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Iraq Suspends Reuters for 3 Months Over Report on Coronavirus Cases

Abiodun Oluleye Apr 14, 2020 0

Iraq has suspended the licence of the Reuters news agency after it published a story saying the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the country was higher than officially reported. Iraq’s media regulator said it was revoking Reuters’…

Business

China’s growth set to slow to 6.3% in 2019, more stimulus seen – Reuters poll

Babatunde Abdulfatah Jan 17, 2019 0

China’s economy is expected to cool further this year as domestic demand weakens and exports are hit by U.S. tariffs, a Reuters poll showed on Thursday. This is reinforcing views that Beijing will need to roll out more stimulus measures.…

Ticker

Court sentences Reuters reporters to 7 years in prison

Sadiya Hamza Sep 3, 2018 0

A Myanmar judge on Monday found two Reuters journalists guilty of breaching a law on state secrets and jailed them for seven years, in a landmark case seen as a test of progress towards democracy in the Southeast Asian…

News

Boko Haram: Nigeria Army Says No Personnel Killed in Attack

Tony Abu Momoh Sep 2, 2018 0

The Nigeria Army had denied reports from North-east credited to Reuters and Agence France Presse, AFP that 30 soldiers had been killed during an attack on a Nigeria Army base in Bornu state, North-east Nigeria. According to the reports,…

News

Boko Haram Attack Army Base, Kill 30 Soldiers

Tony Abu Momoh Sep 2, 2018 0

Boko haram insurgents have invaded a military base in the North-east, killing upwards of 30 Nigerian soldiers in the process on Saturday according to Reuters. The attack which is the biggest of its kind so far this year by the Boko haram…

World

Rescuers carry person on stretcher to ambulance from Thai cave: Reuters witness

Sadiya Hamza Jul 9, 2018 0

Rescue workers in Thailand were seen carrying a person on a stretcher away from a cave complex and into a waiting ambulance on Monday, a Reuters witness said. A mission to rescue a group of boys and their soccer coach trapped in the…

Government

FG Debunks Claims Buhari’s Unsure Of Seeking Reelection

John Ogunsemore Jan 19, 2018 0

The Presidency on Thursday debunked claims that President Muhammadu Buhari said he was unsure of seeking re-election in 2019. A Reuters report claimed that Buhari said so on a radio interview on Thursday, without providing details about…

World

Trump Blames Obama Administration For Cancelled Trip To London

News Agency of Nigeria Jan 12, 2018 0

Donald Trump has stated that his trip to London has been canceled and it is due to a move by the Obama administration. "Reason I canceled my trip to London is that I am not a big fan of the Obama Administration having sold perhaps the…

Travel

Kenya Airways cancels flights over pilots’ protest

News Agency of Nigeria Jul 31, 2017 0

Kenya Airways cancelled an unspecified number of flights on Monday after pilots refused to take up some shifts, the airline said. Kenya Airways said in a statement in Nairobi that the airline had, however, made alternative arrangements to…

World

South African students go half nude In protest to high tuition fees

News Agency of Nigeria Oct 5, 2016 0

Minister Blade Nzimande, of the Witwatersrand university, announced its recommendation on fee increase last week. "it is indeed a fine balancing and we must all participate, whether at national level, university administrations, or as…