Sat, August 21, 2021, 5:22 PM Private jets filled up the runway of the airport in the northern Nigerian city of Kano as members of Nigeria’s elite and West African dignitaries flew in for the wedding of the president’s son Read more…
Month: August 2021
Syria’s air defense forces have shot down 22 missiles launched by Israeli warplanes during an airstrike against targets in Syria, the Russian military said Friday. Rear Adm. Vadim Kulit, head of the Russian military’s Reconciliation Center in Syria, said six Read more…
The world has to accept the realities of the situation in Afghanistan and come together to prevent the collapse of the entire state, Vladimir Putin said during a joint press conference with Angela Merkel on Friday. The Russian president and Read more…
The mayor of Kabul will remain in power under the Taliban, he told RT, explaining how the Islamic fundamentalist group was able to so easily retake the country and what will now happen to the country’s women. Scarcely had the Read more…
The leadership of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has condemned the killing of about 22 people of the Plateau State and called on President Muhammadu Buhari to stop paying lips service to the unending killings in the country. CAN Read more…
The Pan Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere has said the moves by President Muhammadu Buhari to retrieve 368 grazing reserves in 25 out of the 36 states in the country is not only a waste of taxpayers’ money but also a Read more…
A three-storey tenement building located on Nweke Awkuzu Street in Ugbene area of Ahakpa Nike township in Enugu metropolis collapsed on Friday evening. The building is behind the popular Timber shed market, near Cornerstone, Nowas – T.Junction Road. According to Read more…
The Oyo and Anambra state governments have commended Air Peace for its ‘N o city left behind’ programme, which links different parts of the country by air. The Governor of Oyo State, Seyi Makinde, who welcomed the airline when it Read more…
The World Health Organisation says people living with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus are at increased risk of severe COVID-19 infection. According to the WHO’s Director on HIV, Hepatitis, and STI programme, Dr. Meg Doherty, people living with HIV also have Read more…
Jeddo Community in Okpe Local Government Area of Delta State has been thrown into a state of pandemonium as the chairman of the community’s vigilante, Mr. Jude Akiru, was gruesomely murdered by yet-to-be-identified gunmen. The PUNCH gathered that the gory incident Read more…
Kwara Stakeholders Consultative Forum which sued the state governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, and others on a proposed N35bn bond, has denied any connection with a former governor of the state, Dr Abubakar Bukola Saraki. The group in a statement signed by Read more…
Kaduna State government, on Friday, revealed that nemesis has caught up with two groups of bandits in Giwa local government area of the state, who in a fratricidal gun duel killed nine of their members. A statement issued by Commissioner, Read more…