A United States District Court, yesterday, dismissed a case by a Nigerian lawyer seeking to stop the repatriation of over $550 million of stolen funds during the regime of late General Sani Abacha (referred to as the Abacha loot) to Nigeria until the payment of his legal fees worth $320 million by the Nigerian Government. […]
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An explosion rocked the bustling Chelsea district of Manhattan on Saturday night, injuring at least 29 people in what authorities described as a deliberate, criminal act, while saying investigators had turned up no evidence of a “terror connection.” New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and other city officials said investigators had ruled out a […]
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New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is investigating Exxon Mobil Corp’s accounting practices and why the company hasn’t written down the value of its assets despite a steep drop in oil prices, WSJ reported, citing people familiar with the matter. (on.wsj.com/2cKDtWe) A more than 60 percent plunge in oil prices since mid-2014 has forced oil […]
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The financial crisis is still haunting Deutsche Bank. In a report by CNNMoney, the U.S. Justice Department wants the bank to pay $14 billion over allegations it packaged up toxic mortgages between 2005 and 2007. But Germany’s biggest lender says the huge sum demanded by the U.S. government is just the opening move in what’s […]
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Donald Trump’s hair a crusty, complex, yellowish affair that has become one of the enigmas of a very weird US presidential race got messed with big time. The usually brash presidential candidate talked in subdued tones and played the good sport as he appeared on one of America’s most popular late-night broadcasts, “The Tonight Show […]
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Republican Donald Trump continued his verbal attack on Democratic rival Hillary Clinton Saturday, as the GOP nominee said she is unfit to serve as president because of her derogatory comments toward some Trump supporters. “Hillary Clinton should be ashamed of herself, and this proves beyond a doubt that she is unfit and incapable to serve […]
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The Federal Government has described as “out of tune with reality” the published letter from US Congressman Tom Marino to Secretary of State John Kerry, asking the US to withhold security assistance to Nigeria on the strength of some purported allegations of abuses by the Buhari administration. The member of the United States Congress had […]
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Pakistan stepped up its search for two Americans climbers Saturday, deploying army helicopters to find the pair who went missing six days ago while trying to summit a mountain in the country’s far north. Kyle Dempster and Scott Adamson began their ascent of the 7,285-metre (23,900-foot) Ogre-II peak off the Choktoi Glacier in the Gilgit-Baltistan […]
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US President Barack Obama arrived in China on Saturday for his final visit as president, intent on cementing the “pivot” to Asia undertaken during his administration. Obama was welcomed by an honour guard as Air Force One landed in the eastern city of Hangzhou, which is hosting the G20 summit of global economic powers. But […]
Read More The FBI poured fresh fuel on the fire sparked by Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server as secretary of state, releasing heavily redacted notes on its probe, which White House rival Donald Trump seized on to attack her fitness for office. The 58 pages — 14 of which were entirely blacked out — […]
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Nigerian-Lebanese billionaire Gilbert Chagoury, owner of the giant Eko Hotel in Lagos and the ground breaking Atlantic City, has been banned from to entering the United States. The billionaire Bill Clinton Foundation donor was banned from getting a visa on terrorism grounds for allegedly funding a political coalition, Hezbollah, which the United States deems a […]
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Donated blood should be tested for the Zika virus, which can cause birth defects, US regulators warned amid a mounting outbreak of the mosquito-borne disease in the United States. The move announced Friday revises a previous Food and Drug Administration guideline issued in February that recommended active screening of donated blood only in “areas with […]
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