January 13 2020 | Radio Biafra The leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has frowned at the just concluded election of the apex Igbo socio-cultural group, Ohanaeze Ndi-Igbo, describing the exercise as illegal. The IPOB leader pointed out that not all Igbos voted and unanimously chose Chief George Obiozor as the…
January 13 2020 | Radio Biafra When there is unity of purpose, focus and pursuit by like minds with similar cultural values and regional cohabitation, the uniqueness of the union is pronounced, positivity, development and general advancement testifying to it. It is a well-known fact that Nigeria was cooked up by Britain in…
October 24 2020 | Radio Biafra It is regrettably unfortunate that the Nigerian political class has shamelessly pitched its tent with hypocrisy and self-debasing rhetoric. The Rivers State Governor, Barrister Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, has bold-facedly proven to be one in the pack by publicly demonstrating his subservience to the Sokoto caliphate during his state-wide broadcast…
October 12 2020 | Radio Biafra In the year 1914, distinct ethnic nationalities with irreconcilable value systems, cultures and religious beliefs were forcefully brought together by the British colonialists for purely underlying selfish intentions. This is meant to economically impoverish the indigenous people groups even perpetually. Successive Nigerian governments with human face, have courageously…
Aisha Buhari, the wife of President Muhammadu Buhari, says “bad people” have taken over the country from people who are “supposed to be in charge”. In a TV programme Monitored by The Cable, Aisha said this on Thursday during a phone-in interview on Television Continental (TVC)’s ‘Journalists Hangout’ programme. She said it is…
A 10-Minute Trial, a Death Sentence: Iraqi Justice for ISIS Suspects Photo People fleeing clashes between Iraqi security forces and the Islamic State in Mosul last year. Iraq captured thousands of fighters, functionaries and their families in the battle with the Islamic State. Credit Ivor Prickett for The New York Times BAGHDAD — The 42-year-old housewife had two minutes to defend herself against charges of supporting the Islamic State.
Amina Hassan, a Turkish woman in a flowing black abaya, told the Iraqi judge that she and her family had entered Syria and Iraq illegally and lived in the Islamic State’s so-called caliphate for more than two years. But, she added: “I never took money from Islamic State. I brought my own money from Turkey.”
The whole trial lasted 10 minutes before the judge sentenced her to death by hanging.
Another accused Turkish woman entered the courtroom. Then another, and another.
Within two hours, 14 women had been tried, convicted and sentenced to die.
Iraq’s ju..
Far-right Israelis have tried to prevent thousands of Jews and Arabs from jointly attending an alternative memorial service in honor of fallen victims on both sides of the protracted Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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At least four people have been injured after a student armed with a knife stormed his school in the Republic of Bashkortostan in Russia’s Urals, and attempted to set it on fire, according to local media and officials.
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Fight Over Values Risks a ‘European Civil War,’ Macron Says Photo President Emmanuel Macron of France told the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Tuesday that Europeans must turn away from “selfish nationalism.” Credit Vincent Kessler/Reuters BRUSSELS — Emmanuel Macron, who beat back the far-right National Front to win the French presidency, said on Tuesday that there was “an increasing fascination with illiberalism” in Europe and that divisions over values within the European Union were like “a European civil war.”
Speaking after the re-election this month in Hungary of Viktor Orban, the professed champion of “illiberal democracy,” and moves against the judiciary in Poland, Mr. Macron said that Europe was in a battle between the liberal democracy that shaped its postwar vision and a new populist authoritarianism that brushes aside dissents and cares little about the rule of law.
Europeans must turn away from “selfish nationalism,” he told the European Parliament in Strasbourg, Franc..
It’s that time of year that all Americans love: tax day. Fortunately, for some of those who have procrastinated all year and waited until the last moment to file their returns, the IRS payment website is down.
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