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Smoke rose over the southern suburbs of Beirut on Thursday after Israel launched its first strike on the Lebanese capital in three weeks, hitting a residential apartment building in the Shuwayfat area near the city’s international airport and killing at least three people, including a woman and her infant daughter, as well as a child […]
Three years into President Bola Tinubu’s administration, a cluster of macroeconomic indicators are pointing in a direction that supporters have been quick to brand “Tinubunomics” a shorthand for the sweeping economic overhaul that began with the twin shocks of fuel subsidy removal and foreign exchange liberalisation in May 2023. The numbers, where they hold, […]
The Ekiti State Police Command has issued a firm rebuttal to claims that the arrest and prosecution of Ayodele Babatola, the African Democratic Congress candidate for Ado Constituency 1 in the Ekiti State House of Assembly, was orchestrated for political reasons, insisting the action was grounded entirely in a criminal complaint properly received and thoroughly […]
Brazil’s World Cup campaign has been plunged into uncertainty just days before the tournament after Neymar was diagnosed with a grade two calf injury that is expected to keep him sidelined for two to three weeks, placing his availability for the Seleção’s opening group game against Morocco on June 13 in serious doubt. The […]
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbass, has been called upon to produce official records of proceedings in the Green Chamber confirming that a letter announcing the defection of Minority Leader Kingsley Chinda to the All Progressives Congress and his resignation from the minority leadership position was formally read on the floor of […]
United States President Donald Trump has issued a blunt military threat against Oman, a longstanding American ally in the Gulf, after reports emerged that the sultanate was in discussions with Iran over a new framework for managing shipping through the Strait of Hormuz. The warning came during a White House Cabinet meeting on Wednesday, […]
The Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Waidi Shaibu, has directed troops of the Joint Task Force North Central, Operation Savannah Shield, to step up ongoing operations against kidnappers, bandits, and other criminal elements threatening the peace and security of communities within the Joint Operations Area. The directive was issued on Thursday during his […]
Fresh warnings have emerged from prominent Israeli voices about what they describe as a growing and underestimated threat of military conflict with Turkey and Egypt, with a convicted spy-turned-political aspirant becoming the latest to sound the alarm. Jonathan Pollard, the Israeli-American former US naval intelligence analyst who spent three decades in prison for selling […]
A disturbing new layer has emerged in the ongoing wave of anti-immigrant unrest gripping South Africa, as a viral video shows local school children actively participating in xenophobic harassment. The footage, which has circulated widely across social media platforms, captures a uniform-clad group of students physically confronting and intimidating foreign nationals, chanting demands for them […]
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has added yet another chapter to one of the most extraordinary and unrelenting quests in Nigerian political history, emerging as the presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress for the 2027 general election. The result of the ADC’s nationwide direct primary was announced at the Congress Hall of Transcorp Hilton […]
