US: Biden Backs Funding More Police To Fight Crime Wave
US President Joe Biden has unveiled a plan that includes funding more police to combat a nationwide surge in homicides, which he blamed on lax gun control. He said officials in high crime areas can hire more law-enforcement personnel using coronavirus relief funding. Mr Biden’s crime-fighting strategy calls for curtailing rogue gun dealers and firearms […]
One Million Copies: Last Apple Daily Newspaper Edition Sold Out Across Hong Kong
Across Hong Kong, people lined up early Thursday to buy the last print edition of the last remaining pro-democracy newspaper. By 8:30 a.m., Apple Daily’s final edition of 1 million copies was sold out across most of the city’s newsstands. The newspaper said it would cease operations after police froze $2.3 million in assets, searched […]
Akpabio: Any Crisis In South-South Will Threaten Nigeria’s Survival
Minister of Niger Delta Affairs Godswill Akpabio has said Nigeria cannot afford to have a crisis in the south-south of the magnitude of the southeast and other crisis-ridden regions of the country because of its importance to the economic survival of the nation. He spoke with State House correspondents after a meeting with the chief […]
ASUU Laments Non-payment Of Staff Salaries
Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), University of Abuja branch has raised the alarm over non-payment of salaries of up to 16 months of its members. Despite suspending its strike to give the federal government room to implement the MoA signed with the union, the University of Abuja branch of ASUU has bemoaned that the […]
Orji Kalu’s Suit Against EFCC To Be Heard By The Court July 2
Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Abuja division of the Federal High Court has fixed July 2, 2021, for the adoption of all the processes filed in respect of the suit by former Abia State governor and Senate chief whip, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, challenging his re-trial by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on […]
Insecurity In Nigeria Hasn’t Hindered Development -Wike
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, explained that his administration has fearlessly tackled insecurity headlong in the State and created an enabling climate for smooth delivery of quality development projects. Governor Wike asserted the inauguration of 16.2 kilometers long Omueze-Umuogba-Umuokpurukpu-Umueke-Umunju-Eberi road project in Omuma Local Government Area of the State, yesterday. The governor noted that […]
IGP Urges Police Officers To Keep Up With Modern Policing Techniques
The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Usman Alkali Baba, has charged officers of the Nigeria Police Force to keep themselves abreast of techniques and strategies of modern policing. Baba gave the advice Wednesday while addressing officers and men of the Nigeria Police at the Bompai Police headquarters in Kano. The Inspector General, who was on his […]
China Condemns Latest US Warship Transit Of Taiwan Strait
China condemned the United States on Wednesday as the region’s greatest security “risk creator” after a US warship again sailed through the sensitive waterway that separates Taiwan from China. The US Navy’s 7th Fleet said the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Curtis Wilbur conducted a “routine Taiwan Strait transit” on Tuesday in accordance with […]
Vanessa Bryant, Other Families Settle Suit Over Helicopter Crash That Killed Kobe, Others
Kobe Bryant’s widow has agreed to settle a lawsuit against the pilot and owners of the helicopter that crashed last year, killing the NBA star, his daughter, Gianna, and seven others. Vanessa Bryant, her children and relatives of other victims filed a settlement agreement notice Tuesday with a federal judge in Los Angeles but terms […]
Sports Ministry And Tech4Dev Partners To Train 36, 000 Youth On Digital Skill
The Ministry of Youth and Sports Development has sealed a partnership deal with the Technology for Social Change and Development (Tech4Dev.), a Microsoft initiative to train 36,000 young Nigerians in digital skills over the next year. Nigerian Methodology Reports show that in the fourth quarter of 2020 alone, over 33 percent of the labor force […]
