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May 20, 2017

Fired Comey to testify about Russia’s ‘interference’ in elections that saw Trump secure White House

by Azeez Adeniyi Former FBI Chief, James Comey who was fired by President Donald Trump has agreed to testify publicly about Russian interference in the 2016 elections, lawmakers announced Friday. Top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, Mark Warner in a statement said, “I hope that former Director Comey’s testimony will help answer some of... Read More
The News Blog
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May 18, 2017

The Thread: “Cry baby” “Terrible spin” | Scathing responses follow Trump’s “greatest witch hunt ever” accusation

Donald Trump, POTUS 45 is having a very hard time right about now. After firing FBI Director, James Coney, and leaking classified information to Russia, America and Trump are no longer at ease. As some sort of a last sympathy cry, Trump tweeted this today, but going by the replies he got, Americans are not... Read More
Opinion
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May 18, 2017

“If you do not admit you need help Mr President, you will blunder your way into impeachment” | 7 things we learnt from Piers Morgan’s biting article to Donald Trump

President of the United States of America, Donald J. Trump has found himself in boiling water with Liberals calling for his head by way of impeachment and the American people losing even more confidence in him after he gave away classified information to an American non-ally: Russia. The situation is so stormy, conservatives are considering... Read More
Opinion
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May 17, 2017

Who is Kimberly Guilfoyle? Donald Trump’s possible replacement for Sean Spicer as press secretary

As a very active President with lots of things happening, it is not possible for my surrogates to stand at podium with perfect accuracy!…. — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 12, 2017 President Donald Trump shared this tweet days ago, in defense of the White House Press Office after Press Secretary, Sean Spicer gave out... Read More
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May 13, 2017

Chelsea FC, James Comey, Karabo’s alleged murderer | Here are this week’s winners and losers

From all the events of last Saturday, it was easy to guess that the new week would be crammed; and it was just as we expected. The release of 82 Chibok girls, President Muhammadu Buhari’s reappearance in public, the arrival of Davido’s bundle of joy and that’s all just in Nigeria. Over in America, President... Read More
Featured, Thinking Through
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May 13, 2017

The Big 10: These are the stories that drove conversations this week

These are the top 10 stories that drove conversations this week. Buhari returns to London President Muhammadu Buhari travelled to London for medical follow-up. This was revealed by Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina. 2. Boko Haram released 82 Chibok girls Terrorist group, Boko Haram released 82 of the Chibok... Read More
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May 11, 2017

Acting FBI Director to face Congress in wake of Comey’s dismissal

by Itunuoluwa Adebo The  Acting director of the FBI’s is slated to testify, Thursday at a congressional hearing most likely to be dominated by lawmakers’ questions over Trump’s dismissal this week of former director James Comey. Trump rocked Washington with his abrupt decision to fire Comey on Tuesday, with backlash for removing the director amid... Read More
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May 11, 2017

Trump-Russia Chronicles: Michael Flynn ordered to hand over papers

by Itunuoluwa Adebo   In the wake of James Comey’s dismissal as FBI Director, Michael Flynn has been issued a rare formal demand for documents by the Senate panel investigating Russian interference.   Flynn has failed to voluntarily cooperate with the investigation, the Senate Intelligence Committee says. He was forced to resign in February after... Read More
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May 10, 2017

Here is is one thing President Buhari must learn from Donald Trump firing James Comey

by Soma Oj. FBI Director James B. Comey’s firing Tuesday came after the newly appointed Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein made the case for it, Attorney General Jeff Sessions agreed, and President Trump ultimately pulled the trigger. All in one day. Here in Nigeria, President Buhari and his administration have been saddled with the... Read More
Thinking Through
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May 10, 2017

The time sacked FBI director, Comey, fact-checked Trump during hearing

Did you know that James Comey, the former Director of the Federal Bureau of Intelligence (FBI) once fact-checked US President, Donald Trump? Well on March 20, during the House Intelligence Committee hearing Comey who was testifying on “Russia’s influence” on the 2016 presidential election and claims by the president that Obama wiretapped his phones, the... Read More
Thinking Through
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May 10, 2017

Fact Check: Americans lied! President Nixon never fired an FBI Director; Clinton did

by Ezinne Ajoku Trump has fired James Comey as FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) Director and Americans are beside themselves with rage. According to President Donald Trump, this is why Mr Comey was relieved of his position: “While I greatly appreciate you informing me, on three separate occasions, that I am not under investigation, I... Read More
Opinion
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May 10, 2017

Apart from Trump’s firing of Comey, this is the ONLY other time an FBI Director was fired

On Tuesday, US President Donald Trump fired Director of the Federal Bureau of Intelligence, James Comey. Comey’s sack sparked outrage in the US, especially on social media. Many Americans came out guns blazing. They made reference to the “other time” an FBI director was fired, accusing former president Richard Nixon of being the first president... Read More
Thinking Through
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May 10, 2017

This is why Donald Trump fired FBI Director, James Comey

James Comey, best known for his testimonies, conclusions and seeming confusions about Hillary Clinton’s infamous e-mails has been fired by Donald Trump. Comey has been the Director of America’s Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) since 2013 and it also bears mentioning that no other FBI Director had been fired since Bill Clinton fired Williams Sessions... Read More
Thinking Through
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May 10, 2017

Trump unleashes his “Sweet Twitter handle” after James Comey’s dismissal

by Itunuoluwa Adebo President Trump hit the ground running on Twitter early Wednesday, firing shots at everybody in his way. His tweets are in reaction to the reactions (don’t get confused yet) from his firing of the FBI Director James Comey. Cryin' Chuck Schumer stated recently, "I do not have confidence in him (James Comey)... Read More
The News Blog
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May 10, 2017

Backstory: Donald Trump was going to fire FBI Director James Comey the whole time, he just needed a perfect premise

President Donald Trump shook the entire US political landscape on Tuesday, 9 May, when he fired the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), James Comey. In his letter firing Comey, President Trump said he had received letters from the US Attorney General and his deputy recommending Comey’s dismissal and had accepted their recommendations.... Read More
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May 10, 2017

5 of our favourite Comey statements

On Tuesday, US president, Donald Trump sacked the director of the Federal Bureau of Intelligence (FBI), James Comey. Comey had been in the news for his statements concerning the Clinton email scandal. He was also interrogated by the US Congress over Trump’s claims that his predecessor, Barack Obama wiretapped his phones. Comey also made remarks... Read More
Thinking Through
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May 10, 2017

“Comey’s firing has nothing to do with Russia”| Kellyane Conway reacts

by Itunuoluwa Adebo Senior adviser to the President,  Kellyanne Conway said the firing of FBI Director James Comey does not have anything to do with the current ongoing investigation into Russia’s interference into the 2016 election. On Anderson Cooper’s  “AC360”, hours after news of Comey’s dismissal broke, she said “This has nothing to do with Russia,”... Read More
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May 10, 2017

The Thread: “Where there’s smoke, there’s fire” | Did Trump fire FBI Director, Comey, because he feared exposure of Russian ties?

Democrats certainly think so. Never mind that Comey has been their least favourite person, whom they reckon cost their candidate, Hillary Clinton, the White House. Comey’s sin was waiting 11 days to the presidential election to re-open ‘Hillary’s emails’ investigation. He also did not announce that the FBI was looking into Trump’s Russian ties until... Read More
Opinion
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May 10, 2017

The YNaija Cover this morning – the 10th of May

Read these stories and analyses on YNaija by following the links below: [The Legislative Blog]: Here’s the reason Nigerian senators need to go back to school Trump fires FBI Director James Comey Mercy Aigbe’s estranged husband reportedly remanded in prison Mercy Aigbe’s estranged husband reportedly remanded in prison
Cover Stories
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May 10, 2017

Trump fires FBI Director James Comey

​by Itunuoluwa Adebo President Trump on Tuesday fired FBI director James Comey, stripping the man who is responsible for the bureau’s investigation into a collision between Russian and Trump campaign team of his position. The bombshell announcement that sent ripples of shock and surprise through Washington ends the career of the man who was once... Read More
The News Blog
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May 3, 2017

FBI Director James Comey is “mildly nauseous” at insinuations he swayed elections

by Itunuoluwa Adebo FBI director James B. Comey, on Wednesday sharply defended his rationale for notifying Congress about new emails related to the Hilary Clinton investigation less than two weeks before Election Day, saying any suggestion that he had affected the vote’s outcome made him “mildly nauseous.” Comey’s comments were his first public explanation about his... Read More
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May 3, 2017

Trump hits back at Hillary Clinton after she states reasons for her defeat

by Dolapo Adelana US President, Donald Trump has dismissed Hillary Clinton’s comment that she would have been president had the election held two weeks earlier. On Tuesday while speaking with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour at a Women for Women event in New York Clinton said she was on her way to victory before “a combination of Jim... Read More
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April 29, 2017

#100DaysOfTrump: Obama’s birth certificate is a scam, and 9 other horrible Trump gaffes

by Soma Oj. Never has the media had so much good television content to lap up as they have in the last two years of Trump – his very dramatic campaign (racially divisive, if you ask an American) and then eventually emerging as the President to the surprise of 7 billion people who were sure... Read More
Thinking Through
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March 30, 2017

“We’re not on anybody’s side ever,” plus 7 other important statements made by FBI Director James Comey yesterday

By Itunuoluwa Adebo The FBI Director James Comey was a guest at the Intelligence and National Security Alliance Leadership dinner where he spoke and took questions from the audience. Here are eight statements made by the recently controversial top intelligence figure during his session at the dinner. “I know that when I make a hard... Read More
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March 21, 2017

The FBI is investigating Trump, and 5 other things we learnt from the House Intelligence Hearing

Yesterday, all unsubstantiated claims that President Barack Obama wire-tapped Trump Tower during last year’s presidential campaign, claims about Russia’s meddling in the U.S. election to help Trump win, and claims about Trump associates’ ties to Russia all came to a grinding halt. The Director of the FBI James Comey and NSA Director Mike Rogers testified... Read More
The News Blog
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March 20, 2017

Just In: FBI investigating links between Trump campaign and Russia

by Dolapo Adelana Director of the Federal Bureau of Intelligence (FBI), James Comey says the agency is investigating any links between the campaign organisation of US president, Donald Trump and the Russian government. There have been allegations that Kremlin interfered with the November presidential election. Comey, said this on Monday at the Capitol Hill during... Read More
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