Police Bust Bandits’ Hideout, Arrest Suspected Ritualist In Taraba
Police in Taraba State have taken the fight against insecurity to a bandits’ hideout, arresting four of them while a suspected ritualist was apprehended elsewhere. The arrested suspects are part of bandits who have been terrorising some parts of Taraba by kidnapping residents, said a senior police officer, Adenirun Kunle. Kunle, who is the Deputy […]
Tanzania Swears In Samia Suluhu As First Female President
Tanzania’s Samia Suluhu Hassan was on Friday sworn in as the country’s first female president after the sudden death of John Magufuli from an illness shrouded in mystery. Hassan, 61, a soft-spoken Muslim woman from the island of Zanzibar, will finish Magufuli’s second five-year term, set to run until 2025. Wearing a bright red headscarf, […]
Biden Says Putin Is A Killer And Russia Will Pay For Meddling In US Elections
United States President Joe Biden has said Russian President Vladimir Putin is “going to pay” following a US intelligence report that linked Moscow to an influence campaign that sought to swing the 2020 United States election for former President Donald Trump. The report, which was published by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence […]
Atlanta Spa Shootings Suspect Charged With Murder, Victims Identified
The alleged gunman who killed eight people at massage parlours in Atlanta, Georgia, has been charged with murder as police begin to identify victims. Officials cannot yet confirm if the attack, in which six Asian women were killed, was racially motivated. Four victims were named on Wednesday. The suspect faces multiple counts of murder as […]
Tanzania Mourns President Magufuli’s Demise After Mystery Illness
Tanzania was plunged into mourning Thursday over the death of President John Magufuli following weeks of uncertainty over his health, with his swing to authoritarianism leaving a divided legacy. Flags flew at half-mast as the country began a 14-day mourning period after Vice-President Samia Suluhu Hassan — who is set to become the country’s first […]
Military Will Soon Crush Bandits, Kidnappers In North West – Air Force Chief
The Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Isiaka Amao, on Wednesday vowed that kidnapping and banditry in the North West will soon be over. Speaking during an operational visit to the Nigerian Airforce Base in Kaduna State, he warned the criminals to prepare for the worst. He stated that the military would go after bandits […]
Gunmen Kill Man, Kidnap Mother And Brother In Jigawa
Gunmen have killed a young man during an attack on his father’s house in Kawo, a community in Jigawa State in the north-west region of the country. The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Zahraddeen Aminuddeen, confirmed the incident to Channels Television. He identified the 25-year-old victim as Sabo Yusuf, saying his father’s house came […]
Law Firm Hired To Assist In Cuomo Impeachment Investigation, Biden Comments On Scandal
Speaker of the New York State Assembly Carl Heastie said he and Chairman Charles Lavine will announce on Wednesday morning, the hiring of the law firm that will assist the Assembly Judiciary Committee in the impeachment investigation of Governor Andrew Cuomo. Meantime, President Joe Biden said in an exclusive interview with ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos […]
Tiger Woods Out Of Hospital, Recovering At Home After Rollover Crash
Tiger Woods is out of the hospital and recovering at home three weeks after a rollover crash that left him with serious leg injuries. “Happy to report that I am back home and continuing my recovery,” the golf icon tweeted Tuesday afternoon. “I am so grateful for the outpouring of support and encouragement that I […]
Erdogan Says Saudi Arabia Wants To Buy Turkey’s Armed Drones
Saudi Arabia is seeking to buy armed drones from Turkey, said President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday, in a move that could mark a rapprochement between the two rival regional powers. Ties between Ankara and Riyadh have been strained since the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in 2018. Trade […]
