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Miami building collapse: 159 missing,

  The number of people listed as missing after the collapse of a 12-storey building in the US city of Miami has risen to 159, officials say. Four people are known to have died.   BIAFRA : Abaribe wears a 'dot nation' t-shirt after President Buhari's comment The mayor of Miami-Dade says they "still have hope" of finding survivors. Search teams working around the clock have reported hearing people banging beneath the debris. What caused the 40-year-old building to collapse early on Thursday morning remains unclear. At least 102 people have now been accounted for, but it is uncertain how many were in the building when it came down. Dozens of people have been evacuated from what is left of the structure. President Joe Biden has approved an emergency declaration for Florida, meaning the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) will help state agencies with the relief effort. Overnight hundreds of rescuers used sonar cameras and specially trained dogs as they scoured ...

BIAFRA : Abaribe wears a 'dot nation' t-shirt after President Buhari's comment

  Senate minority leader, Enyinnaya Abaribe has been spotted wearing a 'dot nation' t-shirt after President Buhari's comment in an interview with Arise TV few days ago.    DOT IN circle : Buhari’s ‘dot in a circle’ comment attempt to divide south-south, south-east In the interview on Arise TV, the President had said that the military and the police will be mobilized to go after secessionist group, IPOB accused of disturbing the peace in the South-East region.   Buhari said in the interview;   South east govs want to sacrifice Igbo people for power, they’re desperate – Nnamdi Kanu "IPOB is just like a dot in a circle and they have nowhere to turn to. They are spread everywhere and they have investments and properties everywhere and in other areas. “They don't know what they are doing. How we will handle them is to mobilise the police and the military to go after them.”     Reps advocate social media regulation as FG insists Twit...

DOT IN circle : Buhari’s ‘dot in a circle’ comment attempt to divide south-south, south-east

  Annkio Briggs, social critic and human rights activist, says the “dot in a circle” comment by President Muhammadu Buhari is an attempt to divide the people of the south-east and the south-south. DOT IN circle : Buhari’s ‘dot in a circle’ comment attempt to divide south-south, south-east   “First of all, I don’t even recall any access or non-access to the sea during the onslaught of the civil war ,” the activist said. “It was the federal government that came through the sea and the creeks. So having settled that, there are millions of elders and there are millions of youths in the Niger Delta, and there are ethnic nationalities in the Niger Delta that make up the south-South. https://saviournicodemus.blogspot.com/2021/06/dot-in-circle-buharis-dot-in-circle.html “For the president to therefore assume that whoever has told him that there won’t be access to the sea, that gives him pleasure and gives him joy because obviously an attempt to divide and rule both the sout...

South east govs want to sacrifice Igbo people for power, they’re desperate – Nnamdi Kanu

  Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has accused Southeast governors of being desperate for power. Kanu claimed that Southeast governors are ready to sacrifice people and anything for their personal gains. Speaking through the spokesman of IPOB, Emma Powerful, Kanu vowed that the Southeast would actualize Biafra. A statement signed by Powerful reads: “How can South East governors be so desperate for power beyond 2023 that they can sacrifice anything and anybody for personal gains? In case they don’t know, even the Northerners they are trying to impress understand the handwriting on the wall. They know that the governors are on their own. “These South East Vassals should know that during referendum, they only have one vote just like the man on the street. “If these frustrated politicians without conscience and direction are discerning enough, they should know that they should first push for a referendum to determine if the people they pret...

Reps advocate social media regulation as FG insists Twitter ban is in Nigeria’s interest

  An APC chieftain from Katsina State and a House of Representatives Committee member on Information, Fatuhu Mohammed has called for the regulation of social media claiming the time had come for the country to face up to the real issues confronting it. Mohammed made the call when Lai Mohammed appeared before the House Committee on Information on Tuesday. Lai Mohammed had cited various sections of the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in support of the action that was officially taken in light of the security challenges facing the country. Reacting, he said that if the Minister had not banned Twitter, with the permission of Mr President, the kind of insults to the sovereignty of Nigeria, coming from its users, would be worrisome. NBC Act: Regulate all online broadcasters including Twitter – Lai Mohammed tells Lawmakers Also speaking, Rep Shaba Ibrahim (PDP-Kogi), a member of the committee on Information said the Minister of information, Lai Mohammed ...

Ex Reps member, Farouk Lawan bags 7 years jail term over graft

  Ex-Chairman, House of Reps probe panel on oil subsidy regime, Farouk Lawal has bagged a 7-year jail term for receiving a $3 million bribe from oil magnate Femi Otedola. Justice Angela Otaluka of FCT High Court at Apo found the former lawmaker guilty on all three count charges the ICPC preferred against him. The Judge ordered him to refund $500.000 dollars to the federal government.

ECOWAS Court stops Buhari govt from prosecuting Nigerians using Twitter

  The ECOWAS Court of Justice in Abuja on Tuesday delivered a landmark ruling as justices restrained President Muhammadu Buhari administration and its agents from arresting or prosecuting Nigerians using Twitter.   South east govs want to sacrifice Igbo people for power, they’re desperate – Nnamdi Kanu The court also protected social media service providers, radio and television broadcast stations and others from prosecution pending the hearing and determination of this suit. The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) and 176 concerned Nigerians had challenged “the unlawful suspension of Twitter”.   Reps advocate social media regulation as FG insists Twitter ban is in Nigeria’s interest They said the directive “escalated repression of human rights and unlawfully restricted the rights of Nigerians and other people to freedom of expression, access to information, and media freedom.” The court heard arguments from Solicitor to SERA...