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A Staffordshire Terrier mixed-breed dog has been sentenced to death after autopsy results on Friday confirmed it mauled its owners to death in the German city of Hanover. The incident, which shook Germany and prompted a debate about the rules of dog ownership, saw a 52-year-old woman and her 27-year-old son die as the result of the attack in their apartment. Fire rescue workers captured the dog when they broke into the flat after being alerted by the woman’s daughter (name unknown) late Tuesday. The daughter contacted authorities after she couldn’t reach either family member and spotted the lifeless body…

Femi Fani-Kayode has described pastors, under the auspices of Arewa Pastors Non-denominational Initiative for Peace in Nigeria, who paid President Muhammadu Buhari a courtesy visit, as hungry and descendants of Cain. The Arewa pastors Thursday visited President Muhammadu Buhari at the State House in Abuja and told him that some pastors were using churches to preach violence and hate. Reacting, Fani-Kayode took to his Twitter page and wrote “Some hungry pastors from Arewa Pastors Peace Initiative visited Buhari today to endorse him.” The PDP chieftain observed, “I’m sure none of their daughters are being held by Boko Haram and no…

The United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) Thursday declared that knowing how to read and write without the knowledge of computer is more or less illiteracy. Mr. Ydo Yai, the Regional Director of UNESCO,  made this known in Abuja to NAN on the sidelines of the National Launch of the 2017/2018 Global Education Monitoring Report. The theme of the report: “Accountability in Education: Meeting our Commitments’’ is aimed at informing policymakers of ways to accountability and share evidence based recommendations. “Today if you know how to read and write and you don’t master computer, you are illiterate. We are advocating so that governments will…

After viewers have expressed outrage on the domination of television stations by miracle and prosperity programmes over others, Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation has temporarily suspended programmes featuring preachers. Mr. Albert Chekayi, ZBC acting head of radio services announced that the corporation has stopped the programmes to guard against infringement of the rights of the audience. “We have temporarily suspended the programmes to allow us to have a re-look, considering the many complaints we have received from the public who are the owners of the radio station since we are a public broadcaster,” Chekayi said. “This decision was taken by us… We are…

Crackdown on the activities of Christians in People’s Republic of China has taken a new dimension as the country has outlawed online sale of Holy Bible. News Agency of Nigeria reports that this contradicts the position of Chinese government claiming in an earlier document to have allowed freedom of worship. Although China regulates the printing and distribution of Bible by allowing only state-sanctioned churches to do so, it had been available to buy online. It is reported that searches for the Bible on e-commerce sites JD.com and Amazon.cn are not available. The disappearance of Bible on Internet retailers is the latest embargo…

Few weeks from now, the world will mark another malaria day. United Nations has made it a yearly ritual. Money- whooping amount- is spent to combat the malaise. Is the malaise abated? Today, Straightnews, your reading companion, takes a look at the amounts US and Nigerian governments are said to be sspending to bring ‘stubborn’ malaria to its knees. Available records show that United States government spent $75 million annually from 2013 – 2016 to combat the malaria scourge in Nigeria. The Guardian of April 25, 2017 quoted David J. Young, the US Deputy Chief of Mission, saying: “Today, April…

It is alleged that despite the presence of soldiers, gunmen suspected to be herdsmen Wednesday wiped out a family of four members in a midnight attack on Mbayi, Takum local government area of Taraba state. Two weeks ago, General Theophilus O. Danjuma (rtd) had accused the military of collusion with killer herdsmen to kill civilians, in which the military authorities promptly rejected the statement. Shiban Tikare, chairman of the council, who confirmed the incident said a nine-month old baby survived when the attackers stormed the village around 2 a.m, day, and slaughtered the four family members who were asleep. “We…

Sierra Leone’s opposition challenger, Julius Maada Bio secured his first term in office as a civilian Wednesday when he was declared the winner of a controversial presidential run-off — but his opponent vowed to contest the result. Bio, a former soldier who briefly led a military junta more than two decades ago, won 51.81 percent of ballots in last month’s election, according to official results. He beat incumbent Samura Kamara, who secured 48.19 percent of the vote, ending a decade in power for Kamara’s All Peoples’ Congress (APC) in the poor West African nation. Cheers and songs erupted among thousands…

The Senate says President Muhammadu Buhari has power to approve $1 billion for the procurement of arms, saying the money does not belong to him.. President Buhari had on Wednesday approved the release of $1 billion for the procurement of security equipment to be used in the fight against Boko Haram terrorists. But the lawmakers had taken a swipe at the presidency, saying the sum could not be released without its approval. Senator Ben Murray- Bruce, PDP, Bayelsa East, Vice Chairman, Senate Committee on Media and Publicity, told Vanguard that the presidency cannot spend such amount of money until the…

Despite the criticisms that greeted the earlier approval of the money, President Muhammadu Buhari Wednesday approved the release of $1 billion for the procurement of security equipment to fight insecurity in the country. It would be recalled that the National Economic Council had in 2017 approved the $1 billion to be sourced from the country’s Excess Crude Account (ECA) for the fight against Boko Haram insurgency and other violent criminal activities across the country. However, most governors and other stakeholders kicked against it on the pretext that they were not consulted before the the federal government took the decision. Brig.-Gen.…