The Police in the United States have arrested a 67-year old man, Michael Neu, who defrauded his victims of thousands of dollars by posing as a Nigerian royalty. An 18-month long investigation exposed Neu from Slidell, Louisiana, as the internet ‘Nigerian prince’ heavily involved in scams, obtaining money and wiring funds. He is facing 269 […]
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Liberia’s National Elections Commission (NEC) on Friday formally declared international football icon, George Weah of the Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC), as President-elect of Liberia. Chairman of the commission, Mr Jerome Korkoya, made the declaration after announcing the final results of the Dec. 26 presidential runoff election at the NEC headquarters in Monrovia. The final […]
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Former footballer and the candidate of the opposition Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC), George Weah gathered a total of 98.1 percent of results from the polling units to give earn an unassailable lead in the Liberian presidential run-off election. In results announced on Thursday by the chairperson of the country’s electoral Commission, Jerome Kokoya, Mr. Weah […]
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At least 40 people were killed and dozens more wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up inside a Shiite cultural centre in Kabul on Thursday, officials said. It was the latest violence to hit the Afghan capital. There was no immediate claim of responsibility but the Taliban was quick to deny involvement in the […]
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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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