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Post Date : November 25, 2020

Tigray Crisis: Ethiopian PM, Abby Rejects ‘Interference’ Ahead Of Surrender Deadline

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on Wednesday said he rejected international “interference” in Ethiopia’s affairs, hours before a deadline for Tigray’s rebellious leaders to surrender or face an assault on their capital. Abiy, the winner of last year’s Nobel Prize, late Sunday gave the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) 72 hours to surrender — an ultimatum rejected by the leader of the dissident northern region, who has said his people are “ready to die” for their homeland. As the clock ticked down, the UN Security Council held its first meeting on the three-week-old crisis, with particular concern for civilians in the regional capital Mekele. Ethiopian forces say they are encircling the city with tanks ahead of an assault on the TPLF, and have urged its half-million residents to leave. Rights groups have warned that attacking the city could constitute a war crime. The UN, US, EU, and others have urged restraint and called for an immediate halt to hostilities. Abiy has resisted calls for mediation and insists on the “law enforcement operation” against the TPLF is entering its decisive final stage. In a statement Wednesday, he said Ethiopia appreciated the concern but stressed his government was “very much capable” of resolving the matter on its own. “While we consider the concerns and advice of our friends, we reject any interference in our internal affairs,” Abiy said. “We therefore respectfully urge the international community to refrain from any unwelcome and unlawful acts of interference and respect the fundamental principles of non-intervention under international law.” The African Union (AU), headquartered in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, has dispatched three former African presidents as special envoys to try and broker talks. A spokesman for an Ethiopian committee handling the conflict said Monday the government would meet the envoys “as a matter of respect” but flatly ruled out negotiations with the TPLF. Jake Sullivan, the newly-appointed national security advisor to US President-elect Joe Biden, on Wednesday, urged Ethiopia’s warring parties to immediately begin dialogue through AU mediators. “I’m deeply concerned about the risk of violence against civilians, including potential war crimes, in the fighting around Mekele in Ethiopia. Civilians must be protected and humanitarian access must be opened,” Sullivan posted on Twitter. – Humanitarian crisis – Fighting between the Ethiopian army and Tigrayan forces has raged since November 4, when Abiy ordered a military response to what he said were TPLF attacks on federal military camps. More than 40,000 refugees have fled the violence into eastern Sudan, and rockets have fallen on the Eritrean capital Asmara and Ethiopian cities outside Tigray, spurring fears the conflict could widen. Hundreds have reportedly been killed, including at least 600 civilians that Ethiopia’s rights watchdog says were massacred in the town of Mai-Kadra. The EU’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell on Tuesday discussed the worsening humanitarian crisis with Ethiopia’s foreign minister, and warned the fighting was already destabilising the wider region. Tigray remains under a communications blackout and media access to the region has been restricted, making independent verification of claims from both sides difficult. The government said Tuesday that Tigrayan troops were surrendering, while the TPLF claimed to have routed an army battalion. The TPLF led the overthrow of Ethiopia’s military Derg regime in 1991 and dominated the country’s politics until Abiy became prime minister in 2018. Since then, TPLF leaders have complained of being sidelined by Abiy and blamed for the country’s woes, and tensions have festered between the regional leadership and the federal government in Addis Ababa. -AFP

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Post Date : November 25, 2020

Kano Missing Kids: Court Remands 5 Persons In Correctional Centres

A High court in Kano has remanded 5 accused persons in correctional facility after they pleaded not guilty to the charges of conspiracy and kidnapping of a 2 year old boy, Aliyu Dauda who later died. The accused were part of ten others who were scheduled to be arraigned before the court on Wednesday but only the five were present. Three of the accused persons were minors and thus were sent to juvenile centre while the two others (adults) to the correctional facility. The defendants would be in detention till December 4th when the court would continue the hearing and ruling on their bail application. The presiding Judge, Justice Dije Aboki of High court 3 also issued a warrant of arrest against the five others who were not in court and asked the state prosecutor to arrange counsels for the juveniles who cannot afford. Among those the warrant was issued against included Zainab Salisu, Umar Aliyu and Amina Ibrahim AKA (Gara) who is the prime suspect in the matter. At the commencement of sitting on Wednesday, the prosecuting counsel, Barrister Tijjani Ibrahim told the court that they are set for the arraignment and ready to continue with the case. All the accused present in court pleaded not guilty to the charges. Daily trust reports that the accused persons were alleged to have connived, conspired and kidnapped one Aliyu Dauda, a 2 year old boy (now deceased) thereby committing an offence punishable under section 97 and 273 of the state penal code.

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Post Date : November 25, 2020

Gunmen abduct bride-to-be four weeks to her wedding in Jigawa

Barely less than a month to her wedding ceremony, a 20-year-old bride-to-be, Saratu Sabo Wada, was kidnapped. Saratu, a daughter of Sabo Wada Ringim, former clerk Jigawa state house of assembly and currently council secretary of Ringim local government lives in Gida-Dubu Quarters in Dutse Local Government Area of Jigawa State. The kidnapped victim, Saratu, according to a family source was abducted on Monday morning at the front of her father’s residence at Gida Dubu quarters in Dutse metropolitan. The family source said: “Saratu went out after receiving a phone call and since then she was nowhere to be found and all her phones are switched off”. The source further disclosed that the victim was abducted a month to her wedding and nobody has so far contacted the family for any ransom. Meanwhile, the Jigawa State Police Command Public Relations Officer, SP Abdu Jinjiri confirmed the incident, said the police are investigating the case.

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Post Date : November 25, 2020

BREAKING: Senator Elisha Abbo dumps PDP for APC

Senator Elisha Abbo has defected from the Peoples Democratic Party to the All Progressives Congress. Senate President Ahmad Lawan read Abbo’ s letter of defection during the plenary session on Wednesday. Abbo noted that the alleged mismanagement of PDP in Adamawa State led to his defection to APC. Details later …

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Post Date : November 25, 2020

Foiling Bill Gates Plans to Destroy Nigeria – The 2016 Challenge

By Philip Njemanze MD The National Council on Health presided over by Dr Khaliru Alhassan, the former Supervising Minister for Health inaugurated a national committee to implement the National Health Act 2015. The committee comprised a listing of about 27 organizations of which 18 on the list were foreign organizations to implement a Nigeria health law! At the helm of the committee is the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Embassies of foreign Western Diplomatic Missions in Nigeria, WHO and other UN organizations. The action of the Minister constitutes a treasonable felony under the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, because health is considered National Security and surrendering the National Health System to foreign organizations amounts to an act of treason! To the amazement of Nigerians present at the meeting, organizations like the Association of General and Private Medical Practitioners of Nigeria (AGPMPN), which oversees the interests of the private sector medical practitioners and the Association of Catholic Medical Practitioners of Nigeria (ACMPN), which oversees the ethical practice of medicine were locked out prompting vehement protests by delegates who literally gate crashed into the meeting to be given a voice to speak about Nigerian health system, while foreign governments were presiding over the implementation of the laws on Nigerian health system. The committee has started work and Bill Gates has moved to begin acquisition of all Federal Medical Centres around the country beginning with the Southeast. In Owerri, the so-called privatization and public-private partnership (PPP) has acquired the Federal Medical Centre, Owerri. This is causing a severe crisis and strikes as health workers face layoffs to make way for the new owners and their team. The hospital is in total lockdown. Similar strikes are expected to commence all over the Southeast which happens to be the first zone in the privatization effort. The implementation of this act is illegal so far as the National Health Act 2014 has not been domesticated by the State Assemblies in the various states. National Health Act 2014 as passed by the National Assembly is only in force in the Federal Capital Territory Abuja. Observers suspect that the Southeast might be the main target of what should have been a national program. This is scary because should the Bill Gates Plan prioritize targeting Igbo states, ‘ethnic cleansing of Igbos’ could be accomplished within a few years. More people will die from the hands of Human Organ traffickers within one year than all through the three years of Biafran Civil War. Other observers have noted that while Bill Gates targeted the Northeast to capture the food security, the Southeast maybe more susceptible to the human organ trafficking and ovarian egg poaching by the international cartel. The covert plan by Bill Gates will provide him the infrastructure for a massive Human Organ Trafficking Trade whereby human organs would be poached from Nigerians for sale via internet to rich Western organ transplant recipients. A huge market exists for human organ transplantation tourism whereby Western patients would travel to Nigeria under the propaganda cover that Nigerian Hospitals have become better and cheaper than in the Western countries, so patients come from abroad to Nigeria to receive healthcare. There would be no mention that these international patients come to Nigeria to receive Nigerian organs from unsuspecting ignorant and naive Nigerian patients who run to these hospitals to get advanced ‘white man’ hospital care but only come out dead or with vital organs and their ovarian eggs poached. Analysts see the plans by Bill Gates as extensive including capture of political power and using his caucus in the legislature to pass the laws required for his unwholesome plans. …to continue.

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Post Date : November 25, 2020

Recession: Nigeria’s economy doing well compared to others –Lai Mohammed

Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, says the Nigerian economy is doing well compared to the economies of South Africa , Russia and other countries in recession. He said the recession is inevitable due to the global collapse in oil prices occasioned by the coronavirus pandemic. The minister spoke Wednesday on NTA Good Morning Nigeria Show. The minister said the government is optimistic that with its intervention measures , the recession will be short -lived . Mohammed said , “ It is true we are in a recession . Recession comes when a country records two consecutive quarters of negative growths . But we must go beyond that to understand that despite that, our economy is still very well in circumstances. “ The main reason why we have entered into this recession is the oil sector . The oil sector recorded -13. 89% and that is the worst in 14 quarters. Of course, it is easy to understand why ; with the pandemic , there is low demand for oil …but when you look at the non -oil sector which is about – 2. 51 % in Q 3, it is far better than what it was in the Q 2. “ Overall, yes , we are in a recession and it is inevitable but while our Q 2 result was -6. 1% , South Africa was – 50% and as we speak today , Finland, Hungary, Spain , Mexico, Russia , Romania , Belgium, Austria have all fallen into recession. “ But we are very confident that with the intervention policies, with the fiscal and monetary interventions the government has put in place , the recession will be short-lived . ”

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Post Date : November 25, 2020

SAD: Enugu schoolgirl who shined in 2019 WASSCE with 7As dies of cancer

Chisom Chukwuneke, a student who emerged the best 2019 candidate of the West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (WASSCE) in her school, has passed away after battling blood cancer. Douglas Ifeanyin Uzochukwu, principal of the Graceland College in Enugu, where she graduated from last year, confirmed the tragic development to TheCable Lifestyle on Wednesday. Blood cancer, also called leukemia, is a disease in which the bone marrow and other blood-forming organs produce increased numbers of immature or abnormal leucocytes, thereby suppressing the production of normal blood cells. Uzochukwu said the deceased, 17, died after a prolonged treatment in South Africa. “I’m not her father. I can’t speak much on that but she passed on from leukemia after prolonged treatment in South Africa,” he added. In a statement published via the school’s Facebook page, it wrote: “Forever in our hearts! Only a moment you stayed, but what an imprint you left in our Hall of Fame. A truly outstanding student! Rest In Peace Chisom!” Felix Chukwuneke, a Nigerian professor identified as the father of the deceased, also took to Facebook to narrate how Chisom’s sickness started as leg pain. He said this had prompted him to fly her to South Africa for medical care. “Just like a dream but the realities are crystal now. Just a pain on the leg that snowballed to a devastating episode, the battle started earnestly. I hear you call, ‘daddy my leg is paining me’. I watch as you lie abed with pain,” he said in a long tribute to the deceased. “As restless and worried as I can be, I promised to do everything humanly possible. With glaring poor health care in Nigeria. Off we went to South Africa. We were happy at your initial recovery, not knowing the war was just to begin. “We fought it together for more than a year in SA. You were an embodiment of intelligence of inestimable value. Above all an indefatigable personality, courageous in the face of glaring uncertainty. You were strong, philosophical. “My strength even in sickness, you wanted your dad freed while you go on to rest. In the bosom of our Lord where there is no more pain. You spoke in parables about a special gift 10 days earlier, and left a day to my birthday. “Never did I know your gift you promised was your glorious exit. You exhibited virtuoso and dazzling intellects to the bewilderment of the doctors at Wits Donald Gordon Hospital, Parktown, Johannesburg, South Africa “Today your name is written in Gold over there. Like a shining light in the tunnel, having a dream for an African Child with less privilege and opportunity like you to access good health care. This your dream I must ensure.” Pictures of plaques evidencing the many academic achievements of the deceased have flooded social media as words of her death spread.

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Post Date : November 25, 2020

Delta: Kidnappers demand N10m ransom for school teacher

The abductors of a secondary school teacher in the Delta State University community of Abraka in Ethiope East local government area of the state have made a ransom demand of N10million for her release. The victim simply identified as Mrs Ojoboh, a staff of Erho Secondary School, Abraka, was abducted last Monday night by a gang of gunmen who the police said dragged her into their car from her shop located along the old Eku-Abraka road and whisked her to an unknown location. Confirming the ransom demand by the hoodlums, her husband, Dr Sunny Ojoboh who is a lecturer with the department of mathematics and computer science at the university, hinted that the kidnappers have made contact demanding for ransom. He also dispelled media reports that the gunmen were from the northern part of the country saying, “These are our boys. There English might not be too sound, but they are enlightened.” Lamenting the spate of kidnappings in the area, Dr Ojoboh said: “It is very annoying that we have gotten to this place in Nigeria that somebody that is doing is her respective business, managing her life you will go and kidnap her because you are looking for money.” Speaking on efforts to ensuring the rescue of the victim and prevent reoccurrence of such incidents in the area, the state police public relations officer, Onome Onowakpoyeya said: “There is intensive surveillance and patrolling right now in the community and currently we are more into intelligence-led policing and so what we need from the public is information. “The earlier we get information, the better. If you see anything suspicious just let the police know and over time the public has been encouraged to have the number of their DPOs.”

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Post Date : November 25, 2020

Woman, 21 arrested in Anambra for attempting to sell own baby for #150,000

Ibe Pascal Arogorn, Awka Operatives of the Nigerian police on Tuesday in Anambra state arrested a woman for attempting sell her own for 150,000 It was gathered that Police operatives attached to Ojoto Division in Anambra State arrested one Emila Sunday ‘f’ who claimed to be 21years old from Akwa Ibom State with a three months old baby boy at Ire-village Ojoto. Preliminary investigation revealed that the woman is attempting to sell her three months old baby boy which the suspect claimed was due to hardship. Meanwhile Crimefacts.News learnt that,the baby was rescued in good health condition and investigation is ongoing to unravel the circumstances surrounding the matter. When Contracted Anambra police public relations officer (PPRO), SP Haruna Mohammed confirmed the incident and has issued a statement to it’s effect.

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Post Date : November 25, 2020

Maina Vs Nnamdi Kanu: Why is Abaribe, Ekweremadu not treated like Ndume, CNG asks?

Coalition of Northern Groups, CNG, led by Nastura Sheriff has alleged that the evidence of bias was apparent in the order for Senator Ali Ndume’s detention due to Abdurasheed Maina’s failure to appear in court. CNG, in a statement signed by Abdulaziz Suleiman, the spokesperson, reacted to the detention of Senator Ali Ndume and objected to its dubious legality under the law as well as in practice. . They noted the dangerous precedent set by the obvious bias in the ruling of the court that ordered the Senator’s detention. “The evidence of bias is apparent in the order for Ndume’s detention while Senator Abaribe, former Deputy Senate President Ekweremmadu and others who stood bail for Nnamdi Kanu who was standing trial for treason, were not ordered to forfeit the bail terms. “This order further confirms the concerns for an entrenched moral corruption in the nation’s criminal justice administration system that is twisted to suit certain sectional interests of judges. “Otherwise, there is no justification whatsoever, in a court, presumably the temple of justice applying same laws differently on citizens of the same country based on ethnic or sectional favours. The Group fumed over what it described as professional impunity displayed by some judges, and reminded the nation’s justice administrators that the law will fail to protect the society if it allows fanciful considerations to deflect the course of justice. “There is nothing more bias than a situation where people of certain sections are not called to forfeit bail bonds entered on behalf of a terror group leader who has jumped bail while enforcing same on another person who stands surety for a financial offender just because he comes from an unfavoured section of the same country,” they stated.

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