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http://ift.tt/2rzZRt6 A picture taken on February 2, 2016 shows Abdelmadjid Tebboune during a meeting of the National Liberation Front (FLN) in Algeria.Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika on May 24, 2017 appointed Abdelmadjid Tebboune as the country's new prime minister, replacing his confidant Abdelmalek Sellal in the wake of parliamentary elections. / AFP PHOTO / RYAD KRAMDI Algeria’s President Abdelaziz Bouteflika sacked his tourism minister Sunday days after he was appointed to the post, the presidency said, with one television channel claiming he had a criminal record. A terse statement from the presidency, carried by the APS news agency, did not say why Bouteflika had fired Messaoud Benagoun, who became minister of tourism and crafts just three days earlier. Algerian media had criticised Benagoun’s appointment, claiming that the 38-year-old had never had a job before joining the new government that was formed on Thursday. On Sunday, private television station ...

http://ift.tt/2r73RhM Malam Muhammed Bello, said on Saturday that the Federal Government has approved 470 million dollars for the execution of the Greater Abuja Water project in Abuja. The Minister of Federal Capital Territory, Malam Muhammed Bello, said on Saturday that the Federal Government has approved 470 million dollars for the execution of the Greater Abuja Water project in Abuja. Bello made this known during a media briefing organised as part of events to commemorate two years in office of the Federal Government under President Muhammadu Buhari, in Abuja. Bello said that the Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved 470 million dollars for the execution of the Greater Abuja Water project. The minister explained that the Karshi water works would soon start to boost water supply in the FCT. He said that his administration had trained over 12,000 staff in an ongoing training exercise that was expected to focus on three areas including effective service delivery, dis...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, a senior White House adviser, is under scrutiny by the FBI in the Russia probe, the Washington Post and NBC News reported on Thursday. Kushner is being investigated because of his meetings in December and other possible interactions with the Russian ambassador and a banker from Moscow, the Post reported, citing people familiar with the investigation. Kushner is the only current White House official known to be considered a key person in the probe, the newspaper reported. The FBI, several congressional committees and a special counsel appointed by the Justice Department are looking into allegations of meddling by Russia in the 2016 U.S. election and possible ties between Trump’s presidential campaign and Russian officials seeking to influence the election. The controversy has engulfed Trump’s administration since he fired FBI Director James Comey on May 9. Moscow has repeatedly denied the allegations and Trump...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J The Police Command in Ebonyi has confirmed the discovery of the decomposing body of a woman in an apartment in Abakiliki. The Spokesman of the command, DSP. Jude Madu, told newsmen on Monday that the body of the woman was found in a room at No. 9c Igwe Ogbuofia St., Kpirikpiri Abakaliki at the weekend. “I am still expecting more briefing from the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) in charge of Kipirikpiri Area and will disclose more facts after being briefed,” Madu told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). The decomposing body of the woman, identified as Miss Josephine Mba, 35, was found inside her single-room apartment by neighbours, with flies feasting on the body. Mbah, who hailed from Amata, Akpoha in the Afikpo North Local Government Area of Ebonyi, was the Secretary of Great Minds Academy, a private school in Abakaliki. A resident of the building where Mbah died, Mr James Okeh, said that many residents had fled, due to the stench oozing from the decomposing b...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J A civil servant, Victoria Igbo, on Monday told a Nyanya Customary Court, Abuja, that her pastor hurried her into marring the wrong man. Victoria, who filed a petition seeking dissolution of marriage her, said that her pastor did not give her enough time to make up her mind before marriage. “My husband proposed to marry me the same time he met my pastor and asked my hand in marriage. “I told my pastor that he should give me three months to think about it. “But my pastor said that three months was too long to think about it. He then gave me only two weeks to pray over it which I did; after which I told my pastor that I agreed,” she said. Victoria said that since she married her husband, it has been one trouble or the other. “My husband keeps acquiring debts and most times when he gets into trouble as a result of that, I have no other option than to pay,” the petitioner said. She also said that she was not aware that her husband had several children before the...

http://ift.tt/2pnyMF8 Manchester United's English midfielder Jesse Lingard (L), Manchester United's English defender Chris Smalling (2L), Manchester United's Spanish midfielder Juan Mata (C) and Manchester United's DR Congo-born defender Axel Tuanzebe (R) attend a team training session at the club's training complex near Carrington, west of Manchester in northwest England on May 3, 2017, ahead of their UEFA Europa League semi-final first leg football match against Celta Vigo.<br />Paul ELLIS / AFP Teenage defender Axel Tuanzebe was awarded his full Manchester United debut as manager Jose Mourinho made eight changes for Sunday’s Premier League trip to Arsenal. With the match sandwiched between the two legs of United’s Europa League semi-final against Celta Vigo, Mourinho elected to rest several first-team players. Matteo Darmian, Ander Herrera and Henrikh Mkhitaryan were the only players to retain their places from last Thursday’s 1-0 win in Vigo. Academ...

http://ift.tt/2pROKbC "We lost 29 students and two of our staff, and the driver died too," said Innocent Mushi, director of the Lucky Vincent Primary School in the northern city of Arusha, which the children attended. At least 29 final year primary school pupils were killed in a bus crash in northern Tanzania on Saturday, along with two teachers and the driver, the school’s director said. “We lost 29 students and two of our staff, and the driver died too,” said Innocent Mushi, director of the Lucky Vincent Primary School in the northern city of Arusha, which the children attended. The dead included 12 boys and 17 girls, he said. At least three survivors were pulled from the crash site by rescuers and rushed to hospital. “It’s a huge tragedy,” Mushi said. The accident happened early on Saturday when the bus went off the road and into the Marera river gorge in Karatu district. The final year primary pupils — commonly aged between 12 and 14 years old — were on thei...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has called on the Federal Government to partner with the African Union to kick against maltreatment of African migrants by the European countries. Mr Ayuba Wabba, NLC president, who made the call in Abuja on Thursday while speaking with newsmen, said that over 10, 000 Nigerians are in various detention camps waiting to be deported. Wabba said that Nigeria as a nation must convince the Africa Union to take a tougher collective stand against the maltreatment of African migrants. “We have an ongoing migration crisis where our youth take unimaginable risk traveling from Nigeria and other West African countries to Europe. “They also cross the harsh terrain in the Sahara Desert and through the Mediterranean Sea upon reaching Libya in their quest for imagined greener pasture in Europe. “In the process, there is a recent thriving slave market on migrants of African descent, including Nigerians, passing through Libya to Europe for wor...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J A group, Northern Patriotic Assembly (NPA) has warned politicians in the country to stop exploiting President Muhammadu Buhari’s ill health situation for political and personal gains. In a statement issued in Kaduna Wednesday the group said such actions by politicians was “immoral and despicable”. The statement signed by its President, Idakwo Jibrin and Secretary General, Alhaji Adamu Wakil pointedly accused some Yoruba Leaders of trying create crisis in the country through their utterances. According to the group recent remarks on the President’s health credited to Chief Bisi Akande and Femi Falana were part of a larger plot to plunge the country into crisis to the benefit of the Yorubas. “Even more unnerving is situation whereby people we once held in high esteem as elders, leaders and professionals decided to descend into the mud, using President Buhari’s health as their new object of obsession. “They have fanatically tried to impose this obsession of thei...

http://ift.tt/2oMaVmk A handout picture provided by the Saudi Royal Palace on April 30, 2017, shows German Chancellor Angela Merkel (L) chatting with Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud (R) during a welcome ceremony in Riyadh. ​Merkel met Saudi King Salman as she began a visit focused on bilateral relations and preparations for the next G20 meeting. BANDAR AL-JALOUD / Saudi Royal Palace / AFP German Chancellor Angela Merkel met Saudi King Salman on Sunday, state media said, as she began a visit focused on bilateral relations and preparations for the next G20 meeting. King Salman received Merkel in his palace in the western city of Jeddah, SPA state news agency said, adding that the two presided over a signing ceremony for several cooperation agreements. Merkel was expected to discuss with the Saudis the agenda for the G20 meeting in July, including the Paris climate accord and G20 decisions on energy, according to a German official. “There will be for sure ...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Dennis Agbo ENUGU- Against the background of prosecution of the leaders of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, publisher of Champion newspapers, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu has said that he belongs to Biafra and that he remains a Biafran as an Igboman. Iwuanyanwu who was reacting to the recent release of Kanu from prison detention said was wrong, in the first place, to level treason charges against Kanu, noting that what Kanu has been doing mere expression of public opinion, which he said is no act of offence let along an act of treason. The former Presidential candidate made the statements at Amokwe in Udi local government area of Enugu state when he paid condolence visit to the family of late political scientist, Prof. Godwin Odenigwe. He noted that Odenigwe would be remembered for bringing about traditional rulers stool in communities of Igboland and for pioneering the creation of the local government system as third tier of government. On Nnamadi kanu and...