Day: August 12, 2017

Uhuru Kenyatta re-elected as President of Kenya

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The results of the 2017 Presidential  elections in  Kenyan 2017 has been announced. according to the result, incumbent President Uhuru Kenyatta has won Kenya’s hotly contested presidential poll, the electoral commission says. The 55-year old incumbent, who has been in office since 2013, won a second five-year term with 54.27 per cent of the vote, followed by 72-year-old opposition leader, Raila Odinga with 44.74 percent. Electoral Commission Chairman, Wafula Chebukati, announced the result after the commission painstakingly double-checked the tally by the electronic voting system with the results of the…

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Debt Management Office explains why the FG are refinancing local debts with $3bn

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The Federal Government refinancing its maturing local debts with $3bn external borrowing will not only crash the rate of domestic borrowing but also allow some borrowing space to the private sector, according to the Debt Management Office has said. In a statement issued in Abuja on Friday, the DMO said borrowing from foreign sources to refinance the local debts would also allow the government time to repay the loans when the economy must have fully recovered from recession as well as when the economy must have been diversified. The Minister…

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4 die of Hepatitis in Borno IDPs camp

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Medicine Sans Frontiers otherwise known as ‘Doctors Without Borders’, on Friday said that four expectant mothers had died of Hepatitis (E) infection at the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp,Ngala, Borno. The organisation also said that 400 other displaced persons including women and children were infected with the disease in the camp. A statement signed by Musa Yahaya, the MSF Field Communication Officer, and released in Maiduguri, said hundreds of persons were infected following the spread of the disease from the Niger Republic. The organisation estimated that there were about 45,…

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Giroud wins thriller for Arsenal

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Olivier Giroud was on hand on the opening day of the English Premier League to save Arsenal the agony of losing at home, when he came in  as a sub to give the Gunners a 4-3 winning edge over Leicester. New signing, Alexandre Lacazette in the second minute, opened the scoring with a header for Arsenal in the thrilling match at the Emirates. Shinji Okazaki, three minutes after  equalised for Leicester, with  Jamie Vardy putting  Leicester ahead in the 29th minute, Just before the break, after a shot by Lacazette was blocked,…

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