Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro has been accused of being involved in a scheme to hijack salaries of his aides while a federal deputy a Brazilian website UOL has reported.
According to UOL, the racket involved hiring close associates as employees and then receiving a cut of their public salaries back from them.
The UOL report is the first time Bolsonaro has been directly implicated in such a scheme, known locally as rachadinha.
Rio de Janeiro state prosecutors have formally pressed charges against federal Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, the president’s eldest son, over his alleged participation in a similar racket when …
A combined team of military forces searched among coconut trees on a remote southern island Monday for the flight data boxes of an aircraft that crashed and killed 52 people in one of the Philippines’ worst military air disasters.
The C-130 Hercules transport plane was carrying 96 people, most of them recent army graduates, when it overshot the runway on Sunday while trying to land on Jolo island in Sulu province — a haven for Islamist militants.
The plane ‘skidded’ and burst into flames in a village, killing 52 people including 49 military personnel and three civilians, said military spokesman …
The France international has a year remaining on his deal at Parc des Princes, inevitably resulting in frequent speculation with regards to his future.
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Tension has continued to rise as South Africa’s police minister on Monday revealed that he was awaiting court instructions on whether to arrest ex-president Jacob Zuma, who has been handed a 15-month jail term for contempt.
The country’s top court last week convicted Zuma for contempt and ordered him to turn himself in by end of Sunday to start his sentence. If he failed to do so, the police would be told to arrest him within the following three days.
Africa Daily News, New York gathered that Zuma on Friday lodged a last-ditch application to halt the execution of …
Ethiopian Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed has boasted that his government could easily recruit one million new fighters but wants to foster a period of ‘silence’ in the country’s war-hit Tigray region.
The 2019 Nobel Peace Prize winner’s remarks are coming barely one week after Tigray’s capital Mekele fell to the Tigray Defence Forces (TDF) rebel group with Abiy’s government declaring a unilateral ceasefire in the eight-month-old conflict.
The TDF has described its seizure of Mekele and most of the rest of the northern region of Tigray as a major victory, while Abiy and other officials have countered that federal …
The 17 governors from the Southern region have President unanimously agreed that the Southern region should be allowed to produce President Muhammadu Buhari’s successor in 2023.
This was the resolution of the Southern Governors’ Forum at the end of a meeting, which held at Lagos House, Alausa, on Monday.
Africa Daily News, New York can confirm that they also resolved that the presidency of Nigeria be rotated between Southern and Northern Nigeria.
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Ondo State Governor and chairman of the Forum, Arakunrun Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, reiterated the forum’s commitment to …
Some youths from the oil-rich Niger Delta region have rejected the 3 to 5 percent equity shares allotted to oil host communities in the Petroleum Industry Bill recently passed by both chambers of the National Assembly warning the President that there would be consequences should he decide to assent such bill.
The youth groups made their position known during a protest in Port Harcourt, the Rivers state capital on Monday, lamenting that the region has been ‘stripped off of their rights and entitlement after sixty-five years of oil discovery, exploration, sacrifices, and devastation of their environment in the region.
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Nigeria’s Minister of State for Industry, Trade, and Investment, Ambassador Maryam Yalwaji Katagum, yesterday collapsed during an official engagement in Bauchi.
Africa Daily News, New York gathered that Katagum, who was in Bauchi metropolis to launch an empowerment programme slumped while delivering her speech.
She was immediately conveyed by officials to the Trauma center of the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital (ATBUTH) for medical attention.
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According to an eyewitness, she as she stood to launch the programme, she suddenly held her head and collapsed on the floor.
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Nigerian-Canadian, Kelechi Madu, who is the Minister of Justice and Solicitor General of Alberta has asserted that Nigeria and Kenya broke international law in abducting Nnamdi Kanu and bringing him to Nigeria.
In a statement, Madu pointed out that the arrest fell below international standards and advised Nigeria to release Kanu.
He reserved his sharpest tongue for Nigeria’s attorney general Abubakar Malami, describing him a disgrace to the rule of law.
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