Qatar has rebuked Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after he allegedly criticised the Gulf country’s role as a mediator in the Gaza war as “problematic” in a leaked recording. At a meeting this week with the families of captives being held in Gaza, Netanyahu blamed Qatar for financing Hamas and said he was upset at…
110 days into the Israeli military offensive in Gaza, hunger grips communities. By late December, more than one in four households in the enclave faced extreme hunger. Some 1.9 million residents, men, women and children or approximately 85% of the population have been forced to flee their homes. Marking Police Day in Cairo on Wednesday…
Led in evidence by the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Dr Babajide Martins, the witness, Blessing Adeniran told the court that she got to the Agege stadium on Feb. 9th, 2023, when Chrisland School, Opebi was holding its inter-house sports competition, but she did not see her daughter, Whitney, participate in any of the match…
The Minister of State for Environment, Iziaq Salako, made this known in a statement on Tuesday. He said the decision of the Lagos State Government to ban Styrofoam and other single use plastics is “a strong signal to businesses and the general public that the menace of single use plastics needs to be comprehensively addressed,…
Alcohol “will be sold to non-Muslim diplomats” who previously had to import alcohol via a diplomatic pouch, one of the sources said. Prohibition has been the law of the land in Saudi Arabia since 1952, shortly after one of King Abdulaziz’s sons got drunk and, in a rage, shot dead a British diplomat. Rumours have…
Affirming Fubara as the duly elected governor of Rivers State, the court held that the appellant did not prove the allegations of non compliance with the Electoral Act among others. The court held that the appeal was incompetent and dismissed it. Cole, who was the APC candidate in the March 18, 2023 election, was challenging…
United States Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump has solidified his hold on his party’s electorate after his New Hampshire primary win against Nikki Haley, his only other major Republican rival left in the race. Here are the key takeaways from the contest: Trump’s way forwardTrump won 54.6 percent of Tuesday’s vote in New Hampshire while…
Russia said Wednesday that an IL-76 military transport plane carrying 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war, POWs, had crashed in the western Belgorod region, bordering Ukraine. Unverified videos on social media showed a large plane falling from the sky on its side before crashing in a fireball.“At around 11 a.m. Moscow time (0800 GMT), an IL-76…
Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court in Abuja has granted bail to the immediate past governor of Anambra State, Willie Obiano. He ordered that the former governor should be restricted to the court jurisdiction. He ordered the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to deposit the defendant’s travel documents with the court registrar. Ekwo…
