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I hear Nigeria is hiring an American lobbying firm for $750,000 per month over six months to defend its international reputation in the US. In total.  The total is  $4.5m. The contract doesn’t stop there; it continues for another six months, bringing the total to a whopping sum of $9 million. The government is spending more money than the Bafran separatists,…

A Toronto city council committee has approved a plan to transform a heritage church into a 48-storey development -a proposal that one supporter says sets a new standard for how faith institutions redevelop underused land amid the housing crisis. Toronto Today reports that several years ago, developer Kindred Works proposed a 12-storey building for the site…

Photo credit: the Guardian Uganda’s presidential election was plagued by widespread delays on Thursday. The Canadian Press reports that there was also a days-long internet shutdown that has been criticized as an anti-democratic tactic in a country where the president has held office since 1986. Some polling stations remained closed for up to four hours…

Photo credit; Global News As a major snowstorm caused travel chaos, serious weather alerts, highway closures and school cancellations, some working for Ontario’s Ministry of YTransportation were told to head into the office. Global News reports that around 9.30 am on Thursday with more than tens of centimetres already on the ground, a manager withbin the civil service emailed their employees…

Photo credit: Euro News Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado said he presented her Nobel Peace Prize to S President Donald Trump at the White House on Thursday even as he has questioned her credibility to take over her country after the US ousted President Nicolas Maduro. CBC reports that the Nobel Institute has said Machado…

Photo credit: Minnesota Reformer A federal officer has shot one person during a targeted operation in Minnesota, authorities have said. TMZ reports that Tricia McLaughlin, Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary, tells federal law enforcement officers targeted an undocumented migrant from Venezuela, pulling the man over during a Wednesday night traffic stop in Minneapolis. McLaughlin said the…

Photo credit: infomigrants The authorities in Malta breached a teenage asylum-seeker’s fundamental rights, a court has found, awarding 50,000 euros in compensation. The Times Malta reports that the First Hall of the Civil Courts, presided by Mr Justice Giovanni Grixti, ruled on Tuesday that Ayoubah Fona was unlawfully detained as a minor in poor conditions. The case dates back…