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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Russia’s deputy foreign minister Sergei Ryabkov on Tuesday said that Moscow was concerned that contacts with the Donald Trump administration had not yet led to positive shifts in the relations between the two nations. Russian news agencies quoted Ryabkov as saying that as nuclear powers Russia and the United States cannot afford to keep their relations at such a low level. Tensions between the two countries have soared over the conflict in Syria, with Russian President Vladimir Putin backing Syria’s government and the U.S. opposing it. On April 12, Trump also said that relations with Russia “may be at an all-time low” following Syria’s use of chemical weapons on April 4, and the U.S. airstrike that followed. Stopping just short of accusing Russia of complicity with the sarin gas attack against civilians April 4, Trump said it’s “certainly possible” that Russia had advance knowledge of the use of chemical weapons by its ally. “I like to think they didn’t know....

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Gov. Nyesom Wike of Rivers said on Monday that the State’s amnesty programme witnessed 22, 430 repentant cultists surrendered 911 assorted arms to the amnesty Committee. Wike dropped the hint at a Town Hall meeting and accountability Forum to mark his administration’s second year anniversary in Port Harcourt. He stated that the amnesty programme had reduced cult related violence and other criminal activities in the state. The governor noted that the programme had also resulted in surrendering 7,661 assorted ammunitions and 147 explosives by the repentant cultists. Wike stressed that his administration had provided over 150 patrol vans to the security agencies to fight crime in the state. He said that the State Government had also handed over some gun boats to the Nigerian Navy in a bid to patrol and protect the Rivers waterways. The governor stated that his administration had in the last two years made unprecedented investments in infrastructure, which h...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Acting President Yemi Osinbajo said public resources that were looted in the past few years in the country would be accounted for by those involved. Osinbajo stated this on Monday in a nationwide broadcast to mark the second anniversary of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration. He said that accounting for the funds had become imperative in view of the determination of the administration to bring persons accused of corruption to justice. According to him, funds appropriated to build roads, railway lines, power plants, and to equip the military, that have been stolen or diverted into private pockets, must be retrieved and the culprits brought to justice. “We believe that the looting of public resources that took place in the past few years has to be accounted for. “Many have said that the process is slow, and that is true. Corruption has fought back with tremendous resources and our system of administration of justice has been quite slow. “But the good n...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By  Prince Abugo MAY 29,2017, Governor Arthur Ifeanyi Okowa would be two years in office.Two years of four years tenure is monumental in politics because any government would have had its road map marshalled, promises fulfilled and marshaling policies  and programmes in tandem with the  hopes of the electorate. In assessing Okowa, Iamprivileged from two sides of the coin, what he has done differently and how he is steering the ship olf state  from mistrust and bitterness that once divided us from a united people with purpose. The main issue in Delta is Okowa. He  has met expectations, considering promises made. He has unified political and socio-cultural interest groups that were at daggers drawn. He has spread development across the state and removed the wedge of mistrust that exist between the three senatorial zones.Two years after, in terms of unemployment, ethnic bigotry and tribalism, social vices, corruption, food, shelter, and hous...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J The Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, has appealed to Nigerians to eschew violence and division as the country is big enough to accommodate all differences. Osinbajo made the appeal in his message to the citizens to mark 18 years of unbroken democracy in the country and the second anniversary of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration. He urged the different groups who felt aggrieved with any thing in the country to apply peaceful and legal means to express their wishes. “Nigeria belongs to all of us. “No one person or group of persons is more important or more entitled than the other in this space that we all call home. “And we have a responsibility to live in peace and harmony with one another, to seek peaceful and constitutional means of expressing our wishes and desires. “And to resist all who might seek to sow confusion and hatred for their own selfish interests,’’ he said. Osinbajo noted that while we all daily pre-occupy ourselves with pursu...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J In this video sent to us by a vanguardngr.com fan reveals fans of Sunshine Football club of Akure beating a linesman after they were defeated by Lobi Stars 1 -0 in Akure some weeks back. http://ift.tt/2s33k0x The post Sunshine Star fans attack linesman appeared first on Vanguard News . Vía Vanguard News http://ift.tt/2rtN3of

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J KAS Eupen of Belgium forward Henry Onyekuru has been invited to the Super Eagles squad by coach Gernot Rohr, his club said Monday. The 19-year old Nigerian ended the 2016/2017 season in the Belgian as the highest goalscorer after notching up 25 goals and provided 14 assists despite Eupen finishing the season in the bottom half of the table. The forward is attracting interests from Premier League clubs including Arsenal, Southampton and West Ham. “Called up for the first time as a member of the Nigerian national squad, the 19-year-old KAS Eupen forward flew off to Corsica on Tuesday where the Super Eagles are holding their training camp,” KAS Eupen said in a statement on its website. Onyekuru is expected to feature for Nigeria in a friendly against a Corsican selection on Friday evening, and later, against Togo in Paris. Vía The Guardian Nigeria Newspaper | Nigeria News and World News http://ift.tt/2rw0Ieb