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Venezuela braced Saturday for another day of nationwide protests after President Nicolas Maduro clamped down further on opposition leader Juan Guaido, locking up his deputy in a military prison following a dramatic arrest. Edgar Zambrano, deputy speaker of the opposition-majority National Assembly, is being held in preventive detention for “the …

US President Donald Trump cranked up the heat in a trade battle with China, ordering a tariff hike on almost all remaining imports from the world’s second-biggest economy, but Beijing said talks would continue to resolve the row. After tweeting that two days of trade talks in Washington had been …

More than 100 inmates escaped from an Indonesian jail on Sumatra island, police said, in the latest breakout to hit the country’s creaking prison system. The prisoners fled the jail in Siak district on Sumatra island early in the morning after rioting and a fire broke out at the detention …

Seventy countries urged North Korea to scrap its nuclear weapons, ballistic missiles and related programs, decrying the “undiminished threat” posed to world peace. Signatories included the United States and South Korea, as well as nations in Asia, Latin America, Africa and Europe. Russia and China, supporters of Pyongyang, did not …

President Muhammadu Buhari, had finally threw his weight behind the call for the adoption of true federalism in Nigeria. At an award ceremony organised by the Progressives Governors Forum at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, the President spoke on the need for true federalism, especially at this time of the country’s democratic …

Labour to Campaign Against Minister in Geneva NUPENG, NLC Demand Apology  The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, may have had the last laugh over the inauguration of the Board of Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF), as it was reliably learnt in Abuja last night that the …

Prominent members of the All Progressives Congress in Ekiti state have sent a protest letter to the National Chairman of All Progressives Congress, Adams Oshiomhole, urging him to urgently intervene to save the party from dying in the state. In a letter addressed to the national chairman of the APC, …

The immediate past governor of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, has described the verdict of the Court of Appeal that restored the victory of Governor Gboyega Oyetola as satisfactory, claiming that justice has been served. He asserts that from the perspectives of substantive justice for the people and the point of …

Sequel to the mixed reactions that trailed his declaration about the age-long relationship between the Yoruba natives and the Igbo people of South Eastern Nigeria, Ooni of Ife & Arole Oduduwa, Ooni Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, Ojaja II has charged historians to deepen their research on African history. The Spiritual leader …

The Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, has accused President Muhammadu Buhari of implementing an economic agenda aimed at the strangulation of the South-East geo-political zone. MASSOB alleged that the President strangulated the eastern region to develop his northern origin. The group, however, charged governors in …