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Caltanissetta Caltanissetta Italy Magazine The town of Caltanissetta in Sicily, Italy, have opened the doors of its vacant homes to asylum seekers, who have crossed the Mediterranean from Libya. In another region in the south of Italy called Molise, new comers including Nigerian migrants will be given €700 to stay in one of its villages for three months, according to The GuardianUK. These persons are, however, mandated to open a business and the population of each village is to be kept under 2,000. “We wanted to do more; we wanted people to invest here. They can open any sort of activity: a bread shop, a stationery shop, a restaurant, anything. “It’s a way to breathe life into our towns while also increasing the population. “If we had offered funding, it would have been yet another charity gesture,” Donato Toma, President of Molise, said. Toma said if a village can keep its population under 2,000, they will be given €10,000 per month to build infrastructure and h...

The Nigerian Natural Liquefied Gas LTD has signed a letter of intent for the engineering, procurement and construction of its long held up Train Seven project. In a statement released by the company on Wednesday, it said that the $10bn project will be executed by a consortium of Italian firm Saipem, Japan’s Chiyoda and South Korea’s Daewoo. The statement reads, “The project will form part of the investment of over $10bn including the upstream scope of the LNG value chain, thereby boosting the much needed Foreign Direct Investment profile of Nigeria.” Managing Director of NLNG, Tony Atta, said in 2018 that the Final Investment Decision would be made in the fourth quarter of that year. This did not however, materialize. According to the release, the project will have a four to five-year execution time after the signing of the FID. The project is expected to add an extra 8 million tons per annum of gas to the 22 mtpa currently exported by the company. Oil News AddThis :...

A clamp down on pubs would soon begin mostly in Government Reserved Areas in Ondo State. Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development in the state, Rasheed Badmus, disclosed this on Wednesday. Badmus said the decision to demolish such facilities was occasioned by rising cases of insecurity in the state. He said, “All pubs in Alagbaka and Ijapo areas would soon be demolished and we have already marked them. “We have visited and served all of them quit notice that we will not tolerate any attachment in our GRAs. “We noticed that those engaging in this illegal activities failed to respond and we need to take prompt action. “After drinking, they always terrorise the area, we have given them notice for over 10 months now.” Badmus further explained that the state government will not pay any compensation to owners of structures being used as pubs. Politics News AddThis :  Original Author :  SaharaReporters, New York Disable advertisements :  fro...

Reactions have continued to trail the verdict of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal in Abuja upholding the victory of President Muhammadu Buhari in the February 2019 elections. Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, had filed a petition challenging the Independent National Electoral Commission’s announcement of Buhari as winner of the election. But following Wednesday’s verdict by the tribunal, former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode tweeting @realFFK, wondered why Nigerians were surprised at the outcome of the tribunal. He alleged that Buhari rigged the courts in his favour. He said, “If anyone is surprised by today's ruling in the @Atiku/@MBuhari case, then they still don't understand the nature of the beast we are fighting and the gravity of the situation we are in. “They didn't just rig the election, they rigged the courts too! They control all three arms of government.” Using a biblical illustration, Senator Shehu Sani c...

No fewer than 10 women including a four-year-old baby have been released by repentant bandits in Katsina State, a statement by the state government said on Wednesday. The government is currently engaged in dialogue with bandits terrorising Katsina in order to restore peace and normalcy to the affected areas. It was gathered that the victims regained their freedom few hours after the government released seven bandits, who had been in detention. The statement issued by Director of Press in the office of the Secretary to the Katsina State Government, Mr Abdullahi Yar’adua, said that those released were kidnapped two weeks ago from Shimfida Village in Jibia Local Government Area. Governor Aminu Masari had in the last one week been meeting with the bandits to broker agreement for lasting peace in the state. The council areas affected by the activities of bandits are Dandume, Sabuwa, Faskari, Kankara, Safana, Danmusa, Batsari and Jibiya. Insurgency News AddThis :  Origin...

Speaking on their return, the chairman of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, who led some Nigerian officials received the returnees at the airport. from via EDUPEDIA24/7

A clamp down on pubs would soon begin mostly in Government Reserved Areas in Ondo State. Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development in the state, Rasheed Badmus, disclosed this on Wednesday. Badmus said the decision to demolish such facilities was occasioned by rising cases of insecurity in the state. He said, “All pubs in Alagbaka and Ijapo areas would soon be demolished and we have already marked them. “We have visited and served all of them quit notice that we will not tolerate any attachment in our GRAs. “We noticed that those engaging in this illegal activities failed to respond and we need to take prompt action. “After drinking, they always terrorise the area, we have given them notice for over 10 months now.” Badmus further explained that the state government will not pay any compensation to owners of structures being used as pubs. Politics News AddThis :  Original Author :  SaharaReporters, New York Disable advertisements :  vi...

Reactions have continued to trail the verdict of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal in Abuja upholding the victory of President Muhammadu Buhari in the February 2019 elections. Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, had filed a petition challenging the Independent National Electoral Commission’s announcement of Buhari as winner of the election. But following Wednesday’s verdict by the tribunal, former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode tweeting @realFFK, wondered why Nigerians were surprised at the outcome of the tribunal. He alleged that Buhari rigged the courts in his favour. He said, “If anyone is surprised by today's ruling in the @Atiku/@MBuhari case, then they still don't understand the nature of the beast we are fighting and the gravity of the situation we are in. “They didn't just rig the election, they rigged the courts too! They control all three arms of government.” Using a biblical illustration, Senator Shehu Sani c...

[Deutsche Welle] A Nigerian election tribunal has rejected a bid by the main opposition candidate, Atiku Abubakar, to overturn the February presidential election. from AllAfrica News: Nigeria via NEWS

Some 57 prisoners being illegally detained by the Nigerian Navy in Apapa, Lagos, have embarked on indefinite hunger strike, SaharaReporters can authoritatively report. The 57 persons have been in the custody of the Navy for yet to be disclosed criminal offences and have not been charged to court since their arrest. They are being held in a crowded cell at the NNS Beecroft in Apapa.   Human Rights Breaking News AddThis :  Original Author :  SaharaReporters, New York Disable advertisements :  from All Content via

Sahara Reporters Media Some Nigerians evacuated from South Africa over the recent spate of xenophobic attacks in the country, have landed in Lagos. The Air Peace flight, which evacuated them on Wednesday, arrived the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos at exactly 9:35pm. More to come...   South Africa Breaking News News AddThis :  Original Author :  SaharaReporters, New York Disable advertisements :  from All Content via

President Muhammadu Buhari has reacted to his victory at the election petition tribunal on Wednesday, calling it a vindication of his well deserved victory. The tribunal dismissed Atiku Abubakar's petition challenging the results of the 2019 presidential election for not being able to prove satisfactorily all the allegations he brought before the panel. In his response on Wednesday evening in a series of tweets, President Buhari tweeting @Mbuhari said, "Today’s ruling is a well-deserved victory for Nigerians who trooped out overwhelmingly to elect us for a second term in office.  "I was unperturbed all along because I knew Nigerians freely gave us the mandate. We are now vindicated! "I dedicate this victory to the Almighty God and to all Nigerians. And I commend the judiciary for dispensing justice without fear or favour. "I am hereby extending a hand of fellowship to everyone who felt aggrieved at the outcome of the election and went to court....

The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria has condemned the judgment of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal THAT dismissed the petition filed by candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, challenging the victory of President Muhammadu Buhari during the February 23, 2019, election. In a statement on Wednesday, the group said it was horrified by the judgment, stating that the judicial system is compromised and tainted by political loyalty. The statement reads, “We are not surprised that the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal has wrongly confirmed the overwhelming perception of most critical-minded Nigerians that nothing good will ever come out from the current contraption we call the Nigerian judicial system. “The Nigerian judicial system as it is currently constituted is dysfunctional, is compromised, is tainted politically, is populated and driven physically by people with the wrong mindset who are not patriotic, who are not committed to th...

FBI Agents FBI Agents The intercept The United State Federal Bureau of Investigation said it has arrested 167 alleged Business Email Compromise fraudsters in Nigeria and seized nearly $3.7m. The US Department of Justice made the disclosure in a statement released on Tuesday, stating that a total of 281 arrests were made within the United States and overseas. There were “167 in Nigeria, 18 in Turkey and 15 in Ghana.  Arrests were also made in France, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Malaysia, and the United Kingdom”. The FBI said the alleged fraudsters do not only focus on businesses but also individuals. It said same criminal organisations that perpetrate BEC also exploit individual victims, often real estate purchasers, the elderly, and others, by convincing them to make wire transfers to bank accounts controlled by the criminals. The statement said, “Foreign citizens perpetrate many BEC scams. Those individuals are often members of transnational criminal organizations, which ori...

A 22-year-old Nigerian, Abasiakara Ekanem, has been charged alongside four others for alleged offences of conspiracy and money laundering in the United States. The United States Department of Justice disclosed that Ekanem and the other defendants were part of those indicted in another court in Witchita for international fraud. Others mentioned include King Essien, 26, Franklin Okapu, 20, Oluwatimileyin Diyaolu, 21, Emmanuel Daramola, 22. According to the DoJ, the indictment alleged that the defendants received money from victims of fraud in the United States and foreign countries. The department said, “Essien’s account received cash depots of more than $190,000, international wire transfers of more than $120,000 and domestic wire transfers of more than $88,000. Two-thirds of the money was transferred to bank accounts in Nigeria and Ghana. “Okapu’s accounts received cash deposits of more than $67,000 and total deposits of more than $337,000, including domestic transfers, mo...

George Akume George Akume The National and State House of Assembly Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Makurdi, Benue State, has thrown out the petition filed by Senator George Akume challenging the victory of Senator Emmanuel Orker-Jev representing Benue North-West Senatorial District. The Independent National Electoral Commission had returned Orker-Jev of the Peoples Democratic Party as winner of the February 23, 2019 election. Akume had approached the tribunal to upturn Orker-Jev's victory and declare him as the substantive winner. In his judgment, Chairman of the tribunal, Justice P. O Odudu, maintained that the petition challenging the election did not cover less than 404 polling units but the petitioner had brought less than 20 witnesses. Odudu said, “The petitioner is required to provide evidence polling unit by polling unit, ward by ward. “Even if all 20 witnesses’ evidence were to be proven, it would just be like a drop of water in an ocean and therefore of ...

Astronomers at the University College London, say they have discovered water on a potentially habitable planet. The BBCsaid their findings were published in the Scientific Journal.  The scientists believe that up to half of the planet is made up of water. Prof Giovanna Teneti, the lead scientist on the project, said the discovery made on the planet named K2-18B, was ‘mind blowing.’ She said, “This is the first time that we have detected water on a planet in the habitable zone around a star where the temperature is potentially compatible with the presence of life. “Within the next 10 years, we will know whether there are chemicals that are due to life in those atmospheres.” K2-18b is the only planet that showed it had water in it out of all the planets discovered by the Hubble Telescope between 2016 and 2017. Science News AddThis :  Original Author :  SaharaReporters, New York Disable advertisements :  from All Content via

National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Uche Secondus, has said that the party would study the judgment of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal that affirmed the victory of President Muhammadu Buhari during the February 23 election. Secondus disclosed this shortly after the ruling of the tribunal in Abuja on Wednesday. He said that the legal team of the party would go through the verdict and come up with an official position for them to decide whether to appeal or not. But while reacting to the tribunal on his own part, the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Adams Oshiomhole, urged the PDP to close ranks with the administration of President Buhari in moving the country forward. He said, “It is time now to close ranks and work with the President and assist him to deliver on his mandate.  “It is a win-win for all and I don't think PDP has lost. They suspected that we cheated and they have been reassured that they wer...

The Peoples Democratic Party has rejected the judgment of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal, describing it as a “subversion of justice”. The tribunal had on Wednesday in Abuja struck out the petition of the PDP and its candidate, Atiku Abubakar, challenging the victory of President Muhammadu Buhari in the February 23 election. National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Kola Ologbondiyan, in a statement after the ruling said that the party was shocked that the tribunal failed to point to justice despite the flawless evidence laid before it. He insisted that President Buhari was not only unqualified to contest the election but also did not score the majority of valid votes at the polls. He said, “The PDP finds it as bewildering that a court of law could validate a clear case of perjury and declaration of false information in a sworn affidavit, as firmly established against President Muhammadu Buhari even in the face of incontrovertible evidence. “The tribunal raked u...

President Muhammadu Buhari has reacted to his victory at the election petition tribunal on Wednesday, calling it a vindication of his well deserved victory. The tribunal dismissed Atiku Abubakar's petition challenging the results of the 2019 presidential election for not being able to prove satisfactorily all the allegations he brought before the panel. In his response on Wednesday evening in a series of tweets, President Buhari tweeting @Mbuhari said, "Today’s ruling is a well-deserved victory for Nigerians who trooped out overwhelmingly to elect us for a second term in office.  "I was unperturbed all along because I knew Nigerians freely gave us the mandate. We are now vindicated! "I dedicate this victory to the Almighty God and to all Nigerians. And I commend the judiciary for dispensing justice without fear or favour. "I am hereby extending a hand of fellowship to everyone who felt aggrieved at the outcome of the election and went to court....

The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria has condemned the judgment of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal THAT dismissed the petition filed by candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, challenging the victory of President Muhammadu Buhari during the February 23, 2019, election. In a statement on Wednesday, the group said it was horrified by the judgment, stating that the judicial system is compromised and tainted by political loyalty. The statement reads, “We are not surprised that the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal has wrongly confirmed the overwhelming perception of most critical-minded Nigerians that nothing good will ever come out from the current contraption we call the Nigerian judicial system. “The Nigerian judicial system as it is currently constituted is dysfunctional, is compromised, is tainted politically, is populated and driven physically by people with the wrong mindset who are not patriotic, who are not committed to th...

Chevauchée . Lancaster's chevauchée of 1346 was a large-scale mounted raid directed by Henry, Earl of Lancaster, in south western France during the Hundred Years' War. The main English army had defeated the larger French army at the Battle of Crécy in August, and French defences in the south west were left weak and disorganised. Lancaster took advantage by leading a raid between 12 September and 31 October 1346 while sending other forces into Quercy and the Bazadais. All three offensives were successful, with Lancaster's chevauchée, of approximately 2,000 English and Gascon soldiers, meeting no effective resistance from the French, penetrating 160 miles (260 kilometres) north and storming the rich city of Poitiers. His force then razed and looted large areas of Saintonge, Aunis and Poitou, capturing numerous towns, castles and smaller fortified places as they went. The offensives completely disrupted the French defences and shifted the focus of the fighting.

Chevauchée . Lancaster's chevauchée of 1346 was a large-scale mounted raid directed by Henry, Earl of Lancaster, in south western France during the Hundred Years' War. The main English army had defeated the larger French army at the Battle of Crécy in August, and French defences in the south west were left weak and disorganised. Lancaster took advantage by leading a raid between 12 September and 31 October 1346 while sending other forces into Quercy and the Bazadais. All three offensives were successful, with Lancaster's chevauchée, of approximately 2,000 English and Gascon soldiers, meeting no effective resistance from the French, penetrating 160 miles (260 kilometres) north and storming the rich city of Poitiers. His force then razed and looted large areas of Saintonge, Aunis and Poitou, capturing numerous towns, castles and smaller fortified places as they went. The offensives completely disrupted the French defences and shifted the focus of the fighting.