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An Australian man has been handcuffed and locked up in a US detention centre after apparently breaching his visa conditions by just over one hour. Sydney man Baxter Reid, 26, was in the US on a five-year visa and had travelled to Canada as part of a requirement for him to exit and re-enter America every six months to keep …

Workers in Cross River State on Monday lamented over the early payment of their May salaries. The state governor, Prof. Ben Ayade, had on April 30 ordered that the May salaries of workers be paid. It will not be the first time that Ayade, whose cardinal priority had been the prompt payment of salaries, will be paying workers ahead of …

Donald Trump has named his most likely challenger in the 2020 presidential election. It is Elizabeth Warren. Standing before the faithful of the National Rifle Association in Atlanta on Friday, the president predicted a surfeit of candidates. “You’ll have plenty of those Democrats coming over and you’re going to say, ‘No, sir, no thank you – no, ma’am,’” the president …

The Nigerian Immigration Service has rescued 16 children from child labour in Ekiti State in the last four months. The NIS Comptroller in Ekiti, Mrs. Oluremi Talabi, disclosed this in Ado Ekiti when the Boots family from Netherlands – that adopted two children in Ekiti 12 years ago – visited her in her office. Joshua, 18, and Victor, 14, were …

A former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, says the suspended Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency, Amb. Ayo Oke, did not fund former President Goodluck Jonathan campaign in 2015. Fani-Kayode, who was the spokesman for the Goodluck Jonathan Campaign Organisation, said this in a tweet on Monday. There had been reports that the N13bn found by the Economic and …

Turkish police on Monday used tear gas and plastic bullets to disperse protesters seeking to defy a ban and march to Istanbul’s Taksim square to celebrate May Day, an AFP journalist reported. Police tried to stop around 200 protesters in the Gayrettepe district on the European side of Istanbul who wanted to walk to the famous square in spite of …

You could measure Donald Trump’s victory in the silence and stillness on both sides of this sunbaked border. The reception centre in McAllen, Texas which used to feed and clothe hundreds of migrants and refugees daily is now nearly deserted. The shelters in Reynosa, Mexico, where travellers thronged in preparation to cross the Rio Grande are now quieter than libraries. …

Donald Trump has reportedly appointed to a position overseeing the US’s family planning safety net a law professor who once stated that “contraception doesn’t work” and “family planning is something that occurs between a husband and a wife and God, and it doesn’t really involve the federal government.” The prospect of Teresa Manning becoming deputy assistant secretary for population affairs …

In what appears a May Day clemency, the Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, on Monday pardoned three out of the four teachers and labour leaders who were sacked in October 2016 for allegedly breaching the civil service rule during the year’s World Teachers Day celebration held on October 5. The Governor announced the clemency while making his speech at …

The Ondo State Governor, Mr. Rotimi Akeredolu has vowed not to revive any dead industry in the state, rather, his administration would begin new industries. Specifically, he said a new glass industry will be established in the state to replace the dead Oluwa Glass Industry. Akeredolu stated this while addressing the workers in the state during the celebration of 2017 …