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Buhari Leaves Nigeria After Meeting With Security Chiefs

January 17, 2020 2:28 pm

President Muhammadu Buhari has departed Abuja for London, to take part in the inaugural UK-Africa Investment Summit holding on January 20.

According to NAN, Buhari performed some official assignments including his meeting with security chiefs, before flying out of the country.

The president also joined hundreds of Muslims faithful at the Aso Rock Mosque, where he observed the two raka’at Juma’at prayer.

Earlier this week, Buhari’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, said in a statement that the London Investment Summit would be hosted by the British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson.

According to the organisers, the event is

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Buhari Leaves For Peace, Development Forum In Egypt

December 10, 2019 6:33 am

President Muhammadu Buhari will depart Abuja today for Egypt to attend the Aswan Forum designed to set an agenda for sustainable peace and development in Africa.
Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, said Buhari will be accompanied by Governors Ahmadu Fintiri of Adamawa, Godwin Obaseki of Edo and Mai Mala Buni of Yobe to the two-day forum scheduled for December 11-12.
Adesina said the forum is an initiative to address the interconnections between peace and development in Africa while promoting Africa-led solutions through strengthening policies and practices.
He explained that the initiative is being launched …

Opposition Leader Keiko Fujimori Leaves Prison In Peru

November 30, 2019 4:38 pm

Peru opposition leader Keiko Fujimori was released from prison Friday after spending 13 months in pre-trial detention in a corruption case linked to Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht.

Her release comes days after the country’s Constitutional Court ordered her freed in a ruling related only to her detention and which otherwise has no bearing on the corruption case against her.

“For me, it was the most painful event of my life,” Fujimori said as she left prison and hugged her husband in front of a large group of supporters and journalists.

The court, she said “has corrected damage that has been …

Mass Stabbing At Manchester Mall Leaves Five Injured

October 11, 2019 1:01 pm

Counter-terror police were on Friday probing a mass stabbing at a shopping centre in northwest England that left five people injured and needing hospital treatment. The attack happened at the Arndale shopping centre in the heart of Manchester, where an Islamist extremist suicide bomber killed 22 after an Ariana Grande concert in 2017.

“We can confirm that five people have been stabbed and taken to hospital,” Greater Manchester Police said in a statement.

“Given the location of the incident and its nature officers from Counter Terrorism Police North West are leading the investigation as we determine the circumstances,” it added.…

French police arrest 2 suspect over bomb explosion

France: Bomb blast in Lyon leaves several injured

May 24, 2019 10:57 pm

A package blast on a pedestrian street in the heart of France’s city of Lyon wounded several people Friday, officials said, just two days ahead of the country’s hotly contested European Parliament elections.

President Emmanuel Macron called the blast an “attack” during a live Facebook interview, adding that no deaths had been reported “for the time being”.

The area where the explosion occurred, on a narrow strip of land between the Saone and Rhone rivers in the historic centre of the southeast city, was evacuated and cordoned off by police, according to AFP journalists at the scene.

A police source …