File photo: Samuel Ortom Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, has challenged the people to defend their ancestral land instead of seeking refuge elsewhere. The governor said this on Tuesday while addressing some youths in the state, in reaction to the continued attacks on communities by suspected herdsmen. He spoke whenRead More →
Clementine Meukeugni Noumbissi of Cameroon celebrates on the way to winning the bronze medal in the women’s 90kg weightlifting final at the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games on April 9, 2018. Photo Credit: WILLIAM WEST / AFP A total of eight athletes from conflict-hit Cameroon are now missing fromRead More →
Russia has warned that any U.S. missiles fired at Syria over a suspected chemical weapons attack on a rebel enclave would be shot down and the launch sites targeted, raising the possibility of a U.S.-Russian confrontation. Russian President Vladimir Putin Issuing the warning, the Russian ambassador to Lebanon also saidRead More →
FILE COPY Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech outside Moscow. Photo Credit: Alexey NIKOLSKY / SPUTNIK / AFP The Kremlin on Wednesday urged restraint in Syria, saying that countries should avoid taking action that could further destabilise the war-torn country, as the US considered missile strikes over allegedRead More →
NAN Mozambique will hold presidential, parliamentary and provincial elections on October 15, 2019, the presidency said on Wednesday, setting the date for a vote that will proceed the southern African country’s emergence as a major gas exporter. President Filipe Nyusi set the date of the election, a notice on theRead More →
Mozambique will hold presidential, parliamentary and provincial elections on Oct. 15, 2019, the presidency said on Wednesday, setting the date for a vote that will proceed the southern African country’s emergence as a major gas exporter. President Filipe Nyusi set the date of the election, a notice on the presidencyRead More →
China’s President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump. Photo: Nicolas ASFOURI / POOL / AFP China said Wednesday it would further open its financial markets in the latest apparent attempt to cool economic tensions with the United States, as IMF chief Christine Lagarde warned the world trade systemRead More →
President Muhammadu Buhari, it was learnt, was welcomed to the United Kingdom by some Nigerians living in London with protests on Tuesday. The President left Nigeria for the UK on Monday, only to have angry Nigerians who live in London storm front of the Abuja House in Kensington, where theRead More →
FILE COPY A Syrian woman and children run for cover amid the rubble of buildings following government bombing in the rebel-held town of Hamouria, in the besieged Eastern Ghouta region on the outskirts of the capital Damascus. Photo Credit: ABDULMONAM EASSA / AFP The World Health Organization on WednesdayRead More →
Women Trafficking and Child Labour Eradication Foundation (WOTCLEF) has called for full implementation of laws protecting children against abuses in the country. The Executive Director of WOTCLEF, Mrs Imabong Ladipo-Sanusi made the call in an interview with newsmen in Abuja on Wednesday. Ladipo-Sanusi decried the rate at which under-aged childrenRead More →