Graphical details of attacks on INEC Offices since the 2019 General Election, as at 24th May 2021.
Chelsea Football Club On Saturday won the UEFA champions league final with a one zero win against Manchester City. See how they celebrated.
Chelsea Football Club On Saturday won the UEFA champions league final with a one zero win against Manchester United. See how they celebrated.
Innoson vehicle manufacturing company based in South-East Anambra state has begun production of jet-steps for the upcoming Anambra international airport.
Anambra international airport with the longest runway in Nigeria outside MMIA has positioned itself as the international gateway to the igbo land.
Anambra international airport is expected to resume commercial flights soon as finishing works are nearing completion.
Ese Brume has broken Chioma Ajunwa’s 25 years African women’s long jump record in the US.
At the Chula Vista Field festival in California, she leaped 7.17 meters to break Ajunwa’s record of 7.13m set at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games.
Her new jump record is also the world leader in the long jump women’s event ahead of the postponed 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
She achieved the feat after her sixth attempt, having jumped 6.75m, 6.83m, 6.83m, 6.88m, and 6.83m respectively.
At the Turkish championships in Bursa on August 5, 2019, she broke the 7-meter barrier for the first time in her career and surpassed the mark twice in the competition.
She leaped 7.05m and achieved the second-best African performance in history.
Two months later, she won the bronze medal in the World Championships in Doha with a jump of 6.91m.
Fire has gutted the Alapeju section of the Ladipo market in Mushin area of Lagos state.
Officials of the Lagos state fire service who arrived at the scene said the incident happened on Sunday morning.
Speaking on the incident, the DG/CEO, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), Dr. Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, said the fire has been curtailed and the damping down was ongoing at the time of filing this report.
“A combined team comprising of LASEMA Response Team, Lagos Response Unit (LRU), Lagos State Fire Services, and the Federal Fire Service made efforts to subdue the inferno and prevented it from spreading to the surrounding buildings,” he said.
As of the time of filing this report, the cause of the fire has not been ascertained.
“We are currently attending to Fire emergency at spare parts sales line, Alapeju section of Ladipo Market, Mushin Lagos,” the agency wrote on Twitter.
Earlier in the month, a section of the Cairo market in Oshodi-Isolo LGA, was razed with goods worth fortune lost in the inferno.
President Emmanuel Macron warned in comments published Sunday that France will pull its troops out of Mali if it lurches towards radical Islamism following the second coup in nine months.
France has around 5,100 troops in the region under its so-called Barkhane operation which spans five countries in the Sahel — Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger.
The mission, headquartered in Chad, was launched after France intervened to fend off a jihadist advance in Mali in 2013.
On Tuesday France and the European Union denounced an “unacceptable coup d’etat” after Mali’s interim president Bah Ndaw and prime minister Moctar Ouane were detained and stripped of their powers in what is being seen as the country’s second coup in less than a year.
Macron said he had told Ndaw that France will withdraw its troops if Mali turns towards radical Islamism.
“Radical Islamism in Mali with our soldiers there? Never,” he told the weekly newspaper The Journal du Dimanche.
“There is this temptation today in Mali. But if it goes in that direction, I will withdraw,” he warned in comments made during a trip to Rwanda and South Africa. Macron flew home to Paris on Saturday.
The French president added that he had given a message to West African leaders that they could not back a country “where there is no longer democratic legitimacy or transition.”
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has invited Mali’s junta leader Colonel Assimi Goita to Ghana’s capital Accra for “consultations” ahead of an extraordinary summit on Sunday devoted to Mali.
Goita flew to Accra on Saturday, military and airport sources said.
He had served as vice president since leading a coup last August that ousted the democratically elected president, with the roles of president and prime minister held by civilians after pressure from ECOWAS, which has served as a mediator.
However, the transitional leaders were detained Monday before being released on Thursday, with the military saying they had resigned.
The twin arrests triggered a diplomatic uproar and marked the second apparent coup within a year in the Sahel country.
Mali’s constitutional court completed Goita’s rise to full power on Friday by naming him transitional president.
With the junta going back on its previous commitment to civilian political leaders, doubts have been raised about its other pledges.
Macron, in his comments published Sunday, warned that if Africa’s development fails then Europe “will pay dearly in terms of migration”.
He stressed the need to “invest massively” adding that the international community must also erase some of the continent’s debt burden “to help Africans build their future.”
Chelsea’s Edouard Mendy has become the first African goalkeeper to win a Champions League title, in its current form, after Chelsea beat Manchester City in tonight’s final.
According to records, Zimbabwe’s Bruce Grobbelaar won the titles during the European Cup era in 1984 with Liverpool.
As far back as 37 years ago, Zimbabwe goalkeeper Grobbelaar became the first African player to feature in a European Cup final, with the Liverpool stopper influential as the Reds defeated AS Roma on penalties in 1984.
He was almost a two-time winner, only for Liverpool to fall short against Juventus in the 1985 final.
Mendy’s Senegal countryman Tony Sylva, understudy to Flavio Roma in the AS Monaco team that were defeated by Jose Mourinho’s FC Porto in the 2005 final, was the next African keeper who came closest to the title.
For Sylva, the presence of role models — pioneering Cameroon goalkeepers Joseph-Antoine Bell and Thomas N’Kono — was a key reason why he believed that a career in Europe as a goalkeeper was possible as a youngster.
Mendy has been outstanding since signing from Rennes at the beginning of the season.
During the final, City pressed high but struggled to trouble Edouard Mendy in the Chelsea goal, while at the other end Timo Werner should have done better than shoot straight at Ederson in the 14th minute.
Chelsea then suffered an injury blow as an emotional Thiago Silva was forced off hurt, Andreas Christensen taking the Brazilian’s place in central defence.
Yet it was they who opened the scoring in the 42nd minute, Mason Mount’s ball splitting the City defence with John Stones out of position, allowing Havertz — their marquee 71 million-pound ($100m) signing last summer — to go around the lunging Ederson and convert into an empty net.
City now needed to break down a Chelsea defence that has been exceptional since Tuchel came in.
But they lost De Bruyne just before the hour mark, the brilliant Belgian taken out in a collision with Antonio Ruediger that appeared to leave him concussed.
He came off in tears, and Guardiola instead turned to Sergio Aguero for the latter stages, but there was to be no glorious send-off as a City player for the Argentine, even if a Riyad Mahrez shot sailed just over in the sixth minute of injury time.
There was also no third European Cup for Guardiola, who remains one adrift of the record for the coaches with most wins in the competition, held jointly by Bob Paisley, Carlo Ancelotti and Zinedine Zidane.
Indonesia has released an Iranian tanker and a Panamanian vessel that were both seized at the beginning of the year on suspicion of illegal oil transfers, officials said on Saturday.
Following legal proceedings, the crude oil tankers — Iranian-flagged MT Horse and Panama-flagged MT Freya — left Indonesia on Friday, the country’s Maritime Security Agency spokesperson said.
The captains of both tankers were found guilty on Tuesday of entering Indonesian territory without a permit.
MT Horse’s Iranian captain Mehdi Monghasemjahromi and MT Freya’s Chinese captain Chen Yo Qun were each handed a suspended prison sentence of one year with a two-year probational period.
The court also ordered Chen to pay a two billion rupiah ($140,000) fine for dumping oil illegally in Indonesian waters.
Both captains were released from detention and were believed to have left Indonesia with the rest of the crew Friday despite their sentences.
In January, the tankers were spotted off Kalimantan, Indonesia’s section of Borneo island, and were later seized after the crew failed to respond to radio calls.
Indonesia’s Maritime Security Agency or Bakamla claimed the crew were suspected of a string of violations, including failing to display the vessels’ national flags, turning off their identification systems to avoid detection and illegally transferring oil.
The MT Horse “has been released (Friday) after 125 days once the legal process was successfully concluded”, the official Iranian news agency IRNA reported, citing a National Iranian Oil Co. statement.
“Despite enduring challenges and isolation from their families, the crew made sacrifices to defend national interests and maintain the stream of oil and oil products exports from the country,” the statement added.
Iran has previously been accused of trying to conceal its oil sales to avoid crippling US sanctions.
In October, the administration of former US president Donald Trump slapped sanctions on Iran’s oil sector over sales to countries including Syria and Venezuela.
The move was part of a broader bid to end all of Iran’s key oil exports, seeking to choke off cash sources for the regional nemesis of US allies Saudi Arabia and Israel.
International cruise ships will be able to dock in Spanish ports from June 7, the Spanish government said on Saturday, lifting a ban imposed when the Covid-19 pandemic began.
The measure will be lifted due to the easing of the virus in Europe where most cruise passengers come from, as well as rising vaccination numbers, a transport ministry statement said.
It was also due to the falling numbers of virus cases in regions where most cruise ships dock.
The ban was first imposed in mid-March 2020 and later took the form of a resolution which was published on June 23 by Spain’s Directorate General of Shipping (DGMM).
Before the pandemic, Spain was Europe’s second-most popular destination for cruise ship stopovers, the ministry said, indicating it played an important economic role for the Spanish economy.
In 2019, international cruises contributed around 2.8 billion euros ($3.4 billion)to Spain’s GDP, accounting for some 50,000 jobs and 1.5 billion euros ($1.8 billion) in wages, the ministry said, citing figures from the Cruise Lines International Association.
With nearly 80,000 deaths and more than 3.6 million infections, Spain has been badly hit by the pandemic but the number of cases has slowed significantly as its vaccination programme has gathered pace.
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