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Japan government on Tuesday honored the assassinated former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe with a state funeral and military display in the nation’s capital. Under heavy security precautions and surrounded by angry protesters, some 4,300 mourners from Japan and abroad took part in the ceremony at the Nippon Budokan hall in Tokyo ignoring critics of people who said Abe did not deserve the rare ceremony. Among the dignitaries present at the occasion were U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris and former German president, Christian Wulff. Abe’s widow, Akie, dressed in a black formal kimono, carried the urn containing the ashes into the…
Police in Benue on Tuesday said its operatives have rescued four kidnap victims in Oju Local Government Area of state. Police spokesperson, SP Sewuese Anene stated on Tuesday in Makurdi that the quartet was kidnapped on Sept. 23 on Ijegwu-Opirikwu Road in Obi Local Government Area of the state. “The kidnappers yielded to pressure by security operatives and abandoned their victims on Sept. 25 and escaped into a nearby forest. “The victims have been reunited with their families,’’ she stated. Anene added that Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr Wale Abass had deployed more tactical teams to the area…
The Benue State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) says no fewer than 23 persons have died as a result of flooding in the state since the beginning of the rainy season. The Executive Secretary, Dr Emmanuel Shior, announced this while kick-starting the distribution of relief materials to flood victims on Tuesday in Makurdi. He said that 116,084 persons had also been displaced as a result of the flooding in some parts of the state. Shior said that the 116,084 displaced persons cut across 12,856 households in 11 local government areas. “74 persons are having different degrees of injuries. 14 out of…
Inspiring confidence during an era of low morale, potential future global damaging economic recession and failing organisational models have been identified among challenges facing organisations in Africa, Asia and Western Europe. These threats are fallouts of the COVID-19 and Russia-Ukraine crises. Their possible panaceas will be addressed by TEXEM UK at its programme coming up from Nov. 21 to Nov. 24 in Birmingham. TEXEM’s Director of Special Projects, Caroline Lucas, in a statement on the firm’s website, says the Strategic Leadership for Success in Volatile Times programme aims to equip leaders with the skills to deal with the uncertainty…
The Lagos State Police Command said its operatives have nabbed three persons over allegations that they are merchandising in hard drugs. The commands one suspected female and two other merchants dealing in a substance called skuchies were arrested in Lagos. This was made known through the verified Twitter handle of the Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Benjamin Hundeyin; saying that the trio were arrested after initial suspicion by operatives. While confirming the arrest, Hundeyin disclosed the identities of the suspect as Francis Friday (male) aged 30, Kemi Adeyemo (female) aged 35 years, and Nonso Orji (male) aged…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has debunked a report that a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has struck out a suit money laundering filed against a former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Olisa Metuh. It was reported yesterday that an Abuja Federal High Court struck out a suit filed by the EFCC against the former National Publicity Secretary of the PDP for retrial. According to the report, the trial judge at the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, Justice Emeka Nwite, described the seven-count in a suit marked: FHC/ABJ/CR/05/2022 filed by the EFCC…
The All Progressives Congress,APC, Presidential Campaign Council has postponed it’s proposed kick-off activities of its campaigns earlier slated for Wednesday. The ruling party had on Monday disclosed that all the 422 members of the campaign council are to attend a special prayer and solidarity rally to kick-off the campaign activities in Abuja after which each member will get their appointment letter. Announcing the postponement in a statement on Tuesday,the Director-General of the Tinubu/Shettima Presidential Campaign Council and Governor of Plateau State, Simon Lalong said the adjustment of the timetable and schedule of activities is in order to accommodate growing…
World chess champion Magnus Carlsen has for the first time openly accused fellow player Hans Niemann of cheating. In a statement, he said he believed Mr Niemann had “cheated more — and more recently — than he has publicly admitted”, though offered no evidence. Carlsen had previously made veiled accusations against Niemann, who beat him this month in a major upset. Niemann, 19, has denied cheating in competitive chess and has accused Carlsen of trying to ruin his career. The teenager has admitted cheating online twice, when he was 12 and 16, but has strenuously denied ever cheating over the…
A chieftain of the Labour Party and political economist Pat Utomi has challenged the candidate of the All Progressives Congress,APC, Bola Tinubu to go for a medical checkup and make the result public. He claimed the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate,Tinubu is unfit medically. Renowned economist threw the challenge on Monday while featuring on Channels Television’s Politics Today, maintaining that the signs are there to show Tinubu is unfit for the post. “Physically, you can see he is ailing. Let’s not kid ourselves. Let’s be honest,” he said during the show. “American presidents go through medicals that…
Kenyan lawyer Paul Gicheru, who was facing charges of witness interference at the International Criminal Court (ICC), has died, his family and the police have confirmed to local media. The police said Mr Gicheru was found dead at his home in the capital, Nairobi, on Monday night. Mr Gicheru was accused of bribing witnesses that were to testify against Kenya’s President William Ruto over Kenya’s 2007-2008 post-election violence in which more than 1,000 people were killed. He denied the allegations. The lawyer had surrendered himself to the court in November 2020, five years after the ICC issued an arrest warrant…