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Alaibe’s congratulatory message insulting, unacceptable – Diri

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The Governor of Bayelsa State, Douye Diri, has condemned as half-hearted the congratulatory message of Ndutimi Alaibe following last Tuesday’s Supreme Court’s dismissal of his appeal. 
 
He said that Alaibe, who was an aspirant in the September 3, 2019 Peoples Democratic Party’s governorship primary that he (Diri) won, went too far in his bid to unseat him. 
 
A statement by the acting Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Mr Daniel Alabrah, said Diri rejected Alaibe’s felicitations while addressing the State Working Committee of the PDP, which paid him a solidarity visit in Government House, Yenagoa, on Monday. 
 
 The statement quoted Diri as describing Alaibe’s statement issued by his personal assistant, Enize Ogio, as “insulting and totally unacceptable.” 
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Diri, who demanded a new message from Alaibe, noted that in line with the Supreme Court judgement, nobody was bigger than the party, including himself. 
 
The governor was quoted as saying, “I hereby reject that insulting message from one Enize Ogio. I hereby reject it in totality, and the PDP rejects it too. If they accept our olive branch, they should issue a new statement to let the PDP and the government of Bayelsa know that they are still members of our party.”

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Buzzing Nigerian entrepreneur commits suicide over rape accusation

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A creative designer and founder of Uhuru Designz, a United States of America-based clothing company, Izuchukwu Madubueze (simply known as Izu), has taken his own life over an allegation of sexual assault. 
 
Izu, who resided in Tampa, Florida, reportedly moved to the US some years ago. 
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Our source who read Ekene’s status update, indicating that his phone was ‘blowing up’ from multiple calls, as he asked his friends to send him text messages. 
 
He had yet to respond to a text message from our correspondent. 
 
Izu reportedly graduated from King’s College, Lagos, in 2013, before getting a scholarship to study at the University of Florida. 
 
The King’s College Old Boys’ Association confirmed his death on its Twitter page. 
 
It was gathered that a Twitter influencer and female rights activist, Nanichi Anese, added Izu’s name to a list of sexual offenders on the social media late June 2020. 
 
She claimed to have received information from some anonymous ladies, who alleged that the victim sexually assaulted them. 
 
Izu, who was contacted by friends, who saw the post, reached out to Anese, demanding the identities of his accusers. 
 
However, Anese allegedly declined the request, saying she had sworn to protect the ladies. 
 
After failed efforts to clear his name, the victim was said to have taken his own life. 
 
Izu announced his own death on Twitter using Crowdfire App, an application which allows users to schedule their posts. 
 
“Oh and if you’re reading this, I’m dead lol,” he wrote on July 17, 2020. 
 
As reactions trickled in, his accuser, Anese @nanichianese, claimed she had spoken to him and they had apologised to each other. 
 
When the criticisms increased, she deactivated her Twitter account. 
 
However, before deactivating the account, Anese said her intentions were noble. 
 
“I’m aching right now and have so many thoughts, so much anger, pain, guilt, sadness. But this isn’t about me. It never has been. For those of you healing so many wounds right now, I’m sorry if any of your pain has come at my hands. This is the last of what I would ever wanted and I am really struggling because my friend is gone,” she wrote. 
 
Findings from earlier tweets by @nanichianese showed that she had listed the names of some men, including Izu, accusing them of sexual assault. 
 
She urged them to have some “introspection” on their past dealings and seek the forgiveness of their former girlfriends. 
 
“I have remained steadfast and will continue. No stories will be released, no names will be released. I stand by that and will not waiver. Deal with that as you see fit and do not attach me to anything. But this thread will live on,” she wrote on her timeline. 
 
Izu, in a private message to Anese, whom he said was a friend, demanded details of the allegations against him. 
 
He lamented that a lot of people had been calling him after seeing his name on the list. 
 
Anese said she was told “the harassment was not physical.” 
 
“Again, thanks for your response; I thought we had a better relationship than this Nani, but it’s cool, I can’t shoot the messenger. No one comes to mind still. My phone is blowing up, and I myself, I’m still shocked. If you could let the person know I sincerely apologized for any way I harassed them that’d be greatly appreciated. If they need to talk, they can reach me on (phone number). Feel free to post this too,” he wrote. 
 
However, Anese said the victim declined to speak with him. 
 
Izu expressed frustration at the accusation and released private messages of a lady, who asked to date him in 2017. 
 
He said while he did not wish to discredit any supposed victim’s story, his efforts at knowing his offence had been futile. 
 
“I am still pretty clueless as to who this is, so if you feel comfortable enough, please feel free to reach out to me so I can understand wherever I went wrong and make amends and do better overall,” he wrote. 
 
His friend, Greyhood, told our correspondent that Izu later killed himself. 
 
He said, “He schooled in the University of Florida, where he studied something like Criminology or so. He was staying in a small apartment before he moved to a big warehouse as his company was doing fine. He was a great guy with strong will. He moved to the US more than four years now on scholarship. 
 
“It was actually over there that the rape allegation trended. The woman compiling the list of the supposed sexual offender is also in the United States. 
 
“I went on Twitter and saw the whole story and how he pleaded to know the accusers and even brought out his past relationships, saying he had never abused anyone in his life. 
 
“His friends close to him in Florida confirmed that he’s dead. The Crowdfire app he used to post his death allows people to schedule their posts. So, it dropped online after he took his own life.” 
 
A petition on change.org calling for the prosecution of Anese had been signed by over 5,000 people. 
 
Thousands of Nigerians on Twitter also called for justice for the victim, with the hashtag #JusticeforIZU, trending for hours.

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About 80,120 people have died from coronavirus in Brazil since the pandemic started, new figures from the country’s health ministry reveal on Monday. 
 
Since Sunday, 632 people are reported to have died. The total number of infections in Brazil is now 2,118,646 – an increase of 20,257 since Sunday. 
 
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Along with President Jair Bolsonaro, two members of his cabinet announced they tested positive for the virus on Monday. 
 
The Brazilian Minister of Education, Milton Ribeiro, announced he tested positive for Covid-19 and just hours earlier, Brazil’s Minister of Citizenship Onyx Lorenzoni tweeted that he had tested positive. 
 
According to CNN, some state health secretaries in Brazil have reported issues in sending local data to the national health ministry in recent days. 
 
On Friday, Mato Grosso’s state health secretary said a systems migration of data did not affect its disclosure of the number of confirmed cases and deaths reported. On Saturday, Rio de Janeiro state did not register numbers for the national tally. Rio de Janeiro’s state health secretary said the issue has been fixed. 
 
The state health secretaries of Goias and Rondonia said difficulties in registering their data may have been caused by problems in the health ministry system.

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Bordeaux forward, Samuel Kalu, has tested positive for COVID-19, becoming the second Super Eagles star to contract the disease after Genk striker, Paul Onuachu. 
 
The Nigerian has been in quarantine in France since returning from the West African nation, and a report from AFP confirmed that Kalu was the player announced by the club to have contracted COVID-19 on July 6. 
 
The club did not disclose the name of the infected player when they made the announcement. 
 
The winger has missed the team’s training sessions since the opening of camp and might be left out of some of the club’s pre-season games. 
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Kalu, according to reports, is expected to rejoin the rest of the squad on July 27 if his test returned negative. 
 
His compatriot, Onuachu, who tested positive for coronavirus on July 8, has since been confirmed negative, according to results from his last tests. 
 
During the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations in Egypt, Kalu was taken to hospital on the eve of Nigeria’s opening match after he slumped during training. A medical report revealed he had suffered from severe dehydration.