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Relations between Zimbabwe and the European Union has not been cordial since 2002 after the European Union imposed sanctions on the Zimbabwean government following allegations of human rights abuses and election rigging. On Wednesday July 29th, Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe said the US and British embassies paid vendors to stir up trouble in the country. "These are ambassadors of countries that imposed sanctions on us, so we have said we will kick them out of the country. They do not want to see peace in developing countries. They just want to see chaos; people fighting each other, terrorism everywhere. British and American ambassadors - what kind of people are they? They are no good for us. Behave and you will be in peace with us. Misbehave and we will kick you in your bottom. It is our country," he threatened.

Press statement from APC The All Progressives Congress (APC) has insisted that the DG of DSS, Mr. Lawal Daura, is not a card-carrying member of the party, saying nothing short of producing Mr. Daura’s membership card or evidence of his membership registration will convince discerning Nigerians that he is indeed a member of the APC as alleged by the PDP. "While it amounts to rabble-rousing and crass politicking for the PDP to have wrongly accused Mr. Daura of being a member of the APC without a scintilla of credible evidence, the PDP has weakened its argument by using the pictures in which Mr. Daura appeared with the President and the fact that he served in an election committee as evidence of his membership of the APC,” the party said in a statement issued in Lagos on Friday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed. ”Possession of an APC membership card by Mr. Daura or evidence of registration as a party member at his ward, local government or state ...

Rapper and business mogul Jay Z has signed World Cup Champion football player Jérôme Boateng to Roc Nation Sports. The German defender will be Roc Nation Sport's first international sports figure. Jérôme is currently a defender for Bayern Munich and Germany’s national football team.

The National Emergency and Management Agency has said that six people were killed by an explosion that occurred at a crowded market in Maiduguri Friday morning. The attack occurred at a parking area in the market. The agency said on its twitter page that 11 others were wounded in the blast. But a police officer who works in the Explosives Ordnance Department said he counted eight bodies at the scene of the blast near Gamboru market in Maiduguri.  He said the bomber, a male, arrived at the scene carrying a female passenger on a tricycle laden with explosives. “From the way his body was destroyed it showed that he was actually the suicide bomber and not the woman,” the police officer, who did not want to be named, told journalists.  A source the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital confirmed to journalists they received five bodies and seven injured persons. A member of the Civilian-JTF, who identified himself as Kabiru, revealed that t...

Fayose took to his twitter this afternoon, to announce the payment of July salary to workers of Ekiti State. Says payment of workers salary is his priority 

Organisation for Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has said that prices for oil would not significantly rise even if the cartel’s daily production quota is reduced by 2 million barrels from the current 30 million. OPEC Secretary-General, Abdallah el-Badri, said the organisation did not plan to reduce the quota. He made the comments after meeting with Russia’s energy minister in Moscow to discuss the influence of Iran increasing sales of oil following the removal of Western sanctions against that country. El-Badri called the removal of such sanctions a great achievement. Iran reached an agreement with the international community this month to remove sanctions imposed over concerns that its nuclear programme could be used for military purposes. Russia’s economy has drastically suffered from relatively low prices for oil, which have roughly halved since mid-2014. Russia’s Energy Minister, Alexander Novak, expressed optimism that oil prices would stabi...

Following the arrest of the former Chief of Staff to governor Sullivan Chime, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission today took on the current Peoples Democratic Party chairman in the State, Ikeje Asogwa, over allegation of money laundering. Asogwa, who served as the Managing Director of the Enugu State Housing Corporation, is currently being interrogated by agents of the anti-graft agency in Abuja. The suspect arrived the headquarters of EFCC in Abuja about10.30am July 31. He was still being interrogated as of press time. Impeccable sources at the anti-graft agency disclosed that Asogwa’s invitation followed the discovery that Enugu state funds was moved through him ostensibly for housing development but with no trace of the houses as the funds are believed to have been diverted. His interrogation come a day after Ifeoma Nwobodo, Chime’s ex- Chief of Staff, was grilled for alleged money laundering and misappropriation of funds. She is still in the cu...