening, against the backdrop of the recent abduction in Zamfara and the president’s reaction on security challenges. According to Yesufu, “What I make of the statement is…
Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Kaduna state, Yusuf Garba has described the state House of Assembly under Speaker Yusuf Ibrahim Zailani’s first year in office as most dynamic and productive. He stated this in Kaduna to mark the first year in office. Garba said the Speaker has exhibited uncommon but verifiable capacity for purposeful leadership. And he believes that his leadership qualities will prove beneficial to the state. “In this auspicious time, it’s a great honour to identify with you and reference your uncommon yet, verified capacity for clear-cut leadership to uphold the bastion of democracy in…
The kidnapped staff and students of Government Science College Kagara in Niger state, have regained freedom. A top police officer involved in the counter-kidnapping operation for the rescue of the students, told PRNigeria Saturday morning. Recall that bandits dressed in military uniforms on February 17, 2021, abducted 27 students, three staff members and 12 members of their families. By PRNigeria
The deployment of COVID-19 vaccines in Africa has accelerated amid the quest to contain the virus and reopen the continent’s economy, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said. Matshidiso Moeti, the WHO Regional Director for Africa, said this in a statement issued in Nairobi on Thursday. Moeti said the continent had stepped up procurement of vaccines to inoculate groups at higher risk of contracting the coronavirus. “The roll-out of COVID-19 vaccines is an incredible, much-awaited leap forward for African countries that have spent months preparing while wealthy countries race ahead with vaccination,” Moeti said. Ghana on Wednesday became the first African…
President Muhammadu Buhari has described the latest abduction of hundreds of students of Government Girls Secondary School, Jangebe in Zamfara, as inhumane and totally unacceptable. The president, who stated this in a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, in Abuja on Friday, warned bandits and their sponsors that his government would not succumb to blackmail. While reacting to the incident, President Buhari said: “This administration will not succumb to blackmail by bandits who target innocent school students in the expectations of huge ransom payments. ”No criminal group can be too strong to be…
Seven of the 317 schoolgirls abducted from Government Girls Secondary School, Jangebe in Talata Mafara local government area of Zamfara state, have escaped from their kidnappers. The seven schoolgirls arrived their various home Friday evening, A source who had telephone discussion with ChannelsTV from Jangebe town Friday evening, confirmed that the girls trekked from the bandits, adding that more students had also escaped and were expected back soon. Meanwhile, Zamfara governor, Bello Muhammad in a special broadcast on Friday, ordered the closure of all boarding schools in the state. “I wish to assure everyone that we are wholly committed to…
The Department of State Services (DSS) said the service has not made any attempt to arrest Chief Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as “Igboho”, contrary to publications in some sections of the media. The spokesperson, Dr Peter Afunanya, disclosed this in a tarse statement on Friday. Afunanya said the publication that some personnel of the Service attempted to arrest Igboho at Ibadan in Oyo state was not true. According to him, the said news is misinforming and should be taken as fake and therefore be disregarded. Reports in some sections of the media had alleged that men of the DSS on Friday attacked…
The Defence Headquarters, DHQ, has warned persons and group of persons attempting to prevent free movement of agricultural goods from the North to the Southern part of the country. The Acting Director, Defence Information, Brig.-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, gave the warning in a statement on Friday in Abuja. Nwachukwu said the armed forces would not condone any attempt to disrupt legitimate economic and commercial activities in a bid to cause clashes along ethnic divides. He called on the members of the public to promptly report anyone found engaged in such activities to security operatives. According to him, DHQ has been notified…
The 1.35 Megawatt of Solar Hybrid Power project was on Friday inaugurated at the Federal University of Petroleum Resources (FUPRE), Effurun in Uvwie Local Government Area of Delta. The Senate Deputy President, Sen. Ovie Omo-Agege, said at the ceremony that the power project was a fulfillment of the Federal Government’s commitment to increase electricity supply across the country. The power project was executed by METKA West Africa. Omo-Agege, representing Delta Central Senatorial District at the National Assembly, said that the project executed, under the Energising Education Programme (EEP), was conceived and designed in 2016. He said that the project was aimed at…