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The Presidency said an important motivation for President Muhammadu Buhari’s bid for second term is that the gains made from 2015 should not be frittered. According to the Presidency, Buhari “is not involved in corruption and is not desperate for the office.” The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba […]

A nude gunman shot dead three people and injured at least four more in the early hours of Sunday at a restaurant on the outskirts of Nashville, Tennessee, police said. The Metropolitan Nashville Police Department said in a statement that the shooting occurred at a Waffle House restaurant in Antioch, a suburb southeast of Nashville, […]

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), US airspace regulatory agency, has directed airlines with the same engines as the Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 to carry out a thorough inspection of the engines’ fan blades. The Southwest Airlines aircraft suffered an engine failure which forced it to make an emergency landing on Tuesday. The aircraft uses the […]

Manchester United boss Jose Mourinho has told Arsene Wenger not to retire from management after the Frenchman announced his decision to step down from Arsenal. Arsenal sent shockwaves through English football this morning when the Gunners released a brief statement announcing that Wenger was to leave the club after 22 years at the end of […]

The Nigerian Army has announced the launch of a new operation to totally destroy the terror group, Boko Haram. According to a statement by David Ahmadu, the Chief of Training and Operations, the new operation‎ will last four months. “Operation LAST HOLD is expected to last for 4 months and it will entail deployment of […]

Germany’s biggest lender Deutsche Bank on Friday admitted to a massive erroneous transfer of €28bn ($34 billion) in a routine operation, more than the entire bank is worth. The unprecedented mistake happened on March 16 when Deutsche Bank carried out a transfer to an account at Deutsche Boerse’s Eurex clearing house, a spokesman told AFP. […]

Senator Shehu Sani has called on President Muhamadu Buhari to apologise to Nigerian youths over the comments credited to him that the Nigerian youths, “do nothing” and want everything for “free”. The senator representing Kaduna Central in a Facebook post on Friday also asked President Buhari to withdraw the statement. He added that the president […]

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has said that young Nigerians should be allowed to run for elective public positions in the country. He said this was especially because the youth had the capacity and competence in the fields of technology, education and other sectors of the economy. According to Osinbajo, if the nation’s youths are old […]

An Italian priest has gambled away more than 620,000 dollars of his parish money, reports said on Thursday. Flavio Gobbo, 48, negotiated a plea bargain for a suspended two-year jail term for embezzlement, according Corriere della Sera, a newspaper in Italy. As part of the deal, he has promised to gradually return the money and signed […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday said many Nigerian youths like free things based on the notion that Nigeria is an oil-rich nation. According to The Cable, President Buhari made this assertion while speaking at the Commonwealth Business Forum in Westminster. President Buhari  said many Nigerian youths are uneducated, not ready to work and dependent on revenue from oil to survive. […]

  A university lecturer, Mr. Kisuze Edward, has been suspended by the University of Makarere in Uganda over allegations of sexual harassment. In the letter of suspension, which bore the stamp of the office of the Vice Chancellor and was posted on the university’s verified Twitter handle on Tuesday, Edward was suspended due to allegations […]

The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Local and Foreign Debt, Senator Shehu Sani (APC, Kaduna),has described the invasion of the senate chambers as an attempted coup d’état. Dailytrust reports that Five persons sneaked into the chamber while DSP, Ike Ekweremadu was presiding and went away with the mace . The guys including two hefty […]

The Russian Central Research Institute of Epidemiology has developed a new gene therapy medicine for people who have the HIV, head of the federal health and epidemic watchdog Rospotrebnadzor, Anna Popova, said on Wednesday. “The Central Research Institute of Epidemiology, Rospotrebnadzor created a fundamentally new drug for gene therapy, gene prophylactic treatment and molecular vaccination […]

Nigerian forces battling Boko Haram jihadists need a change of mindset to overcome an evolving guerrilla threat, US military officials said this week on the sidelines of an African security summit. Boko Haram’s tactics — from improvised explosive devices to hiding within the local population — necessitate a shift away from conventional strategies, said Lieutenant-Colonel […]

The National Leader of All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has again blamed past civilian administrations for the nation’s economic woes. Tinubu stated this in his address as the special guest of honour at the 35th annual Aminu Kano Memorial Symposium, held in Kano, on Tuesday. Tinubu, who was represented by the Governor of Oyo […]

Barbara Bush, the former US first lady and literacy campaigner, has died at the age of 92. She was the matriarchal figure of a political dynasty that included two presidents – her husband George HW Bush and son George W Bush. Mrs Bush, who was first lady from 1989 to 1993, had been in failing […]

Former FBI director James Comey has said Donald Trump is “morally unfit to be president” and treats women like “pieces of meat”. Mr Comey was giving his first major television interview since he was fired by President Trump last year. He told ABC News that Mr Trump lies constantly and may have obstructed justice. Hours […]

Prime Minister Theresa May on Tuesday urged all members of the Commonwealth of Nations that had made what she called outdated legislations against same-sex marriage to have a rethink. May said this in London while addressing leaders at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM). Former Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan had in 2014 signed a […]