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Google announced on Tuesday plans to buy a New York City office building for $2.1 billion, confirming its push into America’s largest city despite the pandemic teleworking trend. According to Real Capital Analytics, quoted by the Wall Street Journal, this is the largest real estate purchase in the United States …

Heavy flooding has affected and displaced about 426,000 people in South Sudan, including 185,000 children, as overflowing rivers deluged homes and farms in the impoverished country, the UN’s emergency-response agency said on Tuesday. Emergency workers have used canoes and boats to reach people cut off by the deluge, the United …

South Africa’s Jacob Zuma, recently granted medical parole, on Tuesday failed to appear in court for the resumption of a graft trial, as prosecutors argued ill health did not justify his absence. Two weeks ago, Zuma, 79, was released on medical parole two months into a 15-month prison sentence for …

The police have arrested nine suspects linked to kidnapping and supplying of fuel and food items to bandits. A 22-year-old disabled man identified as Buhari Haruna of Kankia Local Government Area Katsina State was among the suspects. Haruna was arrested on August 28, 2021, at about 12:00 pm after he …

President Joe Biden told the world on Tuesday that the United States is not seeking a new Cold War with China as he vowed to pivot from post-9/11 conflicts and take a global leadership role on crises from climate to Covid. Addressing the UN General Assembly for the first time …

Since the fusion of the legacy parties in 2014 gave birth to the ruling All Progressives (APC), the contest for the party’s leadership positions at any level has never been this keen. The two major national conventions that produced the former National Working Committees (NWC) did not generate the kind …

Governor of Borno of State Professor Babagana Zulum has suspended the entire management of the state-owned Ramat Polytechnic in Maiduguri, for a period of six months. The suspension came after the governor, who was a student of the Polytechnic between 1986 to 1988, unexpectedly visited the Polytechnic around 9:00 am …

A retired Chief Superintendent of Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Imam Aminu, has been arraigned by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), over alleged forgery of academic certificates. The commission, in four counts brought before Honourable Justice A.O. Abong of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court …

The Kogi State Governor, Alh. Yahaya Bello has approved the immediate employment of a physically challenged lady, Abigail Kasuwa Simon. Abigail Simon has been going regularly to the State Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development, where she has been helping the Ministry in doing some menial jobs. In the …

President Muhammadu Buhari’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, has said his principal will not make a public show of Boko Haram financiers and other sponsors of terrorism in the country. Adesina also, said that Buhari’s regime does not have the motive of shaming the terrorists’ sponsors but …