Month: November 2020

US Risks Zimbabwe Sanctions If Elections Are Not Free, Fair?

ADEOLA YUSUF

  United States Risks Zimbabwe Sanctions If Elections Are Not Free And Fair? A Zimbabwean news blog, PaZimbabwe has provided some much-needed humour in dousing tension by satirically reporting that authorities in the tiny nation of Zimbabwe will slap the World’s superpower with sanctions if their Elections Are Not Free And Fair. Zimbabwe is infamous world over for its troubles such as hyper-inflation and hotly disputed elections and the chaotic land reform program that saw the Southern African Nation country being slapped with a litany of sanctions by First world…

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Nigeria’s Electricity Regulator budgets N2bn for Office furniture, others

ADEOLA YUSUF

  Electricity industry regulator in Nigeria has budgetted N2 billion for furniture and partitioning of office space at its headquarters in Abuja, administrative capital of the country. Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) particularly wanted the legislators to approve this spending, saying it requires a total of this N2 billion in the 2021 Budget, to partition and furnish its headquarters. Chairman of NERC, Prof. James Momoh, disclosed this yesterday at a budget defence with the House of Representatives Committee on Power. He said the partitioning and furnishing of the eight-floor headquarters…

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ICC Opens probe into Nigeria’s #EndSARS protest ‘Crimes’

ADEOLA YUSUF

    The International Criminal Court (ICC) says it has opened a preliminary inquiry into the demonstrations against harassment and brutality by the police. According to the BBC, the ICC said it had received information on alleged crimes during the protests, which were organised under the #EndSARS campaign. Last month, many Nigerians took to the streets to call for an end to police brutality. In response to the protests, Mohammed Adamu, Inspector-General of Police (IGP), announced the dissolution of the special anti-robbery squad (SARS) — a unit that had been accused…

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FIRE FOR FIRE: You Can’t Stop Vote Counting, Biden’s Team Tells Trump

ADEOLA YUSUF

  Joe Biden’s White House campaign slammed President Donald Trump’s threat to try to stop the election vote count as “outrageous” early Wednesday, saying its legal team was ready to prevent such an “unprecedented” act. “The president’s statement tonight about trying to shut down the counting of duly cast ballots was outrageous, unprecedented, and incorrect,” Biden campaign manager Jen O’Malley Dillon said in a statement as the election remained undecided. “Never before in our history has a president of the United States sought to strip Americans of their voice in…

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Trump alleges Fraud, declares self Winner of US Election

ADEOLA YUSUF

  With results from 10 states still being expected and millions of legitimate ballots left to count, Donald Trump has, in one sweep, declared an unsupported victory, alleged fraud in the election and declared plan to head to the Supreme Court. “Frankly we did win this election,” he claims, speaking in subdued tone. He suggests – without evidence – that election “fraud” has occurred. “This is an embarrassment to our country,” he says, adding that he plans to go to the Supreme Court to fight election results. Millions of votes…

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US Election: Dollar falls, Oil Prices surge over sentiments, tension

ADEOLA YUSUF

  As the United States went to the polls Tuesday in a keenly contested election to choose between the current President, Donald Trump, and the Democratic Challenger, Joe Biden, the nation’s currency, the dollar depreciated against the six major global currencies while the equities market and the crude oil prices surged driven by sentiments in favour of victory by the Democratic challenger. According to the Financial Times, the dollar index, which measures the performance of the US currency against six major global currencies, fell almost 0.7 per cent, its biggest…

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Nigeria closer to agreement with Varsity Lecturers over strike – Minister

ADEOLA YUSUF

  The Nigeria Government has said it was close to resolving its diaagreement with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, said this during a town hall meeting in Bauchi on Monday with the youths of Bauchi State. Adamu said once the areas of disagreement are resolved, the university lecturers will call off their strike. The major area of disagreement with the lecturers, who had been on strike since March 2020, has been the mode of their payment. While the Federal Government says all its…

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Nigeria’s Lekki Tollgate CCTV ‘tampered with’ – Operator

ADEOLA YUSUF

  The facility the Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras at the Lekki Toll Gate, where #EndSARS protesters were shot, two weeks ago, was linked to had been “tampered” with and had been burnt. The helmsman at the company, which runs the gate, Abayomi  Omomuwasan, who declared this, added hat the video didn’t capture the whole evening. Omomuwasan, the managing director of the Lekki Concession Company, told a judicial panel which is investigating the events of 20 October that the CCTV had stopped recording at 20:00. He said a facility the…

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OML 40 suffers 2nd explosion in 4 months, shuts-in 10,000 barrels

ADEOLA YUSUF

Another explosion on Tuesday, November 3, rocked a production facility in Oil Mining Lease (OML) 40, impacting about 10,000 barrels of oil per day. The explosion, checks by Platforms  Africa showed, occured four months after a similar incident at the same OML 40 killed seven people in July this year. The Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC), an upstream subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), which confirmed this in a late night statement on Tuesday, added that no casualty or injury was recorded from the explosion. The statement issued…

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How #EndSARS Promoter was arrested at Airport, stopped From Travelling

ADEOLA YUSUF

  A promoter of the #EndSARS movement, Modupe Odele, has been arrested at the airport by the Nigerian Immigration Service on her way out of Nigeria Odele was also prevented from travelling. Although the officers did not disclose the reason for their action, it is believed that the action was taken because of her alleged role in the #EndSARS protests. Odele, had through her Twitter handle, @Mochievous, mobilised her 219,000 followers during the protests. She had also offered free legal aid to persons who were unjustly arrested during the demonstrations.…

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