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Nigeria
Torturing of crime suspects now illegal in Kaduna – DPP
Director of Public Prosecution, Kaduna State Ministry of Justice, Bayero Dare on Tuesday hinted that torturing crime suspects to obtain confessional statement by security agents without their lawyers is now illegal in Kaduna State. This development was coming as a result of signing into law administration of justice law by Governor Nasir ...
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Nigeria
NIS unveils additional centres for resident permits
The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has created 28 additional centres for the Combined Expatriate Residence Permit and Aliens Card (CERPAC) in order to reduce cases of issuance of fake residence permits and aliens cards to expatriates coming into the country. Dr Benoy Berry, Chairman of CONTEC GLOBAL, the technical partner to ...
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Indonesia Nigeria
Obaseki set to revamp Agriculture, create jobs in Edo
The Governor of Edo State, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, is currently in Indonesia to deepen his administration’s partnership with the Asian country, in a bid to revamp the agricultural sector and reposition the state as the oil palm capital of Nigeria. Speaking at the 101-year-old Indonesian Oil Palm Research Institute ...
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Nigeria
NDLEA arrests man with hard drugs in Jos
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency ( NDLEA ) in Plateau on Tuesday said it had arrested a 25-year-old man, Zulkifil Aliyu, who specialised in illegal narcotics trade within Jos metropolis. The agency’s Commander in the State, Mr Ibrahim Bragi, confirmed Aliyu’s arrest to newsmen in Jos. Read also: NDLEA destroys ...
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USA Malta
Watch: 800,000 risk deportation as Trump scraps immigration scheme
Updated 6.20pm US president Donald Trump today scrapped a program that protects from deportation almost 800,000 young men and women who were brought into the United States illegally as children, ordering a phased-out dismantling that gives a gridlocked Congress six months to decide the immigrants' fate. Trump's action, announced by Attorney General ...
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Malta
Farsons share price reaches new all-time high
The MSE Equity Price Index rebounded by 0.24% to 4,653.294 points on the back of the gains in BOV and Farsons which was only partially offset by the minimal decline in RS2. A further five equities ended today’s session unchanged amid a further slowdown in trading activity as the total ...
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Regno Unito Malta
Cardona ‘does not recall’ directorship with Delia
Economy Minister Chris Cardona told this paper he did not recall being a director of a company that owned a London property which was sublet by a tenant to a prostitution racket, together with PN leadership candidate Adrian Delia. Asked if he was aware that the London property was being used ...
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Regno Unito
Theresa May vows for international partnering following tensions from North Korea
Tensions caused by North Korea's nuclear and ballistic programmes "threaten the whole of the international community", the British Prime Minister has warned. Speaking to her Cabinet at their first meeting after the Parliament`s summer break, PM Theresa May said she would continue to work with the international community to increase pressure on ...
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Myanmar
Myanmar's Suu Kyi under pressure as almost 125,000 Rohingya flee violence
Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi came under more pressure today from countries with Muslim populations to halt violence against Rohingya Muslims that has sent nearly 125,000 of them fleeing over the border to Bangladesh in just over 10 days. Reuters reporters saw hundreds more exhausted Rohingya arriving on boats near ...
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Cina
China has tools to pressure Kim but worries of consequences
China has the economic tools to pressure North Korea but fears pushing Kim Jong Un's government so hard it collapses.Though China has long been the North's main trading partner and diplomatic protector, Kim's nuclear and missile tests have alienated Chinese leaders, who supported last month's U.N. sanctions that slash North ...