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Canada should introduce a total ban on the buying and selling of all handguns, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said. His government is proposing a new law that would freeze private ownership of all short-barrelled firearms. The legislation would not ban the ownership of handguns outright – but would make it illegal to buy them. Mr Trudeau’s proposal comes days after a deadly shooting at a Texas primary school, in the neighbouring US, killed 21 people. The bill, which was presented to Canada’s parliament on Monday, makes it impossible to buy, sell, transfer or import handguns anywhere in the country.…
Uefa has commissioned an independent report into the scenes outside the ground that delayed Saturday’s Champions League final between Liverpool and Real Madrid. Kick-off at the Stade de France in Paris was delayed by over half an hour with Liverpool ticket-holders seen waiting in huge queues, and French police later using tear gas on crowds. On Monday, French authorities complained of what they called “industrial-scale” ticket fraud amid a row over the game’s policing. French sports minister Amelie Oudea-Castera said there were “no problems” regarding Madrid supporters and the Spanish side had controlled their travelling fans better than Liverpool, who had let their…
The kidnapped Prelate of the Methodist Church in Nigeria, Samuel Kanu, has regained his freedom. He was kidnapped on Sunday May 29 in Abia State, South-East region of the country. The Christian Association of Nigeria, the umbrella body of Christian faithful, had called on President Muhamadu Buhari to order deployment of all security agencies to ensure his release. It was not clear if any ransom was paid to get him out of the kidnappers’ den. His church had issued a statement after his kidnap saying, “His Eminence, Samuel Kanu, is a peace-loving Christian leader. His abduction came as a shock.”…
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) says it has arrested one Obinna Igbo, for allegedly importing fake malaria drug, Amanta Forte. The arrest of the suspect, a 32-year old businessman was made known in a statement signed by the agency resident media consultant, Mr Olusayo Akintola, on Monday. Akintola said that the suspect, who imported the unregistered product, had also been arraigned before Justice Tijani Ringim of a Federal High Court in Lagos on a four-count charge. The charges are unlawful importation, possession, sale, and distribution of fake Amanta Forte soft gel (Artemether 80mg +…
A French journalist working in Ukraine has been killed near the battle-hit city of Severodonetsk in the east. Frédéric Leclerc-Imhoff, 32, was covering an evacuation operation for broadcaster BFMTV when he died. Officials say he suffered a fatal wound to the neck after shrapnel pierced the armoured vehicle he was travelling in. His colleague Maxime Brandstaetter was also injured, report say. It was Mr Leclerc-Imhoff’s second trip to Ukraine to cover the war. He had been working for BFMTV for six years. Paying tribute to him online, BFMTV wrote: “This tragic event reminds us of the dangers faced by all…
Russian forces have entered the city of Severodonetsk, as they continue their attempts to capture the eastern Donbas region of Ukraine. One of the region’s governors says that the bombardment of the industrial centre is so intense that they have given up counting the casualties. Just days ago, I watched from a rooftop in Lysychansk as, on the horizon, its twin city of Severodonetsk was being bombed indiscriminately. Shells were landing every minute on its length and breath. Severodonetsk was burning. Lysychansk itself has been drained of life. A few people still go out on the streets, but they are…
An All Progressive Congress presidential aspirant Pastor Tunde Bakare, has said that experience has failed Nigerians. He said what is needed at the moment is a genius to bail the country out of its present predicament . Speaking shortly after he was screened by the John Odigie-Oyegun led presidential screening panel in Abuja on Monday, Bakare said Nigeria is facing crisis. “When a nation is in the midst of a crisis, experience is not the only thing you need. Experienced people have taken us to this low-low. “You need geniuses; those who would do the right thing at the right…
A caucus of the All Progressive Congress in Osun on Monday accused Governor Gboyega Oyetola of hijacking the primaries that were expected to produce candidates for the party in the state House of Assembly election. Hon. Wasiu Adebayo, a former Assembly member who addressed journalists on behalf of other aggrieved aspirants in Osogbo, said the primaries conducted were a shambles adding that the Governor siezed the results and started allocating votes to his loyalists. The aspirants, who include ten House of Assembly and two House of Representatives aspirants, accused Governor Adegboyega Oyetola of impunity and total disregard to democratic principles…
The former governor of Lagos State and a presidential aspirant of APC,Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has arrived Transcorp Hotel for his screening excercise. Asiwaju who was accompanied with the Lagos State Governor,Babajide Sanwo-Olu arrived the venue at exactly 6:45pm. It’s expected that he would be screened later in the night. APC started it’s screening excercise in the afternoon with Governor Badaru and other three Aspirants. The screening committee is headed by the former chairman of the party, John Odigie Oyegun.
Former National Chairman of the All Progressive Congress Chief John Odigie-Oyegun has been named the head of the screening of the presidential aspirants of the party. This was just as former Governor Ibikunle Amosun and Governor of Jigawa State Abubakar Badaru appeared before the panel at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel in Abuja. Journalists were barred from covering the proceedings. The emergence of Oyegun as chairman of the screening panel was said to have created panic in the camp of former Governor of Lagos State Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. Tinubu had allegedly engineered the ouster of Oyegun at the party chairman to…