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Sandra Parks wrote an award-winning essay about the constant shootings in her hometown of Milwaukee and elsewhere, and the emotional toll they have on young people like her. Little children are victims of senseless gun violence,” she wrote. ” … I sit back and I have to escape from what I see and hear every day. When I do; I come to the same conclusion … we are in a state of chaos. Two years after she won an award for her essay, bullets shattered Sandra’s bedroom window as she watched television Monday night. The stray bullet fired from outside…

The claims by Nigeria’s government that terrorist group Boko Haram has been “technically defeated” continue to ring hollow. A renewed attack by the terrorist group on a military base in Metele, Borno State last Sunday led to the death of100 soldiers, Reuters reports. This is contrary to 44 soldiers, Nigeria’s Senate said, were killed leading to the adjournment of its plenary on Wednesday. The attack has been attributed to Islamic State West Africa (ISWAP), a breakout faction of Boko Haram that’s affiliated with the Islamic State terror group.  The attack is one of the deadliest by Boko Haram since President Muhammadu…

The security operatives, Friday, ended their siege on the Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly premises. Recall that all entrances to the complex were barricaded since Wednesday morning by a combined force of Police, Army and Civil Defense, thereby barring even the House of Assembly staff from gaining entrance. The Assembly had been cordoned off by armed police personnel following a crisis that erupted on Monday. The Speaker, Onofiok Luke, had declared the seats of five lawmakers who had defected from Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC), vacant, a situation which later led to alleged thugs disrupting…

The grand-finale of Miss Nigeria 2018 will hold at the Eko Convention Centre of the Eko Hotels and Suites on November 25, 2018. Already, the organisers of Miss Nigeria, Nigeria’s foremost and most prestigious beauty pageant, have unveiled the 18 finalists contending for the highly coveted title in Lagos last week. This followed its recent auditions in Lagos, Owerri and Abuja. Among the celebrities who witnessed the unveiling were Mavin Records boss and veteran in the Nigerian Music Industry, Don Jazzy; popular song writer and performing artiste, Timi Dakolo; top actor, Gideon Okeke; the Country Director of WEConnect International Shade…

The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), Friday, blamed the demise of 11 students of University of Maiduguri (UNIMAID) on the ongoing Academic Staff Unions of Universities (ASUU) strike. A total of 11 students of UNIMAID died in an auto crash on November 20 on their way to Damaturu from Maiduguri following the ASUU strike. The National Public Relations Officer of NANS, Mr Best Okereafor, who gave the condolence in a statement issued in Enugu on Friday, expressed sadness over the death of the students. Okereafor stated that “NANS mourns the fallen Nigerian students and in same vain attribute the…

The Senate, Thursday, appears to have dodged the report of the Senate Committee on Police Affairs to probe the sealing off the Akwa Ibom House of Assembly by the police, but directed the police to vacate the house without delay. Recall on Wednesday the Senate mandated its committee on Police Affairs to probe the incident and report back to the hallowed chambers within 48 hours. Instead of receiving the report of the Chairman, Senate Committee on Police Affairs after the end of 48 hours to be presented to the plenary, the Senate, Thursday, directed the police operatives allegedly sealing off…

The Senate, Thursday, adjourned plenary in honour of the 44 soldiers killed recently by Boko Haram insurgents in Maiduguri, Borno State capital. This was sequel to Orders 42 and 52 raised by Senator Ibn Na’Allah (Kebbi South), the Senate Deputy Leader,  to move a motion to draw the attention of the Senate to a military camp that was attacked recently by insurgents in Borno State during which 44 soldiers, including a Lt.Colonel, lost their lives. A report monitored by Thisday newspapers says the Senate after observing a minute silence in memory of the late gallant soldiers, adopted a motion suspending…

A detachment of Nigeria Police Force has continued to lay siege on the major routes leading to the Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly in Uyo, the state capital. The continued siege that started Wednesday following fear of perceived attack by suspected hoodlums has created more apprehension among some members of the public and staffers of the house. Trouble is said to have started on Monday when some hoodlums besieged the house premises to forment trouble for fear that the emergency plenary of the house was plotted to declare the seats of some members of the house who defected from…

Former President Goodluck Jonathan has given his own personal account of the circumstances around his concession of the 2015 presidential election to Muhammadu Buhari, the then candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC). There are conflicting accounts of the final moments before that momentous phone call, with many believing that the former President had bowed to pressure from some of the nation’s former leaders to make the phone call. However, writing in ‘My Transition Hours’, a book he launched in Abuja on Tuesday, Jonathan said it was his own personal decision even though many of his supporters across the nation…

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Akwa Ibom State has condemned the “former speaker” in “acting as a god by declaring the seats of members whose matters were still pending in the courts vacant and who had existing court orders restraining him from such purported declarations.” The five lawmakers are Idongesit Ituen, Itu State Constituency; Nse Ntuen, Essien Udim; Otobong Ndem, Mkpat Enin; Gabriel Toby, Etim Ekpo/Ika; and Victor Udofia, Ikono. The chairman of APC in the state, Ini Okopido, who stated this on Wednesday while briefing journalists on the crisis rocking the house of assembly, condemned the action of…