Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea Sign New Gas Deal
Nigeria and Equatorial Guinea on Tuesday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to supply gas from Nigeria’s offshore fields to the neighbouring country’s gas processing facility in Punta Europa. A statement by the Senior Special Adviser, Media, to the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mr. Horatius Egua, stressed that the MoU kicked off a strategic economic […]
Buhari Leaves Nigeria For Kenya, Before Traveling To London For Routine Medicals
Nigeria President Muhammadu Buhari departed Abuja on Tuesday for a three-day official visit to Nairobi, Kenya from where he would proceed to London for routine medical checks that may last two weeks. Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, in a statement disclosed that President Buhari’s medical check-up in UK would […]
Biden Announces Ban On Russian Aircraft From US Airspace
President Joe Biden announced during Tuesday night’s State of the Union that the US will ban Russian aircraft from US airspace, joining a growing number of countries who are closing their skies to Russia following President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. “Tonight I’m announcing that we will join our allies in closing off American airspace to all Russian flights, […]
As Russia Bombards Ukranian Cities, Biden Warns Putin ‘Has No Idea What’s Coming
U.S. President Joe Biden warned Vladimir Putin that the Russian leader “has no idea what’s coming”, as Western nations tightened an economic noose around Russia, whose invading forces bombarded Ukrainian cities and appeared poised for an advance on Kyiv. Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians have fled the fighting since Putin ordered a full-scale invasion nearly […]
NATO Chief Sees No Need To Change Nuclear Alert Level
NATO’s chief said Tuesday that, despite Russia’s threats about nuclear weapons, the alliance sees no need to change its own nuclear weapons alert level. The alliance’s secretary-general, Jens Stoltenberg, spoke to The Associated Press following talks on European security with Polish President Andrzej Duda at an air base in Lask, central Poland, where NATO’s Polish […]
State Of The Union: Biden Vows To Check Russian Aggression, Fight Inflation
Addressing a concerned nation and anxious world, President Joe Biden vowed in his first State of the Union address Tuesday night to check Russian aggression in Ukraine, tame soaring U.S. inflation and deal with the fading but still dangerous coronavirus. Biden declared that he and all members of Congress, whatever their political differences, are joined […]
ICC Prosecutor To Open Probe Into War Crimes In Ukraine
The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said Monday he plans to open an investigation “as rapidly as possible” into possible war crimes and crimes against humanity in Ukraine. Prosecutor Karim Khan said in a statement that the investigation will look at alleged crimes committed before the Russian invasion, but added that “given the expansion of the […]
President Biden Steps To State Of The Union Lectern At Fraught Moment
Facing disquiet at home and danger abroad, President Joe Biden will deliver his first State of the Union address at a precipitous moment for the nation, aiming to navigate the country out of a pandemic, reboot his stalled domestic agenda and confront Russia’s aggression. The speech Tuesday night had initially been conceived by the White […]
Ukraine Crisis: The Comic Travelling 5,000 Miles To Fight
Just a few weeks ago, Anthony Walker was a university student and comedian – well known among his over 100,000 social media followers for relentlessly trolling Donald Trump’s supporters and, more recently, protesting truckers at home. Now, the Canadian is at the Polish-Ukrainian border – and says he’s ready to fight, joining a growing number […]
Russia Pummels Ukraine’s No. 2 City And Convoy Nears Kyiv
Russian shelling pounded civilian targets in Ukraine’s second-largest city again Tuesday and a 40-mile convoy of tanks and other vehicles threatened the capital – tactics Ukraine’s embattled president said were designed to force him into concessions in Europe’s largest ground war in generations. With the Kremlin increasingly isolated by tough economic sanctions that have tanked […]
