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Guterres Antonio, United Nations secretary has warned that the UN may not have enough money to pay for staff salaries in the coming month if member states do not pay up what they owe. Guterres said to make sure the General Assembly was…
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CHIKAODINAKA Nwankpa, a former Drexel University professor and of Nigerian origin blew nearly $200,000 of federal grant money in strip clubs and on other ‘improper purchases’, United States Department of Justice revealed Monday. For more…
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SAMSUNG’s last China phone factory has announced the shutting down of the facility a few months after its production decline in June due to stiff competition in the country. The South Korean tech giant’s ceased phone production in China…
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TRADE unions and advocates under the Nigerian Movement for the Liberation of Western Sahara (NMLWS) have demanded that Nigerian companies should put an end to "buying stolen phosphate, fertiliser, and fishes from Morocco". These items,…
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WEST African leaders have pledged to contribute $1 billion to combat the increasing threat of Islamist militancy in the sub-region. Head of the regional ECOWAS bloc, Jean- Claude Kassi Brou disclosed this during the Extraordinary summit on…
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THE Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has identified 10 countries that deploy sophisticated digital censorship, surveillance alongside imprisonment and harassment to silence independent journalism.  The CPJ revealed the list of the…
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AFTER almost one year, audio recordings of the horrifying conversations between the 15-man Saudi hit squad and their victim, Jamal Khashoggi, Washington Post journalist, has been revealed to the public for the first time by the Turkish…
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INDIA on Saturday said it has lost contact with a spacecraft it was trying to land on the moon, the first of its kind to confirm the presence of water near the lunar south pole. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) confirmed that…
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THE African Union (AU) has lifted its suspension of Sudan's membership in the bloc, putting an end to a three-month ban on the country. The suspension had been in place pending the installation of a civilian-led government after the…
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FINALLY, Hong Kong's chief executive, Carrie Lam, has announced the full withdrawal of a controversial bill that, if passed, would allow the extradition of fugitives to mainland China. The bill sparked three months of continuous protest in…
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