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President Donald Trump marked the first anniversary of his inauguration Saturday with his government in shutdown, accusing Democrats of taking Americans hostage with their demands. via TODAY.NG – http://ift.tt/2DvEgb2 Get more World News

The Sultan of Sokoto, Saad Abubakar, has queried the competence of the security agencies and their inability to stop the attacks and killings by herdsmen in Benue State. via TODAY.NG – http://ift.tt/2DPB5sH Get More Nigeria Metro News

Maj.-Gen. Rogers Nicholas, the Theater Commander, Operation Lafiya Dole, has called on Boko Haram insurgents to lay down their arms and embrace peace. via TODAY.NG – http://ift.tt/2Dm5gdQ Get More Nigeria Metro News

A young Palestinian man has been killed in an exchange of fire with the Israeli army near the occupied West Bank town of Jenin. via TODAY.NG – http://ift.tt/2DmJAhA Get more World News

A man, Edet Asuquo, has fled his home in the Idi Araba area of Lagos State after he nearly killed his newborn baby, Gift Asuquo. via TODAY.NG – http://ift.tt/2DiBXZJ Get More Nigeria Metro News

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the United States of America has approved the use of Lynparza (olaparib) in the treatment of breast cancer. via TODAY.NG – http://ift.tt/2mDQcx3 Get more World News

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has dragged a Deputy Director in the Federal Ministry of Works, Mr Mohammed Musa Abimiku, to court for embezzling N4.5 million belonging to the ministry. via TODAY.NG – http://ift.tt/2D76Trz Get More Nigeria Metro...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the United States of America has approved the use of Lynparza (olaparib) in the treatment of breast cancer. via TODAY.NG – http://ift.tt/2mDQcx3 Get more World News

The Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) has decided to suspend its recognition of Israel until the latter recognises the State of Palestine on its 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital. via TODAY.NG – http://ift.tt/2B4H89q Get more World News

French magistrates dismissed a case brought against a group of French soldiers accused of sexually abusing children while on deployment in the Central African Republic (CAR) in 2013 and 2014, a judicial source said. via TODAY.NG – http://ift.tt/2DAvA0G Get more World News

A Calabar Division of the Federal High Court has sentenced one Ifeanyi Okorogu, an indigene of Imo State, to two years imprisonment for human trafficking and attempting to sell a child. via TODAY.NG – http://ift.tt/2DAqa60 Get More Nigeria Metro News

United States President Donald Trump’s description of African nations as ‘shithold countries’ was in order, an Enugu cleric, Pastor Polycarp Ugwu, said on Sunday. via TODAY.NG – http://ift.tt/2mwbmgo Get More Nigeria Metro News

The Nigerian Community in Rustenburg, North West Province of South Africa, says it will tackle drug peddling and prostitution by its members in the area to avert a clash with South Africans. via TODAY.NG – http://ift.tt/2EFDhlG Get More Nigeria Metro News

Following the moves by the Federal Government to introduce cattle colonies in the country as a panacea to the clashes between farmers and herdsmen, the Association of Middle Belt Ethnic Nationalities (ASOMBEN) has rejected the idea, vowing never to cede any land from the geopolitical zone for...

The third batch of 560 Nigerian returnees from Libya have arrived Port Harcourt, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. via TODAY.NG – http://ift.tt/2mtYfMN Get More Nigeria Metro News

South African police Saturday intervened to clear protesters trashing outlets of Swedish clothing giant Hennes and Mauritz in Johannesburg over a controversial advertisement of a black child. via TODAY.NG – http://ift.tt/2De3PgU Get more World News

Zimbabwe’s new president says he risked gunfire and an hours-long walk amid land mines while escaping a plot to "eliminate" him after Robert Mugabe fired him as his deputy last year. via TODAY.NG – http://ift.tt/2Fx3B2D Get more World News

Belgian star, Eden Hazard, has revealed that he will sign a new deal with Premier League champions Chelsea. via TODAY.NG – http://ift.tt/2D3zJND --------------- Get More Nigeria Sports News

A Phnom Penh court on Friday sentenced a woman to one year in jail for Facebook comments in which she accused Cambodian Prime Minster, Hun Sen, of masterminding the murder of government critic, Kem Ley. via TODAY.NG – http://ift.tt/2ECCaDj Get more World News