Moscow would only resort to nuclear weapons in four scenarios, all of which present an existential threat to the Russian state, former president Dmitry Medvedev told French media on Friday. Speaking to the TV channel LCI, Medvedev was asked whether Read more…
Lying on a small bed next to her mother, 14-month-old Aisha Usman stares blankly, her eyes sunk in their sockets and rib cage visible. She is the latest arrival at a treatment centre for severely malnourished children in Nigeria’s northeast, Read more…
Russia and Iran are strengthening relations in light of Western sanctions against the two states, which worries Washington, columnist Benoit Faucon wrote in his column for the Wall Street Journal. According to the article, “Iran and Russia are forging tighter Read more…
There is fear that the introduction of AI may lead to the loss of jobs. Do you think that way? There is a transcendence on the types of jobs done by human beings over the last 500 years due to Read more…
All is not well among Niger Delta militants following the recent award of a N48 billion per year (N4b per month) pipeline surveillance contract to ex-warlord, Chief Government Ekpemupolo a.k.a Tompolo by the Nigerian National Petroleum Limited. Several militant groups Read more…
Clearing Agents operating at the nation’s seaports, yesterday, said importers have incured demurrage and storage charges worth over N20billion due to the suspension of Guaranty Trust Bank from duty collection at the seaports. Speaking to LEADERSHIP, the acting president, Association Read more…
The apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide has said the presidential flag bearer of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, is no longer an ‘Igbo project’. The National Publicity Secretary of the organisation, Chief Alex Ogbonnia, said the Igbo had Read more…
The Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi, has congratulated the Catholic Bishop of Ekwulobia Diocese, His Eminence Peter Cardinal Okpaleke who canonically received the Red Hat from His Holiness, Pope Francis, at a Consistory in Rome, on Read more…
The governor of Anambra State, Chukwuma Soludo, and his wife, Nonye, attended the swearing in of the Bishop of Ekwulobia, Peter Okpaleke, as a cardinal by Pope Francis in Rome. Okpaleke was part of the 20 new cardinals sworn in Read more…
Nigeria’s state oil company has hired a company owned by former militant Tompolo, whose movement’s attacks on facilities in the early 2000s crippled oil production, to protect installations and tackle rampant theft, his spokesman said. It was one of five Read more…
Nigeria’s Central Bank released $265 million to airlines to settle outstanding ticket sales, it said in a statement on Friday. Airlines have said they have millions trapped in Africa’s most populous nation due to an inability to access the foreign Read more…
Belarus has finished preparing some of its military aircraft for the possible deployment of Russian nuclear weapons, President Alexander Lukashenko revealed on Friday. “You remember [Russian President Vladimir] Putin and I said we will modify Belarusian Su jets so that Read more…