Nigeria’s Minister of Environment minister, Amina Mohammed , has been confirmed by the New UN Secretary-General António Guterres, as his Deputy Secretary-General. Guterres made the announcement through the spokesman of the Secretary-General, Mr Stephane Dujarric. The Correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in New York, reports that Guterres also announced the duo of […]
Continue ReadingThe UN Secretary-General-designate, António Guterres, on Monday, December 12, took oath of office as the ninth Secretary-General of the UN, the News Agency of Nigeria reports. The President of the General Assembly, Peter Thomas, administered the oath to Mr. Guterres in the presence of the 15 members of the Security Council and other members of […]
Continue ReadingPresident Muhammadu Buhari has expressed the hope that the 2017 budget which he will present before the National Assembly on Wednesday, will get the nation out of its economic woods. The President made this known in his 2016 Eid-El-Maulud message to the nation. The message was made available to newsmen in Abuja on Sunday. According […]
Continue ReadingSenator Magnus Abe of the All Progressives Congress will return to his seat as representative of the South East senatorial district. He was on Sunday night declared winner after Saturday’s rerun by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Returning Officer Prof. Gideon Onuekwusi, said Abe of the All progressives Congress (APC) polled 125,938. His closest […]
Continue ReadingThe UN Security Council has asked outgoing Gambian President Yahya Jammeh to carry out a peaceful and orderly transition of power to the President-elect, Mr Adama Barrow. In a press statement issued on Saturday, the 15-member Council “strongly condemned the outgoing Gambian President’s rejection of the official election results proclaimed by the country’s Independent Electoral […]
Continue ReadingTwo explosions near a football stadium in the heart of Turkey’s biggest city, Istanbul, have killed 29 people and injured 166, the government says.The explosions, believed to be a car bomb and a suicide bomb, targeted police officers near the stadium, officials say. Witnesses heard gunfire after the attack, which came two hours after fans […]
Continue ReadingThe CIA has confirmed that Russia intervened in the 2016 election to help President-elect Donald Trump win the US election. The intelligence agency said the intervention was not only to help Trump win, but also designed to undermine confidence in the U.S. electoral system. U.S. intelligence agencies believed that as the 2016 presidential campaign drew […]
Continue ReadingThe Independent Electoral Commissioner in charge of South South, Dr Lecky Mustapha has said that the commission is ready to conduct free and fair polls on Saturday. Mustapha said this while supervising electoral materials in Port Harcourt Local Government Area (Phalga) Friday evening. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the rerun elections will […]
Continue ReadingTime Magazine on Wednesday announced US President-elect Donald Trump as the 2016 Person of the Year which its editor described as a “straightforward’’ choice. According to the Magazine, Trump was named due to the way he has shaken up US society before taking office. The cover of the new edition shows Trump looking over his shoulder […]
Continue ReadingAuthorities in Ghana have busted a fake U.S. embassy in the capital Accra, run by a criminal network that had issued visas illegally for one decade, the U.S. State Department said in a statement. The statement noted that until its shutdown this summer, the sham embassy was housed in a run-down, pink two-storey building with […]
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