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Nigeria’s Super Eagles have been named as “team with the best travelling uniform” in Russia by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), few days to the commencement of the 2018 FIFA World Cup. The rating comes days after a world fashion magazine GQ rated Nigerian Super Eagles jersey as the best for the 2018 World Cup.



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Nigerian author, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has been awarded the PEN Pinter Prize, a prize in honour of late Nobel laureate Harold Pinte.

The prize is awarded to a writer from Britain, the Republic of Ireland or the Commonwealth, who casts an “unflinching, unswerving” gaze upon the world, and shows a “fierce intellectual determination … to define the real truth of our lives and our societies.”

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The judges of the prize described Adichie’s understanding of gender, race and global inequality as “sophisticated beyond measure.”

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President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un met in Singapore this morning. The meeting was held in Capella resort, an isolated hotel on Sentosa Island in Singapore. The two leaders kicked things off by meeting with only their translators present, a U.S. official said. Trump and Kim and their translators met first in a session first, before allowing their respective advisers to join them.

President Trump’s advisers who were at the meeting are his Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, his Chief of Staff, John Kelly and Ambassador John Bolton, his National Security adviser.

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Muslim group MURIC had complained that the video was distasteful and that the rapper misrepresented the Chibok girls.

The group had also threatened to take legal action against Falz if he did not take down the video. It also demanded an apology from the rapper.
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The video featured, among other elements, some female choreographers wearing hijab and dancing 'shaku-shaku', and a Fulani man appearing to behead an individual.

A statement issued by MURIC on Monday, June 11, said it has resolved not to take a legal action against Falz but instead took the matter to government agencies responsible for censoring films and videos[img][/img].[img][/img]

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