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Gowidenews Daily Post N Biafra: How Lai Mohammed reacted to Nnamdi Kanu’s threat of returning to Nigeria with hell Published   on   October 24, 2018 By  gowidenews The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, on Wednesday, reacted to the threat by the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, that he will return to Nigeria with hell. Kanu, who resurfaced last week in Jerusalem after he went missing for about 12 months, had vowed to return to Nigeria with hell. But speaking when he featured in AIT’s Kakaaki programme, the Minister said no government will expend too much energy on Kanu. The Minister said the issue of Kanu was not something to “dwell too much on”. Mohammed said, “This is the same man that was claimed to be held by the military and I remember at the height of this saga, some many people wanted to hold the federal government responsible for the whe...

Palestinian stone-thrower reportedly killed by Israel during West Bank clashes  PA health ministry says 23-year-old Mohammed Bsharat was shot in the chest during confrontations in the village of Tamoun By gowidenews October 24, 2018, 10:52 am From the report reaching us says Palestinians clash with Israeli troops during a protest l in the West Bank City of Nablus,, Dec. 2017. Israeli troops have shot and killed a Palestinian youth who threw stones at them during West Bank clashes, according to the Palestinian health ministry. The ministry said 23-year-old Mohammed Bsharat was shot in the chest during confrontations with Israeli soldiers in the village of Tamoun in the northern West Bank. It said five other rioters were wounded by live fire. The Israeli military said 50 Palestinians instigated a riot during routine Israeli activity to locate illegal weapons, hurling rocks and fireworks at troops. The soldiers responded with riot dispersal means and live fire. Th...

Russia and U.S. discussed possible Putin visit to Washington:   By gowidenews 24 Oct, 2018 From the report reaching us says that Russia and the United States have discussed the possibility of President Vladimir Putin visiting Washington next year, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday. Peskov said that such a possibility was briefly touched upon during a visit by U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton to Moscow this week. No specific plans had yet been arranged, Peskov told reporters on a conference call. U.S. President Donald Trump and Putin plan to meet in Paris next month, officials said on Tuesday, their first encounter since a summit in Helsinki that unleashed a storm of criticism that Trump was cozying up to the Kremlin. 

By gowidenews October 24, 12:42 Lavrov added he hoped that a new meeting between the Russian, Turkish and Iranian leaders would mark further progress on Syria settlement. MOSCOW, October 24. /TASS/. Russia is getting ready to host a new Astana-format summit on Syria, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at a meeting with deputy foreign ministers of the Syrian ceasefire guarantor nations (the "Astana trio"). "Three summits have been held in Sochi, Tehran and Istanbul. Now it is our turn to prepare the next summit," he said. Lavrov added he hoped that a new meeting between the Russian, Turkish and Iranian leaders would mark further progress on the Syrian settlement.

Embattled Saudi Arabia pledges $6bn in aid for Pakistan By gowidenews Wed Oct 24, 2018 07:37 AM A handout image provided on September 20, 2018 shows Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (R) meeting with Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on September 19, 2018. Report reaching us says that Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan has received official pledges of a six-billion-dollar loan to his country from Saudi Arabia, whose top leadership is involved in an international crisis of credibility over possible involvement in the killing of a Saudi dissident. Saudi Arabia pledged three billion dollars in foreign currency support for a year, and a further loan worth up to another three billion dollars in deferred payments for oil imports, to Pakistan, the Pakistani government announced in a statement on Tuesday. The loan commitment was made in a memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed by Pakistan’s Finance Minister Asad Umer and Saudi Financ...

Lebanese Minister: Aoun, Bassil Are Replicating Civil War Phase By gowidenews 24 Oct, 2018 From the report received says that the Minister of State for the Displaced in the caretaker go... Beirut - Youssef Diab Minister of State for the Displaced in Lebanon’s caretaker government, Moeen al-Merehbi, accused President Michel Aoun and Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil of “re-producing the stage of civil war.” In an interview with Asharq al-Awsat, Merehbi warned of attempts to turn the role of the prime minister obsolete and distribute his powers to political components, which he said would bring about great differences within the cabinet. He accused a political party of trying to force the prime minister-designate to abandon his mission, pointing out that Saad Hariri’s renunciation to form a government “will be a catastrophic blow to the country.” Merehbi, a member of Hariri’s al-Mustaqbal Bloc, described disputes over government’s structure as “unacceptable”, noting that som...

Israeli-Arab entrepreneur Fadi Swidan addressing the Tel Aviv Stock Exchanger  Israeli-Arab seeks to build non-Jewish start-ups with top-secret help Entrepreneur Fadi Swidan wants to turn the city of Nazareth from 'Shwarma Valley into an Israeli-Arab Silicon Valley' By gowidenews October 24, 2018, 9:38 a.m Report reaching us says that An Israeli-Arab entrepreneur has drafted in veterans of the country’s ultra-secret 8200 intelligence unit to help build start-ups in the non-Jewish sector. And Fadi Swidan has a dream to turn Nazareth, a bustling city of 77,000 from “Shwarma Valley into an Israeli-Arab Silicon Valley”. Fadi established a business centre in the city in 2012 with government backing, to help find high-tech entrepreneurs among the Arab population. “Israeli Arabs make up around 20 percent of country’s population,” he said. “We have thousands of engineers, researchers or doctors, but we contribute only around 8 per cent to the country’s Gross Domestic ...

Palestinian minor shot, killed by Israeli forces in Gaza By gowidenews Oct. 24, 2018 11:00 A.M. (Updated: Oct. 24, 2018 11:00 A.M.) From our news report reaching us says A Palestinian minor succumbed to his wounds, late Tuesday, after he was shot and critically wounded by Israeli live ammunition during protests in the eastern Gaza Strip. The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza confirmed that 17-year-old Muntaser Ismail al-Baz was shot and wounded in the head by Israeli forces during protests near the Gaza borders, east of Deir al-Balah. The ministry said that al-Baz was transferred to the al-Shifa Hospital, where he had succumbed to his wounds shortly after. According to a report by the Geneva-based Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor (Euro-Med), as Gaza protests exceeded 200 days "one Palestinian is killed every single day" by Israeli forces, noting that "in every 100 Gazans, one injury was recorded." Euro-Med described the continued use of ...

Japanese journalist Jumpei Yasuda, kidnapped in Syria by al Qaeda in 2015, reportedly released By gowidenews 24 Oct, 2018 In the summer the kidnappers released a video in which he appeared tried and called for help from the government. Premier Abe: "relieved" by the news, awaiting official confirmation. The man would be in an immigrant center in Ankara. Japan paid  no ransom. The help of Qatar and Turkey. From our news channel reporting says, The 44-year-old freelance Japanese journalist Jumpei Yasuda, kidnapped in Syria more than three years ago by militias linked to al Nusra (local al Qaeda cell), has been freed and is in Turkey, say Japanese government sources.  The official "identification" is still pending, although Prime Minister Shinzo Abe shows cautious optimism and says he is "relieved" by the news. No ransom was paid for his release. Addressing the reporters, the Prime Minister thanked Qatar and Turkey for their contributions. "...

An IRGC commander reacts to S Arabia, Bahrain's latest statement  By gowidenews Oct. 23, 2018 Report reaching out to us says that The deputy chief of IRGC’s Sarallah Headquarters has condemned the Saudi Arabia and Bahrain’s action in issuing a statement against three IRGC commanders, saying their move was aimed at deflecting public attention from the brutal murder of Jamal Khashoggi. “Saudi Arabia is stuck in a quagmire from which it cannot get out easily, so they are looking for a escape forward by taking such actions,” deputy chief of IRGC’s Sarallah Headquarters Brigadier General Esmaeil Kosari said on Tuesday hours after a statement issued by Saudi security services put the names of Qassem Soleimani, commander of the Quds Force, and the force’s Hamed Abdollahi and Abdul Reza Shahlai on their self-proclaimed terror list. “The Saudis are seeking to deflect public attention in the region and the world from the Jamal Khashoggi’s case, the Saudi dissident journalist who...

Palestinian teenage boy succumbs to wounds sustained in Gaza border clashes  By gowidenews Tue Oct 23, 2018 07:42PM Slain Palestinian teenager Montaser Mohammed Ismail al-Baz (Photo by Arabic-language al-Ain news website) Slain Palestinian teenager Montaser Mohammed Ismail al-Baz (Photo by Arabic-language al-Ain news website) Report reaching us says that A Palestinian teenager has died after succumbing to wounds he sustained during at an anti-occupation protest near the border between the besieged Gaza Strip and Israeli-occupied territories. Spokesman for the Gaza Ministry of Health, Ashraf al-Qidra, said in a n a statement that 17-year-old Montaser Mohammed Ismail al-Baz succumbed to his Israeli-inflicted gunshot wounds at al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on Tuesday evening. He had been shot and injured in the head during a “The Great March of Return” demonstration east of Deir al-Balah city, located over 14 kilometers (8.7 miles) south of Gaza City. Palestinian s...

IDF: Gazan tried to get arrested by entering Israel with knife to escape Strip  By gowidenews 23 Oct, 2018 Report reaching us says that the Military picks up Palestinian who breached security fence; during interrogation, he says he wanted to be detained in order to stay in Israel By Judah Ari Gross Today, 4:59 pm 0 Illustrative. A Gazan takes bolt cutters to a border fence in footage released by the IDF from May 14 violence at the border (Israel Defense Forces) Illustrative. A Gazan takes bolt cutters to a border fence in footage released by the IDF from May 14 violence at the border (Israel Defense Forces) A Palestinian man who crossed into Israel from the Gaza Strip on Monday was deliberately trying to be arrested in order to remain in Israel, the military said Tuesday. The Gazan man was spotted by troops as he breached the security fence in the southern Strip on Monday afternoon. He was arrested shortly after entering Israeli territory. A knife was found on the gro...