Pakistanis Can’t Keep Calm As Malala Gets Married. They’re Asking Her To Backtrack On Vogue Interview Where She ‘disagreed on marriage’
It’s a big deal in Pakistan if you get married as per your own wishes. And this time, it’s no ordinary woman, but the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai, who surprised everyone with her marriage today. And the news can’t keep Pakistanis calm and it has drawn mixed responses from the Internet. A few went […]
Poland PM Blames Russia’s Putin For Belarus Migrant Crisis
Poland’s Prime Minister has accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of being behind a migrant crisis at Belarus’s border with Poland. Mateusz Morawiecki said that Belarus’s authoritarian leader, a close ally of Mr Putin, is orchestrating the crisis, but “it has its mastermind in Moscow”. At least 2,000 migrants are stuck at the border in freezing […]
Trump Loses Bid To Deny White House Records To January 6 Panel
A federal judge on Tuesday rejected former President Donald Trump’s attempt to block a bipartisan House select committee from obtaining White House records as part of its investigation of the deadly Capitol invasion. Judge Tanya Chutkan said in a court order that Trump is “unlikely to succeed on the merits of his claims or suffer irreparable […]
Anambra Election: Soludo Emerges Winner
The Independent Electoral Commission, INEC, has released detailed results of the just concluded Anambra Governorship election that led to Charles Chukwuma Soludo, the former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, and candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, winning the election, as well as how each political party fared in the election. […]
Kaduna University Market Gutted By Fire, Destroys Shops
On Tuesday evening, an inferno at the Kaduna State University, KASU, burnt numerous stores and damaged other assets in the institution’s mini-market, which was estimated to be worth millions of naira. Though details on the incident were scarce, sources indicated the fire started in a specific shop after power was restored before 7 p.m. Many […]
Ikoyi Collapsed Building: Lagos Govt Set Up Committee For Corpse Identification
The Lagos State Government has announced the formation of a committee to oversee the identification and release of bodies found from the 21-story building that collapsed on Gerrard Road in the state’s Ikoyi neighborhood. The 21-story structure collapsed at 2 p.m. on Monday. Over 50 people were trapped in the skyscraper owned by Fourscore Heights […]
#EndSARS Panel Orders The Presence Of Abba Kyari Over Missing Suspect
On Tuesday, #EndSARS panel probing police brutality in Abuja ordered Abba Kyari, the former head of the Nigerian police’s Intelligence Response Team (IRT), to appear in court regarding the alleged coerced disappearance of a suspect apprehended in 2018. Mr. Kyari, a deputy commissioner of police who was involved in a $1.1 million fraud plot by […]
Pastor Taiwo Odukoya Announces Death Of Wife, Nomthi
The social media has been bursting with the news of the death of pastor Nomthi, the wife of pastor Taiwo Odukoya, the senior pastor of The Fountain of Life Church Lagos. Pastor Odukoya announced her death in a post on his official Instagram page on Tuesday evening. ”With deep regret and gratitude to God, I […]
Land Subscribers Protest, Accuse DSS Cooperative Of Fraud
Members of the public who claimed they subscribed to the land sales put up by the Department of State Services Cooperative Society in Ibadan on Tuesday staged a public protest over the allegation that the agency’s cooperative has defrauded them. The aggrieved protesters started the protest in front of the new estate where they said […]
At Least 26 Children Die As Deadly Fire ‘Decimates’ School In Southern Niger
At least 26 schoolchildren have been killed when their classrooms made out of straw and wood were engulfed in a blaze in southern Niger a local governor told the AFP news agency. “Right now, we have 26 dead and 13 injured, four of them seriously,” said Chaibou Aboubacar, mayor of Maradi city, adding that the […]
