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Iran has apologised its military “unintentionally” shot down a Ukrainian jetliner, killing all 176 on board.
The statement on Saturday morning blames “human error” for the incident, adding that the military mistook Flight 752 for a “hostile target”.
Press TV also quoted Iran’s General Staff of the Armed Forces as saying that the plane had flown close to a “sensitive military site”.
The military said it was at its “highest level of readiness” amid the heightened tensions with the United States.
“In such a condition, because of human error and in a unintentional way, the flight was hit,” the military said.
It apologised and said it would upgrade its systems to prevent future tragedies.
In a statement posted on social media, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani wrote that the country “deeply regrets this
disastrous mistake”.
“My thoughts and prayers go to all the mourning families. I
offer my sincerest condolences,” he said, adding that
“investigations continue to identify and prosecute this great
tragedy and unforgivable mistake”.
Iran had denied for several days that a missile downed the
aircraft.
But then the US and Canada, citing intelligence, said they
believe Iran shot down the aircraft.
On Friday, Ali Abedzadeh, head of Iran’s civil aviation
authority, said it was impossible due to close coordination
between Iran’s air defence and the civil aviation
department.
“What is obvious for us, and what we can say with certainty, is that no missile hit the plane,” Abedzadeh told reporters in Tehran.
The jetliner, a Boeing 737 operated by Ukraine International Airlines, went down on the outskirts of Tehran during takeoff just hours after Iran launched a barrage of missiles at US forces in Iraq.
In a social media post, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said that “human error at time of crisis caused by US adventurism led to the disaster”.
“Our profound regrets, apologies and condolences to our people, to the families of all victims and to other affected nations.”
The plane, en route to the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, was carrying 167 passengers and nine crew members from several countries, including 82 Iranians, 57 Canadians and
11 Ukrainians, when it was shot down.
“This is the right step for the Iranian government to admit responsibility and it gives people a step toward closure with
this admission,” said Payman Parseyan, a prominent Iranian- Canadian in western Canada who lost a number of friends in the crash.
“I think the investigation would have disclosed it whether
they admitted it or not. This will give them an opportunity to
save face,” he told AP news agency.
(Al Jazeera)

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Top Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani was killed Friday in a US strike on Baghdad’s international airport, prompting Tehran to vow “revenge”, dramatically upping the stakes in bitter tensions between Tehran and Washington.
The Pentagon said US President Donald Trump ordered Soleimani’s “killing”, after a pro-Iran mob this week laid siege to the US embassy.
Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei swiftly vowed to take “severe revenge” for Soleimani’s death, the biggest escalation yet in a feared proxy war between Iran and the US on Iraqi soil.
As the US embassy urged all American citizens to leave Iraq “immediately”, Trump tweeted out a picture of the US flag without any explanation.
Early Friday, a volley of missiles hit Baghdad’s international airport, striking a convoy belonging to the Hashed al-Shaabi, an Iraqi paramilitary force with close ties to Iran.
Just a few hours later, the Revolutionary Guard Corps announced Soleimani “was martyred in an attack by America on Baghdad airport this morning.”
The Hashed confirmed both Soleimani and its deputy chief Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis were killed in what it said was a “US strike that targeted their car on the Baghdad International Airport road.”
The Hashed is a network of mostly-Shiite armed units, many of whom have close ties to Tehran but which have been officially incorporated into Iraq’s state security forces. ‘Major decapitation strike’
Muhandis was the Hashed’s deputy chief, but was widely recognised as the real shot-caller within the group.
Soleimani headed the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force and also served as Iran’s pointman on Iraq, visiting the country in times of turmoil.
Both were sanctioned by the United States.
The Pentagon said Soleimani had been “actively developing plans to attack American diplomats and service members in Iraq and throughout the region.”
It said it took “decisive defensive action to protect US personnel abroad by killing Qasem Soleimani,” but did not specify how.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif slammed the US strike as “extremely dangerous and a foolish escalation,” as Khamenei declared three days of mourning.
The Iraqi prime minister said the strike was a “flagrant violation” of a security accord with the US, warning it will “spark a devastating war in Iraq.”
And a paramilitary group urged its fighters to be on high alert.
“All resistance fighters must be ready, as an upcoming conquest and a great victory await us,” said Qais al-Khazali, the head of Asaib Ahl al-Haq, in a handwritten note seen by AFP.
Militiaman-turned-cleric Moqtada Sadr also reactivated his Mahdi Army, nearly a decade after dissolving the notoriously anti-American force.
But there were daring celebrations in Tahrir Square, the epicentre of a three-month protest movement that has slammed the Iraqi government as corrupt and beholden to Tehran.
“Oh Qasem Soleimani, this is a divine victory,” demonstrators chanted as some danced in the streets.
Trump ‘changed the rules’ –
Analysts said the strike would be a gamechanger in the tensions between Iran and the US.
“Trump changed the rules -— he wanted (Soleimani)
eliminated,” said Ramzy Mardini, a researcher at the US Institute of Peace.
Soleimani “didn’t appreciate that his actions of threatening another hostage crisis at the (US) embassy changed the way things were going to be done,” Mardini said.
Phillip Smyth, a US-based specialist in Shiite armed groups, described the strike as “the most major decapitation strike that the US has ever pulled off.”
He told AFP it would have “bigger” ramifications than the 2011 US operation that killed Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden and the 2019 American raid that killed Islamic State group Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. “There is no comparison,” Smyth added.
But others said it remains unclear how Iran could respond to the blow.
“A lot of the focus is on what is the price that the US is gonna pay and how Iran will retaliate against the US,” said Fanar Haddad of the Singapore University’s Middle East Institute.
The developments come after an unprecedented attack on the US mission in Baghdad.
A mob of Hashed supporters surrounded the US embassy on Tuesday angered by American air strikes that killed 25 fighters from the network’s hardline Kataeb Hezbollah faction, which is backed by Iran.
The US had acted in response to a rocket attack days earlier that had killed an American contractor working in Iraq.
Trump had blamed Iran for a spate of rocket attacks targeting US forces as well as the siege at the embassy, saying: “They will pay a very BIG PRICE! This is not a Warning, it is a Threat.”
US lawmakers however were not told in advance of Friday’s attack, House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Eliot Engel
said in a statement.
Ties between the US and Iran have deteriorated since
Washington pulled out of the landmark nuclear deal with Tehran in 2018.
It then reimposed crippling sanctions on Iran, aiming to choke off its oil exports. Oil prices soared following Friday’s attack, with Brent surging 4.4 percent to $69.16 and WTI jumping 4.3 percent to 63.84.
The attack threatens to destabilise Iraq, which has close political and military ties with both Tehran and Washington.
The United States led the 2003 invasion against then-dictator Saddam Hussein and has worked closely with Iraqi officials since.
But its influence has waned compared with that of Tehran, which has carefully crafted personal ties with Iraqi politicians and armed factions, even during Saddam’s reign.

Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed has said that he was not the sponsor of the Hate Speech Bill before National Assembly. He dismissed the report attributed to Senator Francis Fadahunsi representing Osun East that he was behind the Bill, saying it was a “bigger example” of fake news.

The Senator had alleged, in an interview, that the Minister was the sponsor of the Bill but only used Senator Sabi Abdullahi as a front.

“Senator Sabi Abdullahi only front for the bill, it actually originated from the Executive, specifically, Lai Muhammed and the sole motive is just to box the media into a corner, where it would no longer have the vibrancy to question those in public offices,” the Senator was reported as saying.

But in a chat with newsmen in Lagos, Lai Mohammed dismissed the allegation, saying: “This is a bigger example of fake news. I can say categorically that I am not the sponsor of Hate Speech Bill in the National Assembly.” He however, stressed that he is committed to sanitizing the social media, saying the greatest challenge to the country today was fake news.

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Manchester City were on Friday defeated by
Wolverhampton Wanderers in a match that saw
goalkeeper, Enderson Santa de Morres sent off in the
12th minute.
Raheem Sterling 25′ goal set Guardiola’s side on the
path of 3 points. Another goal from Sterling in the
50th minute put the mind of the visitor (Man City) at
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Wolves came from 2-0 behind to win the game.
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The Kwara State Government has taken over a piece
of land being used by the Saraki Family in Ilorin.
A release by the Chief Press Secretary to Kwara
Governor, Rafiu Ajakaiye said on Friday that a new
secretariat would be built on the land.
Ajakaiye said the land was originally meant for
Government Secretariat and parking space of the Civil
Service Clinic, but was unlawfully allocated to a
private firm, Asa Investments Limited, without any
record of payment to the state government.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that part
of the land, situated beside the Civil Service Clinic, is
also right in front of late Dr Olusola Saraki’s
residence.
NAN also reports that the late Saraki built a house
and named it ‘Ile Arugbo’ (elderly peoples’ home).
According to the statement, no certificate of
occupancy was issued in favour of the firm.
The statement explained that the government has
now made provisions for the secretariat in the 2020
budget, although its construction will spill over to
2021.
“Hundreds of civil servants still operate from rented
apartments at a huge cost to the government.
“The new secretariat, once completed in 2021, will
definitely go a long way to end this unhealthy trend
as well as provide a more conducive and decent
working environment for government workers,” the
statement added.
Ajakaiye added that Gov. AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq
has signed a constitutional instrument withdrawing
the allocation of plots of land 1, 3 and 5 to the firm.
He said that the said land used by Saraki family was
unlawfully appropriated contrary to the purpose for
which it was meant.
The spokesman added that the governor’s decision
followed a resolution of the State House of Assembly
urging him to reclaim the land because it was
arbitrarily taken over in the 1990s without any
evidence of payment by the company, even though
the land was meant for public use.
The governor noted in the revocation order that the
land was originally meant for the construction of
another phase of the Kwara State Civil Service
Secretariat and a parking space for both the civil
service clinic and the secretariat.
The revocation order according to NAN read: “In
exercise of the powers conferred by Section 5 of the
Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as
amended) 1999 and Section 1 and 28 of the Land
Use Act Cap. L.5 of 2004 and all other powers
enabling me in that behalf, I, Mallam AbdulRahman
AbdulRazaq, Governor of Kwara State of Nigeria, give
the following notice:
“The Notice may be cited as the Land Use
(Revocation of Right of Occupancy and withdrawal of
allocation) Notice, 2019.
“Allocation of plots of land 1, 3 and 5 TPS/MISC 129
to Asa Investment (Nig) Ltd. which is meant for the
Kwara State Secretariat.
“The land, specifically and more described in survey
No. KwSH 927 and Land/G1071 situated and lying
beside Civil Service Clinic on Ilofa Road Ilorin, Kwara
State, is hereby revoked and withdrawn for overriding
public interest for use of the purpose it is originally
meant for:
“The construction of Kwara State Secretariat; parking
space for civil service clinic and the Kwara State
Secretariat and annex to the Civil Service when
upgraded to a hospital.
“That the plots allocated are hereby declared void.
Notice is therefore given to you, Asa Investments
Nigeria Limited, that the plots of land 1, 3 and 5 TPS/
MISC 129 allocated to you and any title on the land
whatsoever are hereby revoked and the allocation is
withdrawn for overriding public interest,” it read in
part.

A Nigerian, Emmanuel Mong, caught trying to
catch a flight home, is in the process of being
extradited from Washington to Stamford in
California, where he will face charges that he
illegally intercepted a $30,000 wire transfer from
Purdue Pharma.
According to Port of Seattle Police, 24 year-old
Mong of Savannah, Georgia, was trying to catch
an Emirates Airlines flight to Nigeria on Dec. 16 at
Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.
Seeing there was a felony warrant in his name,
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers
detained him until police arrived at Sea-Tac
Airport.
According to the report, Stamford police issued a
warrant for Mong’s arrest in 2017, charging him
with first-degree larceny, conspiracy to commit
first-degree computer crime and conspiracy to
commit criminal impersonation, with a court-
ordered appearance bond of $250,000.
Despite his protests that he has never lived in
Georgia and claims that he is not the person
wanted in the warrant, Mong is being extradited to
Stamford.
His Stamford criminal defense attorney, Allan
Friedman, said Mong is eager to clear his name.
“Mr. Mong is looking forward to coming to
Stamford and having his day in court and
presenting evidence of his innocence,” Friedman
said. “We will resolve this matter in court.”
A spokesperson from Purdue Pharma said they
had no comment on the matter.
According to Mong’s four-page arrest affidavit,
Sean Coughlin, a Stamford police financial crimes
investigator, said Purdue Pharma became the
victim of what is known as a “man-in-the-email
scam,” wherein a corporation, usually with
business connections to Africa or Asia, have their
email systems hacked by a computer virus or
some other malware.

The Para-Mallam Peace Foundation has
reinstated its demand for the unconditional
release of the kidnapped Christian schoolgirl,
Leah Sharibu, who has been in Boko Haram
captivity for 674 days.
In its Christmas message titled “Re: Leah
Sharibu – Christmas in Captivity 2,” the
Founder/Convener of the group, Revd Gideon
Para-Mallam, called on President Muhammadu
Buhari alongside all stakeholders for
concerted efforts toward her release and
others in Boko Haram’s captivity.
The statement reads in part: “Christmas is a
time of celebration but not for Leah Sharibu,
the courageous Christian girl who will
unfortunately be spending her second
Christmas in captivity.
“Christmas is a period for family reunion,
fellowship and celebration in Africa and indeed
around the world. People are right now
celebrating but not everyone can celebrate.
“How can Leah celebrate Christmas in
captivity? How can Leah’s parents celebrate?
How can those of us who yearn to see Leah
freed celebrate?
“Feelers indicate that the Nigerian Government
is trying but her efforts have so far fallen
short. Leah is still in captivity nearly two years
on. This is unacceptable with a government in
place.
Quoting Isaiah Chapter 9: verses 6-7 from the
Holy Bible, he added: “I urge all, that we rise
again and do more to see Leah freed from her
Boko Haram captors as we enter 2020.
“Let’s work for Leah’s freedom; along with
several others like Alice Ngaddah, a young
mother of two, GraceTuka, Bitrus Zakka
Bwallah and several unnamed others.
“The conscience of the world needs to be
roused once again to work in a tireless manner
to see Leah and others freed.
“Where is the AU, UN, EU and other global
agencies who care about humanity? With all
your combined efforts and those of global
leaders, I believe something positive can be
done.
“It is inconceivable how the Nigerian
Government keeps talking with little or no
results so far to convincingly show Nigerians
and the world that they are capable of bringing
Leah home to her parents.
“It’s up to the President to show this rather
than tell! Tough talking does not set captives
free. But smart and tough action does! Let’s
not give up and surely, we must not give in
also.
“Leah Sharibu as at today December 25th,
2019, you have spent 674 days in captivity. But
be encouraged, one day you will be set free by
the special grace of God. Your freedom will
surely come.”

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