Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, will address a group of notable German business leaders in Berlin, Germany, on Monday, the Presidency said in a statement on Sunday. In a statement in Abuja, Laolu Akande, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Office of the Vice-President, said that Osinbajo would speak on the […]
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American researchers have transformed toxin in wasps into potential antibiotic drugs that may eliminate hard-to-cure bacterial infections. In a study published in this week’s Nature Communications Biology, the researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology created peptides that are potent against bacteria but nontoxic to human cells. They are variants from a peptide toxin normally found […]
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Twelve people — including six hostages — were killed in northeast Brazil on Friday after police foiled a gang of armed robbers staging simultaneous predawn assaults on two banks in the town of Milagres, officials said. Five of the dead hostages were members of the same family and included two children, the local mayor, Lielson […]
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The 2019 Grammy nominations have been announced, with hip hop artistes, Kendrick Lamar and Drake, earning the most recognition. Lamar bagged eight nominations while Drake earned seven for the 61st annual Grammy Awards. Boi-1da and Brandi Carlile earned six nominations apiece while Cardi B, Childish Gambino, H.E.R., Lady Gaga, Maren Morris, Soundwave and Mike Bozzi […]
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The United States and China have announced a ceasefire in their tariffs war, hours after US President Donald Trump upended another international forum by snubbing G20 action on trade disputes and climate change. Over a dinner of steaks and Argentine wine in Buenos Aires, Trump and President Xi Jinping brokered a truce to ensure that […]
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Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has finally been given a United States visa. Disclosing this on Saturday, Thecable exclusively gathered from a family source that Atiku jetted out of the country to UK to spend some time before going to US. Report has it that Ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo […]
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Former U.S. President George H.W. Bush, who presided over the end of the Cold War and routed Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi army, died on Friday night at the age of 94, a family spokesperson said. Mr Bush, the 41st president of the United States, lived longer than any of his predecessors. His death at 10:10 p.m. […]
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Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former longtime personal lawyer, pleaded guilty on Thursday to lying to Congress about a proposed Trump Organization skyscraper in Moscow, prompting the president to lash out at Cohen as a liar and “weak person.” The unexpected plea stemmed from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s intensifying investigation into Russia’s role in the […]
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Real Madrid’s Santiago Bernabeu stadium will host the second leg of the Copa Libertadores final between Argentine rivals River Plate and Boca Juniors postponed after fan violence at the weekend, Spanish media said Thursday. World football governing body, FIFA; Spain’s football federation (RFEF); and Real Madrid have agreed that the match be played in the […]
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No fewer than 22 people are feared dead and 22 others injured in an explosion and fire near a chemical factory on Wednesday in a northern China region. The incident happened near Hebei Shenghua Chemical Co. in Zhangjiakou, a city some 200 kilometres (124 miles) northwest of Beijing that will host the 2022 Winter Olympics. […]
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