The Air Task Force of Operation Lafiya Dole has neutralised some commanders and fighters of Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) in two separate air strikes on their locations in Borno. The Coordinator, Defence Media operations, Maj.-Gen. John Enenche, in a statement on Wednesday, said the attacks were carried out under subsidiary Operation HAIL STORM. Enenche said the two locations were the ISWAP logistics facilities at Bukar Meram on the fringes of the Lake Chad in Borno state and Dole, a settlement on the Southern part of the state. He said the air interdiction missions were executed on the…
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The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has called on the Federal Government to pay arrears of withheld salaries of its members to pave way for further discussions on the outstanding issues of 2019 Memorandum of Action. The President of the association, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, made the call at a news conference in Abuja on Tuesday.Ogunyemi said five months salaries of ASUU members in some universities were still withheld by the Accountant General of the Federation on account of non-registration on IPPIS. According to him, thousands of other academics across the universities are suffering the same fate which is not…
Mali’s President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita announced his resignation on live television in the early hours of Wednesday morning following a military coup. “I’ve decided to leave my post,” he said, clad in traditional clothing and a medical mask to protect against the coronavirus. The president and Prime Minister Boubou Cisse were arrested by the military after a mutiny on Tuesday, following months of street protests in the volatile West African state, which is also battling an Islamic insurgency. “The president and his prime minister have been arrested. “They are being taken to Kati military camp,” army officer Sidi Gakou told…
United States President Donald Trump will use the White House to deliver a partisan political speech to the Republican National Convention next week. Trump will be formally nominated by the party next week and is due to give his acceptance speech at the end of the four-day convention, which is taking place mostly online due to the coronavirus pandemic. During a visit to Arizona, Trump confirmed he will make the speech from the South Lawn of the White House on Thursday. He also pledged to give the speech live, mocking Michelle Obama, the former first lady, who reportedly had pre-recorded…
India reported the biggest daily jump of 64,531 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, taking the total to 2,767,273, according to the latest data released by the Federal Health Ministry. The death toll in the country also increased to 52,889, with 1,092 new deaths reported during the past 24 hours. According to the data, there are still 676,514 active cases across India, and 2,037,870 people have been cured and discharged from hospitals. Over the past few weeks, the Indian government has been focusing on ramping up testing capacity. Till Tuesday, a total of 31,742,782 tests had been conducted, out of which…
British inflation jumped unexpectedly last month to its highest rate since March, pushed up by clothing retailers refraining from their usual summer discounts. This is as they reopened from the coronavirus lockdown, official data showed on Wednesday. Annual consumer price inflation rose to one per cent in July from 0.6 per cent in June, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said. That was above all forecasts in a Reuter’s poll of economists that had pointed to an unchanged rate of 0.6 per cent. Clothing and footwear prices were the biggest contributor to the rise in inflation, the ONS said. In…
Democrats on Tuesday night officially nominated former Vice President, Mr Joe Biden, to face incumbent President Donald Trump in the Nov. 3 U.S. presidential election. Biden’s nomination came on the second night of the party’s virtual National Convention under the theme, “Leadership Matters”. His emergence followed the announcement of votes by party delegates from across the country via video messages. The candidate immediately took to the Twitter to accept his nomination, saying it was the “honour of my life’’. Former President Barack Obama, responded to the tweet with a congratulatory message. “I’m proud of you,’’ wrote Obama, under whom Biden…
The hope of the All Progressives Congress (APC), to make an impact in the gubernatorial election in Edo State has suffered a major setback, following the recent defection of over 5, 000 of its members to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who reaffirmed their unflinching support for the reelection bid of Governor Godwin Obaseki. Leading the 5,000 APC members to declare their support for the PDP in Ward 6, Ubiaja, in Esan South-East Local Government Area (LGA), Hon. John Bobby Palmer, said the decision was to secure the reelection of Governor Obaseki and ensure the consolidation of his administration’s achievements.Speaking…
Edo State Deputy Governor, Philip Shaibu, has raised the alarm that the former national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comr. Adams Oshiomhole is stockpiling arms and importing thugs into the state with the intent to cause mayhem and disrupt the September 19, 2020 gubernatorial poll in the state. The deputy governor, who spoke to journalists in Benin City, called on President Muhammadu Buhari to rein in the national chairman and his followers and stop them from setting Edo State on the path of chaos and anarchy.According to Shaibu, “Oshiomhole and his allies, having discovered that they cannot win…
The scarcity of dollars at the parallel market on Tuesday in Lagos forced the Naira down to N480 to a dollar. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Pound Sterling and the Euro exchanged at N610 and N550, respectively. Trading at the investors’ window saw the naira closing at N385.98 to a dollar as investors traded a total of 20.27 million dollars. The naira, however, was sold at N381 to a dollar at the official Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) window. NAN reports that the apex bank had hitherto relied on the nation’s foreign reserve and the Diaspora…