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Presidency React to Buhari’s Death November 21, 2018 430 (Gowidenews) – T he Special Assistant to the President on Prosecution, Mr. Okoi Obono-Obla, has written to the Department of State Services and the Nigeria Police seeking the probe of an alleged peddler of false claim of the death of President Muhammadu Buhari. Acknowledgment copies of the separate letters addressed to the Director General of the DSS, Mr. Yusuf Bichi, and the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Ibrahim Idris, were obtained by The PUNCH on Tuesday. Copies of the letters dated November 14, 2018 were received at both the DSS and Police Force Headquarters in Abuja on November 6. Obono-Obla, whose office is domiciled in the Office of the Attorney-General of the Federation, specifically informed the heads of the security agencies in his petitions that one Bishop Eze Orieke made the false claim with purported documents from the London Bridge Hospital (Regional Medical Laboratory)...

Navy test-fires Israel missiles NOVEMBER 22, 2018 ABOARD BRP DAVAO DEL SUR: The Philippine Navy on Wednesday tested newly acquired missile systems from Israel, which Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana described as “impressive.” TEST MISSILE A multipurpose attack craft fires a Spike-Extended Range Missile during a live demonstration of the newly acquired missile system from Israel at the vicinity of Lamao Point, Bataan. PHOTO(Gowidenews) Navy personnel went on board the multipurpose attack crafts (MPACs) carrying the Israeli Spike-Extended Range (ER) missiles and weapons systems. Lorenzana was joined by Navy officials including Vice Admiral Robert Empedrad, the flag officer in command, on BRP Davao del Sur, which was used to observe the Mark III-class MPACs made in Subic free port. During the tests at Lamao Point in Bataan, the MPACs had three surface targets. Among the targets was the decommissioned patrol boat BRP Dionisio Ojeda. In the first exercise, the MPACs u...

HAMAS LEADER SINWAR’S DAYS ARE NUMBERED, GALLANT SAYS Play Video Gallant: "Hamas leader's days are numbered", November 21, 2018 (Gowidenews) According to Gallant, Hamas is at a “very dramatic junction,” in which it has to recalculate whether it wants to fight Israel or keep the calm of the past week. Israel is ready for a large-scale operation in Gaza if necessary, Housing and Construction Minister Yoav Gallant, a retired IDF major-general, said at  The Jerusalem Post  Diplomatic Conference in Jerusalem on Wednesday . “Let me say it to be clear: [Hamas leader in Gaza] Yihya Sinwar’s time is limited. He won’t finish his life in an old-age home,” Gallant said. According to the minister, Hamas is at a “very dramatic junction,” in which it has to recalculate whether it wants to fight Israel or keep the calm of the past week. “Look at what Israel did in the past 10 years: We closed off the sea, we closed maneuvering on the ground from...

Palestinian Court Sentences Two to 15 Years Imprisonment for Selling Land to Israelis  November 22, 2018 3:50 AM 22 NOV 3:50 AM (Gowidenews) The First Instance Court in Qalqilia, in the northern West Bank, on Wednesday, sentenced two Palestinians to 15 years in prison, with hard labor, after convicting them of selling Palestinian land to Israelis. The two, from the village of Kufr Thuluth, were part of a ring of land dealers involved in the attempt to sell lands in Jerusalem, Qalqilia, Nablus, Tulkarem and inside Israel, as well, to Israelis, in a deal that was supposed to have taken place last January. The Palestinian Preventive Security said, on its website, on Monday, that its units were able to arrest four people, one of them a lawyer, suspected of plotting to sell land to Israeli parties. While the Israeli parties were not identified, they were assumed to be settlers. According to WAFA, the organization said that one of the people involved was ...

Lebanese Army on Alert due to Israeli Threat Nov 21, 2018 (Gowidenews) Lebanese army commander Joseph Aoun on Wednesday ordered a combat alert in the country southern region against Israeli threats. The order by the military high command took into account that about 25 soldiers of the Tel Aviv regime crossed the border through the town of Wazzani and went to the east side of the river of the same name, the Lebanese National News Agency reported. According to the report, Israeli forces carried out a thorough search of the area for an hour, while a reconnaissance plane flew over southern Lebanese villages. Some few hours before, a Tel Aviv gunboat violated Lebanese territorial waters off the southern town of Ras al-Naqoura and maneuvered them for seven minutes. In view of these facts, the Lebanese army adopted combative positions and informed the UN Peacekeeping Forces in Lebanon, stationed in the area.

Netanyahu’s Ceasefire Is Meant To Keep Gaza Imprisoned   Nov 22, 2018 Share Tweet Pin Mail Palestinians in Gaza should have been able to breathe a sigh of relief last week, as precarious ceasefire talks survived a two-day-long, heavy exchange of strikes that threatened to unleash yet another large-scale military assault by Israel. Late on Tuesday, after the most intense bout of violence in four years, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Hamas, the Islamic movement that rules Gaza, approved a long-term truce brokered by Egypt. Both are keen to avoid triggering an explosion of popular anger in Gaza, the consequences of which would be difficult to predict or contain. The tiny enclave is on life support, having endured three devastating and sustained attacks by Israel, as well as a suffocating blockade, over the past decade. Thousands of homes are in ruins, the water supply is nearly undrinkable, electricity in short supply, and unemployment sky-high. But as ...

Australia joins US, Israel in refusing to sign UN migration pact Updated at  9:54 PM ET, Tue November 20, 2018 Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-O-Cha (left) looks on as Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison (center) talks with Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as they arrive to pose for a group photo in Singapore on November 14. (Gowidenews) —  Australia will not join a United Nations-backed global pact on migration, Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced Wednesday, citing concerns that the deal would be used to "undermine Australia's strong border protection laws and practices." The Morrison government's decision comes as countries from around the world move to formally adopt the " Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration " pact next month. The UN made the decision to come up with a global compact on migration in 2016, in the wake of the  crisis in the Mediterranean , which has seen thousands of migra...

HAMAS PREPARING FOR ISRAELI OPERATION DESPITE CEASEFIRE Hamas members (photo credit: Gowidenews) Last week, violence between Gaza and Israel escalated after a botched Israeli operation in the Strip led to an exchange of fire and the death of a senior Israeli officer. Palestinian terror organizations in the Gaza Strip are preparing for a possible military operation by Israel, the Lebanese newspaper  Al-Akhbar  reported on Tuesday, following  Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's hints  at what he called the "second stage of the last round in the Gaza Strip."  Meanwhile, Hamas and Islamic Jihad leaders were invited to Cairo to discuss several issues. According to reports from the coastal enclave, a Hamas delegation is scheduled to arrive in Cairo today, while an Islamic Jihad delegation will arrive in the Egyptian capital tomorrow to meet with intelligence chiefs in the country and discuss further understandings of the ceasefire between Israel and the...

' Multiple fatalities' after New Jersey mansion fire, Report Says Video Report: Multiple fatalities found at New Jersey mansion Responding to a structure fire, authorities discovered multiple fatalities at a mansion in Colts Neck, New Jersey. Multiple people were reported dead in New Jersey on Tuesday after a fire broke out at a mansion in Monmouth County, officials said.  The  county prosecutor's office   tweeted they were "on scene at a fire in Colts Neck, a city roughly 50 miles south of New York City, with multiple fatalities. Firefighters still working on fire." Monmouth Prosecutor @MonCoProsecutor # MCPONJ is on scene at a fire in Colts Neck with multiple fatalities. Firefighters still working on fire. Stay tuned for more details. 9 8:23 PM - Nov 20, 2018 Twitter Ads info and privacy 28 people are talking about this Twitter Ads info and privacy Further information from ...

Trump Defends Presidential Pardon: ‘This Was a Fair Election,’ But Loser ‘Refused to Concede’ | November 20, 2018 | 3:50 PM EST President Donald Trump defended his choice of a presidential pardon recipient on Tuesday. The pardon recipient was chosen in “an open and fair election,’ Trump assured reporters at a White House press event. And, after conducting a recount, “The result did not change,” Trump said after the losing candidate for the pardon refused to concede. “The winner of this vote was decided by a fair and open election conducted on the White House website. This was a fair election,” Trump said, announcing that “Peas,” not his opponent “Carrots,” had won the vote conducted on the White House website to determine which of the two turkeys would be pardoned from becoming a Thanksgiving Day dinner: “Unfortunately, Carrots refused to concede and demanded a recount. And, we’re still fighting with Carrots. And, I will tell you we’ve come to a...