The UN Security Council says that the only solution to the Boko Haram terrorism in the Northeastern Nigeria and the Lake Chad Basin is the economic development of the region. Matthew Rycroft, the leader of a UN Security Council delegation, said this while speaking with journalists shortly after a visit to Maiduguri. “We are convinced […]
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Award winning Nigerian Author, Chimamanda Ngozi- Adichie has been elected into the American Academy of Arts and Letters as a foreign honorary member. According to a press release by the Academy on http://artsandletters.org, the honorary members will be inducted at the annual induction in May. This induction will make Chimamanda the second Nigerian to be […]
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Egypt’s top appeals court on Thursday issued a final verdict, clearing former president Hosni Mubarak of complicity in the killings of protesters in the 2011 uprising that ended his rule. The verdict was issued by the Court of Cassation, putting an end to a tortuous legal process that started over five years ago. Mubarak’s loyalists […]
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The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Al Hussein, has reiterated his call for the abolition of death penalty saying its subjecting convicts to mental anguish constitutes human rights violations. Zeid made the call on Wednesday at the opening of the biennial high-level panel discussion on the death penalty, which was organized as part […]
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Niger Delta militants on Wednesday threatened to blow up Multichoice (DSTV), MTN, Shoprite and 16 other major South African investments in Nigeria if the Federal Government fails to shut them down within one month. This move is believed to be a reaction to the xenophobic attacks on Nigerians and their businesses in South Africa. In […]
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Two people were wounded when a weapon was accidentally fired Tuesday as French President François Hollande was giving a speech in the western city of Villognon, the mayor told CNN. Hollande was not injured, but two other people were, Mayor Claude Guitton said. Their injuries were not life-threatening. According to CNN affiliate BFM-TV, a local […]
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Amina Mohammed, Nigeria’s immediate past Minister of Environment, has been sworn-in as the fifth Deputy Secretary-General of the UN at the UN Headquarters in New York on Tuesday. The Correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in New York reports that the UN Secretary-General António Guterres administered the oath of office to Mohammed. “I […]
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The World Health Organisation (WHO), on Monday, published its first-ever list of antibiotic resistant “priority pathogens”, a catalogue of 12 families of bacteria that posed threat to human health. The list was released to guide and promote research and development of new antibiotics, as part of WHO’s efforts to address growing global resistance to antimicrobial […]
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The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has lost over $1 trillion to fluctuation of oil prices, its Secretary General, Dr Mohammed Barkindo has said. Barkindo disclosed this on Monday while addressing a news conference organised by the Minster of State for Petroleum, Dr Ibe Kachikwu. According to the OPEC scribe who is on a […]
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Nokia on Sunday night re-launched the Nokia 3310 nearly 17 years after its debut. The revamped version will be sold under licence by the Finnish start-up HMD Global, which also unveiled several Nokia-branded Android smartphones. One expert said it was a “fantastic way” to relaunch Nokia’s phone brand. “The 3310 was the first mass-market mobile […]
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