Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange’s Extradition To US Blocked On Health Grounds
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange cannot be extradited to the United States, a British judge ruled on Monday. At a hearing at London’s Old Bailey, Judge Vanessa Baraitser said she could not approve Assange’s extradition because of concerns over his mental health and risk of suicide in the US. US authorities accuse Australian-born Assange of 18 […]
Trump May Have Broken Law By Pushing Georgia Election Official, Experts Say
President Donald Trump may have broken a US federal law and a Georgia law against election tampering by pressuring the state’s top election official to “find” enough votes to overturn his loss to President-elect Joe Biden in the state, according to some legal experts. The experts also outlined a potential legal defence for Trump and […]
OPEC And Allies Failed To Agree On Production Levels For February
Members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and their allies, including Russia, on Monday failed to reach an agreement on production levels for February, with talks expected to continue today. The cartel had agreed after its last summit, held from November 30 to December 3, to raise production levels by half a million […]
Nigeria Again Misses 2020 Gas Flaring Target
Nigeria has once more missed the target it voluntarily set to end gas flaring in 2020. The development also coincides with data obtained from the country’s flare tracker currently managed by the National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA), which showed that between 2012 and 2020, the country flared 1.7 billion cubic feet of […]
FGN Accuses ICC And Other Human Right Groups For Frustrating Efforts To Tackle Insecurity
Nigeria’s federal government on Monday squared up to the International Criminal Court (ICC) and some human rights groups, notably Amnesty International, accusing them of frustrating efforts to tackle the nation’s security challenges. It accused them of constituting themselves into another ‘fighting force’ against Nigeria, harassing security forces and threatening them with investigation and possible prosecution […]
SERAP Writes UN Over Detention Of Sowore, Others
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sought the intervention of the United Nations over the detention of the convener of #RevolutionNow movement, Omoyele Sowore, and four others. In a statement on Tuesday by its deputy director, Kolawole Oluwadare, the group said it has sent an urgent complaint to the UN Working Group on […]
Lagos School Reopening Skyrockets Covid Cases In Nigeria
Nigeria on Monday recorded its highest figure of COVID-19 cases in a day since the outbreak of the disease in February 2020, as the Lagos State government issued a directive for schools to reopen. This was disclosed in a late-night tweet by the agency responsible for the management of disease outbreaks in the country – […]
‘I just Want To Find 11,780 Votes’: Trump Recorded Telling Georgia Election Official To Overturn Biden Win
US President Donald Trump has been recorded telling Georgia’s top election official to “find” enough votes to overturn the 2020 US presidential result. “I just want to find 11,780 votes,” Trump told Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in a recording released by the Washington Post. Raffensperger is heard replying that Georgia’s results were correct. […]
BA Bird Strike Incident At Lagos Airport Exposes Poor Emergency Response
An incident, involving the British Airways Flight BA75 flight to Lagos, which was grounded due to bird strikes, has exposed the poor emergency response at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), THISDAY investigation has revealed. It was learnt on Sunday that during the incident, which occurred on December 30, 2020, the delayed response by the […]
Nigeria:Military Kill Scores In Bombing Of Boko Haram Base In Borno
Military air strikes at the weekend struck a logistics base of terror group, Boko Haram, killing scores of terrorists in a hideout in two locations, notably, Kote Kura and Bulama Isamari, all in Borno State, Northeast Nigeria. The air interdiction came as the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) conducted a joint Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR), […]
