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http://ift.tt/2qBpW9X Megbele crooner and Glo Ambassador, Omawumi gave a five star performance on Saturday when the Glo premium music concert, Glo Mega Music Nationwide Tour was held at the Calabar Cultural Centre, Cross River State. Omawumi gave the guests enough dosage of fun as her smooth rendition of different tracks ranging fromLove Wan Tintin, Megbele, If You Ask Me, kokoma to Bonsue captivated the mammoth crowd. Using her sonorous voice effectively, she raised the stake at the show and got virtually everybody dancing and singing in a magical night of music, fun and entertainment. With the venue filled to the brim withGlobacom subscribers who trooped out enthusiastically to relish and share the fun, the show kicked-off with the duo of Juliet Ibrahim and Mercy Johnson Okojie anchoring, while A-list artistes including Di’ja, Omawumi, Kiss Daniel, Runtown and Timaya delighted the guests one after the other in over six hours of total entertainment. Apart from Omawumi, ther...

http://ift.tt/2q02foE (FILES) This file photo taken on April 09, 2017 shows Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir watching the joint Sudan and Saudi Arabia air force drill at the Marwa air base, near Meroe some 350 kilometres north of Khartoum. Bashir, who has been charged with war crimes and genocide, will attend the same summit in Saudi Arabia as US President Donald Trump, Khartoum's top diplomat said on May 17, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / ASHRAF SHAZLY Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court, will not join an Islamic summit in Saudi Arabia with US President Donald Trump, his office said Friday. “President Omar al-Bashir has apologised to King Salman of Saudi Arabia for being unable to attend the Riyadh summit,” a statement from his office carried by the official SUNA news agency said. It said he had been unable to accept the king’s invitation for “personal reasons.” Bashir has evaded arrest since his indictment by the ICC for alleged ...

http://ift.tt/2pEm05S Britain's Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union (Brexit Minister) David Davis (R) leaves 10 Downing Street following the weekly meeting of the cabinet in central London on April 25, 2017. Brexit minister David Davis warned Wednesday that it would not be bullied in upcoming negotiations with the EU, and rejected a report that its exit bill could reach 100 billion euros. / AFP PHOTO / Daniel LEAL-OLIVAS Britain’s Brexit minister David Davis warned Wednesday that it would not be bullied in upcoming negotiations with the EU, and rejected a report that its exit bill could reach 100 billion euros. “We are going into this negotiation not as a supplicant, but as a negotiator,” Davis said. He dismissed a report in the Financial Times suggesting Britain must settle bills of up to 100 billion euros ($109 billion) before leaving. The figure is significantly more than the 60-billion-euro figure previously mooted, and Davis told ITV television’s Good...

http://ift.tt/2pSmjgt Russian President Vladimir Putin. US President Donald Trump will speak with Russia's Vladimir Putin by phone Tuesday as the two leaders look to make headway on ties in the face of deep rifts over Syria and alleged hacking./ AFP PHOTO / Andrej ISAKOVIC US President Donald Trump will speak with Russia’s Vladimir Putin by phone Tuesday as the two leaders look to make headway on ties in the face of deep rifts over Syria and alleged hacking. Both the White House and Kremlin confirmed the leaders will hold their third call since Trump took office but did not give details on the topics of discussion. The talks are scheduled for 1630 GMT. Trump’s rise to power sparked hope in Moscow that US-Russian relations would improve after they slumped to a post-Cold War low over the Kremlin’s 2014 seizure of Crimea from Ukraine. But expectations have waned that Trump will make good on pledges to resurrect ties as allegations Putin spearheaded a hacking and influence ...