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  WOKE : University of Southern Maine students demand education professor be fired after she told class that there are only two sexes A group of students at the University of Southern Maine in Portland, Maine are calling for their professor to be fired after she said in class only two sexes exist. Christy Hammer, a professor of education, allegedly made the statement during a heated debate about gender identity in her 'Creating a Positive Learning Environment' class, causing an uproar among the graduate students. Only one student agreed with the educator. The rest maintained both biological sexes and social genders are on a spectrum. Others attending the the class say most agreed that a spectrum exists for both gender and biological sex. The point was first made during class on September 7, but was repeated a week later after student Elizabeth Leibiger, who is non-binary and was absent the previous week, brought up the topic again. She then said she felt 'under personal att...

  A British man who lost his iPhone in the UK has discovered it in Nigeria. The man explained that the phone went missing a month ago when he was in town and he finally got access to his iCloud this October. When he searched for his phone's current location, he discovered it is in Edo state, Nigeria. He shared a screenshot of his phone's location and wrote: "Lost me phone in town like a month ago, just got back into my iCloud to find out it's went on holiday to Nigeria." British Man Traces His Missing Iphone To Nigeria A Month After It Went Missing - Phones - Nigeria (nairaland.com)

  Former world champion, Deontay Wilder has revealed that it is only a matter of time before a bout between him and Anthony Joshua takes place. Wilder described the bout as the  “biggest fight in the world”. The Bronze Bomber is set to return to the ring this weekend after suffering a trilogy defeat to WBC champion, Tyson Fury. Wilder will be looking at claiming his 42nd KO against Helenius on October 15, and has eyes fixed on facing Joshua afterwards. “I’m still in the business. Anthony Joshua’s still in the business. People always tell me, ‘When you gonna fight Joshua? That’s the biggest fight in the world between us still. So it ain’t ‘if’, it’s just ‘when’.” Wilder was considering hanging up his gloves for good after suffering a devastating 11th-round KO defeat to Fury during their trilogy bout in October last year. The American boxer said he needed some time away from the ring to process the back-to-back defeats in 2020 and 2021 as they were the only losses of his profess...

  The Labour Party (LP) has dismissed the 1, 234 names released to spearhead the Peter Obi and Yusuf Baba-Ahmed Presidential Campaign Council for the 2023 general election. A former Senior Special Assistant on Public Affairs to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Dr Doyin Okupe was named Director-General of the campaign council while a retired Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG), Mohammed Zarewa was named as the council’s chairman. Clement Ojukwu and Yunusa Tanko were named the secretary and Chief Spokesperson of the council respectively. The campaign council also has different directorates headed by a director. During the event, the chairman of the party, Julius Abure, was represented by the Secretary of the party, Umar Farouk. However, the National Publicity Secretary of the Labour Party, Comrade Arambabi Abayomi, in a short message, said:  "We are not involved in Dr Okupe's mischievous political shenanigans. That is not the party's programme. He can't be talking...

  The spokesperson for the Atiku-Okowa Presidential Campaign Council,  Kola Ologbondiyan, on Wednesday, said unlike other presidential aspirants, the Peoples Democratic Party flagbarer, Atiku Abubakar, was not a learner on the job. He said the anguish and pains Nigerians are experiencing under the All Progressives Congress government will seize when Atiku becomes Nigeria’s president on May 29, 2023. Ologbondiyan gave the assurance during an interaction with some PDP youths in Abuja. He pointed out that the PDP and Atiku were worried about the pains and sufferings the APC has inflicted on Nigerians in the last seven years. He noted that the crowd that attended the party’s presidential campaign flag-off in Uyo, including other venues, was an indication of the approval of the Atiku/Okowa presidency in the build-up to the 2023 presidential election. He said,  “Among the arrays of presidential candidates, only Atiku Abubakar has the practicable plan on how to end the pains, th...

  A youth advocate and the Founder of Motivating African Youths Initiative, Dr. Ogenna Walter Ekwubiri is set to empower 100 disabled Nigerians. Dr Ekwubiri who recently floored Aisha Yesufu, Ahmed Isah and Harrison Gwamnishu to emerge "Youth Advocate of the Year" in the 2022 Leadership Excellence Awards, made this known while speaking with Igbere TV in Abuja, the nation’s capital. The prestigious award, endorsed by the African Union, African Film Institute, will be presented to her on 5th November, 2022 at Transcorp Hilton, Abuja in a glamorous ceremony organised by IgbereTV, Africa's foremost community TV. IgbereTV media crew led by the Executive Director, Emeh James Anyalekwa visited her to formally inform him of her nomination and victory in the online poll. During the visit, the team also conducted awardee post-profiling, photo session and presentation of her Table reservation for the event. Dr. Ekwubiri revealed that the 100 disabled persons will be trained on shoe ...

  Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has appointed  28,000 Special Assistants for political units. A statement by the media aide to the Governor, Kelvin Ebiri, said the appointment takes immediate effect. This is coming less than 24 hours after the governor appointed 14,000 special advisers for the political units and 319 ward Liaison Officers. The governor also appointed 40 local government area Liaison Officers. Governor Wike Appoints 28,000 Special Assistants For Political Units - Politics - Nigeria (nairaland.com)

  A civil rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), on Wednesday, affirmed that the lawmaker representing Abia North Senatorial District, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu has demonstrated a comprehensive grasp of his primary mandate to his constituents. According to the group, Sen. Kalu a former Governor of Abia State has consistently stood by his people since he was constitutionally elected to the National Assembly in 2019. HURIWA’s National Coordinator,  Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, in a statement, condemned smear campaigns against the former governor of Abia State by some politically motivated critics such as one Emenike Iroegbu and his co-travellers. The group noted that contrary to the malicious statements peddled around,  Senator Orji Kalu’s position and contribution to the assent to the 2022 Electoral Act is not hidden from any conscientious fellow. The lawmaker was amongst the 52 senators who on July 15th voted in the red chamber for the Ind...

  A former presidential aspirant of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adamu Garba has warned his party not to underrate the Labour Party (LP) and his supporters in the 2023 presidential election. Garba said this on Wednesday via his verified Twitter handle in a reaction to Lesotho’s new party, Revolution for Prosperity (RFP) that won majority seats in the parliamentary election in the South African country. The new party, RFP was formed six months ago by a 64-year-old Lesotho businessman Sam Matekane and it defeated two major old parties in the country. RFP won 56 out of 120 seats in parliament according to final results published by the Lesotho Independent Electoral Commission (LIEC) on Monday. The current ruling party All Basotho Convention (ABC), which has governed the country of 2.14 million people since 2017 did not win a single seat. Reuters reported that the main opposition, the Democratic Congress (DC) also performed woefully coming a distant second to RFP in the race. H...

  Anambra state governor, Professor Chukwuma Soludo, Wednesday, imposed a sum of N100,000 as taxation for display of ceremonial banners like burial and weddings across the State. The governor also imposed N5,000 as taxation for pasting of posters in any part of the State, adding that whoever fails to remove the advertorials within the stipulated time for their removals would be taxed continuously until they adhered to the rule. The tax rates were contained in a viral letter addressed to the National President, Anambra State Association of Town Unions (ASATU) and signed by the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Anambra State Signage and Advertisment Agency, Mr Tony Odili Ujubuon͂u. The letter entitled, regulation of ceremonial adverts, explained that the agency would work in partnership with ASATU to recover the taxes as source of internally generated revenue and to curb menace of ‘non-commercial adverts’ in the state. It reads,  “The tariff below serves as a guid...

  The All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) says it is delaying the take-off its Presidential Campaign for 2023 poll, to ensure that all necessary ingredients associated with such campaigns are captured. Mr Festus Keyamo, the spokesperson for the Presidential Campaign Council said this when he spoke with newsmen on Wednesday in Abuja, after a meeting of the PCC, the APC National Working Committee (NWC), and the Progressives Governors Forum (PGF). “Part of the structure of our campaign involves a presidential diary, our campaign is not like those who have done kick and start with their small vehicles. “Our campaign is like manoeuvring a 50-tonne trailer into the highway and once we hit the road, we hit the road. “So that is what we are doing, the president is the chairman of the campaign council, we are going to take his diary into consideration in picking and choosing the day. “But, we have virtually agreed that we are going to hit the streets very soo...

  The Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has explained the reason for the delay in releasing his manifesto for the 2023 presidential election. Obi explained that “he was waiting for the positions of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and the Trade Union Congress, TUC, before releasing his manifesto. The former Anambra State Governor disclosed this while speaking with BBC. The LP presidential candidate has been criticised for delaying the release of his manifesto for the 2023 presidential election. But, the former governor shrugged off the criticisms, stressing that the country has a lot of ideas and documented policy programmes which had been rendered ineffective due to a lack of implementation and political will to do them. The director-general of Peter Obi’s presidential campaign, Doyin Okupe, had disclosed that the Labour Party’s manifesto will be unveiled ‘sometime next week’ adding that it will be different from that of other political parties.” Presidency: Re...

  The  Lagos High Court sitting at the Tafawa Balewa Square (TBS) has watched the chilling footage of Chidinma Ojukwu confessing to stabbing to death the Chief Executive Officer of Super Tv, Usifo Michael Ataga, alone. It also viewed the grim footage of Ataga’s lifeless body recorded shortly after he was found in a Lagos short-let apartment serviced apartment. Recall that Ojukwu, a 300-level, Mass Communication student at the University of Lagos (UNILAG), is the prime suspect in Ataga’s murder. She is standing trial for the alleged offence alongside her sister and third defendant Chioma Egbuchu, and second defendant Adedapo Quadri. They have been on trial since October 12, 2021, when they were arraigned at the high court before Justice Yetunde Adesanya. According to the Lagos State Government, which is prosecuting them, the alleged murder took place on June 15, 2021, at 19, Adewale Oshin Street, Lekki Phase 1, Lagos. At the resumption of proceedings, the prosecution played the...

  The scheduled completion of the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas Train-7 Project may be stalled, following the lingering  labour dispute between members of the National Association of Plant Operators and the management of Daewoo E &C Nigeria Limited . Daewoo, a South Korean firm , has been in an industrial crisis with its  workers who are protesting the refusal of the company to allow them to unionise under NAPO. They alleged illegal deductions of check-off dues from their salaries and dismissal of 24 of their colleagues. Following the dispute, the management of Daewoo Engineering and Construction Nigeria Limited has shut down its Train 7 project site and ordered its workers to vacate all work locations under its purview. Daewoo, in a memo signed by its Project Manager,  Mr. Sung Lee, said it could no longer guarantee the safety of workers and equipment following an incident last Friday, which led to severe damage on the company’s properties. Lee, in the memo tit...

  We have an obligation to the girl-child to guarantee her education and full development in a safe, inclusive, and growth-enabling environment where she is free from unnecessary restrictions and harmful behaviors. That can only happen with consistent investments, policy action, social reforms, and constant awareness on the precious importance of the girl-child to our aspirations of building a civilized, rights respecting and prosperous nation. As we mark another commemoration of the International Day of the Girl-Child, let us refocus attention on these obligations and commit to meaningful actions, both big and small, to ensure their attainment. Day Of The Girl-Child: Tinubu Advocates For Rights Of Female Children - Politics - Nigeria (nairaland.com)

  Vice President  Yemi Osinbajo has declared that religious leaders in Nigeria must remain open while making efforts to unite people regardless of their faith, social backgrounds and political differences. Osinbajo, who stated this Tuesday while playing host to a delegation from the Methodist Church of Nigeria led by its Prelate-Elect, Most Rev. Oliver Ali Aba, at the State House, Abuja. Emphasizing the issue of unity, the Vice President said, “it is a Muslim (ex-Bauchi governor) who came with the Methodist delegation for this meeting. We have Muslims, Christians in our country, and even those who do not believe.” Speaking on the task before religious leaders in the country, Osinbajo stressed the need for leaders of faith to be open at all times, accommodating various interests and views regardless of religious or socio-political backgrounds. According to him, “as believers, we have to be open and reach out to everyone. Christ died for all which is why it is very important tha...