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Chairman of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of ECOWAS, President Mahamadou Issoufou said the sub-regional organisation will do all it can to mitigate political crisis in Mali, after many hours of consultations in the nation’s capital, Bamako, on Thursday. The meeting, attended by President Muhammadu Buhari, Host President, Ibrahim Boubacar Keita and Presidents Machy Sall of Senegal, …

A former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, on Friday, met with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The meeting was also attended by the Yobe State Governor, Mala Buni, who currently heads the interim committee managing Nigeria’s ruling party, APC. At the end of the meeting, Mr Buni told State House journalists that President Buhari welcomed …

Former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Yakubu Dogara has dumped the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC. The Chairman of the APC Caretaker/Convention Planning Committee and Governor of Yobe State, Mai Malla Buni, disclosed this after the duo met with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Although Dogara declined …

MASSACHUSETTS — Gov. Charlie Baker on Friday signed an executive order implementing new travel rules for visitors and residents returning to Massachusetts due to a surge in coronavirus cases in other states. The order goes into effect Aug. 1. Visitors coming from out of state or residents returning to Massachusetts must fill out a health travel form and quarantine for 14 days …

…Blames Protest on political actor-sponsors Edo State Government has insisted that it is not owing the protesting workers of the defunct Edo State College of Education, Ekiadolor, noting that salary arrears owed at the termination of the immediate past government have been cleared. In a statement, Special Adviser to the Edo State Governor on Media and Communication Strategy, Mr. Crusoe Osagie, …

BOSTON — Under normal circumstances, this would be a unique season for the Boston Red Sox. And these are not normal circumstances. Nearly four months after their scheduled season opener, the Red Sox will kick off their shortened 2020 slate Friday night at Fenway Park Friday night. There will be no Mookie Betts, Alex Cora, David Price or Chris Sale …

DANVERS, MA — An Essex County Grand Jury handed down an indictment against a Danvers man that included multiple firearms charges. Iury Sette, 18, of Peabody, was charged with possession of five guns without a permit. He was also charged with possession of five large capacity magazines, possession of ammunition without a permit, improper storage of guns in an area …

The Federal Government on Thursday declared that the much talked about “Madagascar COVID-19  herb syrup did not show any evidence that it had real curative properties against COVID-19. The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, made the disclosure in Abuja at the 52nd Joint  National Briefing of the Presidential Task Force (PTF), on COVID-19. According to him, the National Institute …

The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Sen. Godswill Akpabio has said that he never alleged that 60 per cent of contracts in the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) was awarded to lawmakers. Akpabio made the clarification in a letter addressed to the House of Representatives and read by the Speaker, Rep. Femi Gbajabimila at the plenary on Thursday. Gbajabimila on …

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila on Tuesday ordered the Minister of Niger Delta, Senator Godswill Akpabio, to publish details of members of the House, who collected contracts at the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC. The House, through its helmsman, issue the order in reaction to Akpabio’s allegation before an investigative panel that lawmakers were the greatest …