HONG KONG CONVICTS MEDIA TYCOON JIMMY LAI IN NATIONAL SECURITY CASE. (PHOTO).

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 Hong Kong convicts media tycoon Jimmy Lai in national security case A Hong Kong court on Monday morning convicted pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai of sedition and colluding with foreign forces in a high-profile national security trial. Lai, the founder of the now-defunct Apple Daily and a prominent critic of China’s ruling Communist Party, was first charged in 2020 after Beijing enacted a sweeping national security law following a year of pro-democracy protests in the city. Lai has been detained since 2020 and now faces the possibility of a life sentence after a three-judge panel found him guilty on both charges. The case has drawn international attention, with former U.S. President Donald Trump stating he would do “everything” possible to help Lai and vowing to raise the issue during a meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping. A U.S.-registered nonprofit, the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong, denounced the charges as “trumped-up” and called on the U.S. government to hold Hong...

PHILIP SHUAIBU VOWS TO SUPPORT APC CANDIDATE AHEAD OF STATE GUBERNATORIAL ELECTION. (PHOTO).


Former Edo Deputy Governor Philip Shuaibu Vows to Support APC Candidate ahead of State Gubernatorial Election 

“I will support a homeboy. I came into politics to contest as the governor of Edo State because I need the government to return to homeboys – people who understand our plight, people who understand what the people are feeling—even the United Nations talks about the need for assessment. We don’t want outsiders, we have experimented with outsiders, and it’s not working. So, this time around, we want homeboy.”

“Today, I came in as a homeboy. We have only two homeboys in the major political parties in Edo State. One is in labour, and one is in APC, and I choose to follow another homeboy in the APC.

“The man they are parading in the PDP is an outsider, and we have also agreed that no more godfatherism in Edo. So, the man the PDP is trying to portray in Edo now is the godson of Obaseki, and there is no way godsons will now be governor of Edo,” Mr Shaibu said.

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