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Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, on Friday, resigned from his post, his office said, hours after the country’s Supreme Court disqualified him over corruption claims against his family.

The Supreme Court said Sharif was not fit to hold office and ordered a criminal investigation into him and his family.

The court also disqualified Finance Minister Ishaq Dar.



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Coalition airstrikes killed seven senior Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) propagandists and facilitators in Iraq and Syria, Combined Joint Task Force Operation Inherent Resolve officials have announced.

“The removal of these key ISIS leaders disrupts ISIS’s propaganda production, distribution, and the ability to fund ISIS’ terrorist activities,” the US Department of State said.

It said Abu Sulayman al-Iraqi, a senior ISIS propaganda official, was killed by a coalition airstrike near Mosul, Iraq, in early July.


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A sum of $1.806 billion in the Federal Government’s 2016-2018 external borrowing plan for Lagos-Kano railway modernization project and reconstruction/rehabilitation of the North-East has been approved by the Senate.

It also approved the $750 million medium term external loan requests for six states, out of the Federal Government ’s request of $1.49 billion for 10 states.

The breakdown of the utilisation of the $575 million World Bank loan includes $125 million for polio eradication support and routine immunisation project, $75 million for community and social development project, and $125 million for Nigeria States Health Programme Investment project.

Read more: http://amore.ng/senate-approves-1-8b-for-lagos-kano-railway-project/