MISSING TWELVE YEAR OLD BOY FOUND DEAD IN KOGI STATE.

By Ann Enwere
A twelve year old boy is said to be missing over a week to unknown destination while retuning from shop.

The information gathered said the young boy who left for his mechanic training was found dead after a  serious search but to no avail. Until his untimely death, his body was dumped along Ojofu road in Anyigba, Dekina Local Government of  Kogi State early hours of today.
An eyewitness said the young boy got missing while returning from his work place and was found dead after days of missing without head, only one hand and other vital organs where said to be missing.
The remains is been taken to his village Iyale Denkina Local Government area of Kogi State for burial.

However, they people of Dekina LGA of Kogi State call on the Government to strengthen the security in the Sate to prevent feature reoccurrence and also added that  Government should finish out the perpetrator's.

President Muhammadu Buhari Has Declined To Be Interviewed Live On Television

President Muhammadu Buhari has declined to be interviewed live on television.

Arise News published an interview with the president on its Youtube page on Monday.

While presenting the intro to the interview, tagged: '90 Minutes with President Buhari', Charles Aniagolu, the presenter, stated that Buhari declined to feature live on television, and chose a recorded session instead.

His terms were agreed to and the Board of Editors from ThisDay engaged the president for 90 minutes.

Speaking on the interview conducted with the president, Aniagolu said: “Straightaway, Mr Buhari declined to be interviewed live on camera by Arise News, preferring instead to hold a recorded session only with ThisDay newspaper. And so, the Board of Editors from ThisDay spent over an hour questioning the president about the substance of his major policy signature issues such as lapses in security, the fight against corruption, the economy, poverty alleviation and the infrastructure deficit.

Eniola Bello, Managing Director of ThisDay newspaper; Kayode Komolafe, the Deputy Managing Director of ThisDay newspaper, and Segun Adeniyi, chairman of ThisDay Board of Editors, who was also former spokesman of the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, conducted the interview and spoke on their experience.

Speaking on why the president declined to be interviewed live, Eniola Bello, the Managing Director of ThisDay newspaper who was in charge of setting up the interview and liaising with the presidency, said: “At the initial stage, we wanted a live interview with the Arise crew. But midway, they said ‘No’. We had set up the equipment, but around 1pm on Sunday, we were told that because of our lead story in ThisDay, reporting the pending interview, that there had been some pressure to, if not, reduce the way we were going to go to the villa.

"So, Arise crew was not allowed to come in. They said they will get NTA to record it for us, then we could take the tape from NTA. Essentially, that was what happened."

According to a publication by ThisDay earlier on Sunday, the newspaper had initially announced that Buhari would feature as its first guest in the series of presidential debates.

It read: “As part of its many contributions to the enhancement of the country’s electoral culture and improvement of the process of electing leaders, THISDAY Newspapers and Arise News Television are beginning a presidential debate series Sunday at 10pm, with President Muhammadu Buhari and candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) as the first guest.

“Although, debuting Sunday with President Buhari as the first guest, other candidates like former Vice President and candidate of the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, are to follow in no particular order but based on their availability and schedule for the interview.

“The first of its kind, the first leg of the debate series, which is billed to hold at the Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, Abuja, is to be anchored by panellists from both THISDAY and Arise, led by the Chairman of the two media outfits, Mr. Nduka Obaigbena.

“On the THISDAY arm of the panelists are the Managing Director of the newspaper, Mr. Eniola Bello; his deputy, Mr. Kayode Komolafe; Chairman of the Editorial Board, Mr. Olusegun Adeniyi; Editor of THISDAY, Mr. Bolaji Adebiyi; Editor, THISDAY on Sunday, Mr. Shaka Momodu, and his counterpart on Saturday, Mr. Yemi Adebowale. From the Arise wing are the Managing Director, Ms. Ijeoma Nwogwugwu; Managing Editor, Adebajo Awosemo; Arise News Anchor, Charles Aniagolu; Arise News Anchor, Adesua Omoroun; Arise News Anchor, Tundun Abiola, and Arise News Anchor, Ndee Amagbuo".

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Minimum Wage: Nationwide Strike Can Start Anytime Without Notice

Ahead of a nationwide strike over the Federal Government’s refusal to send a draft bill on N30,000 National Minimum Wage to the National Assembly to legislate into law,  organised labour and its civil society allies are, today, holding a nationwide mobilisation and mass protest to force government into action.

Though a definite day for the commencement of the nationwide strike is yet to be announced, labour had on December 20, 2018, while issuing a December 31, 2018, deadline to the government over the issue, declared:   “Organised Labour will not guarantee industrial peace and harmony if after December 31, 2018, the draft bill is not transmitted to the National Assembly.

"This serves as a statutory notice for Organised Labour to recall our suspended nationwide industrial action".

Reinforcing the threat that a nationwide strike could start at anytime without further notice, President of United Labour Congress of Nigeria, ULC, Joe Ajaero, said though no date had been fixed for commencement of the strike, it could start the next day after the national protest.

He said: ‘’It can start today, it can start at anytime. We agreed during our meeting (of leaders of organised labour) on December 20, 2018, in Lagos that the December 31 deadline given to government to send a draft bill to the National Assembly to legislate on the N30,000 minimum wage recommendation by the Tripartite Committee, serves as a final notice to the government  for us to resume the suspended November 6, 2018 nationwide strike.

"What that means is that a nationwide strike can start today, tomorrow or next without further notice to the government".

Speaking on today’s protest, General Secretary of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Dr. Peter Ozo-Eson, said, yesterday, that NLC’s 36 state councils, affiliate unions and friendly groups, such as civil society organisations, CSOs, have mobilised for the nationwide mass protest.

Ozo-Esan in a statement, entitled: “Tomorrow (Tuesday) is a day of protest and mass mobilisation,” read: “It has come to our attention that a section of the news media has largely misrepresented our action plan in reaction to the delay in transmitting the recommendations of the Tripartite Committee on a new National Minimum Wage to the National Assembly by President Mohammadu Buhari.

We immediately announced then that on Tuesday, January 8, 2019, there will be a nationwide mass mobilisation and protests simultaneously across all states in Nigeria. This does not translate to a strike. It is on record that each time we had cause to embark on a national strike, we say so publicly without any equivocation.

" When a date is decided for the commencement of a strike subsequently, we will inform the public appropriately".

Similarly, Joint Action Front, JAF, while declaring members support for today’s protest, insisted that the N30,000  minimum wage, as recommended and submitted to President Muhammadu Buhari by the Tripartite Committee on National Minimum Wage, was no longer negotiable.

In a joint statement by its National Chairman and Secretary, Dr. Dipo Fashina and Abiodun Aremu, JAF said: “ The Joint Action Front, JAF, declares its support for the nationwide mass mobilisation and mass protests being organised by organised labour tomorrow (today) in furtherance of the struggle for the actualisation of the of N30,000 as the new Minimum Wage, which was agreed and endorsed by all parties in the Minimum Wage Tripartite Committee.

"JAF, hereby, urges its affiliates, allies and other pro-Labour civil society organisations to mobilise their members across the country to join forces with organised labour in their respective locations on January 8 to sensitise Nigerians on the necessity of a general strike to enforce the N30, 000 Minimum Wage against the anti-poor stand of governors, employers and Buhari’s government".

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World Bank President Jim Yong Kim Announces Resignation

World Bank President Jim Yong Kim announced Monday he would step down next month, more than three years before his current term was due to expire.

The decision ends Kim’s six-year tenure and may give US President Donald decisive influence over the future leadership of the global development lender.

“It has been a great honor to serve as president of this remarkable institution, full of passionate individuals dedicated to the mission of ending extreme poverty in our lifetime,” Kim said in a statement.

Kim, who became president in 2012, is to join an as-yet unnamed firm focusing on investments in developing countries, the bank said in a statement, and will return to the board of Partners-in-Health, which he co-founded.

Under Kim’s leadership, the bank set the goal of eliminating extreme poverty by 2030 and ramped up financing.

Last year, it also won approval for a sharp $13 billion capital increase after acceding to requests from the Trump administration to curb loans to high-income countries like China.

Kim’s tenure was also marked by high levels of disaffection among World Bank staff, who chafed at a widespread internal restructuring that Kim began.

World Bank CEO Kristalina Georgieva will serve as interim president upon Kim’s February 1 departure, the bank said in a statement.

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Breaking: 51 Jewish Adherents Regains Freedom

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The Indigenous People Of Biafra led by Citizen Nnamdi Kanu, records another victory, as all 51 Jewish adherents illicitly detained at Afara Prisons Umuahia regains freedom.

Recall that, on the 12th Of December 2018 51 Jewish adherents were arrested, following a declared 50Million Jewish religious March, on the streets of Umuahia Abia State. They were arraigned before the Abia State Magistrate Court 2, charged for Terrorism and other ungrounded charges.
Appearing before the Abia State Magistrate Court 2 were IPOB Legal Counsels Barrister Anthony Nwafor and Augustine Ezeokeke from the Chambers of Ifeanyi Ejiofor, who countered the frivolous charges, but the presiding Magistrate denied the jurisdiction to grant Bail, upon which a remand order was given and the defendants(41 Male and 10 Females), remanded in Afara Prisons Umuahia.

The Bail Applications was filed by Ifeanyi Ejiofor Chambers with the aid of Barrister Alloy Ejimakor IPOB Special Counsel, to facilitate the legal release of the detained Jewish adherents.
The hearing was made on the 24th Of December, but adjourned for the service of hearing notice.

At exactly 8:30am on the 3rd Of January 2018, the Umuahia State High Court 1 presided by Justice Onuoha A.K Ogwe(CJ) kicked off and the Bail application, filed before the Court was moved by
IPOB lead counsel Barrister Ifeanyi Ejiofor appearing with him was Barrister Anthony Nwafor for the Jewish adherents.
Appearing for the State was Barrister Enyinaya Okezie the Solicitor General Of Abia State.

After the introduction of the Counsels to the applicants and State, the Judge rules;
The applicants are admitted to Bail in the following terms;
(1)In the sum of Two Million Naira with one Surety in like sum
(2)Surety to produce his passport photograph and that of Applicant
(3)The Surety shall produce Tax Receipts for 3years relevant to this order
(4)Surety to depose to an Affidavit of means and facts

The Jewish adherents marched down to the residence of IPOB Leader in praise, appreciated the immense effort of IPOB and vowed never to capitulate in the struggle.

Holy cow! One-eyed calf is worshipped as a god in India

A newborn calf with just one eye is being worshipped as a god in eastern India.

The little cow, whose appearance is due to a birth defect, was born in the Bardhaman district of West Bengal.

In video footage shared online, the one-eyed calf, which also does not have a muzzle, can be seen sticking out its tongue and gasping for breath.

The owner said: 'Ever since it was born, people have crowded my place to see the bizarre calf.

'They are now considering it to be a miracle of God and have started worshipping it'.

The calf has cyclopia, a rare congenital disorder that occurs in both humans and animals.

It develops in the womb when the left and right hemispheres of the brain do not separate as they are meant to early on in pregnancy.

This leads to the formation of a single central cavity with one eye, or sometimes partially fused or separate eyeballs and often the complete absence of eyelashes and eyelids are absent.

The nose is also deformed, as in this calf, with an underdeveloped upper jaw.

A creature with cyclopia may be able to distinguish light and dark but will not have proper vision because the retina won't form properly.

Creatures with the condition are normally stillborn or die shortly after due to breathing and brain problems.

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BREAKING: Coup In Gabon As Soldiers Hijack Power After 50-Year Rule Of Bongo Family

Gabonese soldiers announce a coup attempt against the government of President Ali Bongo. Photo: Gabon Television
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Military officers have staged a coup in Gabon, seizing the state radio station as they declared their dissatisfaction with President Ali Bongo, whose family has ruled the country for 50 years.

President Ali Bongo who is currently recovering from a stroke in Morocco took over the country’s rulership from his father, Omar Bongo, who ruled Gabon for 42 years before his death in 2009.

The Gabonese soldiers staging the coup announced the establishment of a “restoration council” via the national radio station after it was taken over by soldiers.

There were reports of shots being fired in the capital, Libreville, on Monday, Aljazeera reported.

Reading out a statement, the military officers condemned President Ali Bongo who addressed his compatriots last week from Morocco for the first time since reportedly suffering a stroke in October.

A New Year’s address by Bongo “reinforced doubts about the president’s ability to continue to carry out of the responsibilities of his office”, said Lieutenant Kelly Ondo Obiang, leader of the self-declared Patriotic Movement of the Defence and Security Forces of Gabon.

“Once again, one time too many, the wielders of power deceptively continue to instrumentalise the person of Ali Bongo Ondimba, a patient devoid of many of his physical and mental faculties,” said Obiang.

Gunfire was heard around state television offices in the centre of the capital at about 6:30am (05:30 GMT), and military vehicles blocked access to the site, an AFP news agency correspondent reported.

Violence erupts in Gabon as Ali Bongo elected again
Bongo, 59, is said to have suffered a stroke on October 24 while visiting Saudi Arabia and has since been treated in Morocco. His family has ruled the oil-rich Central African nation for nearly half a century.

The president posted a video message recorded in Rabat and distributed via social and traditional media last Monday in which he admitted he had been “through a difficult period”.

But he added: “Today, as you can see, I am preparing to meet you again soon.”

Presidential spokesperson Ike Ngouoni later told AFP, “This speech is proof that President Ali Bongo is fully recovered. His health problems are now behind him.”

In a video circulating on social media, Ondo Obiang is seen in a radio studio wearing military fatigues and a green beret as he reads the statement. Two other soldiers with assault rifles stand behind him.

Ondo Obiang said the coup was being carried out against “those who, in a cowardly way, assassinated our young compatriots on the night of August 31, 2016” – a reference to deadly violence that erupted after Bongo was declared the winner of a disputed election.

A source close to the government said told Reuters news agency the plotters appeared to be a small group of soldiers. A spokesman for the presidency said he would make a statement shortly.

The US military has deployed soldiers and equipment to Gabon amid fears of violent protests in neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) after its contested presidential election.

US President Donald Trump told US Congress on Friday the first of about 80 troops arrived in Gabon last Wednesday to protect US citizens and diplomatic facilities should violence break out in DRC’s capital, Kinshasa.

Bongo won re-election in 2016 by fewer than 6,000 votes, sparking deadly clashes between protesters and police during which the parliament was torched.

The European Union said it found anomalies during the election in Bongo’s stronghold province of Haut-Ogooue, where he won 95 percent on a 99.9 percent turnout.

 Source: Tribune