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US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi lands in Taiwan amid threats of Chinese retaliation
US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi landed in Taipei on Tuesday, marking a significant show of support for Taiwan despite China’s threats of retaliation over the visit. Pelosi’s stop in Taipei is the first time that a US House speaker has visited Taiwan in 25 years. Her trip comes at a low point in US-China relations and despite warnings from the…
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Ogbonnaya Onu denies endorsing Peter Obi for president
Former Minister of Science and Technology, Ogbonnaya Onu has denied endorsing the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi for president. In a statement he personally signed, Onu said news going round that he had given his support to the former Anambra State governor is false. According to him, he has never had any reason to leave one party…
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UK PM race: Liz Truss forced into U-turn over key policy proposal
UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, seen as a frontrunner in the race with former Chancellor Rishi Sunak to succeed Boris Johnson as Conservative Party leader and British Prime Minister, was on Tuesday forced into a sharp U-turn over a key policy proposal after widespread criticism. On Monday night, Truss said she would save 8.8 million pounds by introducing regional pay…
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Kenya election 2022: Kikuyus split between Ruto, Odinga
In Kenya’s vote-rich Kikuyu community, opinion is sharply divided over outgoing President Uhuru Kenyatta’s move to back his one-time rival Raila Odinga, rather than his deputy William Ruto, as his successor in the tightly-contested election set to take place on 9 August. Mr Kenyatta – who has reached the constitutional limit of two terms in power – was long regarded…
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PHOTO NEWS: Babs Omotowa presents book in Lagos
Babs Omotowa, former Managing Director of NLNG and retired top executive in Shell presented his book, ‘From Storeroom to Boardroom’ to a cast of A-list business leaders and captains of industry in Lagos recently at Civic Centre, Victoria Island. Among those that attended the event are former Foreign Affairs Minister, Odein Ajumogobia, former Minister of Trade, Industry and Investment, Okechukwu…
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NEWS ANALYSIS: Issues in new INEC voters’ registration, By Chris Adetayo
With 96m registered voters, compared to 84m in 2019, we have added 12 million new voters to the list. About 8m of these are reportedly youth/young voters – many of whom hit the voting age of 18 within the last 4 years. This augurs well for our polity – seeing more young people get on the list rather than choose…
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Prayer as commodity, By Bamidele Johnson
In 2006, I took a friend to the American Embassy for a visa appointment. He passed the night in my place, so it was up to me to drive him there. We arrived a bit after 4am and met a shoal of visa applicants already waiting. A few minutes after arrival, a young man came and started singing Christian choruses.…
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Newly-baptised and ordained political clerics, By Kassim Afegbua
And he came with the salesmanship, oh I have joined official PDP bla-bla-bla. And the presidential candidate of the PDP is a âNorthern Christianâ, whose name is Atiku Abubakar.Isnât that awry? Isnât that smelling of hypocrisy. You spoke so glowingly of christianity as if you were born in Bethlehem and just returned from a Holy pilgrimage to Jerusalem. The next…
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The illusion of leaders and the delusion of followers, By Odi Ikpeazu
The worst kind of leaders, I am sure, are those charismatics who have multitudes that follow them for reasons that scarcely emanate from rational thinking. In that case, I don’t know which is to be found more disturbing – such a leader or his follower? Infinitely more disturbing without a doubt though, is the fact that we have in this…
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Buhari calls for more international collaboration to tackle insecurity
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday commended collective efforts of nations towards tackling security challenges across the globe, and within Nigeria, urging more collaboration to check terrorism, banditry and insurgency. Receiving Letters of Credence of Canadian High Commissioner to Nigeria, Ambassador James Kingston Christoff and Ambassador of Mexico to Nigeria, Juan Alfred Miranda Oritz, President Buhari told the diplomats that successes…
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