Colombian Guerrillas Free Liverpool Striker Luis Diaz’s Kidnapped Dad

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Colombian Guerrillas Free Liverpool Striker Luis Diaz’s Kidnapped Dad

The 26-year-old winger's father and mother Cilenis Marulanda were abducted by armed men on motorcycles at a gas station in their home town.

Luis Diaz signed for Liverpool from Porto in January 2022.

 

Colombia’s ELN guerrilla group on Thursday freed the father of Liverpool footballer Luis Diaz, 12 days after kidnapping him, according to live TV footage.

After being handed over by the rebels to a humanitarian mission, Luis Manuel Diaz arrived by helicopter in the northeastern city of Valledupar, some 90 kilometers (56 miles) from his hometown of Barrancas where he was abducted with his wife on October 28. She was rescued the same day.

“Long live Freedom and Peace,” President Gustavo Petro wrote on X, formerly Twitter, after the release.

The Bishops Conference of Colombia, involved in negotiating the handover, released a photograph of Diaz in a wooded area with a woman taking his vital signs.

The 26-year-old winger’s father and mother Cilenis Marulanda were abducted by armed men on motorcycles at a gas station in their hometown.

Marulanda was rescued hours later and a massive search operation by ground and air was launched for her husband, with more than 250 soldiers involved.

The ELN, which is in peace negotiations with Petro’s government, later acknowledged one of its units was behind the kidnapping, which it described as a “mistake.”

On Sunday, Diaz begged the ELN to free his father.

“I ask the ELN for the prompt release of my father, and I ask international organizations to intercede for his freedom,” Diaz said on X.

“Every second, every minute our anguish grows,” the young footballer added.

After 50 Years Of Democracy, Other Countries Will Learn From Nigeria, Says Akpabio

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After 50 Years Of Democracy, Other Countries Will Learn From Nigeria, Says Akpabio

He said this when he received the Irish Ambassador to Nigeria Peter Ryan in his office in Abuja on Thursday. 

Akpabio believes Nigeria’s democracy would soon mature for others to learn from.

 

Senate President Godswill Akpabio believes other countries will learn from Nigeria after 50 years of democracy. 

He said this when he received the Irish Ambassador to Nigeria Peter Ryan his office in Abuja on Thursday.

According to Akpabio, the 59th President of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, Nigeria needs a lot of assistance, collaboration, and bonding to learn from other democratic nations like Ireland.

The Senate President also spoke about the spate of kidnappings across the country, particularly in the Niger Delta. He said the menace has abated largely through the efforts of the previous administration.

He is therefore confident that Nigeria’s democracy would have significantly developed by 2073.

Tinubu Designates Assistant On Handicap Matters

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Tinubu Designates Assistant On Handicap Matters

"Mr. Mohammed Abba Isa is a recognized boss of people with handicaps with north of 10 years of involvement with Local and global promotion on issues concerning people with inabilities."

Mohammed Abba Isa

 

President Bola Tinubu has appointed Mohammed Isa as a Presidential aide on Disability Matters. 

The arrangement was contained in a Thursday proclamation by Tinubu's spokesman's Ajuri Ngelale.

"In his assurance to guarantee that each section of society is adequately taken care of inside the ambit of the Recharged Trust Plan of his organization, President Bola Tinubu has endorsed the arrangement of Mr. Mohammed Abba Isa to act as the Senior Unique Right hand to the President on Incapacity Matters," he said.

"Mr. Mohammed Abba Isa is a recognized boss of people with handicaps with north of 10 years of involvement with Local and global backing on issues concerning people with inabilities."

“The President tasks the new appointee to proactively create avenues of opportunity for inclusion through the inculcation of PWD requirements and perspectives in the policies and programmes of all Ministries, Departments, and Agencies of the Federal Government while working closely with sub-national authorities to build a national consensus on PWD-friendly policy and environmental conditions in collaboration with the National Commission for Persons with Disabilities (NCPWD),” he added.

Iran Rejects G7 Calls To Stop Supporting Hamas

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Iran Rejects G7 Calls To Stop Supporting Hamas

The subsequent Israeli bombing campaign in Gaza has killed more than 10,500 people, two-thirds of them women and children, according to the Hamas-run health ministry.

Footage shows Palestinians checking the destruction in the aftermath of an Israeli strike on the Jabalia refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, on November 1, 2023, amid ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement. 

 

Iran on Thursday rejected a G7 statement which called on Tehran to stop supporting Hamas militants and taking actions that “destabilise” the Middle East.

Tehran’s comment came a day after foreign ministers from the G7 group of advanced economies, meeting in Tokyo, expressed support for “humanitarian pauses and corridors” in the Israeli-Hamas war.

Israeli air strikes have pounded the Palestinian territory of Gaza since Hamas gunmen stormed across the heavily militarised border on October 7 to kill more than 1,400 people, most of them civilians, and seize around 240 hostages, according to Israeli officials.

The subsequent Israeli bombing campaign in Gaza has killed more than 10,500 people, two-thirds of them women and children, according to the Hamas-run health ministry.

The G7 also called on Iran to “refrain from providing support for Hamas and taking further actions that destabilise the Middle East, including support for Lebanese Hezbollah and other non-state actors.”

On Thursday, Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani “strongly condemned” the statement by the group which includes the United States, Britain, Germany, Canada, Italy, France, and Japan.

He said Iran has engaged in “non-stop efforts to stop military attacks of the Zionist aggressor regime (Israel) on the defenceless citizens” in Gaza.

“What was expected from the meeting of the Group of 7 foreign ministers in Tokyo was to fulfill their international responsibility, including condemning the acts of the Zionist regime that violate human rights and international law in Gaza.”

Iran, which supports Hamas financially and militarily, has hailed the militant group’s attack on Israel as a “success” but denied any involvement.

President Ebrahim Raisi has said Iran sees it as “its duty to support the resistance groups” but insisted that they act independently.

Iran does not recognise Israel and has made support for the Palestinian cause a centrepiece of its foreign policy since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

Obi Deficiencies Beneficial Budget Says FG 'Unfeeling, Uncaring Toward Experiencing Nigerians'

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Obi Deficiencies Beneficial Budget Says FG 'Unfeeling, Uncaring Toward Experiencing Nigerians'

Obi said the President neglected to think about specific crises and squeezing needs of the country.

Peter Obi and President Bola Tinubu.

 

A day after President Bola Tinubu signed into law the N2.17trn supplementary budget, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has accused the Federal Government of being uncaring and insensitive to the suffering Nigerians.

Tinubu had on Wednesday consented to the Beneficial Appointment Act in Abuja to reinforce Nigeria's security engineering and address the basic framework shortfall, among different contemplations.

Be that as it may, taking to his X handle on Wednesday, Obi said the President neglected to think about specific crises and squeezing needs of the country.

The LP official up-and-comer said that going by the way the monetary designations were finished, Tinubu was clearly uninformed about the critical emergency in the country.

"No thing of critical social government assistance has yet highlighted in the advantageous financial plan being arranged by this administration. All things being equal, the things being made to overwhelm public talk on the budget incorporate a strange Official Yacht, Official Planes, the outfitting of currently extravagantly outfitted official quarters and workplaces, armadas of extravagance SUVs, and so on. This depicts an Administration that is absolutely inhumane and obtuse toward the enduring of the greater part, and unconcerned with the temperament of the country," the assertion read.

"Truly, a few things in the ongoing budget might not have thought about the requirements of another organization, yet it is normal that a strengthening financial plan this late in the monetary year ought to reflect for the most part pressing things of public government assistance.

"Unfortunately, the most squeezing public necessities and crises have not highlighted in the advantageous budget that was simply declared by the public authority. For instance, the Assembled Countries and World Food Program have as of late cautioned that up to 6.5 million Nigerians will go hungry one year from now.

"This number is to a great extent from among residents in Sokoto, Adamawa, Borno, Yobe, and Zamfara States. A mindful Government to anticipate the moderation of such forthcoming fiasco can demand for valuable financial plan arrangements to pad those under danger."

NNPCL Expresses Interest For Nigerian Crude Oil In Asia Plunged In the midst of Russia-Ukraine War

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NNPCL Expresses Interest For Nigerian Crude Oil In Asia Plunged In the midst of Russia-Ukraine War

Nigeria’s state oil company Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) says the lingering conflict between Russia and Ukraine has impacted Nigerian crude oil inflows in the international oil market, leading to a dip in demand from the once-dependable Asian market at the onset of hostilities in the Eastern bloc.

Executive Director, Crude Oil and Condensate, NNPC Trade Limited Maryamu Idris expressed this at a board show at the Argus European Rough Gathering in London.

She cleared up that furthermore for the significant cost shocks influencing ware and energy costs worldwide, the contention among Russia and Ukraine has set off a circumstance where India, an essential objective for Nigerian grades, expanded its hunger for limited Russian barrels to the inconvenience of a few Nigerian volumes.

 "To show the degree of this shift, Nigeria's crude oil commodities to India dwindled from roughly 250,000 barrels each day (bpd) in the a half year going before the February 2022 attack of Ukraine to 194,000 in the ensuing a half year subsequently. Thus far, this year, about 120,000 bpd of Nigerian crude oil volumes have advanced toward India," she said.

She anyway noticed that the Nigerian rough stream to Europe expanded in a bid to fill supply holes made by the prohibition on Russian unrefined, bringing up that a half year before the conflict, 678,000 bpd of Nigerian unrefined grades went to Europe, contrasted with 710,000 bpd a half year after the fact and 730,000 bpd up to this point this year.

"This pattern makes it clear that Nigerian grades are progressively turning into a huge part in the post-war range of European purifiers. A few Nigerian distillate-rich grades have turned into a consistent inclination for the majority European purifiers, given the shortfall of Russian Urals and diesel. Forcados Mix, Escravos Light, Bonga, and Egina have all the earmarks of being the most famous, and our most recent expansion — Nembe Rough - squeezes well into this bin. This was areas of strength for a behind our decision of London and the Argus European Rough Gathering as the best send off center point for the grade," Idris likewise said.

On creation challenges, Idris said like numerous other oil-delivering nations, Nigeria had confronted creation challenges exasperated by the Coronavirus pandemic, remembering decreased speculation for the upstream area, inventory network interruptions influencing upstream tasks, maturing oil fields, and oil burglary by deceitful components.

These elements, she expressed, added to creation decreases in the final part of 2022 and mid 2023.

Idris, but noticed that the difficulties are quick turning into a relic of days gone by with the presentation and execution of another structure for the homegrown petrol industry (the Oil Business Act 2021), restoring the business scene, and once again situating NNPCL to take on a more business way to deal with the administration of the country's hydrocarbon assets.

According to the, NNPCL has protected fundamental organizations with prominent monetary establishments to elevate upstream speculations to reestablish and reasonably develop creation limit before very long.

The Argus Crude Oil European Rough Gathering Board Meeting was held with the topic, 'The Undetectable Hand: How Can Investors and Resource Directors Meet the Rough Business? What's the significance here for the Fate of Rough in Europe?'

US Does New Negative marks Against Office Involved By Iran In Syria

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US Does New Negative marks Against Office Involved By Iran In Syria

The United States, for the second time in recent weeks, carried out strikes on Wednesday against a weapon storage facility in eastern Syria that the Pentagon said was used by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and affiliated groups. 

As pressures rise above the Israel-Hamas struggle, U.S. what's more, alliance troops have been gone after somewhere multiple times in Iraq and Syria by Iran-upheld powers starting from the beginning of October. 45 U.S. troops have experienced awful cerebrum wounds or minor injuries.

In an explanation, U.S. Safeguard Secretary Lloyd Austin said the strikes were led by two U.S. F-15 warriors and were in light of the new goes after against U.S. powers.

Austin said the assaults against U.S. troops should stop.

"In the event that assaults by Iran's intermediaries against U.S. powers proceed, we won't hold back to go to additional important lengths to safeguard our kin," Austin added.

A senior U.S. military authority, talking on the state of namelessness, said the military had watched the area in Deir al Zor territory for quite a while and was certain there were no regular citizen losses.

The authority said the military had followed a "couple" of individuals close to the office short-term, however they were not accepted to be regular folks and an examination was continuous to check whether anybody was killed.

The US has every so often did retaliatory negative marks against Iranian-moved powers in the area after they assault American powers.

On Oct. 26, U.S. powers went after two offices utilized by the IRGC and bunches its backs.

The US has 900 soldiers in Syria, and 2,500 additional in adjoining Iraq, determined to prompt and help nearby powers attempting to forestall a resurgence of Islamic State, which in 2014 held onto huge wraps of the two nations yet was subsequently crushed.

There is developing worry that the Israel-Hamas struggle could spread through the Center East and turn U.S. troops at separated bases into targets.

Prior on Wednesday, a U.S. MQ-9 robot was shot down close to Yemen by the Iran-adjusted Houthi development over the Red Ocean.