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    US president Donald Trump under fire over controversial poll meddling comments after summit with Putin

    US President Donald Trump today faced a barrage of criticism from his opponents and even from his own party for not backing the American intelligence community’s assessment that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential elections won by him. Sharply reacting to Trump’s joint press conference with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Helsinki after their…

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      Branded, Beaten for ‘Witchcraft’, ‘Murder’ – By Ozo Ezeogu & Marc Ellison

        The story of children in Southern Nigeria terrorized for being suspected of being witches and warlocks. In early February, Comfort and her sister Hope, 15, and five-year-old brother Godbless had been living with their grandmother Christiana in nearby Akampka. Their parents had died suddenly in unexplained circumstances, and while this had made Christiana wary…

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        Macron’s Lesson for the Nigerian Youth and the Nigerian System – By Ayo Olukotun

        For French citizens reeling under the whiplash of former President Francois Hollande’s disastrous rule, last Sunday’s Presidential election came as a burst of fresh air in a setting that was desperately scorched and blighted. The woes, soaring unemployment, repeated terrorist attacks and a badly managed economy were well advertised during the recent campaigns, which saw…

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          Ekiti Election: Is APC celebrating? By SKC Ogbonnia

          The outgoing governor of Ekiti State, Peter Ayodele Fayose, is the poster boy of everything wrong with Nigerian politics. To that end, like President Muhammadu Buhari, I should be celebrating the defeat of Fayose’s candidate, Olusola Eleka of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, by John Kayode Fayemi of our party, the All Progressives Congress, APC,…

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