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                            According to CBS News,President Trump signed three executive orders on trade today monday morning.One withdraws the U.S from the Trans Pacific Partnership {TPP},another reinstates the Mexico City Policy dealing with non-governmental organizations {NGOs} and abortion access,and a third freezes federal workforce hiring.When asked about the ethics lawsuit filed against him,Mr Trump said only,''Without merit.Totally without merit''.The Mexico City Policy was originally announced by President Reagan in 1984 and required nongovernmental organizations to agree as a condition of receiving any federal funding that they ''would neither perform nor actively promote abortion as a method of family planning in other nations''.Then President Bill Clinton rescinded it in January 1993 upon taking office,and George W. Bush reinstated it when he took office.And then Barack Obama rescinded it again in 2009.On friday evening,President Trump signed

                  Paul Okoye,one of the P-Square brothers is wishing his twin brother Peter's daughter Aliona a happy birthday yesterday on their official social media page.He captioned the photo above ''Happy birthday Aliona,more blessings beautiful from big uncle Paul''.He also posted the photo below with Aliona with another child with the caption ''Still on Aliona's birthday''.More photos below.

               According to sources,Police authorities in Zambia said today monday that they had banned officers from marrying foreigners.The Head of the Zambia Police,Kakomo Kanganja,issued a memo advising officers against marrying foreigners ''with immediate effect''.The police chief advised officers,who were already married to foreigners to declare their foreign spouses to his office within one week.''Failure to declare any foreigner spouse will attract disciplinary action,'' he said.Esther Katongo,the Police Spokesperson,had defended the decision which had already received a backlash as unconstitutional.According to Katongo,the Zambia Police Act 103 Section 3 and 5 covers the standing orders on marriages.''Issues of security are delicate.If not careful,spouses can be spies and can sell the security of the country,'' She said.She added that the law had always been there and that the police had decided to enforce it because officers wer

                     Mrs Abike Dabiri-Erewa,the Senior Special Assistant {SSA} to the President on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora,is appalled yesterday sunday that in spite of the mistreatment and killings of blacks,Nigerian migrants still use Libya.She said yesterday that ''I hereby appeal again to Nigerian migrants to avoid Libya as penalty for illegal migration to Libya,when caught,is usually a death sentence''.She referred to a trending video,which though had not been authenticated,showing pictures purported killing of black immigrants in Libya.She further said ''While the authenticity of the pictures and tapes in question cannot be verified,it is a known fact that Libya has been executing alleged black illegal immigrants for years.As the Chairman Committee on Diaspora in the House of Representatives in the Seventh Assembly,we intervened in the case of 24 Nigerians about to be killed in Libya.The Committee,in collaboration with SERAP,an NGO,petitioned the UN,A

                       The operatives of the Lagos State Task Force have arrested a man who impersonated a journalist with the TV Continental {TVC},a media outfit located around Magodo Shangisha. Speaking on the arrest,the Chairman of the Agency SP Olayinka Egbeyemi disclosed that the suspect was arrested during an enforcement operation carried out around Maryland and its environs where 67 miscreants and hoodlums were arrested and traders selling goods at unauthorised places were dislodged.The Chairman stated that the suspect,Mr Soji Gboye,36yrs,of 5,Adesoye Street,Mende,who claimed to be a TVC correspondent,was arrested while obstructing the personnel of the Agency from performing their legitimate duty in the area.His claim was debunked when SP Egbeyemi contacted the management of TVC to verify his claim only to be told the individual is unknown to the organisation.Mr Gboye later confessed that he never worked with the media outfit and that he was not a journalist.He said that it is o