Sen. Orji Kalu Meets With Djibouti President Ismail Guelleh [VIDEO]
The President of Djibouti, Ismail Omar Guelleh on Thursday received Chief Whip of the Nigerian Senate, Sen. Orji Uzor Kalu at his office in Djibouti. Also at the meeting was Amb. Innocent A. Iwejuo, Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative to the African Union and UNECA. Though details of the meeting was not disclosed to ABN TV, a reliable source informed our...
BREAKING: President Rushed To Hospital, In Intensive Care (Photo)
ABN TV reports that the Czech President Milos Zeman was taken to an intensive care unit on Sunday, a day after the country held a general election, his doctor said. “At the moment, the patient is hospitalised at an intensive care unit of Prague’s Military University Hospital,” Zeman’s doctor Miroslav Zavoral told reporters, adding he could not yet publicise the...
Sen. Kalu In Crucial Meeting With Speaker Djibouti National Assembly, Hon. Mohamed Houmed (Photos, Video)
Chief Whip of the Nigerian Senate Senator Orji Uzor Kalu is about now meeting with the Speaker National Assembly of Djibouti, Hon. Mohamed Ali Houmed, ABN TV reports. Sen. Kalu, representing Abia North senatorial district along with other National Assembly members are participating in the 76th Session Of The Executive Committee And The 43rd Conference Of The National Parliamentary Assembly...
Former BUK lecturer, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Wins 2021 Nobel Literature Prize
The Nobel prize in literature has been awarded to the novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah, for his “uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents”. Gurnah grew up on one of the islands of Zanzibar before fleeing persecution and arriving in England as a student in the 1960s. He has published 10...
YouTube Removes R. Kelly’s Channels After Sex Crime Conviction
YouTube has removed two channels of disgraced R&B singer R. Kelly, who was found guilty of some sex crimes last week. YouTube said in statement that two of the singer's channels, RKellyTV and RKellyVevo, have been removed and he will no longer be able to create or own any other YouTube channel. Catalog of his music will however be available on YouTube Music, YouTube’s...
President Buhari’s Official Photographer, Omoboriowo Names World Record Title Holder For Largest Photobook
Bayo Omoboriowo’s photobook, Discover Nigeria, has been approved as Guinness World Record largest photobook. Omoboroiwo, the official photographer to President Muhammadu Buhari, was notified of the groundbreaking feat on Thursday afternoon by Guinness. The news of the epoch-making verification came few hours before the unveiling of the photobook by President Buhari at the closing edition of Nigeria at 60 activities held...
I’m Less Bothered About Money Lost During Recent Outage – Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, says he is less bothered over the financial loss incurred during a seven-hour outage of his platform on Monday. ABN TV reports that many users across the world were stranded when Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, all owned by Zuckerberg, were down. Bloomberg had estimated Zuckerberg’s loss at $7 billion. Along with the drop in stocks of Facebook,...
Facebook Outage Likely Caused By Internal Mistake; Outside Hack Less Likely
Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp went offline for users across the globe, the social media giant said on Monday, as it worked on restoring the services after being hit by one of its longest outages. The disruption, which hit Facebook's platforms minutes before noon, comes a day after a whistleblower accused the firm of repeatedly prioritizing profit over clamping down on...
Woman Beheads Her Husband Over Cheating
Men of the Ghanaian Police have arrested a 27-year-old woman, Rachel Tetteh for allegedly beheading her husband in Eastern Region, Ghana. It was gathered that the incident happened at Tei Glover, a farming Community near Akyem Bosuso in the Fanteakwa South District on Sunday, October 3, 2021. The headless body of her husband, Lartey Daniel, 35, has been deposited at the...
Talibans Hold Rally To Show Strength In Afghanistan Amidts Cheers That Christians, Westerners Have Been Defeated
More than 1,500 Taliban supporters attended a rally on Sunday in a vast field to the north of Kabul, in a show of strength as they consolidate their rule of Afghanistan. The crowd, exclusively men and boys, heard speeches by leading Taliban officials and commanders at Kohdaman township in the hilly outskirts of the capital. The rally was the first of...
