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Good morning from MEZIESBLOG! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian newspapers: 1. Ministries, departments and agencies, MDAs, will today, Tuesday, begin the defence of their allocations in the 2025 budget estimates. According to the timeline of the budget process, the first set of MDAs will go before the Senate and the House of Representatives joint committees.…
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Barriers protecting pedestrians were removed before the New Orleans attack for repairs because they were deemed “unreliable”, city officials have said. Officials had hoped to replace the “non-operational” barriers with a new bollard design by February, when the city is scheduled to host the NFL’s Super Bowl. While the works were taking place, the barriers…
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Good afternoon from MEZIESBLOG! Here is today’s summary from global newspapers: 1. Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, has fired back at the former Governor of Rivers State, Dr Peter Odili, saying that “an elder statesman should not be a trader and a sycophant all the time.” Wike said he won’t be shocked…
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President Biden announced Monday that he had commuted the sentences of 37 of the 40 current federal death row inmates to life in prison without the possibility of parole. “These commutations are consistent with the moratorium my Administration has imposed on federal executions, in cases other than terrorism and hate-motivated mass murder,” Biden said in a statement. Consistent…
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China on Thursday (Dec 19) upheld the death sentence for a child trafficker whose crimes shocked the nation and traumatised dozens of victims. Yu Huaying, 60, separated at least 17 children from their parents and sold them to other families during the 1990s. She was first handed the death penalty last year but appealed her sentence, a…
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A Paris court on Thursday sentenced a brother of France midfielder Paul Pogba to a three-year prison term, with two years suspended, after convicting him in a high-profile extortion case. Mathias Pogba will be able to serve his one-year sentence with an electronic bracelet rather than behind bars. The court also fined Paul Pogba’s brother…
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A 57-year-old man, Alhaji Mohammed Samaila, has been killed by suspected armed robbers in Gaina village, Misau Local Government Area of Bauchi State. According to an eyewitness, the attackers stormed the victim’s home, robbed the family of an undisclosed sum of money, and shot him before fleeing the scene. The Spokesman of the Command, Ahmed…
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Good morning from MEZIESBLOG! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian newspapers: 1. The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria has sought a reduction in the price of petrol across the country. The group urged the Dangote refinery to consider reducing its ex-depot price from N970 per litre since the estimated cost of landing petrol on Nigeria’s…
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Strong person of interest’ Luigi Mangione taken into custody at Pennsylvania McDonald’s. Here’s what we know so far. At a press conference Monday afternoon in Manhattan, New York Mayor Eric Adams, New York Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch and NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny provided details about 26-year-old Luigi Mangione, who they described as a…
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President Bola Tinubu has vowed to ensure that “bad” Nigerians face the full wrath of the law. Tinubu warned that bad actors, whether within or outside Nigeria, would be brought to justice. The President, represented by the National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu, spoke at the graduation ceremony for the Executive Intelligence Management Course 17 at…
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Good morning from MEZIESBLOG! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian newspapers: 1. Senators will uphold the yearnings of Nigerians in their deliberations and passage of the Tax Reform Bill, Senate President Godswill Akpabio said on Thursday. He challenged governors, traditional rulers and other categories of Nigerians, who have misgivings to attend the public hearing to air…
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Muslim schoolgirl admits lying that her teacher was Islamophobic – which led to him being decapitated by a jihadist – because she was suspended for two days and worried her parents would be angry The Muslim schoolgirl who accused her teacher of Islamophobia and began rumours that led to a jihadist decapitating him in the street…
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Israel said Sunday that the body of an Israeli-Moldovan rabbi who went missing in the United Arab Emirates has been found after he was killed in what it described as a “heinous antisemitic terror incident.” The statement from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said Israel “will act with all means to seek justice with the criminals…
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Good morning from MEZIESBLOG! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian newspapers: 1. The Senate on Wednesday urged the Defence Headquarters, DHQ, to immediately halt the activities of the incursion of ISIS-backed terrorist group, Lukarawa in the Northern part of Kebbi and Sokoto states. The Red Chamber, after a debate on the activities of the terrorists, charged…
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A Thai woman believed to be among the worst serial killers in the kingdom’s history was convicted and sentenced to death Wednesday (Nov 20) for poisoning a friend with cyanide, in the first of her 14 murder trials. Sararat Rangsiwuthaporn, 36, an online gambling addict, is accused of swindling thousands of dollars from her victims…
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House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said he does not believe the House Ethics report on former Rep. Matt Gaetz should be released. Gaetz was nominated this week by President-elect Donald Trump for attorney general. He resigned from Congress following his nomination. Senators weighing whether to confirm Gaetz have said they want to see the report,…
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