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Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II/AFP Queen Elizabeth II, New Zealand’s head of state, said she was “deeply saddened” by the attacks on two mosques on Friday which left 49 people dead. “I have been deeply saddened by the appalling events in Christchurch… At this tragic time, my thoughts and prayers are with all New Zealanders,” she said in a message. “Prince Philip and I send our condolences to the families and friends of those who have lost their lives,” she said, paying tribute to emergency workers and volunteers providing support to the injured. Queen Elizabeth, 92, the world’s oldest and longest-serving living monarch, is the queen of 15 other realms besides Britain, including Australia, Canada and New Zealand. She last visited New Zealand in 2002 as part of celebrations to mark the 50th anniversary of her accession to the throne. AFP Source:https://samueljackson12.blogspot.com/2019/03/queen-elizabeth-deeply-saddened-by-new.html

Egor Efiok Egor Efiok, a Nigerian filmmaker who took to Facebook to disclose the challenges she's been facing lately disclosed that might lose her house in the UK. Though Egor Efiok did not disclose why she might lose her house in the UK, however she disclosed that it got her depressed as it is part of everything she worked hard for in 1994. She wrote; source:https://samueljackson12.blogspot.com/2019/03/nigerian-filmmaker-egor-efiok-to-lose.html

Osinbajo and Buhari The Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo has stated that President Muhammadu Buhari may be “poorer” than he was in 2015, according to a report by DailyPost. The report revealed that Osinbajo made the statement while disclosing that Buhari’s assets declaration form he saw indicated that the president was poor. In a statement signed and forwarded to DAILY POST on Friday by Osinbajo’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Laolu Akande, also thanked Nigerians for voting Buhari for a second term. The statement reads partly: “Everybody knows that this was not exactly an easy campaign but I believe that God saw, first the heart of Mr President. “Here is an honest man, and as I said during the course of the campaign, even his worst enemies agree that he is a man of integrity. “In any event, there are many few Nigerians who would have been Minister of Petroleum, Governor of the whole of the Northeast, Head of State, not once or twice, but thrice, and

A 63- year-old businesswoman, Mrs Mabel Alli, on Friday prayed an Igando Customary Court in Lagos, to end her 41-year-old marriage to her husband, Richard, alleging that he sleeps with their daughters and has impregnated her sister. She told the court that her husband sexually molested all their three daughters and was a womaniser. “After impregnating my sister, he took one of our daughters to the hospital to have an abortion. “My 13-year-old girl also reported to me that he always sneaks into her room to have intercourse with her. “I have caught my husband red handed on top of our third daughter. My friends and domestic staff are not exempted, I have caught with them too,” NAN quoted her as saying. The petitioner said that her husband was fetish and also wanted to use her for money ritual in order to finance his political ambition. “He has taken me to various herbalists in Badagry, Sango and other places for money ritual; I followed him because he said it was for goodwil

French President Emmanuel Macron (file photo)                                                        Credit: AFP The British government must offer a “clear” answer on its intentions for Brexit before the EU summit next week, the French presidency said Friday after UK lawmakers voted to seek a delay if no withdrawal deal is reached soon. “Without any clarity, no solution is possible,” President Emmanuel Macron’s office said, adding that if the current withdrawal deal is rejected, a “clear and new alternative plan” must be presented or else Britain will have to leave the EU with no deal. The summit next week is seen as the last chance for Prime Minister Theresa May to secure unanimous approval from the other 27 EU members for any Brexit delay. May is expected to again submit the withdrawal deal to lawmakers next week, though it has already been rejected twice. “That’s the best option,” the French presidency said, in which case no EU state is expected to oppose a “technical ex

The deposed leader of an IS-backed faction of Boko Haram has been detained by more radical elements who seized control of the group, three well-informed sources have told AFP. Uncertainty has surrounded the fate of Abu Mus’ab Al-Barnawi after he was replaced as leader of the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) last month. An audio recording about his removal appeared online some two weeks ago, sparking speculation as to whether he was still alive or dead. Three sources told AFP last week that Al-Barnawi had been deposed. The regional military force fighting the jihadists in northeast Nigeria has also acknowledged the development. Colonel Timothy Antigha, spokesman for the N’Djamena-based Multinational Joint Task Force, said the change of leadership was the result of an “internal crisis”. “The Islamic State West Africa Province announced the sack of Abu Mus’ab Al-Barnawi and the appointment of Abu Abdullahi Ibn Umar Albarnawi,” he added in a statement. One source

The Lagos State Building Control Agency on Friday began the demolition of defective buildings. Those affected are mainly within Lagos Island and over 180 houses will be demolished in the exercise. The demolition followed the Itafaji tragedy where many lives were lost on 63, Massey Street. General Manager of LASBCA, Mr Lekan Shodeinde told newsmen that 20 would be demolished today. The agency’s task force began with the demolition of a three-storeyed building on 60A Freeman Street, Epetedo. A pregnant woman, the proprietor of the nursery/Primary school and 19 others, including no fewer than 12 pupils died on Wednesday, witnesses and hospital sources said. The pregnant woman was one of the persons rescued from the rubble, immediately after the building collapsed, but she died in the hospital. Most of the victims were rescued from the rubble on Wednesday, but died at the General Hospital as doctors failed to save them. 10 different families occupied the first and the g