Author: Chronicle Editor

Nigerian militant group Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) said on Tuesday it had attacked the Nembe Creek Trunk Line pipeline in the southern Niger Delta in a blow to the government’s efforts to quell militancy in the region. The group, which in August said it would halt hostilities to pursue talks with the government, said on Sunday that it had resumed attacks because of the continued presence of the army in the region. The NDA, which wants more energy wealth to go to the swampland region that is the source of most of Nigeria’s oil, said on its website its strike…

Egypt’s Court of Cassation has revoked the death sentence for ousted Islamist President Mohamed Morsi over a prison break case in 2011 and ordered his retrial. The court also cancelled life sentences for 21 others in the same case, according to Ahram Online. The action of the court only affected one of the four trials Morsi had faced since his 2013 overthrow. Morsi will now be retried on the charges of taking part in prison breaks and violence against policemen during the 2011 uprising which toppled longtime president Hosni Mubarak. Five co-defendants, including the supreme guide of the now outlawed…

Reports have emerged that the UK government are sharply divided over Brexit, and that about 30,000 extra staff are needed to achieve the project. According to The Times newspaper a leaked memo has identified cabinet splits between Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, Brexit Secretary David Davis and International Trade Secretary Liam Fox on one side, and Chancellor Philip Hammond and Business Secretary Greg Clark on the other. According to the newspaper, the memo said: “Every department has developed a ‘bottom-up’ plan of what the impact of Brexit could be and its plan to cope with the ‘worst case’. The government has…

Google and Facebook on Monday announced measures aimed at halting the spread of “fake news” on the internet by targeting how some purveyors of phony content make money: advertising. Google said it is working on a policy change to prevent websites that misrepresent content from using its AdSense advertising network, while Facebook updated its advertising policies to spell out that its ban on deceptive and misleading content applies to fake news. The shifts comes as Google, Facebook and Twitter Inc face a backlash over the role they played in the US presidential election by allowing the spread of false and…

Doctors Without Borders says thousands of children have died of starvation and disease in Boko Haram-ravaged northeastern Nigeria, quoting a new survey that has brought Nigerian officials to stop denying the crisis. Emergency program manager Natalie Roberts says a survey of two refugee camps in northeastern Maiduguri shows that a quarter of the expected population under-5 children is missing, assumed dead. Doctors Without Borders first sounded the alarm in June but Nigerian camp officials as late as September denied any child was suffering malnutrition. Roberts says the organization hopes that official recognition of the calamity in which “thousands are dying…

Toni Kan will be reading from his long awaited novel, The Carnivorous City, on Saturday November 12, 2016 at Freedom Park, Lagos. The novel goes on sale in Nigeria from November 10, 2016. The event will see Toni Kan in conversation with Hawa Golakai, the Liberian author of The Lazarus Effect. The two will be speaking to the theme “Missing Bodies in Crime Fiction” as part of activities marking the 2016 edition of the annual Lagos Book and Arts Festival (LABAF). Hauwa’s debut novel, The Lazarus Effect is set in Cape Town and focuses on Voinjama Johnson an investigative journalist…

Having successfully organised a lecture on the breast cancer awareness in its Health and Wellness Program, the Federal Government Girls College, (FGGC) Sagamu Alumni, USA has held another workshop on diabetes. The workshop, which took place on 12 November at the school covered the basics of types 1 & 2 diabetes and was facilitated by the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan team led by Dr. Mrs Tokunbo Jarret a Pediatric Endocrinology consultant at the College. According to a release signed by the President of FSAI Board of Directors, Mrs. Abimbola Art-Alade, there were personal stories from an adult and two…

Manchester City are ready to move for Lionel Messi next summer after Spanish newspaper Marca claimed the Barcelona and Argentina forward, 29, has indicated he will not renew his deal at the Nou Camp. (Manchester Evening News) However, Barcelona believe the contract story is “an act of revenge” after refusing to attend Marca’s awards gala last month. (Sport) England striker Daniel Sturridge is ready to leave Liverpool in January, with West Ham and Stoke ready to pay £28m for the 27-year-old. (Mirror) West Ham have lined up Watford captain Troy Deeney, 28, as their number one target. (Mirror) Tottenham and…

Alade-Oluseye Sunday, a prosecution witness in the ongoing trial of Abiodun Agbele, an ally of Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti, said he acted on the instructions of the defendant to pay money into various accounts. The witness, who is the branch manager of Zenith Bank, Akure, told Justice Nnamdi Dimgba of a Federal High Court Abuja while given his testimony on Monday. The Economic and Financial Crimes commission (EFCC) arraigned Agbele along with three companies in an 11-count charge bordering on money laundering. The companies are Sylvan Mcnamara Limited, De Privateer Limited and Spotless Investment Limited. The amount allegedly laundered…

By Seun ‘Debo Somewhere, still in the custody of the Directorate of State Service, DSS, Sambo Dasuki, former National Security Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan will receive the news of his father’s passing. Having been denied access to the man who died aged 93, a flurry of thoughts would run through his mind, most likely, sending chills down his spine. But even further to contemplate, is if he would be allowed access to bury his father. If he would be allowed by the Federal Government of Nigeria to pay his last respect to his father who has helped him climb…