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ECOWAS court. A Special Envoy to the Government of Venezuela, Alex Nain Saab Morán, has urged West Africa’s regional court, the ECOWAS Court of Justice, to halt the plan to extradite him from Cape Verde to the United States of America. Morán, a dual Colombian and Venezuelan national, who has been in detention since his arrest by Cape Verde authorities four months ago, urged the court to suspend the extradition process as a precautionary measure pending the court’s decision on the merits of the matter. According to Morán’s legal team led by Mr Femi Falana, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, the South American, who is a Special Envoy to the Government of Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is being arbitrarily detained by Cape Verde pending extradition to the United States. ECOWAS court. Falana in the application filed on behalf of his client on September 30, 2020, said that the extradition request initiated by the US authorities was an offshoot of “the political conflict between the

Chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum and Ekiti State Governor, Kayode Fayemi, said on Sunday that he and his colleagues are worried about the discontent, hunger, and anger in the country. Fayemi, however, expressed the governors’ readiness to work with other stakeholders to find a lasting solution to the issues. The governor spoke at a Special Thanksgiving Mass held at St. Patrick’s Catholic Cathedral, Ado Ekiti as part of activities to mark the second anniversary of his administration in office. Also, the Catholic Bishop of Ekiti Diocese, Most Reverend Felix Ajakaye called for a ceasefire on the part of the protesters to allow the federal government to take action on their demands. Fayemi said, “There is a lot of anger in the land. There is a lot of hunger in the land and pent-up emotion. There is disillusion in the land. As a young man, who spent much time in the barricades protesting bad governance, I can understand what is going on now. “I and my colleagues are conc

File Photo: Pensioners in Nigeria protesting non-payment of pension Delta State pensioners under the umbrella of Association of Contributory Pension (ACR) have raised the alarm over the delisting of 1,000 members from the pension scheme, allegedly by Governor Ifeanyi Okowa. SaharaReporters reliably gathered that the delisting of the pensioners was carried out while harmonising the disparity in benefits between retired state workers and local government workers. File Photo: Pensioners in Nigeria protesting non-payment of pension File Photo The senior citizens accused the state government of shortchanging them in the payment of benefits and vowed that they would make sure all their services to the state government shall not be in vain. Addressing Journalists on Thursday during a press briefing in Asaba, the state capital, Chairman of the Delta State chapter of the Association of Contributory Pension (ACR), Avurakoghene Agbaka, noted that civil servants who retired from the st

Bayelsa State Governor, Douye Diri, has shown support for the ongoing protest against police brutality, saying that his administration will not condone acts that infringed on the fundamental rights of people in the state.  Diri spoke on Saturday evening when the protesters in their hundreds blocked the Government House entrance in Yenagoa to press home their demands. His spokesman, Daniel Alabrah, in a statement, noted that the governor, who was returning from inspecting communities ravaged by flood, came out of his vehicle to join the youths that were waving placards and chanting slogans against police brutality. While addressing them, he noted that as a firm advocate against all forms of police brutality, he moved motions as a federal legislator against extra-judicial killings and illegal detention in the state.  “In 2016, I moved a motion as a member of the House of Representatives against extra-judicial killings in Bayelsa. “Also, in 2018, I moved another motion in the

The ongoing #EndSARS protest has forced the National Examinations Council, NECO, to reschedule the Paper I Computer Studies Practical for the senior secondary certificate. The paper, which was earlier scheduled to take place on Monday ( today ), has now been postponed to November 16. Azeez Sani, head, Information and Public Relations Division of NECO, disclosed the postponement in a statement made available to journalists on Sunday.  “This unforeseen incident has been caused by the ENDSARS protest that blocked the free movement of transport at the City entrance gate Benin. The NECO delivery truck had left its take-off point well in advance on Friday, October 16 2020, earlier to deliver examination materials to some states and has been held up in the blockage since then,” the statement read. “The council wishes to assure all stakeholders and the general public that the affected examination materials have been retrieved and are intact.  “While regretting any inconveniences th