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The Federal Government has urged the governments of the United States of America and the United Kingdom to keep an eye on the activities of “desperate opposition” ahead of the 2019 general elections. The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, made this call in a statement released in Ilorin, Kwara State on Friday, January […]
Nigeria’s former Finance Minister and ex Vice President of the World Bank, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, says she’s ready to assume the number one position of the Bretton Woods institution. Mr. Jim Yong Kim, who was reappointed World Bank President for a five-year term on July 1, 2017, has announced that he will be stepping down from […]
In Ghana, a hair dressing apprentice identified as Beatrice Eric Agyapong, has had her lower lip bitten off after getting a car lift from a man. A nurse whose name was revealed as Mummy reportedly attacked her on Friday, January 18, 2019. She had just returned from a trip to buy a meal when the […]
Barely three weeks after Idris Yakubu, Managing Director of the Nigerian Aviation Handling Company (NAHCO) Plc, was eased out of office, one of its major shareholders, Lufthansa Airlines, has sold its shares in the company. SaharaReporters had reported on December 22, 2018 about the departure of Yakubu from the company, some five months after his […]
Canada, everyone’s new favourite country, has announced its plans to take in more than one million new permanent residents in the next three years. So, what are you waiting for? While America is driving hard to stopping the influx of immigrants with the construction of its famous wall, Canada is seeking for ways to offset […]
or marching in support of Biafra, more than 30 women affiliated to the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) were tear-gassed, loaded into trucks and whisked off to prison. After more than 24 hours during which they were refused visits by family members, the Police moved to charge them to court for “unlawful assembly”. The […]
“The operations will be carried out within the next 20 days. This is according to the meeting that they held in Baga on Thursday,” said the source. “The only one of these three that they think will give them a tough time is Monguno. They feel Damasak and Abadam will be very easy. They feel […]
While in public service, Shehu Shagari served in a ministerial post for seven times before becoming the president on October 1, 1979 reigning until December 31, 1983. He is the only known president in the Second Nigerian Republic after the termination of military rule in Nigeria. General Olusegun Obasanjo is credited as aiding the transition […]
Turkey’s central bank needs to raise interest rates to contain the country’s financial crisis, veteran economist Stephen Roach told CNBC on Monday. Earlier in the day, Turkish lira dropped to a new all-time low of 7.24 against the U.S. dollar. It later pared some of those losses to trade around 6.99. “The markets clearly want much more decisive action,” […]
With Sino-American trade tensions escalating, China’s cybersecurity standards could be used as an “invisible tool” for retaliating against Washington’s tariffs, according to one expert. Such standards are government-issued operational guidelines that are technically voluntary, but are oftentimes treated as mandatory by foreign firms’ Chinese business partners. If Asia’s largest economy were to weaponize the listing […]