A pilot and two co-pilots, all three of them Libyan, were killed Sunday when their cargo plane crashed in southern Libya, a military source said. The plane crashed minutes after taking off from the Al-Sharara oil field, the source said on condition of anonymity. “It had arrived from Tripoli to bring supplies to the (oil) […]
Continue ReadingPresident Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday arrived Washington DC ahead of his 4-day working visit to the United States. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the presidential aircraft carrying President Buhari and members of his entourage had left the presidential wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja on Saturday at about 11.35p.m. A […]
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North Korea rapprochement is moving with speed as country promised to shut its atomic test site in May and invited US weapons experts to the country. US President Donald Trump had expressed optimism about securing a nuclear deal with the secretive regime. The reported pledge from President Kim Jong Un follows weeks of whirlwind diplomacy […]
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At least four people have been injured in fire that broke out on Saturday in a high-rise that until recently had been a Trump-branded property in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. Footage on social media showed flames shooting out of the windows and smoke billowing from the 33-floor building, which is still under construction. The […]
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Flash flood in southern Israel has so far killed a total of 10 Israeli teenagers, as the body of a missing student was discovered on Friday. Israel authorities confirmed the deaths of the other nine victims on Thursday evening. The 10 students were among a group of 25 students on a hike organised by Bnei […]
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The leaders of the two Koreas made their way to the heavily fortified demilitarized zone between the countries early on Friday, seeking to end their decades-long conflict and ease tensions over the North’s nuclear weapons program. South Korean leader, Moon Jae-in arrived first at at the Joint Security Area of Panmunjom shortly after 9 a.m., […]
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Disgraced television icon Bill Cosby was convicted Thursday of sexual assault by a US jury — losing a year-long legal battle that was made tougher at retrial as the first celebrity trial of the #MeToo era. The frail 80-year-old Cosby — once beloved as “America’s Dad” — could now spend the rest of his life […]
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During the annual spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank in Washington, DC, African philanthropist and entrepreneur Tony O. Elumelu insisted that prioritizing Africa’s youth by fixing the policy and regulatory issues impeding their innovations would also help attract foreign investors. The Tony Elumelu Foundation Founder spoke alongside World Bank President […]
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Facebook found and removed 1.9 million social-media posts by the Islamic State and al Qaeda terrorists during the first three months of 2018, using new anti-terror algorithms.“In Q1[first quarter] we took action on 1.9 million pieces of ISIS [Islamic State terror group, outlawed in Russia] and al-Qaeda content, about twice as much from the previous […]
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Switzerland says it has returned all the money kept in the country by Sani Abacha, late Nigerian head of state. Pio Wennubst, assistant director-general and head, Global Cooperation Department, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, told NAN that the money was returned with $1.5 million interest. Wennubst said Switzerland returned about $322.5 million dollars (N116.11 […]
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