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http://ift.tt/2sHJM1k (FILES) This file photo taken on September 20, 2016 shows Qatar’s Emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani attending the 71st session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. Gulf states on June 5, 2017 cut diplomatic ties with neighbouring Qatar and kicked it out of a military coalition, less than a month after US President Donald Trump visited the region to cement ties with powerhouse Saudi Arabia. / AFP PHOTO / POOL / LUCAS JACKSON Gulf states on Monday cut diplomatic ties with neighbouring Qatar and kicked it out of a military coalition, less than a month after US President Donald Trump visited the region to cement ties with powerhouse Saudi Arabia. In the region’s most serious diplomatic crisis in years, Qatar’s Gulf neighbours Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates as well as Egypt all announced they were severing ties with gas-rich Qatar. To “protect its national security from the dangers of terrorism and extremism” Riyadh decided ...

http://ift.tt/2sHJM1k (FILES) This file photo taken on September 20, 2016 shows Qatar's Emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani attending the 71st session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. Gulf states on June 5, 2017 cut diplomatic ties with neighbouring Qatar and kicked it out of a military coalition, less than a month after US President Donald Trump visited the region to cement ties with powerhouse Saudi Arabia. / AFP PHOTO / POOL / LUCAS JACKSON Gulf states on Monday cut diplomatic ties with neighbouring Qatar and kicked it out of a military coalition, less than a month after US President Donald Trump visited the region to cement ties with powerhouse Saudi Arabia. In the region’s most serious diplomatic crisis in years, Qatar’s Gulf neighbours Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates as well as Egypt all announced they were severing ties with gas-rich Qatar. To “protect its national security from the dangers of terrorism and extremism” Riyadh deci...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Victor Oshioke READING through Of  godfathers and judicial pronouncement by one Efosa Ugiagbe, published on page 18 of the Vanguard newspaper on Monday, May 8, 2017, I am disturbed by the level of blatant falsehood, maliciously concocted statements  material that certain individuals can smuggle into the opinion columns of media entities for public consumption. On April 14, 2017, the governorship election petition tribunal sitting in Benin City, after about three months of painstaking hearing delivered its judgement in the petition filed by Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, the PDP candidate in the September 28, 2016 governorship election in Edo State, against the declaration by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, of Mr. Godwin Obaseki as the winner of the election and duly elected governor of Edo State to succeed Comrade Adams Oshiomhole. A few minutes after the judgement which as expected was witnessed by high ranking members of both the ru...

http://ift.tt/2pLt7rA US President Donald Trump. PHOTO: Olivier Douliery / AFP President Donald Trump called for tougher sanctions against North Korea after it test-fired a ballistic missile Sunday in an apparent attempt to test the South’s new liberal president and the US. “Let this latest provocation serve as a call for all nations to implement far stronger sanctions against North Korea,” the White House said in a brief statement. The missile flew more than 700 kilometres (435 miles) before landing in the Sea of Japan (East Sea). It impacted “so close to Russian soil … the president cannot imagine that Russia is pleased”, the White House said, adding that North Korea “has been a flagrant menace for far too long”. Russia’s defence ministry later said the missile landed about 500 km from its border and posed no threat. Trump’s national security adviser, H.R. McMaster, had phone conversations with his counterparts in Japan and South Korea to discuss the situation. China, ...