Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has advised President Muhammadu Buhari to stop blaming past administrations for the current economic woes and focus on implementing result-oriented policies and programmes that will turn the economy around.
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Donald Trump on Wednesday named South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, a former critic with little foreign policy experience, as the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations at a time of uncertainty over America's international role under his presidency.
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THE Court of Appeal, yesterday, re-instated Mr. Eyitayo Jegede, SAN, as the rightful candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for the Ondo State governorship election billed for Saturday.
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A Royal Navy patrol boat fired flares at a Spanish vessel off Gibraltar after it attempted to drop a sonar buoy for conducting geological research in British waters.
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Investors woes worsened last week following dismal performance sustained across all sectors on the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE, leading to a loss of N218 billion at the close of activity in the week.
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The fear of being dragged to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, by the Transparency Group of the House of Representatives may have made the leadership of the House to hurriedly order for the purchase and delivery of 28 exotic cars for members, investigations revealed.
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The Senate said yesterday it had concluded arrangements to summon the Chairman, Federal Civil Service Commission, FCSC, Mrs. Joan Ayo, over disturbing allegations of secret employment being carried out by government agencies in the country.
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Donald Trump on Sunday told his supporters to stop harassing minorities, in his first televised sit-down interview since becoming President-elect. "I am so saddened to hear that," Trump told CBS' Lesley Stahl on "60 Minutes" when she said Latinos and Muslims are facing harassment. "And I say, 'Stop it.' If it -- if it helps, I will say this, and I will say right to the cameras: 'Stop it.'"
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Experts have predicted that the recent raids on bureaux de change (BDCs) by operatives of the Department of State Security (DSS) will lead to increased volatility of exchange rate and further fragmentation of the parallel market. Last week DSS operatives raided offices of BDCs in some part of Lagos and Abuja, arresting operators that sell above the exchange rate stipulated by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).
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President-elect Donald Trump has promised to deport or incarcerate “probably two million,” or even three million “criminal” illegal immigrants, once he takes office.
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