Nearly 50,000 opposition supporters rallied and dozens were arrested in Moscow on Saturday at one of the largest authorised protests since President Vladimir Putin’s return to the Kremlin in 2012. Demonstrators crowded the central Prospekt Andreya Sakharova street, where city authorities deployed a massive police presence, including officers in riot gear, after giving permission for […]
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Manchester City began their Premier League campaign on Saturday with an emphatic 5-0 win at West Ham United. Raheem Sterling bagged a hat-trick for the reigning champions, and the video assistant referee caused plenty of debate in the contest. Two late goals by Harry Kane gave Tottenham Hotspur a 3-1 victory against Aston Villa, with […]
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By The Rt Hon Patricia Scotland QC, Commonwealth Secretary-General It is an undisputable fact that Pacific islanders face an existential threat from climate change. To a far more immediate degree than people living in most other parts of the world, inhabitants of low-lying atolls and archipelagos in the Pacific have to worry about losing […]
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More than 342,000 people in southeast Bangladesh living on coastal chars created by silt deposits will benefit from new financing for a project to reduce poverty and hunger and develop rural livelihoods. People living on chars are often hardest hit by climate change effects like sea-level rise as they often live in poorly constructed housing […]
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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to order the release of those it described as political prisoners in the country. PDP National Chairman Mr Uche Secondus, made this call on Tuesday while addressing reporters in Yola, the Adamawa State capital. Mr Secondus, who paid condolence to Governor Umaru Fintiri on the […]
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The Pension Transitional Directorate (PTAD) on Tuesday said federal government spent over N5 billion on payment of monthly pension to about 300,000 retirees of 270 parastatals and government privatised agencies. The directorate also dropped 24,000 ghost pensioners from the pension pay roll at the end of its verification exercise conducted in 2017. PTAD’s Executive Secretary, […]
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The Federal Government of Nigeria has declared Monday and Tuesday – August 12 and 13 – as public holidays to mark the 2019 Eid-El-Kabir celebrations. The Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Interior, Georgina Ehuriah, declared this in a statement on Tuesday on behalf of the government. She made the declaration in a statement signed […]
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The Nigeria Police Force on Monday, released the names and phone numbers of Police Public Relations Officers across the states of the federation and the FCT. Force spokesman, DCP Frank Mba, explained that this was to ensure easier and quicker access to information. He added that release of the numbers became imperative so as “to […]
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The Federal Government of Nigeria has taunted promoters of #RevolutionNow, saying Nigerians have ignored their call for a ‘revolution’. In a statement issued on Monday, Garba Shehu, presidential spokesman, said the failure of the revolution showed that citizens would not allow the government to be undermined by any group. “Today, millions of Nigerians went about […]
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As Reported by TheNews Magazine, attempt by suspected kidnappers to hijack a Lagos bound 15-seater commercial bus around Rumuji, in Emohua Local Government area of East-West road of Rivers State was foiled by gallant Policemen on Monday morning. Rivers State Police spokesman, DSP Nnamdi Omoni, who confirmed the incident said that as soon as the […]
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