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Centre for Awareness on Justice and Accountability, CAJA, has urged the Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to direct a management staff of the Commission, Garba Lawal, to proceed on retirement leave with immediate effect in the interest of free, fair and credible elections in the coming days. In…
Just after the referee had blown his whistle to begin the game between Deportes Tolima and Millonarios, a fan broke onto the pitch and struck Millonarios player Daniel Cataño, who used to play for Tolima, from behind.
Videos of Justina Miles, a deaf American Sign Language performer, are racking up views online as admirers praise her energetic signing during the telecast of Sunday’s game.
The UN has said 7,400 buildings have been completely or partially destroyed across Syria, and that a total of 8.8 million people have been affected.
The floods have inundated homes and swept away vehicles, it said. Roads, bridges and even a hospital have been affected.
Christodoulides, 49, won 51.92 per cent of the vote compared with 48.09 per cent for his opponent, who had been backed by the leftist party AKEL. A mere 15,041 ballots had divided the loser from the winner.
“None of the APC governors in the North, has the goodwill of the people to deliver anything to him (Tinubu)… None,” the former NHIS boss exclaimed.
The judge in Luberetsky Court near the capital ruled that Furgal, 52, must serve his sentence in a high-security prison after a jury found him guilty on two charges of murder and one of attempted murder.
Bwacha polled 778 votes to defeat senator Yusuf Yusuf who polled 5 votes out of the 796 accredited delegates.
President Muhammadu Buhari has received the Governor Godwin Emefiele of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, in Aso Rock, Abuja. The meeting is holding hours after the Supreme Court, on Wednesday, ruled to stop the February 10 deadline for the validity of three old naira notes. Recall that an interim…
