PREMIUM TIMES: George Floyd: Biden, Obama, Boris Johnson praise Dereck Chauvin’s guilty sentence
United States President Joe Biden has praised the verdict that sentenced Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd.
Premium Times earlier reported that former Minneapolis Police officer, Mr Chauvin, was found guilty of murder and manslaughter in the death of Mr Floyd.
Mr Floyd’s death in May 2020 stirred worldwide protests against racism and police brutality after a video showed Mr Chauvin pinning Mr Floyd’s neck to the ground for minutes with his knee.
VANGUARD: Between a wailing Godwin
Obaseki and a hailing Zainab Ahmed
ONE of the less aggravating things that happened last week, something that offered diversion if not comic relief from the now-humdrum news of mass abductions and murders whose economic dimension is often occluded by their bestial details, was the spat between two unlikely adversaries: the Edo State governor, Godwin Obaseki, and the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed.
It followed the release of an apparently private recording of the governor, lamenting the state of the Nigerian economy. In this age of social media and secret devices hardly anything is considered private. Not a locker room, or more precisely, beer parlour talk. Otherwise, Obaseki would probably have kept his musing to himself, or at least within the close circle of his associates.
In the leaked footage, he condemned the country’s fixation on crude oil, a wasting and fast depleting resource, as the main revenue earner at a time many countries are switching to more environmentally-friendly means of energy. The culture of over-dependence on the centre that sees state governors go, bowl in hand, to Abuja for their monthly allocation, a beggarly handout that discourages self-reliance and economic discipline and creativity, also came under Obaseki’s attack.
PUNCH: IPOB/MASSOB members’ asylum: FG
may summon British envoy, Ohanaeze, Afenifere
The Federal Government on Tuesday expressed anger over a plan by the United Kingdom to offer asylum to “persecuted” members of the Indigenous People of Biafra and the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra.
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja, said the plan was disrespectful to Nigeria as a nation.
Mohammed stated this as there were indications on Tuesday that the Federal Government might summon the British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Catriona Laing, over the asylum offer.
CHANNELS: FG EXPRESSES ‘GREAT CONCERNS’
OVER HAPPENINGS IN CHAD AFTER DEBY’S DEATH
Nigeria’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama made the call on Wednesday, asking the interim leadership of Chad and other stakeholders in the Central African nation to ensure the country does not slump into chaos.
“An early return to democratic governance in Chad should be the ultimate goal but the immediate objective is the stabilisation of Chad as well as the regions of ECCAS, ECOWAS and the Sahel,” the minister added in a statement captioned “Official Statement Of The Federal Republic Of Nigeria On The Developments In Chad.’
PREMIUM TIMES:Umahi orders vigilantes to
enforce ban on open grazing in Ebonyi
Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State has ordered vigilantes and the local government areas leadership to immediately enforce the ban on open grazing across the state.
Mr Umahi gave the order in Abakaliki while briefing reporters at the end of the state security council meeting attended by heads of security agencies and council chairmen.
The governor said that though there was no herder presently in the state, the ban on open grazing should be seriously enforced.
CHANNELS: BLACK TEENAGER SHOT DEAD BY US
POLICE IN OHIO, HOURS AFTER CHAUVIN WAS CONVICTED
Police in the US state of Ohio fatally shot a Black teenager who appeared to be lunging at another person with a knife, less than an hour before former officer Derek Chauvin was convicted of murdering George Floyd.
The shooting occurred at a tense time with growing outrage against racial injustice and police brutality in the United States, and set off protests in the city of Columbus.
The city’s police chief Michael Woods said officers were responding to a 911 emergency call about a disturbance Tuesday afternoon from someone who feared being stabbed, around 4:30 pm local time (2030 GMT).
PUNCH: Idriss Deby’s son named Chad president
A son of Chad’s slain leader Idriss Deby Itno is to take over as president in place of his father, according to a charter released Wednesday by the presidency.
It said General Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno, 37, who on Tuesday was named transitional leader as head of a military council following his father’s death, will “occupy the functions of the president of the republic” and also serve as head of the armed forces.
PREMIUM TIMES: MMA personnel return missing N2.3m to elated passenger – Official
An Uyo-bound passenger on Ibom Airline, George Etuk has commended the Aviation Security (AVSEC) personnel at the Murtala Muhammed Airport Terminal two (MMA2), operated by Bi-Courtney Aviation Services Limited (BASL) after receiving his lost baggage containing the sum of N2.3 million and other vital documents.
The incident, according to BASL AVSEC Manager, Olatubosun Okeowo, occurred at about 1715hrs recently while the passenger who just returned from the United States of America was at the terminal to link up with an Uyo-bound airline.
It was gathered that the passenger was at the Ibom Airline Check-in counter alongside other intending passengers and “along the line he got carried away and lost concentration on his bag”.
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