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Today The United Nations General Assembly has voted 128-9 to declare the United States’ recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital “null and void”.. Arab Nations welcome this overwhelming vote by the UN General Assembly and hope that the Trump administration will without delay rescind the decision, which they view as illegal.
IRAN Iran says U.S. President Donald Trump cannot cause its nuclear deal with six major powers to collapse. The nuclear deal will not collapse and those who hope that Trump will cause its collapse, are wrong, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said today in a speech broadcast live on State TV. In October, Trump declined to […]
SERVICE CHIEFS Chief of Defence Staff Gen. Abayomi Olonisakin and service chiefs have been given tenure extension by President Muhammadu Buhari. Chief of Army Staff , Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai, Chief of the Naval Staff Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas and Chief of Air Staff Air Marshal Sadiq Abubakar, will enjoy the tenure elongation according to […]
#NewsUpdate Members of the UN Security Council have voted on a draft resolution that would reject US President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel during a meeting on the situation in the Middle East including Palestine on December 18, 2017, at UN Headquarters in New York.
BOKO HARAM Nigeria has been in war with Boko Haram in over eight years and in a feat unequalled since the war against terrorism, the Nigerian Army, says it captured one hundred and sixty seven suspected Boko Haram terrorists in various operations in the North-east over the last fortnight. Deputy Director, Army Public Relations, and […]
JUNGLE JUSTICE The United Global Resolve For Peace has decried high rate of jungle justice in Nigeria, urging youths to shun killings and allow the law to take its course while saying government must implement policies sensitizing the public on the dangers of the act. Speaking at a press briefing to kick-start campaign against jungle […]
GOVERNORS Nigeria Governors’ Forum Chairman AbdulAzeez Yari yesterday ruled Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State, was out of order over his claim that the One Billion Dollars recently approved for the fight against Boko Haram is a ruse. The governors, at a meeting of the National Economic Council on Thursday, gave the federal government the […]
#NewsUpdate The Chairman of the Police Service Commission, Mike Okiro, has weighed in on the #EndSARS conversation, saying thou the special anti-robbery squad (SARS) has been bastardised, it cannot and shouldn’t be scrapped. Okiro says SARS started around 1991 when Shina Rambo, a notorious armed robber, held sway in the criminal underworld. Okiro reiterates that […]
SEC Meanwhile, Security and Exchange Commission said yesterday that it would go ahead with the forensic audit of Oando Plc. The commission said this in a letter dated December 5, 2017 and addressed to the management of Oando Plc. In a statement yesterday,it said the decision to conduct the audit was in line with its […]
SARS Remember our #EndSARS conversation? Well, it paid off. They listened an in response to our complaint this happened. Inspector General of Police, Idris Ibrahim, has ordered the immediate re-organization of Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, across the country. Ibrahim in a statement today said he had no doubt that SARS had been doing well in […]
