U.S. President Barack Obama said on Saturday that Russia’s aggression against Ukraine was “appalling” and a threat to the world, while European nations threatened further sanctions against Moscow if it did not end the flow of weapons and troops. Speaking on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Brisbane, Obama placed security and climate change at the center stage of the leaders meeting, overshadowing talks on global economic growth. Obama said the United States was at the forefront of “opposing Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, which is a threat to the world, as we saw in the appalling shoot-down of MH17”.…
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A suspected suicide bomber struck at a filling station in Kano late Friday killing at least six people, police said. Several other people were injured and rushed to undisclosed hospitals. The Kano police declined to disclose the hospitals, saying they do not want to expose the victims to further danger. The attack occurred at Magasiku Filling Station, opposite the NNPC mega filling station in the Hotoro area of Kano. The station is along Maiduguri Road. The Kano State police commissioner, Adenrele Shinaba, told PREMIUM TIMES the attacker detonated a bomb so powerful it left a deep crater on the station’s…
Mercedes-Benz is changing the way it identifies its cars and light trucks as it prepares to launch 30 models, including 11 all-new vehicles, by 2020. In addition to new models, Mercedes said it would also introduce new body variants and drive systems, Autonews reports. “This results in an increasingly complex situation when it comes to naming the models,” a statement by the company said. Mercedes joins Infiniti and Cadillac among luxury brands changing the way they name their vehicles. The new nameplates will begin appearing next year when Mercedes will launch redesigned or freshened versions of all of its crossovers…
A former vice-president, and a presidential aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, and a national leader of APC, former Lagos State governor Bola Tinubu, held separate meetings with a former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, on Friday. The meetings held at Obasanjo’s Hilltop presidential residence in Abeokuta. The meetings which lasted less than one hour, were said to be connected with the 2015 elections. Tinubu had paid such a visit early last month to Obasanjo, where he said he had come to discuss the state of the nation and seek the former president’s advice on…
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