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May 28, 2020 | Rwandan Genocide Suspect, Felicien Kabuga Denies Any Wrong Doing...
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May 28, 2020 | AfDB: Adesina Spills Fresh Details about Those ‘Hunting’ for His Office...
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May 28, 2020 | 75% of Infant Formulas on Sale in Nigeria High in Arsenic, Toxic Substance- Study...
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May 28, 2020 | CSOs in Nigeria Rejects ‘Suspicious’ Infectious Diseases Bill...
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May 28, 2020 | African Countries Record over 3,500 COVID-19 Deaths...
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May 28, 2020 | COVID-19: Nigeria Suspends Evacuation of Citizens Abroad...
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May 28, 2020 | Nigeria Government Calls for Cooperation of Private Owners as School Reopens...
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May 27, 2020 | I Have Not Violated Any Code of Ethics, I am Innocent of All Allegations- African Development Bank’s President, Akinwunmi Adesina Says...
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May 28, 2020 | Rwandan Genocide Suspect, Felicien Kabuga Denies Any Wrong Doing...
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May 28, 2020 | President Trump to Sign Executive Order ‘Against’ Social Media...
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May 28, 2020 | President Buhari Seeks Approval to Borrow $5.513Bn to 2020 Finance Budget...
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May 28, 2020 | AfDB: Adesina Spills Fresh Details about Those ‘Hunting’ for His Office...
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May 28, 2020 | 75% of Infant Formulas on Sale in Nigeria High in Arsenic, Toxic Substance- Study...
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May 28, 2020 | CSOs in Nigeria Rejects ‘Suspicious’ Infectious Diseases Bill...
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May 28, 2020 | African Countries Record over 3,500 COVID-19 Deaths...
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May 28, 2020 | COVID-19: Nigeria Suspends Evacuation of Citizens Abroad...
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May 28, 2020 | Nigeria Government Calls for Cooperation of Private Owners as School Reopens...
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May 27, 2020 | I Have Not Violated Any Code of Ethics, I am Innocent of All Allegations- African Development Bank’s President, Akinwunmi Adesina Says...
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Rwandan Genocide Suspect, Felicien Kabuga Denies Any Wrong Doing...
Felicien Kabuga, the man accused of financing the Rwandan genocide in 1994 has denied playing a role in the massacres. He was arraigned for the first time at the Paris Court of Appeal on Wednesday, May 27, where it will be decided whether he will be transferred to an international court. After the presiding judge read out the offenses that Kabuga was accused of, including genocide, persecution, and extermination against Rwanda’s Tutsi minority, Kabuga denied the charges. “Those are all lies,” Kabuga said through an interpreter. “I would not have killed my customers. They are lies,” the tea and coffee tycoon, […]Read more...
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President Trump to Sign Executive Order ‘Against’ Social Media...
US President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order Thursday after threatening to shutter social media platforms following Twitter’s move to label two of his tweets misleading. After long resisting calls to censure Trump over his truth-defying posts, Twitter on Tuesday accused the president of the first time of making false claims. Trump had tweeted — without any evidence — that more mail-in voting would lead to what he called a “Rigged Election” this November. Twitter’s slap on the wrist was enough to drive Trump into a tirade — on Twitter — in which he claimed that the […]Read more...
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President Buhari Seeks Approval to Borrow $5.513Bn to 2020 Finance...
The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has written to the House of Representatives to request for the approval of fresh external borrowings totalling $5.513bn. Buhari, in the letter read by Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, at the plenary on Thursday, said the funds were for 2020 budget deficit, financing of critical projects, and some states of the federation. The President also presented a revised 2020 Appropriation Bill and 2020-2022 Medium Term Expenditure Framework and Fiscal Strategy Paper. The National Assembly had recently approved a loan of N850bn for the Federal Government, while another of $22.79bn, which […]Read more...
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AfDB: Adesina Spills Fresh Details about Those ‘Hunting’ for...
President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Akinwunmi Adesina, has revealed more details on why the U.S. government may be deliberately pushing for a fresh probe of allegations of impropriety and fraud against him. The United States’ insistence is despite the clean bill of health given to Mr Adesina by the board of directors of the bank. Mr Adesina, in a memo seen by PREMIUM TIMES, said the move to get him out, perhaps at all costs, is linked to his re-election bid and not as a result of any fraudulent action on his part. Background On May 5, the […]Read more...
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75% of Infant Formulas on Sale in Nigeria High in...
Infant formulas sold in Nigeria are useful alternatives to breast milk in many circumstances but may pose health risks to infants and children due to contamination by potentially toxic metals, a study has said. In the study published in the 2020 Sultan Qaboos University Medical Journal, scientists tested different brands of both locally manufactured and imported infant formulas and found their content of arsenic was higher than the provisional tolerable level, suggesting a cause for public health concern. Arsenic can cause cancer in many organs, including the skin, lungs, bladder, kidney and liver; it is also capable of influencing the […]Read more...
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CSOs in Nigeria Rejects ‘Suspicious’ Infectious Diseases Bill...
Civil society organisations in Nigeria have risen against the controversial Infectious Diseases Bill pending before the National Assembly, a bill sponsored by House Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila and two other lawmakers. On Tuesday, a coalition of 11 CSOs in Lagos called for the rejection of the bill, saying it is a violation of the fundamental human rights of Nigerians as enshrined in Nigeria’s Constitution. The group of 11 CSOs said at a press conference that of part of the shortcomings of the bill is its conflict with existing acts, including the Environmental Health Officers Act (2002) and the constitution of Nigeria. […]Read more...
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African Countries Record over 3,500 COVID-19 Deaths...
Coronavirus is beginning to gain a foothold in Africa, a continent once perceived as one of the safest grounds to the disease. More than three months after Egypt became the first country in Africa to confirm a coronavirus case, the outbreak has reached every nation on the continent of 1.2 billion people. As of Thursday morning, the confirmed coronavirus death toll on the continent exceeded 3,500, with fatalities including the former president of the Republic of the Congo, Jacques Joachim Yhombi-Opango; Somalia’s former prime ministerz Nur Hassan Hussein; and President Muhammadu Buhari’s Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari, and scores of health workers. […]Read more...
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COVID-19: Nigeria Suspends Evacuation of Citizens Abroad...
The federal government has temporarily suspended the evacuation of Nigerians stranded abroad. The minister of foreign affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, said the decision is to allow take-off of a new policy on evacuating Nigerians who are willing to return from other countries. Mr Onyeama, while speaking at the daily Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 briefing on Wednesday, said the new policy will take effect from next week. “What we have been asked to do is to cease or suspend all evacuations for now until this new structure is put into place,” he said. “We are very hopeful that maybe by next week, […]Read more...
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Nigeria Government Calls for Cooperation of Private Owners as...
The Federal Government has called for cooperation from owners of private institutions of learning ahead of school reopening. The Minister of State for Education, Emeka Nwajiuba, on Wednesday, made this known during a briefing by the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 in Abuja. The minister said the government was working on modalities to achieve social distancing and good hygiene practices before schools could be allowed to reopen. He also described as false, reports that schools would reopen in the country on June 8, saying the government could not afford to take any expensive risk. Nwajiuba said, “We are going to […]Read more...
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