The US vice-president, Mike Pence, has denounced a New York Times article that suggested he is considering running for president in 2020 as “disgraceful and offensive”. Pence said in a statement released on Sunday: “The allegations in this article are categorically false and represent just the latest attempt by the media to divide this administration.” The article said some Republicans …
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The crowd erupted as John Denver’s 1971 song filled the arena. Behind a black curtain, beneath a blue “Make America great again!” sign, Donald Trump was preparing to make his grand entrance. “I know when he’s waiting to come out his heart is pounding because he’s coming to a field of love,” said Gene Huber, 47, a former used car …
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By Alltimepost.com Washington, D.C. – Israeli authorities should abandon efforts to close Qatari broadcaster Al-Jazeera’s offices, revoke its journalists’ credentials, and censor its transmissions, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Communications Minister Ayoub Kara today repeated Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s allegations that the station supports terrorism, and said the government wanted satellite and cable companies to stop carrying the …
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By Victor Ofure Osehobo Benin City, Nigeria – As Nigeria faces an existential threat through growing agitation for a break-up, the people of the nation’s old Midwestern Region, otherwise known as Bendelites have vowed to remain one nation, should it disintegrate. A leader of an organization, known as the Midwest Movement, now the new voice of the region, Dr. Don …
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The Director of Primary Health Care in Akoko-Edo Local Government Council of Edo, Dr Sunday Yerumoh, on Monday confirmed two cases of Lassa fever in the locality. Yerumoh made the confirmation in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Igarra, the administrative headquarters of Akoko-Edo Local Government Area. He disclosed that the patients were quickly admitted in the …
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* Offices deserted *Managing Director and Management team run from office. * Parking lot empty of operational vehicles By Comrade Osaze Edigin Edo Civil Society Organizations shut down the headquarters of the Benin Electricity Distribution Company (BEDC) in a well-coordinated protest in the state capital today, fulfilling the threat it issued last week against the troubled energy company, accused of …
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Ozubulu Massacre: Awka – It was a bloody Sunday in Anambra State, yesterday, as unidentified gunmen invaded St Philip’s Catholic Church, Amakwa Ozubulu in Ekwusigo Local Government Area of the state, killing no fewer than 35 worshippers and injuring scores of others now receiving treatment in different hospitals in the state. But the state police command said only eight persons …
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A Federal High Court, sitting in Lagos Monday ordered permanent forfeiture to the Federal Government of a $37.5m skyscrapper on the highbrow Banana Island, Lagos, belonging to former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke. The Presiding Judge (Professor) Chuka Obiozor, also ordered that the sums of $2,740,197.96 and N84,537,840.70 realised as rents on the property should also be forfeited …
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More details have emerged on Sunday’s shooting incident at the St.Philip Catholic Church, Ozubulu, near Nnewi in Anambra state where eight persons were confirmed dead and and 18 others injured. The Parish Priest Reverend. Fr. Jude Onwuaso said that the attack took place at about 6.30 a.m. during a Holy Mass celebration. According to the priest, an unidentified man came …
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Niger State Governor Alhaji Abubakar Sani Bello has challenged his colleagues to look inwards for other sources of income instead of depending on money from the federation account which is dependent on oil. Bello according to his Chief Press Secretary Jibrin Ndace made the suggestion in New York while exchanging views with the Nigeria Consul General Mr. Nicholas Ella during …
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