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‘There are plots to kill Buhari’ – Father Mbaka alleges

Catholic Priest and Founder, Adoration Ministries Enugu Nigeria, Reverend Fr. Ejike Mbaka, has alleged that there are plans to kill President Buhari due to his ongoing fight against corruption. Mbaka said this during his New Year sermon in his church yesterday. “Nigeria, as we speak now, economically, security wise is in the intensive care unit; if the oxygen is removed, Nigeria will die, people of God prayed, from here and there and God gave us Buhari. God has told us that Buhari is prayer answered; President Buhari is an answered prayer; whether you hate him or like hi

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Coach Sunday Oliseh is still undergoing therapy – NFF

Amaju Pinnick, President of the Nigeria Football Federation has said he is in contact with doctors treating Super Eagles coach, Sunday Oliseh and that the former Nigeria captain will soon be back in the country hale and hearty. Sunday Oliseh has been out of the country receiving treatment since leading the home based Super Eagles to a 2-0 win over Chad but couldn’t lead the team for the second leg as he was flown to Belgium for treatment. “Oliseh is getting better. He is human and anybody can break down any time. I speak directly with the doctors and we are confident h

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We Are Unhappy in Europe, some Iraqis are heading back home

At 25, Faisal Uday Faisal had high expectations when he packed his bags for Europe in September. After quitting his job making tea and cleaning for the Ministry of Education in Baghdad, he set off to Turkey to join more than a million refugees and migrants who have made their way to the continent in the past year. “My dream since I was a child was to go to Europe,” he said. “I was imagining a beautiful life, a secure life, with an apartment and a salary.” But despite a grueling month-long journey to Sweden, he went back home, one of a surging number of returnees, I

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China sends warning to Taiwan as it prepares to elect first woman president

As a British-educated admirer of Margaret Thatcher, Tsai Ing-wen, who studied in London, is the woman set to become leader of China’s fierce rival Taiwan was always likely to be regarded with suspicion by Beijing’s Communist Party apparatus. The fact that she is head of a party dedicated to promoting the island’s independence from the Chinese mainland only makes matters worse. Beijing duly met expectations yesterday by firing a warning shot across the bows of Tsai Ing-wen, favourite to become first woman leader of Taiwan - the first woman leader, in fact, in the modern C