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Video: Astronaut Christina Koch returns to earth after 328 days

Michael Adesina

6 years ago

Record-breaking NASA astronaut Christina Koch has returned to Earth today, February 6, 2020, after spending 328 days in space.

Zimbabwe shifts Independence Day celebrations to Bulawayo

PM NEWS Editor

6 years ago

Zimbabwe's main Independence Day celebrations will for the first time since 1980 be held outside the capital Harare after the…

Malawi’s President Mutharika mulls appeal against election nullification

PM NEWS Editor

6 years ago

Malawi's President Peter Mutharika is contemplating on appealing to the Supreme Court against the nullification of the May presidential election…

Coronavirus: Equatorial Guinea set to assist China with $2m

Isa Isawade

6 years ago

The Equatorial Guinea Council of Ministers has agreed to support China’s fight against the coronavirus with a $2 million solidarity…

3 confirmed dead, 179 injured in Istanbul plane accident

PM NEWS Editor

6 years ago

Three persons have been confirmed dead and 179 injured, some seriously after a Pegasus Airlines plane heading into Istanbul’s Sabiha…

Ivory Coast seizes $40m cocaine

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6 years ago

Ivory Coast’s navy has seized an estimated $40m record amount of cocaine plastic-wrapped in small bundles bearing the tattered logos…

Trump Jr. calls for expulsion of Senator Romney from GOP

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6 years ago

Donald Trump Jr. has called for the expulsion of Senator Mitt Romney from the Republican Party for siding with Democrats…

Update: One dead, 157 injured in Turkish plane runway accident

Taiwo Okanlawon

6 years ago

A passenger has now been confirmed dead among the 157 that were injured at Istanbul airport when a Boeing 737…

No surprise, Donald Trump acquitted as predicted

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6 years ago

The historic impeachment trial of U.S. President Donald Trump has come to an anticlimactic end, with Republican senators behaving true…

Trump escapes impeachment as Senate acquits him

Kazeem Ugbodaga

6 years ago

United States President, Donald Trump has escaped impeachment as the Senate on Wednesday acquitted him on both articles of impeachment,…

Trump shredded the truth, I shredded his speech: Pelosi

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6 years ago

US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has explained to her party caucus why she ripped a copy of President Donald Trump's…

Mitt Romney: Trump guilty of “appalling abuse of public trust’

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6 years ago

A prominent US Republican senator, Mitt Romney, broke with his party on Wednesday and announced he would vote to convict…

Coronavirus: Uganda, Tanzania pledge support to China

Nimot Sulaimon

6 years ago

The presidents of Uganda and Tanzania, Yoweri Museveni and John Magufuli on Wednesday pledged their countries’ full support to China…

Boeing 737 skids off runway, splits into three

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6 years ago

A plane carrying 177 people, including six crew members skidded off the runway at an Istanbul airport and split into…

Lesotho first lady Maesaiah Thabane charged with killing hubby’s ex-wife

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6 years ago

Maesaiah Thabane, the first lady of Lesotho was charged with murder and remanded on Wednesday over the fatal shooting of…

Baby diagnosed with coronavirus 30 hours after birth

Michael Adesina

6 years ago

A baby in China’s epidemic-hit Wuhan city has been diagnosed with the novel coronavirus just 30 hours after being born,…

Is Buhari aware that bandits are taking over the FCT?

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6 years ago

According to StatiSense, a data company, a total of 10 persons were kidnapped in the FCT in January 2020 –…

U.S Visa Ban: Eritrea says it’s unacceptable

Nimot Sulaimon

6 years ago

Eritrea's Foreign Minister, Osman Saleh Mohammed denounced the U.S. ban on immigrant visas for its citizens as “unacceptable”.

Renewable energy: African Development Fund approves $35m to Liberian Govt

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6 years ago

The African Development Fund has approved a $34.74 million grant and loan to boost renewable energy access and promote an…

US announces $40m aid to Nigeria after Visa ban

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6 years ago

Days after it blocked effective from 21 February, the issuance of immigrant visa to Nigerians, the United States has announced…

Court annuls Malawi president’s election, orders fresh poll

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6 years ago

In a landmark judgment, Malawi’s Constitutional Court has annulled the May 2019 presidential vote that declared Peter Mutharika a winner…

Trump snubs Speaker Pelosi , she rips his state of union speech

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6 years ago

A bitter feud between U.S. President Donald Trump and top Democrat Nancy Pelosi boiled over at his State of the…

Coronavirus not yet a pandemic: WHO

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6 years ago

The World Health Organisation (WHO) said the coronavirus outbreak is a global public health emergency, not a pandemic.

4-year-old Chinese girl survives coronavirus

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6 years ago

A four-year-old girl from China, admitted at the Sultanah Maliha Hospital in Langkawi, Malaysia after being infected by novel coronavirus…

US Democratic race: Pete Buttigieg’s lead confirmed in Iowa

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6 years ago

Ex-Mayor Pete Buttigieg is leading the Iowa caucuses with 62 percent of 99 counties reporting, the Iowa Democratic Party said…

Trump soars away in Gallup poll

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6 years ago

A Gallup poll released on Tuesday found that US President Donald Trump received a 63% approval rating among respondents for…

Buhari mourns Saudi Arabian Ambassador to Nigeria

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6 years ago

President Muhammadu Buhari has described the death of Saudi Arabian Ambassador to Nigeria, Adnan Mahmoud, as "a great loss of…

Saudi Arabia’s Ambassador to Nigeria is dead

Kazeem Ugbodaga

6 years ago

Saudi Arabia's Ambassador to Nigeria, Adnan Bostaji has reportedly died in his sleep.

70 year-old teacher rapes teenage student daily for 3 months

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6 years ago

A 70 year-old teacher has been arrested after he was accused of repeatedly having sex with one of his students,…

Report: Sea level rising along US coastlines

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6 years ago

Researchers at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (Vims) said the pace of sea level rise accelerated at nearly all…

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