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Ex-Mali’s President, Amadou Toure is dead
Mali’s former president Amadou Toumani Toure, who led the Sahel nation for a decade before being ousted in a coup, is dead. He died in Turkey at the age of 72, a family member and a doctor said on Tuesday. “Amadou Toumani Toure died during the night of Monday to Tuesday in Turkey, where he had been taken for health reasons” his nephew Oumar Toure told AFP. A hospital doctor in Bamako said the former leader had recently undergone heart surgery and was recuperating but was later transferred to Turkey where he died.
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Nigerian lawyer calls for the removal of Arabic inscription from currency
A court in Lagos is due to hear a case filed by a lawyer against the Central Bank of Nigeria to demand the removal of Arabic inscriptions on the local currency. The lawyer, Malcolm Omirhobo also wants the Nigerian army to remove the inscription from its military logo saying it portrays Nigeria as an Islamic state contrary to the country’s constitutional status of a secular state. According to Omirhobo, he wants the Arabic inscriptions replaced with either English or any of Nigeria’s three main local languages – Hausa, Yoruba, or Igbo. The central bank had however denied the inscriptions were…
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EndSARS: Another protest looms the country if Unemployment is not tackled – Senate President, Lawan
The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has warned that another protest in the country looms if political office holders and policymakers fail to tackle the issue of unemployment in the country. Ahmad gave the warning when the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Mr Sabo Nanono, led top officials of his ministry to defend its 2021 budget before the Senate Committee on Agriculture on Monday, November 9. He challenged his colleagues in positions of authorities to include youth employment and empowerment into the 2021 budget so as to escape another round of #EndSARS protests. “Recently, we had protests by…
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‘Push your daughters to own Businesses, not get Married’, Rapper Shaybo tells African Parents
Nigerian-born UK female rapper, Shaybo has advised African parents to prioritize business over marriage for their daughters. The 23-year-old fast-rising hip hop artist took to her Twitter page to share her thoughts. According to the musician whose real name is Shayon Brown, what is more profitable for young African women is to start a business of their own so that they can be financially independent. In her words: “African parents always pushing the girls in the household to marry. Look for husband. Instead of pushing them to own businesses. To be a boss so that they don’t need to rely…
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“Stop building prisons and cemetery in our land” – Ogoni leaders tell Buhari
The Ogoni people have asked the federal government to stop the building of prison facilities and cemeteries on their land. Coordinating Committee of the 25th memorial of Ogoni martyrs made the demand in a media briefing held in commemoration of the November 10 Hero’s Day. According to Gbeneme Okpae who spoke on behalf of the people, he said they have heard that the Ogonis who demand justice will be locked up in the prison and the cemetery is for mass graves for Ogonis who oppose resumption of oil drilling in Ogoni. “We call on the Federal Government to stop the…
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EndSARS Protests: “Everyone has the right to a peaceful demonstration” – UN
Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations, UN, Mrs. Amina Mohammed, Monday said that everyone has a right to a peaceful demonstration and make some demands from their government. Mrs Mohammed who was the Former Minister of Environment in the President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration, before her appointment also said that the recent protest against Police brutality embarked upon by youths was a lesson for the future, especially on how the young ones should be engaged in such issues. Speaking to State House correspondents after meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, Mohammed said there was a launch of…
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IPPIS: “Government should stop this arm twisting and manipulation” – ASUU President, Ogunyemi.
The National President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) Professor Abiodun Ogunyemi. Has asked the federal government to stop playing a game of manipulation and deception in his latest revelation on why the union is yet to call off the strike.Speaking on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily, He accused the federal government of not being committed to resolve the issues at hand.He said; “What we need is a commitment; there is nothing like transition and what we are saying, in essence, is that government should just go ahead and pay what government has withheld – the salaries of our members; people have…
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#EndSARS Promoters must face the Law – Garba Shehu
Presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu, has stated that those who promoted the #EndSARS protest and allowed it degenerate into chaos must be made to face the law. Garba Shehu said this when he featured on Channels’ Politics Today. According to him, the president is responsible for decisions made by his administration, saying “the buck stops on his table”. He said despite being entitled to the right to protest in a peaceful way, there is also a law that sanctions violent demonstrations as the country had been seriously harmed by the #EndSARS protests and the culprits must be made to face the…
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#EndSARS: Nigerian Govt releases Modupe Odele’s passport
EndSARS frontliner, Modupe Odele has announced that the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) has released her passport to her after being seized on her way to the Maldives for her Birthday celebration. Modupe’s passport was seized some days ago as she was stopped from boarding a flight, when she queried the reason for the seizure of her passport, she was told that she was being investigated. In a new development, Moe took to her Twitter page on Monday to say that the federal government has finally released her passport. She wrote: “Passport now picked up. No issues. I’m told I can…
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Buhari orders sale of forfeited Assets within 6 Months
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the sale of all assets deemed to have been illegally acquired and therefore forfeited to the federal government. According to the presidential directive, all affected assets must be sold within the next six months so as to make more funds available to the government. This was disclosed by the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami who inaugurated a 22-member Inter-Ministerial Committee, to undertake the assignment, on Monday, 9th November The AGF confirmed that the committee, headed by the Solicitor-General of the Federation and Permanent Secretary Federal Ministry of Justice, Mr.…
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IPOB trying to incite another Civil War – Umahi
Governor of Ebonyi State, David Umahi has accused the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) of trying to incite another civil war in Nigeria. He made this statement when he led other governors from the region to a meeting with Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike which was held at the Rivers State Government House, Port Harcourt. Umahi in his statement noted that southeast leaders are in the meeting to verify the reports making rounds over the alleged killing of Igbo people in the state which he concluded to be false. Umahi noted that after listening to Wike’s side of the…
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US Election: China declines to acknowledge Biden’s victory
President Xi Jinping of China on Monday declined to congratulate Joe Biden as the winner of the US presidential election, saying the outcome of the vote was still to be determined. While incumbent Donald Trump has yet to concede and has launched several legal challenges, many world leaders congratulated Biden and running mate Kamala Harris after the Democrats were declared winners at the weekend and spontaneous celebrations erupted across American cities. China, Russia and Mexico however have not congratulated the President-Elect. “Our understanding is that the outcome of the election will be determined in accordance with US laws and procedures,”…
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