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Nigeria Government and Russian Government have signed a military cooperation deal providing a legal framework for the supply of equipment and the training of troops, the Nigerian embassy in Moscow said on Wednesday.

President Muhammadu Buhari had expressed interest in such a pact with Russia as far back as 2019, when he met with his Russian President Vladimir Putin at a Russia-Africa summit.

The Nigerian ambassador to Russia at the time said President Buhari felt Russia could help defeat the Boko Haram Islamic insurgency in the northeast of the country, which remains a major problem.

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Nigeria’s economy grew at a real rate of 5.01 per cent in the second quarter of 2021 from the 0.51 recorded in the first quarter of the year.

The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) report released on Thursday by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) shows the latest 5.01% GDP growth rate is the highest since the last quarter of 2014.

The latest economic growth rate is much higher than a decline of -6.1 per cent recorded in the comparable quarter of 2020, as well as the 0.51 per cent recorded in the first quarter of this year.

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FORMER Commodore of the Nigerian Navy Kunle Olawunmi has said that the sponsors of terrorist groups are currently holding positions in the cabinet of President Muhammadu Buhari's regime.
Olawunmi said this on Wednesday when he featured on Channels Television breakfast show Sunrise Daily, following the attack on the Nigeria Defence Academy in Afaka, Kaduna State on Tuesday.

The former military commodore said terrorists arrested in the past years had mentioned their names as their sponsors

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FIFA president Gianni Infantino has urged the Premier League and La Liga to release its players in a "show of solidarity" for the upcoming international break.

Starting after this weekend's matches, the international break will run for two weeks and see the resumption of qualifiers for next year's World Cup in Qatar.

Due to strict rules that would require players to quarantine for 10 days upon their return  and no exemption granted by the government, the Premier League has refused to release nearly 60 players travelling to 26 countries on the United Kingdom's red list.

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U.S.A Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday called out Beijing’s actions in the South China Sea, and sought to assure countries in Asia that they won’t have to choose between the U.S.A and China.

“We know that Beijing continues to coerce, to intimidate and to make claims to the vast majority of South China Sea,” Harris said in a speech in Singapore during her first official visit to Southeast Asia.
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Monday morning, broke into the apartment of former BBNaija contestant, Dorathy Bachor.

This was made known on her Instagram story as she lamented the sad incident.


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The Big Brother Naija S6, housemates were left utterly surprised after the fake eviction night planned by Maria and Biggy was executed.

Biggy, the unseen coordinator of the show, had planned in the course of the week with Maria who happened to be the Head of House to put up some housemates for possible eviction.


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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) says the commission has arrested 37 people in Ibadan and Oyo for Internet frauds.

Its Ibadan zonal office, on Monday, confirmed the arrest of the suspected fraudsters.


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Federal government recently to suspend the Twitter's Operation in Nigeria, former Ekiti State Governor, Ayo Fayose, now ask the Twitter and other social media platforms to permanently deactivate the accounts of Nigeria President Buhari.
On Wednesday, Twitter deleted the Nigeria President tweet, saying it violated Twitter rules.

However, the Federal Government on Friday announced the suspension of the social media giants.

Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed who made the announcement during a press conference cited the persistent use of the platform for activities that are capable of destroying Nigeria’s corporate existence as reason for the suspension
Reacting, the former Governor in a tweet via his Twitter Account said “those undermining the rights of Nigerians to freedom of expression should themselves not enjoy such right.”



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The Chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa briefed the press that the anti-graft agency has recovered over N1 billion saved in one bank account from a civil servant.

The Chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa made this known while appearing before the Senate Committee on Finance investigating the Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) and payment of 1% stamp duty by contractors on all contracts awarded by MDAs between 2014- 2020.

The Chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa told the Senate Committee that there are a lot of leakages in public service needed to be blocked.
He said “it is not about generating revenue, we have recovered over a billion from civil servant sitting in an account last week.”



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The EU and the UK have both launched antitrust investigations looking into the way Facebook handles user and advertiser data gives it an unfair advantage in the classified ads space.

The European Commission announced its probe on Friday, which will focus on Facebook Marketplace a platform which allows people to buy and sell items on Facebook.

"Facebook collects vast troves of data on the activities of users of its social network and beyond, enabling it to target specific customer groups," said by European Commissioner for Competition Margrethe Vestager in a statement. "We will look in detail at whether this data gives Facebook an undue competitive advantage in particular on the online classified ads sector, where people buy and sell goods every day, and where Facebook also competes with companies from which it collects data,"




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The Germany Catholic Church has been chaos by a fresh crisis following the immediate resignation of one of its most influential archbishops over the Church’s sexual abuse scandal.
In essence, for me, it is a matter of sharing responsibility for the catastrophe of sexual abuse by church officials over the past decades,” Cardinal Reinhard Marx wrote to the pope in a letter released on Friday.

A former president of Germany Bishops’ Conference, Marx is one of the nation’s most influential church leaders.
The German Catholic Church is one of the wealthiest in the world.
Cardinal Reinhard Marx, the bishop of Munich, said the investigations and expert reports over the past 10 years consistently showed that there had been “a lot of personal failure and administrative errors,” but “also institutional or systemic failure.”

https://optimistchannel.com/04/06/2021/archbishop-resigns-as-german-catholic-church/

AC Milan record breaker Zlatan Ibrahimovic confirm that Olivier Giroud's trophy-winning experienced would be so much indulged at Serie A AC Milan and has urged Gianluigi Donnarumma to reconsider his decision not to leave the San Siro.
France international Olivier Giroud contract at Chelsea ends this month and has been linked with a move to AC Milan as they waged for replacement for departing striker Mario Mandzukic.

Olivier Giroud has spent the past three and a half seasons at Stamford Bridge, winning three major trophies across including the Champions League last weekend.

The 34-year-old did not play any part in a 1-0 win over Manchester City in the final in Porto, but his six goals were the most of any Chelsea player in the 2020-21 competition.

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Naira Marley  reacted to Tacha said changing the country’s name will not address the challenges confronting it.

“United African Republic, changing Nigeria is not Nigerians problem!! Give us good roads, security, electricity, health care…just give us basic amenities,” she wrote.

in Nigeria, the national assembly is said to have started the process of altering the constitution and making amendments to the country’s laws.

On Wednesday, Adeleye Jokotoye, a Lagos-based tax consultant, had submitted a proposal to the house of representatives committee on the review of the constitution, demanding a change of the country’s name.

In the proposal, Jokotoye had argued that the name — Nigeria — was not coined by a citizen but given to the country by Flora Shaw, wife of Lord Lugard, a colonialist.


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USA President Joe Biden will officially meet Queen Elizabeth II when he visits the United Kingdom for the G7 summit next week.

Buckingham Palace said on Thursday that the meeting would take place at Windsor Castle on June 13.

The 95-year-old monarch, who has not lived at Buckingham Palace since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in March last year 2020.

During the Covid-19 crisis, the queen has held the vast majority of meetings virtually, including audiences with foreign ambassadors.



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The Senate President in Abuja handed a bill to prohibit discrimination among the college degree and the higher country wide degree (HND) certificate holders in the Country.
The invoice was examine and claim with the aid of Senator Ayo Akinyelure and exceeded the 0.33 analyzing at some stage in Wednesday’s plenary consultation.

The Chairman of the Joint Committee labored in the law Senator Ibrahim Shekerau said that the invoice will loose the holders of HND from stagnation and ensure balanced equality with the college Graduate and from different higher tertiary establishments in Nigeria.


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Twitter On Tuesday night removed a post by means of Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari threatening punishment for local secessionists blamed for assaults on government buildings.

The Twitter Official said President Buhari's tweet, indicating to the 1967-1970 civil battle within the southeastern Biafra vicinity that killed millions human beings, violated its "abusive behaviour" coverage leading to a 12-hour suspension of his account.

President Buhari, who served within the military against the secessionists and became Nigeria's military ruler in the 1980s, tweeted on Tuesday that many humans misbehaving these days were too younger to don't forget the deaths and destruction from the civil war.that many humans misbehaving these days were too younger to don't forget the deaths and destruction from the civil war.


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Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, knowledgeable the Nigeria as a rustic that All Progressives Congress (APC)-led federal authorities has led Nigeria to a country of hopelessness.

The Governor therefore urged Nigerians to be watchful and not to fall into the lies of the ruling party as the 2023 preferred election procedures.

Governor Nyesom Wike made the declaration at Abara community in Etche nearby government vicinity in Rivers State, whilst talking at the flag-off of the Etche campus of the Rivers state college.


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Real Madrid and Adidas unveiled the house and away jersey.
Real Madrid  finished the season trophyless for the first time in view that 2009-10, however the Liga aspect will be trying to gear up for next season and undertaking for silverware and titles once more.
The kit, with its trademark white base, is accentuated via shades of orange and blue as a method to illustrate Madrid's fame as an city and cultural hub. It also will pay homage to adidas' signature 3 stripes, with the corresponding trademarks and sponsors nevertheless Emirates – on the the front.

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President Muhammadu Buhari tonight warned the ones involving and helping in destroying the country Country with such of criminal talents.
President Muhammadu Buhari spoke after he received a briefing from the chairman of the Independent Electoral commission (INEC), Prof Mahmood Yakubu, on series of attacks on facilities of the electoral frame across the Nation.

“I acquire daily security reviews on the attacks, and it's miles very clean that the ones at the back of them need this administration to fail,” President Buhari said. “lack of confidence in Nigeria is now referred to everywhere in the world. All the folks who want energy, whoever they're, you marvel what they actually need. Whoever wants the destruction of the gadget will quickly have the surprise of their lives. We’ve given them enough time.”


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Niger state Police Command showed the reviews that the Registrar of the National Examination Council (NECO), Professor Godswill Obioma, turned into murdered by gunmen in his resident at Minna, the State capital of Niger state.

The police State command in a announcement on Tuesday in Minna, Niger State Capital through its Public family members Officer,said the story is absolutely false, untrue and a natural detail of faux information.

It's far essential to kingdom categorically that on 31st may, 2021, the Registrar/CEO, National Examinations Council (NECO), Prof. Godswill Obioma, changed into rushed to national hospital, Abuja, with the aid of his family members in which he changed into later showed useless after a quick infection.”



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Chelsea forward Kai Havertz secured his first Champions League aim for the largest stage at Estadio do Dragao on Saturday, starting the scoring overdue within the first half.

Thomas Tuchel's extremely magnificent, well-drilled side held on to interrupt city hearts, denying the most excellent League champions a treble in their first Champions League final.

Tuchel had suffered the suffering of defeat in the biggest sport in eu membership football ultimate year as Paris Saint-Germain boss, but his fellow German Havertz ensured he got the better of Pep Guardiola for a 3rd time in only over a month.


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China on Saturday efficaciously released an automated shipment resupply spacecraft to rendezvous with an orbiting module, within the 2nd of a sequence of missions wished to finish its first everlasting area station.
The Tianzhou 2 shipment spacecraft launched from Wenchang satellite tv for pc release middle on China’s Hainan Island these days (may additionally 29), growing off the pad atop an extended March 7 rocket at eight:55 a.M. EDT (1255 GMT; eight:fifty five p.M. Local time). It deployed its sun arrays as expected and is in right fitness, according to the China Manned space Engineering workplace (CMS).


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David Alaba is to sign up for Real Madrid on a free transfer upon the expiry of his Bayern Munich settlement, Los Blancos have showed.
The flexible Austria defender announced again in February that this season might be his remaining on the Allianz arena, having to begin with joined Die Roten's young people set-up in 2008.

LaLiga giants Madrid have now swooped to convey Alaba to the Santiago Bernabeu on a 5-12 months deal, beating off a bunch of Europe's elite golf equipment for his signature.

Alaba made his debut in a DFB-Pokal assembly with Greuther Furth in February 2010, turning into the club's youngest player in records on the time and putting in a purpose for Franck Ribery inside a minute of coming on.

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Inline with the data from Femi Adesina, Presidential Spokesman, Former President Goodluck Jonathan had in advance met with the key political actors beforehand of the meeting of ECOWAS leaders underneath the Chairmanship of President Nana Akufo-Addo of the Republic of Ghana.
President Muhammadu Buhari welcomed the former President Jonathan, who is a unique Envoy and ECOWAS mediator to the Republic of Mali, in Aso Rock on Friday.
Presidential Spokesman said that the assembly of the nearby leaders was necessary to urgently discover a suitable way to the present day deadlock in the West African country.

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Aliko Dangote, chairman of the Dangote Sugar Refinery, says Nigeria could make $700 million in forex annually by using implementing the Backward Integration policy (BIP) from sugar manufacturing.

He said this at the company’s 15th Annual standard assembly on Thursday in Lagos.

Mr Dangote said bearing in mind distortions in the sugar masterplan framework would adversely have an effect on the country’s target reaching self-sufficiency as projected.


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The World Bank has disbursed the Nigeria Sustainable city and Rural Water supply, Sanitation, and Hygiene Programme, a good way to provide $700million credit score from the worldwide development association to make certain that six million humans can get entry to primary consuming water offerings and 1.4 million people can get right of entry to stepped forward sanitation offerings.


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Real Madrid Captain Sergio Ramos (#4) advised Zinedine Zidane the cutting-edge Real Madrid coach he turned into "the one and handiest" as the Real Madrid head coach quit the Spanish giants.
The Boss step down five days after his team lost the LaLiga title to Atletico Madrid, completing second within the table, two factors off top spot.

Real Madrid ended the season empty handed but have accomplished masses of success in the course of Zidane's spells in rate, which were separated by a chaotic 9 months wherein Julen Lopetegui and Santiago Solari both struggled to get to grips with the task.


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Consistent with the acting Director Defence Information of the army force Brigadier General ONYEMA NWACHUKWU.
Major-General Farouk Yahaya changed into the overall Officer Commanding 1 division of the Nigerian military and the incumbent Theatre Commander of the Counter-Insurgency army outfit inside the North East code named Operation HADIN KAI.

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The Lagos State government has declared ten weeks closure of Eko Bridge from Costain to Alaka inbound countrywide Stadium for emergency preservation by the Federal government from June 4th to August 13th.
The State Commissioner for Transportation, Dr Frederic Oladeinde, made it clean that the maintenance was vital to complete the rehabilitation works at the alternative facet of the bridge in advance embarked upon with the aid of the Federal government, for this reason the need for a be aware of direction diversion.


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Jeff Bezos’s tunure is exactly 27 years after the company incorporated.
Jeff Bezos, who grew Amazon Company AMZN, +0.19% and transformed it from an internet bookstore to an online shopping behemoth, make this statement on Wednesday that Amazon Inc. executive Andy Jassy will take over the CEO role from him on July 5.
We chose that date because it’s sentimental for me,” Jeff Bezos said this in an Amazon Inc. shareholder meeting on Wednesday. He further explained that it was exactly 27 years ago on that date in 1994 that Amazon was incorporated.

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Distance Learning Education is an initiative that sprouted in response to the need to give desirous populace, who deemed a university degree necessary for varying reasons like career elevation, self-actualisation and basic qualification for employment, access to university education and fulfillment of this desire.

In a bid to increase access to the University of Ibadan Open and Distance Learning  programme, the school management were greatly to informed the Nigeria Citizens that they should be informed that SPECIAL applications for admission are now being invited from suitably qualified candidates to University of Ibadan Distance Learning Center programmes for the 2020/2021 Academic Session.


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