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Today's News Highlights Include: Kano kingmakers ask court to stop Ganduje from deposing Sanusi – TheCable https://www.nigerianbulletin.com/threads/kano-kingmakers-ask-court-to-stop-ganduje-from-deposing-sanusi-%E2%80%93-thecable.386385/ Senate Okays N5m fine for company without dignified...

Boeing and the US aviation authorities have come under increasing pressure to ground the 737 Max despite repeated reassurances as the European Union and numerous other countries halted flights and Donald Trump.... Read more via the Guardian – https://ift.tt/2XLICSR Get more World News

Today's News Highlights Includes: My husband will close the gap between the Rich and Poor – Aisha Buhari – Plus TV Africa Ex-Governor Dariye Suffering Kidney Failure In Prison – OluFamous.Com Buhari Campaign Organisation reports Atiku to EU, AU over ‘undemocratic tendencies’ – Daily Post...

The Buhari Campaign Organisation (BCO) has written to the international community to caution the presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar. Specifically, the presidential campaign group petitioned the European Union (EU) and the African Union (AU). The group...

Senior special assistant to the president on media and publicity, Garba Sheu, revealed today during a live programme on Channels Television ‘Politics Today’ that the presidency will not accept foreign interference in the nation’s affairs. His comment came few hours after the European Union, US...

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has lauded the United States, the United Kingdom and the European Union for standing with Nigeria in its trying times. In a statement personally signed by him, the former Nigerian vice president wrote, “My thanks...

The European Union (EU) Ambassador to Nigeria and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Ketil Karlson, has advocated an end to gender-based violence in Nigeria. He urged relevant stakeholders and authorities to engage in aggressive campaign and measures to put a stop to the...

INEC chairman Prof. Mahmood Yakubu who spoke at a capacity-building workshop for journalists, jointly organised by INEC, European Centre for Electoral Support, European Union and European Union Support for Democratic Governance in Nigeria, disclosed that the 2018 party primaries is among the...

European Union nations may boast the world’s most stringent anti-money laundering rules, but recent scandals show that money launderers are good at exploiting the bloc’s Achilles’ heel: A patent lack of coordination. Denmark’s bank Danske used by money launderers to spirit away about...

Thursday marks six months to Brexit Day—March 29, 2019. As things stand, that will be the day the U.K. leaves the European Union (EU), whether with a newly-negotiated relationship or with nothing at all. It may be six months until Brexit Day, but any … Read more via More Top Stories –...

“We’re not at war with Great Britain,” European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker told Austrian media on Friday following a summit where EU leaders rejected a Brexit plan presented by British Prime Minister Theresa May. “We have to be careful, like two loving hedgehogs. When two...

The European Union (EU) has decried the violence that greeted the by-election into the Port Harcourt 3 constituency seat in the Rivers State House of Assembly held on August 18, 2018. Head of the EU Delegation in Nigeria and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Ambassador …...

Zimbabwe’s election, the first since the removal of Robert Mugabe in a de facto coup last year, has in some cases been “very smooth”, in others “totally disorganised”, the European Union chief observer said on Monday, with voting still under way. Elmar Brok said many voters..... Read more via...

The US has agreed to work towards lowering trade barriers with the European Union, Donald Trump said on Wednesday after a meeting.... Read more via BBC News – https://ift.tt/2Oj2mbx Get more World News

LONDON (Reuters) – Prime Minister Theresa May said on Tuesday she would now lead negotiations with the European Union, shifting the focus of the Brexit department towards preparing for Britain’s departure from the bloc..... Read more via U.S. – https://ift.tt/2OeVzje Get more World News

(WASHINGTON) — The United States attacked first, imposing tariffs on steel and aluminum from around the globe and threatening to hit tens of billions of dollars in Chinese products. Now, the world is punching back. The European Union is set Friday to slap tariffs … Read more via More Top...

The leaders of Italy and France have urged the European Union to set up asylum processing centres in Africa to prevent refugees and migrants from undertaking the journey across the Mediterranean. French President Emmanuel Macron and Italy’s new populist Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte met in...

GDPR has been all over the news recently, as companies of all sizes scrabble to make sure they’re ready for the new regulations. Following the May 25th deadline, the new rules have now come into force, meaning your business now has to ensure it is compliant. But what exactly …...

Companies will face hefty fines if they break the new data regulations. New European Union rules on data protection formally come into effect on Friday. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) gives EU citizens more rights over how their personal information is … Read more via BBC...

The European Union (EU’s) aid assistance to Nigeria in the last decade was above €2.2 billion, the Ambassador and Head of the EU Delegation to Nigeria, Ketil Karlsen, said on Wednesday in Abuja. Also, Mr Karlsen said as a demonstration of EU’s commitment to the … Read more via Premium...