Three Nigerians — Kennedy Udo, Michael Mgbedike and Emmanuel Okubote, have been sentenced to a combined 40 years in prison by a Woolwich Crown Court in the United Kingdom (UK) for breaking the law. According to a tweet by the UK Metropolitan police, the trio aged 29, 22 and 27 respectively landed in jail for […]
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Former president Goodluck Jonathan says Muhammad Ali Pate, his former minister of state for health, will do very well on his new role at World Bank. Jonathan congratulated Pate, who was recently named global director for health, nutrition and population at the World Bank. “I congratulate Dr. Muhammad Ali Pate, my former Minister of State […]
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The Secretary-General says securing equal rights and fair treatment of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people is essential to achieving the sustainable development goals. In her message for International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia (IDAHOTB), being observed across the world today, Patricia Scotland said: “The theme for the 2019 IDAHOTB is justice […]
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Israeli firm, Archimedes Group, has been banned by Facebook. The company received the ban for using fake accounts and pages to post political news about Nigeria. Archimedes Group is a political consulting and lobbying firm that boasts of its ability of wining elections worldwide. In a post, Nathaniel Gleicher, Facebook’s head of cybersecurity policy, explained that […]
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U.S.-China trade war has boosted the risk of a U.S. recession, say a strong majority of economists polled by Reuters, who now put the chances of that happening in the next two years at 40 per cent. That is up from a median 35% in last month’s poll, the first time it had dipped slightly […]
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A 7.5-magnitude earthquake jolted Papua New Guinea at a depth of 10 kms on Tuesday, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) reported. The quake took place 44 kilometers northeast of Kokopo in PNG, the USGS said. A Tsunami alert was issued by the U.S. Tsunami Warning system, saying “based on all available data…hazardous Tsunami waves are […]
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Five people including a soldier were killed after gunmen stormed a luxury hotel in the southwestern Pakistani city of Gwadar, the centrepiece of a multi-billion dollar Chinese infrastructure project, the military said Sunday. The soldier was among security forces who rushed to the five-star Pearl Continental Hotel after the attack on Saturday. During the attack […]
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Gunmen shot dead Mina Mangal, a former television journalist and adviser to the Afghan parliament in Kabul on Saturday, underlining threats to women and drawing widespread condemnation. Mangal, who used to report for prominent TV station Ariana News, was killed by two unidentified men on a motorbike close to her home in eastern Kabul, police […]
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15 persons were killed and six injured in a road accident in India’s southern state of Andhra Pradesh on Saturday, while they were returning home after attending a marriage local media reports said. The road mishap occurred when a passenger bus collided with another vehicle in Andhra Pradesh’s Kurnool district. The injured were reportedly admitted […]
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The United States is deploying an amphibious assault ship and a Patriot missile battery to bolster an aircraft carrier and B-52 bombers already sent to the Gulf, ratcheting up pressure Saturday on archfoe Iran. In response to alleged threats from Iran, the USS Arlington, which transports marines, amphibious vehicles, conventional landing craft and rotary aircraft, and […]
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