GRAPHITTI NEWS collates national and
international highlights from late-breaking news, up-coming events and the
stories that will be talked about Wednesday:
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Participants observe a moment of meditation
during the first plenary meeting of the 69th session of the UN General
Assembly, at the UN headquarters in New York, on Sept. 16, 2014. The UN General
Assembly started its 69th session at the UN Headquarters in New York on
Tuesday. (Xinhua/Niu Xiaolei)
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1.
ATIKU SAYS NIGERIA’S FUTURE SHOULD NOT BE SUBJECTED TO ‘LEADERSHIP
EXPERIMENTATION’
Former
Vice President Atiku Abubakar has said the future of Nigeria should not be
subjected to “leadership experimentation”, insisting that there is leadership
vacuum in the country.
Speaking
at his formal presidential declaration on Wednesday in Abuja on the platform of
the All Progressives Congress (APC), the former vice president expressed
optimism that the opposition party will form the next government in 2015.
This
will be the third time Atiku will run for the presidency in this Fourth
Republic, the first as standard bearer of the defunct Action Congress of
Nigeria (ACN) in 2007 where he lost to the late President Umaru Yar’Adua in the
2007 presidential poll as well as presidential aspirant of the PDP in 2011
where he was defeated by incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan at the party’s
presidential primaries.
2.
WE’RE FINDING IT DIFFICULT TO FISH OUT IGWE’S KILLER — LAGOS CP
The
Lagos State Police Command yesterday said it is having challenges
with the investigation into the death of late Vice-Chairman of The
Sun Publishing Limited, Mr Dimgba Igwe who was knocked down by a hit-and-run
driver three weeks ago in Ago-Okota area of the state.
The
late Igwe, 58, was reportedly jogging when he was hit by a vehicle.
He
was moved to the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, LASUTH, for surgical
emergency, unfortunately, he did not survive.
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Late Igwe
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Speaking
with newsmen yesterday, the CP, Kayode Aderanti, disclosed that the killer
driver was yet to be apprehended despite intensified efforts.
Part
of the difficulty faced by operatives of the State Criminal Investigation
Department ,SCID, Yaba, according to the CP, was inability to get
information from eye-witnesses.
According
to him: “My presence at the Sun Publishing Limited shows the commitment of the
Inspector-General of Police over the death of the veteran journalist.
‘’I
have transferred the case to SCID for a thorough and comprehensive
investigation because I want to take it beyond mere hit-and-run. I have even
involved operatives of SARS.
‘’I
am using this medium to appeal to members of the public to avail us with
information because we tried to identify the kind of vehicle that knocked him
down. So far, the information we have is scanty.
“That
brings to mind the culture of having Closed-Circuit Television, CCTV, in our
houses. This should not be left to government alone. Individual houses should
also learn to install them in their premises.
If
we had CCTV around, somebody, somewhere would have captured the incident and
within 24 hours, we would have been able to solve this issue.”
He
also appealed to the driver of the vehicle that knocked down the late
Igwe to come forward and give himself to the police, recalling that; “ A
similar incident happened in Area ‘A’ sometime ago, where the driver showed up
by himself in my office then, saying he was the one that hit the person in
question. He said he had not been able to sleep since the incident occurred.
2.
WORLD LEADERS MEET AT UN FACING TURMOIL FROM MULTIPLE CRISES, WITH FEW
SOLUTIONS
Facing
a world in turmoil from multiple crises ranging from wars in the Mideast and
Africa to the deadly scourge of Ebola and growing Islamic radicalism, leaders
from more than 140 countries open their annual meeting at the United Nations on
Wednesday with few solutions.
The
issue certain to top the agenda is the threat from Islamic terrorists intent on
erasing borders, with the first U.S. and Arab airstrikes in Syria delivered
Monday night in response.
Many
diplomats hope that crisis won't drown out the plight of millions of civilians
caught in conflicts in Syria, Iraq, Central African Republic, South Sudan,
Ukraine and Gaza; the misery of the largest number of refugees since World War
II; and global support for new U.N. goals to fight poverty and address climate
change.
Looking
at the array of complex challenges, Norway's Foreign Minister Borge Brende told
The Associated Press: "It's unprecedented in a decade, that’s for
sure."
He
pointed to an unprecedented situation in which the U.N. and international
donors are confronting four top-level humanitarian crises at the same time in
Iraq, Central African Republic, South Sudan and Syria, which is now in the
fourth year of a civil war which the U.N. says has killed more than 190,000
people.
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Radical cleric Abu Qatada is pictured behind the
bars at the state security court in Amman, Jordan. (AFP/STR)
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3.
JORDANIAN COURT ACQUITS RADICAL CLERIC ABU QATADA OF PLOTTING ATTACKS ON AMERICANS,
ISRAELIS
A
Jordanian court on Wednesday acquitted radical Muslim preacher Abu Qatada —
known for his fiery pro-al-Qaida speeches — of involvement in a plot to target
Israeli and American tourists and Western diplomats in Jordan more than a
decade ago.
The
ruling capped a lengthy legal odyssey for the 53-year-old cleric who has been
described as a onetime lieutenant to Osama bin Laden, but in recent months
emerged as a harsh critic of the Islamic State militant group. Abu Qatada was
deported from Britain to Jordan last year, after years of fighting extradition.
The
three-judge panel unanimously acquitted Abu Qatada "because of the lack of
convincing charges against him," said Judge Ahmed Qattarneh.
The
gray-bearded Abu Qatada sat on a bench in a cage in the courtroom, largely
blocked from view by black-clad riot policemen lining the case. When the
verdict was announced he briefly punched his left fist in the air.
Several family members
jumped up from their seats, one calling out "Allahu Akbar," or
"God is great."
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