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Qatar USA
NDLEA nabs two for drug importation to US, Doha
Kunle Falayi A 59 year-old contractor, Okechukwu Joseph, has been arrested by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency for ingesting heroin, which he was smuggling to New York. Also arrested is a 41 year-old safety officer, Nnaji Austine, who was exporting Cannabis and Tramadol to Qatar. According to a statement ...
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Nigeria
Osinbajo to sign 2017 budget next week, says Dogara
John Ameh, Abuja The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Yakubu Dogara, on Friday said that Acting President Yemi Osinbajo would sign the 2017 budget into law “early next week.” Dogara made this known during the second anniversary session of the 8th House of Representatives in Abuja. Although the ...
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Nigeria
Anti-Igbo threat: Police must arrest Arewa youth leaders, IPCR insists
Adelani Adepegba, Abuja The Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution, a parastatal of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has called on the police to ensure the arrest of northern youth leaders for their threat against the Igbo. The agency insisted that the police must be proactive in tracking down and ...
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Nigeria
Ultimatum, ploy to loot Igbo investments in northern Nigeria – IYC
Friday Amobi, Port Harcourt The Ijaw Youth Congress has described the insistence on a quit notice to Igbo people in the North by northern youths as a ploy by such youths to loot the massive investments of Ndigbo in the area. IYC President, Mr. Eric Omare, told our correspondent in ...
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USA Francia Nigeria
FG releases Paris Club refund details to states
Ifeanyi Onuba, Abuja Facts have emerged as to how the Federal Government allocated the first tranche of N516.38bn reimbursement made to the 36 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory from the Paris Club debt refund. Based on the schedule of reimbursement, which was released by the Ministry ...
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Brasile
TJ-SP derruba lei e permite que Doria retire cobradores de ônibus
O Tribunal de Justiça do Estado de São Paulo (TJ-SP) declarou inconstitucional a lei que obriga a presença de um cobrador nos ônibus da cidade de São Paulo. Aberto durante a gestão Fernando Haddad (PT), o processo teve a decisão comemorada pelo prefeito João Doria (PSDB), que já havia declarado ...
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Angola USA Ecuador Austria
Landmine treaty President calls on to redouble efforts to achieve the 2025 deadline
Source: Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention Country: Algeria, Angola, Ecuador, Iraq, Thailand, World, Zimbabwe“Providing support to those states that are still implementing key actions of the Convention is as important today as it was 20 years ago. It is a humanitarian imperative,” said Ambassador Hajnoczi.Geneva, Vienna 9 June 2017 – The Committees ...
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Qatar Turchia
Bahrain’s top diplomat to visit Turkey amid Gulf row
Bahrain’s foreign minister will pay a visit to Turkey on June 10 as tension between Qatar and prominent Gulf and Arab countries are continuing to escalate.
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Turchia
Report confirms rare MP5 used in murder
A murder weapon that made the headlines on June 8 due to the suspect’s allegations that he obtained it from outside the police headquarters in Ankara during July 2016 coup attempt, has been determined to be a MP-5 type machine gun, whose sale is banned in Turkey and is permitted ...
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Turchia
Automotive makers lead Turkey’s top exporters’ list
Carmakers were ranked as one of Turkey’s largest three exporters in 2016, with Ford Otosan, a joint venture between Ford Motor Co. and Turkey’s Koç Holding, topping the list with an export volume of $4 billion