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Theresa May has said she wants to hold a snap general election on 8 June, despite repeatedly claiming that she was against the idea of an early vote. In a surprise statement outside Downing Street on Tuesday morning, the prime minister claimed that opposition parties were jeopardising her government’s preparations for Brexit. “We need a general election and we need …

In a bid to court working-class voters, Donald Trump will sign an executive order on Tuesday to revamp a temporary visa programme used to bring foreign workers to fill jobs in the US. The president will use a visit to a manufacturing company in Kenosha, Wisconsin, a crucial state he snatched from Hillary Clinton in the election, to promote his …

Some members of the House of Representatives, yesterday supported the call by National Union of Local Government Employees, NULGE, for autonomy for the third tier of government in Nigeria. But the lawmakers placed more emphasis on financial autonomy to free local governments from the shackles of state governors who, in most cases, see them as an extension of the state …

The Senate leadership is considering two options to overcome constitutional hindrances being projected by administration officials not to seek fresh Senate confirmation for Mr. Ibrahim Magu, as Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. Following the second Senate rejection of Mr. Magu, administration officials and sympathisers had cited section 171 of the constitution to buttress the claim that …

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Yakubu Dogara, warned on Monday that figures could be manipulated if a population census was conducted by Nigeria in 2018. He stated that political interests would determine the outcome of the results, rather than the actual figures. The speaker argued that 2018 was too close to 2019, an election year, a reason …

Former Minister of Education, Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau, has lauded the anti corruption fight by President Muhammadu Buhari, describing it as a good omen. The former Kano State governor, made this disclosure to journalists in Sokoto on Monday. Shekarau said, “The efforts by the president to fight corruption in all its ramifications is good for Nigeria. “Anybody, who gets any money …

The Director-General, Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, Mr. Usman Muktar, says the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, runway is ready for operation and can be opened on Wednesday. Muktar stated this while speaking with journalists during an inspection of the airport’s runway on Monday in Abuja. The Abuja airport was closed on March 8 for six weeks to enable rehabilitation of …

The UN Secretary General, António Guterres, has appointed Ms Vera Songwe as the first female Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa. A statement on the commision’s website on Monday said that Songwe is a Cameroonian economist and a banking executive. It also said that she was the first woman to ever be appointed to the position. Songwe has …

A white cloud of pesticides had drifted into Fidelia Morales’s back yard, coating her children’s swing set. The 40-year-old mother of five gestured toward the citrus groves that surround her house in California’s Central Valley as she recounted when an air blast sprayer sent chemicals floating onto her property last year – landing on her family’s red and blue jungle …

The US vice-president, Mike Pence, has warned North Korea not to test Donald Trump’s resolve over its nuclear and ballistic missile programmes, adding that the US and its allies were running out of patience with the regime. Noting that Trump had recently ordered a missile strike against Syria, the vice-president, who is in Seoul at the start of a tour …