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Trump Would Be The Fourth President To Skip An Inauguration

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  President Trump said Friday that  he won’t attend  President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration on Jan. 20, making him the fourth outgoing president to avoid the  swearing-in ceremonies.  John Adams in 1801, John Quincy Adams in 1829 and Andrew Johnson in 1869 -- refused to attend their successors' inaugurations.   "One of the few things he and I've ever agreed on – him not showing up," Biden told reporters. Former presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton and their wives will be there to stand witness to the rite of democracy.   Former President Jimmy Carter and former first lady Rosalynn Carter will not attend President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration, a spokeswoman at The Carter Center in Atlanta said the Carters have sent Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris their "best wishes" and "look forward to a successful administration."

Lawmakers call for President Trump’s removal

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  U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar has written the articles of impeachment for President Donald Trump. In a tweet Thursday, Omar presented the resolution to impeach the president, saying, "We need to move quickly to remove this President from office." "The insurrection yesterday tells us that we are almost out of time," Omar said in a news conference Thursday. She added that "radical" and "violent" fractions could grow if left unchecked.  "What happened yesterday was unmistakenly a violent attempt to interrupt our Democratic processes," she said.  In a letter, Omar proposed to her fellow lawmakers to introduce the resolution. Omar said she was drawing up the articles after a large mob of President Trump supporters breached the U.S. Capitol Wednesday.  Five deaths have been linked to Wednesday’s chaos including  a Capitol Police officer that was injured during the pro-Trump riot.  The resolution is co-lead by Reps. David Cicilline, Ted Lieu, Al Gree

Pakistan Court Officially Forbid Virginity Tests For Rape Survivors

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  Lahore High Court in Pakistan has outlawed virginity tests on sexual assault survivors.  The ruling, which applies in Punjab province, will end the practice of physical checks for an intact hymen and the invasive "two-finger test". The Lahore High Court judge, Ayesha Malik said the tests were "humiliating" and "had no forensic value". The petition against the tests was filed in March and June 2020 by two lawyers along with activists, advocates, journalists and members of the National Assembly.  Punjab court had banned the two-finger test and in its Monday’s judgement, the same ban has been imposed on all other virginity tests. Activists  have been asking an end to virginity tests as part of the medical evaluation in rape cases, saying they have no scientific basis. Monday's ruling applies in Punjab but may serve as a sample for proceedings in other provincial high courts. A similar petition is currently pending in the Sindh High Court. Sameer Khosa,

Sex Party : Demolished Building Had No Valid Title, Permit – Kaduna Govt

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The Kaduna State government has made clear the motive for the demolition of Asher Kings and Queens Restaurant – the outfit rumored to be the venue of an aborted sex party in the state. The Director-General of the Kaduna State Urban Development and Planning Authority (KASUPDA), Ismail Umar-Dikko, made the explanation on Tuesday at a press conference in the state. It revealed that apart from violating COVID-19 protocols, the building located in Sabon Tasha area of Chikun Local Government had no valid title or development permit. Umar-Dikko added that the illegal status of the building became a very separate matter from the trigger event, the third-party elements who had planned and advertised an unlawful gathering purportedly at the restaurant. He stated that by virtue of various land administration and development control initiatives conceived and implemented in the last five years, there was no excuse for anyone in Kaduna State to remain without a valid title to their property and perm

Police Insists Ogun Commissioner Must Be Investigated Over Sexual Harassment

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Ogun State Government has suspended the Commissioner for Environment, Abiodun Abudu-Balogun, in the middle of investigation into an allegation of sexual harassment of a 16-year old girl, Barakat Mayowa Melojuekun. The Ogun State Police Command confirmed that the case has been transferred to the state Criminal Investigation Department as of Monday.  A 16-year-old girl from Ogun Waterside, Barakat Melojuekun on Saturday accused the Ogun Commissioner for Environment, Abudu-Balogun of sexually harassing her in his house.  The allegations brought about the suspension of the Commissioner by the Dapo Abiodun-led Ogun State Government on Sunday. Despite the fact that the father of   the teenager, Adesola Melojuekun said he was withdrawing the case, the  police in Ogun State said the issue is still under investigation.   “We are still investigating the sexual harassment allegation involving the Ogun State Commissioner for Environment and the case has been transferred to the state CID. “Whether

Why COVID-19 vaccine will be administered without clinical trial – NAFDAC

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                         Image Courtesy - The DigitalArt/Pixabay The National Agency for food and drug administration, NAFDAC, has said the planned roll-out of coronavirus vaccines in Nigeria, expected to begin in January will not be subjected to fresh clinical trials before they are administered to citizens. The spokesman of the agency, Sayo Akintola, who made this known during an interview with newsmen said local trials for the vaccine were unnecessary since the vaccine was already certified by the World Health Organisation. “The truth is that once a vaccine is approved by the WHO, it is assumed that it has passed through some preliminary stages of the trial. “It is a known fact that for the WHO to sanction a vaccine, it must have gone through a series of trials here and there,” he said. He, however, explained that a sample of the vaccine will be taken to the lab for its “safety and efficacy” to be ascertained before inoculation. Meanwhile, The Nigeria Medical Association NMA has ask

Group Demand Sacking Of FCMB Managing Director, Adam Nuru Over Marriage Scandal

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  The Group, known as   ‘Justice for Tunde Thomas’ has formerly started a petition on change.org   to the CBN, FCMB Board, and others, calling for Mr. Nuru’s dismissal over alleged marriage wrongdoing. A bout 1,500 persons have signed the said petition. The deceased husband has been identified as Tunde Thomas, the husband of Moyo Thomas, a staff member of FCMB, who Nuru was alleged to have had a romantic affair with. Thomas reportedly died of depression on December 16, 2020, after he discovered that Mr Nuru allegedly fathered their two children and not him, as a result of the affair. Tunde was buried 30th December 2020. Mrs Thomas resigned from FCMB and travelled to the US with the two children, seemingly on holiday and trying to file for asylum in the US on the ground of marital violence in Nigeria. Tunde got home from work in the night of 15th December only to collapse by his staircase and die immediately. Autopsy report puts the cause of death as heart failure.