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Woman who gave Trump the middle finger fired from her job

A woman whose picture went viral after she raised her middle finger at Donald Trump as his motorcade passed her on her bicycle has been fired from her job. Juli Briskman was cycling in Virginia last month when she offered the gesture in a gut reaction to Trump’s policies, she said. “He was passing by and my blood just […]

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Texas church shooting: 8 members of one family among the 26 killed

Eight members of one family — including a pregnant mother and three of her children — were among those killed in a mass shooting at a rural Texas church Sunday. All at once, Joe and Claryce Holcombe lost children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren and a future great-grandchild in the shooting at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland […]

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26 dead Nigerian women found in Spanish warship

Italian prosecutors have commenced investigations into the deaths of 26 Nigerian women whose bodies were recovered at sea, BBC reported on Monday. The victims, who are mostly teenagers, aged 14-18, are believed to have been sexually abused and murdered as they attempted to cross the Mediterranean. Following several rescues, their bodies were discovered in a […]

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Mugabe sacks vice president Mnangagwa

President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe on Monday fired Emmerson Mnangagwa as vice president, Information Minister Simon Moyo said. Mnangagwa, a 75-year-old former intelligence chief, has been heavily-criticised by supporters of Mugabe’s wife, Grace, who has also been touted as a potential successor to her husband. Moyo said Mnangagwa had exhibited traits of disloyalty, disrespect and […]

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Niger Delta ‘militants’ kill British hostage

Ian Squire, one of the four missionaries kidnapped in Delta state, in October has been killed by suspected militants. The BBC quoted the foreign office (FCO) as confirming the tragic incident, saying the three others were freed. The British high commission and Nigerian authorities reportedly negotiated the release of Alanna Carson, David Donovan and Shirley Donovan […]

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Winners of the “9th Anambra State Sports Festival” cry out to governor Obiano for their prices

Winners of the just concluded 9th Anambra State Sports Festival went home in anger after they were given no prices for their efforts to become gold, silver and bronze medalists. According to the winners who spoke to our reporter in Awka, They alleged that the governor brought out over 41m for this event but the […]

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British minister denies porn allegations

The sexual harassment scandal that has rocked British politics took a new twist Saturday after one of Britain’s most senior ministers denied allegations that “extreme” pornographic material was found on his work computer in 2008. Damian Green, the first secretary of state and effectively Prime Minister Theresa May’s deputy, said the story, which was first reported in […]

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Soyinka returning to Trump’s America after tearing green card, says he will go in as an alien

Wole Soyinka is going back to America, less than a year after he tore his green card following the emergence of President Donald Trump. He will be delivering the Richard D. Cohen Lectures at Harvard University Centre for African Studies from November 14 to November 16. “I’ll go in as an alien, an alien from […]

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Why Nadia Buari & I separated – Jim Iyke opens up

“Things didn’t get messy as people thought. Two people met in the entertainment industry and there was a reality show at a time that kept us together. So, we did a smart thing anybody who found himself or herself in such situation would have done. And when the entertainment was over, we moved on to […]

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Martin Luther King had love child, bedded Joan Baez – JFK files

A newly declassified FBI dossier on the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. alleges the civil rights leader had a possible lovechild and once bedded folk singer Joan Baez. The scandalous 20-page report – included in the latest document dump of files related to the JFK assassination – says that “a responsible Los Angeles individual” informed […]

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Pope urged to let priests be married

A high-ranking Vatican official has said he is pressing the Catholic Church to consider allowing married men to act as priests in a remote region of the Amazon. Bishop Erwin Krautler, secretary for the Commission on the Pan-Amazon Region, wants the subject on the agenda at a meeting in the Vatican in 2019, he told […]

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President Buhari approves immediate overseas treatment for Ekwueme

President Buhari on Friday ordered that ailing former Vice President Alex Ekwueme be flown abroad for medical treatment. Mr. Buhari authorised the trip after being briefed on Mr. Ekwueme’s condition. The former vice president, who turned 85 in October, reportedly collapsed in his Enugu residence on Sunday. On Monday, his family said in a statement that the […]

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Science proves it: People love dogs more than humans

It’s official, people love dogs so much that we prefer them to some people, and even feel more empathy towards them than our fellow men. In a study published in the journal Society & Animals, about 240 student volunteers looked at fake newspaper stories about attacks on both dogs and people. The four stories were about […]

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South African govt to seek longer sentence for Oscar Pistorius

South Africa’s National Prosecuting Authority said on Friday that it will seek a harsher prison sentence for jailed Paralympic Oscar Pistorius. The authority argued that the six-year term for murder was too lenient. In 2015, Pistorius was found guilty of murdering his model girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, at his home on Valentine’s Day two years before, […]

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Ebola-like outbreak declared in Uganda

An outbreak of contagious and deadly Marburg virus disease in the Kween district of eastern Uganda was declared by the nation’s Ministry of Health on October 19. Marburg virus disease, which causes severe viral hemorrhagic fever, ranks among the most virulent pathogens known to infect humans, according to the World Health Organization. As of Saturday, two confirmed cases, […]

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Ekwueme in stable condition, says aide

A former Nigeria Vice President, Dr Alex Ekwueme, who is currently on admission in Memfis Hospital for Neurosurgery, Enugu is reported to be in stable condition. An aide of the former vice president, who spoke to newsmen on condition of anonymity, said that his boss was responding to treatment. When the News Agency of Nigeria visited the […]

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CAN replies Osinbajo, insists there’s plot to ‘Islamise’ Nigeria

The Christian Association of Nigeria has responded to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo’s explanation of the federal government’s adoption of Sukuk bonds. Speaking during a pastors’ conference in Lagos on Friday, Mr. Osinbajo said CAN was wrong in its conclusion that the federal government’s adoption of the Sukuk bond was a ploy to Islamise Nigeria. Mr. Osinbajo […]

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15 million girls forced into sex by partners, relatives, friends – UN

The United Nations on Wednesday said 15 million teenage girls worldwide have been forced into sex, often by partners, relatives or friends, yet only one in 100 sought help. UNICEF on Wednesday said in a report which examined data from more than 40 countries, that Cameroon had the highest rate of sexual violence, with one […]

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