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A Ukrainian village councilor set off hand grenades at a meeting in an attack that was captured on video and left 26 people wounded, the country’s national police said Friday. The incident took place Friday morning at the headquarters of the village council of Keretsky, in western Ukraine’s mountainous Zakarpattia region. A video posted by the police on Facebook showed a man dressed in black entering a council meeting during a heated discussion. The faces of the man and other people in the meeting are blurred in the clip. The man then pulled three hand grenades from his pockets, released…

If Nyesom Wike had read the character portrait of the Ijaw man as sketched by Dr. Percy Amoury Talbot, an early 20th century British historian and colonial administrator, he would most probably have thought twice before settling for Simnalaya Fubara as his third term placeholder. Wike was a two-term governor of Rivers State and today, Minister of the Federal Capital Territory. In his highly authoritative 1926 book, Peoples of Southern Nigeria: a Sketch of their History, Ethnology, and Languages, with an Abstract of the 1921 Census, Talbot reserved an unflattering description for the no-nonsense Ijaw race. Hear him at page 333, “Up the various creeks…

The crisis in Rivers state took a different turn as the minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Nyesom Wike arrived in Port-Harcour for some functions. Fubara and Wike met at an event in Port-Harcourt. Wike attends the burial of Chief Ejor’s mother in Eleme, while Fubara graces the convocation of the Rivers State University (RSU). Tensions rise as the two political figures, once seen together at public events, now avoid each other. Tensions rise as the two political figures, once seen together at public events, now avoid each other. As reported by The Nation on the minister’s huge entourage were…

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Anabs Sara-Igbe, the South-South Leadership Forum’s National Coordinator, revealed in an interview with Channels Television that Wike, the outgoing governor, was not pleased with Fubara, the incumbent, because Fubara questioned the state’s internally generated revenue (IGR) decline during Wike’s administration. He continued by saying that there were rumors that Wike believed Fubara was preventing him from receiving large sums of money from the IGR—roughly N4 billion. Additionally, Sara-Igbe implied that Wike had financial arrangements tied to specific projects and the bank during his tenure, which Fubara sought to investigate or change, leading to further tensions. According to him, “Before…

The male organ just like other organs in the body is very delicate and keeping it healthy should be the priority of all men. Certain foods can aid the health of the male organ when there are consumed. Some of those groups of foods are fruits. Certain fruits can greatly enhance the health of the male organ and some of them include; Watermelon Watermelon due to the presence of lycopene in it can greatly help with prostate health and erectile dysfunction. All men should consume it due to other functions it performs in the body. Carrots Carrots is another…

A 68-year-old man from Ondo State, Joseph Ibironke, who claimed to have spent nine years in the United Kingdom and 21 years in the United States, said he had no idea how he ended up back in Nigeria. Bamidele, who is from Igbara Oke, Ifedore Idanre Local Government Area of Ondo State, told punch that he was married with four children. However, he expressed his distressing situation of not knowing their whereabouts. He claims it was a spiritual attack and he lived under a bridge in Oshodi, Lagos, before he found help. ‘My wife (his Texan wife) told me that…

President Joe Biden’s national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, said Friday that there will be a transition to another phase of the war that is focused on “more precise ways” of targeting Hamas leadership. “There will be a transition to another phase of this war, one that is focused in more precise ways on targeting the leadership and on intelligence driven operations that continues to deal with the ongoing threat that Hamas poses,” Sullivan said in a news conference in Tel Aviv. Sullivan also said that the US wants to see results on Israel’s intent to avoid civilian casualties in Gaza.…

Four healthcare workers have been jailed after they were caught on camera physically and emotionally abusing an elderly patient, reports The BBC on Thursday. While Ame Tunkara and Morountaro Adefila were found guilty of ill-treatment and wilful neglect and sentenced on December 8 to four months in prison, Danny Ohen and Bridget Aideyan were also found guilty of the same offences and sentenced to six months and four months, respectively, on November 14. The police revealed that the workers were caught on camera manhandling the 89-year-old woman who had vascular dementia and could not speak. The police revealed that…

The naira depreciated yesterday to N1,250 per dollar in the parallel market from N1,230 per dollar on Thursday. Similarly, the naira appreciated to N889.86 per dollar in the official Nigerian Foreign Exchange Market (NAFEM). Data from FMDQ showed that the indicative exchange rate for NAFEM fell to N889.86 per dollar from N901.41 per dollar on Thursday, indicating an N11.55 appreciation for the naira. As a result, the gap between the official and parallel market exchange rates widened to N360.14 per dollar yesterday from N328.59 per dollar on Thursday.