At least 10 Nigerian soldiers have been killed and nine severely injured in an ambush by suspected Boko Haram fighters in restive northeast Nigeria, military sources said Thursday. Another 12 soldiers were missing after a column of troops on patrol was ambushed by the jihadists on Wednesday in Damboa district …
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Security aides attached to the Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, on Thursday beat a photographer of Vanguard Newspaper, Mr Abayomi Adeshida, who is accredited to cover the activities of the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The incident took place at the State House Banquet Hall, Abuja, allegedly in the full glare of the …
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The Appeal Court in Owerri on Thursday upheld the electoral victory of Senator Rochas Okorocha, of Imo West senatorial district. The chairman of the panel, R.A Ada, who read the judgment said that the appeals filed by Senator Osita Izunaso of the All Progressives Grand Alliance and Jones Onyereri …
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Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, has said it is mandatory to deploy smart card readers in the prosecution of the November 16 governorship elections in Bayelsa and Kogi states. A series of tweets via the Commission’s verified Twitter handle @inecnigeria confirmed this on Thursday. …
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Resignation and defection are forcing Jeremy Corbyn to confront two scourges hounding his Labour Party as it tries to unseat UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson: anti-Semitism and Brexit. Labour is hoping to regain power for the first time in nearly a decade when voters go to the polls on December …
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Despite the increasing awareness and reforms in the Bureau De Change (BDC) sub-sector, a significant number of operators are below the requisite rules guiding their activities, the Financial Stability Report of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) for 2018, has noted. In a target examination of 100 selected BDCs conducted …
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The Federal Government has declared Monday as Public Holiday to mark the 2019 Eid-ul-Mawlud in commemoration of the birthday of the Holy Prophet Muhammad. Mr Mohammed Manga, Director Press and Public Relations of the Ministry of Interior, announced this in a statement on Thursday in Abuja. He said the Minister …
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Boeing’s chairman on Tuesday gave a forceful vote of confidence in CEO Dennis Muilenburg amid calls in Congress for the embattled Boeing chief executive to resign after two deadly crashes. “Dennis has done everything right,” Boeing Chairman David Calhoun told CNBC, praising Muilenburg for keeping the board closely abreast of …
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President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed a former Central Bank of Nigeria deputy governor Sarah Omotunde-Alade as a special adviser on finance and the economy. “Dr Alade, who holds BSc (Economics) and PhD in Management Science (Operations Research), retired from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) as Deputy Governor in 2017 …
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Three firefighters in northern Italy were killed Tuesday in a mysterious explosion at an abandoned farm building in what police said may have been a criminal act. The team of firefighters had responded after midnight to an alert about a gas leak in the small town of Quargnento in the …
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