Day: February 22, 2021

‘800 people’ massacred at Ethiopia’s Ark of the Covenant

Aoko Benjamin

‘800 people’ massacred at Ethiopia’s Ark of the Covenant   Some 800 people were reportedly killed during a massacre at a Christian church in Axum, Ethiopia, where worshippers believe the Ark of the Covenant is housed. The church of St Mary of Zion became a place of refuge for Ethiopians in the Tigray region fleeing the country’s civil war. It came under siege last year amid clashes between government forces and rebel militia, resulting in hundreds of deaths, which have only become public knowledge now. Due to Tigray’s phone lines…

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How First-Class Traditional Ruler, UNIPORT Lecturer were kidnapped

Precious Ibekwe

    Details have emerged on how gunmen kidnapped a lecturer with the University of Port Harcourt, Dr. Jones Ayuwo, and a first-class traditional ruler in Rivers State, South-South Nigeria. Ayuwo of the department of Linguistics and Communications Studies in UNIPORT was abducted on Sunday night along the Andoni-Ogoni road while returning from the Local Government Area of Andoni after a function by his Local Language Bible Translation committee which he serves as the secretary. Three journalists with the Rivers State Government-owned Television who went for the coverage of the…

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Nigeria signs deals for 70MW power supply to Togo

Aliyu Aliyu

    Nigeria, a country battling with acute shortage of electricity to its 200 million citizens, has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) to supply 70 megawatts (MW) of power to West African nation – Togo.   The Executive Director, Generation, Niger Delta Power Holding Company (NDPHC), Engr. Kassim Abdullahi, disclosed the signing of PPA during an inspection of the Calabar Power Plant in Odukpani, Cross River State, maintaining that the supply to Togo would be carried out from the power plant. The company, Abdullahi added in a statement by…

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Tanzania has Covid-19 problem, President admits in major u-turn

Aoko Benjamin

  After claiming for months that COVID-19 had been defeated by prayer, President of Tanzania, John Magufuli, has finally admitted that his country has a coronavirus problem. Populist President Magufuli on Sunday urged citizens of the East African country to take precautions and even wear face masks — but only locally made ones. Over the course of the pandemic he has expressed wariness about foreign-made goods, including Covid-19 vaccines. The president’s comments came days after the country of some 60 million people mourned the death of one of its highest-profile…

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BREAKING: Italian Ambassador Assasinated, UN Convoy Attacked in DR Congo

Aoko Benjamin

  The Italian ambassador to Kinshasa was Assasinated on Monday in an attack that targeted a convoy of the World Food Program (WFP) during a visit near Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The AFP, which reported this, quoted a diplomatic source to have said that the Ambassador died on the spot. Ambassador Luca Attanasio “died immediately of his wounds,” a senior diplomatic source in Kinshasa told AFP. Two other people were also killed during the attack according to the same source.

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