Backlash Against Trump Exiting WHO As Virus Grips Latin America
US President Donald Trump faced a broad backlash on Saturday over severing ties with the UN’s health agency during a pandemic, as the coronavirus surged in Latin America while Europe further reopened from lockdown. The EU called on Washington to reconsider its decision to permanently cut funding to the World Health Organization over its handling […]
Afghan Reporter Killed As Govt Says Ready For Taliban Dialogue
A roadside bomb killed a television journalist in Kabul on Saturday, soon after a top Afghan official appointed to lead peace talks with the Taliban said his team was ready for the long-delayed dialogue. The insurgents denied responsibility for the blast, which targeted a minibus carrying 15 employees of private television channel Khurshid TV. The […]
Minnesota Mobilizes More Troops As Gov Warns Of Crackdown
Minnesota’s governor called up more national guard troops Saturday and warned they would “decimate” rioters after a fresh night of violence in Minneapolis overwhelmed law enforcement and protests against police brutality spread across America. Officials in more than a dozen cities braced for more unrest as the protests sparked by the death of George Floyd […]
Biafra War Remembrance: Nnamdi Kanu Announces Broadcast
Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, and director of Radio Biafra has taken to his official Facebook page to announce his upcoming broadcast on the Biafra War Heroes Remembrance day. He is billed to talk about how far Biafraland has come since 50 long years after the civil war and […]
Dozens Killed After Refusing To Join Mozambique Insurgent Group
Some 52 young people were shot dead or beheaded in the country’s north as an Islamist insurgency gains strength. Local and national security services as well as foreign mercenaries have been unable to stop the militants. At least 52 people were massacred in a village in northern Mozambique, local police confirmed on Wednesday, when they […]
Coronavirus Toll Surges In Russia As Europe Speeds Reopening
The death toll from the coronavirus pandemic spiked again in Russia and the Americas on Friday, even as Europe’s experiment with reopening from lockdown grew bolder by the day. Fresh restrictions in South Korea also signalled that there will be a long road back to normality from the pandemic that has killed more than 360,000 […]
Odion Ighalo To Sacrifice £75m For Manchester United
Odion Ighalo is reportedly prepared to put his proposed new £480,000-a-week deal at Shanghai Shenhua in jeopardy, in order to extend his stay with Manchester United. As it stands, the Nigerian is due to return to his parent club at the end of May, but United are allegedly attempting to extend the striker’s stay at Old […]
Land Rover Turns Fantasy Into Reality With ClearSight Technology
Imagine being able to see through the bonnet of your vehicle as you drive so that any obstructions, such as rocks when driving off-road or kerb in challenging urban situations, are made easy to see and you can manoeuvre around them. World first ClearSight Ground View – the realisation of Land Rover’s transparent bonnet concept […]
More Trouble For Obaseki As Loyalists Plot To Abandon Governor
With less than one month to the All Progressives Congress (APC) primary for the 2020 gubernatorial election in Edo State, there seems to be no let-up in the internal crisis rocking the camp of the state Governor, Godwin Obaseki, as some of his loyalists within the party are said to be plotting to dump him […]
30th May: Remembering The Biafran Genocide
It’s yet another 30th May! A wound may heal, but the scars remain, and constantly reminds one of how and where the wound was sustained. In our own case, the wound will never heal, because it is permanent, which is a constant reminder of the war. It was a genocide! We fought for 3 good […]
Obasanjo Sacks Staff Of His Presidential Library, Refuses Salaries
Nigeria’s former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, has sacked staff of the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library, Abeokuta, Ogun State. In a letter by its Head of Human Resources, Administration and Procurement, Olanike Ogunleye, the management of the OPL said the organisation was overwhelmed by the adverse effects of the Coronavirus pandemic and had found it hard to […]
Ekweremadu: Infectious Disease Bill More Dangerous Than Virus
The former Deputy President of the Senate, Ike Ekweremadu, has said the controversial “Infectious Diseases Bill” currently before the National Assembly may not pass because provisions of the bill are inconsistent with the provisions of the Constitution. He said the bill was more dangerous than the virus. Ekweremadu, who represents Enugu West Constituency in the […]