Saturday, 23 November, 2024

Month: July 2022


No “sanctioned goods” are allowed to be transported by Russian operators through EU territory by roads, the EU Commission has said in its fresh “additional guidance” on the transit of Russian goods. The document published on Wednesday comes amid tensions Read more…


The United States successfully tested two Lockheed Martin Corp hypersonic missiles recently, the Pentagon said on Wednesday, amid growing concerns Russia and China have had more success developing their own hypersonic weapons. The U.S. Air Force confirmed it successfully tested Read more…


Pope Francis on Wednesday named three women to serve as members of the Vatican office that vets bishop nominations, in another first for women to have a say in Catholic Church governance. The Dicastery for Bishops oversees the work of Read more…


WE CAN BE BETTER Subsequent to the agitations over the issuance of letter of mandate as the President General of Amichi to Chief Cletus Udebuani on July 8th, 2022, by the Honourable Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Hon. Tonycollins Read more…


Nigerians are gradually inching towards the moment of anagnorisis as bank-backed reforms in the nation’s electricity distribution companies (DisCos) are revealing the true state and regulatory gaps among the Bureau of Public Enterprise (BPE), Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) and Read more…


The North-East Zonal Treasurer of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Hon. Galadima Abba Itas, has resigned as a member of the party in Bauchi State. In a letter of resignation dated Tuesday, July 12, 2022 and addressed to the PDP Read more…


The All Progressives Congress (APC) Christian leaders in the 19 northern States have rejected the Muslim-Muslim ticket of the party, saying it is “a display of crass insensitivity to the complexity of modern Nigeria and the entire Church.” They argued Read more…


The Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra has slammed controversial Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, over what it described as a hypocritical assertion of pro-Biafra agitation. Gumi had stated, on Monday via his Facebook page, that Read more…


The National Population Commission will on Wednesday, commence a trial census on Anambra State, which is in preparation for the first fully digital census in 2023, according to the Commission. Addressing journalists at its office in Awka, on Tuesday, the Read more…


Poland is seeking to conceal its expansion to Western Ukraine and is taking nervously the leak of its plans of dismembering Ukraine, director of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service Sergey Naryshkin said on Tuesday. “Information coming to the Service indicates a Read more…


The Russian military has published the names of five people who it identified as British and American citizens on their way to join the Ukrainian forces. It warned that they could be captured and tried as mercenaries or even end Read more…


President Joe Biden is poised to sign two directives that would allow the U.S. Department of Defense to invest in its hypersonic weapons industrial base as adversaries demonstrate advanced capabilities. As China and Russia tout recent progress in developing hypersonic Read more…