No more missile wake-up calls, Kim tells South Korea leader-By Okonkwo Perpetual

    North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has promised the South’s President Moon Jae-in no more missile-related early morning wake-up calls, Seoul said.

Last year Pyongyang carried out 20 ballistic missile tests, almost all of them in the early hours of the morning.

FEATURED [BREAKING] Benue cancels mass burial, prepares for Buhari’s visit-By Okonkwo Perpetual

    

      Benue State Government has cancelled the planned mass burial for victims of Fulani herdsmen attack in Okpokwu.

      The government had promised to accord all the 24 victims of the Omusu Edimoga herdsmen attack a mass burial on Friday (today).

      Governor Samuel Ortom made the announcement for the burial during his visit to Omusu Edimoga in Okpokwu Local Government Area of the state, where the attack took place on Monday, March 5, 2018.

Arik Air plane makes emergency landing in Ghana-By Okonkwo Perpetual

      A Nigerian plane made an emergency landing in Ghana after smoke was detected in the cabin, officials said Friday, in the latest incident to hit domestic and foreign airline operators.

The aircraft, owned by Arik Air, was travelling from Lagos to Accra on Tuesday when the fault was detected but no-one was hurt, a company statement said.

Suicide bomber attacks Kabul’s Shiite area, kills seven-By Okonkwo Perpetual

A suicide bomber on foot blew himself up in Kabul’s Shiite area on Friday, killing at least seven people, officials said, in the latest attack in the Afghan capital.

“In the explosion seven were martyred and seven were wounded,” interior ministry spokesman Najib Danish wrote on Facebook.

Philippine president, Duterte, needs psychiatric evaluation – UN rights chie-By Okonkwo Perpetual

       The UN human rights chief said Friday that Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, who has launched profanity-laced diatribes against United Nations rapporteurs, needs “psychiatric evaluation”.

Listing some of Manila’s actions against UN officials, rights chief Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein said “it makes one believe that the president of the Philippines needs to submit himself to some sort of psychiatric evaluation.”

Mum of four allegedly hacked to death by husband-By Okonkwo Perpetual

       The Police in Enugu State have commenced full scale investigation into an alleged incident in which a man allegedly hacked his wife to death in Enugu city.

      The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, SP Ebere Amaraizu, said in a statement on Friday in Enugu that the incident occurred on March 8.

Again, US Secretary Tillerson Warns Nigeria, Other African Countries Against Chinese Loans- By Okoro Daniella

       U.S. Secretary of State, Mr. Rex Tillerson has counselled Nigeria and other African countries not to forfeit their sovereignty when they accept loans from China, the continent’s biggest trading partner.

      Tillerson, who spoke in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, thursday on the first leg of his African visit, said the U.S was not trying to keep Chinese dollars from the continent but it was important for African countries to consider the terms of the agreement and not forfeit their sovereignty.