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Monday, 13 August 2018 05:30

No one can 'obliterate' Taiwan's existence, says President

Vowing that “no one can obliterate Taiwan’s existence,” President Tsai Ing-wen left on Sunday for the United States and two of Taipei’s remaining diplomatic allies, amid pressure from China to try to stamp out references to the island internationally. China, which claims self-ruled and democratic Taiwan as its own, has stepped up a campaign against the island as it tries to assert Chinese sovereignty. Beijing has ordered foreign companies to label Taiwan as part of China on their websites and is excluding Taiwan from as many international forums as it can.Also, China has also been whittling down the number of…

Monday, 13 August 2018 05:27

Omarosa admits she secretly taped her firing

Former presidential adviser Omarosa Manigault Newman said Sunday she secretly recorded conversations she had in the White House, including her firing by chief of staff John Kelly in the high-security Situation Room. It was a highly unusual admission, which drew immediate fire from allies of the president and national security experts.Parts of her conversation with Kelly were played on the air when she appeared on NBC's "Meet the Press" to promote her new book, "Unhinged," which will be released this week. The Associated Press independently listened to the recording of the conversation between Manigault Newman and Kelly, which she said…

Monday, 13 August 2018 05:25

China's Xi beset by economic, political challenges

As China's leaders gather for their annual Yellow Sea retreat, the country's political waters are looking choppy.Chinese President and ruling Communist Party leader Xi Jinping is beset by economic, foreign policy and domestic political challenges just months after clearing his way to rule for as long as he wants as China's most dominant leader since Mao Zedong.Mounting criticism of the Xi administration's policies has exposed the risks he faces from amassing so much power: He's made himself a natural target for blame."Having concentrated power, Xi is responsible for all policy setbacks and policy failures," said Joseph Cheng, a retired City…

Sunday, 12 August 2018 06:27

Osinbajo calls out pastors for failing to preach against corruption

Acting President Yemi Osinbajo has berated gospel preachers for failing to lend support to the Federal Government’s anti-corruption war by failing to preach against the scourge.Speaking at the 30th National Biennial Conference of the Students Christian Movement of Nigeria holding in Enugu, Mr Osinbajo noted that preachers were preoccupied with preaching prosperity rather than righteousness.“Very rarely do you hear our preachers talk about corruption from their pulpits. If a nation is not righteous nothing will help it,” he said.Mr Osinbajo said the problem with Nigeria was neither ethnicity nor religion but systemic corruption.He said corruption had been so entrenched in…

Sunday, 12 August 2018 06:25

APC candidate, Ahmad Babba-Kaita, wins Katsina North by-election

The candidate of the All Progressives Congress in Saturday’s senatorial by-election in Katsina, Ahmad Babba-Kaita, is the winner, released results show.The Independent National Electoral Commission is soon to formally declare the winner.But its released results, already pastes at the collation centre, show that Mr Babba-Kaita, currently a member of the House of Representatives, polled 224, 607 votes to beat five other contestants.His closest rival, who is his elder brother, Kabir Babba-Kaita, was only able to garner 59, 724 votes. The elder Babba-Kaita was the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party.The other results show that GPN scores 1056, DA got 796,…

Sunday, 12 August 2018 06:19

Bauchi Bye-election: Dogara not allowed to vote

The speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, was disallowed from voting after arriving late at the polling station for Saturday’s Bauchi senatorial bye election.Mr Dogara was at his country home, Gwarangah, in Bogoro local government area of Bauchi state days before the bye-election for Bauchi-South senatorial district.Having coordinated support for his preferred candidate, Mr Dogara failed to turn up at the polling unit, which is near his house.Voting at the polling unit closed at 2.20 p.m. amidst a rancorous protests by some irate youth who accused INEC officials of not allowing them cast their vote.The youth who suddenly…

Sunday, 12 August 2018 06:16

Bunmi Ojo, APC Chieftain, Shot Dead in Ado Ekiti

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bunmi Ojo was gruesomely murdered by unknown gunmen in Ado Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital, thereby putting the state on the spot again.Ojo, who was until his death a Commissioner of the Federal Character Commission (FCC), was shot at about8:30 p.m. at a viewing centre located along Ado-Iworoko road.Ojo, a personal assistant to the state’s former governor, Segun Oni between 2007 and 2010, was murdered alongside two other persons at the viewing centre, bringing the number of the victims to three.In a swift reaction yesterday, however, Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose…

Sunday, 12 August 2018 06:14

Rivers Attorney-General, Emmanuel Aguma, is dead

The Rivers Government has announced the death of the the state Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Emmanuel Aguma.Mr Aguma, a senior advocate of Nigeria, died on Friday in a London hospital.Emma Okah, the State Commissioner for Information and Communications, announced Mr Aguma’s death in Port Harcourt on Saturday.He said it was with pains, but with gratitude to the Almighty God that the Rivers Government announced the death.“Until his death, Emmanuel Aguma, SAN served the state with amazing sense of reponsibility, commitment, passion, competence and courage.“At all times, even in his sick bed, his exemplary zeal to serve Rivers never waned,”…

Sunday, 12 August 2018 06:09

Kogi by-election records two deaths

Police in Lokoja have confirmed the death of another person during Saturday’s bye-election to fill the vacant Lokoja /Kogi seat in House of Representatives.The spokesman of the command, William Aya, who confirmed this to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lokoja on Saturday, said the incident had brought the number of people killed during the election to two.He said the latest victim, whom he identified as Yadau Umoru, was killed at Ugwan Pawa polling unit, in front of Maigari palace, while attempting to snatch a ballot box.According to him, the corpse of the deceased had been deposited in the morgue…

Sunday, 12 August 2018 06:04

Alaska Airlines’ Employee Steals Plane, does stunts before crashing on Island near Seattle

Tacoma airport went into lockdown Friday night when an airline employee stole an empty passenger jet, before taking it on a joyride with fighter jets in swift pursuit.The Horizon Airlines worker made “an unauthorized take-off” on Friday evening, airport authorities said, ignoring orders from the control tower to stop, according to NBC News.Initially, there were fears the 29-year-old man could have a terrorist motive, and two F-15 jets were scrambled to track the plane. However, the Pierce County Sheriff's Office later confirmed it was “not a terrorist incident.”The mystery man performed loops above the water before crashing on the sparsely-populated…

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Sunday, 12 August 2018 06:04

In wake of critical book, Trump calls Omarosa 'a lowlife'

President Donald Trump has one word to describe former White House staffer and fellow reality-TV star Omarosa Manigault Newman: "Lowlife."Manigault Newman claims in an upcoming book, "Unhinged," that Trump used racial slurs on the set of his reality show "The Apprentice." She also says she later concluded that he is a racist and a bigot.On Saturday, reporters asked Trump during an event at his golf club in New Jersey if he felt betrayed by Manigault Newman. He responded: "Lowlife. She's a lowlife."Manigault Newman was a contestant on Trump's "The Apprentice" reality show and later served as a senior adviser to…

Sunday, 12 August 2018 06:03

Thousands attend Arab-led rally against Israeli bill

Members of Israel's Arab minority led a mass protest in central Tel Aviv on Saturday night against a contentious new law that critics say marginalizes the state's non-Jewish citizens.The rally marked further fallout from the explosive Nation-State law and came a week after thousands of Druze, also members of the Arab minority, packed the same city square last week.Israel's 1948 declaration of independence defined the country as a Jewish and democratic state and the government says the recently passed bill merely enshrines the country's existing character. But critics say it undercuts Israel's democratic values and sidelines the country's non-Jewish population,…

Sunday, 12 August 2018 06:02

Turkey is facing "economic war", says Erdogan

Turkey's president on Saturday blamed the country's economic downturn on the United States and other nations that he claims are waging "war" against his country.Speaking in the northeastern province of Rize, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that dollars, euros and gold were now "the bullets, cannonballs and missiles of the economic war being waged against our country."Erdogan promised supporters that Turkey was taking the necessary precautions to protect its economy but added "the most important thing is breaking the hands firing these weapons."Turkey was hit by a financial shockwave this week as its currency nosedived over concerns about the government's…

Saturday, 11 August 2018 06:34

You are ignorant, Saraki replies Oshiomhole

The Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has responded to the call on him by the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, to resign his position because of his defection from the APC, saying Oshiomhole must be very ignorant of parliamentary rules to make such a call. In the response through his Special Adviser, Media and Publicity, Yusuph Olaniyonu, Saraki assured him that his interest in him resigning would remain mere wishful thinking as ’a million of Adams Oshiomhole cannot remove Saraki as Senate President.’The response in full:1. It is rather surprising that Mr. Adams Oshiomhole is behaving…

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