Reno Omokri, former aide to former president of Nigeria Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday mocked Labour Party 2023 Presidential aspirant Peter Obi’s silence on social media. This is coming after Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State condemned the presidential aspirant’s lecture at John Hopkins University on the 24th April, claiming that he doesn’t have the right to criticize the ruling administration or de-market the country in a foreign land. Omokri who posted on his official X handle pointed out that Obi has never gone for this length of time and wondered if the former governor is okay. His post read: “Four...
South Africa To Hold Inquiry Into Whether Prosecutions Of Apartheid-Era Crimes Were Blocked
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa ordered an inquiry Wednesday to establish whether previous governments led by his party intentionally blocked investigations and prosecutions of apartheid-era crimes. The landmark move, which survivors and families of those who were killed have demanded for more than 20 years, will address allegations of “improper influence in delaying or hindering” investigations that have been levelled against post-apartheid governments led by the African National Congress party, Ramaphosa’s office said in a statement. The ANC was the organization at the forefront of the battle against the system of white minority rule and led South Africa to democracy when apartheid ended in 1994. But ANC-led governments since then...
Thousands Rally In Burkina Faso In Support Of Military Junta Following Alleged Coup Attempt
Thousands of people rallied in Burkina Faso’s capital Ouagadougou on Wednesday in support of the military junta after an alleged coup attempt and comments by an American official criticizing junta leader Ibrahim Traore. Last week, the West African country’s military government said it foiled a “major plot” to overthrow junta leader Capt. Ibrahim Traore, with the army alleging the plotters were based in neighboring Ivory Coast. Earlier this month, Gen. Michael Langley, the head of U.S. military in Africa, accused Traore during a U.S. Senate committee hearing of using Burkina Faso’s gold reserves to benefit the junta at the expense...
Mexican Human Rights Activist And Husband Found Dead 6 Months After Disappearance
Mexican authorities announced Monday the discovery of the bodies of a human rights activist and her husband, six months after they were reported missing in the southern state of Oaxaca. The Oaxaca State Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement that lawyer and activist Sandra Estefana Domínguez Martínez and her husband Alexander Hernández Hernández were found Thursday in the municipality of Santiago Sochiapan in neighboring Veracruz State. The bodies were found in two graves and authorities waited until testing confirmed their identities before announcing the discovery. The couple were last seen Oct. 4, in the town of María Lombardo de Caso, in eastern...
Army Veteran Convicted Of Killing Girlfriend And Her 3 Children Set To Be Executed In Florida
An Army combat veteran whose Gulf War experience triggered severe mental problems is scheduled to be executed Thursday in Florida for the shotgun killings of his girlfriend and her three young children in 1998. Barring a last-minute reprieve, Jeffrey Hutchinson is set to receive a lethal injection starting at 6 p.m. Thursday at Florida State Prison near Starke. The execution, if carried out, will be the fourth in Florida this year under death warrants signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis, with a fifth execution planned for May 15. Hutchinson, 62, has long claimed he is innocent and that two unknown assailants perpetrated the killings...
Kuwait Frees 10 More Americans In The Second Release In As Many Months
Kuwait has released an additional 10 American detainees, bringing to nearly two dozen the total number freed by the country in the past two months, U.S. officials told The Associated Press on Wednesday.The pardons of 23 Americans, done as a goodwill gesture by a U.S. ally, have yielded a quick succession of prisoner releases in the early months of a Trump administration that has sought to make hostage and detainee issues a foreign policy priority.The prisoners, both men and women, include military contractors and veterans held for years on drug charges and other offenses by the small, oil-rich nation. One...
Iran Executes A Man Convicted Of Spying For The Israeli Mossad
Iran executed Wednesday a man it said worked for Israel’s foreign intelligence agency and played a role in the 2022 killing of a Revolutionary Guard colonel in Tehran, the official IRNA news agency reported. The report identified the man as Mohsen Langarneshin and said he was hanged. It called him a “senior spy” for the Mossad who provided “technical support” in the assassination of Col. Hassan Sayyad Khodaei, shot five times by gunmen on a motorbike outside his home in Tehran. The agency said the Mossad recruited Langarneshin in 2020 and that he met with Israeli intelligence officers in Georgia...
State Secretary Calls India And Pakistan In Effort To Defuse Crisis Over Kashmir Attack.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio called senior officials in India and Pakistan in an effort to defuse the crisis that followed last week’s deadly attack in Kashmir, the State Department said. Rubio urged Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar to de-escalate tensions on Wednesday. India has vowed to punish Pakistan after accusing it of backing the attack, which Islamabad denies. The nuclear-armed rivals have since expelled each other’s diplomats and citizens, ordered the border shut and closed their airspace to each other. New Delhi has suspended a crucial water-sharing treaty with Islamabad. Soldiers on each...
“We Are Witnessing The Greatest Manmade Economic Crisis In Modern Presidential History.”— Kamala Harris Condemns Trump Administration 100 Days In Office.
Marking her return to the public glare, former United State Vice President Kamala Harris condemned the first 100 days of President Donald Trump’s second term on Wednesday Harris in her statement claimed that Trump had pulled America to the verge of a constitutional crisis, devastated the economy and abandoned world allies “The American people deserve leaders who make their lives better, and make our country stronger. But sadly, we have seen quite the opposite over these past few months.” The former V.P. intoned