SPORT : FA Cup third round draw: Arsenal, Man Utd, Chelsea discover opponents

 

The draw for the third round of the FA Cup was conducted on Monday night.

Holders Arsenal will host Newcastle, as they begin their quest to win a record-extending 15th title.

Manchester United welcome Watford, Chelsea have been handed a home tie against Morecambe, while Wolves and Crystal Palace clash in an all-Premier League affair.

Tottenham Hotspur are away at Marine, Stoke City host Leicester City and Aston Villa take on champions Liverpool.

The matches will be played during the weekend that begins January 8, 2021.

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NEWS : Borno massacre: Declare state of emergency now – Fani-Kayode tells Buhari govt over Boko Haram killings

 

Femi Fani-Kayode, former Aviation Minister, on Monday, has urged the government to declare a state of emergency, following Boko Haram’s killing of rice farmers in Borno State.

Fani-Kayode made the appeal while describing the manner in which Boko Haram killed the farmers as evil.

The insurgents had over the weekend beheaded some rice farmers in Jere Local Government Area of Borno State.

Boko Haram allegedly beheads 43 farmers in Borno

The death toll, which was initially reported as 43 has risen to 110.

However, the former minister in a series of tweets wrote: “110 Nigerians had their throats slit and heads chopped off in a few hours & in a single location?

“The enormity of this atrocity is simply astounding and it beggars belief.

“Their killers then lay them in lines on the floor with their heads on their stomachs? This is evil.

“We need to declare a state of emergency in some states. If this barbaric atrocity by Boko Haram had been committed in the south, the whole country and international community would have been up in arms. Yet it has happened in Borno and the outrage and disgust that has been expressed is minimal.

“Are we no longer one nation? Are some lives more important than others? Each time anyone, no matter where they come from in our country, is butchered it kills a part of each and everyone of us. 110 heads chopped off and few seem to care? Enough of this madness! Something must give!”

BBC : Boko Haram attack Rice farmers decapitation 'massacre' for Borno, village burial vex Nigeria social media users as UN say death toll high

 

Borno Rice farmers murder village victims of suspected Boko Haram attack enta six feet on Sunday afta di dem suffer slaughter [decapitation] during di attack near Maiduguri, Borno state northeast Nigeria.

At least 110 civilians na im dem kill and many odas wound inside one attack on farmers for northeast Nigeria.

UN resident and Humanitarian coordinator Edward Kallon, reveal dis tori for statement on Sunday.

Tori be say attackers cut throats of dis rice farmers wey only go find wetin to chop for dia agriculture fields inside northeastern Nigeria.

Earlier BBC Pidgin bin report say na 43 rice farmers dem kill but Zabarmari villagers for Borno say dem no fit tok di exact number of pipo wey di suspected Boko Haram attackers slaugter for di rice farm.

Now, Nigeria social media dey catch fire on top di killing of dis rice farmers wey dey dia farms dey harvest rice on Saturday.

On Saturday, di militants attack di farmers wey bin dey harvest rice farm for Zabarmari, Mafa local goment.

Govnor Babagana Zulum lead di burial prayers for forty three farmers wey Boko Haram militants kill on Saturday. Residents say nobody still fit tok exactly how many pipo die for di attack.

Tok tok pesin for di community tell Govnor Babagana Umara Zulum,wey lead di burial of di farmers say, as tins be now nobody still fit tok exactly how many pipo die for di attack.

According to Amnesty International, inside di pipo wey die, 10 na women wey dem neva sabi who dem be, wey bin dey wordk for di rice farm, while sixteen of dem na refugees.

Boko Haram killing of innocent pipo don dey go on for more dan 10 years, but in recent times Nigerians as well as pipo from around di world don dey tok more and more about about di mata as e be like say di killing no get ending.

While some pipo dey blame Buhari goment for doing rehabilitation programme and releasing many of di militants unto say dem don "repent."

Odas feel say goment need to do more serious military attacks to fight di insurgents.

Anoda set believe say goment must to first tackle poverty and illiteracy first before dem go fit arrest di situtation for di region.

dem go fit arrest di situtation for di region.

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US election update: Adewale Wally Adeyemo, Nigerian born fit becon US Deputy Treasury Secretary

 

Nigerian-born lawyer and former senior international economic adviser wen Obama be US president, Adewale Adeyemo fit become di America Deputy Treasury Secretary according to America media.

Adeyemo, wey be former senior international economic adviser during di Obama administration, go serve under former Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen, wey Biden get plans to appoint to lead di US Treasury Department.

• Trump don give condition before e go leave White House
• Joe Biden don win US presidential election

Adeyemo appointment na one of di many ogbonge cabinet positions Biden dey expected to announce soon.

Who be Adewale Adeyemo?

Dem born Adewale Adeyemo alias "Wally" for 1981 for Nigeria but he grow up for California.

E obtain im Bachelor degree from University of California, Berkeley before e go Yale Law school for im legal education.

Before e begin work under Obama administration, Adeyemo bin first work as editor for di Hamilton Project, den work as senior advisor and deputy chief of staff to Jack Lew for di United States Department of Treasury.

He later work as di chief negotiator for di Trans-Pacific Partnership and also serve as di first chief of staff of di Consumer Financial Protection Bureau under Elizabeth Warren.

For 2015, dem appoint am to serve as Deputy National Security Advisor for International Economics and deputy director of di National Economic Council.

He later become di first president of di Obama Foundation.

election : Trump says will not ‘change my mind’

 

Pennsylvania Supreme Court dismisses Trump’s suit on mail-in ballots

The US state of Pennsylvania’s supreme court dismissed another legal challenge to the election by supporters of President Donald Trump on Saturday, further reducing his already near-impossible odds of overturning the results.

A Republican lawsuit had sought to invalidate mail-in ballots in the battleground state that President-elect Joe Biden won by about 81,000 votes — or to throw out all votes and allow the state’s legislature to decide the winner.

The court dismissed both claims in a unanimous decision, calling the second one an “extraordinary proposition that the court disenfranchise all 6.9 million Pennsylvanians who voted in the general election.”

The lawsuit argued that a Pennsylvania law from 2019 allowing universal mail-in voting was unconstitutional.

The judges said that their November 21 challenge to the law was filed too late, coming more than a year after it was enacted and with the election results “becoming seemingly apparent.”

Pennsylvania officially certified Biden’s victory there on November 24. The lawsuit had also sought to stop certification.

Saturday’s decision follows a long line of similar ones, including a ruling the day before in which a federal appeals court flatly dismissed Trump’s claim that the election was unfair and refused to freeze Biden’s win in Pennsylvania.

Trump has refused to give up on his claims of fraud in the November 3 election despite his repeated court defeats, tweeting bizarre conspiracy theories and vowing to continue his legal fight.

On Thursday, he said for the first time that he would leave the White House if Biden is officially confirmed the winner by the Electoral College on December 14.

NEWS : Zabarmari resident says Boko Haram killed more than 43 farmers, Zulum attends funeral

 

Governor of Borno State, Babagana Zulum, was at Zabarmari on Sunday.

Zulum and the villagers attended the funeral of 43 farmers slaughtered by the Boko Haram insurgents.

Zabarmari, a farming community in Jere local government area, is famous for rice cultivation and local processing.

The victims were attacked on Saturday at Koshebe village in Mafa Local Government Area.

Zulum was informed that the actual death toll was yet to be ascertained.

“Your Excellency, as you have seen here, 43 corpses were buried, but others have not been retrieved from the scene of the incident. Nobody can tell you the exact number of people killed. Some of the victims are still missing”, said a prominent resident (name withheld).

The governor commiserated with the bereaved community.

“Please accept my deepest sympathy over this carnage that affects all of us and every human with conscience.

“I am told some persons are still missing. We have been discussing with the military since yesterday, Insha Allah, the remaining people will be traced soon,” he said.

Speaking to reporters after the visit, Zulum decried the gruesome murder.

“Our people are in difficult situations. On one side they stay at home they may be killed by hunger and starvation; on the other, they go out to their farmlands and risk getting killed by the insurgents. This is very sad.

NEWS : Buhari asked to resign or be impeached over insecurity in Northern Nigeria

 

Deji Adeyanju, popular activist, has called for the resignation or impeachment of President Muhammadu Buhari.

Adeyanju, co-convener of Concerned Nigerians Group, said the spate of kidnapping on Kaduna-Abuja road was enough reason for the president to resign or be impeached.

He made the call while alleging that over 100 people are abducted along that route at times.

Tweeting, Adeyanju wrote: “The number of people abducted on Kaduna road alone is enough to make a president resign or be impeached.

“Several sources say sometimes over 100 people are abducted on that road and the issues go unreported.”

Over time, the spate of insecurity in the North had been alarming, especially kidnapping and banditry.

On November 17, 2020, nine students of the Ahmadu Bello University, ABU, Zaria were abducted and a ransom of N270m was demanded.

This led to Datti Garba, a member of the House of Representatives moving a motion to fence the university.