Category: Foreign News

Former Soccer Star George Weah is Liberia’s New President

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Retired footballer George Weah has won the elections in Liberia to become that country’s 25th president. The senator of Montserrado County – once named FIFA World Player and winner of the much coveted Ballon d’or – defeated his 73-year-old opponent Vice President Joseph Boakai in a landslide victory in results announced in Liberia on Wednesday morning. “I am deeply grateful to my family, my friends, and my loyal supporters who contributed to our campaign during this extremely long election season,” Weah said on Twitter before the results were announced. Weah…

Senate Passes Republican Tax Bill in 51-48 Vote

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WASHINGTON — Republicans took a critical step toward notching their first significant legislative victory since assuming full political control, as the House and Senate voted along party lines on Tuesday and into early Wednesday to pass the most sweeping rewrite of the tax code in decades. The $1.5 trillion tax bill, which is expected to head to President Trump’s desk in the coming days, will have broad effects on the economy, making deep and lasting cuts to corporate taxes as well as temporarily lowering individual taxes. The endeavor was not…

BREAKING NEWS Allen Onyema,Dino Melaye ,Others Make ALAAN Nominee List.

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Prominent five Nigerians have made the final list of awardees for the forthcoming African Leadership Awards And Nation Building Series ( ALAAN ) Awards. Top on the list are Barr Allen Onyema CEO Airpeace Airlines, Senator Dino Malaye and three others. The 4th edition of the Awards ceremony, said to be the biggest awards from any youth organization in Africa, is been organized by Independent Pan African Youth Parliament, an African Youth based organization in partnership with UNESCO Center for Global Education . hold in South Africa. IPAYP is a…

French Journalist arrested on duty in India

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Indian police arrested a freelance French journalist in Kashmir for violating visa regulations, the city police chief said, after he was found filming for a documentary without permission. Comiti Edward was arrested late Sunday in the Kothibagh area of Srinagar, the summer capital of Kashmir, Senior SP Imtiyaz Parray told Reuters. Parray said Edward holds an Indian business visa valid until December 2018, but the visa does not permit him to make a documentary on political or security related issues. He said a case has been registered under the Passport…

2,778 Nigerians Still in Libya Detention Camps – FG

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The Federal Government said it has a record of 2,778 Nigerian migrants registered in “accessible” detention camps in Libya, ready for repatriation. The Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in a statement signed by the spokesperson, Tiwatope Elias-Fatiile, on Tuesday, said the country’s embassy in Libya had been visiting detention camps to identify Nigerians for registration. The ministry stated that those registered were issued Emergency Travel Certificates. The ministry also explained that the embassy in collaboration with the International Organisation for Migration, IOM, repatriates 250 migrants weekly and had returned 3,000…

Nigerians, Ghanaians Are Slave Masters In Libya, Returnee Says

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The new slave trade-human trafficking in Libya is being carried out by many nationalities, including Nigerians and Ghanaians, according to a Cameroonian returnee, who was abducted in the country. Foka Fotsi, who was trafficked twice, told Reuters that those in charge of one of the places where he was held included Ghanaians and Nigerians. Fotsi’s story corroborated another testimony by a Nigerian in the southern state of Edo, who identified one Charles, a Nigerian as the trafficking kingpin. Unable to find work to support his family, Fotsi decided to leave…

25 Nigerians Die In Sahara, 20 Girls Sold Off, Nigerian Returnee From Libya Reveals

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A Nigerian returnee from Libya has revealed that 25 compatriots, ferried from Nigeria to Libya by a trafficker identified as Charles, perished in the Sahara Desert, in the course of the journey. The returnee, who identified himself as Alex Otoide, from Edo state, said seven members of the group also died inside a Libyan jail. “We were 55 that traveled from here to Libya, 25 people died in the desert.More than seven people died from hunger and thirst inside the prison”, Otoide said in a report published by TheNation newspaper…

INSTABILITY IN TOGO MAY HAVE DEVASTATING REGIONAL CONSEQUENCES – PRESIDENTS BUHARI, OUATTARA WARN

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President Muhammadu Buhari and his Ivorian counterpart, Alassane Ouattara on Wednesday expressed concern that political instability in Togo, if not averted, could have regional consequences. Both leaders expressed the view during a bilateral meeting in Abidjan on the margins of the 5th AU-EU Summit. “We must have a solution in Togo. The friends of the opposition and authorities must talk to them on the steps to jointly take to achieve stability. They must work towards gaining the trust of each other. ‘‘There will be regional consequences for instability in Togo…

PRESIDENT BUHARI ORDERS REPATRIATION OF NIGERIANS STRANDED IN LIBYA …. Vows To Reduce illegal migration To Europe

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President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday night in Abidjan declared that all Nigerians stranded in Libya and other parts of the world will be brought home and rehabilitated. The President while speaking when he addressed Nigerians in the Diaspora, vowed to reduce the number of Nigerians heading for Europe illegally through the Sahara Desert and the Mediterranean Sea by providing basic social amenities such as education, healthcare, and food security at home. In an interactive session with members of the Nigerian Community in Cote D’ Ivoire, on the margins of the…

World leaders Attend Second Term Swearing – in of President Kenyatta

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At least 23 Heads of State and Deputies Head of Government joined thousands of Kenyans who gathered at the Kasarani Sports Complex, Nairobi, to witness the swearing in of President Uhuru Kenyatta for his second term in office. Kenyans in celebratory mood thronged to the venue of the colourful ceremony from as early as 4.00 am in order to sit at vantage points to witness the historic event. The foreign Heads of State and representatives of governments started streaming into the Kasarani Stadium from 8.00 a.m. There were delegations from…