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China Says US Trade Talks Have Not Broken Down

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China’s top trade negotiator said on Friday in Washington that trade talks with the US would continue in Beijing following two days of negotiations and a US tariff hike. Speaking to reporters in Washington on Friday, Vice Premier Liu He for the first time gave details on where the negotiations stood following two days of talks with US counterparts, with tariffs and how much China should import from America among the disagreements. “Negotiations have not broken down, but rather, on the contrary, this is only a normal twist in the…

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Six Nigerians, five others jailed for £10m internet fraud in UK

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For their parts in the theft of millions of pounds from businesses and individuals in the United Kingdom and abroad, a gang of 11 fraudsters have been jailed for a total of more than 43 years. Six of the convicts are Nigerians, comprising three brothers, two women who are wives to two of the brothers, and the sixth person who is their associate. As reported by the Metropolitan Police via their website, the criminals were convicted between 26 and 28 March for their roles in a large-scale “diversion fraud” scam using hacking…

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Man jailed for beating wife to death over sex

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Godspower Johnson, a 31-year-old man, has been remanded in prison custody by a chief magistrates’ court in Ebute Meta, Lagos State on Friday for allegedly beating his wife to death during a fight over sex. The presiding Chief Magistrate O. O. Olatunji, ordered that Godspower should be kept at the Ikoyi Prison, for the next 30 days pending when the case file would be sent to the state Director of Public Prosecutions for advice. During the arraignment, the prosecutor, Inspector Oladele Adebayo, told the court that the defendant committed the…

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Hazard Stars as Chelsea Season Awards

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Eden Hazard has won a hat-trick of accolades at Chelsea’s awards ceremony, claiming the prize for Chelsea Player of the Year, Players’ Player of the Year and Goal of the Season, making Blues history in the process. He has also won the main prize – Chelsea Player of the Year – for the fourth year running, breaking another club record. No Blues player has recorded more goals or assists than the Belgian, who has scored 19 times and assisted 16 more in 50 appearances across all competitions. He also has…

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French Village Offers Reward to Solve Mysterious 230-Year-Old Inscription

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Lapped by the waves of the Atlantic and visible at only low tide, a mysterious rock inscription believed to be centuries old and so far undeciphered lurks outside a French village in Brittany. The town hall in Plougastel-Daoulas in the Finistere region of Brittany in northwest France is now offering a 2,000-euro ($2,250) reward for anyone who can decrypt the sequence of letters and symbol. Locally, the rock is sometimes compared to the Rosetta Stone, the great ancient Egyptian stele now in the British Museum whose inscription was partly deciphered…

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Labour issues ‘attack on sight’ order on Ngige

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Total war against the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, has been declared by the Organized Labour on Thursday over the attack by suspected thugs on union members that protested in his private residence in Abuja on Wednesday. Labour in its resolution read by the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC Ayuba Wabba directed workers to attack the Labour Minister and any member of his family anywhere they were sighted. Briefing journalists at the Labour House, the organized labour said that instruction had been given to workers…

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Nollywood actress threatens suicide as Wizkid allegedly ignores her love advances

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Uche Okoye, Nollywood actress, has on Tuesday, threatened to kill herself after she was allegedly “snubbed” on social media by a Nigerian hip-hop singer, Wizkid. Okoye, says she has taken to her Instagram page several times to express her love for the singer but was snubbed. She has this time around, however, given Wizkid one-week ultimatum to reciprocate her love for him on social media or be prepared to receive the news of her death. In a video posted on her Instagram page, she warned Wizkid to stop messing with her…

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Ed Sheeran topples Adele On The Rich List

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Ed Sheeran, “Shape of You” hitmaker, has toppled “Hello” crooner, Adele on the Rich List. He achieved this feat by doubling his wealth in just a year. In a new edition of the Sunday Times Rich List, the 28-year-old Sheeran’s net-worth is placed at N74.9 billion (£160 million). This is a N37.4 billion £80 million) increase from last year. 31-year-old Adele, on the other hand, is placed at a net-worth of N70.2 billion (£150 million) and retains her title of the wealthiest female recording artist. With Sheeran’s net-worth, he places…

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Mother arrested for selling a day-old baby for N600,000 to buy phone

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Nneka Donatus, a 27-year-old single mother, has been arrested by the Special Anti-Robbery Squad of the Imo State Police Command for allegedly selling her baby girl a day after putting to bed. Also arrested was a level 12 civil servant at the state Ministry of Women Affairs, Ujunwa Udechukwu, 40; and Nneoma Onwusereaka, 37; who allegedly conspired with the single mother to sell the baby to a couple. The mother of the baby who spoke at the command headquarters in Owerri on Thursday, confessed that she used part of the proceeds…

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Appeal Court upholds Oyetola’s election

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The Appeal court in Abuja has nullified the judgment of the Osun State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal which had declared the Peoples Democratic Party and its candidate, Senator Ademola Adeleke, as the winner of the September 2018 poll. In a dissenting judgment of four-to-one, the five-man panel led by Justice Jummai Sankey, the Court of Appeal upheld the appeal filed by Governor Adegboyega Oyetola of Osun State challenging the verdict of the tribunal and affirmed him as duly elected. Delivering the lead majority judgment of the four members of the…

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