New York (AP) — Donald Trump conspired to illegally influence the 2016 election through a series of hush money payments designed to silence claims that he feared would be harmful to his candidacy, New York prosecutors said Tuesday in unsealing a historic 34-count felony indictment. The charges arose from a series of checks that Trump or his company wrote during …
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NEW YORK — An extraordinary moment in U.S. history will unfold in a Manhattan courthouse on Tuesday: Former President Donald Trump, who faces multiple election-related investigations, will surrender and be arraigned on criminal charges stemming from 2016 hush money payments. The booking and appearance before Judge Juan Merchan should be relatively brief — though hardly routine — as Trump is fingerprinted and learns the charges against …
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No fewer than 10 students have been kidnapped from government secondary school, Awon, Kachia local government area of Kaduna State. The incident was said to have occured on Monday, but details was sketchy at the time of filing this report. However, Kaduna state government said it has received preliminary reports on kidnapping of the 10 students. A statement on Tuesday …
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The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission has approved 173 digital lending applications to operate in the country. Of the 173, 119 have full approvals and 54 have conditional approvals. After loan apps started harassing Nigerians, the FCCPC began a registration drive to protect citizens from the atrocities of these apps. It released a ‘Limited Interim Regulatory/ Registration Framework and …
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With limited capacity to build reserves via deadweight tonnage of tanker fleets through Very Large Crude Carriers (VLCC), Nigeria may be paying a huge price for lack of floating reserves. Already, over 20 cargoes of Nigerian crude oil, representing about 20 million barrels of crude oil and over $1.7 billion remain stranded, as buyers continue to shun the nation’s crude …
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The candidate of the Labour Party in the February 25 presidential election, Peter Obi, has said the campaign he ran prior to the 2023 general election was not based on ethnicity or religion. Obi said this in a statement he signed on Tuesday in reaction to allegations attributed to the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed. Mohammed had, at …
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INEC had come under fire over its inability to upload results immediately on its result viewing portal during the presidential and National Assembly elections held on 25 February. The electoral commission, INEC, deliberately withheld the real-time upload of presidential election results from polling units, information minister Lai Mohammed said, according to a report by the government-owned News Agency of Nigeria. Mr …
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• Adebanjo: Ajayi remains suspended, has no right to issue statement for Afenifere• Ndigbo not part of any conspiracy, plans to attend Tinubu’s swearing-in• Decide presidential petitions before May 29, Agbakoba tells tribunal• Natives stage peaceful march, vows to resist moves to truncate democratic rule After one week of what could be referred to as dust storm, leading groups from …
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Nobel Laureate Prof. Wole Soyinka has said the Nigeria presidency should go to the southeast region to heal from the wounds of the civil war. The Nigerian civil war lasted for three years between 1967 and 1970 after the southeast declared the independence of Biafra. More than one million died in the war according to an estimate. More than fifty …
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A former presidential aspirant of the All Progressives Congress, Nicolas Felix, on Tuesday said the president-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, will appoint only talented people into his cabinet after taking the oath of office on May 29. Felix, who spoke in an interview on Arise Television on Tuesday, noted that Tinubu’s appointment would be based on competency and not party …
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