Kemi Badenoch has been elected as the new leader of the UK’s Conservatives in a vote on Saturday, replacing Rishi Sunak and becoming the first black woman to lead a major British political party. Born in the UK and raised Read more…
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A court in Russia’s far-eastern city of Vladivostok on Friday convicted a former U.S. Consulate worker charged with cooperating with a foreign state and sentenced him to four years and 10 months in prison. Robert Shonov, a Russian citizen and Read more…
The presidency has dismissed claims that President Bola Tinubu’s recent appointments in Nigeria’s security agencies favour the Yoruba ethnic group, asserting that these appointments reflect fair regional distribution. Sunday Dare, the Special Adviser on Public Communication and Orientation to President Read more…
Ukraine’s inability to defeat Russia on the battlefield has fueled debate in the US about the point of sending more money to Kiev, according to British state broadcaster the BBC. The conflict is “increasingly going Russia’s way” and the realization of Ukraine’s Read more…
The Chairman of the All Progressives Congress Caretaker Committee in Rivers State, Tony Okocha, on Friday, warned critics against distorting the narrative of the crisis rocking the state, insisting that Governor Siminalayi Fubara is the investment of the Minister of Read more…
In July 1966, Admiral Alison Madueke was due to begin a training programme at the Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, UK, when the Ironsi regime was overthrown. In the following excerpt, he recounts his narrow escape from the massacres that Read more…
The Swiss authorities have deported three Ukrainian nationals convicted of committing “serious crimes,” the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ) reported on Thursday, citing the State Secretariat for Migration (SEM). According to the report, this is the first time Ukrainian nationals have been sent Read more…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Coalition, an NGO affiliated with the party, has called on the judiciary to maintain impartiality in the ongoing political crisis in Rivers State. This follows the recent judgment by the Federal High Court, Abuja Division, Read more…
Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz had a love affair with the daughter of a Chinese Communist Party official during his teaching stint in Foshan that was so stormy, it drove her to the brink of suicide, The Post has Read more…
As reactions continue to trail the judgment of a Federal High Court, Abuja, ordering the stoppage of the release of federal monthly allocations to Rivers State, the National Democratic and Change Coalition (NDCC) has called on Governor Siminalayi Fubara to Read more…
By Uzo Ugwunze A two day training program for 400 constituents of Onitsha Federal Constituency on Bio Gas for domestic utilization and strategic renewable energy skills and acquisition training program sponsored by the member representing Onitsha North/$outh Federal Constituency in Read more…
The Kremlin said on Monday that Russia was doing everything it could to try to facilitate attempts to de-escalate tensions in the Middle East by urging restraint on all sides. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov made the comments when asked about Read more…