The President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Amaju Pinnick, has been appointed by the world football ruling body, FIFA, into its Organising Committee for Competitions. NFF’s spokesman Ademola Olajire disclosed this in a statement in Lagos. “Hitherto, the world body has different committees for organisation of its several competitions, including the FIFA World Cup, […]
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Adama Barrow, winner of the December 1 presidential election in Gambia, has been sworn in as the country’s president. He was sworn-in about 5pm Senegalese time at the Gambian embassy in Dakar, Senegal. He succeeds Alhaji Yahya Jammeh, who lost in the 1 December presidential election and has refused to vacate office when his term […]
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Edward Anthony Gomez, counsel to Gambian President Yahya Jammeh, has fled the country to neighbouring Senegal. Gomez, in a letter addressed to Jammeh said he decided “to seek sanctuary” in Senegal “due to the mounting fear and rapidly increasing tension at every passing moment” in the Gambia. “The general perception is that after mid-night on […]
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The United Bank for Africa (UBA) will be strongly represented at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF), which begins in Davos, Switzerland today. UBA CEO Kennedy Uzoka leads a senior executive team, at one of the most important events on the global economic calendar. The UBA delegation will interact with global business and political leaders during the event. The delegation will also include Group Head of Correspondent Banking Sola Yomi-Ajayi and […]
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Microsoft on Tuesday warned business customers to begin migrating from Windows 7, exactly three years before it reaches end of life. Markus Nitschke, the Head of Windows at Microsoft Germany in a statement said that enterprises would pay dearly for sticking with the platform’s outdated security compared with Windows 10. According to him, Windows 7 […]
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The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights admitted that the world has failed in its responsibility to protect children from ongoing violations of child rights in the face of the worsening global crisis. Kate Gilmore, Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, said this at the opening of the 74th session of the Committee on […]
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The seven-year-old son of Gambia’s president-elect, Adama Barrow has been killed by a dog. Habib was attacked in the town of Manjai and died on his way to hospital, according to reports. The boy has been buried, without the father attending the ceremony. Barrow himself broke the news about his son in a post: ‘Inna […]
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A now report from Oxfam International , has shown that eight men now control as much wealth as the world’s poorest 3.6 billion people. The men, identified as: Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Carlos Slim, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Amancio Ortega, Larry Ellison and Michael Bloomberg — are collectively worth $426 billion, the anti-poverty group said […]
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According Togolese President Faure Gnassingbe, African leaders meeting at a Franco-African summit in Bamako, the Malian on Saturday set January 19 as a deadline to solve the Gambian political crisis. January 19 is the date when president-elect Adama Barrow has vowed to take power, despite outgoing President Yahya Jammeh not accepting his defeat in the […]
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As U.S. President Obama prepares to turn the White House over to President-elect Donald Trump next Friday, he is offering some advice to his successor. Excerpts of Obama’s advice to Trump were broadcast on Friday in his recorded interview with CBS News’ Steve Kroft for “60 Minutes”. “One thing I’ve said to him directly, and […]
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