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Four NATO members, Portugal, Czech Republic, Poland and the Netherlands have announced they would send reinforcements to assist Ukraine in its battle against Russia. The Czech Republic committed on Saturday, February 26, to send a “shipment of weapons to Ukraine” worth over $8.5 million to a “place of Ukrainians choice.” “The government has approved a […]
Continue ReadingRussian airstrikes have destroyed 74 ground facilities belonging to the Ukrainian military, according to reports. This includes 11 airfields, three command centers and a naval base, Russian Ministry of Defense spokesperson Igor Konashenkov said Thursday, February 24. About 18 radio-locating stations for anti-aircraft missile systems were also destroyed, according to Konashenkov. However, Konashenkov noted that […]
Continue ReadingThe U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday brought a formal end to former President Donald Trump’s request to block the release of White House records sought by the Democratic-led congressional panel investigating last year’s deadly attack on the Capitol by a mob of his supporters. The court’s decision to formally reject Trump’s appeal follows its Jan. […]
Continue ReadingFormer US Vice President, Mike Pence has spoken out against his former boss Donald Trump saying the former president was wrong to say he had the right to overturn the 2020 election as Trump demanded. Pence made the statement in a speech to the Federalist Society in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, on Friday, February 4. […]
Continue ReadingSadly, former beauty queen, Miss USA 2019, Cheslie Kryst, has passed away. She died at the age of 30. Kryst, who is a lawyer, jumped from the 60-story Orion building at 350 W. 42nd St. around 7:15 a.m on Sunday, January 30 and was found dead in the street below, sources said. Kryst, who lived […]
Continue ReadingBurkina Faso President Roch Kabore has been detained at a military camp by mutinying soldiers. Reports of his detention on Monday January 24, came a day after soldiers staged mutinies at several army barracks, prompting fears of a coup in the conflict-hit country. Later on Sunday, heavy gunfire was also heard near Kabore’s residence in the capital, Ouagadougou. It […]
Continue Reading58-year-old Pakistani Protestant Pastor, Zafar Bhatti has been sentenced to death for blasphemy against Islam. Zafar was handed the sentence by a district court in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Anglican Ink reported that the Pastor who has been in prison since 2012, was accused of sending blasphemous SMS text messages. The Pastor who ran a house church […]
Continue ReadingJesus meek and gentle, son of God most high, as we celebrate your birth, may we begin to see the world in the light of the understanding you give us. As you chose the lowly, the outcasts, and the poor to receive the greatest news the world had ever known, so may we worship you in […]
Continue ReadingPope Francis has appointed a Nigerian priest of the Catholic Diocese of Abia, Abia State, an Apostolic Nuncio to the Antilles, Archbishop Fortunatus Nwachukwu as the Permanent Observer of the Holy See – the Vatican – to the United Nations Office and Specialised Institutions in Geneva. Pope Francis also appointed Archbishop Nwachukwu as permanent observer […]
Continue ReadingAbout six people have been confirmed dead following an Amazon (AMZN) warehouse building collapse after an EF-3 tornado caused major structural damage to the building Friday December 10, according to the Edwardsville Fire Department in Illinois. Tornadoes ripped through six U.S. states on Friday night, leaving a trail of death and destruction at homes and businesses […]
Continue ReadingBarbados is about to cut ties with the British monarchy to become the world’s newest republic. Barbados will this week replace its head of state, Queen Elizabeth II, with her current representative, Governor-General Sandra Mason. The swearing ceremony will take place on Monday evening into Tuesday. It will include military parades and celebrations as Mason is inaugurated […]
Continue ReadingThe Uganda government, on Tuesday, 17 November 2015, signed an agreement with Export-Import Bank of China (Exim Bank) to borrow $207 million at two per cent upon disbursement. The loan had a maturity period of 20 years including a seven-year grace period. It has now emerged that the deal signed with the Chinese lenders virtually […]
Continue ReadingA man who was in jail for 43 years for a triple murder he says he didn’t commit has been exonerated and released. Kevin Strickland, 62, from Missouri in the United States, was wrongly convicted of the crimes in 1978, and was found guilty on all charges the following year. He has pleaded innocence ever since he […]
Continue ReadingGov. Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma has granted clemency to Julius Jones, commuting Jones’ death sentence just hours before he was scheduled to be executed for a 1999 murder he says he did not commit. CNN reports that Jones’ sentence will be commuted to life in prison without the possibility of parole, according to an executive order […]
Continue ReadingUnited Nations (UN) has expressed concern over the arrest of the leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, and his continous detention and alleged torture while in the Department of State Services (DSS) custody. This was contained in UN’s Mandates of the Special Rapporteur on Torture and other cruel, inhuman or […]
Continue ReadingThe World Bank has blacklisted 18 Nigerian companies and individuals for engaging in corrupt practices, fraud, and collusive practices in its 2021 fiscal year. A list of debarred individuals and firms was presented in a new annual report titled World Bank Group Sanctions System FY21. The debarments were made by the World Bank Sanctions Board, World […]
Continue ReadingHistory was made on Monday in Fort McMurray, Alberta Canada when a person of colour was elected for the very first time into the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo government. Nigerian-Ekiti girl, Mrs Funke Banjoko (nee Ogunsuyi), a princess from Ipoti/Igogo-Ekiti, Ekiti State, Nigeria, garnered the highest votes among the 6 elected in a crowd […]
Continue ReadingColin Powell, a US war hero and the first Black secretary of state who saw his legacy tarnished when he made the case for war in Iraq in 2003, has died of complications from Covid-19. He was 84. “We have lost a remarkable and loving husband, father, grandfather and a great American,” the family said […]
Continue ReadingThe World Health Organisation (WHO) has honoured Henrietta Lacks, recognising the world-changing legacy of the Black woman whose cancer cells were taken out without her consent, and has provided the basis for life-changing medical breakthroughs. In 1951, Henrietta Lacks, a Black mother of five who was dying of cervical cancer, went to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore for treatment. […]
Continue Reading33-year-old Nigerian national identified as Lebechi Charles Kelechi, has been arrested in connection with a drug trafficking case in Cambodia. Police from the Anti-Drug Department of the Ministry of Interior, on Tuesday, October 12, said that the Nigerian allegedly trafficked nearly half a kg of drugs into the country. According to local media, on October […]
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