PRESS RELEASE

APC tasks Buhari to end Rivers political violence, crack down on perpetrators

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State has tasked President Muhammadu Buhari to take decisive action to end the lingering political violence in the State and to bring the perpetrators to book. The party made the request in a statement in which it commended the President for coming out boldly to condemn the needless carnage in Rivers and to describe it as “worrisome”.

NIGERIA'S AFFAIRS

Labour Party candidates drag INEC‎ to Court‎
By Hector Spiff

The Candidates of the Labour Party in Akulga/ Asalga Federal and State Constituencies in Rivers State have registered their disenchantment and disapproval over what they termed “ostrich game” played by the Independent National Electoral Commission pertaining to the conduct of the recent Rerun polls (Federal and State Houses of Assembly) in Rivers State.

EUROPEAN UNION

Hungary mentions 900 'no-go areas' in Europe

Budapest (AFP) - Europe has more than 900 "no-go areas" with large immigrant populations, Hungary's government claims on a hard-hitting new website aimed at drumming up opposition to an EU scheme to share out migrants around the bloc. In these areas "with a high number of immigrants", for example in Paris, London, Stockholm or Berlin, the authorities have "little or no control" and "norms of the host society barely prevail," the site says.

EUROPE

Will a Brexit leave millions of migrants behind?
By Toby Melville

Alfio Emanuele Fresta, a 21-year-old student at England’s University of York, came to the U.K. from Sicily in 2013, hoping to build a life in a country he thought of as welcoming, diverse and filled with opportunities in his chosen discipline: computer science. “I wasn’t aware of a referendum. I wasn’t aware of the possibility of a referendum,” he says. “From what I knew at the time, EU nationals were treated equally everywhere in the EU, equally to British citizens in Britain. I quickly found out that this isn’t always the case.”

OPINION

Students living under the barrel - of death

By Odimegwu Onwumere

Odimegwu Onwumere

Many students across the country have met their deaths inconveniently. And the schools are gradually turning to a killing field. They have either died as a result of cult related matters, shot by the Police, flogged to death or through something menacingly. A-number-of the killings take place in broad day light, while others at night. To Nigerians, the tragedies are irony to the victims who never expected that their lives would be logged out when they never expected.

EUROPE

Why Brussels? There are too many reasons

On Friday morning in Brussels, police sirens screamed throughout the capital as officers raced to hunt down the suspects behind the devastating March 22 bombings. On that Tuesday morning, two explosions ripped through Brussels airport, bringing the roof down on fleeing travelers and killing 11 people. An hour later, a bomb exploded on a train leaving Maalbeek station for the city center. This proved the most deadly attack, killing 20 people