The Nigeria President has extended his stay in the UK after Doctor advised. It is “open-ended” because his return can be anytime, Source said last night. According to the Source, “the President can return home any time. It can be in a few days; it can be later but he does not want any leadership vacuum, “the […]
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More than two million people flooded US cities on Saturday as women opposed to Donald Trump led a peaceful, stunning rebuke against the new US president that was echoed in sister protests around the world. As a sea of demonstrators brought downtown Washington to a standstill, streaming past the White House in a joyous parade […]
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Gambia’s defeated leader Yahya Jammeh is expected to leave soon for Guinea, and the new president said Saturday he plans to return home to take power once the situation is “clear.” A visibly tired Adama Barrow told The Associated Press in an interview Saturday that he will enter Gambia once a security sweep has been […]
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As many as 236 people may have been killed in the botched Nigerian air strike against Boko Haram that hit a camp for civilians displaced by the unrest, a local official told AFP on Saturday. Doctors Without Borders (MSF) on Friday had said the death toll from Tuesday’s strike on the town of Rann in […]
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The outgoing country Director of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Dr Ousmane Dore has said Nigeria’s leadership role in Africa is unquestionable. He commended the country’s exemplary leadership role in Africa through the Directorate of Technical Cooperation in Africa (DTCA), a window for assisting poor and fragile African countries. He who spoke during a brief […]
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Wayne Rooney became Manchester United’s record scorer after moving onto 250 goals by netting a stoppage-time equalizer in Saturday’s Premier League game against Stoke. Rooney had been tied on 249 goals with Bobby Charlton, who has held the record since 1973. The 31-year-old England captain is in his 13th season at United and no longer […]
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Gambia’s defeated leader Yahya Jammeh announced early Saturday he has decided to relinquish power, after hours of last-ditch talks with regional leaders and the threat by a regional military force to make him leave. “I believe it is not necessary that a single drop of blood be shed,” Jammeh said in a brief statement on […]
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President Donald Trump quickly assumed the mantle of the White House on Friday, making his first executive order one aimed at his predecessor’s signature health care law and swearing-in members of his national security team to his Cabinet. Hours after delivering a stinging rebuke of the political status quo in his inaugural address, Trump sat […]
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Over 1,000 southern Nigerian secessionists took to the streets on Friday to express the hope that newly inaugurated U.S. President Donald Trump might help counter Muslim influence in their country. Shouting “Biafra for Trump”, protesters held up U.S. flags and pictures of Trump in Port Harcourt, a major port city in the southeast, while also […]
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Donald Trump was sworn in as U.S. president in Washington on Friday, taking over from Barack Obama. Highlights of the day According to Reuters: SWEARING-IN Donald Trump is sworn in as the 45th president, vowing to end “American carnage” of social and economic woes in an inaugural address that was a populist and nationalist rallying […]
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President-elect Donald Trump began a long holiday weekend that honors slain black civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. by attacking another rights activist and politician who had said he does not see Trump as a “legitimate president.” U.S. Representative John Lewis, a Georgia Democrat, said on a segment of “Meet the Press” released by […]
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Senator Ben Murray-Bruce has called the notice of Federal Government to take action on saving the Aviation Industry as there will be a crash if the issues in the industry is not looked into. The Senator representing Bayelsa East senatorial district, mention this at plenary, while speaking on the alleged deteriorating state of the aviation industry in […]
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