Russia Assumes Partial Control Of Flashpoint Ukraine City
Russia on Wednesday reported that its forces had taken full control of residential neighbourhoods in Ukraine’s flashpoint city of Severodonetsk, after Kyiv claimed its troops were fighting on in the eastern hub despite being outnumbered. ‘The residential areas of the city of Severodonetsk have been fully liberated,’ Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu told a defence […]
MCC, Ghana Set Up $316 Million Power Compact
The U.S. government’s Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) and the Government of Ghana have completed the 5-year, $316 million MCC-Ghana Power Compact yesterday, celebrating a partnership that created a more effective, sustainable, and inclusive power sector in Ghana. In a statement, Deputy Chief Executive Officer, MCC, Mahmoud Bah said, ‘Today, we join the government of Ghana […]
Shootings: New York Raises Rifle Ownership Age
As the spate of shootings in the United States skyrockets in recent times, State Governments are now looking to review their gun laws and possession programmes and in lieu of this, the Governor of New York has raised the age for buying a semiautomatic rifle from 18 to 21 Monday as she tightened gun laws […]
War: Germany Plans To Send More Troops To Lithuania
As the conflicts between the two countries take to another turn, the German high commission of Germany has declared their readiness to deploy more troops to Lithuania. Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced this during a visit Tuesday in response to repeated requests from the Baltics ahead of a NATO summit. Even before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, […]
Pandemonium As Lagos Task Force, Okada Riders Clash
There was mild pandemonium as some Motorcycle (Okada) riders and the Lagos State Task Force were involved in a clash at the Idi Araba area of Lagos due to the recent ban and shutdown of activities involving Okada riders in the State. The Lagos government banned motorcycle operations in some locations since June 1, 2022. […]
Brad Pitt, Jolie Restart Legal Battle Over Wine Custody
Their divorce seems not to have seen an end as former Hollywood sweethearts, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have encased themselves in another legal battle over the one-sided sale of their jointly-owned wine business. Pitt claims that his ex-wife, Angelina Jolie, “contributed nothing” to the success of their Miraval wine business, but she intentionally sold […]
Consensus: Gov Akeredolu Blasts APC Chairman, Adamu
In a state of heated reactions over the claim by the APC Chairman over consensus candidates, Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State and Chairman, Southern Governors’ Forum has taken Sen. Abdullahi Adamu, National Chairman of APC to the cleaners while stating that he was on a frolic of his own over his consensus candidate announcement. […]
Journalists Teargased, Chased From APC Convention
Some of the Nigerian Journalists who were accredited and certified for the coverage of All Progressives Congress (APC) Special Convention in Abuja have been denied entry by security agents at the Eagle Square venue of the event. Africa Daily News, New York reports that dozens of journalists who had gathered at the entrance were barred […]
Two Farmers Butchered By Herdsmen In Benue Community
It was a gory spectacle as some alleged herdsmen on Monday afternoon killed two farmers at Ikyungwa Tombo Ward, near the Ayilamo community of the Logo Local Government Area of Benue State. Confirming the killing, the Chairman of the local government area, Agber Terse, who gave the names of the deceased as; Bem Uhembe and […]
7 Aspirants Reject Governors’ List, Back Adamu In APC Primary
It has been a war of schemes and counter schemes as seven presidential aspirants contesting under the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) have totally rejected the five names that were submitted to President Muhammadu Buhari to select a consensus candidate. They insisted nobody consulted them before the Governors arrived at the decision. The aggrieved […]
Cabal Plotting Abiola Treatment For You – Fayose Warns Tinubu
Former Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has warned that frontline Presidential aspirants on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, might get ‘the MKO Abiola’ treatment during the presidential primary of the party by the powerful cabal within the presidency. Fayose made this claim in an open letter to Tinubu on […]
Army, M23 Rebels Resume Conflicts In DR Congo
Reports reaching the desk of Africa Today News, New York is that the Armed Forces of the DRC (FARDC) has confirmed that fighting resumed yesterday between the army and rebels of the March 23 Movement (M23) in the northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). A spokesman for FARDC based in Goma, Colonel Ndjike Kaiko […]