The fall of Sudan’s strongman Omar Al-Bashir yesterday elicited reactions from the global community with Mali’s Prime Minister Moussa Mara saying his “departure” shares the same principle with that of Algeria’s 82-year-old Abdelaziz Bouteflika who resigned as president following weeks of protest by citizens.

Mara, in a statement issued in response to an enquiry by The Guardian, said the increasingly young and connected (and therefore demanding) African population would be less and less tolerant of leaders as “special situations” become “detonators of these movements.”

“When a president, after 30 years in power, is still struggling to allow a regular supply of basic necessities in his country and takes unbearable measures for the purse of the weakest, he will face a popular movement,” Mara told The Guardian through one of his aides.
Read more at; https://newsbreakers.ng/fall-of-sudans-strongman-sends-signals-to-cameroon-uganda-others/



Presidential Poll: FG Warns Atiku Against Overheating Polity Through Self-Help

The Federal Government on Thursday warned the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alh. Atiku Abubakar against resorting to self-help over the outcome of the February 23 presidential election.

The Federal Government issued the warning through its Minister of Information and Culture, Alh. Lai Mohammed during a press briefing in Abuja on Thursday, April 11, 2019.

This is coming few days after posters with the inscriptions, ‘’The Pukka, H E Atiku Abubakar, The Real and the Right’’ resurfaced across major streets in Abuja.
Read more at; https://newsbreakers.ng/presidential-poll-fg-warns-atiku-against-overheating-polity-through-self-help/


Texas Politician Seeks Law to Penalise Men Who Masturbate

Masturbation is likely to become a crime in the forthcoming months in the US state of Texas.

The act called the “Man’s Right to Know Act” ensures that any man who produces or releases semen outside of sex pays $1000 (N360,000).

American politician, Jessica Farrar, has requested the court to ensure that any man who is caught masturbating pays a fine of $1000 (N360,000) if caught in the act.
Read more at; https://newsbreakers.ng/texas-politician-seeks-law-to-penalise-men-who-masturbate/


Fears of Clashes in Sudan as Protesters Defy Military Curfew

Large crowds have remained on the streets of the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, ignoring a night-time curfew declared by the country’s new military council.

Long-time President Omar al-Bashir was overthrown and arrested on Thursday after months of street protests.
‘SAME REGIME’

But demonstrators say the military council is part of the same regime.

The fresh stand-off has raised fears of a violent confrontation between protesters and the army.
Read more at; https://newsbreakers.ng/fears-of-clashes-in-sudan-as-protesters-defy-military-curfew/



NYSC DG Warns Corps Members Against Unnecessary Travelling

The Director General of the National Youth Service Corps, Brigadier General Suleiman Kazaure has called on Corps members against unnecessary travelling.

Kazaure made this call when he visited corps members at the NYSC permanent Orientation camp Afikpo, Ebonyi state on Thursday, April 11, 2019.

Represented by Mrs. Nnenna Ukonu, Director, NYSC Corps Mobilisation Department, Kazaure lamented the number of deaths during travels in recent years.
Read more at; https://newsbreakers.ng/nysc-dg-warns-corps-members-against-unnecessary-travelling/



JAMB Arrests Professor For Exam Malpractice in Abuja

A man who claimed to be a professor, Jide Jisus, has been arrested for alleged examination malpractice during the ongoing Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).

According to the examination board, Jide was arrested by operatives of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps on Thursday, April 11, 2019.

Speaking on the arrest, the examination board noted that the man snuck into the Computer-Based Test Centre in Jabi trying to assist his daughter but was later arrested by operatives and is now in their custody.
Read more at; https://newsbreakers.ng/jamb-arrests-professor-for-exam-malpractice-in-abuja/

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Cameroon and Sudan revolutions are long over due