Washington (CNN)The White House can't get its story straight on why President Donald Trump fired FBI Director James Comey. Trump told NBC News on Thursday that he was going to fire Comey with or without Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein's memo criticizing the director. That statement contradicts at least 10 times Trump's top aides and advisers, including Vice President Mike Pence, tried to explain the how and the why the President decided to sack Comey. Tuesday's unceremonious move came amid the FBI's probe into Russia's role in the 2016 election and any connections the Trump campaign had to the hackers. "I was going to fire regardless of recommendation," Trump told NBC. He added: "(Rosenstein) made a recommendation ... He made a recommendation, but regardless of recommendation, I was going to fire Comey." Trump: I planned to fire Comey 02:13 That was not the story Pence told reporters on Capitol Hill Wednesday. "Preside...
The whistle blowing policy of the Federal Government appears to be paying off as the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Wednesday announced that it uncovered foreign currencies and Naira notes to the tune of $43.4 million, £27,800 and N23.2 million at a four-bedroom apartment in Ikoyi, Lagos. The total amount of money recovered at the current Central Bank exchange rate is over N13 billion. The operation followed a confidential information received by the Commission's Lagos office regarding some suspicious movement of bags in and out of a particular apartment in the building. Another source who is conversant with the apartment indicated that a woman usually appeared on different occasions with 'Ghana Must Go' bags, the EFCC said. "She comes looking haggard, with dirty clothes but her skin didn't quite match her outward appearance, perhaps a disguise", the source said. . On getting to the building, operatives who were armed with a search warrant, met th...
Sound Words For Slaves A daily devotion for November 16th From your friends at RayStedman.org Read: 1 Timothy 6:1-5 All who are under the yoke of slavery should consider their masters worthy of all respect, so that God's name and our teaching may not be slandered (1 Timothy 6:1). Some of you have tyrants for bosses. I have worked for such supervisors myself. They frustrate you; you see them as ignoramuses who do not know the end from the beginning. How they ever got the job in the first place, you cannot comprehend. Yet there they are in charge; they have you in a stranglehold because they control your paycheck. The word of Scripture is that you are not merely to treat them with respect, but that you regard them as worthy of full respect. Everything is going to rest upon how you feel about them. If you think they are lunatics who are unworthy of your respect, then no matter how polite you may be when they are watching, your attitude toward them will be one o...
Veteran president resists military pressure to step down as army retains control Robert Mugabe talks to General Constantino Chiwenga at State House in Harare on Thursday South African envoys held talks with President Robert Mugabe and his army chief on Thursday as regional powers sought to resolve a stand-off triggered by the military's takeover of Zimbabwe. Hours after Mr Mugabe's motorcade was seen leaving his home in a Harare suburb, The Herald, a state-controlled newspaper, published pictures showing the president meeting with the two South African ministers and General Constantino Chiwenga, the army commander, in State House. The army chief led the military intervention on Wednesday when Mr Mugabe was put under house arrest. The 93-year-old leader, who has ruled Zimbabwe since independence from Britain in 1980, has been resisting military pressure to publicly resign, s...
Pressure intensified on Robert Mugabe to resign as president of Zimbabwe on Saturday as tens of thousands of Zimbabweans flooded the streets of Harare for a mass rally calling for an end to his 37-year rule.The armed forces now in control of the country said it backed the mass demonstration, which some predict will be the biggest public rally since independence in 1980. The police authorities, which for decades have clamped down on non-sanctioned public gatherings, quickly gave permission for the demonstration.In a statement, the Zimbabwe Defence Forces said: "As long as the planned march remains orderly, peaceful and in tandem with the fundamental bill of rights and within the confines of the country's constitution and without hate speech and incitement to cause violence, it fully supports the march."It urged people who were travelling to Harare for the rally, including war vet...
Former President Goodluck Jonathan has attacked ex EFCC Chairman Farida Waziri. Former President Goodluck Jonathan has just unloaded on Mrs. Farida Waziri who oversaw affairs at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) from 2008 to 2011. And let's just say it was Waziri who started it all. » How so? We can explain. You know, Waziri recently said Jonathan fired her as EFCC boss because she went after an unnamed individual who was friends with the big boys in Aso Rock. According to Waziri: "I came to Lagos on a vital intelligence on the (petrol) subsidy scam and as soon as I arrested a key culprit, I got a call from the Presidential Villa asking me to release the suspect, because, in their words, 'he is our person', but I refused to let him off and days after, I was removed from office." Waziri also said she was very grateful to Jonathan for axing her at the time, because she couldn't stand the corruption of the Jonathan era no more. "And that is...
Matthew Phelps. Raleigh Police A North Carolina man was told he could face the death penalty on Tuesday for the murder of his wife after he told a 911 dispatcher he may have killed her after drinking too much cold medicine. "I had a dream and then I turn on the lights and she's dead on the floor," suspect Matthew Phelps, 28, said during a nearly seven-minute 911 call early Friday morning. "I have blood all over me and there's a bloody knife on the bed. And I think I did it," he said in the call, which was released by the Raleigh Police Department. Phelps went on to tell the dispatcher between sobs that his wife, Lauren Ashley-Nicole Phelps, 29, was not breathing. He then said that he had taken too much Coricidin, a cold medication targeted at people with high blood pressure. "I took, I took more medicine than I should have," he said. "I took Coricidin ... because I know it can make you feel good, so a lot of times I can't sleep at night so...
In an alleged ecstasy to impress their paymaster, a team of police operatives, on Sunday, shot dead one Elvis Ovie and injured another, Onome Eko, during a party in Warri, Delta State. Operatives, three of whom are now in police detention, were said to have been in a shooting spree to impress an alleged internet fraudster popularly called 'yahoo yahoo boys' for whom they were providing security. It was gathered that the gun-wielding cops were led by one Insp. Imana Samuel, a Sergeant and a corporal from the Warri Area Command. The vehicle reportedly used to hurriedly convey late Ovie and injured Eko to a hospital, it was gathered, also brushed off another unidentified victim who is now on admission in an undisclosed location. The killer-cops were later arrested by policemen attached to Warri 'B' Division headed by Mr Anietie Eyoh, the Divisional Police Officer, and is set for arraignment today. But a reliable source informed journalists that the cops were on illegal dut...
Pedestrians walk in front of a large video screen in Tokyo broadcasting a news report showing North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un *Donald Trump has repeatedly hinted that military action would be the only solution *North Korea has said they are not interested in diplomatic solutions to its tensions with the US until it develops a missile capable of reaching the east coast of America. A North Korean official confirmed Pyongyang's strategy to CNN, adding that "before we can engage in diplomacy with the Trump administration, we want to send a clear message that the DPRK has a reliable defensive and offensive capability to counter any aggression." The latest comment adds to the increasing tension between the US and the isolated Asian nation with its seemingly mercurial leader Kim Jong Un . Donald Trump has publicly traded insults with him, giving him the nickname " Rocket Man " and referring to him as such during the president's speech in front of the United Nation...
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