Insurgents Mount Checkpoint On Maiduguri-Damaturu Road, Kidnapped Unknown Number Of Travelers
Residents of Maiduguri have been thrown into panic following the killing and abduction of several travellers along the Maiduguri-Damaturu expressway in Borno State. The 133-kilometre highway is the only major road that links Borno to other parts of the country. The killing and abduction of travellers on Friday is the latest and deadliest of similar […]
Police Another Set Of Schoolchildren, Dislodge Bandits In Katsina
Police in Katsina State have rescued eighty-four kidnap victims, mostly Islamiyya schoolchildren, from the hands of bandits in Mahuta village of Dandume Local Government Area of the state. This follows a distress call received on Saturday at about 2200hrs, by the DPO Dandume, that some Islamiyya students of Hizburrahim Islamiyya, Mahuta village, numbering about eighty, […]
Man Sentenced To Life Without Parole In Racially Motivated Killings At Kentucky Grocery Store
The families of two people murdered in a racially motivated killing at a suburban grocery store in Kentucky have finally seen justice. Gregory Bush was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the 2018 killings of Maurice Stallard, 69, and Vickie Jones, 67, according to Jefferson County court documents. Bush […]
Tension Rises Between Pentagon And Biden Transition Team Over Meetings
President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team said Friday that they did not agree to a two-week break in critical transfer-of-power discussions with Pentagon officials, despite an assertion from the acting Defense Secretary that both sides had agreed to take such a “holiday pause”. “There was no mutually agreed upon holiday break,” Yohannes Abraham, executive director of […]
Boris Johnson- EU Must Bring Something To The Table
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said EU negotiators must “bring something to the table” in Brexit talks to avoid the UK crashing out the single market without a deal. Johnson’s warning came after the EU’s chief negotiator Michel Barnier told MEPs that talks had reached the “moment of truth” ahead of the final hours […]
Covid-19 Diagnosis Blamed On Negligence, Bad luck-Macron
French President Emmanuel Macron has blamed his Covid-19 on a combination of negligence and bad luck. In what looked like a self-shot video from the presidential retreat in Versailles where he was isolating, Macron said he was experiencing symptoms that included headaches, fatigue and a dry cough. He promised to give daily updates and be […]
WTO Laments Absence Of Substantive DG, US Makes Weird Proposal To Restart Elective Process
The World Trade Organisation on Friday stated that the absence of a substantive director general is hurting its operations and would not describe 2020 as a very successful year. The WTO made this statement during a press briefing, adding that a special general council early in the New Year is needed to make a decision […]
Moderna’s Covid-19 Vaccine Cleared for Emergency Use-US
Moderna Inc’s coronavirus vaccine on Friday became the second to receive emergency use authorization (EUA) from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, welcome news to a nation with a staggering COVID-19 death toll of over 307,000 lives lost. Millions of doses of the Moderna vaccine are expected to be added to the US rollout, which […]
Italy Becomes The Latest European Country To Order Christmas And New Year Lockdown
Italy has ordered a nationwide lockdown over much of the Christmas and New Year period in an effort to combat a rise in coronavirus cases. The country will be under “red-zone” restrictions over the public holidays, with non-essential shops, restaurants and bars closed, and Italians only allowed to travel for work, health and emergency reasons. […]
Lagos Governor Shut Down Schools Indefinitely
Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has directed that all government and private schools in the state be shut down until further notice. This forms part of the public health directives issued by the governor on Friday, as the state government prepares for a second wave of the coronavirus pandemic. He also directed all public servants […]
