President Muhammadu Buhari has warned the police against unprofessional conducts such as illegal detention, extrajudicial killings, torture and violation of fundamental human rights. All these demeaning acts were unacceptable and should be avoided by the Nigeria Police Force at all times, he said at the convocation and passing out parade of the First Regular Cadet […]
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English Premier League clubs, Tottenham and Arsenal were fined by the Football Association on Thursday. The sanction was over their failure to control their players during this month’s north London derby at The Emirates. “Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur have been fined 45,000 pounds and 50,000 pounds respectively. “This was after both clubs admitted an FA […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday inaugurated the new terminal of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. While inaugurating the terminal today, Buhari said his administration is gradually closing the infrastructural deficit in the country. The terminal was constructed with funding from the China Export Import Bank. Buhari said the new structure shows Nigeria is moving […]
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The Kaduna State Nutrition Officer, Hajiya Hauwa Usman, said on Thursday that no fewer than 132 children have died of severe acute malnutrition out of the 12,858 hospitalised between January and October 2018 in the state. Usman, who made this known while giving an update on the nutrition situation in the state at a two-day […]
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says the lingering strike by Academic Staff Union of Universities(ASUU) will have serious impact on preparations for the conduct of the 2019 general election. Festus Okoye, chairman, information and voter education committee of INEC, made this known at a one-day seminar on media and gender sensitive reporting of elections […]
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The United Nations Commission for Africa (UNECA) says 600 million people globally will start 2019 living in extreme poverty and only 20 million will come out of this situation by the end of the year. This is contained in UNECA’s latest publication on poverty entitled “Africa Poverty Clock”, made available to the News Agency of […]
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President Donald Trump has ordered the withdraw of all United States troops in Syria. A US official made the disclosure on Wednesday, after President Donald Trump claimed America has “defeated ISIS” in the war-ravaged country. The stunning move will have extraordinary geopolitical ramifications — and plunges into uncertainty the fate of US-backed Kurdish fighters who have […]
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Tottenham will face Chelsea in the semi-finals of the Carabao Cup, while holders Manchester City have been drawn against League One Burton. Tottenham defeated Arsenal in the north London derby on Wednesday, while five-time winners Chelsea defeated Bournemouth. Pep Guardiola’s City saw off Leicester in a penalty shoot-out on Tuesday, with Burton into the last four of […]
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Gionee has officially entered bankruptcy. A court in Shenzhen has accepted the bankruptcy application, which will now put the company at a crossroads. As of August, Gionee owes ¥20.2 billion, which is roughly around $2.9 billion USD, to 648 creditors. Despite this immense amount being owed, the founder of Gionee, Liu Lirong, states that he’d […]
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The attorney general for Washington, D.C. said on Wednesday the U.S. capital city had sued Facebook Inc for allegedly misleading users about how it safeguarded their personal data, in the latest fallout from the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The world’s largest social media company has drawn global scrutiny since disclosing earlier this year that a third-party […]
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