President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of five new executives for National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) and Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC). Mr Olusegun Adekunle, Permanent Secretary, General Services Office, Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (OSGF), made this known in a statement on Thursday […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari, on Thursday visited Bauchi State, wheretrooped out to accord him an enthusiastic welcome. One of the touching people that received Buhari into the ancient city was a 20 year-old physically-challenged girl, Miss Fatima Abubakar. The massive crowd that serves like a guard of honour for President Buhari And many climbed a watch […]
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Nigeria is to create an Innovation and Technology Advisory Council to harness and support the creativity and innovative ingenuity of young Nigerians and drive the growth of the sector in the country. Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, who stated this on Tuesday while speaking with reporters after visiting seven technology and innovation hubs in different parts […]
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Former FBI director James Comey’s new book, where he gave a blistering criticism of President Donald Trump, hit the stores today in the United States and held the top slot on Amazon’s bestseller list. Comey, who was fired by the US leader in May 2017, describes Trump in the book as “morally unfit” for office, […]
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A French court charged an eleventh suspect Friday over the gunpoint robbery of US reality TV star Kim Kardashian in Paris in 2016. The 28-year-old man has been charged with armed robbery, criminal conspiracy and holding Kardashian against her will, the source said. Ten people had already been charged over the October 2, 2016 robbery […]
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In the biggest intervention by Western powers in Syria, U.S., British and French forces pounded Damascus and Homs with air strikes early on Saturday in response to a poison gas attack that killed dozens of people last week, in Ghouta. Hit among others were a scientific research facility in Damascus and Syrian army depots in the […]
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The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) has predicted dust haze weather in the central states of the country on Saturday with horizontal visibility of two to five kilometres and visibility of less than 1,000m in some places. NiMet’s Weather Outlook by its Central Forecast Office in Abuja on Friday also predicted day and night temperatures in […]
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The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr Uche Secondus, has challenged the Minister of Culture and Information Alhaji Lai Mohammed to be ready to proof in court that he collected N200m from the National Security Adviser (NSA). Secondus made the challenge in a statement issued by his spokesman, Mr Ike Abonyi, on […]
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The US government is proposing to collect social media identities from nearly everyone who seeks US Visa, according to a State Department filing on Friday. The proposal, a broad expansion of the information gathered from applicants for U.S. visas, if approved by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), would require most immigrant and non-immigrant […]
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Hollywood action star Arnold Schwarzenegger has had emergency Open heart surgery and is in a stable condition, celebrity news website TMZ reported Friday. The 70-year-old actor turned activist was in a Los Angeles hospital Thursday to have a catheter valve replaced and developed complications, the gossip portal said, citing unnamed Schwarzenegger sources. Doctors rushed the […]
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