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Straightnews Greets Readers, followers, sponsors at Easter The night sky graces the famous ‘‘Pink Moon.’’ The spring rain waters the parched ground with upshot of budding plants and trees. And the full moon overshadows the lonely tomb as Angelic being proclaims: Jesus is risen! The solemn moment is a manifestation of the blessed hope and conquest brought to mankind by the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Swayed by this auspicious moment, Straightnews newspapers (online and hard copy) joins Christians over the world to celebrate the altruistic love and exemplary sacrifice by Jesus to free man from oppressions. In the…

All progressives Congress media chiefs have thrown tantrums on the Nigerian writer, Chimamanda Adichie’s open letter to United States President Joe Biden not to accept the election results that produced Bola Tinubu, the APC presidential candidate, as the ‘winner.’ Festus Keyamo, spokesperson for the All Progressives Congress presidential campaign council, described Chimamanda Adichie’s letter as a reflection of colonial mentality. The award-winning novelist in the open letter published in The Atlantic said Tinubu’s victory was illegitimate as the process of the February 25 presidential election was not marred by technical faults as claimed by the INEC but a deliberate manipulation…

Following his appointment as Special Envoy for US Diplomacy (SED), former US President Barack Obama will resettle in Kenya for at least a year. The deployment was nominated by President Joe Biden, Obama’s Vice President between 2009 and 2016, and was confirmed by the US Senate. Obama expressed his gratitude, paying tribute to the land of his father and forefathers. He plans to set up an office outside Nairobi to better understand devolution and coordinate among counties before seeking an enhanced diplomatic partnership between Kenya and the US. While his stay was initially speculated to be in Siaya, Kajiado, Lamu,…

The Atlantic, a U.S.-based newspaper, Thursday published an open letter to President Joe Biden from the globally- acclaimed Nigerian writer, Chimamanda Adichie. In the letter, Nigeria’s Hollow Democracy, Adichie confronts the question of why Americans keep congratulating the winner of Nigeria’s election in February. Chimamanda Adichie’s full letter below: Dear President Biden, Something remarkable happened on the morning of February 25, the day of the Nigerian presidential election. Many Nigerians went out to vote holding in their hearts a new sense of trust. Cautious trust, but still trust. Since the end of military rule in 1999, Nigerians have had little…

The House of Representatives, on Thursday, agreed to probe the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited over the alleged diversion and conversion of N20 billion by its officials to payment of consultants. Despite the NNPCL denying the allegation earlier on Monday, the House has set up an ad-hoc committee to investigate the amount. The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), the state oil corporation was established on April 1, 1977. NNPC Ltd was incorporated in September 2021 further to the Petroleum Industry Act 2021 (the PIA) which provides for the incorporation by the Minister of Petroleum Resources of a limited liability company…

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has called for redistribution of N132 billion to ensure 90 per cent goes to the tertiary institutions. This came as Federal Government recently approved N320.3 billion 2023 intervention for public tertiary institutions in the country. ASUU had in October 2022, called off an eight-month strike after a series of negotiations with the Federal Government. Part of the lecturers’ demands is the release of revitalization funds for universities, renegotiation of the 2009 FGN/ASUU agreement, release of earned allowances for university lecturers, and deployment of the University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS). In an interview with…

The Federal High Court, Lagos has vacated an interim ex-parte order stopping Roger Brown from parading himself as the Chief Executive Officer of Seplat Energy Plc. Justice Chukwuejekwu Aneke vacated the order while ruling on the applications filed by Seplat Energy PLC, Roger Brown, Basil Omiyi and persons affected by the ex parte order in the case. The court held that by virtue of Order 26 Rules 9 and 10 of the Federal High Court Civil Procedure Rules, 2019, the interim orders of the court made on March 8, 2023, are hereby discharged and vacated. The Judge was to rule on…

Frank Lampard has accepted an offer to become Chelsea interim manager until the end of the 2022-23 English Premier League season. Lampard was manager of Chelsea for one-and-a-half years before he was sacked and replaced by Thomas Tuchel. The London club are currently without a permanent head coach after Graham Potter was sacked last Sunday after seven months in charge following a poor run of results. Also read: Chelsea to shell out £50m payout to sacked Potter On Thursday morning, Sky Sports reported Lampard and Chelsea have agreed a short-term deal that saw him returning to the club. Bruno Saltor, who…

The 25 richest people in the world are worth $2.1 trillion, according to Forbes’ World’s Billionaires list, released Tuesday, down a combined $200 billion from $2.3 trillion in 2022. Two-thirds of the top 25 are poorer than they were last year, compared to around half of the list overall. No one lost more than Jeff Bezos as Amazon shares crashed by 38 per cent. The drop lopped $57 billion from Bezos’ fortune and knocked him from No. 2 in the world in 2022 to No. 3 this year. This year’s second-biggest loser, Elon Musk, had it worse. He lost his title of…

A San Francisco jury has ordered Tesla to pay a American-African former employee nearly $3.2 million for racial discrimination. In October 2021, Tesla was ordered to pay Owen Diaz $137 million by a jury when the original trial ended in October 2021. A judge later reduced the amount in keeping with legal standards, but Diaz rejected the judge’s proffered damages amount in favor of a new trial. Diaz was an elevator operator at the electric vehicle-maker’s Fremont, California factory between June 2015 and July 2016, where he was subjected to racist abuse and a hostile work environment, according to the court…