Category: International News

Some North Korean bodyguards face the prospect of being killed for allowing leader Kim Jong-un to go out with stained clothes. The dictator was inspecting a missile launch last week when propaganda pictures captured...

Nigeria’s President “Muhammadu Buhari” will leave the country on Sunday, December 11, 2022 for Washington, USA to attend a week-long United States-Africa Leaders Summit. This was made known in a statement by the Senior...

The Ukrainian military has announced what it described as good news in the ongoing war with Russia. Adviser to the head of Kherson Civil Military Administration, Serhii Khlan said on Tuesday that Ukrainian military...

A court has arraigned a man in Lamu, Kenya, identified as Stephen Kombo Kikuyu for having unlawful carnal knowledge of a schoolboy he agreed to accommodate to continue his schooling, contrary to section 3(1)...

Nigeria Security Tracker (NST), a project of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) of the United States, at the weekend revealed that activities of violent non-state actors had claimed no fewer than 5,222 lives...

A Tennessee man has been arrested after his pharmacist wife was found dead in a luxury Fijian resort where they were on honeymoon.   Officials announced the husband’s arrest on Wednesday, July 19, 2022.  ...

Nigerian Citizens Association in South Africa (NICASA) has announced plan to repatriate the remains of a Nigerian man who was shot dead by armed robbers in Johannesburg. It was gathered that the deceased identified as Mr. Michael Chima Echefu, a...

Ivana Trump, the first wife to former U.S. President Donald Trump and the mother of his three eldest children, unexpectedly died Thursday at her New York City apartment, officials say. She was 73 years...

The ECOWAS court has ruled in a suit filed against the Nigerian government over the Twitter ban, A report shows that following a suit by Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) and 176 concerned...

President Joe Biden of the US on Saturday 9th-July-2022, defended his decision to travel to Saudi Arabia saying human rights would be on his agenda as he gave a preview of a trip on...

Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky has vowed not to give up territory or cede any of its land to Russia in order to stop the war with Vladimir Putin’s soldiers. Zelenskyy told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer...

Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, has condemned Sunday’s terrorist attack on St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church, Owo, in Ondo State, where 22 persons were reportedly killed. Guterres, who reacted to the massacre...

Russian President, Vladimir Putin has threatened to strike ‘new targets’ if the US supplied long-range missiles to Ukraine, according to Russian state media.    According to Putin, delivering new arms to Kyiv only aims...

The Ukranian government has reacted angrily to French president’s comments that Russia must not be ‘humiliated’. Since the war began, Emmanuel Macron has kept a line of communication open with the Kremlin and flew...

Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv has been rocked by several explosions early this day Sunday June 5, 2022. This is coming a day after Ukranian officials said its troops had recaptured a swath of the eastern...

President Muhammadu Buhari is set to embark on another trip just one day after returning from Spain, making it his third foreign trip within eight days. The president and his family members attended African...

President Joe Biden has proposed that the US ban assault-style guns and high-capacity magazines to address the “carnage” of gun violence on Thursday, June 2, 2022. After a string of major shootings, Vice President...

Usman Yahaya, a Nigerian studying at Irkutsk State Medical University (ISMU), is facing deportation from Russia. The Sokoto-born medical student has been in detention for more than one month. The recipient of the Best African Medical...

Tunisia’s president, Kais Saied fired 57 judges on Wednesday, June 1 accusing them of corruption and supporting terrorists, as he strives to reform the country’s democratic system following the consolidation of one-man rule. Saied...

The United Nations has changed the Republic of Turkey’s country name at the organization from “Turkey” to “Türkiye” on Thursday,June 2, following a request from Ankara for the change. On Wednesday, UN spokesman Stephane...

Indian Police have reported that a Nigerian man identified as John assaulted pedestrians with a knife near south Mumbai’s Churchgate district on Wednesday, June 1 injuring at least 8 persons. According to Dilip Sawant,...

Kshama Bindu, a 24-year-old Indian woman, is scheduled to marry herself in India’s first solo wedding, or sologamy on Saturday, June 22, 2022. A woman from Vadodara, Gujarat, will marry herself, and the ceremony...

The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office is searching for a Nigerian man, Obinna Igbokwe, who they believe shot and injured his wife before shooting her grandmother to death at a home in Spring, Texas.  The shooting happened...

Brazilian football legend, Pele has urged President Vladimir Putin to end Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Pele made the call on Instagram, ahead of Ukraine’s 2022 World Cup playoff semi-final against Scotland. He told Putin that...

US police has confirmed 5 individuals were killed in a mass shooting at a medical institution in Tulsa, Oklahoma, including the gunman on Wednesday, June 1. According to authorities, a man armed with a...

The Biden administration announced on Tuesday, May 31 2022 that it will deploy a small number of high-tech, medium-range rocket systems to Ukraine, a crucial weapon that Ukrainian authorities have been pleading for as...

Zimbabwe citizens are allegedly cutting and selling their toes for thousands of dollars due to the high costs of living and the government’s failure to create jobs in the country. According to social media reports, the larger...

A heroic fourth-grade student who died while calling 911 to get help for her classmates during the shooting at a Texas school has been buried. The funeral for 10-year-old Amerie Jo Garza held on Tuesday,...

The Lagos State Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has secured the conviction and sentencing of a Chinese man identified as Li Lei Lei, to two years in prison for mutilating...

A court in Germany on Tuesday, May 31 2022 convicted five men for membership in a local cell of the Islamic State group that received orders from a leading IS figure in Afghanistan. The...

Police in India announced on Monday, May 30 the arrest of three Nigerian men for allegedly defrauding over 1,000 people of multiple crores of rupees using matrimony sites and social media platforms over the...

UK announced on Monday, May 30 that it has launched new visa scheme to allow graduates from the world’s top 50 non-UK universities to apply to come to the United Kingdom. The UK government...

An Egyptian court has sentenced former presidential candidate, Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh and several prominent figures from the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood to lengthy jail terms on Sunday, 29th May for “spreading false news” and...

Mary Leonard, the US Ambassador to Nigeria, has underlined her government’s worry over the availability and accessibility of forex to US organizations. “This includes, among other things, the ability to repatriate earnings and meet...

Meghan Markle’s half-sister, Samantha Markle has said that Meghan has still not made efforts to reach out to their father after he suffered a stroke. In an interview today, May 30, Samantha said their...

The number of Nigerians granted sponsored study visas increased by 529 per cent in two years, a report by the United Kingdom has revealed. According to the immigration statistics published on Thursday, May 26, between March...

Senegal President, Macky Sall has suspended his health minister on Thursday, May 26 as the country grieved the deaths of 11 newborn babies in a hospital fire caused by an electrical short circuit. The tragedy in...

Japan will open its borders to foreign tourists in June for the first time since imposing tight pandemic travel restrictions about two years ago, but only for package excursions for now. Beginning June 10,...

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) announced on Thursday, May 26, 2022 that it will eliminate 1,000 positions and cancel some traditional broadcast channels as it focuses on digital and deals with a funding freeze....

Twitter investors are suing Elon Musk and the social media platform over the handling of the billionaire’s $44bn (£34.9bn) bid for the company.   He is accused of breaking California corporation regulations in a...

Glencore International A.G. and Glencore Ltd., both part of a Switzerland-based multi-national commodity trading and mining firm named in massive bribery of officials of Nigeria’s state-owned oil company, have pleaded guilty and agreed to...

  Twitter has been accused by the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice in US of capturing phone numbers or email addresses provided to tighten privacy and then allowing marketers to profit from...

Former ’19 Kids and Counting’ star, Josh Duggar was sentenced to about 12-and-a-half years in prison on Wednesday May 25, after he was convicted of downloading and possessing child pornography.  The sentence is about...

A woman, Chandra Kala, has been arrested in connection with the murder of her husband in Delhi, India. The accused allegedly hired a hitman to kill her husband for spending more time with his...

A Nigerian man identified as “Oluwaseyi Elemide” has landed in court for stalking a woman in the UK  Oluwaseyi Elemide, 26, an accountant admitted stalking a beautician who he failed to impress after pestering her,...

Two days before the start of summer break, an 18-year-old man opened fire at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday, killing 14 students and one teacher, Gov. Greg Abbott said.   Uvalde...

Russian forces waged an all-out assault on Tuesday to encircle Ukrainian troops in twin eastern cities straddling a river, a battle that could determine the success or failure of Moscow’s main campaign in the...

Aviolent drug-user who murdered his partner’s three-year-old son after inflicting more than 20 rib fractures during weeks of  beatings has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 24 years. Nathaniel Pope, 32,...

Flash floods and landslides in India’s northeast Assam state killed at least 25 people and displaced over 650,000 from their homes in the past 10 days, officials said on Tuesday. Heavy monsoons are a...

U.S. President Joe Biden says his country will come to the aid of Taiwan if China invades the island nation. President Joe Biden said Monday that the U.S. would send troops to defend Taiwan...