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The former Governor of Zamfara State and current senator representing Zamfara West senatorial zone in the National Assembly, Senator Abdulaziz Abubakar Yari, has been appointed into the governing board of the African Association of Legislation (AAL). In a letter signed by Dr. John Mushomi, Chairman of the Steering committee of the Inaugral African conference of…
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Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine said on Friday his party planned to sue police after he was injured in a confrontation with officers earlier this week. Wine, a vociferous critic of Uganda's iron-fisted President Yoweri Museveni, said he was hit by a tear gas canister thrown by police during the fracas on Tuesday. Initially, Wine's…
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The Plateau Government says it has rehabilitated and completed 49 abandoned road projects in the last 18 months. Mr Ubandoma Laven, the Commissioner for Works in the state, said this during a news conference on Saturday in Jos. Laven was reacting to the allegations raised by Rep. Yusuf Gagdi (APC-Plateau) that 80 per cent of…
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Iran said Saturday that it had received messages from the new government in Damascus following the ouster of its longtime Syrian ally, former president Bashar al-Assad. "The Islamic Republic of Iran is indirectly in contact with Damascus," Tehran's special envoy for Syrian affairs Mohammad Reza Raouf Sheibani was quoted as saying by the state-run IRNA…
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The American rapper, Rakim Mayers, popularly known as A$AP Rocky, has reached the closing stages of his felony assault trial in a Los Angeles courtroom on Friday night, February, 2025. The case centred on a November 2021 incident where Mayers allegedly fired a semiautomatic firearm at his former friend and A$AP Mob member, Terell Ephron,…
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The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mr Nyesom Wike, says many FCT projects would be inaugurated in May to celebrate President Bola Tinubu’s second year in office. Wike stated this in Abuja on Saturday after inspecting the construction of a 30.4-kilometre road from Abuja-Lokoja Expressway to Gomani in Kwali Area Council of the…
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Amid angry European reactions to US Vice President JD Vance's combative speech in Munich, Switzerland's president said on Saturday she shared many of the "liberal values" he expressed, seeing the speech as a "plea for direct democracy". Vance's speech at the Munich Security Conference Thursday focussed on key themes of Trump's election campaign and was…
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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and All Progressives Congress (APC) have disagreed over the admissibility of an appeals court judgement in the ongoing petition before the Ondo State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal. The contention followed the APC and its candidate, Gov. Lucky Aiyedatiwa’s, attempt to tender in evidence the judgement of the Appeal Court, Akure…
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The Tanzanian singer and song writer, Juma Mussa Mkambala, known professionally as Juma Jux or simply Jux, has released a hit single, Si Mimi, in honour of his wife, Priscilla Ajoke Ojo. The song release, which Jux shared on his Instagram page on Friday, February 14, which also happened to be a Valentine’s Day, was…
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The University of Ibadan's (UI) management has beefed up security following Saturday’s robbery at Awo Hall. The university’s Director of Public Relations, Mrs Joke Akinpelu, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the incident occurred at the hall of residence during the early hours of Saturday. Akinpelu said the thief entered only two rooms…
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Dr. Uchechukwu Nwokwu, National Coordinator, National Cancer Control Programme, Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, says 7.2 per cent out of 127,000 cancer cases recorded annually in Nigeria are children. Nwokwu said this at the sideline of a public enlightenment on Childhood cancer commemorating 2025 International Childhood Cancer Day, (ICCD) organised by Akanimo Cancer…
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Russia on Saturday published images of a US man that its customs officers arrested a day earlier at a Moscow airport for allegedly travelling with gummy candy laced with cannabis derivatives. Russian media said a day earlier that a 28-year-old American was detained at Vnukovo airport after flying in from Istanbul. The arrest came after…