Thursday 14 March 2019
Monday 11 March 2019
Nigerian govt confirms
death of ex-diplomat in Ethiopian Airlines crash
https://t.co/LHWo4DEvxP
Dapo Abiodun Wins Ogun
Governorship Election https://t.co/T9xtOZpxPu
UPDATED: Bauchi election
declared inconclusive https://t.co/ZyZUv4fTA1
Plateau State election
declared inconclusive https://t.co/UVipeGYLBh
UPDATED: Sokoto
governorship election declared inconclusive https://t.co/2Jfi53j7ES
Governor Masari of APC
re-elected for second term in Katsina https://t.co/SZyNripNO6
Three abducted INEC ad-hoc
staff in Katsina regain freedom — Police https://t.co/8A2QgYGkDi
Opinion: In Memoriam:
Professor Pius Adesanmi, By ‘Tope Oriola
https://t.co/Z4fFfei1aD
Amidst controversy,
announcement of Taraba governorship result suspended
https://t.co/JvHcgUdsfJ
It’s official: Governor
Emmanuel wins re-election https://t.co/hUNWpGPR5x
Akwa Ibom Governorship:
INEC cancels elections in nine out of 11 wards in Akpabio’s LGA
https://t.co/7AUEYgM9PS
Opposition parties call
for transfer of Rivers REC https://t.co/KJ3A6OFihz
Election: Oyo police
debunk rumours of more killings https://t.co/0R0DDCHUQq
Sudanese opposition
leader’s daughter jailed over protests https://t.co/ecWYjYKmNn
PDP’s Seyi Makinde wins
Oyo governorship election https://t.co/UFXJWSjFir
Opinion: Abiola Ajimobi:
Mistake Or Mystique?, By Festus Adedayo
https://t.co/T2DgPq28hp
Gov. Bello of Niger
secures second term, wins in all 25 LGs https://t.co/Iy2y2EY4MY
Elections: PDP wins
majority seat in Oyo House of Assembly https://t.co/mRlYXhleHT
UK expresses concern over
military involvement in Rivers poll https://t.co/LWS7MLk8PC
Lagos police arrest 20
suspected cultists https://t.co/kpFfwtxfVG
PDP rejects suspension of
electoral process in Rivers https://t.co/EfJNY1eptQ
China-US deal to end trade
war may be signed by April, says official
https://t.co/payd29rtVc
Ambode, Agbaje
congratulate Lagos governor elect, Sanwo-Olu https://t.co/Q9SU5MZ0ZA
Abuja: INEC declares Kwali
council elections inconclusive https://t.co/D85okMThk9
NiMet predicts cloudy,
sunny, hazy weather for Monday https://t.co/txy8pzKV76
PDP women protest at INEC
office in Niger https://t.co/lyy914IFVd
It’s official: David Umahi
wins Ebonyi governorship election https://t.co/c4pNikmqOJ
APM rejects Ogun
governorship poll results https://t.co/6Dz5IcfPZX
Foremost Nigerian
professor, Pius Adesanmi, dies in Ethiopian Airlines plane crash
https://t.co/HoUA04sD8J
Saraki congratulates Kwara
governor-elect, Abdulrahman Abdulrasaq
https://t.co/jFLD82Nflq
PDP’s Governor Ugwuanyi
wins Enugu governorship election https://t.co/zpPlWLvNBM
BREAKING: APC House of
Assembly member-elect dies https://t.co/9aStZco7eI
Police in Delta confirm 4
missing in boat mishap on their return from election duty
https://t.co/MUnuwYhVx6
Economist supports CBN ban
on textile products; says FOREX on imports enough to fund budget deficit
https://t.co/VIAdWU8zDl
BREAKING: Jigawa governor
wins reelection https://t.co/NVVwgbF65y
It’s Official: APC wins
Gombe governorship election https://t.co/UEi8XNtupm
How Nigerian celebrities
faired in 2019 general elections https://t.co/Yj1H4r1nSB
It’s Official: APC’s
Sanwo-Olu wins Lagos governorship https://t.co/qU9FWdrllH
Oil exports restart on
150,000 bpd Nembe Creek Oil Export pipeline after repairs
https://t.co/7xELQXwdax
PDP threatens to reject
Kaduna election results https://t.co/wBapHcDSxK
Two more Islamic State
brides lose British citizenship https://t.co/LLSyTGBkoT
INEC office set on fire in
Imo
https://t.co/3TctT5PVAV
APC declared Kwara
governor-elect
https://t.co/w6OjWSvjuw
NCC frowns at
proliferation of substandard mobile phones, devices in Nigeria
https://t.co/cZXxSPzqIz
Elections: CDD condemns
kidnap, harassment of officials, observers, others
https://t.co/UsQamwTuQ3
Gunmen attack another
Kajuru community https://t.co/FBPcLpO43w
U.S. citizens will need a
visa to travel to Europe beginning in 2021
https://t.co/qCYBvAcD9R
BREAKING: INEC suspends
all electoral processes in Rivers https://t.co/tYuTB4d0pg
BREAKING: INEC declares
Ayade winner of Cross River governorship election
#NigeriaDecides
https://t.co/oCnCW9GrxZ
Otti, Ogah, others reject
Abia gubernatorial result - https://t.co/AxtwqOipcY
CAF Confederation Cup:
Salitas hold Rangers FC to draw in Ouagadougou -
https://t.co/yDguX8h9ai
How PDP’s Makinde won Oyo
governorship election - https://t.co/zpuIOcs7aY
Breaking: INEC suspends
collation of gubernatorial election results in Kano -
https://t.co/GB0JEwJK6R
Canadian university mourns
Prof. Pius Adesanmi - https://t.co/seB3b66hvH
Buhari condoles with
families of Nigerians in Ethiopian plane disaster -
https://t.co/C7kNarBJb1
Two Nigerians among 157
victims of Ethiopian Airline crash - https://t.co/0nHPuGrNdC
EPL: Arsenal beat Man U to
recaim top-four spot - https://t.co/xNts733apE
EPL: Hazard saves Chelsea
from defeat - https://t.co/vKMye9rsRq
EPL: Liverpool beat
Burnley to keep title hope alive - https://t.co/DCWQhblCoS
Missing voting tools:
Eight INEC workers sent to police for interrogation -
https://t.co/DwuORzsH3O
Troops hit Boko Haram,
kill 50, capture one - https://t.co/h98gPCtdCO
Nollywood star wins Lagos
State Assembly seat - https://t.co/ZrnanZJIHQ
Bayelsa State Assembly
polls: APC, PDP in war of words - https://t.co/9JfY14q8qD
Lagos Speaker Obasa wins,
Ogundimu returned - https://t.co/QsC1AMrn53
Fashola to SERAP: I will
ask our agencies to provide details of corrupt contractors -
https://t.co/XB0rhrLtJr
Ex-NAN Editor wins House
of Assembly seat in Osun - https://t.co/Ou3HBr7Jqw
Adamawa: MRDD urges INEC
to cancel gubernatorial poll over missing party logo -
https://t.co/Zn4f2K4D8t
We have firsthand
information on suspected killer of Oyo Lawmaker - Police -
https://t.co/YowAf2XSJW
Supplementary poll: Ondo
PDP candidate whips incumbent Sen. Omogunwa of APC -
https://t.co/RpvbUIDgZs
Agitation for Senate
Presidency begins, as forum drums support for Lawan
https://t.co/01APAc1HT2
It’s Official, APC wins
all 30 State Assembly seats in Jigawa https://t.co/egcKv3HJ2I
Rivers Governorship:
Amaechi delivers overwhelming victory for AAC in own local govt
https://t.co/ZLHF0GOVhm
Kogi Speaker re-elected in
Kabba/Bunu LGA https://t.co/keP4EtKrsa
Kogi PDP boycotts
rescheduled assembly election over alleged insecurity
https://t.co/YQMN4T2H4r
INEC officials held
hostage in Ogun – REC https://t.co/qYKnoHPISU
BREAKING: All 157 persons
on board Ethiopian Airlines die in crash
https://t.co/cyBhujJkNd
Zamfara Insecurity: INEC
reschedule elections in Shinkafi LGA https://t.co/GYIiub7L5B
APC wins three
chairmanship seats in Abuja, two others declared inconclusive
https://t.co/jAwGPEN0NW
PDP floors APC in Ondo
senatorial race
https://t.co/qfhwiRca4l
Suspected bandits kill 16,
injure many in Zamfara https://t.co/zkU189BvS8
Thursday 17 January 2019
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A prominent American anchorwoman on Iranian state television has been arrested by the FBI during a visit to the U.S., the broadcaster reported Wednesday, and her son said she was being held in a prison, apparently as a material witness.
Marzieh Hashemi, who worked for the network's English-language service, was detained in St. Louis, where she had filmed a Black Lives Matter documentary after visiting relatives in the New Orleans area.
She was then taken to Washington, according to her elder son, Hossein Hashemi.
The FBI said in an email that it had no comment on the arrest of the woman who was born Melanie Franklin in New Orleans and has worked for Iran's state television network for 25 years.
Hossein Hashemi said his mother lives in Tehran and comes back to this country about once a year to see her family, usually scheduling documentary work somewhere in the U.S. as well.
"We still have no idea what's going on," said Hashemi, a research fellow at the University of Colorado who was interviewed by phone from Washington.
He also said he and his siblings had been subpoenaed to appear before a grand jury.
The incident comes as Iran faces increasing criticism of its own arrests of dual citizens and other people with Western ties.
Those cases have previously been used as bargaining chips in negotiations with world powers.
Federal law allows judges to order witnesses to be arrested and detained if the government can prove their testimony has extraordinary value for a criminal case and that they would be a flight risk and unlikely to respond to a subpoena.
The statute generally requires those witnesses to be promptly released once they are deposed.
Marzieh Hashemi, an American citizen, had not been contacted by the FBI before she was detained and would "absolutely" have been willing to cooperate with the agency, her son said.
Asked whether his mother had been involved in any criminal activity or knew anyone who might be implicated in a crime, Hashemi said, "We don't have any information along those lines."
Hashemi said his mother was arrested as she was about to board a flight from St. Louis to Denver.
A spokesman for St. Louis Lambert International Airport declined to comment and referred questions to the FBI.
The constitutionality of the material witness law has "never been meaningfully tested," said Ricardo J. Bascuas, a professor at the University of Miami School of Law. "The government only relies on it when they need a reason to arrest somebody but they don't have one."
No matter the reason for Marzieh Hashemi's detention, she should have been granted a court appearance by now, Bascuas said.
She apparently was unable to call her daughter until Tuesday night.
The family is trying to hire an attorney, but it has been difficult because she has not been charged with a crime, her son said.
Iran's state broadcaster held a news conference and launched a hashtag campaign for Hashemi, using the same techniques families with loved ones held in the Islamic Republic use to highlight their cases.
"We will not spare any legal action" to help her, said Paiman Jebeli, deputy chief of Iran's state IRIB broadcaster. Iran's Press TV aired footage of her anchoring news programs and discussing the war in Syria, set to dramatic music.
There were no references to any case against Hashemi in U.S. federal courts, nor in Missouri.
Hashemi describes herself online as having studied journalism at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.
She converted to Islam in 1982 at age 22 after meeting Iranian activist students in Denver.
She married a man she met while in journalism school.
They had two sons and a daughter. Her husband is dead, said Hashemi's brother, Milton Leroy Franklin of the New Orleans suburb of Metairie.
Last week, Iran confirmed it is holding U.S. Navy veteran Michael R. White at a prison, making him the first American known to be detained under President Donald Trump's administration.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Ghasemi told state TV that Hashemi's arrest indicates the "apartheid and racist policy" of the Trump administration.
"We hope that the innocent person will be released without any condition," Ghasemi said.
At least four other American citizens are being held in Iran, including Iranian-American Siamak Namazi and his 82-year-old father, Baquer, both serving 10-year sentences on espionage charges.
Iranian-American art dealer Karan Vafadari and his Iranian wife, Afarin Neyssari, received 27-year and 16-year prison sentences, respectively.
Chinese-American graduate student Xiyue Wang was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Also in an Iranian prison is Nizar Zakka, a permanent U.S. resident from Lebanon who advocated for internet freedom and has done work for the U.S. government. He was sentenced to 10 years on espionage-related charges.
Former FBI agent Robert Levinson, who vanished in Iran in 2007 while on an unauthorized CIA mission, remains missing as well.
Iran says that Levinson is not in the country and that it has no further information about him.
His family holds Tehran responsible for his disappearance.
Source: YahooNews
Wednesday 6 December 2017
10:29:00
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In view of the "ikpu
madu" rave in ORO state, very soon APC Parents will start naming their
children with vernacular names that include "ihe okpukpu" ("molding/statue)
in their names"
You will soon start hearing
names like
Onyeakpuziri (he that was
molded well)
Okpukpuomachi (good statue
of the Lord)
Chimakpuolam (my God has
molded me)
Okpukpuike (strong statue)
Okpukpuchukwu (God's
statue)
Kpuziri (molded well)
Chikpuru (God molded)
Chikpuwa (God continue
molding)
Chigaakpu (God will mold)
Chikpurumdikaya (God
molded me like Him)
Kachisirikpuo (How God
molded)
Chimkpusirimike (my God
molded me strongly)
Nwanne "akpuola
gi?"
Sunday 19 November 2017
Just in
The latest release by INEC on the Gubernatorial Election that took place in Anambra State yesterday.
The results so far indicate that APGA and the Wailing Willy Obiano are coasting home to victory.
With just 4 LGAs left to be declared, do you think there will be a significant surprise from any of the contending parties especially the Armoured Personnel Carrier? (I mean APC)
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