Canada Stabbings: One Suspect Found Dead
Canadian police have found the body of one of two brothers wanted for a mass stabbing attack that left 10 people dead and 18 injured in the province of Saskatchewan on Sunday. An officer said Damien Sanderson, 31, had injuries that did not appear self-inflicted – but gave no details. He was found at the […]
Liz Truss To Meet Queen To Be Appointed UK Prime Minister
Liz Truss was set to become Britain’s next prime minister on Tuesday after arriving at Queen Elizabeth II’s Balmoral estate in Scotland, shortly after Boris Johnson met the monarch to formally offer his resignation. The queen will ask Truss, the Conservative Party leader, during their audience to become Britain’s new leader as the country faces an acute […]
FG Shelved Its Plan To Impose 5% Tax On Telecom Services
The proposed 5% excise duty on the digital economy sector, a tax that the Minister of Finance had earlier suggested, was suspended by the Federal Government yesterday. The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami disclosed this in abuja during the inauguration of a committee that will review the policy. Pantami said he personally […]
Unpaid Benefits: Fresh Talk On Nationwide Strike In Power Sector
After the nationwide electricity workers’ strike two weeks ago that resulted in a nationwide blackout, there has been fresh talk of an impending strike due to what is supposedly the government’s unwillingness to resolve, among other things, the issue of unpaid entitlements to former employees of the now-defunct Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN. This […]
Lagos Physical Planning Commissioner Resigns Over Building Collapse Crisis
Lagos State Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development, Dr Idris Salako, has tendered his resignation letter on Monday, sequel to the collapse of a seven-storey building at Oba Idowu Abiodun Oniru Road, Oniru Estate on Victoria Island on Sunday morning. The State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr Gbenga Omotoso, made this known in […]
FG Launches Database For Suspected Criminals To Aid Speedy Justice
The federal government Of Nigeria has secured an arrest database where records of arrests by all security agencies are to be henceforth stored to enable quick filing of charges and prosecution of offenders on federal offenses. Section 29 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act (ACJA) 2015 mandates the inspector-general of police and head of […]
Lai Mohammed: The Worse Of Insecurity Is Over In The Country
Minister of information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, yesterday assured Nigerians that the worse of insecurity was over in the country. Mohammed hinted that although there might still be pockets of attacks or kidnap cases witnessed across the country, they will never be as bad as it used to be. The Minister spoke yesterday at […]
Kenya’s Supreme Court Upholds Ruto’s Win In Presidential Election
Kenya’s Supreme Court has upheld the victory of former deputy president William Ruto in the August 9 presidential election, after ruling on a number of petitions brought by his closest challenger Raila Odinga. The unanimous verdict was delivered by Martha Koome, chair of the seven-member court on Monday. On August 15, Ruto had been declared winner of […]
UK New Prime Minister: Liz Truss Faces Huge Challenges
Elation, smiles, success, the crowning moment of a political career. Liz Truss has risen from the obscurity and loneliness of being an opposition councillor on a Labour-dominated local authority, to the biggest job of them all. There is more than a smidgen of ambition splashing around Westminster, and more than a few around here allow […]
10 Dead, 15 Injured From Stabbings In Canada; 2 Suspects Remained At Large, Police Say
Canadian police searched across the expansive province of Saskatchewan for two suspects believed to have stabbed to death 10 people in an Indigenous community and a nearby town in one of the deadliest mass killings in the country’s history. The suspects also injured 15 people in the series of knife attacks that led the James […]
