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Doyin Okupe: Ex-President Obasanjo coalition’s candidate will defeat President Buhari

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A former presidential spokesperson, Dr. Doyin Okupe, has said the Coalition for Nigeria Movement will present a candidate who will defeat President Muhammadu Buhari in the 2019 presidential election. He, however, said the group was not formed to either attack the Buhari government or to discredit the APC. Okupe, in a statement on Saturday, said since it would be difficult to defeat an incumbent, the CNM was created as a broad platform with a view to presenting a candidate who would contest against Buhari with the hope of defeating the…

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Mo Salah: We’ll win Champions League

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Mohamed Salah has reacted to Liverpool’s qualification for this season’s Champions League final. Salah helped Liverpool to beat AS Roma 7-6 on aggregate in the semifinal to book a show down with Real Madrid in Kiev. Speaking with Norwegian TV, Salah said “I said at the beginning we will try our best to win the Champions League.” Salah had a relatively quiet evening as Roma bounced back to beat Liverpool 4-2. The 4-2 defeat in Rome was enough for the Reds to sneak through 7-6 on aggregate, with Salah having…

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President Buhari’s impeachment: Mission impossible

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he Chairmen of the Committees on Public Accounts in the National Assembly – Kingsley Chinda (House of Representatives, PDP Rivers, Obio/Akpor Constituency) and Mathew Urhoghide (Senate, PDP Edo South) – have both had cause to ask the respective Chambers of the National Assembly to commence impeachment proceedings against President Muhammadu Buhari for allowing the withdrawal of $496 million from the Excess Crude Account, without prior approval of the National Assembly and/or appropriation. This has caused much partisan rowdiness in the National Assembly and an aborted clash between PDP supporters of…

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Buhari praises U.S for launch of kleptocracy initiative

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President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated President Donald Trump on the launch of Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Initiative. Buhari said at the White House on Monday at a joint press briefing that the initiative was spearheaded by the United States Department of Justice Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering. “We hope that we could continue to count on U.S. support in this area,” he told Trump at the official meeting. He thanked the U.S. government for the cooperation Nigeria had received in its effort to recover stolen funds. “Our two governments have put…

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Federal government earmarks N2 billion to boost agric-business in FUNAAB

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Determined to boost agricultural development in the country, the Federal Government has allocated over N2billion to the Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta (FUNAAB). Executive Secretary, Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), Dr. Abdullahi Baffa, who made this known while commissioning multiple projects at the institution on the occasion of its 30th anniversary, said the intervention was targeted at making FUNAAB a world class agricultural training institution. He lamented that FUNAAB had lagged behind in terms of infrastructural development following its inability to access over N2billion allocated to the institution since 2013…

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Sudan must ‘terminate’ Noth Korea ties before terror tag talks: US

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Sudan has to “terminate all business ties” with North Korea before any talks could begin for removing Khartoum from the US “terrorism” blacklist, a top US official said Monday. Washington lifted its decades-old trade embargo imposed on Khartoum in October, but kept Sudan in its list of “state sponsors of terrorism”, which Sudanese officials say makes international banks wary of doing business with Sudanese banks, and in turn hampers an economic revival in the African country. BLACKLIST Sudanese officials have been pushing to remove Sudan from the blacklist — which…

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Oil price rises above $75 per barrel

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International oil benchmark, Brent crude, on Monday hit $75 per barrel and rose further amid growing geopolitical tensions in the world. Brent, against which Nigeria’s crude oil is priced, stood at $75.16 per barrel as of 8:15pm Nigerian time, while the United States’ marker, West Texas Intermediate, traded around $68.36 per barrel. The rise in oil prices means further accretion to the nation’s Excess Crude Account, into which the difference between the market price of oil and the budget benchmark is saved to provide a cushion when oil prices fall…

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23-year old remanded in prison for allegedly stealing fish

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A 23-year-old worker at a fish pond in Osogbo, Abiodun Olasunkanmi, has been remanded in the Ilesa Prison for allegedly stealing a large quantity of cat fish valued at N800,000. The police on Monday arraigned the accused before an Osogbo Magistrate’s Court presided over by Mrs. O. A. Oloyade. The prosecutor, Mr. Abiodun Fagboyinbo, told the court that the accused committed the offence on April 25 around 5.30am at the fish pond in the Rinsayo area of Osogbo, the Osun State capital. According to him, the offence contravenes Section 390…

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Thousands celebrate Barcelona La Liga win

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Thousands of Barcelona fans lined the streets of the city on Monday to celebrate the club’s La Liga and Copa del Rey double, although the pain of an early Champions League exit was omnipresent. Wearing the club’s trademark blue and claret-coloured shirts, fans cheered as an open-top bus passed by carrying Lionel Messi, Andres Iniesta and other stars who were taking photos with their mobiles, throwing confetti or singing “champions, champions.” It is the eighth time Barca have achieved the feat, although the celebratory parade through the city centre was…

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What Buhari told Trump

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President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday made history as the first African President to visit President Donald Trump at White House for a bilateral talk which touched on security, econnomy, trade and investment and governance. Here is President Buhari’s full statement: Mr President of the United States of America, Ladies and Gentlemen of the media. It has been a pleasure and honour to visit Washington DC at the kind invitation of President Donald Trump. Nigeria and the United States share a long history of close and cordial relations, which encompass political,…

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