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Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt, Thursday, halted execution of death-row inmate, Julius Jones, hours before he was scheduled to die for a 22-year-old murder. The governor’s 11-hour reprieve followed the clemency recommendation of the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board, which voted 3-1 on November 1 that Jones’ sentence be commuted to life in prison. “After prayerful consideration and reviewing materials presented by all sides of this case, I have determined to commute Julius Jones’ sentence to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole,” Stitt said in a statement. The commutation was filed just over four hours before Jones was to die…

The recently submitted Lagos State EndSARS Judicial Panel Reports on police brutality has rattled the Federal including many state governments in the country. Consequently, President Muhammadu Buhari has shifted the burden of making the formal pronouncements to the state governments which set up panels to probe police brutality in the country. Buhari who said this on Thursday at State House, Abuja, while receiving in audience the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken said thereafter the Federal Government would take action on the matter. Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina,  stated this in a statement titled…

After five years of dispute, the twins – Peter and Paul Okoye of the defunct musical group P-Square have finally sheathed their swords. Rumours about their reunion started spreading earlier in the week when the duo, including their older brother Jude following one another back on Instagram. On the eve of their 40th birthday, a video of the two hugging each other went viral, confirming indeed that the brothers are back together. Fans greeted the news of their reunion with cheers as many have waited so long to see the twins reconcile and bring back the musical flavour that made…

The self-described “QAnon Shaman”, Jacob Chansley, who infamously marched through the U.S. Capitol with a spear and horned helmet during the Jan. 6 riot, was sentenced Wednesday to 41 months in prison for his role in the attack. Prosecutors had asked U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth to impose a longer 51-month sentence on Jacob Chansley, who pleaded guilty in September to obstructing an official proceeding when he and thousands of others stormed the building to try to stop Congress from certifying President Joe Biden’s election. At the hearing on Wednesday, November 17 in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., Judge…

Bulgaria will decide the runoff election of its Head of State on Sunday, the country’s Election Commission said on its website on Wednesday. According to the final results of the first round on November 14, Bulgaria’s incumbent President, Rumen Radev got 49.42 per cent of the votes and will head to a runoff with Anastas Gerdjikov who received 22.83 per cent. Radev and Gerdjikov were the top two candidates among the 23 contenders. The total number of eligible voters was 6,691,150 but only 2,687,307 cast their ballots, the commission said. It stated that no president was elected because fewer than…

Despite the existence of the Niger Delta Development Commission, the House of Representatives, Wednesday, passed a bill to create a South-South Development Commission which underwent a third reading. The House had earlier on Tuesday considered and adopted the report by the Committee on Justice on the bill. The legislation is titled, ‘A Bill for an Act to Establish South-South Development Commission charged with Responsibility to Receive and Manage Funds from the Federation Account Allocation and Other Sources, Donations, Grants and Aids for the Integration, Development, Resolution of Infrastructural Deficit, Militancy, Communal Crisis as Well as Tackle Ecological and Environmental Problems;…

The Federal Ministry of Finance and National Planning will commence the disbursement of funds to universities on Thursday, the Minister of Labour and Productivity, Chris Ngige, has assured. Ngige said the government is certain that the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) will not embark on the planned strike. He stated this when he appeared on “Politics Today,” a political programme on Channels Television on Tuesday. Victor Osodeke, the President of ASUU, on Monday, said the union will embark on another industrial action if the government continued to renege on the 2020 agreement. The union had accused the federal government…

Popular Nigerian singer, David Adeleke, popularly known as Davido, has received more than N53 million in cash transfers in less than one hour after asking colleagues for N1 million. Fans and followers thought the Multiple award-winning songwriter was joking when he posted a video on his Instagram Story calling on those he had helped in the music industry to send him a million naira. The “Jowo” singer urged persons who have enjoyed his song(s) at any point to join the movement, adding all and sundry should feel privileged to send him money. Davido said, “We rise by lifting others abi? Me…

Paul Okoye took to his Instastories this afternoon to wish his twin brother, Peter Okoye, and his wife, Lola, a happy 8th wedding anniversary. This came days after Peter took Paul’s children shopping in the US, and the brothers including Jude Okoye followed each other back on Instagram. Recall few years back numerous media outlets reported that the group disbanded. Reports about a breakup surfaced after Peter reportedly sent a termination letter to the group’s lawyer. Prior to this report, the duo disbanded in 2016, supposedly over a disagreement about the role of their manager. However, Anita Okoye, the wife of…

The U.S. and China have agreed to ease Donald Trump-era visa restrictions for journalists on a reciprocal basis, following a series of expulsions by both governments during heightened tensions last year, a State Department spokesperson has revealed. The agreement was reached during US President Joe Biden’s virtual meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, on Tuesday, November 16, according to Chinese state media. Analysts say it is a significant breakthrough in a dispute that had played a prominent role in the overall increase of tensions between Washington and Beijing toward the end of the Trump administration. “In recent months, we have…