SOUTH Sudan closed all schools Thursday for two weeks due to an extreme heat wave that has caused some students to collapse. This is the second time the country — which faces extreme effects from climate change, including flooding…
HAMAS has released six Israelis held in Gaza in exchange for more than 600 Palestinian prisoners set to be freed from Israeli jails on Saturday. The captives were released on the 35th day of the ongoing ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas,…
A federal judge in Washington has allowed President Donald Trump’s mass firings of federal workers to move forward. US District Judge Christopher Cooper decided Thursday he could not grant a motion from unions representing the workers to temporarily block the…
THE United Nations’ Special Envoy for West Africa and the Sahel, Leonardo Santos Simão, has called for a formal cooperation framework between the Alliance of Sahel States (AES) and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). During an official…
KASH Patel was formally sworn in as the ninth Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Friday, taking his oath on the Bhagavad Gita. The ceremony was administered by US Attorney General Pam Bondi at the Eisenhower Executive…
THE Wife of the President, Sen. Oluremi Tinubu, on Saturday empowered 500 women with items such as refrigerators, gas cookers, electric generators, and industrial grinding machines in Niger. Speaking at the flag-off ceremony in Bida, Tinubu said the programme…
UNIVERSITY of Benin (UNIBEN) on Saturday mourned the Elder Statesman and Iconic Leader, Chief Edwin Clark, who died on Feb. 17, at the age of 97. In a statement by the university’s Deputy Registrar and Public Relations Officer, Dr…
PRESIDENT of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group, Akinwumi Adesina, has expressed deep sorrow over the passing of Nigeria’s elder statesman, Edwin Clark. In a statement on Saturday in Abuja, Adesina conveyed his condolences and described Clark as…
FORMER Head of State, Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida (IBB), has revealed details of the foiled coup allegedly led by his childhood friend, General Mamman Vatsa, and the difficult decision he faced in choosing between personal loyalty and national security. In excerpts from…
A daughter of the late military head of state, Sani Abacha, Gumsu Abacha, has shared a cryptic post on (formerly Twitter), seemingly responding to former military president Ibrahim Babangida’s claims about her father’s role in the annulment of the June 12,…
