North Korea’s foreign minister said on Monday that President Donald Trump had declared war and that the country reserves the right to take countermeasures, including shooting down U.S. bombers even if they are not in its air space. “The whole world should clearly remember it was the U.S. who first declared war on our country,” […]
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Acclaimed American soul singer, Charles Bradley, has died at the age of 68, after a prolonged battle with stomach cancer. His death was disclosed by his publicist, who said, Bradley whose career blossomed late in his life gave up the ghost after fighting cancer “with everything he had”. “It is with a heavy heart that we […]
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U.S. President Donald Trump has taken his threats against North Korea over its nuclear challenge to another level on Tuesday, threatening to “totally destroy’’ the country of 26 million people and mocking its leader, Kim Jong Un, as a “rocket man.’’ In a hard-edged speech to the UN General Assembly, Trump offered a grim portrait […]
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NIGERIA – Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, says the news being circulated via a parody Twitter account and an old NTA news video that President Muhammadu Buhari is travelling or has travelled to the US is fake. In a statement issued in Lagos on Sunday, the minister urged Nigerians to disregard the news. […]
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The United States has sold warplanes and weapons worth $593m to Nigeria. It is reported that the Pentagon notified the US Congress on Monday of the sale to Nigeria of 12 Super Tucano A-29 planes and weapons. The Super Tucano A-29, an agile, propeller-driven plane with reconnaissance and surveillance as well as attack capabilities, is […]
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The moon has completely blocked out the sun’s rays in a rare total solar eclipse over North America. The total eclipse, centred in a 100-kilometer-wide band stretching across 14 states, was first visible in the U.S. in Madras, Oregon in the north-western U.S. starting at 10:19 a.m. and lasting for about two minutes. The temperature […]
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The wreckage of America’s World War II warship, cruiser USS Indianapolis, which was lost on July 30, 1945, has been found. The civilian researchers led by entrepreneur and philanthropist Paul Allen have announced they have found the wreck of the warship on Sunday. The U.S. Department of Defence in a statement on Sunday, described the […]
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Popular Nigerian singer Oyindamola Emmanuel Johnson-Hunga, known as “Dammy Krane” is a free man, as a court in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States, has struck out a charge of credit card forgery, armed conspiracy and grand theft filed against him. Dammy Krane was arrested in June for allegedly booking a private jet service with stolen […]
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U.S.-backed forces now have Islamic State fighters surrounded in central Raqqa, a Syrian Kurdish commander said, but he predicted that driving the militants out could take up to four months. “We’ve cleared about half of Old Raqqa … and we’re advancing on all axes,” said Haval Gabar, the 25-year-old commander from the Kurdish YPG militia […]
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After years of foot-dragging, the US state department has approved the sale of a $593 million A-29 Super Tucano attack planes with associated parts, training, facilities and weapons, to Nigeria. The defence security cooperation agency delivered their certification of the foreign military sale to congress, as required by law, on August 2, according to United […]
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