The United States on Thursday performed a historic groundbreaking for the new $537 million U.S. Consulate General in Lagos. The groundbreaking was performed by Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos who was joined by U.S. Ambassador Mary Beth Leonard and U.S. Consul General Claire Pierangelo. The United States expressed commitment to strengthening the enduring U.S.-Nigeria relationship,…
The United States has designated six individuals for their support of the terrorist group Boko Haram. The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Friday added Nigerian nationals Abdurrahman Ado Musa, Salihu Yusuf Adamu, Bashir Ali Yusuf, Muhammed Ibrahim Isa, Ibrahim Ali Alhassan, and Surajo Abubakar Muhammad to the List…
VLADIMIR Putin’s botched but vicious invasion of Ukraine is being run by a brutal cabal of bloodthirsty generals. Russia’s top commanders have a savage charge sheet against them, including deliberately running down and killing protesters with tanks, and indiscriminately shelling civilians. As Putin’s planned quick invasion of Ukraine appears to turn against him, the Russian army has resorted…
PUTIN has made a chilling threat to Europe as he warned that if Sweden and Finland join NATO there will be “detrimental military and political consequences.” Russia shares a border with Finland and a sea border with Sweden – and the comments followed Putin’s intensified invasion of Ukraine as they attempt to reach Kyiv. Russian…
Residents of the Pacific territory of New Caledonia voted overwhelmingly on Sunday to remain part of France in a third referendum that was boycotted by pro-independence groups, reports say. Police reinforcements have been sent to the territory known as “the pebble”, which is of strategic importance to France and is part of a wider tussle…
Police authorities have confirmed that Malikah Shabazz, one of six daughters of civil rights activist Malcolm X, was found dead Monday at her Brooklyn home. According to reports, 56-year-old Shabazz was found unresponsive in her home in Midwood. The city’s medical examiner who responded to the scene did not believe that the death was suspicious, while…
The United Nations has asked the federal government to provide detailed information on the circumstances surrounding Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). This was contained in a document titled: ‘Mandates of the Special Rapporteur on Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishments; the Working Group on Arbitrary…
Jim Yong Kim, then-president of the World Bank, and Kristalina Georgieva, then chief executive, who now heads IMF, took part in the scheme. A probe launched by the World Bank in respect of anomalies in the data used in preparing its Doing Business 2018 and Doing Business 2020 reports has revealed how senior staff of…
Leader of army unit that overthrew President Alpha Conde tells government ministers there will be ‘no witch hunt’, a day after coup in West African nation. Guinean government officials are barred from leaving the country until further notice and a curfew imposed in mining areas has been lifted, the leader of an army unit that…
The United States says it will continue to offer help to Americans, Afghans at risk and other nationals in the Taliban-torn country beyond August 31, 2021. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken stated this at a press briefing on Wednesday, streamed by CNN He noted that roughly 1,000 Americans are still in Afghanistan and must be…
