The fired FBI chief, James Comey, has publicly revealed how Donald Trump put pressure on him to shut down an investigation into a senior adviser’s links to Russia. Trump asked Comey to drop his investigation into the former national security adviser Gen Michael Flynn, Comey’s first written account of his interactions says. “I hope you can see your way clear …
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One day before James Comey is due to give evidence to the Senate intelligence committee, the committee has released a written statement from the ex-FBI director, who Donald Trump fired last month. Here’s what we’ve learned from the statement. Trump and Comey’s first meeting, 6 January Leaders of the intelligence community decided to tell Trump at the beginning of January …
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New York – Nigerian authorities should swiftly bring to justice all those behind the beating of journalist Charles Otu and the shooting of publisher Samuel Nweze, the Committee to Protect Journalists said on Wednesday. Otu, the publisher and editor of biweekly The People’s Conscience newspaper and a contributor to Nigeria’s daily Guardian newspaper, told CPJ that men abducted him from …
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The Independent National Electoral Commission has registered five new political parties. The five successful new political parties were said to be part of the 95 associations that applied to the Commission for registration as political parties. It was gathered that two of the political associations voluntarily withdrew their applications. The five successful parties are Young Progressive Party, Advanced Peoples Democratic …
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The police on Wednesday said they had deployed detectives to arrest northern youths, who ordered Igbo to quit the North before October 1, 2017. The groups had, on Tuesday, issued a three-month ultimatum to people of Igbo extraction, resident in the 19 states in the North, to leave the North or be forced out before October 1, 2017. A prepared …
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By Erasmus Ikhide Apparently worried by the rate of unemployment in Nigeria, a leading economic expert, Professor Patrick Utomi has called on the federal government to embrace youth empowerment as a panacea to the lingering economic problem in the country. Utomi at the national launch of YouthCan!, an initiative by SOS children’s Village in Lagos, averred that Nigeria’s dwindling economy …
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The Chairman of Innoson Vehicle Manufacturing Company Ltd (IVM), Innocent Chukwuma, has appealed to the federal and state government institutions to increase the level of patronage of the vehicles manufactured by the indigenous company. He made the plead on Monday when the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, visited the IVM plant in Nnewi, Anambra State in support of …
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The Federal Government has constructed a borehole with overhead tank at the oil-rich Gelegele Community in Edo to put an end to many years of water scarcity in the community. The project was executed through the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) of the Federal Government. The Coordinator of PAP, Brig.-Gen. Paul Boroh (rtd), said in Abuja on Tuesday that the project …
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Edo State governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has revealed his intention to work with the European Union (EU) to discourage and penalise offenders caught promoting illegal migration, while also noting that his administration would collaborate with the EU to drive economic development. Obaseki said this at the Government House in Benin City when the EU Ambassador to Nigeria, Michel Arrion, disclosed …
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Following the frequent attacks by herdsmen which often resulted in loss of lives and property, the Benin Monarch, His Royal Majesty, Oba Ewuare II, has assured the people of Edo State that the problems of herdsmen in the state would be brought to the attention of the relevant authorities for solution. The Oba who gave the assurance in Ekpoma during …
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