KYIV/DONETSK PROVINCE FRONT LINE, Ukraine, Jan 2 (Reuters) – Waves of Russian drones targeted infrastructure in Ukraine’s capital and surrounding areas on Monday, damaging energy facilities and causing some power outages, officials said, as Russia extended its bombardment into the second day of 2023. Ukraine’s air force said that its air defence systems destroyed all…
The open endorsement of the presidential candidate of Labour Party (LP), Mr. Peter Obi, by former President Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday, elicited angry reactions from the presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, and that of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar. Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) of APC described the endorsement of…
By Ayomide Otitoju New Zealand and the Pacific nation of Kiribati are among the first countries to mark the arrival of 2023. People wait for the fireworks near Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world, ahead of Dubai’s New Year’s Eve celebrations at around 8pm UK time. Thousands of people will attend Edinburgh’s traditional…
A court in military-ruled Myanmar has found the country’s toppled leader Aung San Suu Kyi guilty of corruption charges, sentencing her to seven years in prison in the last of a string of criminal cases in an 18-month-long trial process, a legal official said. A prisoner of the military since a 2021 coup, Aung San…
Russia’s top diplomat in New Delhi traded barbs with a senior Indian politician on Twitter late on Thursday over the death of a Russian tycoon once reportedly critical of the Ukraine war, in a rare public spat involving Moscow and a country it views as a friend. Pavel Antov, a billionaire sausage magnate, was found…
Spain’s government has announced new COVID-19 regulations for passengers arriving at the country’s airports from China, following an explosion of cases there, becoming the latest in a growing list of countries to impose specific rules on visitors from the Asian country. Travellers from China will be required to test negative for COVID-19 or prove they…
The World Health Organization (WHO) has said it needs more information to assess the latest surge in COVID-19 infections in China, but called the global concern and uptick in travel restrictions “understandable”. Several countries are imposing restrictions on travellers from China because of a surge in COVID-19 infections after the country rolled back its stringent…
The Nigeria Immigration Service, Bayelsa State Command, on Thursday, said it uncovered ‘new methods’ being used by suspected human traffickers to travel with underage girls. In a statement by the state Comptroller, Mr Sunday James, the command cited the ECOWAS Travel Certificate as one of the means adopted by the human traffickers in their illicit…
The Federal Government said it has not considered imposing mandatory COVID-19 testing or restrictions on travellers from China until there is a need for it. The government, however, admitted that Nigeria was at risk of a fresh surge of the virus. It, therefore, advised Nigerians to go for vaccination. The Coordinator of the Presidential Steering…
