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Iranian Government Stages Military Exercises a Day After Their Sanctions Took off ATTA KENARE/AFP/Getty Images 6th Nov,  2018 In our news report center says that the Iranian Government carried out a large-scale of military drill on Monday in an apparent effort to intimidate the United States as the Trump administration restored a wave of sanctions lifted under the 2015 nuclear deal. The Iranian regime-aligned Tasnim News Agency  reports , “Air Defense units from the Iranian Army and the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) launched a large-scale joint military exercise on Monday.” On Sunday, Maj. Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari, the top military chief in Iran, warned Trump against overreaching when dealing with the Islamic Republic,  according  to Al Jazeera. While addressing a rally marking the anniversary of the seizure of the American embassy during the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Gen. Jafari declared: I want to say something to America a...

Saudis sent experts team to remove Khashoggi death evidence under guise of helping with investigation, Turkish official blast Angrily PUBLISHED 6th NOVEMBER, 2018 In our news report says that More than a week after Saudi agents killed journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul, Saudi Arabia sent an expert team to clean up evidence of the crime, under the guise of helping with the investigation, a senior Turkish official said Monday – the latest twist in a case that has caused an international uproar. A pro-government newspaper, Sabah, published news of the Saudi cleanup team and photographs of two of its members, whom it identified as a chemist and a toxicologist, who visited the Saudi consulate where Khashoggi was killed. The senior Turkish official confirmed the main details of the report and said the Saudi team was sent with the knowledge of top Saudi officials. The two men travelled to Turkey for the sole purpose of cov...

World Bank’s $611m to support Out-of-School children in Nigeria In our news center,say s that The World Bank has said that that $611 million released for the Better Education Service Delivery for All (BESDA) operation in Nigeria was meant for supporting the country in strengthening the Universal Basic Education (UBE) programme and out-of-school children challenges. The World Bank Task Team Leader in charge of the Better Education Service Delivery For All (BESDA), Hajiya Aisha Garba, stated this on at the flag-off of the BESDA held, in Birnin-Kebbi, Hajia Garba said this while on a visit to Governor Atiku Abubakar Bagudu of Kebbi State, recently Garba, who is also an Education Specialist with the Bank, noted that the fund was also to address the first pool of the Federal Ministry of Education’s ‘Ministerial Strategic Plan 2016-19 on out-of- school children “The objective of BESDA is to increase equitable access for out-out-school children, improve literacy in focus states, a...

WAEC Headquarters in Ghana said has no record of Buhari’s certificate By gowidenews On November 3, 2018 Following the presentation of attestation certificate to President Muhammadu Buhari by the Registrar of West African Examination Council (WAEC) in Abuja yesterday,  the Number one bestselling author and former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Pastor Reno Omokri has  described the development as pure garbage, maintaining that President Buhari has no WAEC certificate. Pastor Reno Omokri. According to the report which says that Pastor Omokri who said this on his viral Facebook page said even the Headquarters of WAEC had confirmed in 2015 that it had no record of Buhari as one who had written its exams. President Buhari has come under serious criticisms, especially from members of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, who have continued to maintain that Buhari does not have WAEC certificate and so, is not eligible to vie for elective position much le...

AYU calls for halting war, lifting siege on Yemen  By gowidenews 03/November/2018 In our news report center says that The General Secretariat of the Arab Youth Union (AYU) called on Saturday for ending the war in Yemen and lifting the siege imposed on it. AYU's Secretariat confirmed in a statement at the conclusion of its meeting in Algeria, the need to communicate with all international organizations and United Nations humanitarian agencies to alleviate the suffering of the Yemeni people and to help to avert an unprecedented humanitarian disaster. The statement pointed to the suffering of the Yemenis due to military operations and air strikes targeting civilians, infrastructure and public services, in addition to the unjust siege and the closure of land, sea and air ports. It called for returning to dialogue and moving towards a political settlement and national reconciliation to ensure Yemen's independence, security, sovereignty and unity. The AUY General Sec...

Afghanistan: US soldier killed in 'insider' attack in Kabul By gowidenews 3 Nov, 2018     48 minutes ago In our news Report reaching us says that, One US soldier has been killed and another injured in an apparent insider attack in Afghanistan, the Nato-led mission in the country says. Initial reports suggest the assailant in Kabul was a member of the Afghan armed forces and he was "immediately killed" by fellow soldiers, it says. The injured US soldier is stable. This is being seen as the latest so-called "green-on-blue" attack, in which members of the Afghan forces have killed US or coalition soldiers. No group has so far claimed responsibility for Saturday's attack. Last month, US Gen Scott Miller escaped unhurt when a bodyguard opened fire on a group of US and Afghan officials in the southern Kandahar province. The local police chief was killed in that attack, which was later claimed by the Taliban. In August, a suicide bomber k...

Russia vows to continue oil trade with Iran despite US sanctions By gowidenews Fri Nov 2, 2018 Report reaching us says that the Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak says his country will help Iran counter fresh US sanctions due to come into effect late this week, saying Moscow will continue trading Tehran’s crude in defiance of Washington. "We believe we should look for mechanisms that would allow us to continue developing cooperation with our partners, with Iran," Novak told the Financial Times. The US plans to impose a second round of sanctions against Iran on Sunday, months after Washington scrapped the 2015 multilateral deal, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), reached between Iran and the P5+1 group of countries. The first round of the bans – which had been lifted under the nuclear deal -- was re-imposed in August. The administration of US President Donald Trump has warned Russia against any move that could help Iran evad...

Erdogan: Saudi King Didn't Order Khashoggi Hit, but 'Highest Levels' of Govt Did  By gowidenews 22:04 02.11.2018 (updated 22:30 02.11.2018) Report reaching us says that the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday in a Washington Post op-ed that "we know that the order to kill [Jamal] Khashoggi came from the highest levels of the Saudi government." "I do not believe for a second that King Salman, the custodian of the holy mosques, ordered the hit on Khashoggi," the Turkish president wrote Friday in the Post, a publication to which Saudi journalist Khashoggi contributed before he was killed in early October in Istanbul. Pictures of Saudi Journalist Khashoggi © REUTERS / Murad Sezer Khashoggi Fiancé Seeks Trump Help Recovering Body For Proper Islamic Burial Erdogan stressed that in light of this, there was "no reason to believe that his murder reflected Saudi Arabia's official policy," so "it would be wrong t...

Russia: Terrorists to stage chemical provocation in Hama  By gowidenews, Nov 3, 2018 Report reaching says that the  Russian Defense Ministry revealed information confirming that terrorist organizations have transported two containers of chlorine substance to a granary , west of Hama province to stage a new chemical attack and accuse the Syrian Arab Army of launching it. Sputnik quoted the head of Russian Reconciliation Center based in Hmeimim, Lt. Gen. Vladimir Savchenko as saying on Thursday that the terrorists delivered two containers with chlorine to a granary in the northern part of al-Madeeq castle. They are planning to use the chlorine substance to stage a chemical attack and accuse the Syrian Army of committing it.

UN condemns Boko Haram IDP attack  By gowidenews 02 November 2018   |   11:15 am Report reaching us says that, After the attack on an internally displaced persons (IDP) camp in Maiduguri, Borno State by terrorist group Boko Haram on Wednesday, the United Nations have condemned the attacks by the group and urged the Nigerian government improve in its duty of securing lives of its people. The attack by Boko Haram on an IDP camp that accommodates 12,600 civilians led to the death of at least eight persons and the abduction of several women. The insurgents also carried out attacks on four other communities in the state, namely Kofa, Mallumti, Ngomari and Gozari on Wednesday. In a statement issued by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA), the UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Nigeria, Edward Kallon, decried the attack while sympathising with the victims of the attack. “Attacks on camps for internally displaced peopl...

Jamal Khashoggi’s Body Dissolved After Dismemberment, Turkish Official Says “The reason they dismembered his body is to dissolve it easier,” an adviser to Turkey’s president said.  By gowidenews 11/02/2018 Report reaching us says that The body of journalist Jamal Khashoggi may have been dissolved in acid after he was killed at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, an adviser to Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan told a Turkish newspaper this week. The adviser, Yasin Aktay, said that’s why the body of Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist and U.S. resident, was cut into pieces. Khashoggi disappeared shortly after entering the consulate Oct. 2 to obtain documents for his planned marriage, with Saudi officials giving shifting explanations for his death. “According to the latest information we have, the reason they dismembered his body is to dissolve it easier,” Aktay said in a statement to the Hurriyet Daily News, Reuters and the BBC reported Friday. The statement bolsters a r...

Pakistani cleric known as 'father of the Taliban' killed in knife attack. By gowidenews 2 Nov, 2018 Report reaching us says that Pakistani cleric, Samiul Haq attends a briefing in Islamabad, Pakistan, on Feb. 3, 2014. Pakistani police said on Friday, Nov. 2, 2018, that Haq, who was known as "father of the Taliban," was killed in a knife attack in his bedroom at home in the garrison city of Rawalpindi. ISLAMABAD — Pakistani police and the family of prominent cleric Maulana Samiul Haq, who also was known as the "father of the Taliban," say he has been killed in a knife attack at his home in the garrison city of Rawalpindi. Haq's son, Hamidul Haq, says his father was killed Friday. Yousaf Shah, Haq's spokesman, said the attacker's identity and their motive were not immediately known. Haq was the head of his faction of the Jamiat-e-Ulema Islam party. The religious scholar was the founder of the famous Haqqania seminary, where dozens of...