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 The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has called on the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Saudi Arabia, and different members of the global communities to straight away impose visa ban on President Muhammadu Buhari and participants of his cabinet concerned in the current suspension of the microblogging site, Twitter, in the country. The main opposition party premised its demand on what it referred to as “the violation of United Nations International Charter on Human Rights by President Muhammadu Buhari by banning the use of Twitter in Nigeria.” In a assertion issued through its spokesman, Kola Ologbondiyan, the PDP insisted that banning Twitter in Nigeria “is a clear violation of Article 19 of the UN Charter as well as section 39 of the 1999 Constitution (as amended), which assured freedom of expression to all Nigerians.” The party also urged the world bodies to sanction Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, the Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami

  The joint minority caucus of the Senate and the House of Representatives has called on Nigerians to bypass the ban placed by the Federal Government on Twitter and proceed to use the social media platform. The National Assembly caucus, which described the ban as draconian, decried that many Nigerians are dropping their sources of livelihood to the action. The Minority Leader of the Senate, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe; and Minority Leader of the House, Ndudi Elumelu, mentioned this in a declaration issued on Wednesday, titled ‘NASS Joint Minority Caucus Asks Nigerians to Continue Using Twitter.’ According to the statement, the joint caucus met over the ban through the All Progressives Congress authorities and “restates its condemnation of the embargo as draconian and unacceptable.” The opposition lawmakers additionally pushed aside threats with the aid of the government to arrest and prosecute Nigerians for the use of twitter, calling on Nigerians to “go beforehand and use their Twitter

  The United States of America has once more advised the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to rethink and rescind the Twitter ban in Nigeria. This message was once conveyed by a pinnacle American official and senior diplomat, who is the present day administrator of the US Agency for International Development, Samantha Power. Power, in a tweet on her demonstrated deal with on Wednesday, wrote, “There are almost forty million Twitter customers in #Nigeria, and the united states is domestic to Africa’s greatest tech hub. “This suspension is nothing extra than state-sanctioned denial of free speech and need to be reversed immediately. #KeepItOn.” Recall that the Federal Government via the workplace of the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, had banned Twitter. Much later, the Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, had criminalised every body getting access to the microblogging website online via any different means, even although he logged on t

  Nigeria’s media and activists worry of their country is slipping into repression after the authorities suspended Twitter in Africa’s most populous nation, where hyper-connected youth embraced the platform as a skill of protest. The choice on Friday, days after Twitter deleted a statement from President Muhammadu Buhari, has already provoked worldwide outcry over freedom of expression and calls for protests on line and on the street. “It is very essential we push lower back and fast, due to the fact they may want to go further,” stated a social media govt at a principal TV station who requested to stay anonymous. More than a hundred and twenty million Nigerians have get admission to to the internet, and almost forty million of them have a Twitter account — 20 percentage of the population, in accordance to Lagos-based researcher NOI Polls. France, with the aid of comparison, has solely eight million Twitter users. Nigeria’s numbers are defined in section by means of its massive and you

  A year after he was killed, the family of Alexander Kareem, the late brother of reality TV megastar Khafi Kareem are appealing for clean facts on their son’s killers. “We would do whatever to have our Alexander back, and so would the neighborhood that he was such a large part of,” the family stated in a statement on Metropolitan Police website. “In what has been an unbelievably difficult year for us as a family, the hardest part of all is that this story has not ended. “We proceed to urge anyone who is aware of what took place that night to call the police, or call Crime stoppers totally anonymously. We trust that someone inside this neighborhood is aware of what has happened, please assist us.” “This year was going to be his “his year”, a entire year of milestones he was so excited about. Kareem was fatally shot in Askew Road, Shepherd’s Bush on Monday, eight June 2020. He had been riding an e-scooter alongside Askew Road to a friend’s house. According to Met Police, it is believed

  Byron Buxton began a rehab venture in St. Paul on Tuesday and this ought to be the start of the most essential 4 months in Buxton's 10 seasons in seasoned ball. The St. Paul Saints have been enjoying the thirteenth domestic recreation of this delayed season. The first night time with no limits on attendance due to the fact of COVID restrictions Tuesday additionally coincided with the first event for enormous exhilaration given the Saints' new repute as the Twins' Class AAA farm club. The St. Paul Saints have been enjoying the thirteenth domestic recreation of this delayed season. The first night time with no limits on attendance due to the fact of COVID restrictions Tuesday additionally coincided with the first event for extensive exhilaration given the Saints' new popularity as the Twins' Class AAA farm club. In the third, he was once going through Domingo Tapia, every other big-league pitcher until now this season and credited with a 101-mph fastball by way of t

  Joe Biden is making Europe the first overseas vacation spot of his presidency, attending a sequence of summits with the G7, European Union and Nato, to attempt to reassure European companions of his support, before meeting in Geneva with Russian President Vladimir Putin. "This time out is about realising America’s renewed dedication to our allies and partners, and demonstrating the capability of democracies to each meet the challenges and deter the threats of this new age,” Biden wrote in The Washington Post ahead of his trip. Biden is casting his first outing to Europe as president as a return to badly-needed US leadership, reassuring Europeans that the US can be counted on as a companion to face Russian aggression on its bodily borders and online. “We are standing united to tackle Russia’s challenges to European security, beginning with its aggression in Ukraine, and there will be no doubt about the unravel of the United States to protect our democratic values, which we can

  The Biden administration stated Wednesday it will buy 1.7 million publications of an investigational COVID-19 drug from pharmaceutical large Merck that is taken orally and designed to forestall the virus from replicating in the body. The Food and Drug Administration have to approve molnupiravir (MK-4482) for emergency use earlier than it can be wielded towards the pandemic. Once granted, the drug will be allotted to states and territories so hospitals and clinics can order it from their nearest distributor. A therapy in capsule shape would be a huge bounce ahead in the battle in opposition to the coronavirus. Almost half of the U.S. hasn’t obtained any doses of a COVID-19 vaccine, so the virus might also nevertheless afflict individuals for months to come. Also, the vaccines are fine at stopping sickness however no longer one hundred percent perfect. Merck developed the antiviral cure with Ridgeback Biotherapeutics. The tablet induces viral genome mistakes that make it tough for the

  Minneapolis town crews back to George Floyd Square early Tuesday to remove makeshift obstacles blockading streets, the 2nd strive in less than a week to open the intersection of thirty eighth Street and Chicago Avenue to traffic. Crews moved in with front-end loaders and brooms simply earlier than 5 a.m. to go "debris and trash piles" out of the way, stated metropolis representatives. They had been on scene for about 1/2 an hour. The employees did now not disturb the pop-up gardens and memorial artifacts scattered at some stage in the intersection. As of noon, three aspects of the rectangular have been typically reopened, with the exception of the giant fist sculptures standing in the center of the street, a few motors wedged horizontally and small site visitors symptoms repurposed as roadblocks. Members of the Agape Movement, a neighborhood crew employed by means of the town to supply safety in lieu of police, and protest organizers argued over the wood pallets and concret

  Authorities are looking out for a suspected hit-and-run driver who killed three teenagers and severely injured a fourth as they walked alongside a Southern California desolate tract highway. The 4 young girls — two of them in wheelchairs, which includes the lone survivor of the collision — have been struck rapidly earlier than 10:30 p.m. Saturday as they walked on Camp Rock Road and had been struck by a white Chevrolet Silverado that drifted onto the shoulder of the street and struck them from behind, the California Highway Patrol said. The crash took place on a stretch of road in the Mojave Desert neighborhood in San Bernardino County. Three of the women — Willow Sanchez, 11; Daytona Bronas, 12; and Sandra Mizer, thirteen — died at the scene. The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department Coroner’s Division launched their names Monday morning. “My baby’s gone. I can’t have her no more,” Sandra’s grandmother, Tammy Midkiff, informed KNBC-TV.

  The UK’s vaccination programme has damaged the link between infections, clinic admissions and deaths, and hospitals have been reporting fewer and younger patients, in accordance to a senior boss in the NHS. The NHS Providers chief executive, Chris Hopson, advised Times Radio: “What [hospital] chief executives are constantly telling us is that it is a a whole lot younger populace that is coming in, they are much less clinically vulnerable, they are much less in want of crucial care and consequently they’re seeing what they accept as true with is extensively decrease mortality fee which is, you know, borne out with the aid of the figures. So it’s no longer simply the numbers of humans who are coming in, it’s simply the degree of damage and scientific risk. “It’s necessary no longer to simply focal point on the uncooked numbers right here … you additionally do want to seem at who’s being admitted into health facility and how clinically susceptible and what degree of acuity they’ve got,”

       LORD FROST will inform the EU it have to exhibit "urgent pragmatism" on Brexit when he co-chairs the first assembly of the UK-EU joint committee on Wednesday. The Brexit minister will welcome the European Commission Vice President Maroš Šefčovič in London for face-to-face talks amid a breakdown in have confidence between the two sides. Frictions over the implementation of Brexit have strained relations between London and Brussels with each facets accusing the different of failing to stay up to its commitments. Problems brought on with the aid of the Northern Ireland Protocol due to the fact that the begin of the 12 months will dominate the talks with Lord Frost calling on the EU to locate "common experience solutions". Bureaucratic bureaucracy is required on items getting into the province from Britain, inflicting troubles for neighborhood organizations and angering Unionists. Ministers have stated the Protocol is "unsustainable" in its present day

  The government was accused of a U-turn over overseas vacation trips the previous day after people had been advised to stay in Britain instead of travelling abroad. George Eustice, the environment secretary, stated that Britons have to “holiday at home” due to the fact of the danger posed with the aid of coronavirus variants. He stated that the government had meant to add nations to its quarantine-free tour “green list”, permitting vacation trips abroad, however that this was “not the situation” any longer due to the fact of the spread of the Indian variant. “My recommendation to people would be vacation at home,” he said. “We’ve received some gorgeous locations here.” Matt Hancock, the health secretary, stated on Monday that reopening global travel would be “challenging”.

  Andrew Lloyd Webber has pledged to reopen his theatres barring social distancing later this month “come hell or excessive water” – and is prepared to be arrested for it. Lord Lloyd-Webber stated his theatres have been suffering “acute economic stress” that could solely be alleviated through completely reopening, which he was inclined to do even if the Government delayed ending Covid-19 restrictions. He additionally stated he may have to promote his six West End venues; had remortgaged his London home; and claimed he had viewed scientific proof that coronavirus was not spread in theatres. Cinderella, Lord Lloyd-Webber’s first new musical in six years, is reliant on selling tickets for all seats to recoup its £6 million funding when previews commence on June 25, in advance of its world premiere three weeks later. Lord Lloyd-Webber’s defiant stance places him on a doable collision course with Boris Johnson, who is under stress from scientists and senior ministers to withstand getting ri

  An 88-year-old farmer has been charged with murdering his spouse whose remains were discovered in a septic tank 37 years after she went missing in 1982. The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) stated David Venables is accused of killing Brenda Venables, 48, who was reported missing from the couple's then home at Bestmans Lane in Kempsey. West Mercia Police launched a homicide investigation after the grim discover at the address in the Worcestershire village on July 12, 2019. Mark Paul, head of the CPS' complicated casework unit, said: 'The choice to authorise the charge in opposition to the defendant was made after cautious consideration of all the handy proof of this complicated case and identifying that a prosecution is required in the public interest. 'The alleged offences took place between May 2 1982 and May 5 1982. 'The feature of the CPS is not to figure out whether an individual is responsible of a crook offence, however to make fair, unbiased and objective as