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In less than 140 characters, Donald Trump had left the chairman of the Senate foreign relations committee speechless. Senator Bob Corker, a Republican from Tennessee, could barely mask his disbelief when reporters on Capitol Hill informed him of tweets in which Trump accused Qatar, a close US ally, of being a state sponsor of terrorism. “The president?” Corker asked, lowering …

George Osborne has called Theresa May “a dead woman walking” and suggested the prime minister would be forced to resign imminently. The former chancellor said he did not expect to back the prime minister for much longer. “I think we will know very shortly. We could easily get to the middle of next week and it all collapses for her,” …

A chastened Theresa May has apologised to her party colleagues, after squandering the Conservatives’ majority with an ill-fated snap general election, forcing her to turn to Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist party for backing. A surge in support for Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour party and its anti-austerity message drove the Conservatives into retreat, leaving them unable to form a majority government alone. …

British Prime Minister, Theresa May, has received the permission of Queen Elizabeth II to put together a minority government. According to the formalities of the British system, May was on Friday driven to Downing Street to Buckingham Palace to ask Queen Elizabeth for permission to form a government. After receiving the necessary permission to form a cabinet, she said: “As …

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in Benue State has declared its support for Governor Samuel Ortom over the Benue State Prohibition of Open Grazing Law 2017, he recently signed into law. The party described the new law as the best thing to happen to the state in recent time. Speaking yesterday to reporters in Makurdi, the Benue State chairman of …

Theresa May has said sorry to the Tory MPs and ministers who lost their seats as a result of her decision to call a snap general election which cost the Conservatives their majority. A disastrous set of election results have left Mrs May clinging onto power with the Prime Minister forced to pursue a deal with the Democratic Unionist Party …

Pupils of Ohovbe Primary School in Ikpoba-Okha local council of Edo State were on Tuesday chased out of their classrooms by cows.The pupils were said to have stayed outside for about one hour before the herdsman came to take them out. It was gathered that the herdsmen have turn the school to a grazing ground and the cows used to …

New York, June 8, 2017—Kenyan authorities should credibly investigate and swiftly bring to justice those responsible for attacking and threatening Emmanuel Namisi, a broadcast journalist for the Royal Media group, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Namisi told CPJ that men he identified as bodyguards of Kenneth Lusaka, governor of the western Kenyan county of Bungoma, threatened him and …

The Northern Elders’ Forum (NEF), on Friday expressed support to the call by the Coalition of Northern Youth Groups for Igbos to leave the region within three months. The group according to Premium Times citing NAN, made its position known despite widespread condemnation that followed the ultimatum earlier handed by the Arewa Youth Consultative Forum. The forum expressed “disappointment” with …

The coalition of Northern groups which gave Igbo three month notice to quit northern Nigeria yesterday reiterated that it’s call for Igbo to leave northern Nigeria was not a call to violence but to allow Igbo achieve their ambition of having the country. In a statement issued Thursday in Kaduna and signed by Abdulazeez Suleiman, spokesman of the group carpeted …