Monday, 06 May, 2024

Month: February 2024


The rebellion that President Joe Biden faced among Arab Americans, progressives and young voters on his way to winning Michigan’s Democratic primary is raising questions for his campaign as it looks ahead to Super Tuesday and beyond. Biden easily won Tuesday’s primary, as Read more…


Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin said that French President Emanuel Macron’s suggestion that Europe could send ground troops to Ukraine opens a “frightening scenario”.  Mr Macron announced Monday new steps to boost Ukraine in its fight against the Russian Read more…


Amidst the unfathomable economic challenges plaguing our nation from famine to insecurity and the depreciation of the Naira in the forex market, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has vehemently, denounced any insinuations or calls for a coup d’état. According to the foremost Igbo Read more…


The police in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) have confirmed that Barrister Chris Agidy, a kidnapped victim in Abuja, has been killed by his abductors. Agidy, a former Secretary of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Abuja branch and senior legislative Read more…


The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN will from today commence the sale of $15.7 million to 785 bureaux de Change across the country. The CBN said it will sell $20,000 to each of the 785 BDCs at N1,301/$. The BDCs Read more…


The Nigeria Labour Congress has suspended the nationwide planned protest slated for Wednesday. The NLC and other related unions commenced national planned protests on Tuesday over the high cost of living, inflation, insecurity, and hardship in the country. The protesters Read more…


The Manufacturers Association of Nigeria has insisted that the ban on the sale of alcoholic drinks in sachets and Polyethylene Terephthalate bottles by the National Agency For Food and Drug Administration was based on unfounded assumptions and will not be Read more…


Spanish investigators have a new theory about how murdered Russian defector pilot Maxim Kuzminov gave away his real identity before his  assassination, news outlet El Mundo has reported. Last August, the military pilot hijacked a Russian Mi-8 cargo helicopter and flew Read more…


The threat to undersea infrastructure, like every other threat just now, is increasing. Only a few weeks ago the Houthis, so adeptly disrupting commercial shipping in the Bab el Mandeb chokepoint, declared that they were going to add undersea disruption Read more…


Ex-CIA chief of Russia operations Steve Hall said Sunday he thinks Russian President Vladimir Putin is proving to his doubters that he was right to expect the United States to lose its “nerve” and eventually stop aiding Ukraine as Russia Read more…


Washington’s latest round of sanctions against Russia and its partners, including China, is yet another example of US “economic coercion” undermining global trade relations, China’s Commerce Ministry said on Monday. The US Treasury announced a new list of sanctions on Read more…


Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has fixed March 19, 2024, for a ruling in the application by the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, seeking to be admitted Read more…