its like another
tribal war zone

About 40 crocodiles killed a Cambodian man on Friday after he fell into their enclosure on his family's reptile farm, police said.

Luan Nam, 72, was trying to move a crocodile out of a cage where it had laid eggs when it grabbed the stick he was using as a goad and pulled him in.

The main group of reptiles then set about him, tearing his body to pieces and leaving the concrete enclosure at the farm in Siem Reap awash with blood.

"While he was chasing a crocodile out of an egg-laying cage, the crocodile attacked the stick, causing him to fall into the enclosure," Mey Savry, police chief of Siem Reap commune, told AFP.

"Then other crocodiles pounced, attacking him until he was dead," he said, adding that the remains of Luan Nam's body were covered with bite marks.

One of the man's arms was bitten off and swallowed by the crocodiles, he said.

Luan Nam was the president of the local crocodile farmers' association but his family may now sell his stock, after urging him for years to stop raising the reptiles, commune chief May Sameth told AFP.

Local media reported that the victim was from Po Banteay Chey village.

A two-year-old girl was killed and eaten by crocodiles in 2019 when she wandered into her family's reptile farm in the same village, the police chief said.

There are a number of crocodile farms around Siem Reap, the gateway city to the famed ruins of Angkor Wat.

The reptiles are kept for their eggs, skins and meat as well as the trade in their young.

The incident marks at least the second person killed by a crocodile this month. In early May, the remains of a missing 65-year-old fisherman in Australia were found inside two crocodiles.

https://news.yahoo.com/man-killed-40-crocodiles-pounced-102749317.html

Thursday is Africa Day.

Thousands of people have gone out of their way to use this day to formally celebrate the rich history and cultural diversity of Africa.

This is the 60th year of Africa Day celebrations since Africa’s first post-independence continental institution The Organisation of African Unity OAU whose Charter was adopted on May 25, 1963.

Media personalities, political parties and Africans from around the world took to social media to share images of them in their traditional regalia and to share what this day means to them.
https://www.citizen.co.za/witness/news/celebrating-africa-day/

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ON CORRUPTION!!!

Ukraine is to Europe, what Nigeria is to Africa

I'm from Ogun.
We work and hussle in Lagos and we all come home to party for weekend.
Fair enough!!!
On a flip side,
I keep on saying,OGUN is to Lagos,
what KOGI is to Abuja, developmental wise.You get the gist.

This experience cuts across all Africa.
Talk to Diaspora-Ghana.Kenya, Senegal e.t.c so so same story.

when you have more ambulances than doctors and nurses.

Finally dislodging Tinubu from lagos.
Pa George couldn't achieve in years.
Thanks to Obi.

stunning!!!

the preponderance of news media in SW creates the illusion of front runner for the major yoruba candidates. not until the results from middle belts and core north start rolling in.then all hell will break loose.

Nigeria and Rwanda became the first African nations to sign the Artemis Accords this week during the first-ever U.S.-Africa Space Forum.

The Artemis Accords are a broad non-binding framework that lay out agreements for responsible and peaceful international exploration of the moon. NASA Administrator Bill Nelson announced the addition of Nigeria and Rwanda to this agreement on the first day of the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit in Washington DC (Dec. 13 - Dec. 15), of which the inaugural space forum was a part.

The United States State Department later issued a statement(opens in new tab) commemorating the addition of Nigeria and Rwanda to the agreement. "Nigeria and Rwanda became the first African nations to sign the Artemis Accords. Participants in the Forum, which was part of the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit, discussed how to further shared goals through the peaceful exploration and use of outer space," the statement reads.
The Accords were signed by Minister of Communications and Digital Economy Isa Ali Ibrahim on behalf of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and by Rwanda Space Agency CEO Francis Ngabo on behalf of the Republic of Rwanda, according to the statement.

"Signatories commit to principles to guide their civil space activities, including the public release of scientific data, responsible debris mitigation, registration of space objects, and the establishment and implementation of interoperability standards," the State Department's statement continues.

https://www.space.com/artemis-accords-first-african-nations-rwanda-nigeria

This is a matter of verifiable evidence.
Abiodun's road infrastructural development pale in comparison to Amosun's across all the senatorial districts in Ogun state.
The capital city Abeokuta can fairly compare favorably well among all state capitals across the country now largely because of Amosun's effort.
Mr. Abiodun should stop blowing smoke into the eyes of innocent folks

With campaigning underway for Nigeria’s 2023 election, the ruling APC is fending off questions over the health of its presidential candidate, former Lagos governor Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who has been out of the country.

The health of candidates is sensitive in Nigeria, especially after President Muhammadu Buhari himself spent months away for treatment in his first term, and in 2010, President Umaru Yar'Adua died in office after a long illness.

Nicknamed the "Godfather of Lagos" for his political clout, Tinubu is in a tight race against three major rivals to succeed Buhari, who steps down after two terms governing Africa’s most populous state.

Conspicuously absent for the signing of a symbolic peace agreement with other candidates last week, Tinubu’s health has come under scrutiny with some asking why he was away.

The 70-year-old candidate sought to reassure Nigerians on Sunday, with a video of himself on an exercise bike with Afrobeats music playing.

"Many have said I have died; others claim I have withdrawn from the presidential campaign. Well… Nope. This is the reality: I am strong, I am healthy," the Twitter message reads with a seven-second video.

APC leaders also appeared on talk shows to dispel rumours of ill health, saying Tinubu was in London to rest because he was unable to do so in Lagos or the capital Abuja.

"The man needed a few days off, because the pressure on him is a bit too much," APC campaign official Ayo Oyalowo told Channels Televison.

"The man is healthy. They said he is in the hospital; some even said he died. All manner of nonsense has been said about him."

With Nigeria’s economy flagging, oil production at historic lows, and insecurity a major issue, the next president faces a host of urgent problems.

"No way should anyone be signing a peace accord on behalf of anyone!" well-known activist Aisha Yesufu wrote on Twitter. "Bola Ahmed Tinubu has to sign for himself.”

The hashtag #WhereisTinubu trended on Twitter, with some questioning whether the Tinubu video was new.

"The more Tinubu goes missing, I think the more likely it is going to be a potentially dispositive issue in the campaign," said Chidi Odinkalu, a Nigerian academic at Tufts University.

- Long campaign -
The five-month campaign for the February 25 vote began last week, but the APC delayed its official start to sort out disagreements among party stakeholders.

Ebonyi State Governor David Umahi, part of APC’s campaign team, said the programme was being put together and dismissed concerns.

"We have how many months to the election and how many months to campaign. The first to start does not translate to first to finish," he told Arise TV. "Not to worry at all."

Tinubu, whose unofficial campaign slogan is "It's my turn", touts his experience as Lagos governor. The APC has s nationwide structure and state governorships to help mobilise voters.

But analysts say Tinubu must also manage discontent over APC’s perceived economic mismanagement, as Nigerians struggle with 20 percent inflation.

Main opposition Peoples Democratic Party candidate Atiku Abubakar, a former vice president, says his experience and business acumen can "rescue" Nigeria.

On his fifth run at the presidency, the 75-year-old also appeared to try to show his own vitality in a video this week of himself dancing.

"Nigeria is in crisis, but we have a five-star recovery plan," a message says as the candidate sways.

In a country where 70 percent of the population is under 30, Abubakar and Tinubu are seen by some younger Nigerians as old-guard politicians offering little new, analysts say. That leaves room for Labour Party's Peter Obi, 61, to challenge the long dominance of the APC and PDP.

The PDP was in power from 1999 when Nigeria returned to civil rule until it was ousted by APC in 2015.

In his first term, Buhari spent months in London getting treated for an undisclosed ailment in 2017, one of several medical trips overseas.

Then president Yar’dua’s long absence in 2010 caused a crisis over a power vacuum. He even gave the BBC an interview from his Saudi hospital to prove he wasn’t dead. He died after he returned from treatment.
https://news.yahoo.com/nigerias-ruling-party-fends-off-111939360.html