Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje of Kano State has said the New Year 2022 should usher in a new era of peace and reconciliation among political parties’ stakeholders in the state and the country in general. He said the next few months should also be for internal democracy to flourish where political parties are expected to…
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A Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kano State, Abdulmajid Danbilki Kwamanda has alleged that the Chairman Caretaker Committee of the party, Mai Mala Buni is planning an out-of-court settlement of the crisis in the party A crisis broke out in the Kano APC shortly after the state congress in the state. The…
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Chelsea striker, Romelu Lukaku, has named three top clubs he wanted to join after leaving Inter Milan in the summer of 2021. Lukaku said he wanted to join Barcelona, Real Madrid, or Bayern Munich after failing to sign a new contract with Inter Milan. According to him, Chelsea wasn’t his first choice after deciding to…
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Two suspected armed robbers have reportedly died in a hospital where they were rushed for medical treatment after exchanging gunfire with police operatives in Udu Local Government Area of Delta State. Other members of the criminal gang escaped towards the Udu-Otokutu expressway during the shootout. The Police also recovered one AK-47 rifle with breech no.…
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President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday in Abuja signed the 2022 Appropriation Bill and the 2021 Finance Bill into law. The assent, the government says, is in line with restoring a predictable January to December fiscal year provided for in the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Buhari signed the documents in the presence of…
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New daily Covid-19 cases in the U.S. set a fresh record on Wednesday, as the World Health Organization warned governments that easing self-isolation rules and testing requirements come with a trade-off between slowing transmission rates and keeping economies running. Cases in the U.S. climbed to 300,887 a day on a seven-day average, according to a…
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Afghanistan’s former President Ashraf Ghani said in his first broadcast interview since fleeing Kabul that he escaped abroad because his security detail had told him that it couldn’t defend him. He added that he also sought to prevent the Afghan capital from becoming a battleground between rival Taliban factions.American officials, from President Biden down, as…
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SEOUL—After a decade in power, Kim Jong Un has made himself clearly the star of the show in North Korea, moving beyond the legitimating familial shadow of his father and grandfather and seeking to justify his hold on power on his own terms. At major political meetings recently, portraits of Mr. Kim’s predecessors—including that of…
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TEHRAN—Iran launched a rocket into space carrying what officials on Thursday said were three research devices, drawing attention to Tehran’s missile ambitions amid faltering international negotiations over its nuclear program. The rocket, called the Simorgh, is designed to carry satellites; it was sent up about 290 miles, which an Iranian Defense Ministry spokesman told state…
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Mourners paused earlier in December near the building in Osaka, Japan, where fire engulfed a mental-health clinic. Photo: /Associated Press TOKYO—The man suspected of starting a fire that killed 25 people at a Japanese mental-health clinic earlier this month has died of injuries from the incident, police said. The blaze on the fourth floor of…
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