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HUSBAND ‘COVERED WIFE IN GASOLINE AND SET HER ON FIRE’

  Heilyn Hernandez is still recovering after the attack that occurred while she was arriving for work at Nature’s Sleep in Plantation, Florida, last September. She described to CBS Miami how her ex husband, Noel Garcia De Armas, 47, came over to her from a parking lot before opening her car door as …

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UN Warns Of Terror Attacks Within African Sub Region

The United Nations (UN) says there is the threat of terrorism on regional scale. Dr Mohammed Ibn Chambas, the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General for West Africa and the Sahel, who made the revelation said the threat of terrorism does not only constitute hit-and-run attacks from Boko Harama …

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Trump Travel Ban Stirs Faint Corporate Outcry Beyond Silicon Valley

Most U.S. corporate bosses have stayed silent on President Donald Trump’s immigration curbs, underscoring the sensitivities around opposing policies that could provoke a backlash from the White House. While the leaders of Apple Inc APPL.O, Google (GOOGL.O) and Facebook Inc (FB.O) emailed their staff to denounce the suspension of the …

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Ghanaians Angry As SA Defence Union Staff Mocks Akufo-Addo For Wearing “Shower Curtain”

A secretary to the South African National Defence Union has incurred the wrath of Ghanaians with his description of President Nana Akufo-Addo’s colourful inaugural kente cloth as “a shower curtain” on Twitter. The white South African, Pikkie Greeff, who exhibited an apparent lack of knowledge about the widely valued kente …

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How Lil Wayne is bolstering virtual reality technology

Hulu is getting a lot of musical artists excited about virtual reality technology, thanks to an unexpected evangelist: Lil Wayne. His website, Weezy, is “an early adopter” of the technology platform, and helped inspire Hulu’s new collaboration with Live Nation, “On Stage,” executives said at this year’s CES technology trade …

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Nigeria’s Amina Mohammed becomes UN Deputy Secretary-General

New UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Thursday announced Nigeria’s Environment minister, Amina Mohammed as his Deputy Secretary-General. Guterres made the announcement through the spokesman of the Secretary-General, Mr Stephane Dujarric. The Correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in New York, reports that Guterres also announced the duo of …

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ACILA Calls On President Jammeh To Hand Over Power To Barrow

Research and education think tank, Africa Center for International Law and Accountability (ACILA) has called on Gambian President Mr. Yahya Jammeh to hand over power to President-Elect, Mr. Adama Barrow, when his term of office expires next month. President Jammeh lost the election to Mr. Barrow last week and he …

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