The expected meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and German Chancellor Angela Merkel scheduled for Tuesday has been cancelled due to the looming massive winter storm in parts of U.S. The meeting between the two leaders have now been postponed to Friday, the White House said on Monday. A late winter storm packing snow, ice […]
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It will take 170 years to achieve economic equality between women and men, the UN Deputy Secretary-General, Ms Amina Mohammed, has said. Mohammed, in her message to the Youth Forum of the Commission on the Status of Women, ahead of the International Commission on the Status of Women, said women and girls were being forced […]
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President Michel Temer of Brazil has blamed bad vibes and even ghosts for driving him out of Alvorada Palace, his official residence. According to Brazilian News Weekly, Temer surprised many people when he announced that he has left the presidential palace. Alongside his former beauty queen wife and seven-year-old son, he relocated down the road […]
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France , a former friend of Biafra in the 1967 secession bid, has ruled out any support for the secession of any part of the country, particularly Biafra. France’s Ambassador to Nigeria, Denys Gauer, told The Guardian, that his country would not in anyway work with any group agitating for the dismemberment of the nation. […]
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U.S. President Donald Trump has said that Jonathan Tran, 26, who scaled an outer-perimeter fence on the White House complex on Friday night was a troubled person. Trump, who made the remarks on Saturday, said he appreciated the Secret Service efforts and that the accused is disturbed. “The secret service did a fantastic job last […]
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South Korea’s President Park Geun-hye has finally lost the battle to stay in office as the Constitutional Court today upheld her impeachment by the parliament. She was indicted over a graft scandal involving big business, including Samsung, that has gripped the country for months. Park, the first woman to be elected president also becomes South […]
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World Bank Group President Jim Yong-Kim on Thursday said the bank was working toward raising 1.6 billion dollars to build social protection systems to end food insecurity in sub-Saharan Africa and Yemen. In a statement made available to newsmen by the Head of Communications, World Bank Nigeria in Abuja, Mrs Olufunke Olufon, Yong-Kim said about […]
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The UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) has said that refugees were not criminals and should not be treated as such. The UNHCR in its reaction to the new travel ban by U.S. President, Donald Trump, said that the decision would worsen the woes of refugees around the World. “Refugees are ordinary people forced to flee […]
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President Donald Trump signed a revised executive order for a U.S. travel ban on Monday, leaving Iraq off the list of targeted countries, White House Senior Administration Officials said. The U.S. president’s first immigration order was blocked by the courts. The new order will impose a 90-day travel ban to the U.S. on citizens of […]
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The UN Security Council (UNSC) has described the insurgency crisis in the North-East Nigeria and the Lake Chad Basin region as the world’s largest and most neglected humanitarian crisis the world has ever witnessed. Mr Mathew Rycroft, the President of the UNSC for March and Leader of the UN delegation to Nigeria, stated this at […]
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