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Abuja Airport Reopens For The First Time In Six Weeks The reconstructed Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport has received its first flight in six weeks as a test flight from Kaduna international airport landed there today, April 18. Minister of State for Aviation, Hadi Sirika, was said to be on board the aircraft. Recall the airport was closed on March 8 to enable the federal government carry out repairs on the runway. Closure of the airport had sparked criticisms but government stood its ground, saying rehabilitation of the facility was long overdue. A brand new Airbus A350-900 belonging to Ethiopian Airlines is expected to touch down at the Abuja airport any moment from now. Firiehiwot Mekonnen, Ethiopian Airlines’ traffic and sales manager, linked the decision to fly the new aircraft to Abuja to the belief in the Nigerian market. Ethiopian Airlines was the only foreign airline that made use of the Kaduna airport during the period that flights were diverted fro...

I go to church, I love God, and I love my church – Trump The President of United state of American, Donald Trump was said to have not attended church  services after his inauguration, despite his opines at 2015 gathering hosted by Christian conservatives in Iowa, “I’m Protestant, I’m Presbyterian, I go to church, I love God, and I love my church.”                                                          US President Donald Trump This was reported on Sunday by Associated Press  (AP) news and Concord Monitor, based in US. However, it was reported that on Easter Sunday’s  arrival, Donald Trump has yet to attend a church service in the Capital since the worship events of his inauguration weekend in January. Trump is spending the holiday at his private Palm Beach club, Mar-a-Lago, where he often weekends. The White House...

How to Watch Facebook F8 DAVID PAUL MORRIS/BLOOMBERG/GETTY IMAGES FACEBOOK’S BIG F8  gathering takes place Tuesday and Wednesday, and you can watch the whole thing online.  F8  is a show-and-tell for all the latest features coming to the world’s largest social network. We expect the  Facebook announcements to come quickly, beginning with CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s opening keynote on Tuesday morning. The F8 Schedule Zuck takes the stage at  10 am PDT  (1 pm EDT) on Tuesday. All of the big announcements happen during Zuckerberg’s 90-minute slot. The conference sessions follow for the rest of the day, and you can watch those on-demand at any time. The day-two keynote is 10 am again (1 pm EDT) on Wednesday, where there will be some smaller announcements. Other speakers and sessions will follow on the livestream until F8 concludes on Wednesday night. Where to Watch Watch the whole show at  fbf8.com/watch . You’ll have to log in to the F8 we...

Liveblog: Get the Latest News From Facebook F8 as It Happens ON TUESDAY, APRIL  18, in San Jose, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg delivers his keynote at the  F8  conference,  Facebook’ s biggest public event of the year. F8 is a developer show, so expect lots of talk about new code releases and tools for building things for Facebook. Of course the annual event generates a ton of news for regular folk too as the company outlines new features and capabilities for the nearly two billion people who use Facebook regularly. That’s the meat of F8, the stuff to get excited about. Zuck’s keynote starts at 10 am PDT (1 pm EDT) and runs for 90 minutes. We’ll be liveblogging the whole thing. Sure, you can  live stream F8  as well, but we’re going to liveblog it anyway. Why liveblog something you can just watch for yourself? Well, because we love liveblogs of course! We’ll have WIRED writers David Pierce and Brian Barrett posting live updates...

Ethiopia rejects UN investigation over protest deaths Protesters from Oromia and Amhara have been complaining about political and economic marginalisation Ethiopia's prime minister has rejected calls by the UN and EU for independent investigations into the deaths of hundreds of people during months of anti-government protests. Hailemariam Desalegn has said that Ethiopia is able to carry out the investigations itself. Protesters from the Amhara and Oromia regions have been complaining about political and economic marginalisation. The government has imposed a state of emergency in response to the protests. The country was hit by an unprecedented wave of demonstrations, which began in November 2015. International rights groups have said that hundreds of people lost their lives in incidents where police and protesters clashed. In the past, the government has disputed the figures and said that the security forces were  responding to what were described as "a...