BREAKING: Despite wide support, US ‘opposes’ Okonjo-Iweala’s emergence as WTO DG

Despite wide support for Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nigeria’s candidate for the director-general of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), the US has expressed its opposition to her emergence.Advertisement The Cable reported on Wednesday that Okonjo-Iweala had emerged winner of the race with support from 104 of all 164 member countries of the WTO. Those countries include many in…

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NFF Confirms Receipt Of $1m FIFA COVID-19 Palliatives

President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Amaju Pinnick on Wednesday confirmed the receipt of $1 million as COVID-19 palliatives from FIFA. “Huge appreciation to football’s world governing body, @FIFAcom, for the $1 million (one million dollars) the Federation has received in the frame of COVID-19 palliatives,” Pinnick began in a series of tweets on…

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Foreign

WTO Is Poised to Pick Its First Female Leader

The World Trade Organization is set to pick its first female leader in coming days, offering a fresh start to a body weakened by fights between the U.S. and China at a time of global economic crisis. Consultations among the WTO’s 164 members were due to end on Tuesday on the choice between former Nigerian…

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Opinion

Could Tough Govt Action Against #EndSARS Protesters Be Govt Terrorism Against Citizens? By Magnus Onyibe

Nigeria has become the cynosure of all eyes globally. Not for the positive contributions or inventions by its citizens that would move mankind a tad forward in positive progress, such as when man first visited the moon on July 20, 1969-tributes to the pair of American Louis Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin; or when penicillin was discovered…

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AI asks Nigeria authorities to stop attempts to cover up Lekki toll

Amnesty International on Wednesday said Nigerian authorities still had many questions to answer on who ordered the use of lethal force on peaceful protesters at the Lekki toll gate. The International Human Rights Watch in a post title new investigative timeline questioned why the CCTV cameras on the scene was dismantled in advance and who…

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#EndSARS: Makinde meets youth reps, artisans, drivers

▪︎says we must work with Police to protect society Oyo State Governor, Engineer Seyi Makinde, on Tuesday, met with artisans, drivers and representatives of youth groups where he charged residents of the state to work together with the state government to bring back enduring peace in the state. The governor, who stated this at the…

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Opinion

EndSARSNOW: Tinubu, ‘Yoruba Ronu’, and the ‘Destruction’ of Lagos

By Bola Bolawole [email protected] 0807 552 5533 An adage says: When a child falls, he looks ahead of him to see why he fell but when an elder falls, he surveys where he is coming from to find out what caused the fall. In other words, today’s events are not necessarily – in fact, are…

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Nothing Wrong Asking The Military To Intervene To Quell Riots ―Lagos Govt

The Lagos State government has said there is nothing wrong in inviting the military to quell riots if it sees the need for such. Chief Press Secretary (CPS) to the governor, Gboyega Akosile, said this on Tuesday night in a telephone interview. Akosile said this in reaction to claims made by the Nigerian Army that…

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Outrage over IGP’s failure to stop looting, policemen shun Adamu’s order

• Hoodlums harass Lagos, Abuja residents as police fail to return to streets • Soldiers battle FCT looters, miscreants clash in Lagos, attack BRT bus • IGP, all heads of security agencies should face ICC prosecution, say groups ABUJA – Federal, Lagos and Oyo state governments have received no fewer 126 petitions on human rights…

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#EndSARS: Lagos govt invited us to restore order, says army

The Nigerian Army says the Lagos state government invited it to intervene in the fallout of the #EndSARS protest. Youth protesting against police brutality had refused to stay off the roads despite a 24-hour curfew imposed by Babajide Sanwo-Olu, governor of Lagos, after widespread violence. Subsequently, men in military uniform invaded the protest ground at Lekki toll…

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