Thursday, 09 January, 2025

Month: January 2023


Moscow stands ready to thwart threats from a Japanese military buildup near Russian islands in the Far East, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrey Rudenko has said. The statement came after Japanese broadcaster NHK cited the country’s Defense Ministry in late Read more…


The Russian forces most often launch Iranian-made kamikaze drones at night along the Dnipro riverbed, because this way, it is harder to detect the UAVs with radar. Source: Yurii Ihnat, spokesman for the Ukrainian Air Force, on the air of Read more…


From Ifeoma Ejiofor The president of ASMATA in the Nnewi zone comprising Nnewi North, South, Ekwusigo, and Ihiala local government areas, Chief Leonard Onwuatuegwu (Dim Odogwu), says no illegal structure would be allowed to stand in the market. Dim Odogwu, Read more…


Ukrainians in the UK are being forced to choose between homelessness and returning to war as their sponsorship arrangements end, charities have warned. Councils have a legal obligation to house Ukrainians if they do not have anywhere to live, but Read more…


More than 60 Russian troops have been killed by a Ukrainian missile strike, Moscow confirmed on Monday. The bombardment hit a temporary housing area used by the Russian forces in Donbass. The facility in the city of Makeyevka in Russia’s Donetsk Read more…


FORMER Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has endorsed the Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate Peter Obi for presidency in 2023. Obasanjo disclosed his position on the 2023 presidential election in his New Year Message to Nigerians on Sunday, January 1. The Read more…


A human rights lawyer and senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Femi Falana has asked the federal government to make it mandatory for persons arriving in Nigeria from China to produce negative COVID test results. Recall that China said it will Read more…


The Labour Party, Bauchi State chapter, has inaugurated a 47-member Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) in the state with Reverend Joshua Ray Maina and Dr. Abubakar Abdulrahman as State Coordinator and Chairman respectively. Also inaugurated are a total of 123 state Read more…


Governor Nyesom Wike on Saturday, met with governors Samuel Ortom of Benue State and Udom Emmanuel of Akwa-Ibom State at his private residence in Rumueprikom, Obio-Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State. The Rivers State governor, who described the meeting as convivial, said Read more…


Bishop Valerian Okeke of Onitsha province has paid tribute to Pope Benedict who passed on Saturday. Bishop Okeke’s tribute was released by Father George Adimiki. It read thus: “The news of the demise of our beloved Pope Emeritus, Benedict XVI, Read more…


Wife of the late Igbo leader, Amb. Bianca Ojukwu has disclosed that among other achievements of the Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr. Peter Obi as Governor of Anambra state, he brought to an end, the issue of godfatherism Read more…


AS the 2023 general elections draws close, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said it has sufficient number of Bimodal Voter Accreditation Systems (BVAS) machines to conduct elections in the 176,846 polling units across the country. INEC National Commissioner, Read more…