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11/11/2023
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✨ GLOBAL NEWS HERALD ✨RIVERS CRISIS: FUBARA LAUDS TINUBU'S INTERVENTION, APOLOGIZESRivers State governor, Sir. Siminalay...
05/11/2023

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RIVERS CRISIS: FUBARA LAUDS TINUBU'S INTERVENTION, APOLOGIZES

Rivers State governor, Sir. Siminalayi Fubara, has hailed President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s intervention in the political crisis that rocked the state last week saying it led to quick resolution of the matter.

Fubara in a statement he personally signed at the weekend titled, ‘Peace is Priceless’, described Tinubu’s role in the dispute as fatherly.

He said: “I wish to thank the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, His Excellency Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, for his fatherly intervention which opened a series of communication channels to facilitate the timely resolution of the festering crisis. I wish to also thank our elders, who are currently intervening in the matter.”

Fubara, who described himself as a man of peace, said his roles in all the events were designed to ensure the stability and progress of the state.

Narrating the events, he said: “I consider it necessary to issue this press statement on the developments of the past few days in our dear state.

“Late on Sunday night, 29th October 2023, I was inundated with reports that the hallowed chamber of the Rivers State House of Assembly had been gutted by fire. The blaze was successfully put out by the fire service after which security agencies took control of the situation.

“My visit to the Assembly complex on Monday, 30th October 2023, was to assess the level of damage and undertake remedial measures to protect lives and property within the Assembly complex. I charged the security agencies to thoroughly investigate the incident and report to me.

“Shortly after, I got reports that the State House of Assembly had broken into two factions: one claiming to have impeached and suspended the house leader and three others preparatory to initiating an impeachment action against me, and the other rival faction impeaching the speaker and deputy speaker, thus sparking off some form of political crisis.

“Let me clearly state that my actions are aimed at restoring peace and stability in our state. I am a man of peace irrespective the demise of my son that still remain a mystery but a secret I hold dearly, and as governor, the advancement of our state is my primary concern. Consequently, no sacrifice is too much for me to make to achieve this objective.”

The governor said it remained the collective responsibility of the Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Chief Nyesom Wike and himself to leverage their positions to advance the progress of the state.

He said: “Furthermore, it is the collective responsibility of the immediate past Governor and Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, His Excellency, Chief Barrister, Ezenwo Nyesom Wike, GSSRS, Life Bencher and my humble self, to leverage our positions and influences within and outside the state to advance the progress, security and well-being of our people.

“We must therefore not allow circumstances that could re**rd all efforts at achieving greatness for our people to prevail. On my part, I am always willing and ready to embrace the path to lasting peace and tranquility with a commitment to consummating all efforts and initiatives by Mr. President and other well-meaning Nigerians, including my brother governors and the elders.

Fubara apologised to Rivers people over the tension that gripped the state describing it as regrettable.

He said: “I assure the good people and youths of Rivers State, that peace will certainly prevail and we shall continue to work together to advance the peace, security, progress and development of our state.

“As governor, I sincerely apologise to the good people of Rivers State for the regrettable anxieties of the last few days, while thanking you all for your concerns, and continued support, love, and prayers”.

Meanwhile, the leaders of the Niger Delta paid a solidarity visit to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike for further reconciliations between him and Governor Fubara.

A statement by Dr Kingsley Kuku yesterday, said the Niger Delta leaders paid the visit to convey the region’s appreciation to President Bola Tinubu for including Wike in his cabinet and to congratulate the minister on his appointment.

On current political developments in Rivers, the leaders noted that the state was strategic to the South-South region and could not afford to be in crisis.

“As Lagos State is very dear to the South West, so is Rivers State to the Niger Delta. This is because as an injury to one is an injury to all, we feel justified to condemn the macabre dance playing out there.

“We join PANDEF, INC, IYC, MOSIEND, IPOB, Ogbakor Ikwerre and all other responsible bodies in the Niger Delta in condemning the mischievous attempts at the State House of Assembly to impeach the State Governor on frivolous grounds of ‘gross misconduct’.

“It is quite unacceptable to us and to the entire Niger Delta. Any person, authority or group of persons involved in stoking this fire is strongly advised to desist from it and allow peace to reign,” the statement said.

The statement noted that as a political leader in Rivers, Wike wields the influence to broker peace as both the executive and legislature consist of his political proteges.

However, a coalition of youths from Rivers State under the auspices of the Rivers Liberation Coalition of NGOs, has called on the Inspector-General of Police to redeploy the police officers including the state Commissioner of Police following their alleged complicity in the attack on the state Governor, Sir. Siminalayi Fubara.

Speaking in Port Harcourt at the weekend, the youths condemned the attempt to impeach the governor and said the police commissioner and Deputy Police Commissioner, Operations, should be shown their way out of the state.

The youths said they could no longer watch from the sidelines acts of intimidation against Governor Sir Siminalayi Fubara.

✨ GLOBAL NEWS HERALD ✨ISRAEL STRIKES AND SEALS OFF GAZA AFTER INCURSION BY HAMAS, WHICH VOWS TO EXECUTE HOSTAGESIsrael i...
10/10/2023

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ISRAEL STRIKES AND SEALS OFF GAZA AFTER INCURSION BY HAMAS, WHICH VOWS TO EXECUTE HOSTAGES

Israel increased airstrikes on the Gaza Strip and sealed it off from food, fuel and other supplies Monday in retaliation for a bloody incursion by Hamas militants, as the war’s death toll rose to nearly 1,600 on both sides. Hamas also escalated the conflict, pledging to kill captured Israelis if attacks targeted civilians without warnings.

In the war’s third day, Israel was still finding bodies from Hamas’ stunning weekend attack into southern Israeli towns. Rescue workers found 100 bodies in the tiny farming community of Be’eri — around 10% of its population — after a long hostage standoff with gunmen. In Gaza, tens of thousands fled their homes as relentless airstrikes leveled buildings.

The Israeli military said it had largely gained control in the south after the attack caught its vaunted military and intelligence apparatus completely off guard and led to fierce battles in its streets for the first time in decades. Hamas and other militants in Gaza say they are holding more than 130 soldiers and civilians sn**ched from inside Israel.

Israeli tanks and drones were deployed to guard breaches in the Gaza border fence to prevent new incursions. Thousands of Israelis were evacuated from more than a dozen towns near Gaza, and the military summoned 300,000 reservists — a massive mobilization in a short time.

The moves, along with Israel’s formal declaration of war on Sunday, pointed to Israel increasingly shifting to the offensive against Hamas, threatening greater destruction in the densely populated, impoverished Gaza Strip.

“We have only started striking Hamas,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a nationally televised address. “What we will do to our enemies in the coming days will reverberate with them for generations.”

As the Israeli military brought additional forces near the border, a major question was whether it will launch a ground assault into the tiny Mediterranean coastal territory. The last ground assault was in 2014.

The Israeli military said more than 900 people already have been killed in Israel. In Gaza, more than 680 people have been killed, according to authorities there; Israel says hundreds of Hamas fighters are among them. Thousands have been wounded on both sides.

In response to Israel’s aerial attacks, the spokesman of Hamas’ armed wing, Abu Obeida, said Monday night that the group will kill one Israeli civilian captive any time Israel targets civilians in their homes in Gaza “without prior warning.”

Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen warned Hamas against harming any of the hostages, saying, “This war crime will not be forgiven.” Netanyahu appointed a former military commander to manage the hostage and missing persons crisis.

Israel and Hamas have had repeated conflicts in past years, often sparked by tensions around a Jerusalem holy site. This time, the context has become potentially more explosive. Both sides talk of shattering with violence a yearslong Israeli-Palestinian deadlock left by the moribund peace process.

The surprise weekend attack by Hamas left a death toll unseen since the 1973 war with Egypt and Syria. That fomented calls to crush Hamas no matter the cost, rather than continuing to try to bottle it up in Gaza. Israel is run by its most hard-right government ever, dominated by ministers who adamantly reject Palestinian statehood.

Hamas, in turn, says it is ready for a long battle to end an Israeli occupation it says is no longer tolerable. Desperation has grown among Palestinians, many of whom see nothing to lose under unending Israeli control and increasing settler depredations in the West Bank, the blockade in Gaza and what they see as the world’s apathy.

Attacks by both sides created more scenes of devastation Monday. In Israel’s southern coastal city of Ashkelon, a man holding a crutch with one hand and an older boy with the other joined evacuees being shepherded from a street after a rocket blew out the front of a house.

In Gaza, Palestinians passed the bodies of the dead through dense crowds of men in the rubble in the Jebaliya refugee camp.

Early Monday evening, the sound of explosions echoed over Jerusalem when a volley of rockets fired from Gaza hit two neighborhoods — a sign of Hamas’s reach. Israeli media said seven were wounded.

Israeli warplanes carried out an intense bombardment of Rimal, a residential and commercial district of central Gaza City, after issuing warnings for residents to evacuate. Amid continuous explosions, the building housing the headquarters of the Palestinian Telecommunications Company was destroyed.

Israeli airstrikes on Gaza have razed 790 housing units and severely damaged 5,330, the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said early Tuesday. Damage to three water and sanitation sites have cut off services to 400,000.

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant ordered a “complete siege” on Gaza, saying authorities would cut electricity and block the entry of food and fuel.

Jan Egeland, secretary general of the Norwegian Refugee Council aid group, warned that Israel’s siege would spell “utter disaster” for Gazans.

“There is no doubt that collective punishment is in violation of international law,” he told Global News Herald. “If and when it would lead to wounded children dying in hospitals because of lack of energy, electricity and supplies, it could amount to war crimes.”

The Israeli siege will leave Gaza almost entirely dependent on its crossing into neighboring Egypt at Rafah, where cargo capacities are lower than other crossings into Israel.

An Egyptian military official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the press, said more than 2 tons of medical supplies from the Egyptian Red Crescent were sent to Gaza and efforts were underway to organize food and other deliveries.

Tens of thousands of Gaza residents continued to flee. The U.N. said Tuesday that more than 187,000 of Gaza’s 2.3 million people have left their homes — the most since a 2014 air and ground offensive by Israel uprooted about 400,000.

UNRWA, the U.N. agencies for Palestinian refugees, is sheltering more than 137,000 people in schools across the territory. Families have taken in some 41,000 others.

In the southern Gaza city of Rafah, an Israeli airstrike early Monday killed 19 people, including women and children, said Talat Barhoum, a doctor at the local Al-Najjar Hospital.

Hundreds of Hamas militants were buried under rubble of buildings destroyed by Israel in the past 48 hours, according to Israeli Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari. His claims could not be confirmed.

New exchanges on Israel’s northern border Monday raised worries that the war could spread to a new front.

Palestinian militants from the Islamic Jihad group slipped from Lebanon into Israel, sparking Israeli shelling into southern Lebanon. Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group said five of its members were killed, and it retaliated with a volley of rockets and mortars at two Israeli army bases across the border.

After breaking through Israeli barriers with explosives at daybreak Saturday, an estimated 1,000 Hamas gunmen rampaged for hours, gunning down civilians and sn**ching people in towns, along highways and at a techno music festival attended by thousands in the desert. Palestinian militants have also launched around 4,400 rockets at Israel, according to the military.

Hamas spokesman Abdel-Latif al-Qanoua told Global News Herald that the group’s fighters continued to battle outside Gaza and had captured more Israelis as recently as Monday morning.

He said the group aims to free all Palestinian prisoners held by Israel, which in the past has agreed to lopsided exchange deals in which it released large numbers of prisoners for individual captives or even the remains of soldiers.

Among the captives are soldiers and civilians, including women, children and older adults, mostly Israelis but also some people of other nationalities.

Hamas has ruled Gaza since driving out forces loyal to the internationally recognized Palestinian Authority in 2007, and its rule has gone unchallenged through the blockade and four previous wars with Israel.

Meanwhile in the West Bank, Palestinians entered a fourth day under severe movement restrictions. Israeli authorities have sealed off crossings to the occupied territory and closed checkpoints, blocking movement between cities and towns. Clashes between rock-throwing Palestinians and Israeli forces in the territory since the start of the incursion have left 15 Palestinians dead.

✨ GLOBAL NEWS HERALD  ✨‘INDIA POOR VOICELESS HABITANTS IN NEW DELHI RENDERED HOMELESS ACCORDING TO JAYANTI DEVI, ONE OF ...
06/09/2023

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‘INDIA POOR VOICELESS HABITANTS IN NEW DELHI RENDERED HOMELESS ACCORDING TO JAYANTI DEVI, ONE OF THE EFFECTED CITIZEN’

The bulldozers and government officials arrived just before dawn, tearing down the row of shanties as its bewildered residents watched inconsolably nearby.

“We were so frightened,” said 56-year-old Jayanti Devi as she attempted to salvage what was left of her belongings in the heart of New Delhi. “They destroyed everything. We have nothing left.”

For the past 30 years her home had stood on a decrepit pavement, next to an open sewage drain, opposite the sprawling Pragati Maidan complex, a prominent convention center in the Indian capital that will this week host leaders of the Group of 20 (G20) nations.

But the dwelling is not what US President Joe Biden, France’s Emmanuel Macron, or British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will see as they arrive for the pivotal summit.

Devi is among tens of thousands of New Delhi’s most marginalized residents who have been evicted from their homes in the lead up to the G20 meeting, as authorities embark on a mass demolition drive in neighborhoods across the city.

The government justified the demolitions by saying the structures are “illegal” and has said it intends to rehome some of the affected communities.

But activists have questioned the timing, claiming instead that the demolitions are part of a “beautification” project – a campaign to rid the city of its beggars and slums – to impress foreign dignitaries.

The image of India that Prime Minister Narendra Modi wants to project at the G20 is one of a modern superpower, a leader of the Global South, and a voice for impoverished nations. But the government has been accused of hiding one of the country’s own most entrenched and enduring problems.

“What strikes me most is that India, the Indian state, is ashamed of ostensible poverty,” said Harsh Mander, a social activist who works with homeless families and street children. “It doesn’t want poverty to be visible to the people who come here.”

In a written response in parliament in July, the Indian government denied any links between the demolitions of homes and the G20 summit.

Most Media sections in the world has reached out to the New Delhi and federal governments but is yet to receive a response.

‘WHY NOW?’

Delhi has long been a city of glaring disparities.

It’s a city where millionaires live in gleaming mansions next to homeless families on footpaths nearby, and where children sell toys to passengers in cars as they stop at traffic lights. It’s a city that attracts tremendous business, yet the demand for jobs grows increasingly acute.

Around 16 million people live in the capital, according to the latest government census from 2011, but only 23.7% of them live in “planned” or “approved” neighborhoods, according to a report by the New Delhi-based think tank, Centre for Policy Research.

The rest live in designated slums, villages, and unauthorized neighborhoods.

In April, Savita and her four daughters watched in despair as government authorities drove into their settlement – an unauthorized neighborhood – next to the 14th century Tughlaqabad Fort, an iconic Delhi monument, breaking down their small home and reducing seven years of memories to rubble.

“I can’t explain how distraught everyone was as they bulldozed the homes,” Savita said. “People were screaming, crying, begging them to stop.”

The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), which carried out the demolitions, claims Savita and her neighbors had encroached on the land and illegally constructed their homes, according to court documents seen by CNN. In a notice to the residents in January, the ASI directed all “encroachers” to remove “illegal constructions at their own cost within a period of 15 days,” court documents show.

The ASI did not respond to requests for comment.

Savita said she knew her family was purchasing land in an unauthorized colony when they built their home in 2016.

“We knew the risk we were taking. But we are poor and it’s all we could afford,” she said. “People have been living here for over 40 years. Why didn’t authorities demolish these homes earlier. Why now?”

HOMELESS AND HUNGRY

More than 100,000 residents living in the Tughlaqabad area lost their homes in April, according to a Supreme Court petition filed by a lawyer assisting the residents.

With nowhere to go and no money to rent an apartment, many including Savita’s family had no choice but to live under tarpaulin sheets on the rugged land, even as torrential rains and floods battered the city.

In the day time, they begged policemen nearby for some bread to share between the six of them. On one occasion at night, she said, men tried to sn**ch her neighbor’s daughter, pulling the screaming teen into the dark woods.

“We endured this hardship for six weeks,” Savita said through tears. Forced to study next to mounds of garbage as stray dogs and cows rummaged through decaying food, her daughters struggled with their school work, becoming depressed and withdrawn.

This isn’t the first time that an Indian government has carried out slum or shanty demolitions ahead of a large-scale international event.

In 2010, when the now opposition Indian National Congress was in power, beggars were forced to move from the streets of New Delhi and slums were destroyed in the lead up to the Commonwealth Games, upending the lives of tens of thousands in the capital.

Mander, the social activist, said it was unfair of the government to target poor families for living on unauthorized land.

“The government does not acknowledge that illegality has been imposed on these poor people,” Mander said. “That’s because this city has been planned in a way where there is no place for them to live legally. The demolitions are being done with extreme cruelty.”

The Delhi government has said it intends to rehabilitate Savita and her family – but she says no help has arrived so far and is fighting her case in court. Her family is now temporarily living with a relative in a two-bedroom apartment in a crowded and narrow shanty settlement.

The stench of cow dung engulfs the gulleys, where thousands of flies swarm outside doors and mangy cats roam the alleyways.

“My children don’t like it here,” Savita said. “They ask me why this is happening to us. What can I tell them?”

LEADER OF THE GLOBAL SOUTH

Since assuming the presidency of the G20 this year, India, the world’s new most populous nation of 1.4 billion, has positioned itself as a leader of emerging and developing nations – often referred to as the Global South – at a time when consumers are being hammered by soaring food and energy prices as a result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Modi sees India as a confident and modern superpower, a voice for the voiceless seizing the 21st century. Last month India celebrated successfully conducting a soft moon landing, becoming only the fourth country in the world to achieve such a feat.

Speaking to Congress during a highly publicized trip to the United States in June, Modi said “giving a voice to the Global South is the way forward.”

As war continues to throw the global economy into chaos, India has signaled an intention to raise the many concerns faced by the Global South, including climate challenges and food and energy security.

“The world looks upon the G20 to ease the challenges of growth, development, economic resilience, disaster resilience, financial stability, transnational crime, corruption, terrorism, and food and energy security,” Modi said in February.

However, activists point out the irony in that image, when India’s poorest are struggling at home.

“People are dying on the streets in the cold winter and we are demolishing homes,” Mander said. “There must be a fundamental right to life… to live with dignity.”

‘POVERTY MAKES US POWERLESS’

Standing amid the rubble of her home of seven years, Savita said she had so many dreams for her family.

“I wanted my children to grow up here. I wanted to give them a stable upbringing,” she said.

Now, security guards patrol the Tughlaqabad area as construction workers build a wall to seal the land. “Where were you the day bulldozers took our home?” residents asked the guards angrily. “Why didn’t you come to help us?”

Devi, from the Pragati Maidan area, is now forced to live in a makeshift tent on a nearby sidewalk, with no relief from the blistering summer heat.

She says no one has helped her find alternative shelter.

Selling tea and snacks to make ends meet, surrounded by decaying garbage and an open sewage drain that attracts hundreds of mosquitoes and flies, she feels defeated and alone.

“We’re so angry, but our poverty makes us powerless,” Devi said. “We can’t speak up.”

✨ GLOBAL NEWS HERALD  ✨HISENSE TO SUSTAIN MENA GROWTH WITH PRODUCTION EXPANSION AND NEW FLAGSHIP STORE OPENINGSGlobal el...
02/09/2023

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HISENSE TO SUSTAIN MENA GROWTH WITH PRODUCTION EXPANSION AND NEW FLAGSHIP STORE OPENINGS

Global electronics leader Hisense has revealed its plans to build on production capabilities and sales growth opportunities throughout the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) as it gears up for the opening of two new production facilities, new offices, and three new flagship stores across the Levant, GCC and North Africa. This will allow Hisense more flexibility when delivering its award-winning lineup of products from home entertainment and home appliance categories in market to customers, streamlining delivery times and increasing after-sales support offerings.

“Under our expansion strategy, Hisense has planned to develop new production facilities across North Africa and LEVANT region, as well as new flagship store in GCC, Saudi Arabia and LEVANT region, means we are even better placed than ever before to bring our high-performance display technologies and quality premium product offerings to more of our customers across the MENA region,” commented Jason Ou, President of Hisense Middle East and Africa.

Hisense is looking to build on its MENA growth trajectory, which has seen it emerge over the past decade as one of the most preferred brands of regional consumers.

“Our heavy investment in brand building through sponsorship of global sporting assets, including FIFA World Cup, Euro Cup and PSG Football Club, has accelerated our growth which is supported by our reputation for high-quality product delivery and accessibility.”

Hisense’s regional growth has been elevated by the expansion of local offices in Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Egypt, and Algeria, improving regionwide operations and a more robust partner network and relations strategy. This advancement has also brought the brand closer to its key markets, allowing Hisense to better cater for its end users and network partners. We also look forward to catering to local requirements in terms of products, lifestyle, environment and social that influence the customers consumption patterns and habits with a global R&D centre based in Dubai, that will be an innovation centre for Hisense to introduce new products and technology.

Strong H1 2023 sales results for the MENA region have also expanded the brand’s consumer reach and spurred the opening of new exclusive and partner-operated Hisense Care Hub service centres in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar to upscale its after-service, parts, and product consultation offerings. It now plans to expand its exclusive customer care operation to the remainder of the GCC, Iraq and Algeria.

Hisense is also making huge inroads into the region’s B2B air-conditioner market with a growing reputation for product efficiency. Moreover, regional white goods revenue grew by 10.33 per cent wherein air conditioning displayed a subsequent increase of 20 per cent in 2023 as compared to 2022 YTD.

Hisense secured a major contract from Dubai-based property developer Nshama to supply 1092 ducted AC units and 364 wall-mounted AC units with a total capacity of 2430 tons for its Town Square townhouse community project. These ducted units are high energy efficient products with an EER range of 11.8 to 12.3 perfectly suitable for the townhouse project.

“We are on course for our best year yet in the region, and our MENA expansion strategy will be further enhanced by the introduction of new, award-winning smart and AI technology-led products.”

To the existing smart home appliances of refrigerator line-up, Hisense plans to shortly bring in smart 5S laundry series and Smart Air conditioning that are wi-fi, voice and APP controlled into the region.

The company’s solid MEA performance closes a successful 12-month period that has also seen the manufacturer secure a slew of high-profile product awards, including the prestigious CES 2023 Innovation Award and EISA Award for ‘Best Product of the Year’ for its premium 4K Mini-LED ULED TV 65U8HQ, and the Tom's Guide Award 2023 for its 4K UST Triple-Laser Trichroma Projector 100L9H.

✨ GLOBAL NEWS HERALD ✨NIGERIAN ARMY SAYS TERRORISTS KIDNAP FOR RANSOM, WARNS PUBLIC AGAINST FAKE RECRUITMENTThe Chief of...
02/09/2023

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NIGERIAN ARMY SAYS TERRORISTS KIDNAP FOR RANSOM, WARNS PUBLIC AGAINST FAKE RECRUITMENT

The Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Taoreed Lagbaja, has noted that members of Boko Haram and Islamic State for West African Province have resorted to kidnapping for ransom and robbing citizens to keep up with their nefarious activities.

Lt. General Lagbaja stated this on Friday during his visit to Borno State to assess the security situation in the state, saying that the development is a discovery by the service of the new tactics used by terrorist organisations in the country.

Earlier in Abuja, The Director, Army Public Relations, ONYEMA NWACHUKWU dismissed as fake, an online advert by fraudulent individuals claiming to be conducting recruitment on behalf of the Nigerian Army, Navy and Air Force

According to NWACHUKWU, the fake recruitment was done by dubious individuals in the name of one Major General GWABIN MUSA.

✨ GLOBAL NEWS HERALD ✨NIGER COUPLE: GENERAL ABDOURAHMANE TCHIANI DECLARES HIMSELF LEADER AFTER DEPOSING PRESIDENTA  gene...
28/07/2023

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NIGER COUPLE: GENERAL ABDOURAHMANE TCHIANI DECLARES HIMSELF LEADER AFTER DEPOSING PRESIDENT

A general who heads Niger’s presidential guard has declared himself the country’s new leader two days after soldiers overthrew the president.

General Abdourahmane Tchiani has taken to state television to ask for support for the coup, which began on Wednesday when members of the military detained the democratically elected President Mohamed Bazoum in his palace in the capital, Niamey.

The general, 62, who is also known as Omar Tchiani, gave a televised address today to say he had taken over to avoid “gradual and inevitable demise” of Niger. He was identified by state television as the leader of the National Council for the Safeguarding of the Country, the group of soldiers who said they had staged the coup.

“I ask the technical and financial partners who are friends of Niger to understand the specific situation of our country in order to provide it with all the support necessary to enable it to meet the challenges,” he said.

The French President, Emmanuel Macron, condemned the coup as “completely illegitimate and profoundly dangerous for the Nigerians, Niger and the whole region.”

He said he had spoken with President Mohamed Bazoum, and that the detained leader was in good health.

France, which ruled Niger as a colony until 1960, has 1,500 soldiers in the country, who conduct joint operations with the Nigerians.

The French Foreign Minister, Catherine Colonna, told French media that there was still time to end what she described as an “attempted coup.”

Niger is seen as the last partner in the West’s efforts to battle jihadists linked to al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group in Africa’s Sahel region.

Russia, via its Wagner Group, has been battling with the west for influence in the fight against Islamist extremism in the region.

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