Gary Lineker Booted By BBC Over Tweets On Refugee Policy
Africa Today News, New York can confirm that a former England team captain, Gary Lineker has been temporarily eased off from his role as presenter of the BBC’s flagship football highlights Match of the Day show against the backdrop of his criticism of the UK government’s new policy towards asylum seekers. The removal of Lineker […]
Bruised Man Utd Thrash Real Betis 4:1 To Heal Liverpool Pains
Manchester United showed their character by comprehensively beating Real Betis 4-1 in the Europa League four days on from their humiliating defeat at Liverpool. Africa Today News, New York reports that Sunday’s 7-0 mauling at their bitter rivals equalled the club’s record competitive defeat and left manager Erik ten Hag calling for a response from […]
Obi Sympathises With Victims Of Lagos Bus-Train Crash Victims
The candidate of the Labour Party in the just concluded presidential election, Peter Obi, has sent his commiserations to families of victims of an accident involving a train and a bus conveying state workers in Lagos State on Thursday morning. While reacting to the incident in a Twitter post on Thursday evening, Obi said that […]
Mexican Leader Lambasts Calls For US Army To Target Cartels
The President of Mexico, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has rejected calls for the United States military to intervene to stem drug cartel violence in Mexico, stressing that such a move would violate the country’s sovereignty. During a news conference on Thursday, Lopez Obrador said his government was ‘not going to permit any foreign government to […]
Anguish As ISWAP Terrorists Murder 35 IDP Fishermen In Borno
Reports reaching the desk of Africa Today News, New York recalls that no fewer than 26 displaced persons who went on a fishing expedition have been shot dead by the fighters of the Islamic State’s West Africa Province (ISWAP) in Ngala Local Government Area of Borno State. According to eyewitnesses, the ISWAP fighters had on […]
INEC Reacts To Court Order On Use Of Temporary Voter’s Card
Nigeria’s electoral umpire. the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced that it will be appealing the Federal High Court ruling, compelling it to allow two Plaintiffs to vote with their Temporary Voter’s Card (TVC) in subsequent polls. The commission while acknowledging the receipt of the court order, revealed that it will take all necessary […]
Scores Killed As Herders Attack 6 Benue LGAs
An alarm has been raised by the Association of Local Governments of Nigeria, (ALGON), in Benue state over killings in Benue by gunmen suspected to be herdsmen, disclosing that about six Local Government Areas of the state are under threat of annihilation. ALGON Chairman in the state, Mike Uba who spoke to newsmen in Makurdi, […]
Ex-Malaysian PM, Muhyiddin Yassin Arraigned For Corruption
Malaysia’s former Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin was on Thursday arraigned over abuse of power and money laundering in connection with some of the government contracts which were awarded during the COVID-19 pandemic. Muhyiddin, who was the country’s Prime Minister from March 2020 through the worst of the pandemic, pleaded not guilty to the six charges […]
Lagos Train-Bus Crash: Driver Blamed As FG Orders Probe
The driver of a Lagos State Government staff bus has been blamed by the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency and the Nigerian Railway Corporation for a fatal train accident that killed no fewer than six people and injured 96 in the PWD area of the state on Thursday. Africa Today News, New York reports that […]
‘They Are Wearing Black, I’m Wearing White’, Wike Mocks Atiku
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has taken swipe at the campaign team of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, over their protest of the outcome of the just concluded Presidential election. Africa Today News, New York reports that Atiku came second in the controversial presidential election, securing about 6,984,520 votes, while winner […]
Why Went I Outside My Family To Seek Donor – Ekweremadu
A former Deputy President of the Nigerian Senate, Ike Ekweremadu has narrated to a court in London how he was advised by his doctor against attempting to obtain a kidney from his family members. Africa Today News, New York reports that Ekweremadu and his wife, Beatrice, are currently still facing charges in the United Kingdom […]
Rivers Guber: Real Reason I Am supporting Tonye Cole –Dokubo
Ahead of next week’s Saturday’s governorship election, a former Niger Delta militant leader, Asari Dokubo has given a reason he is supporting Tonye Cole, the All Progressives Congress (APC), gubernatorial candidate in Rivers State. Dokubo revealed that he was supporting Cole because he knows what the APC gubernatorial candidate can do. He made this while […]