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US President Donald Trump's one-time campaign chairman secretly worked for a Russian billionaire to assist President Vladimir Putin, the Associated Press (AP) news agency reports. Paul Manafort is said to have proposed a strategy to nullify anti-Russian opposition across former Soviet republics a decade ago. AP says documents and interviews support its claims about Mr Manafort. Mr Manafort has insisted that he never worked for Russian interests. He worked as Mr Trump's unpaid campaign chairman from March until August last year, including the period during which the flamboyant New York billionaire clinched the Republican nomination. He resigned after AP revealed that he had co-ordinated a secret Washington lobbying operation on behalf of Ukraine's ruling pro-Russian political party until 2014. Newly obtained business records link Mr Manafort more directly to Mr Putin's interests in the region, AP says. Donald Trump unpaid Campaign Chairman It ...

Tola Akinmutimi The Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC) has decried the slow pace of implementation of the Federal Government’s Short and Medium Term Priorities to grow Nigeria’s Oil & Gas Industry 2015–2019, labelled the “7 Big Wins”. In a statement issued on Monday by the CSO's Executive Director,Auwal Ibrahim Musa (Rafsanjani) the group recalled that in October 2016, the document was released by the Ministry of Petroleum Resources and launched by the President with much fanfare and media hype. Musa stated the civil society group had then commended the government while also cautioning it on the need to ensure that it does not become another beautiful document that would not be implemented. He pointed out that CISLAC had observed now that already there were indications of a lag in implementation. Specifically, the group stated that for instance, under the first Big Win, Policy and Regulation, the section on Fiscal Reform Policy proposes to collab...

An aircraft cabin ban on large electronic devices was prompted by intelligence suggesting a terror threat to US-bound flights, say US media. The US and UK have announced new carry-on restrictions banning laptops on certain passenger flights. The so-called Islamic State group (IS) has been working on ways to smuggle explosives on to planes by hiding them in electronics, US sources tell ABC. The tip-off was judged by the US to be "substantiated" and "credible". Inbound flights on nine airlines operating out of 10 airports in eight countries are subject to the US Department of Homeland Security ban. Phones and medical devices are not affected. US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is hosting a two-day meeting of ministers and senior officials from 68 nations to discuss the threat from IS. The Washington talks will be the first full meeting of the coalition since December 2014. What is the meeting about? By Barbara Plett-Usher, US State D...