President Buhari is to attend the 31st Ordinary Session of the African Union Assembly of Heads of State and Government in Nouakchott, Mauritania, from June 30 to July 2. The President’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina said President Buhari in his capacity as the leader of the AU theme of the year: "Winning the Fight against Corruption, A Sustainable Path to Africa’s Transformation", would make introductory remarks and presentation on the theme. [ 137 more words ]
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Barely 24 hours after a fuel tanker claimed nine lives in Lagos-Ibadan expressway , another fuel tanker along Minna-Suleja road on Friday collided with a truck and went aflame. It was gathered that firefighters were on the scene, attempting to put out the fire. No fewer than nine persons lost their lives on Thursday after a tanker exploded on Otedola Bridge in Lagos. The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in a statement on its official Twitter handle also confirmed that 54 vehicles were burnt to ashes in the incident.
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Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd on Wednesday settled a seven-year patent dispute over Apple’s allegations that Samsung violated its patents by slavishly copying the design of the iPhone. Terms of the settlement, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, were not available. In May, a U.S. jury awarded Apple $539 million, after Samsung had previously paid Apple $399 million to compensate for patent infringement. [ 248 more words ]
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Twitter Inc on Thursday made it easier for users to identify political campaign ads and know who paid for them, as social media platforms faced the threat of U.S. regulation over the lack of disclosure on such spending. The microblogging site launched ‘Ads Transparency Center’ to allow anyone to view ads that have been put on Twitter, with greater transparency about U.S. [ 191 more words ]
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Four people were killed on Thursday in a shooting at a local newspaper building in Maryland, a senior federal law enforcement source said. One suspect is in custody. The shooting at the Capital Gazette newspaper prompted a massive police response, with employees evacuated from the building with hands raised above their heads. The Gazette is a local newspaper owned by The Baltimore Sun. [ 116 more words ]
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Many people are belived to have been killed as a fuel tanker exploded on Otedola Bridge, Lagos, Thursday afternoon. The bridge is located along the Lagos-Ibadan expressway. In a footage captured, cars could be seen on fire. A number of persons are also trapped in their vehicle as the inferno is stil raging. The number of casualties is unknown at the moment.
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The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) on Tuesday said that the training of 20,000 young pharmacists has commenced across the country as part of efforts to end the menace of drug abuse. Prof Moji Adeyeye, the Director-General of NAFDAC, stated this while addressing newsmen to celebrate the 2018 World International Day Against Drug Abuse in Abuja. [ 226 more words ]
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Suspected herdsmen on Wednesday attacked Bare village in the Numan Local Government of Adamawa State, killing two people and inflicting 29 others with various degrees of injury. It was gathered that those killed were attacked on their farms, while the attackers also set the villages ablaze. The Chairman, Numan Local Government Area, Rev. Arnold Ijibla, who called on the people not to take laws into their hands, said security agencies were in control of the situation. [ 100 more words ]
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Walt Disney Co won U.S. approval to buy Twenty-First Century Fox Inc entertainment assets for $71.3 billion on condition it sell Fox’s 22 regional sports networks, the Justice Department said on Wednesday, giving Disney an edge over Comcast Corp’s competing bid. The Fox movie franchises and TV shows have been the subject of a bidding war between Disney and Comcast, both of which want to expand their own entertainment businesses to compete with fast-growing digital rivals Netflix Inc and Amazon.com Inc. [ 363 more words ]
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Italian giant, AC Milan have been banned by UEFA from competing in the Champions League and Europa League for the 2018-19 season after breaching Financial Fair Play rules. UEFA announced the shocking decision on Tuesday, citing that AC Milan would not be able to play in any European competition for the 2018/19 campaign despite qualifying for the Europa League. The Italian club spent more than £175million (an equivalent of €200m) on new players last year amid questions over the financial stability of the Chinese-led consortium that purchased the club from Silvio Berlusconi for £600m in April 2017. [ 182 more words ]
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Ahmed Abu Khatallah, the organizer of the deadly September 11, 2012, attack on U.S. diplomatic compounds in Benghazi, Libya, was sentenced on Wednesday to 22 years in prison on terrorism and other charges, the Justice Department said. Government evidence showed Khatallah led an extremist militia named Ubaydah bin Jarrah, which he directed to carry out the violence in Benghazi, the Justice Department said in a statement. [ 200 more words ]
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Joe Jackson, the patriarch of an American musical dynasty who started his son Michael, daughter Janet, and the Jackson 5 on the road to stardom but also verbally and physically abused them, has died at the age of 89, his family said on Wednesday. Jackson, who recently lived in Las Vegas, had been suffering from cancer, according to media reports. [ 671 more words ]
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Pennsylvania prosecutors on Wednesday charged an East Pittsburgh police officer with homicide in the shooting death last week of an unarmed black teenager, the latest in a string of U.S. police killings of black men that has sparked nationwide protests. 30-year-old Officer Michael Rosfeld surrendered to face a single criminal count for killing 17-year-old Antwon Rose on June 19 as the officer was searching for suspects after a drive-by shooting that wounded one. [ 328 more words ]
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A federal judge on Tuesday ruled that U.S. immigration agents could no longer separate immigrant parents and children caught crossing the border from Mexico illegally, and must work to reunite those families that had been split up in custody. United States District Court Judge Dana Sabraw granted the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) a preliminary injunction in a lawsuit filed over the family separations. [ 263 more words ]
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Microsoft Corp on Tuesday said it will partner with India-based mobile ad tech company InMobi, seeking to provide Azure cloud customers artificial intelligence-backed marketing insights. InMobi, which has around 40,000 to 50,000 enterprise customers, enables companies to gather insight on its customer base thereby helping them gauge marketing possibilities. Under the partnership, InMobi will expand its platform for marketers via the InMobi Marketing Cloud, with its advertising cloud moving to Azure. [ 268 more words ]
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One of Japan’s most prominent bloggers was stabbed to death minutes after giving a seminar on how to resolve personal disputes on the internet. Media reports said Kenichiro Okamoto, better known by his blogger name Hagex, died after reportedly being attacked by a man he had argued with online. The suspect, Hidemitsu Matsumoto, allegedly followed Okamoto into the toilets after he had ended his talk at a venue in the south-western city of Fukuoka. [ 258 more words ]
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Facebook Inc on Tuesday decided to allow certain ads promoting cryptocurrency and related content from pre-approved advertisers, but would continue its ban on those tied to binary options and initial coin offerings. Facebook had in January banned ads that promote financial products and services that are frequently associated with misleading or deceptive promotional practices. “We will listen to feedback, look at how well this policy works and continue to study this technology so that, if necessary, we can revise it over time,” Facebook’s product management director, Rob Leathern, said in a blog.
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Uber Technologies Inc won a probationary license to operate in London on Tuesday in a partial victory for its new chief executive after it made changes to ease strained relations with city authorities. The new license was subject to strict conditions, however, and came with a warning to prove it had changed to retain its right to operate in London, the heart of its biggest European market. [ 790 more words ]
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