Nigeria news today headlines update Thursday 18th April 2019
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target=_blank>Turkish Opposition Win Istanbul Mayor
Turkey’s opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) said on Wednesday that its candidate for mayor of Istanbul, Ekrem Imamoglu, had been declared the winner of a poll that took place on March 31. The CHP said Imamoglu had received the certificate from the Supreme Electoral Council (YSK) that he needs to take office. The YSK has not
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target=_blank>Three In Court For Allegedly Impersonating King Sunny Ade
The police on Wednesday arraigned three persons in an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court for allegedly using the name of Afro-Juju icon, Sunday Adegeyi (aka King Sunny Ade KSA) to swindle members of the public to the tune of N3.1million. Police charged Lawrence Oyedokun, 27; Rebecca Oyebode, 23; female, and Oyewumi Abiodun, 27 with four counts of
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target=_blank>India’s Stricken Jet Airways Suspends All Operations
India’s debt-stricken Jet Airways halted all of its operations Wednesday after failing to secure emergency funding from lenders, leaving it teetering on the edge of bankruptcy. “Jet Airways is compelled to cancel all its international and domestic flights. The last flight will operate today,” it said in statement. Jet had asked a consortium of lenders
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target=_blank>Female Iranian Boxer To Stay In France After Fight Win
An Iranian woman, who became the country’s first female boxer to win an international fight, intends to stay in France, her spokesperson said Wednesday, adding an arrest warrant had been issued against her. Sadaf Khadem and her trainer Mahyar Monshipour are currently in the French city of Poitiers, the spokesperson, who asked not to be
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target=_blank>US Announces Cuba Property Law Despite EU Warnings
The United States said Wednesday that a long-delayed law would go into effect next month that allows lawsuits over property seized by Cuba and that it issue make no exemptions for angered Europeans. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that the 1996 measure — systematically delayed every six months by successive administrations — would go
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target=_blank>Archer Given Chance To Stake World Cup Claim
England chief selector Ed Smith is confident the call-up of uncapped all-rounder Jofra Archer will have no adverse affect on team morale in the run-up to the World Cup. Rising star Archer was included Wednesday in a 17-man squad for next month’s one-day internationals against Ireland and Pakistan. The dynamic Barbados-born Archer was left out
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target=_blank>Injured Neuer dismisses retirement rumours, eyes return
Injured Bayern Munich goalkeeper Manuel Neuer on Wednesday quashed rumours of his imminent retirement and says he wants to return in time to face RB Leipzig on the penultimate day of the Bundesliga season. “It is difficult to say when I will be back but I think Leipzig is a realistic target,” he said at
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target=_blank>Egypt Parliament Votes To Extend Sisi Rule
Egypt’s parliament on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved constitutional amendments allowing general-turned-president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to stay in power until 2030, state media reported. Deputies also backed other sweeping changes to the constitution including to give the military greater influence in political life as well as granting Sisi more control over the judiciary. The amendments are to
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target=_blank>Is It Now APC Corruption Incorporated?
“History never repeats itself; man does.” Professor Barbara Tuchman, Harvard University Professor of History. Nigerian politicians in the All Progressives Congress, APC, might be getting set to repeat the corrupt practices of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, by openly padding budgets with billions of naira, in the hope that nobody would notice. They might have
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Thumbs Up To Anambra Legislators
Anambra State house of assembly passed an interesting bill into law last week. The bill, sponsored by honourable Charles Ezeani, representing Anaocha II state constituency, deals with a growing and nasty social problem which politicians would rather not deal with. It seeks, in the words of the speaker of the house of assembly, honourable Rita […]
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