Brazil’s Supreme Court has accepted the charges of obstruction of justice and criminal associations against President Michel Temer. The charges were presented by ex-Prosecutor-General Rodrigo Janot. However, the president’s lawyers were unsuccessful in their attempt to get the Supreme Court to suspend the case. Raquel Dodge, the new prosecutor-general, in her reaction, said
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Governorship aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Anambra and CEO of Capital Oil and Gas Ifeanyi Ubah has been suspended by the National Working committee of the party. On Tuesday, Ubah announced his decision to file a suit against the outcome of the governorship primaries that produced Oseloka Obaze
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PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has approved the proscription of the Independent Peoples Of Biafra (IPOB) as had previously been announced by the Defence Headquarters (DHQ). Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, disclosed this while briefing State House correspondents on the outcome of the meeting of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) presided
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A Federal high court in Abuja has struck out one out of the nine counts of $1.6 billion crude oil fraud leveled against Former Minister of petroleum, Diezani Alison-Madueke, Jide Omokore and five others. Justice Nnamdi Dimgba struck out the eight-count after hearing an application filed by Diezani, claiming that she
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Unity Bank, One of Nigeria’s leading commercial bank is one of the key players in promoting agribusiness in the country, boosting the sector with the intervention schemes to the tune of N24 billion. The bank said in a statement that its commitment towards participating in the on-lending schemes was borne out
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Agency Reports The Kano State Government has declared Friday, September 22, as public holiday to mark the new Islamic year. This is contained in a statement signed by the Commissioner for Information, Mallam Muhammad Garba and issued to newsmen in Kano on Wednesday. The Islamic New Year, which is the first month in
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Each year the BBC awards an outstanding African journalist with the BBC World News Komla Dumor Award and this year's winner is Nigerian journalist Amina Yuguda. The award celebrates the best in African journalism and was created in memory of the BBC’s late colleague Komla Dumor. Yuguda will spend three months
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Agency reports US President Donald Trump has warned of the threat from "rogue nations" in a speech to the UN General Assembly, singling out North Korea and Iran. In his debut speech to the body in New York, he warned America would destroy North Korea if it was forced to defend itself
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Agency reports A humanitarian medical organisation, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said about 48 persons have died of cholera since the outbreak of the disease last month in Borno state. The organisation otherwise called Doctors without Borders, said that 2, 627 cases of the disease were recorded by the state ministry of health. Anna
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ANIETIE UDOBIT,ABUJA Popular Tales by Moonlight pioneer presenter and coordinator of Nigerian Children’s Parliament, Nkem Oselloka-Orakwue (known as Auntie Nkem) has joined the Team of instructors, experts who are training the Children in the Children’s House Abuja, a new school for early child Education located in the Apo Legislative quarters. Nkem Orakwue
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