Japanese longest-serving prime minister, Shinzo Abe, has resigned, citing health reasons. He announced his decision at a press conference in Tokyo on Friday, while apologize to the people of Japan for being unable to fulfill his duties during the coronavirus pandemic. “Even though there is one year to go in my tenure and there are challenges to be met, I have decided to stand down as prime minister,” he said. Abe suffers from colitis, a non-curable inflammatory bowel disease, which was also a factor in his sudden resignation as prime minister in 2007, ending his first term after just over a year…
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
President Muhammadu Buhari, has again joined other Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, in an emergency virtual extraordinary summit over the ongoing political crisis in Mali. The ECOWAS leaders earlier met via video conferencing on Aug. 20, to deliberate on same matter where they called for immediate release of President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita of Mali, and a return to Constitutional order in the country. The ousted Malian president, Keita, was released from detention by the military junta on Aug. 27 in line with the request of the ECOWAS leaders. The ongoing summit…
The Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, has said that sexual predators have turned the blessings in the student-educator fiduciary relationship of authority, dependency and trust to a source of torment He stated this while delivering a keynote address at the Conference on Sexual Violence in Nigeria in Abuja on Thursday. Omo-Agege explained that the concern informed his decision to sponsor the Sexual Harassment Bill in the Senate. Citing jurisdictions in the United States, the United Kingdom, South Africa and Australia with laws that specifically penalize sexual harassment in educational institutions of higher learning, he noted that the…
What I hear on a daily basis is that the Nigerian State has died or is dying and people want the remnants shared out so they can try to save their portion. There is a basis for concern on the survival of the Nigerian State because the prevailing insecurity and sense of injustice has never been so dire, or so we think. I always say break up is not an option because we cannot slice up the country without an all-consuming war about how and where to slice. Our only real option is to fix our dear country and live…
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, Thursday night announced 296 new cases of COVID-19. The Centre through its Twitter handle, @NCDCgov said the total had rose to 53,317. Of the new cases, Plateau, of the 17 states, maintained its lead for third day running with 85 cases, with Enugu and Oyo recording 46 and 31, respectively. Others are Lagos-21, Rivers-20, FCT-15, Kaduna-13, Bauchi-12, Delta-11 and Ekiti-11. Others are Akwa Ibom-7, Ebonyi-6, Kwara-5, Ogun-4, Osun-4, Gombe-3, Niger-2. A total of 40,726 persons have been discharged and 1,011 recorded as deaths.
By Senator Ibrahim Ida If it is painful to lose a friend, it is surely a million times more staggering, bewildering, shattering and confusing to lose a friend, a companion, a non-blood brother, a confidant and someone you have known most of your life. That was what happened to me during the late hours of Monday, August 17, 2020. That was when Malam Wada Abdullahi Maida (OON), a former Chief Press Secretary (CPS) to the then Head of State, Major General Muhammadu Buhari, a former staff and ultimately Managing Director (MD) of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN); and until…
Chelsea has confirmed that six of their players have tested positive for novel coronavirus, COVID-19. The club’s 2019/20 campaign ended after they were eliminated from the champions league round of 16 stage by FC Bayern Munich and some players spent their holiday in different countries despite the global pandemic. According to goal.com, a number of Chelsea FC players have gone into quarantine following the development and the names of those who have contracted the virus are yet to be revealed. The 2020/21 premier league season is due to start on Saturday, September 12th and Chelsea would begin their campaign away…
The Federal government, has announced the shift on resumption date for international flights. The Director-General, DG, of Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, Captain Musa Nuhu, said on Thursday that the August 29 date has now been postponed to September 9. Making the announcement during the Presidential Task Force briefing on COVID-19, the DG added that the new date is sacrosanct!
By Ali Sabo All over the world, journalists are facing threats to their lives and are being assaulted either verbally or physically even in countries that claim to be the custodians of democracy. This has prevented or is preventing many journalists from carrying out their works freely for fear of being harmed by those in power and their friends who perceived them as enemies for exposing their dirty deals or holding them to account for their actions. In 2018 for instance, a prominent Saudi born journalist, Jamal Khashoggi, who fled his country for fear of being killed by authorities there…
Justice Muhammad Sa’idu Sifawa of Sokoto State High Court, on Thursday, sentenced one Bolanle Adefemiwa to 10 years imprisonment, with an option of fine of N200,000.00. A statement by Dele Oyewale, the Spokesperson of the Commission made available to Ashenewsonline on Thursday, said Adefemiwa was arraigned on one-count charge of cheating contrary to Section 310 of the Sokoto State Penal Code Law and punishable under Section 311 of the same law. The charge reads: “That you Bolanle Adefemiwa and Segun Tinoulu (now at large) sometime in March, 2020 at Sokoto within the jurisdiction of the Sokoto State High Court, did fraudulently cheat…