United States (US) ambassador to Nigeria, Stuart Symington, has presented Letters of Offer and Acceptance (LOA), to the Nigerian air force (NAF) for the planned sale of the A29 Super Tucano warplane. The presentation was made to Sadique Abubakar, chief of air staff, at NAF headquarters in Abuja on Wednesday. In April, the US government […]
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Liberia’s National Electoral Commission (NEC) has fixed today, Thursday for the commencement of announcement of the result of the presidential run-off. Meanwhile, the candidate of the opposition, Congress for Democratic Change (CDC), George Weah, has expressed confidence he would win the election. “The Liberian people clearly made their choice yesterday and altogether we are very […]
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The UN says violence, displacement and hunger will drive record humanitarian needs in 2018, with nearly 136 million people worldwide in need of aid. The UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said protracted conflicts in Syria, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Yemen, the Rohingya exodus from Myanmar and natural disasters exacerbated […]
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The state is set for today’s presidential runoff election in Liberia, according to the country’s National Elections Commission (NEC). Spokesman of the commission, Mr Henry Flomo, on Monday said that the electoral umpire had done everything “humanly possible’’ for a smooth process. He said the commission had fully carried out the Supreme Court’s directives on […]
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The Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, has taken advantage of the ongoing fuel scarcity to lambast President Muhammadu Buhari. The governor who ordered 80 percent of the petrol in the government house dump to be pumped out and sold at N145 per litre, said he took the action because the president did not have […]
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President Donald Trump of the United States mocked countries with immigrants in the US, according to a New York Times report. In a meeting he reportedly attended in June at the Oval Office, Trump was quoted to have said Nigerians refuse to “return to their huts” after seeing America. He was also quoted to have […]
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The death toll from a tropical storm Tembin, which ravaged the southern Philippines rose to 182 early Sunday, with 153 people still missing. The police gave this update after rescuers pulled dozens of bodies from a swollen river. Tropical Storm Tembin has lashed the nation’s second-largest island of Mindanao since Friday, triggering flash floods and […]
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A court in Malaysia has sentenced two Nigerian students to death by hanging for trafficking hard drug. A High Court Judge, Datuk Abdul Halim Aman sitting in Shah Alam ruled that Mustafa Azmir, 28, and Jude Nnamdi Achonye, 30 be hanged after convicting them. Their ordeal started three years ago when the two students of […]
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Cuban President Raul Castro will step down in April 2018 straight after his successor is chosen by a top governing council, according to a vote Thursday in the island state’s National Assembly. The vote by lawmakers pushed back the date of general elections, which were initially to be held at the end of February. The […]
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President Donald Trump’s threat to cut off funding to nations that voted at the UN General Assembly against his decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, only swayed about 65 countries. One hundred and twenty eight countries, among them staunch allies of Washington defied his bullying threat and voted to reject the move, a stance that Palestinian […]
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