US President Donald Trump has nominated conservative federal appeals court Judge Amy Coney Barrett to fill the US Supreme Court vacancy following the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. At the White House on Saturday, Mr Trump said he thinks Judge Barrett will be confirmed to the Supreme Court before Election Day on November 3. “I
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President Muhammadu Buhari has renewed the appointments of Chief Executive Officers of agencies under the Ministry of Petroleum Resources. The agencies are Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF), Petroleum Equalization Fund (PEF), and Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB). President Buhari’s action was contained in a statement issued on Friday by his Special Adviser on Media
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Vice-President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo, has said the Federal Government is working with other neighbouring countries to reopen the land borders soon. President Buhari had in October 2019 ordered the closure of the borders to check the menace of smuggling goods and arms and ammunition into the country and protect local
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday warned his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron "not to mess" with Turkey, as tensions between the Nato allies escalate. "Don't mess with the Turkish people. Don't mess with Turkey," Mr Erdogan said during a televised speech in Istanbul on the 40th anniversary of the 1980 military coup. Mr Macron has
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has indicated that electronic balloting will be used for future elections in the country beginning from the November 2021 Anambra State governorship election. The commission, however, emphasised that full deployment of Electronic Voting Machine (EVM), which will include e-transmission of results would only be implemented when the electoral act
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The UK and the EU will hold emergency talks on Thursday over UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson's plan to violate his part of the Brexit agreement, in connection with which Brussels will consider the likelihood of a lawsuit against London, Reuters reported. Vice President of the European Commission Maros Sefcovic will meet with his British
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A Russian military hacking group that was caught meddling in the 2016 presidential race has shifted tactics ahead of the November election, Microsoft said Thursday. Hackers in China and Iran have also stepped up efforts to obtain password information for people involved in the campaigns of President Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden, the
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The Ondo State office of the Independent National Electoral Commission has been gutted by fire. This came barely one month to the governorship election in the state. The cause of the Thursday inferno was unknown as at the time of filing this report but it was gathered that the fire had destroyed some items in a
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Nigerians and other foreigners in the United Arab Emirates whose resident visas had expired have till November 17 to leave the Gulf country. This followed the suspension of visa extension for foreign residents and expatriates by the UAE government on account of the COVID-19 pandemic. Previously, residents with visas that expired before March 1 had until August
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President Trump has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for helping broker a peace deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, according to a report. Christian Tybring-Gjedde, a member of the Norwegian Parliament and chairman to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, submitted the nomination, Fox News reported. “For his merit, I think he has done
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