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Monday, 06 January 2020 06:08

Flight disruptions continue as harmattan bites harder

Massive flight disruptions continue yesterday following nationwide harmattan haze which has reduced visibility and hampered aircraft movement. Since the commencement of the harmattan season which is expected to last till around March-April, many flights have been either cancelled or delayed. Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) had in September last year urged pilots to exercise maximum restraint during harmattan season. General Manager, Public Relations of NCAA Spokesman, Mr Sam Adurogboye said the season which has since commenced and would last till March 2020 as predicted by Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMET) is hazardous to safe flight operations. He said, “As issued by…

Sunday, 05 January 2020 05:58

FG ignores Senate, others, begins visa-on-arrival policy for Africans

Despite objections raised by Senate and reservations expressed by some Nigerians about its visa-on-arrival policy for Africans, Federal Government has commenced the implementation of the new visa regime. The visa-on-arrival policy commenced on January 1, as planned. Also, Nigeria Immigration Service has deployed a new border management security system in four airports across the country. President Muhammadu Buhari on December 11, 2018 at the Aswan Forum for Sustainable Peace and Development in Africa, in Cairo, Egypt, announced the visa-on-arrival policy for Africans. “We in Nigeria have already taken the strategic decision to bring down barriers that have hindered the free…

Sunday, 05 January 2020 05:57

Methodist Church plans to split over issues of same-sex marriage, LGBTQ clergy

United Methodist Church plans to split into two later this year, church officials said on Friday, a schism that follows years of contention over whether the church should end its ban on same-sex marriage and gay clergy. The plan, if approved at the church's worldwide conference in Minneapolis in May, would divide the third-largest US Christian denomination into two branches. A traditionalist side opposed to gay marriage and the ordination of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender clergy, and a progressive wing that will allow same-sex marriage and LGBT clergy. Church leaders from both camps said they welcomed the move.United Methodist…

Sunday, 05 January 2020 05:56

How Trump decided to kill Iran’s most senior military officer

On Sunday, President Trump’s most senior national security advisers joined him at his Mar-a- Lago resort in Florida, where Trump was beginning the second week of his holiday vacation. The officials told reporters that U.S. F-15 Strike Eagles had just attacked Iranian-sponsored militia groups at their bases in Iraq and Syria, in response to a series of rocket attacks that had culminated in the death of an American contractor two days earlier. But privately, a different topic had come up with an agitated president: whether to kill Iranian general Qasem Soleimani, whom military leaders described as responsible for the attack…

Sunday, 05 January 2020 05:55

Trump threatens to hit 52 targets already lined up if Iran retaliates

President Donald Trump issued a stark warning to Iran on Saturday, threatening to hit dozens of targets in the Islamic Republic “very fast and very hard” if it retaliates for the targeted killing of the head of Iran’s elite Quds Force. The series of tweets came as the White House sent to Congress a formal notification under the War Powers Act of the drone strike on Gen. Qassem Soleimani, a senior administration official said. U.S. law required notification within 48 hours of the introduction of American forces into an armed conflict or a situation that could lead to war. The…

Saturday, 04 January 2020 06:15

Despite going abroad for medical treatment, Buhari says Nigerians ‘can’t continue going overseas for treatment’

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday said Nigerians should not continue going abroad for medical treatment. “Nigerians have suffered so much going abroad for medical treatment. This is not good for us and it must stop, because we can’t afford it again,” he said. The President, who himself had travelled to the United Kingdom for treatment on several occasions, stated this at Alex Ekwueme Federal University Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki, during the inauguration and handover of completed projects to the management of the hospital. He explained that the project was executed to check flooding and gully erosion in the hospital. The President,…

Saturday, 04 January 2020 06:13

Fulani herdsmen from anywhere don’t need visa to enter Nigeria – Miyetti Allah

National President of Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, Mr Abdullahi Bodejo, has said that the Fulani in other countries don’t need visa to come into Nigeria. In an interview with VINCENT KALU, the leader of cattle breeders association, pointed out that desperate politicians were behind the incessant herders-farmers clashes. The clashes between herdsmen and farmers seem to have reduced drastically, what is the reason for this? The elections are over, and winners have emerged and there are also losers. The crises were mostly engineered by desperate politicians, who tried to use the clashes to score political points. These clashes reached their…

Saturday, 04 January 2020 06:11

Trump: Aim of killing Iranian general was to 'stop a war'

President Donald Trump said Friday he ordered the killing of a top Iranian general “to stop a war,” not start one, but in the tense aftermath the Pentagon braced for retaliation by sending more troops to the Middle East. Democrats complained that Trump hadn’t consulted Congress, and some worried that the strike made war more likely. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo argued the U.S. case with allies in the Middle East and beyond, asserting that Friday’s drone strike killing Gen. Qassem Soleimani was a necessary act of self defense. He asserted that Soleimani was plotting a series of attacks that…

Saturday, 04 January 2020 06:10

Air strikes targeting Iraqi militia kill another six

Air strikes targeting Iraq’s Popular Mobilisation Forces umbrella grouping of Iran-backed Shi’ite militias near camp Taji north of Baghdad have killed six people and critically wounded three, an Iraqi army source said late on Friday. Two of the three vehicles making up a militia convoy were found burned, the source said, as well as six burned corpses. The strikes took place at 1:12 am local time, he said. Compiled by Olalekan Adeleye Reuters

Saturday, 04 January 2020 06:05

Residents of Adamawa community troop back home after night attack

As normalcy returns to Michika town of Adamawa following night attack by insurgents, many residents who abandoned their houses during an attack that was repelled by the military, have started returning home. Many residents fled their houses during the Thursday night attack to take refuge in the bush and surrounding hills. “Some of us ran to villages like Bazza, Husara and Uba. I am just returning to Michika from Uba with my family,” said a man who simply identified himself as Ali Carpenter. Another resident, Sini John, said about 20 of them took refuge on the hill. “It was a…

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Friday, 03 January 2020 05:47

Iran vows 'harsh retaliation' after US airstrike kills Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Friday warned that a "harsh retaliation is waiting" for the U.S. after an airstrike on an airport in Baghdad killed Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran's elite Quds Force. The Iranian state TV carried a statement by Khamenei who also called Soleimani "the international face of resistance." Khamenei declared three days of public mourning for the general's death. Another Iranian foreign minister warned that the U.S. would bear all the consequences of the “foolish” military attack, claiming his assassination would only escalate tensions in the region given that he was “THE…

Friday, 03 January 2020 05:43

Fulani herdsmen drag Oyo govt to court over anti-grazing law

Cattle herders in Oyo State under the aegis of Gan Allah Fulani Development Association of Nigeria has dragged the state government and the state House of Assembly to court in protest against the state’s anti-grazing law. Also joined in the suit was the Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice in the state. The bill, which was recently signed into law by the state government, aimed at checking persistent clashes between farmers and herders in the state. But the herders in Oyo State described the new law as gross violation of their fundamental rights. In a suit marked M/744/2019, they asked the…

Friday, 03 January 2020 05:42

Fire razes ex-senate president’s home

The residence of a former Senate President, Mr David Mark, in Otukpo, Benue State was gutted by fire on Thursday. Witnesses said the fire spread from a nearby bush bordering the fence of the ex-senate president’s residence and bunt down two ambulance vehicles as well as over 15 motor cycles parked in the premises. It was gathered that domestic workers at the residence made frantic efforts to put out the fire without much success before the arrival of the State Fire Service in Otukpo. One of the domestic workers, who preferred anonymity, said, “we made every effort to quench the…

Friday, 03 January 2020 05:41

Saraki family narrates how Kwara govt demolished property on late patriarch’s land

Agents of Kwara State Governor, Mr Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq led by one of his aides in the early hours of Thursday morning demolished the structures on Plots 1, 3 and 5, otherwise known as Ile Arugbo (Old People’s Home) which belong to Late Mr Olusola Saraki, after heavy firing of gunshots and tear gas canisters to scare away the women and youths who have been keeping vigil on the land since New Year eve. The overnight demolition squad eventually set to work after four failed attempts which were resisted by old women and youths who have always gathered at the Ile…

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