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ISTANBUL/ANKARA, July 15 (Reuters) – Turkey’s military said on Friday it had seized power but President Tayyip Erdogan vowed that the attempted coup would be put down.
Read More »Coup underway in Turkey; president says he’s still in charge
Kidnapped Sierra Leonean diplomat released – Police
A Sierra Leonean diplomat who was kidnapped in northern Nigeria has been freed, the police said on Tuesday.
Read More »Aisha Buhari cancelled planned visit to the US over fear of arrest – Report
Embattled Nigeria’s First Lady, Aisha Buhari Abuja has cancelled her scheduled trip to the United States of America for the World First Ladies’ Conference in Colorado for reasons related to her pending money-laundering case with the United States Justice Department, sources reveal. However, her media director, Zakari Nadabo, who announced the cancellation, did not give any reason for Aisha’s decision. …
Read More »Certificate saga: Buhari assemble 13 SANs & 10 others in Appeal against Court Ruling
President Muhammadu Buhari has appealed the ruling of Justice Adeniyi Ademola of the Federal High Court in Abuja who on May 26, 2016 dismissed his preliminary objection in a suit filed by an Abuja-based legal practitioner, Mr. Nnamdi Nwokocha-Ahaaiwe. The president’s legal team, which endorsed the notice of appeal, is led by Chief Wole Olanipekun (SAN). Others are Mr. Lateef …
Read More »Obama endorses Hillary Clinton
President Barack Obama endorsed presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton in a web video Thursday.
Read More »UK Daily Mail accuses Amaechi of diverting £140million of state funds into Buhari’s presidential campaign
Muhammadu Buhari seen by some as leading the battle against corruption But worrying allegations swirl around one of Nigerian leader’s close allies Rotimi Amaechi accused of misappropriating £338m commission probing sale of state assets Also accused of diverting £140m of state funds into Buhari’s presidential campaign When David Cameron was caught on camera last week before an anti-corruption summit describing Nigeria …
Read More »Cameron’s `corruption’ remark wake-up call to shun corruption – Stakeholders
Some Nigerians on Wednesday expressed displeasure over statement credited to British Prime Minister, David Cameron, that Nigeria was a “fantastically corrupt’’ country. Cameron was caught on camera telling Queen Elizabeth on Tuesday that leaders of some “fantastically corrupt’’ countries, including Nigeria and Afghanistan, were due to attend the anti-corruption summit holding in London They told the News Agency of Nigeria …
Read More »UK Newspaper query £250m aid to Nigeria when Buhari’s daughter attends £26,000-a-year English school
The presence of President Muhammadu Buhari at Prime Minister David Cameron’s anti-corruption summit this week may surprise many in Nigeria says United Kingdom’s Dailymail newspaper. The UK , the Dailymail further said, “is giving nearly £250million in the coming year to oil-rich Nigeria, whose president sends his daughter to a £26,000-a-year English school”. According to the Newspaper “Self-proclaimed ‘People’s President’ …
Read More »U.S. regulators ban e-cigarette, cigar sales to people under 18
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday banned sales of all e-cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco and hookah tobacco to people under age 18.
Read More »Presidency dismisses London Telegraph’s article on President Buhari
The Presidency on Wednesday dismissed an article by The Telegraph (London) allegedly accusing Nigeria of using aids giving to it by Britain to persecute President Muhammadu Buhari’s political foes rather than fight Boko Haram. A statement issued in Abuja by Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the President, said the article was full of factual …
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