Gottfried Schmelzer and Ursula celebrated their 80th wedding anniversary on Friday. According to dpa, the Schmelzers are the longest married couple in Germany. For Schmelzer, it was love at first sight. “We hit it off from the very first moment,” says the 102-year-old in his flat in Bad Sobernheim, south-west of …
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A federal appeals court has upheld the criminal conviction of former Trump strategist Steve Bannon. The decision may soon send Bannon, 70, to prison, after years of legal wrangling. He was convicted in 2022 of contempt of Congress for refusing to provide testimony or documents to the committee probing the …
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BIG Brother Naija reality stars and cousins, Neo and Venita Akpofure shone bright at the 10th African Magic Viewers’ Choice Awards’ cultural day held in Lagos on Friday night. Neo won the Best Dressed Male award, while Venita was adjudged the Best Dressed Female for the second consecutive year. The …
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LATEST statistics has shown that Nigeria and European Union trade volume has grown to €45 billion. The statistics showed that this was the case as of September 2023, even as theUnited Nations COMTRADE database indicated that Nigeria remained EU largest trading partner, accounting for 20.9% of Nigeria’s global trade. The …
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ARGENTINA on Friday announced a “targeted” vaccination campaign against dengue after logging more than 420,000 cases so far this year, the country’s health ministry said. Based on recommendations from the National Immunisation Commission (Conain) and as part of a comprehensive strategy against the endemic, a vaccination program targeting affected areas …
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SOMALIA’S government has formally requested the termination of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM), a political advisory mission that has guided the country on peace-building, security reforms, and democracy for over a decade. The request, outlined in a letter from Foreign Minister Aimed Moa Fiji to the Security …
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THE UN health agency, World Health organisation (WHO) says the H5NI avian influenza virus has so far shown no signs of adapting to allow human-to-human transmission. So far, one human case has been reported in the United States since the outbreak of bird flu among the millions of dairy cattle …
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MALAWI has taken action after 12 of its farm workers were deported from Israel for violating employment contracts by leaving their assigned duties to work at a bakery. The confirmation came from Malawi’s Minister of Information and Digitisation, Moses Kunkuyu, who addressed the situation on Tuesday. According to Kunkuyu, the …
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IN a significant turn of events, a court in Malawi has dismissed corruption charges against Vice President Saulos Klaus Chilima, removing a key obstacle to his potential bid in the forthcoming presidential election slated for next year. Chilima, who was apprehended in 2022 on allegations of corruption, was accused by Malawi’s anti-corruption …
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THE government of Kenya has taken decisive action against a Nigerian national, John Nwankwo Noko, following his involvement in a domestic violence incident. Newsextra24 reports that Noko was deported on Saturday, May 4, after being caught on CCTV assaulting a Kenyan woman confined to a wheelchair. This incident has raised serious concerns …
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