Month: January 2021

You are a liar, Ebonyi APC Chair attacks PDP boss, Udogu

The Caretaker Committee Chairman of the All Progressives Congress in Ebonyi State, Chief Stanley Okoro-Emegha, has said that the Peoples Democratic Party Committee Chairman in the state, Elder Fred Odogu, was walloping in day dreaming and was churning out baseless lies. He said the PDP boss had lost his value and was merely trying to draw public attention to himself. Okoro-Emegha said, "This is the lies of the Century. Udogu is the worst that has happened to the PDP in the state. I don't want join issues with a dishonorable Honourable, and a valueless once valued Honourable. "Udogu should go…
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Billionaire Republican donor Sheldon Adelson dies

Billionaire Republican donor Sheldon Adelson dies

(FILES) In this file photo US President Donald Trump stands on stage with philanthropist Chief Executive Officer of Las Vegas Sands Sheldon Adelson (L) ahead of his address to the Israeli American Council National Summit 2019 at the Diplomat Beach Resort in Hollywood, Florida on December 7, 2019. – Billionaire casino magnate and Republican donor Sheldon Adelson has died, according to a statement on January 12, 2021, from the Las Vegas Sands company. Adelson, a supporter of outgoing President Donald Trump, was 87.” Our founder and visionary leader, Sheldon G. Adelson, passed away last night at the age of 87…
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Facebook exec says ‘no plans’ to end Trump ban

Facebook exec says ‘no plans’ to end Trump ban

Facebook PHOTO: Shutterstock Para Ef/La Nacion, Zuma<br />Facebook does not intend to lift the suspension on outgoing President Donald Trump, the platform’s second in command Sheryl Sandberg said Monday. “Our ban is indefinite. We have said at least through the transition. But we have no plans to lift it,” Facebook’s chief operating officer said at an online forum organized by Reuters. The social network last week suspended Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts in the aftermath the violent invasion of the US Capitol by a mob of his supporters, which disrupted the certification of President-elect Joe Biden’s election victory. Twitter went…
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You’ve your Jeep back, stop threatening me, Ebonyi PDP Chair tells Gov Umahi

Samuel Amah, Abakaliki The Caretaker Committee Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party in Ebenyi State, Elder Fred Udogu, has alleged threat to his life by Governor David Umahi, saying thugs were being sent after him. This is even as the PDP boss revealed that lately he was ordered to return the TUCSON Jeep the Governor bought for him, before defecting to the All Progressives Congress, stressing that he didn't know why he was being threatened, "Because I have since returned the Tucson vehicle to the Governor". Elder Udogu stated this while speaking with journalists in Abakaliki, the state capital, on…
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Ghosn meeting with French investigators postponed: lawyers

Ghosn meeting with French investigators postponed: lawyers

(FILES) In this file photo taken on September 29, 2020 Former Nissan Motor Co. Chairman Carlos Ghosn attends a press conference with the President of Lebanon’s University of Kaslik (USEK), in the northern city of Jounieh. – The visit planned to Lebanon by a French judicial security mission to question former Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn has been postponed. (Photo by ANWAR AMRO / AFP) A meeting between fugitive ex-auto tycoon Carlos Ghosn and French judicial investigators in Beirut, initially set for next week, will be postponed because of a fresh virus lockdown, Ghosn’s defence team told AFP on Tuesday. “By…
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Ten dead in armed clashes in central Mexico

Ten dead in armed clashes in central Mexico

Police Line PHOTO: kali9 / Getty Images Clashes between gunmen and security forces left 10 people dead on Monday in a region of Mexico wracked by cartel-related violence, authorities said. A police officer was among those killed after gunmen in several vehicles opened fire on security forces in the central state of Guanajuato, according to an official statement. Eight alleged assailants were reported dead after police fought off the attack, along with one person described as a civilian. Guanajuato has been shaken by a deadly turf war between rival cartels Jalisco New Generation and Santa Rosa de Lima. The state’s…
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Bullying of Member : Abia Online Media Practitioners Demand An Unreserved Apology From Leader Bende Legislative Council

Bullying of Member : Abia Online Media Practitioners Demand An Unreserved Apology From Leader Bende Legislative Council

*PRESS STATEMENT* Abia Media Online Publishers, an umbrella body of Online Media Practitioners in Abia State, has condemned in its entirety, the attack on her member and inhuman treatment meted to Mr Ikokwu Ogbonnaya in the hands of one Iheanacho Udensi, a People’s Democratic Party Councillor, from Amaekpu Item, in Bende LGA of Abia State during the Friday, December 18, 2020, Local Government Election. (more…)
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Trump shores up Pence ties as Democrats move to impeach

Trump shores up Pence ties as Democrats move to impeach

(FILES) In this file photo US President Donald Trump waves as he leaves the U.S. Women’s Open round three on July 15, 2017 at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey. – As much as President Donald Trump loves golf, leaders of the sport are racing away from the embattled US leader for what they say is the good of the game.<br />The PGA of America stripped the 2022 PGA Championship from Trump National at Bedminster, New Jersey, on January 10, days after Trump supporters attacked the US Capitol. (Photo by ELSA / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP)…
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Days before Trump exit, US rebrands Cuba state sponsor of terror

Days before Trump exit, US rebrands Cuba state sponsor of terror

FILES) In this file photo taken on March 25, 2020 US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks during a press conference at the State Department in Washington, DC. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said January 11, 2021 he was placing Cuba back on a blacklist of state sponsors of terrorism, a last-minute roadblock to efforts by President-elect Joe Biden’s to ease tensions. ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFPPresident Donald Trump’s outgoing administration on Monday returned Cuba to the US blacklist of state sponsors of terrorism, the latest in a slew of last-minute actions to hinder President-elect Joe Biden’s diplomacy. The terror…
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