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http://ift.tt/2qXyGDZ (FILES) This file photo taken on May 23, 2017 shows US president’s senior advisor Jared Kushner during a welcome ceremony at the presidential palace in the West Bank city of Bethlehem. Donald Trump’s shock White House win transformed his soft-spoken 36-year-old son-in-law into one of the world’s most powerful men, but Jared Kushner’s eyebrow-raising Kremlin contacts have put that status under threat. In the halcyon first days of his administration, Trump believed there was no challenge too confounding, no conflict too intractable for his son-in-law to tackle. / AFP PHOTO / Thomas COEX Russian President Vladimir Putin says he has no knowledge of a reported pre-inauguration proposal by President Donald Trump’s son in law and top aide Jared Kushner to set up a secret, bug-proof communications channel with the Kremlin. In an interview aired Sunday on NBC, Putin again flatly denied US intelligence agencies’ assessment that Russia meddled via hacking and other mean...

http://ift.tt/2qXyGDZ (FILES) This file photo taken on May 23, 2017 shows US president's senior advisor Jared Kushner during a welcome ceremony at the presidential palace in the West Bank city of Bethlehem. Donald Trump's shock White House win transformed his soft-spoken 36-year-old son-in-law into one of the world's most powerful men, but Jared Kushner's eyebrow-raising Kremlin contacts have put that status under threat. In the halcyon first days of his administration, Trump believed there was no challenge too confounding, no conflict too intractable for his son-in-law to tackle. / AFP PHOTO / Thomas COEX Russian President Vladimir Putin says he has no knowledge of a reported pre-inauguration proposal by President Donald Trump’s son in law and top aide Jared Kushner to set up a secret, bug-proof communications channel with the Kremlin. In an interview aired Sunday on NBC, Putin again flatly denied US intelligence agencies’ assessment that Russia meddled via hackin...

http://ift.tt/2cO7lgT The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) on Friday said that motorists were complying with the installation of the speed limit devices on their vehicles. Mr Umoru Abdullahi, the Ore Unit Commander of the corps in Ore, Ondo State, that most of the commercial vehicles plying the Benin-Ore expressway had installed the device. He said that the introduction of the device by the FRSC was to reduce road crashes on the highways and to engender safety of lives and property. “Well, I can say that most of the motorists plying the Benin-Ore expressway have complied with the speed limiting device. “We are working assiduously to ensure that there is total compliance with the device,’’ he said. The FRSC boss said that the unit command had embarked on a sensitisation programme on the device, to ensure that all motorists installed it in their vehicles. He urged other road users who have yet to install the device to do so as the enforcement of its compliance was now in force. ...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J The presidency Friday said is received a copy of the 2017 Appropriation Bill as passed by the National Assembly. The receipt was confirmed by Laolu Akande, the senior special assistant on media and publicity to Acting President Yemi Osinbajo. “2017 Budget A- appropriations bill now officially received in the Acting President’s office and undergoing very prompt and diligent consideration,” Akande tweeted on Friday. Details later. Vía The Guardian Nigeria Newspaper | Nigeria News and World News http://ift.tt/2qEEcgt

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J The Senate on Wednesday confirmed Prof. Stephen Ocheni from Kogi and Mr Suleiman Hassan from Gombe State as ministers. The nominees were confirmed after screening by senators at plenary. The confirmation of the nominees followed a request by President Muhammdu Buhari in accordance with Section147 (2) of the 1999 Constitution as amended. Buhari had forwarded the names of the ministerial nominees to the Senate as replacements for late Mr James Ocholi (Kogi) and Mrs Amina Mohammed (Gombe). Ocholi, who was Minister of State for Employment, Labour and Productivity, died in an auto crash in 2016. Mohammed, Minister of Environment, stepped down to take up the post of Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations. In his remarks after announcing the confirmation of the nominees, President of the Senate, Dr Bukola Saraki, congratulated them for scaling through the screening. He expressed optimism that with their performance during the screening, they would contr...