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The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), has warned the President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan to check his anti-democratic activities against opposition groups and individuals. MURIC stated this ahead of Erdogan’s arrival in Nigeria on Monday, where he is is expected to sign some business deals with the Nigerian government. The Muslim group, in a statement signed by its director, Prof. Ishaq Akintola, noted that the Turkish President has been accused of human rights abuse, arbitrary arrest, torture, political killings, long imprisonment of opposition figures and critics, particularly members of the Hizmet Movement. MURIC claimed that Erdogan’s relationship with the Nigerian government…

Former US Secretary of State Colin Powell has died aged 84 of Covid-19 complications, his family has announced. He was a former top military officer who rose to become the first African-American secretary of state in 2001 under Republican George W Bush. “We have lost a remarkable and loving husband, father, grandfather and a great American,” a statement said. “We want to thank the medical staff… for their caring treatment,” it added. The statement said that he had been fully vaccinated against Covid. George W Bush was among the first to pay tribute to “a family man and a friend”…

Not less than 30 persons have been reportedly killed by group of armed bandits who raided another market in Sokoto state on Sunday. It was gathered that the assailants stormed Goronyo market in Goronyo Local Government Area in the Eastern Senatorial District of the State, shooting sporadically and killing unsuspecting buyers and sellers. The state governor, Aminu Tambuwal on Monday confirmed that about 30 people were feared dead after the attack. He disclosed this when the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Farouk Yahaya paid him a courtesy visit. “Between last night, yesterday evening till this morning, we were greeted…

Facebook Inc (FB.O) plans to create 10,000 jobs in the European Union over the next five years, the social media giant said on Monday, to help build the so-called ‘metaverse’ – an online world where people can use different devices to move and communicate in a virtual environment. Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg has been talking up metaverse since July and the buzzy word, first coined in a dystopian novel three decades earlier, has been referenced by other tech firms such as Microsoft. “No one company will own and operate the metaverse,” Nick Clegg, Facebook’s vice president of global affairs, wrote…

Opposition candidate and former Prime Minister Jose Maria Neves won Cape Verde’s presidential election on Sunday, as his main rival, the ruling party’s flagbearer Carlos Veiga, conceded defeat. Neves, 61, who served as prime minister from 2000-2016, will inherit the responsibility for stabilising the Atlantic archipelago nation’s tourism-driven economy after the COVID-19 pandemic drove it deep into recession. President Jorge Carlos Fonseca is stepping down after serving the maximum two five-year terms allowed by the constitution. Neves had 51.7 percent of the vote based on official results from 99.4 percent of polling stations, ahead of Veiga with 42.4 percent. Five…

By Orisha The Nigerian Civil War remains one of the darkest periods in our national history. Lives and properties were lost and destroyed fueled by myopia, delusion, intolerance, hubris and self aggrandisement. This memory was further made cruel by the echoes of the word ‘genocide’ often cited in narrations of the war. Incidentally, this narrative was promoted by the vanquished party (even though the victor declared a no victor, no vanquished stand, the facts are clear), turning the old saw about victors dictating the narratives of the prosecution of a war on its head. The Britannica defined genocide as Genocide,…

The Kogi state police command has stated that it has arrested the officers who allegedly extorted the sum of Twenty-Five Thousand Naira (N25,000) from a traveller while another was physically assaulted by one of the men in uniform. The trending video depicts a police officer assaulting a traveller. Another officer had taken another passenger to a Point of Sale (POS) to force him to withdraw the sum of Twenty-Five Thousand Naira (N25,000). The officers were identified as: ASP Isah Barnabas, Inspector Ifediegwu Godwin, Sgt Emmanuel Ochima and CPL Umameh Mathias. The Commissioner of Police, Kogi State Police Command, CP Idrisu…

A coalition of Northern Youth has launched an awareness campaign to galvanise support for Vice President Professor Yemi Osinbajo ahead of 2023 presidential election in Kano. The group under the auspices of Osinbajo Awareness Campaign (OAC) unveiled a platform to mobilize 20 million youths across the 19 Northern states and Federal capital Territory (FCT) in solidarity with the Vice President as the only trusted candidate who can consolidate the gains of president Mohammad Buhari’s transformation agenda. Speaking at the launch of its Kano secretariat and campaign vehicles on Sunday, National Coordinator of the group, Mubarak Haruna declared that Nigeria need…

Sergio Aguero made his long-awaited Barcelona debut as Philippe Coutinho’s first goal in almost a year helped secure victory against Valencia. Aguero joined Barcelona in the summer after leaving Manchester City but had been sidelined by injury. He came on with three minutes to go, shortly after Coutinho had made sure of Barcelona’s win. The former Liverpool forward struck from close range to add to goals from Ansu Fati and Memphis Depay. Jose Gaya had given the visitors an early lead but Fati marked his first start in almost a year with a goal soon after, firing home from the…

By Kolapo Fadesere Perhaps more than any other time in her history, Nigeria needs non-oil revenues. With the prices of oil, her major resource and revenue earner, flagging since around 2014, the country’s need to look in other directions has assumed greater significance. It is widely agreed by economic experts that tax revenue, not resource revenue, is the most reliable source from which the country can fund her development aspirations as happens in the world’s most progressive societies. Currently, tax compliance in Nigeria is still meagre. Speaking earlier this month at ‘Public Presentation and Breakdown of the Highlights of the…