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Breaking News:  Dilma Rousseff, a former leftist guerrilla who defied a dictatorship but struggled as Brazil’s president amid a troubled economy and a fractious political climate, was removed from office Wednesday following an impeachment trial she condemned as a coup d’état. Rousseff who was accused of illegally using state funds to patch loopholes in the nation's budget has been on suspension since May before an eventual trial which started Monday at the senate floor. Rouseseff denies all allegations of wrong doing.  Interim President Michel Temer, who served as vice president and was among the many former allies to abandon Ms. Rousseff, will finish out her second term, which runs through the end of 2018. Brazil’s Senate voted 61-20 to convict Ms. Rousseff,

Controversial Republican flag bearer Donald Trump in the wake of his renewed immigration rants and conspiratorial theory, heads to Los Pinos, Mexico as he meets with the Mexican presidents in what many has perceived to be a renegotiation appeal visits. There is no doubt that many Mexicans are not happy with the Republican nominee who on countless occasions have called out for the deportation of all Mexicans living in the United States. Though a surprise visit towards a neighbor whom he has continually cast aspersion on all through the primary elections and campaigns, most Mexicans still maintain their hate and disgust for this man who now assumes the position of contesting to becoming the president of the free world. The trip shines a spotlight on the fraught and very clumsy relationship existing between the republican candidate, that of the Mexican leader and also with the U.S voters of Mexican ancestry who now set to play a very influential role in the forthcoming November polls e...

The European Union have ordered Apple to pay a whopping 13billion pounds worth of Irish taxes as her punishment for getting an undue business policy advantage over other businesses operating under same laws and tax guidance.  According to the commission, member state is barred from giving tax preferences to any company under the operational laws of the EU. According to Magrethe Vestager, the commissioner in-charge of competition policy, the EU is using this strident call as a clear message to all that the EU will not tolerate illegal state aid under her laws.   " Member state cannot give tax benefits to selected companies-This is illegal under EU state aid rules. The commission's investigation concluded that Ireland granted illegal tax benefits to Apple, which enabled it to pay substantially less tax than other businesses over many years In fact, this selective treatment allows Apply to pay an effective corporate tax rate of of 1 per cent on its European profits in 2003 d...

Suspended Brazilian president Dilma Rouseff have again denied allegations leveled against her person which subsequently led to her three months suspension away from the seat of power as president of Brazil. Rouseff who stood trial recently at the senate in testimony against her impeachment trial, not only deny breaking budget rules, but also alluded to the fact that the allegations levied against her administration was simply the handiwork of her political rivals head bent on taking her away from power.  " From the day after i was elected, several efforts were taken to destabilize my government". Rouseff who is accused of taking state funds to patch palpable loop holes in the country's budget denied the allegations before the senate as she says the action are pre determined "coup d' edat" aimed at removing her illegally from office while also destroying her workers party. 'There is no justification for removing me from power, I am innocent, i am an h...

In what have turned into a routine daily affair at the southern Mediterranean sea in recent past, migrants have continued to suffer untold hardship as they seek an escape route through the most dangerous coastal lines. While most of the migrants seeks a better life outside the shores of their country, others aimed at seeking asylum away from political instability and war infernos that have continually ravaged their country in recent times. Monday images shows approximately 6,500 people,many from Eritrea and Somalia, who had set off in a wooden fishing boats across the coastline. Most of the migrants this year shows individuals fleeing war and poverty in Nigeria and Ivory Coast, or dictatorship in Eritrea and Gambia. Others includes migrants workers who hope to make a living in Libya, but were forced to flee the country due to the civil war that has ravaged their successes so far and the seemingly lawlessness that now steer the ship of states. According to the Italian coastguards,...

Following the 6.2 magnitude earthquake that befell the mountainous north eastern part of Rome, killing over 300 persons while displacing several thousands, the Italian authorities, though counting still their loss, are beginning to consider the possible accommodation of all those who now stay homeless as a result of the deadly quake.  The authority plans to build simple, wooden-chalet -style huts within the space of three months for over 200 displaced by the August 24 deadly earthquake. The authorities faces the challenge of getting survivors into safe, warm accommodation before the winter, which remain very prone to cold most especially in quake hit region of the Apennine mountains.According to the Italian media, structure used in Onna after the devastating 2009 earthquake - are favored over tents such as those which is currently been used. However, despite the tented camps in place, survivors still find it more comforting in sleeping inside their various cars near their destro...

A former chieftain of the Nigeria football federation Amos Adamu has criticized the nation football federation for appointing an unknown personality as technical adviser for the country's national team. Adamu who not only frown at the technical department of the Nigerian Football Federation for their ineptitude, also faulted her leadership for her continual show of irresponsibility in handling serious matters that concerns the nations football administrative process. The former FIFA and CAF executive maintain that the choice of Gernot Rohr as technical adviser for the super eagles team is indeed a square peg in a round hole, saying that the Franco-German tactician is not the right person to led the super eagles to the required height it deserved given the seemingly challenge that now lies ahead. Adamu who said Rohr lacks the technical pedigree to become technical adviser, announced that as far as he is concerned, the super eagles national team is yet to have a coach or technica...

Following her quest to putting a lasting end to the issue of insurgency in her nation, and his unflinching commitment to seeing that the missing schoolgirls are rescued in record time, Nigerian president has agreed to do the much talked swap deal between prisoners of the deadly Islamic  sect group in return for the 218 chibok schoolgirls. The president who made this resolve while in Nairobi, Kenyan, for the African economic summit explained that  his government will do all it can to ensuring that  the girls reunite with their families in record time.  The president also thanked the Nigerian military for their bravery and gallant service to the nation, in seeing that peace returns back to the northeast region of the country. The military whose recent onslaught has successfully clamp down the operational base of this dreaded sect group, have no doubt doubled their effort in rescuing so many captives once held by this sect group. According to president Muhammadu Bu...

Following the terror attack that engulf the American University in the city of Kabul, no fewer than 12 students have been killed with almost 36 persons recorded to have suffered serious injuries. The Gunmen who attacked the American University of Afghanistan Thursday, amid tight security and campus guards, took to the University premises as they fired shots sporadically aiming at students in their respective classrooms. According to high witness account, the attackers who threw series of grenades inside the classrooms, left students pushing themselves as some hurriedly looked for safe heavens routing a means of escape. "I finished my class and was about to leave when i heard a few gunshots and a huge explosions, followed by more gunshots" narrated Ahmad Muktar who explained his ordeal to Reuters. 'I ran towards the emergency exit with other students, climbed the wall and jumped out" he added. "Many students jumped from the second floor, some broke their leg...

Dozens are believed trapped in ruined Amatrice, Accumoli, Pescara del Tronto , in mountainous central Italy. Due to magnitude of the quake and a feel of subsequently resurfacing in the midst of rescue operations, rescuers have  advised both local and international journalist to as a matter of urgency leave the town of Amatrice as the town is crumbling fast in ruins.  Rescuers still searching for trapped bodies and survivors says they have successfully pulled out five bodies from the ruins of the Hotel Roma in Amatrice. The search for survivors went all through the night, amid hundreds of tremor and an aftershocks which rocked already damaged buildings. As many as 70 tourist were staying at the Hotel when the quake struck. Though many are feared dead at an instant or due to lack of ventilation for breathing air, others are still struck in the rubble while several others who had been successfully pulled out so far, had been taken up for medical attention. Reports indicates ...

The relations of Turkey and the United States were not in a very good state before the recently failed coup attempts that almost crumbled the state of the Turkish nation on July 15, 2016. However, ever since that incident, the relationship ties between both nation sealed up for the worse as accusing fingers pointedly indicates the hands of the US government in the said upsurge. In the wake of all this animosity, and in a quick bid to once again cements what many believed is a step to assuring better diplomatic ties, US vice president, Joe Biden in a visit Wednesday to the Turkish nation reassures the government that the United States will do everything possible to helping the government mostly especially in her calls to seeing that the Turkish prime suspect Fethullah Gulen who is prime to have instigated the said coup is extradited from his United States hideout. According to the US Vice President, who spoke to the press shortly after her meeting with the Turkish Prime Minister Bina...

A devastating earthquake has struck a mountainous stretch of central Italy early Wednesday, killing at least over 70 persons with some many injured while others still remain trapped under debris and setting up tremors that awakened residents in Rome, nearly 100miles to the southeast.   The first a 6.2 magnitude earthquake struct at 3:36am, about 6.5 miles southeast of the town of Norcia in the Umbria region, followed by about 40 quakes over the next three hours, including a 5.5 magnitude temblor at about 4:33am. According to the authorities, the density of the quake seems similar to that which happened in 2009 in the Abruzzo region of central Italy, killing a total of 300 persons. The quake which took many Italians by surprise  cuts across three regions of the country namely; Umbria, Lazio and Marche, as this could also be felt far way the city of Bologna in the north and Naples in the south. The towns of Accumoli, Amatrice, Arquata del tronto, were reported to be among ...

Republican presidential nominee cum real estate mogul Donald Trump who started his campaign on a footing of enforcing strident immigration policy, extreme scrutiny of Muslim American and subsequently building a great wall across the US southern border, might just be on the verge of flip flopping some of his hardline ideas that greeted his earlier campaign prior to the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. Trump who went hard on the Mexicans, stressed the inherent need to chased them out of the United States given the looming danger of their continued romance around the US environment while noting his plan to deport a whopping 11 million persons out of the US soil on account of undocumented stay.  According to Mr. Trump, while speaking to Sean Hannity Tuesday night on Fox News, the real estate mogul took a different stance suggesting a backing out on some of his hardliner views held in recent past. "There could be a softening" on some of this measures, he said--...

  Pendulum- Dele Momodu Fellow Nigerians, you must be wondering what this title is all about. Please, calm down, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, one of Nigeria’s iconic politicians, is not about to dump his party, APC, for PDP, the party he fought hard with others to sack from power just last year.The reason for bringing PDP into this article which largely concerns the Tinubu conundrum is very simple and straight-forward. PDP has suffered calamities upon catastrophes since General Muhammadu Buhari sacked President Goodluck Jonathan from office. It is hard to imagine, or believe, that a party that held Nigeria by the jugular for 16 solid years could attain meltdown so soon and almost disappear into oblivion. One would have expected PDP, despite its electoral misfortune, to provide a formidable opposition to APC and keep President Buhari on his toes but that has not been the case. APC has wasted no time in sending PDP to an early grave by throwing poison...

How else does one need to prove that he is the world greatest? What is that requiring of been the world greatest? Who sets the rules of been the world greatest? Well, all this seems to be history now as Jamaican sprinter cum Fastest man alive Usain Bolt defies all odds as he becomes the only man in  the history of the world to have won a 'Triple Triple" Gold medal at three consecutive Olympic in succession. Bolts who dares the ashes of the devil and faces the temple of the god's, looks pretty sure of what was going to happen on the track as he set out alongside his fellow Jamaican teammates to fly the Jamaican flag in the 400x100m relay race. Running the anchor leg, as he had always done in previous edition, the Jamaican sprinter took the baton from Nickel Ashmeade  shortly after Asafa Powell and Yohan Blake had made the early start as he raced gallantly and swiftly away from the Japanese quartet who wins a surprise silver medal. This will be Bolt ninth Olympic Gol...

Following the seemingly bizarre yet controversial happenings that is currently bedevilling the Nigeria house of parliament over issues of corrupt allegations cum budget padding, a member of parliament who doubles as the leader of the house, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila has voluntarily submits self to the police for onward investigations. Hon. Gbajabiamila who recently just returned from the United States after three weeks of vacation said this move became very necessary owing to the fact that some persons in different quarters have been linking his name to the current allegations of making senseless insertions to the nation's budget with the sole intent to satisfy personal avarice. The majority leader who said he consulted duly before arriving at this decision, also noted that he had earlier called an emergency meeting on arrival from the states. This meeting included the speaker of house, Deputy speaker alongside several principal officers as they deliberated swiftly on matte...

Breaking News: Donald Trump Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort has resigned his position as campaign chairman in the trump campaign train.  Manafort who took over as campaign chairman earlier in June shortly after Mr. Trump fired Corey Lawandowski from the position, says he his leaving the campaign team owing to certain distractions which he thinks, isn't  the very tenets of what originally seems germane in winning an election for Mr. Trump and as such sees no relevant been part of the team. The 67-year old political veteran strategist recently came under serious intense public scrutiny after the New York Times reported that the Ukrainian government had uncovered ledgers pledging more than $12m dollar in an undisclosed cash payment for his work for former president Viktor Yanukovych. Though, it is unclear why Mr. Manafort took this very sudden decision, but reports indicates that ever since the recent shakeup in the Donald Trump campaign team, things hasn't got well along wit...

Following the story that ensued August 14 about the robbery of three US athletes at gun points in the city of Rio, there have been series of investigations by the Brazilian authorities in seeing that the culprits were brought to justice amid tight security intelligence that followed the build up to the Rio Games. Subsequently, in a followup to the story, that the three US athletes were robbed off their money and other valuables, the Brazilian authorities have discovered that such claims as earlier reflected in the media, never happened stressing that the information gathered suggested that the US Swimmer Olympian Ryan Lochte alongside his teammates were actually been stopped by policemen after they discovered on of the athletes were involved in an act of Vandalism. According to the story, the athletes who were returning from a club in Rio, stopped by a gas station to use the restroom., where one of the said athletes committed an an act of Vandalism. An argument however ensued betwee...

Following his recent campaign shake up and subsequent overhauls of some of his top strategic staffs, Republican presidential nominee yesterday at the battle ground in North Carolina Thursday night, made his first speech since after his seemingly surprised campaign team shakeup. In a well prepared speech, Trump who spoke through the teleprompter for the second time running without derailing in his message contents, made a shocking revelation as he announced some of his faults he had committed during the campaign train in a much anticipated Trump fashion. "Sometimes, in the heat of the debate and speaking on a multitude of issues, you don't choose the right words or you say the wrong thing" Trump said. " I have done that. And believe it or not, i regret it. And i do regret it, particularly where it might have caused personal pain. Too much is at stake for us to be consumed with these issues". In moments of self reflection, the billionaire said" Sometime...

Jamaican Usain Bolt and World fastest man alive yesterday made history in the 200m tack and field events by winning the much treasured Gold which makes him the only man in the history of the Olympics to have won the event in three succession.  Bolt whose position as the world greatest sprinter knew no bounds on the wet, humid night inside the Rio track stadium, did everything special as he took his all his opponents on track to the cleaners in glaring admiration to fans who stood at the stadia stand chanting the name Bolt. The Jamaican whose target was aimed at beating his own world record set earlier at the 2009 world championship, though failed by his 19.79seconds run time, but obviously delivered on his promise of coming out victorious in the 200m events, thus giving fans everything to cheer to about. "I don't need to prove anything else, what else can i do to show am the greatest" the 29-year old fired-"I am trying to be one of the world greatest, be among M...

Republican presidential hopeful Donald trump Wednesday made some shocking changes to him campaign team in what appeared to be a massive yet strategic overhaul in his campaign quest for the white house come November 2016. The billionaire cum politician whose ratings has drastically reduced in all polls conducted most especially in big swing states took the relay baton away from all those whom he believed were better-off out of his team rather than stay without been effective. Trump who seriously needs a political miracle in revamping his ailing campaign after a self inflicted wounds syndrome, couldn't do that any better as he  appoints Bannon Steve as his new campaign chief, while a former controversial fox news chief executive, Roger Ailes was brought in to steer up the affairs of a political advisory role. Kellyanne conway who before now was a senior adviser to Mr. Trump and subsequent pollster to his campaign, was promoted to the rank of been a campaign manager. With this ...

Just when so many Nigerians thought the Jet-lag issues has been thrashed off the sensory cells of the Nigerian dream team Olympics eagles, the sensory wire got reignited at the 11th hour when no one expected such crass emergency given the precedence of how quick the Jet-legginess spirit left the dream team V1 on arrival at Rio, most especially during their first and second game against Japan and Sweden, before their eventual lost to Colombia, in what many thought was a gave to nature's call. The team's charisma, determination, focus and resilient which shows absolutely no signs of been jet-lagged in their fist game against Japan, proved so many scientific postulations wrong as they went against the odds of a gravitational earth pull, to winning a game not even the devil thought was a possibility. Infact, their showman performances during the group stages of the competition left certain soccer pundits rewriting the Olympic scripts as so many views got changing within a space of...

Following their scintillating performance against the Danes of Denmark at the itaipava Arena Fonte Nova  in Salvador, the Nigerian dream V1 Olympics football team will today lock horns with the Germans whose walk to the semi-finals hasn't  been anything more than the best going by their four goal thrashing of the Portuguese side in the quarter-finals. For the Nigeria team, their advancement have indeed prove many book makers wrong who prior to the tournament, gave them little or no chance of qualification going by the seemingly controversy that marred their eventual coming to Rio. The dream team V1 however stunned soccer pundits when they stylishly defeated Japan in a massive nine goal thriller game that ended 5-4. They however defeated Sweden to a lone goal before they eventually  succumb to what many felt was a reaction to nature's call as they lost to Colombia by 2-0. The Samson Siasia lads however went the extra mile against all odds in the quarter-finals, as the...

Breaking News: Radical British Islamic preacher Anjem Choudary has been convicted by a British court for his open pledge of allegiance to a proscribe terror group.  Choudaury who is British most controversial hate preacher has been continually tailed by the British government for a very long time prior to this recent  conviction, but all to no avail, as they were unable to nail him due to his legal background and forensic knowledge of global terrorism which allows him say the wrong things at the wrong place with the right language. Choudaruy was however nailed when  police found online ,several materials where he praised the very dreaded Isil group while openingly inviting others to join a terror Islamic group which has since been proscribe by the authority from been heard in Britain.  Following his guilty verdict, choudaury 49 was immediately remanded Into prison custody alongside  fellow disciple Mohammad Mahzir Rahman 33, were they could  face a j...

Republican presidential hopeful and billionaire cum politician Donald Trump yesterday at the swing state of Ohio made out a clear policy plan in which he think could be the greatest ever strategy in getting rid of the dreaded terror ISIS group. Trump who amid recent controversial comment have been seriously maligned in most opinion polls, yesterday at Ohio set out on a mission to reviving his ailing campaign that has since lost its focus according to majority opinion polls and analyst ratings. The Republican nominee, reeling from self-inflicted wounds that played into his rival Hillary Clinton's charge that he lacks the temperament to be commander-in-chief, promised an all encompassing struggle with terror modeled on the cold war. Trump who proposes strident immigration rules most especially on Muslim American, also announced his policy on absolutely vetting all those who strives to find refuge in the united states as he stressed the need for an "extreme vetting" f...

Following the financial crisis rocking the camp of the U-23 Olympic football team, the Nigeria minister of sport has ordered the packing out of some players alongside officials of the team back home away from the on-going Rio Olympics. The minister who hinted that such moves became necessary owing to the fact that the federation are beginning to run out of resources in taking care of extra mouths, which according to him where not duly accredited for the Rio games in Brazil. Some of the affected players included Stanley Dimgba and goalkeeper Yusuf Mohammad alongside the team media adviser Mr. Temi Ebikagboro, curator and the team coordinator.  The minister who hinted that ever since the team left Atlanta for Rio, her ministry has taken the responsibility of some of this players and officials who according to him had no business been there since there were not among the accredited 25 players who were vetted as participants at the Rio games. "The organizer of the games, the in...

Following her security exigency in the northern part of Nigeria, the United States government has pledge her support in helping the government of Nigeria towards the provision of a strategic technical assistance in the fight against insurgency that is currently bedevilling her nation.  According to the US deputy chief of mission, Mr. Alan Tousignant, the assistance which will come in form of technical support will help the Nigeria government develop a civilian security plan and enhance emergency response. Mr. Alan who met with the Nigeria interior minister in Abuja Monday, explained that the support was part of the US government initiative on security governance. Similarly, in response to the deputy chief statement, Lieutenant General Abdulraham Dambazzu hinted that the support which will be a partnership affair between both country will not include the provision of military equipment while noting the development as that which is welcomed by the government of Nigeria. It w...

American sprinter Allyson Felix got her Rio Olympic shocker earlier today as she was beaten to the first position by Shauna Miller of the bahamas to claim the Gold in the 400m women finals. Allyson who was clear favourite after her stunning outing in both the Beijing and London summer Olympics, was stunned by a more resilient Shauna who led the pack by diving successfully at the finish line to beat Allyson to the Gold while Jamaican Shedricka  Jackson came third. Allyson who had previous won Gold in the 200 meters title at the 2012 London Olympics was craving for her fifth Gold but unfortunately fell prey to a shauna miller whom she had beaten at the last year world championship. The 30-year old who is on her fourth Olympics sojourn has now won a total of seven medal making her the most decorated female track and field athletes of all time. Though she had crave for Gold but her feat achieved is just well enough to put her name in the sands of time. Similarly, a more ecst...

Following the release of the newest video portraying the missing Chibok schoolgirls, who were whisked away from their respective dormitories at the government girls secondary school, parents of the kidnapped girls who watched the recent video with mixed feelings, are beginning to identify some of their kids whom were featured in the said video. According to a parent, Mrs. Esther Yakubu, she confirms the face of her daughter Dorcas Yakubu who was featured alongside the other girls in the streamline footage's. Mrs. Yakubu who watched helplessly together with her husband, however call on the Nigerian government to act fast in seeing that the girls are returned safely. It will be recall that in the alleged video, one of the girls was spotted talking through the camera as she pleads with the government to reason along with the Islamic fundamentalist sect group so as to give in for their release and eventual freedom. The screen image however suggested that the government should as a...