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My dear citizens, I am very grateful to God and to all Nigerians for their prayers. I am pleased to be back on home soil among my brothers and sisters. 2. In the course of my stay in the United Kingdom, I have been kept in daily touch with events at home. Nigerians are robust and lively in discussing their affairs, but I was distressed to notice that some of the comments, especially in the social media have crossed our national red lines by daring to question our collective existence as a nation. This is a step too far. 3. In 2003 after I joined partisan politics, the late Chief Emeka Ojukwu came and stayed as my guest in my hometown Daura. Over two days we discussed in great depth till late into the night and analyzed the problems of Nigeria. We both came to the conclusion that the country must remain one and united. 4. Nigeria’s unity is settled and not negotiable. We shall not allow irresponsible elements to start trouble and when things get bad they run away and saddle others with ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has continued work today at around 11:20am. The president did not go to his office, but rather worked from his official habitation. A Presidency official disclosed to State House columnists this was on account of the president's office was being remodeled. The official, who argued secrecy, said the president would move to his office when the redesign is finished. He additionally expressed that the president, from his habitation toward the beginning of today, marked a letter advising the National Assembly administration of his arrival from his therapeutic excursion in London. Addressing State House reporters later, presidential representative, Mr Femi Adesina, affirmed that the president had continued work and transmitted a letter to the National Assembly. Later in an announcement, Adesina said Buhari, in accordance with sacred arrangement, had composed the National Assembly, advising the lawmaking body of his arrival to office, in the wake of coming back ...

Film audit: Birdshot MANILA, Philippines - Mikhail Red's Birdshot is uncovering from various perspectives. This is one youthful producer who enables his crowds to investigate new mazes in filmmaking and influence something invigorating to out of old subjects. Undoubtedly, his approach is not average of the present youthful producers. He is slanted to recount a story by testing the creative energy of his watchers. In fact, there is no hint with respect to how the film would end. You get presented to casings of farmland pictures — the vast majority of them starkly without music. Teresa Barrozo's music is extra and truly compelling. It doesn't romanticize the provincial scenes. Rather, you get characteristic back and forth movement from the encompassing: Bird sounds from the timberland, the surge of water from the stream and excellent dawn and nightfall. Before all else, the provincial setting of Birdshot influences you to contemplate a campaign to spare imperiled species like...

The Latest: Tanker in Navy impact had wellbeing infringement SINGAPORE (AP) — The oil tanker engaged with an impact with the USS John S. McCain destroyer in occupied Southeast Asian waters had four inadequacies incorporating route wellbeing infringement in its last port examination. An official database for ports in Asia demonstrates the Alnic MC was investigated in the Chinese port of Dongying on July 29 and had one archive lack, one fire wellbeing insufficiency and two security of route issues. The database doesn't go into subtle elements and the issues were clearly not sufficiently genuine for the Liberian-hailed and Greek-possessed vessel to be kept by the port specialist. There has been no clarification of the reason for the mischance. The Navy has said it is exploring. Experts in Singapore and Malaysia have declined to guess on the reason. Ten U.S. mariners are lost and four were hospitalized for wounds. FRANCE-VEHICLE HITS BUS STOP-THE LATEST The Latest: No thought process y...