The 2023 Labour Party presidential aspirant and former governor of Anambra state Peter Obi in a statement speaks out on Benue state government barring him on courtesy visit to the state. Recall the governor of the State, Rev Fr Hyacinth Alia, has said he cannot guarantee the safety of any individual or group visiting the state without his knowledge or clearance. The governor issued the warning in a statement on Monday through his Chief Press Secretary, Tersoo Kula, titled, “Notice Regarding Unscheduled Visit to Benue State.” Alia cautioned that anyone planning to visit Internally Displaced Persons camps in the state...
Zuckerberg Takes Stand In First Day Of Trial, In Defense Of Meta In Social Media Monopoly Trial
Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stand Monday in a Washington, D.C., courtroom to defend his social media company from federal allegations that the technology giant is a monopoly. The US government is advancing an antitrust case, alleging that Zuckerberg’s company illegally built a “social networking monopoly” through years of “anticompetitive conduct.” META’s CEO’s testimony is part of a case first brought by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in 2020 during the final days of the first Trump administration. The FTC is seeking to break up Meta by forcing a spinoff of Instagram or WhatsApp. Meta says there’s plenty...
A City Under Siege: “Death Can Strike Anyone, Anytime, Without Warning… By A Bullet, Shelling, Hunger Or Thirst.”
“She left no last words. She was dead when she was carried away,” says Hafiza quietly, as she describes how her mother was killed in a city under siege in Darfur, during Sudan’s civil war, which began exactly two years ago. The 21-year-old recorded how her family’s life was turned upside down by her mother’s death, on one of several phones the BBC World Service managed to get to people trapped in the crossfire in el-Fasher. Under constant bombardment, el-Fasher has been largely cut off from the outside world for a year, making it impossible for journalists to enter the...
U.S. President Freezes Harvard Federal Funding After University Rejects Demands From Its Administration.
Hours after Harvard University refused list of demand from the administration of President Donald Trump, it said it’s freezing the college federal funding worth $2billion This was revealed in a statement by the Department of Education: “Harvard’s statement today reinforces the troubling entitlement mindset that is endemic in our nation’s most prestigious universities and colleges.” The White House sent a list of demands to Harvard last week which it said were designed to fight antisemitism on campus. They included changes to its governance, hiring practices and admissions procedures. Harvard rejected the demands on Monday and said the White House was...
White House Ignores Court Order, Bars AP From Oval Office Event
Despite a court order, a reporter and photographer from The Associated Press were barred from an Oval Office news conference on Monday with President Donald Trump and his counterpart from El Salvador, Nayib Bukele. Last week’s federal court decision forbidding the Trump administration from punishing the AP for refusing to rename the Gulf of Mexico was to take effect Monday. The administration is appealing the decision and arguing with the news outlet over whether it needs to change anything until those appeals are exhausted. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. circuit set a Thursday hearing on Trump’s request that...
Bangladesh Court Issues Arrest Warrant For British MP Linked To Ex-Premier Sheikh Hasina
A judge in Bangladesh issued an arrest warrant for British lawmaker and former government minister Tulip Siddiq, a niece of Bangladesh’s former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who was ousted in August last year in a mass uprising that ended her 15-year rule. The country’s official Anti-Corruption Commission has been investigating allegations against Siddiq that she and her family members, including Hasina, illegally received land in a state-owned township project near the capital, Dhaka. Senior Special Judge of Dhaka Metropolitan Zakir Hossain passed the order on Sunday, after considering charges in three separate cases filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission, the leading Dhaka-based...
Knife-Wielding Fan Attack Plateau United Forward, Vincent Temitope After Defeat Against Nasarawa United In Lafia.
Plateau United forward, Vincent Temitope, was attacked by a knife-wielding fan on Sunday after their Nigeria Premier Football League match-day 33 defeat against Nasarawa United in Lafia. Nasarawa United had won 3-2 against their North Central neighbours before a video of the player being treated for a cut around his neck surfaced. Vincent missed a penalty and also scored a goal during the encounter. A Jos-based on-air personality with Jay FM, Rhairom Zamora, was the first to share the disturbing video, claiming that the attack was from the home fans. “Disturbing scenes after the match in Lafia. Vincent Temitope was...
Court Grants Nigerian Controversial Musician Portable, N1 Millonaire Bail In ‘Defamation’ Case.
Controversial Nigerian singer Habeeb Okikiola known as Portable who was arrested on Saturday in Ogun State by the Kwara Police over allegations of criminal defamation, threat to life, incitement, and character assassination against fuji musician Saheed Osupa has been granted N1 million bail. His arrest followed a petition filed by Osupa, accusing him of using abusive and insulting language that could incite violence and damage his reputation. On Monday, the court ruled that the singer’s bail is conditional and that he must provide two sureties in like sum, one of which must be either the chairman or secretary of the...