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The re-elected Chairman of All Progressives Congress, APC, in Enugu State, Dr. Ben Nwoye, has accused the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Geoffrey Onyeama, and Special Assistant to President Muhammad Buhari on Justice Reform, Mrs. Juliet Nwangwu of allegedly using political thugs to disrupt the just-concluded APC congress in the state. Nwoye, who addressed newsmen in Enugu yesterday, said Onyeama also employed the services of the Department of State Services, DSS, personnel to supervise the alleged atrocities of the thugs, who allegedly invaded the venue of the state congress. He spoke against the backdrop of Saturday’s vandalisation of APC secretariat by some thugs, who reportedly carted away his personal effects. Nwoye, disclosed that apart from his personal effects, over 68 bags of rice belonging to women leaders, which were packed inside the secretariat, were allegedly stolen on Saturday by the leader of a faction of the party and his henchmen. He further said another group had, “

Ramallah (Palestine) – The Palestine Football Association head has urged fans to burn pictures of Argentina striker Lionel Messi and replicas of his shirt if he plays against Israel in Jerusalem next weekend. Twice world champions Argentina will play at Jerusalem’s Teddy Kollek Stadium on Saturday night in a World Cup warm-up match. The game has attracted huge interest among the Israeli fans, mainly because of Messi’s planned participation. But the Palestinians are not happy that the match will be held in Jerusalem. Palestinian FA chief Jibril Rajoub wrote on Sunday to Claudio Tapia, the head of the Argentinian FA, last week accusing Israel of using the match as a “political tool”. The stadium that will host the match is in west Jerusalem. The Palestinians want the eastern part of the city as the capital of a future state that will include the Gaza Strip and the Israeli-occupied West Bank. However, the status of the city generally is highly sensitive. The match was originally slated to

…Agip, community bicker over cleanup, compensation claims APOI—NINE months after a major massive oil spill along the Nigerian Agip Clough Creek/Tebidaba 10” pipeline was recorded in Apoi cmmmunuty in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area, community leaders and oficials of the Nigeria Agip Oil Company, NAOC, are yet to amicably resolve the matter, with claims and counter-claims by both parties. •This is the site of interest. While the community folks led by the Chairman of Apoi Council of Chiefs, Chief Kemela Godspower insists that no cleanup has been effected at the impacted sites and compensation paid, Agip officials and contractors, however, claim that it has since carried out cleanup exercise and compensation paid to the community. Community allegedly factionalised It was alledged that there is a set of Apoi people residing outside the community but the company recognises and deals with the community leaders when it comes to such matters. During a follow up visit to Agip spill impacte

A video of a wild elephant in India exhaling ashes has stumped experts worldwide as it is the first document of what appears to be a pachyderm “smoking.” The video was shot in 2016 by Vinay Kumar, a scientist from the Indian branch of the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), in Karnataka state’s Nagarhole Forest, but released recently “after experts realized its biological significance.” An elephant smoking In the video the female elephant, standing near a carpet of charcoal from a burnt forest floor, seemingly ingests the charcoal. It then exhales the ashes – which appear as puffs of smoke – before walking away. “This incredibly unusual behaviour of the elephant blowing out ashes is puzzling the scientific community. “Nobody is quite sure what is going on,” Kumar told dpa on Tuesday by phone. Varun Goswami, an elephant biologist with WCS, said he believed the animal was ingesting the charcoal, which has toxin-binding properties and can serve as a laxative, for medicinal reasons. WCS s

Edo State Government has partnered with the Christ Against Drug Abuse Ministry (CADAM) of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) to combat drug abuse and bring succor to victims of drug addiction. Obaseki In a statement, Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki said the partnership was to strengthen the state’s response to issues of drug abuse and provide an avenue for drug addicts to get rehabilitated. He said the efforts are necessary because of the increasing cases of drug-related offenses and activities of youths who abuse drugs such as tramadol, codeine and Rohypnol, cannabis, among others. According to him, “This partnership will help us rein in our youths. It will also open up the avenue for rehabilitation of youths who are addicted to drugs. We have come to realise that for us to have a productive population, our young ones must be in the right frame of mind to work. This would not happen if they are slaves to harmful drugs. So, we partnering with CADAM to ensure that those

Martin Luther King Jr’s nephew, Isaac newton-Farris Jnr, has enjoined Nigerians to unite and join hands with President Muhammadu Buhari to complete the work he begun in setting Nigeria on the right path and building a country every Nigerian would be proud of. Farris made the call in an interview with newsmen in Abuja after a get together in honour of the visiting Luther family who are in Nigeria The luncheon was organised by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora, Mrs Abike Dabiri- Erewa to mark the first Black History Month in Nigeria. President Muhammadu Buhari receives a plague from Ambassador Erika Bennett and other members of African-American Human Activist Late Martin Luther Jnr during the conferment of The First Black History Month National Black Excellence and Exceptional African Leadership Award 2018 at the Council Chambers in Abuja. “My advice to Nigeria is this., I know that a lot of Nigerians feel a little displeasure with President Bu