Category: News

South Africa: Ramaphosa Joins Clean-up Effort, Calls For Unity Amid Wreckage Of Unrest

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has joined post-riot clean-up efforts as his government warned against vigilantism and sought to avert racial conflict following days of unrest. The country was gripped by more than a week of chaos in which more than 200 people were killed as looters ransacked shopping centres and rioters torched key industrial […]

Eid: Many Abandoned Due To Inadequate Lagos-Ibadan Train Coaches 

More than 100 travelers were abandoned at the Mobolaji Johnson Train Station in Ebute-Metta on Saturday because of deficient train coaches at the station.  It was gathered that numerous travelers who had bought the 8:30am tickets couldn’t jump aboard in light of the number of travelers that showed up for the train. It was also […]

Nigerian Travelers Examine For Monkeypox By US Health Personnel 

The US  Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, CDC, and health officials in Dallas, Texas are examining the case of monkeypox in a traveler who arrived from Nigeria. In a statement, the Director of the Dallas County Department of Health and Human Services, Dr. Philip Huang, stated: “The individual is a City of Dallas resident […]

Alhaji Yari: APC Needs A National Chairman That Can Deliver 2023 Polls

All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain and former Zamfara State governor, Alhaji Abdulaziz Yari, has compelled party stakeholders to look for a leader with qualities to lead the party to victory in the 2023 general elections while considering its next national chairman. Yari, who is a frontline runner in the race said the APC needs a […]

Ortom: APC Plotting To Rig 2023 Elections

Benue State Governor Samuel Ortom has alleged that for members of the All Progressives Congress, APC, to vote against the electronic transmission of results in the 2023 general elections it means that they have a hidden agenda to rig the elections. Governor Ortom who made this known in an interview warned that Benue State is […]

Jonathan, Ex-governor Offer Routes To Solving Insecurity 

Former President, Goodluck Jonathan, has said the use of force and weapons will not suppress the insecurity in the country. Speaking yesterday in Abuja at the 50th birthday party of erstwhile Minister of Aviation, Osita Chidoka, the ex-leader pointed out that the surging crime wave required the deployment of more sophisticated technology. He said: “With […]

Adedipe: Security Threatening Economic Growth Expectation.

Chief Consultant at B. Adedipe Associates Limited, Dr. Biodun Adedipe, said Nigeria has the rare opportunity of matching population expansion with economic growth this year but warned that the “unfolding security situation” could stir the possibility. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has lagged behind the population growth rate, which averaged 2.58 percent in the past decade, […]

Hacker Steals Identities Of Multiple Victims Killed In Surfside Condo Collapse

Disturbing reports are emerging of a hacker taking advantage of those who were killed in the partial collapse of the Champlain Towers South condominium building in Surfside, Florida. Officials said the criminal is seeing the victims’ names in the news and then stealing their identities. Surfside Mayor Charles Burkett told WPLG that he is astonished and hopes […]

Martine Moïse, Wife Of Slain President, Returns To Haiti

Martine Moïse, the wife of Haiti’s assassinated president who was injured in the July 7 attack at their private home, returned to the Caribbean nation on Saturday following her release from a Miami hospital. Her arrival was unannounced and surprised many in the country of more than 11 million people still reeling from the killing […]