This week, the world watched as Russian President Vladimir Putin stood shoulder-to-shoulder with some of the globe's most influential leaders in Beijing. The message was unmistakable, and it went far beyond the battlefields of Ukraine: Moscow is not isolated, it has powerful friends, and together, they are ready to...
A chilling verdict recently echoed across India, delivering a death sentence that underscores a profound societal malaise. A court has condemned a man to death for the horrific act of setting his wife, Lakshmi, ablaze alive – his motive: her dark skin colour. This harsh punishment, handed down eight...
The recent visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin to China has sent unmistakable signals across the international stage, marking a deepening alliance that both nations describe as being at an "unprecedentedly high level." While the formal declarations and major policy discussions took place in Beijing, it was the historic...
Tianjin, China —
Chinese leader Xi Jinping made a veiled swipe at the United States on Monday as he criticized “bullying practices” and cast his country as a new leader of world governance, at a time when President Donald Trump’s America First foreign policy is upending the globe.
“The house rules of...
Imagine waking up to news that your country is gifting a city to a foreign nation. For many, it sounds like something out of a satirical novel. But if you're the Japanese government, it's been the frantic reality of the past few days, as authorities have been in full...
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, is back on our screens, and she's pulling back the curtain on her world like never before. Season 2 of her highly anticipated lifestyle show, "With Love, Meghan," dropped on Netflix this Tuesday, inviting viewers into an intimate blend of cooking, DIY crafts, and surprisingly...
Tyson Fury, the 'Gypsy King' of British boxing, is known for his unfiltered opinions and dramatic pronouncements. But his latest declaration might just be his most shocking yet, particularly for football fans across the UK. In a move that's sent ripples through the sporting world, Fury has announced he's...
The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Annual General Conference (AGC) in Enugu recently became a powerful platform for some of Africa's most outspoken voices, who delivered unflinching assessments of the continent's economic woes, systemic injustices, and the imperative for unity. From the fiery pan-Africanism of Julius Malema to the sobering...
In a resounding display of international cooperation and unwavering commitment to global justice, the Nigeria Police Force has achieved a significant victory against transnational organized crime. High-profile Chinese fugitive, Mr. Dai Qisheng, a notorious gang leader wanted for orchestrating violent crimes, has been successfully repatriated to the People’s Republic...
In the brutal lexicon of war, few messages are as unequivocally blunt as a missile strike. Overnight Wednesday, Russia delivered such a message, not to the frontline trenches of eastern Ukraine, but to an American-owned manufacturing firm hundreds of miles away in the west. This wasn't just another act...
From the ancient stones of Jerusalem, the decisions that shape Israel's future reverberate, often against a backdrop of complex and profound internal dynamics. As Israel prepares for a massive assault on Gaza City, a new layer of complexity is emerging, not just on the external battlefield, but within the...
Abuja, Nigeria – Nigeria has staunchly rebuffed sustained pressure from the United States to accept Venezuelan deportees, including individuals recently released from prison, citing its own considerable internal challenges and burgeoning population.
Ambassador Yusuf Tuggar, Nigeria's Minister of Foreign Affairs, articulated the nation's principled stand during a recent "One-on-One" interview on...
KYIV, UKRAINE – A Nigerian national, Kehinde Oluwagbemileke, who was fighting for the Russian military in the ongoing war with Ukraine, has been captured by Ukrainian forces. The 29-year-old reportedly joined the Russian ranks to avoid a prison sentence for drug-related charges.
His apprehension was announced by Ukraine’s "I Want to...
China is currently experiencing an outbreak of human metapneumovirus (HMPV), occurring five years after the severe Covid-19 pandemic.
Diaspora Digital Media reports that the virus is spreading swiftly, with reports indicating that hospitals and crematoriums are becoming overwhelmed.
This outbreak presents symptoms such as fever, cough, and respiratory distress, which are...
Twelve Russian soldiers have reportedly died while 30 others were hospitalized after eating watermelons poisoned by Ukrainian resistance fighters in an occupied city.
According to local media reports, Putin’s troops based in the Russian-occupied city of Mariupol received the melons from unwitting Russian locals, who received them from the city’s...
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has announced its readiness to launch a single currency initiative, otherwise known as ECO.
This was disclosed in a statement by the Ministry of Finance and signed by the Director Of Press, Mohammed Manga, on Friday.
The ECOWAS single currency has also been...
The Israel’s top military spokesman has admitted that the Palestinian militant group, Hamas cannot be destroyed drawing a sharp rebuke from Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.
“The idea that it is possible to destroy Hamas, to make Hamas vanish — that is throwing sand in the eyes of the public,...
An astrologer dubbed “New Nostradamus” is predicting the start of World War III is mere days away.
The Indian has also doubled down on his prediction after dipping the bombshell.
Kushal Kumar said back in May that World War III would begin on June 18.
“NOW, Tuesday, 18 June 2024 has the...
The Russian president, Vladimir Putin said he is readily available to start peace talks “tomorrow” if Ukraine agreed to take soldiers from the Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, Donetsk and Luhansk regions, and gives up its plans to join NATO.
Those regions are parts of Ukraine that Russia claims as its own. Ukraine...
Russian Government has been accused of forcing thousands of migrants and foreign students, particularly from Africa, to fight in its war against Ukraine in exchange for visa renewals.
Bloomberg reports that the assessment was done by some European officials who alleged that the Kremlin is using foreign students as extra...
Canada has announced a five-fold increase in visas for Palestinians seeking to join their family members in the North American country.
Minister of Immigration, Marc Miller said that Ottawa would raise to 5,000 the number of visas offered to residents in Gaza under a special programme announced in December last...
In the second 12 months on the front line – as Moscow pushed its so-called meat grinder strategy – we found the body count was nearly 25% higher than in the first year.
New graves in cemeteries helped provide the names of many soldiers.
Our teams also combed through open-source information...
The United kingdom (UK) has stated that only international students coming in for their Doctor of Philosophy.(PhD) studies are eligible to bring in dependents to the country.
Dr. Richard Montgomery, the British High Commissioner to Nigeria made this known in an interview with the Newsmen on Sunday, May 5, in...
The US Senate has approved a controversial landmark bill that could see social media platform, TikTok banned in America.
The US Senate has approved a controversial landmark bill that would force TikTok’s China-based parent company to sell the social media platform under the threat of a ban.
The TikTok legislation was...
Skytrax, a UK-based airline and airport review and ranking site has named Cape Town International Airport in South Africa as the best airport in Africa for 2024.
This came after Skytrax conducted a survey from August 2023 until March 2024, in which respondents are polled on a variety of areas,...
Israel has carried out a military strike inside Iran, a potentially dangerous escalation in a fast widening Middle East conflict that Iranian government officials have so far sought to play down.
The United States was given advance notification Thursday of an intended Israeli strike in the coming days, but did...
Pope Francis has called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and the release of all Israeli hostages in an Easter Sunday address that marked the most important day on the Christian calendar.
The Roman Catholic Church leader presided over Mass in a packed and flower-bedecked St Peter's Square and then...
Over 40 people have been killed after gunmen burst into a concert hall in Moscow and opened fire at the crowd.
The gunmen, wearing combat fatigues, also caused a huge blaze at the Crocus City Hall.
The shooting appeared to have begun at a concert of the band “Picnic”.
“Suddenly there were...
Binance founder Changpeng Zhao faces tightened bond conditions as United States federal judge orders him to surrender his passport and report domestic travel.
The presiding judge, Justice Richard A. Jones mandated that Zhao notify the court’s Pretrial Services before traveling to the U.S. and prohibited him from leaving the country...
The UK economy has fallen into recession after recording two successive quarters of negative economic growth in the second half of last year.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said that gross domestic product (GDP) contracted by a worse-than-expected 0.3% in the three months to December having shrunk by 0.1%...
Saudi Arabia is set to open the first-ever liquor store in the capital, Riyadh.
The country is also unveiling new rules on alcohol.
Alcohol sale and consumption in Saudi Arabia is strictly forbidden and is punishable by lashes, deportations, fines and imprisonment.
The rules regulating alcohol quotas for non-Muslim diplomatic missions are...
The 21-year-old French tattoo artist abducted and wounded by Hamas terrorists has revealed the only one reason she wasn’t raped by her captor during 54 days in captivity.
Schem, who has dual Israeli and French citizenship, said her tormentor kept her in a dark room under constant watch for most...
Israel has begun withdrawal of thousands of troops from Gaza, saying it will concentrate its efforts on the main enclave of the southern city of Khan Younis.
According to its authorities, Israel is pulling some troops from Gaza in a possible precursor to a scaled-back offensive against Hamas.
The military said...
The Israel Defense Forces on Sunday uncovered the largest-ever Hamas attack tunnel in the northern Gaza Strip, close to the Erez border crossing with Israel.
The tunnel, of which around four kilometers (2.5 miles) goes down some 50 meters (165 feet) underground in some areas and appears to be wide...
The Canadian government has announced that the “cost-of-living financial requirement for study permit applicants” for international students will increase from $10,000 to $20,000, starting from January 1, 2024.
Marc Miller, Canadian Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, made this announcement in a statement on Thursday, December 7.
“Starting January 1, 2024,...
The world’s “most sought-after” bottle of Scotch whisky sold for a record $2.7 million on Saturday, November 18, breaking a record previously set by another bottle from the same cask, according to Sotheby’s—the latest spirit to receive bids exceeding millions of dollars in recent years.
The Macallan Adami 1926 sold...
Israeli Caracal Battalion commander Lt.-Col. Or Ben-Yehuda praised her unit for its bravery in the southern Gaza Strip, where the female troops took down approximately 100 Hamas terrorists, the Jerusalem Post reported.
After the fighting broke out Oct. 7 when Hamas invaded Israel, Ben-Yehuda said she received a message reporting...
Ali Qadi, an elite commander of Hamas terrorist group, has been eliminated by Israeli airstrike.
Israeli military authorities said that Qadi led a unit of commando forces that killed civilians in last week’s attack on southern Israel.
“Aircraft killed Ali Qadi, a company commander of the Hamas ‘Nukhba’ (elite) commando force,”...
Israel's military has ordered more than 1 million people to evacuate Gaza as they prepare to unleash their troops into Palestine.
Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to crush Hamas terrorists after gunmen stormed over the border and brutally murdered men, women and children.
Israel's military has been massing 360,000 soldiers...
Burkina Faso's military leaders have signed a deal with Russia to build a nuclear power plant to increase electricity supplies.
"The government of Burkina Faso has signed a memorandum of understanding for the construction of a nuclear power plant," the government said in a statement.
The agreement was signed at the...
A French regulator has demanded that Apple remove its three-year-old iPhone 12 from the French market because tests showed electromagnetic radiation above permissible levels.
The French agency in charge of telecommunications regulation—ANFR ordered that the iPhone model “no longer (be) offered for sale in all distribution channels in France” again.
The...
Authorities in the United States have said that they won’t release president Bola Tinubu’s criminal and immigration records in their possession until 2026.
The Peoples Gazette citing court documents reports that the U.S. State Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation said that ‘unusual circumstances’ made them not to release the...
Authorities in France have made 719 arrests nationwide by early Sunday following a fifth night of unrest sparked by the police killing of 17-year-old Nahel Merzouk, who was allegedly 'executed' by police during a traffic stop.
The 17-year-old whose death on Tuesday, June, 27, spawned the anger was laid to...
Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky has claimed that the whole world wants to kill Russian President Vladimir Putin.
He said this at a press conference in Kiev over the weekend.
Zelensky was asked at the press conference – whether he is in danger with his life or whether his life is threatened?
In...
The Canadian government has unveiled its first-ever immigration tech talent strategy that will create new job opportunities for other countries including Nigeria.
This comes a few days after Germany passed an immigrant law designed to encourage more people from outside the European Union to come to the country for work.
The...
Ukrainian forces have reportedly intensified night-time attacks against Russia, gaining more grounds as the war to save motherland rages on, as Ukraine’s 2023 counteroffensive grinds toward its third week.
According to sources, Ukrainian troops frequently attack at night, especially with leopard tanks and western optics supplied by the United States,...
The United States has imposed visa restrictions on Ugandan government officials after the country's parliament passed an anti-LGBTQ law that has been condemned by many countries and the United Nations.
The law was enacted in May and carries the death penalty for "aggravated homosexuality," an offence that includes transmitting HIV...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned there is a “serious danger” of NATO being drawn further into the Ukraine war if members of the alliance continue to supply military weaponry to Kyiv.
The comment appeared to be a reference to the F-16 fighter jets some members of the NATO alliance...
Britain’s financial regulator on Thursday tightened rules over the promotion and selling of cryptocurrency as it seeks to protect consumers.
The Financial Conduct Authority unveiled a package of measures for the industry, which has long faced criticism over the lack of oversight — and promises of high returns in a...
Three of Russian president, Vladimir Putin’s top hypersonic scientists have been arrested on suspicion of high treason, after Ukraine shot down several hypersonic missiles the Russian leader claimed were ‘undefeatable’.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the eminent scientists, Anatoly Maslov, Alexander Shiplyuk and Valery Zvegintsev, all face ‘very serious accusations’.
The...
Donald Trump has raised more than $34 million for his 2024 White House run since the start of the year and saw a spike in donations after his indictment on March 30th.
The former U.S. president raised $15.4 million of that money in the two weeks after charges were filed...
North Korea's leader, Kim Jong Un has reportedly put an entire city under lockdown after 653 bullets went missing during a military withdrawal.
The dictator's officials have searched house-to-house in the city of Hyesan, which has a population of around 200,000 people, for the ammunition, two sources told Radio Free...
At least 19 19 migrants from sub-Saharan Africa have died after their boat sank off the Tunisia coast while trying to cross the Mediterranean to Italy.
According to Al Jazeera, the latest migrant boat disaster off Tunisia was revealed by a human rights group said on Sunday.
In the last four...
The war in Ukraine has generated a record number of refugees, according to recent reports collated from Ukraine and its neighbours, including Poland, Germany, Czech Republic, as well as many more in eight other Western and Central European countries.
The invasion by Russia triggered the biggest wave of refugees in...
The Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI, has revealed that Americans lost $10.3 billion to internet scams last year.
According to a new FBI report, the loss in 2022 was the highest in five years.
According to ABC News, the Bureau’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) lodged more than 2,000 complaints per...
Turkish President, Recep Erdogan has confirmed that the number of people killed by the devastating earthquakes in Turkey’s SouthEast has reached 48,000, with over 115,000 people injured
“The death toll has reached 48,000 and the number of injured has exceeded 115,000,” Erdogan said in a televised address to the nation...
