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http://ift.tt/2r1yxEt (FILES) This file photo taken on August 20, 2004 shows US Attorney General for the Criminal Division, Christopher Wray, during a press conference at the Justice Department in Washington,DC. US President Donald Trump announced on June 7, 2017, that he is tapping lawyer and former Justice Department official Christopher Wray to serve as his new FBI director, on the eve of critical testimony by the intelligence agency chief he ousted. / AFP PHOTO / STEPHEN JAFFE President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he is tapping former Justice Department official Christopher Wray to serve as his new FBI director, on the eve of critical testimony by his ousted predecessor. Wray, a partner at King & Spalding law firm in Washington and Atlanta, served as assistant attorney general in charge of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division from 2003 to 2005, working closely with the FBI. “I will be nominating Christopher A. Wray, a man of impeccable credentials, to be t...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Three Suicide bombers have been confirmed dead in the early hours of Friday in Maiduguri, Borno while attempting to enter some locations in the University of Maiduguri. Mr Sani Datti, Head of Media and Public Relations of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), made this known in a statement on Friday in Abuja. Datti said that the vigilant University’s Security and Vigilantes group intercepted the suicide bombers before they could gain entrance into the University premises. He explained that immediately the suicide bombers detonated their explosives strapped on them, it led to the injury of the two University’s security officers and two vigilantes. Datti said that the incident occurred as the new Director-General of NEMA, Mr Mustapaha Maihaja has been on a two-day visit to Maiduguri to meet with the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). He said Maihaja would also be meeting with leaders and stakeholders in the states to discuss ways forward in respond...

http://ift.tt/2o5Mc8O Berlin – South Africa’s Navi Pillay and Ron Popper of Switzerland have resigned from FIFA’s governance commission, the ruling football body confirmed on Thursday. The former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Pillay had worked in the commission since January. Popper is also a human rights expert. Pillay and Popper were two of four independent members of the commission. The news came a week after the commission’s previous chairman Luis Maduro of Portugal was controversially not nominated for another term by the FIFA council. Maduro was replaced by India’s Mukulo Mudgal at the FIFA Congress in Bahrain on May 11. The post FIFA governance commission members Pillay, Popper resign appeared first on Vanguard News . Vía Vanguard News http://ift.tt/2pOuTxn

http://ift.tt/2p9sI1T Voters arrive at a polling station in Jimmy Egan's Boxing Academy where voting in the Greater Manchester mayoral election is taking place, in Manchester, northern England on May 4, 2017. Voting began today in Britain's local elections, the first nationwide electoral test for Prime Minister Theresa May. / AFP PHOTO / OLI SCARFF Theresa May faced her first nationwide electoral test as Britain’s prime minister on Thursday, as she toughened her Brexit position just weeks before a crucial general election. Britons began choosing thousands of new local councillors in a vote that will be closely watched for proof of the strength of May’s Conservatives, which opinion polls suggest are on course for a thumping victory in the June 8 parliamentary elections. Nearly 5,000 local authority seats are being contested across England, Scotland and Wales, along with eight metropolitan mayoralties. Experts caution however against using the results to predict the o...