Bah Ndaw, a retired colonel who has been designated Mali’s interim president following last month’s coup, made his first public appearance on Thursday, September 24, meeting a regional mediator, According to AFP.
Ndaw, 70, met former Nigerian president, Goodluck Jonathan, in Bamako on a mission for the 15-nation bloc ECOWAS,...
Paul Rusesabagina, portrayed in a 2004 Hollywood movie as a hero who helped save Tutsis during the Rwandan genocide, on Friday September 25 admitted to forming an armed group but denied any role in their crimes.
The 66-year-old former hotel manager who was arrested after being lured into a private jet...
The United States government has commended the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and security agencies over the conduct of the Edo State Governorship election.
In its tweets on Wednesday September 23, the US government also commended the people of Edo State for exercising their franchise.
It read;
Congratulations@inecnigeria and Nigerian security services on the Edo...
China and India have agreed to stop sending military troops to their disputed border in the Himalayas, following an escalation in tensions between the two nuclear powers.
Senior military commanders from India and China met on Monday to discuss stabilizing tensions along the Line of Actual Control (LAC), the demarcation...
GOP Senator, Mitt Romney of Utah, the only Republican senator who voted in favor of Trump's impeachment last year, has revealed he will join his party colleagues in the senate to vote in a Supreme Court nominee during the current election year, an announcement that all but ensures a...
The Department of Commerce has announced that TikTok and WeChat will be banned from app stores in the U.S. from Sunday, September 20, amid national security concerns.
In a press release on Friday September 18, the department stated: 'In response to President Trump's Executive Orders signed August 6, 2020, the Department of...
Lawmakers from the United People's Force, the largest opposition grouping in Sri Lanka's Parliament, staged a walkout on Wednesday, September 9, when Premlal Jayasekera, a convicted murderer on death row was sworn in by Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena as member of Parliament for Ratnapura District, a gem mining center,...
Iran is planning an assassination plot against Lana Marks, the United States ambassador to South Africa, a new report has revealed.
US Officials are reportedly aware of threats against Marks, a longtime friend of President Donald Trump, according to Politico.
According to the Politico report, gotten from a White House insider,...
The United States government has revoked visas of more than 1,000 Chinese students and researchers under an order issued by President Donald Trump accusing some of them of espionage and working for the Chinese communist party, the State Department said Wednesday September 9.
As tensions between Beijing and Washington rose...
The Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF) has suspended the membership of West African nation Mali, increasing international pressure on the military junta that seized power in Mali last week after a coup d'etat that ousted Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita and Prime Minister Boubou Cisse from power.
On August...
US President, Donald Trump, has lambasted his rival, Joe Biden saying his policies for the country are anti-America and he will only destroy America's greatness if he is elected.
Trump, speaking from the South Lawn of the White House in Washington on Friday August 28, after accepting the Republican party's...
US Democratic presidential nominee, Joe Biden, has rejected a suggestion from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that he should not debate President Donald Trump ahead of the elections.
Trump and Biden are scheduled for debates on September 29, October 15 and October 22 and on Thursday, Speaker of the House Nancy...
The Trump campaign has released a 9-point wishlist for President Trump's second term if re-elected.
Trump's release of his second term agenda comes ahead of the Republican party's National Convention on Monday night August 24, and comes after Trump has repeatedly struggled to detail what his second term might look...
North Korean dictator, Kim Jong-un is 'in a coma' with the country now preparing to hand power to his sister, ex-diplomat has claimed.
Chang Song-min, an ex-aide to late-South Korean president Kim Dae-jung believes North Korea is hiding the truth about their leader's health despite reports that Kim was pictured...
US president Donald Trump, has demanded a reinstatement of all suspended United Nations sanctions on Iran, vowing the Iranian regime "will never have a nuclear weapon."
Trump in 2018 pulled out of the nuclear deal orchestrated by the Obama regime which has Russia, Germany, Iran, UK, France , China and...
The Christians Association of Nigeria CAN, has rejected the newly amended Company and Allied Matters Law, CAMA, which was signed into law on August 7th by President Buhari. The Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, said the law is satanic, unacceptable, ungodly, and reprehensible.
The bill passed by the National Assembly,...
The Federal government says it would be also be banning flights from the European nations just as they have banned flights from Nigeria into their country.
As part of measures to contain the spread of the Coronavirus in its region, the European Union in June this year released a statement listing...
Members of the military are cheered as they parade through Bamako following the mutiny.
Mali's President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta announced his resignation on Tuesday, hours after soldiers arrested him, along with the prime minister and other top officials, per state television.
Why it matters: The uprising from within the military...
Ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) have been directed not to make plans for new projects in 2021 by the federal government.
The directive which was conveyed in a 2021 Budget Call Circular issued by the Federal Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning, came ahead of the preparation of next year's budget...
The federal government and Ireland have signed amemorandum of understanding to return €5.5 million looted by Sani Abacha, a former Nigerian Head of State.
Ireland's minister of justice and equality, Helen McEntee in her statement said it followed an order recently issued by a court in Ireland regarding the funds.
The return...
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has urged Nigerian youths to take over the leadership of the country from the older generation, who are currently in power.
According to The Nation, Obasanjo spoke on Wednesday while delivering a keynote address at a virtual interactive session with youths to mark this year’s International...
Democratic presidential candidate, Joe Biden has named Kamala Harris as his running mate for the US 2020 presidential elections.
Biden's campaign announced on Tuesday August 11 that the former California attorney general Harris will be his vice-presidential pick, making her the first Black and South Asian American woman to run...
Muhammad Babandede, the comptroller-general of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has said that they will be reciprocating travel bans and restrictions on Nigeria by any country.
The Immigration CG who said this in reaction to the inclusion of Nigeria by the US to its list of countries with visa restrictions, told TheSignature50 magazine that Nigeria also...
The ex-President says no legal, political, cultural, social or even medical manoeuver could stop the cold hand of death.
Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo says the former lawmaker from Ogun state, the late Buruji Kashamu used law and politics to escape from facing justice on alleged criminal offence.
Kashamu died from coronavirus...
President Donald Trump on Thursday August 6, signed executive orders banning social media apps TikTok and WeChat from operating in the US in 45 days if they are not sold by their Chinese-owned parent companies.
The executive orders, one for each app take effect in 45 days.
In the executive order,...
Olawale Bakare, the #RevolutionNow co-convener who was granted bail alongside Omoyele Sowore in 2019 has been rearrested by the Department of State Services (DSS).
He was arrested alongside six others at the ongoing #RevolutionNow protest in Osun State on Wednesday August 5. They had converged at Olaiya junction in Osogbo, Osun state capital to...
Kanye West has filed to be on Arkansas' presidential ballot and has listed Michelle Tidball, a Wyoming life coach as his vice president.
According to TMZ, the rapper, 43, added his newly confirmed vice presidential running mate Michelle Tidball to the petition as he submitted the 1,000 required signatures before the...
Chairman of the United Bank for Africa (UBA), Mr. Tony Elumelu, has given a seven-day ultimatum to the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public petition, Senator Ayo Akinyelure, to retract a statement credited to him linking the banker and the UBA to a N41billion fraud...
President Donald Trump has revealed plans to ban TikTok app in the United States through executive authority today.
"As far as TikTok is concerned, we're banning them from the United States," Trump told reporters while flying home from Florida on Friday evening, July 31.
The president said he would sign something...
The last has not been heard regarding the faceoff between the House of Representatives and the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio.
In a statement released by its spokesperson, Benjamin Kalu on Tuesday, July 28, the House is insisting that the Minister must publish the names of the lawmakers that...
Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, says the Federal Government has so far spent N15.8 billion on hazard allowances in its teaching hospitals and medical centres across the country.
Ngige disclosed this while addressing newsmen at a meeting with the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) leadership in Abuja on Monday,...
Kanye West has reportedly filed to appear on the New Jersey ballot in November’s presidential election in his latest bid for the White House.
The 43-year-old rapper submitted petitions with 1,327 signatures to get on the ballot for New Jersey, surpassing the 800 required signatures before the deadline day in...
The American flag over the US consulate building in the Chinese city of Chengdu was lowered on Monday morning July 27, after the Chinese government ordered the closure of the building.
Beijing ordered the US embassy to close on Friday in a tit-for-tat move amid worsening relations between Beijing and...
Suspended acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu has stated that he will henceforth reply every attack launched against him.
Magu who denied misappropriating funds recovered for the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) in a statement released by his lawyer Wahab Shittu, averred that the allegations he...
President Muhammadu Buhari has named some train stations in the country after Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, and Bola Tinubu, the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC.
Buhari also named train stations after Rotimi Amaechi, Minister of Transportation; and Babatunde Fashola, Minister of Works and Housing.
The gesture was disclosed...
The United States has ordered China to close its consulate in Houston in a dramatic escalation of diplomatic tensions between the feuding superpowers.
Wednesday’s announcement infuriated Beijing, which vowed to retaliate as the two countries squabble over a slew of issues ranging from trade to the coronavirus pandemic and China’s...
Omar al-Bashir, the former Sudanese President Omar who was ousted last year following mass protests, has gone on trial in the capital over his role in the 1989 coup that brought him to power.
The 76-year-old appeared in court on Tuesday, July 21, alongside more than 20 former officials who...
Speaker of the house of representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila has stated that the acting managing director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Kemebradikumo Pondei, will no longer appear before the panel probing him and the agency.
Recall that Pondei was enmeshed in a drama today July 20, after fainting at the venue...
The Acting managing director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Kemebradikumo Pondei has died while giving an account of his stewardship before the House of Representatives Committee probing the commission today July 20.
According to reports, he failed to defend the N1.3 billion he approved to provide COVID-19 palliative...
Bauchi state governor, Bala Mohammed, visited former Head of State, Ibrahim Babangida, at his hilltop home in Minna, Niger state today July 18, and shared the photos online.
Babangida, 78, was the Military leader from 1985 until his resignation in 1993. See more photos below
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President Muhammadu Buhari has named the railway complex in Agbor, Delta state after former President Goodluck Jonathan.
Presidential aide Tolu Ogunlesi and the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi made the announcement on Saturday July 18.
The railway complex in Agbor is the centre of operation which connects the Itakpe-Warri rail line to the Lagos-Calabar coastal...
The Trump administration is considering banning all members of the Chinese Communist Party and their families from traveling to the United States, according to a source within the administration.
According to the New York Times, who spoke to the source, senior administration officials discussing the matter have begun circulating a...
Prince Arthur Eze, Nigeria Billionaire In a statement released by his media aide, Oliver Okpala has said that the Igbos support President Buhari and will remain loyal to him because they have benefited immensely from present administration.
In the statement, He said: “President Mohammadu Buhari and the Inspector General of...
Jackson Ude, Aide to Former president Goodluck Jonathan has alleged that Magu, the arrested EFCC chairman could not account for the Missing funds, adding that Osinbajo collected N4billion from him when Buhari Traveled to UK for medical Treatment.
On his Twitter Account, He wrote: “Embattled former acting Chairman of the...
More facts have emerged on how the late Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, Abba Kyari ordered the sharing of one billion US Dollars without approval of the National Assembly.
According to the Constitution, “Section 80 (4) No moneys shall be withdrawn from the Consolidated Revenue Fund or any...
A Member of House of Representatives, representing Bama, Ngala, Kala-Balge Federal Constituency in Borno State, Hon. Zainab Gimba (Ph.D) has empowered her constituents with enough bounties to garner accolades even from persons outside her constituency.
Hon. Gimba, won her election on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
In christian...
The suspended acting chairman of the EFCC Ibrahim Magu seems to be engulfed by bigger allegations now - Magu was questioned by the panel over 380 houses and seven crude oil-laden vessels - The panel also grilled the embattled EFCC chairman on assets worth N37 billion
The ongoing probe...
How Magu Embezzled N39billion, Gave Osinbajo N4billion, Begs For Soft Landing.
Embattled former acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, allegedly embezzled over N39billion and gave Vice President Yemi Osinabjo N4billion, after the VP gave instructions to him to release some of the recovered loots, Sources within...
A new official has reportedly been selected to head the EFCC following Ibrahim Magu’s suspension - An unmanned EFCC official said Magu’s replacement is Mohammed Umar, the director of operations at the commission -
The source said the reported suspension of the acting chairman has not been officially communicated...
The US government is 'looking at' banning TikTok and other Chinese social media apps over national security concerns.
Mike Pompeo, the Secretary of state suggested the move during an interview with Fox News' Laura Ingraham on Monday, July 6.
When asked by Ingraham whether the United States should be considering a ban...
Senator Dino Melaye has said he will not glorify the ruling party, APC, with a response over claims made by the party of his supposed affiliation with suspected fraudster, Hushpuppi.
Over the weekend, the deputy National Spokesperson of the APC, Yekini Nabena, released a statement in which he called on EFCC...
French President, Emmanuel Macron has appointed Jean Castex, as the country's new prime minister after Edouard Philippe's resignation.
He replaces Edouard Philippe, who resigned earlier today with his government after President Macron promised a reshuffle for the last two years of his term.
Mr. Castex, 55, a senior civil servant played a...
Prime Minister of France, Edouard Philippe, 49, and his government have submitted their resignations
The Élysée Palace announced that Philippe submitted his government’s resignation but would remain as head of an interim government until a new cabinet is named.
No reason for his resignation was not given in the short statement...
