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Donald Trump will give his first press conference as US president on Friday, in a joint appearance with visiting British Prime Minister Theresa May.

The Nigerian Army on Thursday said it had taken into custody three suspected Boko Haram terrorists handed over to it by Zurmi Emirate Council in Zamfara.

Veteran Mexico skipper Rafael Marquez on Thursday fired a Twitter volley at Donald Trump’s proposed wall along the border as football weighed in on the US president.

Switzerland on Thursday detained former Gambian interior minister Ousman Sonko, who is accused of committing grave abuses under the regime of ousted president Yahya Jammeh.

President Adama Barrow arrived in The Gambia on Thursday to a jubilant welcome marking the beginning of the west African nation’s first democratic transfer of power, AFP journalists said.

The 2016 Batch ‘B’ Stream II National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members were on Thursday sworn in for one year service, and the 3,200 members posted to FCT took the oath in Abuja.

However, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari is “hale and hearty”, Presidency said Thursday, denying rumours in the press and on social media that he was seriously ill or even dead.

The pensioners numbering about 200, in conjunction with opposition members led by a retired judge in the state Judiciary, who erected a camp, have forgotten that in 2015, Osun committed a total of N5, 426, 720, 195. 68 to pay pensions in spite of the very difficult financial stress the state found itself. In 2016, the state also committed a total of N3, 981, 312, 918.78 to payment of pensions.

Some expectant mothers in Bauchi State, have commended the State Government and its Development Partners for providing and equipping Anti-Natal Clinic (ANC) with essential life saving drugs for pregnant women.

The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr Abubakar Malami (SAN), says the Federal Government has recovered N15 billion and $10.5 million so far in its asset recovery drive.

….As factional leaders wage war I’m still in charge-Fayose’s faction No, you are suspended-court upheld faction. The verdict of the Federal High Court, Ado-Ekiti which on Wednesday, ordered the Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) to recognize the anti-Governor Ayo Fayose faction of the state’s Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)’s executive, as authentic, has caused ripples among the […]

The House of Representatives, on Thursday urged the Minister of State for Petroleum, Mr Ibe Kachikwu to prevail on Shell not to relocate from Port-Harcourt, the River State capital.

The Police at Force headquarters on Thursday disclosed that four members of the notorious kidnapping gang, who abducted five Turkish School Children and three members of Staff of the school, have been arrested and the sum of N1. 2million being part of the ransom collected, recovered from the kidnappers.