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50% Banjul households yet to receive Gov’t food aid as promised
Eid-ul-Fitr has been commented in Banjul without the government food aid reaching many inhabitants of the city, The Standard has been reliably told.
‘Already, the government’s food aid distribution has started in the various wards of the city but The Standard was on Monday informed that only half of the nearly 5000 projected households in the capital have benefited from the state’s emergency support.’
In Standard’s interview with Banjul City Council Spokesperson Momodou Lamin Bah make known that government had given the council 2822 food coupons, 50 of which were double prints. He said the town-hall had, as a to be measure, sought for 5000 coupons.
“As a result, only 50 % of the households in Banjul will benefit because the total number of households [in Banjul] from our data is 4900 but this can go up to 5000,” he added.
When made know to him that the food aid from government has generated a lot of complaints from residents in Banjul , the BCC spokesman explained:“People are complaining and they could not understand why others were given and others left out. This is the reason we launched the Banjul Relief Initiative to fill in the gap to complement the efforts of the government.”
He said the country now needs relevant strives on the humanitarian chaos at hand rather than thoughts that could obstruct the collective efforts to tackle its consequences on the people.
Source___Standard Newspaper
Police Crowd Hong Kong As Lawmakers Compose Their Debate Insult Ban
‘Hong Kong police ramped up security around the city’s legislature on Wednesday ahead of a debate over a law that would ban insulting China’s national anthem, the latest measure activists say is chipping away at free speech in the finance hub.’
The debate comes days after China make known their separate plans to put forward a sweeping national security law on Hong Kong following last year’s huge and often violent pro-democracy meetings.
That move has caused Washington to alert that Hong Kong might lose its standing as a global financial focal point if the city’s freedoms and acclaimed judicial independence are swept aside by Beijing.
Under a protocol acceded with Britain before the city’s return to China, Hong Kong is assumed to be guaranteed certain freedoms until 2047 that are rejected of those on the mainland.
*A police source told AFP that “thousands” of officers had been placed on standby ready to respond to any attempts to block traffic outside the legislature or breach the building.*
Hong Kong’s government is pushing a bill that will prohibit insulting communist China’s “March of the Volunteers” anthem, making it punishable by up to three years in jail which will be strictly embedded in their constitution.
‘Some unions and student groups made calls for a general strike for Wednesday but it was unclear whether crowds would materialise.’
Source___Channels TV
‘Buhari Will Never Cede To Anyone Else’ – Presidency Faults Kyari Report
Nigeria Presidency says there is no bit of truth in the proclamations that President Muhammadu Buhari has up-down about 115 letters and put back some appointments made by the late Chief of Staff, Mallam Abba Kyari.
In a series of tweets on his official handle late Tuesday, Presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu, said there is not a bit of truth in these reports and wants Nigerians to not pay attention to the lies behind them.
On Sunday, the Guardian Newspaper had published a report claiming that President Buhari may have told his new Chief of Staff, Professor Ibrahim Gambari to put an hold to all appointments and approvals made by Kyari without his permission.
“The attention of the Presidency has been drawn to media reports alleging that President Muhammadu Buhari has cancelled a number of memos and appointments signed off by his former Chief of Staff,” Shehu said on Tuesday. “Not surprisingly, these reports have quoted unnamed sources.”
“There is not a grain of truth in these reports and Nigerians should please ignore the insinuations behind them.
“President Buhari was duly re-elected by Nigerians in February 2019. He has not and will never cede to anyone else, that power and trust given to him by the Nigerian people.”
Source___Channels TV
Saudia Arabia to partially soothe coronavirus lockdown this weekend
This weekend, Saudia Arabia will take an important step towards soothing its coronavirus-incited lockdown. Not only will mosques soon open on a restricted basis, but its public sector employees will also resume to work.
Saudi public sector employees will start resuming to work moderately as of Sunday, May 31, after more than two months of deferment amid strict measures to help tackle the novel coronavirus escalation.
Public sector workers will eventually return work as normal as of June 14, Minister of Human Resources Ahmed al-Rajhi said in a televised speech on Tuesday.
On March 16, Saudi Arabia postponed work in all government sectors leaving out only health and security as part of the efforts to contain the pandemic.
The government said on Monday that it would begin alleviating limitations on movement and travel this week.
Limitations will be put forward in three phases, peaking in the curfew completely ending from June 21, except for the holy city of Mecca, the state news agency confirmed.
Saudi Arabia will also allow mosques to open for Friday prayers, state TV confirmed on Tuesday, as the kingdom eases limitations on movement to tackle the escalation of the coronavirus.
Source___Aljazeera
Black man dies after US police press him to ground
A Black man who yelled “I cannot breathe” as a white Minneapolis police officer pressed him hard down with his knee in the US state of Minnesota died late on Monday, police reported, putting forward the unjust from community members and leaders, and leading to the officers’ discontinuance.
Video of the occurrence shows the police officer pressing down George Floyd, believed to be in his 40s, to the pavement with his knee on the man’s neck for several minutes.
Floyd was known by prominent civil rights lawyer Ben Crump, who said he had been keep back by the Floyd family.
Floyd can be heard saying in the leaked video: “Please, please, I cannot breathe.”
The officer tells Floyd to “relax”.
Floyd responds: “I can’t breathe. Please, the knee in my neck.”
*The officer continues to hold down Floyd with his knee for several minutes, with Floyd pleading and asking for water.*
“My stomach hurts. My neck hurts. Please, please. I can’t breathe,” Floyd cries out, while moaning and trying to cough.
Floyd eventually appears motionless under the officer’s knee.
Those who were watching the occurrence unfold can be heard begging police to move off Floyd.
“He’s not f****** moving,” an onlooker can be heard saying. “Get off of his f****** neck.”
It is not clear what happened before and after the video was taken from the incident.
The city’s mayor, Jacob Frey, confirmed that the officers had been terminated, saying “this is the right decision for our city”.
Many are still complaining about black life and how they been maltreated all in the name of racism.
Source___Aljazeera
Crops ruined as India faces oweful locust strike in 27 years’
Huge flocks of desert locusts are ruining crops across western and central India, pushing authorities to step up their response to the country’s woeful plague in nearly three decades.
‘Drones, tractors and cars have been sent out to track the voracious pests and spray them with pesticides. The locusts have already destroyed nearly 50,000 hectares (125,000 acres) of cropland.’
“Eight to 10 swarms, each measuring around a square kilometre (0.39sq miles) are active in parts of Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh [states],” the government’s Locust Warning Organisation’s deputy director KL Gurjar told the AFP news agency.
*India has not seen locust swarms on this scale since 1993, the warning centre said.*
The insects have lead a lot of damages to the seasonal crops in both the states, ruining many farmers already struggling with the impact of a strike coronavirus lockdown.
They destroyed harvests in the agricultural heartlands of neighbouring Pakistan in April, before entering Rajasthan.
Smaller swarms are also active in a handful of states across India, Gurjar said.
*A swarm of 40 million locusts can eat as much food as 35,000 people, or six elephants, according to the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organisation._
Residential areas in Rajasthan state’s capital Jaipur were engulfed by the insects as baffled locals banged on pots and pans to try and get rid of the insects.
Source___AljaZeera
‘China says it has a ‘zero-tolerance policy’ for racism, but discrimination towards Africans goes back decades’
A black version of the Chinese flag is flowing across African Twitter earlier this month, as users put forward their objectification to express their annoyance at the government of China.
They were disheartened not only by escalation reports of coronavirus-related discrimination against Africans in China, but also by claims on Chinese state media that the allegations were “groundless rumors.”
Posting under the hashtag #BlackChina, Dennis Kiplomo, a nurse from Kenya, tweeted: “We expect the kind of hospitality we give to Chinese here in Africa, be reciprocated in their home country.”
Another user in Kenya, Peter Kariuk, wrote: “We need a united Africa which will not be slaves of #BlackChina.”
*The southern Chinese city of Guangzhou has Asia’s largest African population. While the exact number of Africans living in Guangzhou is unknown, in 2017 more than 320,000 Africans entered or left China through the city, according to state news agency Xinhua.*
Last month, many Africans were thread to forced coronavirus testing and arbitrary 14-day self-quarantine, in any case of their recent travel history, and many were left homeless after being thrown out by landlords and rejected by hotels under the guise of various virus restraining measures.
Yet China’s official response stopped short of acknowledging that the discrimination took place — or apologizing for it.
Credit___CNN
Republican National Convention: Trump alarms to move event from North Carolina
US President Donald Trump has alarmed to move the Republican National Convention if limitations are placed on the number of people attending due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The event is due to take place in North Carolina from 24-27 August 2020.
On Monday, nonetheless, Mr Trump said he would move the site of the convention if “full attendance” is not promised.
Almost 100,000 people have died with coronavirus in the US. Many states have put forward measures to stop its escalation.
In a number of tweets posted early on Monday, Mr Trump said that North Carolina’s Democrat Governor Roy Cooper was “still in shutdown mood” and was “unable to guarantee” that the event would take place at full capacity in Charlotte as originally planned.
“In other words, we would be spending millions of dollars building the arena to a very high standard without even knowing if the Democrat governor would allow the Republican party to fully occupy the space,” said Mr Trump.
‘Republicans planning to attend the convention “must be immediately given an answer by the governor as to whether or not the space will be allowed to be fully occupied”, the president said, otherwise another site would be selected.’
A spokesman for Governor Cooper said North Carolina was “relying on data and science to protect our state’s public health and safety”.
Mr Trump is hunting for a second term in office and there are no other Republicans stationing.
The Democrats shifted their convention back a month to mid-August because the coronavirus pandemic.
Source___BBC News
Police Kill Eight ‘Most Itch For’ Kidnappers In Taraba
Operatives of the Nigerian Police in Taraba state have killed eight prominent kidnappers who have been on their search lists for months.
‘The hoodlums were killed in Bali local government area of the state after reliable intelligence gathering that the miscreants were set to kidnap some residents of the local government area.’
This was disclosed by the state’s police public relations officer, David Misal when he bring forward the remains of the eight kidnappers on Friday.
As said by Misal, on sighting operatives of the Nigerian police, the kidnappers make a shot and a gun duel ensued which led to their deaths and recovery of army camouflage, arms, and ammunition.
Misal gives a warning to criminal elements to surrender or abstain from their criminal acts or face the full pique of the law.
Source___Channels TV
NSCDC Takes into Custody a Man In Ondo For Reportedly Sleeping with His Two Little Daughters
A middle-aged man named, Femi Onifade has been taken into custody in Akure, the Ondo State capital by officials of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) for reportedly sleeping with his two little daughters.
The Commandant of the NSCDC in Ondo State, Mr Philip Ayuba, made this known in a statement signed by the command’s public relations officer, Mr Olufemi Omole.
‘He said that Onifade, 48, a welder defiled his two daughters, aged six and nine years.’
The NSCDC boss noted that the suspect who is a resident of No. 27 Liberty Hospital Road, Oluwatuyi, Akure when they were made aware of the crime.
Ayuba said the arrest was put forward by the assistance of paramount ruler of Akure kingdom, the Deji of Akure, Oba Aladetoyinbo Aladelusi.
The Statement reads: “During initial interrogations, the suspect denied the allegations.
“However, we gathered that there had been a long-term disagreement between the man and his wife as a result of constant molestation and maltreatment.”
“Onifade Femi always seized the opportunity of his wife’s absence to harass the minors sexually.
“It was revealed that few days ago, the suspect bought a bottle of soft drink, mixed a powdery substance in it and gave the kids to drink.
“Onifade Femi went further to caress the kids and suck their private parts.”
“Neighbours reacted on hearing the wailing of the children throughout the night after sending out their mother.”
According to Ayuba, medical reports from the Federal Medical Centre, Akure disclosed that the two kids have lost their hymen and their private parts deeply opened.
Ayuba make known that the suspect would be charged to court very soon.
Source___Channels TV
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