Following the outrage of the international community over the comment of U.S. President, Donald Trump, wherein he called countries in Latin America and Africa Shithole countries, the president on Tuesday made a u-turn by saying he wants immigrants from around the world. “I want them to come in from everywhere,” he told reporters at 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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The U.S., Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have pledged 190 million dollars to five countries in Africa’s Sahel region to strengthen regional security forces in the fight against terrorism. The pledges came during special conference hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron outside Paris on Wednesday to discuss the fight against terrorism with […]
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US rapper Earl Simmons, popularly known as DMX faces prison time after he pleaded guilty to evading $1.7 million in tax payments on Thursday. Prosecutors said the 46-year-old rapper and actor avoided taxes by living virtually only on cash, without maintaining a bank account or filing required returns to the Internal Revenue Service. DMX admitted […]
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President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he would end the popular US green card lottery as police said a radicalised Uzbek staged the deadly truck attack in New York after entering the country under the programme. The move could spell the end to the US immigration hopes of millions of people around the world who […]
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The United States announced Thursday that it will withdraw from the United Nations Scientific and Cultural Organization, accusing the body of “anti-Israel bias.” State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said Washington would establish an “observer mission” to replace its representation at the Paris-based agency. The United States was angered in 2011 when UNESCO members granted Palestine […]
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U.S. and South Korean wartime operational plans, including a plan to wipe out the North Korean leadership, were stolen by North Korean hackers last year, a South Korean ruling party lawmaker said on Wednesday. Some 235 gigabytes of military documents were taken from South Korea’s Defense Integrated Data Center in September last year, Democratic Party […]
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U.S. Republican Congressman Tim Murphy has announced his resignation after his affair with a young woman came to light, official statement said on Friday. “Upon further discussion with my family, I have made the decision to resign my position,’’ Murphy, an eight-term member of the House of Representatives, serving since 2003, said. The statement came […]
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At least 58 people were killed and 500 injured when a heavily armed gunman opened fire from a 32-floor hotel room on an open-air concert on the Las Vegas Strip in the deadliest mass shooting in US history. The Islamic State group claimed the 64-year-old Nevada man behind the Sunday night massacre, Stephen Craig Paddock, […]
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Speaking at a symposium organised by the United States Institute of Peace, Thomas Shannon Jr, US Under Secretary for Political Affairs, disclosed that US Government has said it will give 54 million dollars in addition to humanitarian assistance to Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad and other countries affected by the Boko Haram violence. Shannon said that the […]
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