WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Thirty-two former U.S. diplomats and 11 aid groups on Monday urged U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo not to eliminate a key State Department refugee bureau, warning that the move would be “an error of grave proportion.” In a letter to Pompeo, the former diplomats and nationalContinue Reading
Prof. Umar Danbatta, the Executive Vice Chairman, Nigerian Communications Commissions (NCC) says the commission has been able to prioritise youth empowerment through the deployment of information communication tools, especially in tertiary institutions. Danbatta said this when members of the African Achievers Award presented the commission with an award in Abuja.Continue Reading
BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Nearly four land and environmental activists were killed each week last year, murdered for opposing large-scale agriculture and mining projects in the deadliest year on record, a campaign group said on Tuesday. In 22 countries surveyed by U.K.-based Global Witness, at least 207 activists wereContinue Reading
LONDON (Reuters) – U.S President Donald Trump’s company has submitted plans to invest another 150 million pounds ($197 million) in one of his Scottish golf resorts, the Trump Organization said on Tuesday. Trump owns two golf resorts in Scotland, and the development of his resort in Balmedie, near Aberdeen inContinue Reading
TORONTO (Xinhua) A 18-year-old female university student and a 10-year-old girl were killed, and 13 others injured when a gunman opened fire in a busy Toronto street Sunday night. The suspected shooter, a 29-year-old Toronto man, also died. Toronto police said he used a handgun to shoot and and exchangedContinue Reading
The Yobe State Government says it has procured 1,000 hectares of land and loaned it out along with other farm inputs to civil servants to enable them engage in farming activities. The state’s Commissioner for Agriculture, Alhaji Mustapha Gajerima, made the disclosure in Damaturu on Tuesday in interview with NewsContinue Reading
The Police Command in Niger state has arrested three suspected armed robbers who have been terrorising the people of Wushishi Local Government Area (LGA) of the state. The command’s Public Relations’ Officer, DSP Mohammadu Abubakar, disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday in Minna. “We received information that one AlhajiContinue Reading
A Sokoto Chief Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday remanded three brothers, Murtala Bello, 28, Dauda Bello, 27 and Maccido Bello, 20 in prison for conspiring and trespassing into the house of one Salihu Abubakar. The accused persons who reside in Rijiyar Dorowa area of Sokoto, pleaded not guilty to a three-countContinue Reading
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Monday opened a two-day training for its legal officers on emerging electoral offences ahead of the 2019 general polls. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the training was organised for INEC staff in the legal department from 10 states in theContinue Reading
