Pope Francis has quashed rumours that he plans to resign anytime soon but his planned visit next weekend to the Italian city of L’Aquila will underscore the Catholic Church’s need to regulate the status of pontiffs who step down instead Read more…
Month: August 2022
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky is concerned he is being taken advantage of by someone close to him, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said, citing their conversation during the meeting in Lviv on Thursday. Asked by a farmer about the Ukrainian Read more…
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has made public a video of Ukrainian national Natalya Vovk, identified as the prime suspect in Saturday’s car bombing that killed journalist Darya Dugina in Moscow. The footage published Monday shows Vovk and her teenage Read more…
The Anambra State Governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, has said that the state will commence the implementation of its anti-open grazing law next month. Soludo stated this on Saturday, during a meeting with members of the Anambra State Cattle Menace Committee, Read more…
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday clarified that his meeting with the presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu was brotherly rather than political. He made the clarification in a statement by his Special Assistant on Media, Kehinde Read more…
Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode yesterday faulted the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) for nominating northerners as their presidential candidates. Fani-Kayode, however, assured Nigerians, particularly Christians, to worry about the Muslim-Muslim ticket of the All Progressives Read more…
Nigeria, one of Africa’s leading and most promising nation is once again under the spotlight for all the wrong reasons following the bizarre tale of how termites ate most of the vouchers containing details of N17.158 billion yet to be Read more…
Unknown daredevil gunmen have kidnapped four Reverend Sisters of the Catholic Church along the Okigwe-Umulolo axis of Okigwe-Enugu Expressway in Imo State on Sunday. Recall that the highway, which links Imo State to Abia and Enugu States, was the same Read more…
The Nigeria Governors Forum has responded to the allegations by Lead Consultants, working on the London and Paris Club refunds as regards the $418 million Paris Club Refund. In a statement by Director, Media and Public Affairs Nigeria Governors’ Forum Read more…
Serbia’s president called on NATO on Sunday to “do their job” in Kosovo or he says Serbia itself will move to protect its minority in the breakaway province. The fiery televised address to his nation by President Aleksandar Vucic followed Read more…
A blast that claimed the life of Darya Dugina, the daughter of prominent Russian political philosopher Aleksandr Dugin, was caused by a bomb that had been attached underneath her SUV on the driver’s side, investigators said on Sunday. According to Read more…
By Ifeoma EjioforA former Anambra State governorship aspirant under the platform of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Chief Rommy Okoli, on Sunday celebrated his 60th birthday. The celebrant during a surprise birthday party put together for him by his Read more…