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Cult War In Edo - Govt Warns Neo Black Movement, To Demolish More Houses https://ift.tt/qkWbxRr #Issues #Amagba #edo #Okpebholo ©May 12th, 2025 ®May 12, 2025 5:31 pm In apparent anger, Edo State Government under the leadership of Governor Monday Okpebholo has issued a serious warning with a strong message sent to the President of the Neo Black Movement of Africa, NBM, Olorogun Ese Kakor that the Edo State Government has started consultations to enable it take more appropriate legal action against the Neo Black Movement, saying, the International Headquarters or Secretariat of the Movement situated AT Amagba area in Benin City that was demolished last month by the State Government, has been an enclave used for planning and execution of secret cult related killings by members of the Neo Black Movement the Governor also referred to and described as Black Axe secret cult, probably expressing more anger that the leadership and members of the Neo Black Movement had the courage to come out publicly to identify themselves with the demolished building, the governor said they will be made to face prosecution, this, the National President of the Neo Black Movement, Olorogun Ese Kakor while speaking in reaction to the demolished building on Arise News TV programme, said, the Movement is not Black Axe, emphasizing that Black Axe is a criminal organisation while the Neo Black Movement is a social cultural organisation that promote and engage in humanitarian services. #OsazuwaAkonedo Artificial Intelligence Economic Revolution - Why I Chose Leo XIV - Pope https://ift.tt/Ikl0zf7 #Economy #LeoXIV #Pope #Trump ©May 10th, 2025 ®May 11, 2025 12:07 am Pope Leo XIV has said that he chose the name Leo XIV because late Pope Leo XIII made a great impact in the first industrial revolution during his time, adding that, the current industrial revolution of Artificial Intelligence, AI that posed a new challenge to the defence of human dignity,  justice and labour warrant the Church to offer her social teachings in response to the AI industrial development threat, this, as it could be recalled that while billions of people across the globe awaited the election of the new Pope, an AI generated photo of Donald Trump dressed and seated as the new Pope was posted on social media through the verified account of President Donald Trump on Truth social media platform with President Donald Trump later on Monday dismissing the backlash against the AI-generated image of him as the pope posted by the White House on social media, saying it was a harmless joke, but communications experts as reported by Reuters said they did not see the funny side of the preceding weekend AI-generated posts of Trump dressed in white papal vestments and another of him wielding one of the red light sabers preferred by villains in the “Star Wars” movies. #OsazuwaAkonedo India, Pakistan Resume War Hours After US Brokered Ceasefire https://ift.tt/PCc5o2K #Breaking News #India #Kashmir #Pakistan #Sirsa #US ©May 10th, 2025 ®May 10, 2025 9:08 pm Few hours after President Donald Trump of the United States, US and his state officials brokered a full and immediate ceasefire truce between India and Pakistan, leading to massive joy of celebrations for Indian and Pakistani residents in Kashmir, the two countries again have picked up weapons and resumed war, with India Foreign Secretary, Shri Vikram Misri accusing Pakistan of violating the the ceasefire agreement hours after it was brokered, stated this in a video press release made available to the public via Whatsapp channel through the Office of the Spokesperson of India Ministry of Defence, this, the office of the Chief of Army Staff of Pakistan, Asim Munir in a tweet through his verified X social media account few minutes ago stated that; “From Peshawar Airport Once again, warplanes took off”, and few seconds after, he tweeted again that, “Pakistan has hit the Indian city of Sirsa. Pakistan’s Fatah One and Fatah Two in action”, signaling the resumption of the war that entered its new dimension early on Saturday morning, with both countries firing missiles into each other’s territories, which resulted in the killing of over five persons on Saturday, after the decades long conflicts reawoke last month when some suspected terrorists killed over 26 India tourists at Kashmir, leading to over two weeks of build up tensions before the two countries began the large scale war on Saturday. #OsazuwaAkonedo

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Many Settings People Think Christian Faith Are For The Weak - Pope Leo XIV https://ift.tt/kHFyl8K #World News #LeoXIV #Pope #Trump #US #Vatican ©May 10th, 2025 ®May 10, 2025 6:06 am Pope Leo XIV, the new Head of the Catholic Church and the first ever Pope from the United States, US and North America Continent, and the second from the two America continents, has said that there are many settings or places in the world people considered the Christian Faith to be only for the weak, calling on people to cultivate a better personal relationship with Christ, saying, without Faith, life is meaningless, the new Pope who had been ardent opposition to the policies of the new  US President, Donald Trump, stated this at his first Mass held shortly after he was elected as the new head of the Christian faith to lead more than one billion Catholic faithfuls in the world and as one of the major pressure group leaders in the world,  the new Pope had previously criticized the policies of President Donald Trump just as his predecessor, late Pope Francis had always condemned Trump policies on illegal immigration, with records showing that, the late Pope, Pope Francis promoted and elevated the new Pope, Pope Leo XIV multiple times within a short period to the high level to qualify him becoming the next Pope. #OsazuwaAkonedo 37 Victims Kidnapped Rescued Under One Month In Edo - CP Agbonika https://ift.tt/SgZQpqr #Nigeria Police Force #Agbonika #edo #Igp #Police #PSC ©May 9th, 2025 ®May 9, 2025 7:41 pm Edo State Police Commissioner, Monday Agbonika has marked his one month in office, with a statement that over 37 persons among the people under the custody of kidnappers in the state have been rescued within 30 days he took over as commissioner of police in the heartbeat of the nation. #OsazuwaAkonedo Woman, Baby Die Struggling Through Flood Water In Edo https://ift.tt/3chPtzY #Life #BEDC #edo #EdoFEWMA #Okpebholo #Oregbeni ©May 8th, 2025 ®May 9, 2025 6:20 pm Tragedy occurred at the Oregbeni area of Edo State on Monday when a woman with her baby on her back died of electrocution  while struggling through flood water in the area on her way home. #OsazuwaAkonedo

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Appeal Court Jails GTBank Staff For Using Customer's Details To Take Loan https://ift.tt/kQ6IOzT #Law #EFCC #Enugu #GTBank #VeryDarkMan ©May 8th, 2025 ®May 8, 2025 3:54 pm Three man panel of Justices at the Federal Court of Appeal in Enugu State have upheld the decision of the lower High Court that had earlier sentenced a staff of Guaranty Trust Bank, GTBank, Onyekachi Nwosu to seven years imprisonment in line with the enacted Nigeria law of Failed Banks or Recovery of Debts and Financial Malpractices Act which the Convict fraudulently used the property of one Mrs Adebimpe Foluke to apply and disburse ₦50 million loan into the savings account of GTBank customer and withdrew ₦40 million of the money from the beneficial savings account for his personal use, this is coming at a critical period many Nigerians are doubting the credibility and integrity of GTBank management after a popular Human Rights activist, Martins Vincent Otse aka VeryDarkMan was arrested last Friday at the exist gate of GTbank branch in Abuja by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC when the activist went with his mother to seek clarification over apparent unauthorized constant savings withdrawals as loan repayments from his mother savings asset with the bank, with the activist mother saying, she never took loan from the bank, and EFCC arresting and releasing VeryDarkMan after almost five days in detention without specifically stating the alleged offence or offences committed by the activist may have created room for some level of insinuations in certain quarters that sees GTBank management as people probably using the state security assets to commit act of criminal intimidation and oppression of  complainers to cover up the Bank suspected loan fraud and financial malpractices. #OsazuwaAkonedo Passengers Deplane After 2 Aircrafts Clip Wings In US https://ift.tt/t0j9bXf #World News #FAA #SanFransisco #UnitedAirlines #US ©May 7th, 2025 ®May 7, 2025 6:02 pm Hundreds of passengers ran out of two planes on Tuesday early morning night at San Fransisco International airport in the Untied States, after United Airlines Flight Boeing 877 heading to Hong Kong kissed the wing of another United Airlines Flight 863 destined for Sydney in Australia with some level of damages to both aircrafts while on ground operations preparing for takeoff, forcing almost half a thousand passengers inside the two large air carriers to deplane, and according to the US Federal Aviation Administration, FAA, the incident did not cause harm to any of those onboard the planes, this, the United Airlines saying It has removed the two planes from services to enable the aircraft engineer diagnosed the level of damages and recommend appropriately for their repairs. #OsazuwaAkonedo Police Arrests 18-Year-Old Wife For Allegedly Killing Husband In Kano https://ift.tt/q4ulWsR #Life #Farawa #Kano ©May 7th, 2025 ®May 7, 2025 3:37 pm Kano State Command of the Nigeria Police Force has arrested an 18-year-old woman, Saudat Jibril for allegedly killing her husband, Salisu Idris by thus cutting his throat with a knife while he was asleep on Tuesday early morning night at Farawa community in Kumbotso Local Government Area of Kano State barely nine days after they held their wedding ceremony. #OsazuwaAkonedo

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120 Hours After, EFCC Fails To State Alleged Crime Committed By VeryDarkMan https://ift.tt/UvbHP5k #Issues #Akpabio #APC #Deji #EFCC #GTBank #Obi #VeryDarkMan ©May 7th, 2025 ®May 7, 2025 10:56 am Nigeria anti-corruption police, Economic and Financial Crimes commission, EFCC may have failed to state the alleged crime or crimes committed by a Human Rights activist, Martins Vincent Otse aka VeryDarkMan since 5 days, over 120 hours the anti corruption police arrested him in Abuja when he went with his mother to GTBank to get clarification from the bank over constant apparent unauthorized withdrawals effected by the bank on the woman’s savings account, although VeryDarkMan was arrested alongside his friend, Steven Avuara aka C-Pack but according to the statement issued by the activist lawyer’s  legal chamber, Deji Adeyanju and Partners, Steven Avuara was released shortly after he was arrested on Friday, with the Chamber insisting that as at on Tuesday, EFCC have not been able to state the crime or crimes their client, VeryDarkMan committed, rather, as at on Monday, four operatives of the EFCC engaged the Human Rights activist in hours long questions that borders on why he allegedly monetized his social media pages, his public comments about a Gospel musician, his tax records and his source of income, this, apparently authenticated the BBC report that the EFCC confirmed to it that VeryDarkMan was arrested and detained for cyber talking, a BBC report which EFCC swiftly launched media war against the British media, tagging the BBC report as a fake news, and in retaliation, the BBC Pidgin replied EFCC with a post that its report is correct,  and undoubtedly, the Crime of Cyber Talking may not be the duty of the EFCC as such is apparently the constitutional responsibility of the Nigeria Police Force, and if true that the Human Rights activist was detained for Cyber Talking, it shows that the country ruling political party, the All Progressives Congress, APC may have questions to answer, the APC had earlier issued threat message to the Human Rights activist after the activist called the Nigeria Senate President, Godswill Akpabio out over the Senate President traveling to Rome in Italy to attend Pope Francis burial, while  almost daily killings and unabated high level of insecurity are observed in several states in the West Africa country, and further more, EFCC in a statement on Tuesday, only issued an apparent vague statement that he received series of petitions against the activist as a way to try to justify why the Human Rights activist was arrested and detained, but, the anti corruption commission probably could not make any reasonable allegation against the Human Rights defender even when the commission confirmed in the statement that it has been investigating the allegations filed against VeryDarkMan before the activist was arrested in a commando like style at the exit gate of GTBank. #OsazuwaAkonedo Canada Not For Sale, PM Carney Tells Trump Face-To-Face At Oval Office https://ift.tt/AP6uCR3 #Economy #Canada #Carney #Trump #US ©May 6th, 2025 ®May 6, 2025 8:05 pm Canada newly elected Prime Minister, Mark Carney on Tuesday met with President Donald Trump of the United States, US after he had arrived at its rival trade war neighbouring country, the US earlier on Monday with a statement that Canada and US are strongest when they work together, and, on Tuesday when he finally met with Trump at the Oval Office, he bluntly told the US President that Canada is not for sale and won’t be for sale ever, after Trump made a repeat statement of Canada becoming the 51st states of the United States of America, USA. #OsazuwaAkonedo Nnamdi Kanu, Founder Of ESN - FG Unknown Witness https://ift.tt/PGc7Vr3 #Law #Abuja #Kanu #Nnamdi ©May 6th, 2025 ®May 6, 2025 6:16 pm Unknown witness brought by the Federal Government of Nigeria to Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Tuesday over the case involving Biafra Republic agitator, Nnamdi Kanu has testified before the court that the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB leader was the founder of the Eastern Security Network, ESN, an IPOB acclaimed vigilante security network established to fight against terrorists that were advancing from Northern part of Nigeria and building camps in some parts of Southeast states, although, the unknown witness who was fully masked and personal details kept secret, introduced himself as a personnel of the Depa

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VDM Arrested After APC Threats Over Talks On Akpabio Attending Pope Burial https://ift.tt/ng147UX #Issues #GTB #Akpabio #APC #Benue #Enugu #Kwara #Ogun #Plateau #Pope #Vatican #VeryDarkMan ©May 5th, 2025 ®May 5, 2025 10:26 am There is apparent tension in Nigeria over the arrest of a popular Human Rights activist, Martins Vincent Otse aka VeryDarkMan or VDM who was allegedly seized by Nigeria Security operatives in a manner that have kept many wondering, suspecting acts of oppression and intimidation based on threats issued by the ruling political party, All Progressives Congress, APC against the Human Rights activist, after the activist condemned the Nigeria Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, for traveling to Vatican in Italy to attend Pope Francis burial ceremony, while, he said, the Senate President has failed to visit states where almost daily burial ceremonies are often held, in some states like Plateau, Benue, Kwara, Enugu and Ogun States where gunmen, bandits are killing the Senate President fellow citizens in large numbers unabated in recent time in Nigeria, and angered by the talks, the APC South South Zonal Organising Secretary, Blessing Agbomhere issued seven days ultimatum to VeryDarkMan to apologize to the Senate President who led five-man Federal Government delegation to Rome to attend the late Catholic Head funeral ceremony, but immediately, VeryDarkMan in a video issued the public apology to the victims of insecurity in the West Africa country, and in the video, he further accused and condemned the Senate President and other  Nigeria leaders for being insensitivity to their institutional responsibilities of protecting lives, saying, insecurity, killing hundreds of people often in Nigeria is as a result of Leadership failure on the part of the Senate President and members of the Bola Ahmed Tinubu led Government, and surprisingly, Deji Adeyanju, the lawyer to the activist, said that VeryDarkMan was arrested at Guaranty Trust Bank, GTB in Abuja on Friday in a more dehumanizing manner, and after he was trapped at the Exit Door at the GTB premises for five minutes, some security operatives came and cover his face with a black cloth before he was led away, and for more than 48 hours, Nigeria authority is yet to issue statement over the arrest of the Human Rights activist who had on Friday went with her Mother to the GTB bank to get clarification over the unauthorised withdrawals constantly done on his mother savings account, after the activist suspected that someone may have used his mother National Identification Number, NIN to take loan from the GTB bank. #OsazuwaAkonedo Court Jails Woman For Selling Naira Notes, Other For Not Declaring Dollars https://ift.tt/kZD6PKq #EFCC #Lagos ©May 4th, 2025 ®May 4, 2025 7:11 pm Federal High Court sitting in Lagos State has sentenced a woman to one year imprisonment with no option of fine for being caught and arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC for selling or hawking Nigeria legal tender, Naira currency, the woman, according to the court ruling, had been convicted before by another court for  naira abuse, this, as another Federal High Court also in Lagos State convicted a man and ordered the man to forfeit to the Federal Government more than £8000 he failed to declare or submit before the Nigerian Custom Service at the International Airport in Lagos, and in addition, the Court sentenced the man to six months imprisonment with option of ₦200,000 fine. #OsazuwaAkonedo Cult War In Edo - Police Arrest 95, Govt Seals PDP Chiefs' Hotel, House https://ift.tt/tqwQLhp #Nigeria Po

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Boko Haram Advancing - They Did It To GEJ, We Suffered Under Buhari -Reno https://ift.tt/xy4GD9u #Reno Omokri #Borno #Buhari #Elrufai #Jonathan #Omokri #Tinubu #Yobe ©May 2nd, 2025 ®May 2, 2025 7:31 am There is no doubt that the Boko Haram insurgency is advancing in recent months in Nigeria, with the Governors from the North-East region gathered on Thursday in Damaturu, Yobe State, for the 11th meeting of the North-East Governors’ Forum, with a focus on tackling the resurgence of Boko Haram insurgency, widespread poverty, and the region’s infrastructure deficit, which Reno Omokri, former Presidential Spokesperson on New Media to ex President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan had in a post in recent time shared his observations and experiences he had while working in the Presidency, explaining how the successes gained in the fight against the Boko Haram insurgency during the Presidency led by Goodluck Ebele Jonathan and how the successes started dwindling under the Presidency of retired military General Muhammadu Buhari. #OsazuwaAkonedo Man Bags 138 Years Jail In Ibadan Over Ponzi Fraud, Awaits 2 More Courts https://ift.tt/a9jkMKp #EFCC #Ibadan #Oyo ©April 30th, 2025 ®April 30, 2025 4:38 pm Two separate courts at Ibadan in Oyo State, Nigeria have sentenced a man, Olaniyan Gbenga Amos to 138 years imprisonments for committing criminal ponzi investments fraud which the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC described the convict as a multiple and serial investment fraudster who was convicted and sentenced to seventy-five years imprisonment by Justice Bayo Taiwo of the Oyo State High Court, Ibadan for ponzi fraud offence on December 14, 2023, and Justice Olusola Adetujoye of the Oyo State High Court sitting in Ibadan, on Monday, April 28, 2025 while ruling on separate and similar charges and crimes, convicted and sentenced Olaniyan Gbenga Amos to sixty-three years jail term for multiple investment fraud, with the convict still awaiting two more rulings for crimes of same nature from Federal High Courts in Ibadan, Oyo State. #OsazuwaAkonedo Nnamdi Kanu - FG Witnesses To Testify Against Biafra Leader Under Secrecy https://ift.tt/3pJAPg6 #Issues #Biafra #Kanu #Nnamdi ©April 30th, 2025 ®April 30, 2025 1:52 pm One of the witnesses called by the Federal Government of Nigeria to testify against the Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, over the alleged act of terrorism, secretly gave his testimony on Tuesday before the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, with the coordinating lawyer to Nnamdi Kanu, Barrister Aloy Ejimakor, saying, the FG witness was only identified merely by initials and the person gave his testimony against Nnamdi Kanu behind the screen, following the application filed by the Federal Government lawyers as approved by the trial Judge to keep the identities of the FG witnesses secret, this, Aloy Ejimakor tweeted while the court proceeding was ongoing, that, the Federal Government only has three Senior Advocates of Nigeria, SAN, that, six SAN have stood firmly behind the detained Biafra Leader. #OsazuwaAkonedo

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Police Hunts Kidnappers, Recovers Several AK-49, Locally Made AK-47 Guns https://ift.tt/wcd1lGj #Nigeria Police Force #Anambra #Kaduna #Kwara #Police #Taraba ©April 29th, 2025 ®April 29, 2025 4:48 pm Men of the Nigeria Police Force have hunted against some suspected kidnappers terrorizing Nigeria with self made guns, with the police confirming on Tuesday that its men with local hunters and vigilante members in Taraba and Kaduna states made numbers of arrests and discovered some of the suspected kidnappers are in the business of fabricating and locally constructing AK-47 guns for criminal activities. #OsazuwaAkonedo Israel, Iran Govts Keep Mum Over Explosions Cause Killing 40, Injuring 1200 https://ift.tt/lE0fghI #Issues #Abbas #Bandar #Iran #Israel ©April 27th, 2025 ®April 27, 2025 10:39 pm Iranian President, Masoud Pezeshkian on Sunday visited victims of the Shaheed Ali Rajai port in the Iranian city of Bandar Abbas over the killing of 40 persons and the injuring of 1,200 others following multiple explosions that started on Saturday morning at the Port, with the Iranian President, Masoud Pezeshkian refusing to make any accusation or give account of the possible cause of the fire explosions that have continued to rage unabated as at late hours on Sunday, with Israeli Government also keeping mum despite several unsubstantiated claims pointing accusing fingers to the state of Israel over the fire explosions believed to have been ignited due to the presence of chemical substance apparently used in making missile propellants. #OsazuwaAkonedo Police In Edo Rescue More From Kidnappers, 1 Killed In Gun Duel At Igueben https://ift.tt/kjcu8or #Nigeria Police Force #Oshiomhole #Agenebode #edo #Egabor #Igueben #Irrua #Iyamho #Okpebholo #Okumagbe #Police ©April 26th, 2025 ®April 26, 2025 8:03 pm Men of Nigeria Police Force in Edo State in a combined operations with local vigilante members and hunters have rescued more people still under the captivity of kidnappers in the state, with the State Police Command confirming the killing of one of the vigilante members during the rescue operations by the kidnappers when the security operatives engaged the abductors in a gun duel at Igueben area, and on Monday, the Edo State Government led by Governor Monday Okpebholo summoned the state security chiefs to a meeting at Iyamho, the hometown of former Governor Adams Oshiomhole who was also in attendance at the meeting held over the security challenges in the Edo North Senatorial District which the former governor is currently representing the people as Senator at the National Assembly, with the Governor, Monday Okpebholo during the week also suspended a traditional ruler, Dr George Oshiapi Egabor, the Okumagbe of Uwano Kingdom, Agenebode, Estako East Local Government Area of Edo State, over alleged recent cases of incessant kidnapping and killings in the traditional ruler’s domain. #OsazuwaAkonedo

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EFCC Declares 8 CBEX Suspects Wanted Over ₦1.3 Trillion Defrauded Nigerians

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#EFCC #cbn #DIA #FID #NFIU #NIA #NPF #NSA #SSS ©April 26th, 2025 ®April 26, 2025 5:03 pm Nigeria anti corruption police, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has declared eight persons wanted in connection with the ₦1.3 trillion fraud committed by an online Cryptocurrency platform, Crypto Bridge Exchange, CBEX, allegedly an unregistered financial trading company in Nigeria, but, according to EFCC, a registered company, ST Technologies International Limited promoted or aided the suspected criminal trading platform, this occurred after the Nigeria Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC in a statement on April 17, 2025 gave public assurance to prosecute the promoters of the suspected fraudulent trading platform, and the statement from SEC indicated probably that there is porousness in the Nigeria Intelligence system, signaling that the Nigeria Intelligence assets like the media, State Security Services, SSS, Defence Intelligence Agency, DIA, National Intelligence Agency, NIA, Nigeria Financial Intelligency Unit, NFIU of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Force Intelligence Department, FID of the Nigeria Police Force, NPF among others are apparently too weak in protecting the West Africa Sovereignty against financial invasion and terrorism; despite the huge billions of naira of taxpayers monies spent yearly by the Presidency through the office of the National Security Adviser, NSA and CBN on the aforementioned Intelligence assets, the state assets failed to be alive their societal responsibilities, and a criminal organisation invaded the Nigeria media space, openly advertised its criminal activities for long and successfully stole, evacuated and converted trillions of Nigeria currency to foreign currency or currencies, causing huge pressure and devaluation of the Naira, and thus, making costs of living go higher, with no Nigeria Intelligence asset including the Press being able to proactively track and forestall the act of national terrorism committed against the Nigeria State. #OsazuwaAkonedo

Zelenskyy Leaves SA, Back Home Over Russia Rainy Air Bombardments In Kyiv

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#World News #Putin #Russia #SouthAfrica #Trump #Ukraine #US #Zelenskyy ©April 24th, 2025 ®April 24, 2025 8:19 pm While President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine was on midair to South Africa on Wednesday, President Vladimir Putin led Russia engaged the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv like never before since the full-scale war began on February 24, 2022, with disastrous-murderous rainy air bombardments, causing 10 deaths and over 80 people injured, with military intelligence suggesting that President Vladimir Putin may have launched the massive attacks on the Ukrainian capital as a calculated distraction to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy over his visit to South Africa where Zelenskyy had planned to meet with representatives of civil, political and student communities from different Africa countries, a continent, it appears, Russia has built tighter relations with in recent years in the struggle for geopolitical supremacy against its rivals in the world powers like the US and France, which, Africa countries like Senegal, Chad, Mali, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Niger, had cut military ties with France and expelled its troops, and some of the Africa countries like Chad and Niger have also expelled US troops and cut military ties with the Whitehouse, and they all, including South Africa have moved closer to Russia but since June 2023 when South Africa President, Cyril Ramaphosa led an African leaders’ peace mission to Ukraine and Russia where they both met with Zelenskyy and Putin, after the failed peace initiative, Ukraine has stepped up its relations in the Africa continent by sharing technological and military experience with African nations, donating grains, opening additional embassies in the Africa Continent with Ivory Coast and Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC already established out of the 10 new embassies pledged in 2023, which President Volodymyr Zelensky said in December 2023 that one of Ukraine’s foreign policy priorities for 2024 is continuing to develop ties with African countries, as Moscow seeks to expand its influence on the continent.

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Niger Gov Reverses Self After Ordering Arrest Of Anyone With Dreadlocks

https://osazuwaakonedo.news/niger-gov-reverses-self-after-ordering-arrest-of-anyone-with-dreadlocks/23/04/2025/

#Issues #Bago #Niger #VeryDarkMan ©April 23rd, 2025 ®April 23, 2025 3:46 pm Niger State Governor, Muhammed Umaru Bago has reversed self over arresting anyone with dreadlocks, a matching order he gave on Tuesday at Stakeholders security meeting in the State to security operatives in the state which is one of the states in Nigeria most troubled by bandits and terrorists, clarifying that, the arrest order is only meant for a particular group of people suspected to be a member of a particular secret cult group that carries dreadlocks as a symbol of identification, this, a well known social media influencer, Martins Vincent Otse aka VeryDarkMan had condemned the action of the governor, saying that, if the governor considered dreadlocks as a sign of insecurity, it therefore means, the Governor should be the first to be arrested for carrying a monster beards. #OsazuwaAkonedo