Knights ask authorities to address injustices in Nigeria
The newly-appointed Supreme Head of the Knights of Saint Mulumba Nigeria, Sir Steve Adehi (SAN), has expressed worry over the persistent abductions and killings in the country, particularly in the North, saying injustice is one of the elements fuelling the situation. Adehi spoke during his maiden media briefing at the KSM headquarters in Onitsha on […]
Stakeholders urge full implementation of Police Act
Stakeholders in the security sector have raised the alarm over the widening gap between the innovative provisions of the Police Act 2020 and the reality of policing on Nigerian streets. At a town hall meeting organized by Partners West Africa Nigeria (PWAN) in Enugu on Wednesday, and other stakeholders engagement on Friday and Saturday respectively, […]
Mother queries son’s disappearance after police arrest, seeks intervention
A 58-year old widow, Justina Chibuzor has appealed to the Abia State Governor, Alex Otti, the Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun and the Police Service Commission to help locate her only son Ifeanyi Chibuzor, arrested by policemen attached to the Central Police Station, Umuahia, Abia State. The distraught mother, a native of Amaokwe Ugba […]
NRCRI partners firm to process cassava peels into feeds
The National Root Crops Research Institute at Umudike in Abia State has entered a strategic partnership with Barn Holdings Limited to process cassava peels and other root crop by-products into animal feed, a move expected to strengthen food security, create jobs and support Nigeria’s livestock industry. The agreement was sealed at the institute’s headquarters in […]
Pro-monarch protesters converge on Anambra Govt House
Hundreds of indigenes of Ndiowu community in the Orumba North Local Government Area of Anambra State on Tuesday stormed the Government House in Awka, the state capital, insisting that their newly-elected monarch, Chief Chibuzor Okekeifi, was validly elected according to the community’s constitution, contrary to claims by some persons in the community. Recall that Okekeifi […]
Drought in the east, floods in the south: Africa battered by climate change
Chokwe District, Mozambique – I have been reporting on climate change stories for nearly all of this month. It wasn’t planned – it just ended up like that. A routine deployment to Kenya saw me head to the Kenya-Somalia border in Mandera town for a drought story. At the time, there was hardly any international […]
Cuba in contact with US, diplomat says, as Trump issues threat to block oil
Cuba and the United States are in communication, but the exchanges have not yet evolved into a formal “dialogue”, a Cuban diplomat has said, as US President Donald Trump stepped up pressure on Havana. Carlos Fernandez de Cossio, Cuba’s deputy foreign minister, told the Reuters news agency on Monday that the US government was aware […]
Uruguay President Orsi deepens ties with China’s Xi despite Trump threats
China and Uruguay have moved to deepen their strategic partnership despite pressure from United States President Donald Trump to keep Chinese influence out of Latin America. The two countries signed a dozen cooperation agreements on Tuesday in areas such as science, technology, and trade following a meeting between Uruguayan President Yamandu Orsi and his Chinese […]
Russia renews attacks on frozen Ukrainian cities
Russian forces have attacked energy infrastructure in Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, and its second-largest city, Kharkiv, as a supposed weeklong truce amid winter conditions ended, according to Ukrainian officials. Russia attacked with 450 drones and more than 60 missiles overnight, Ukraine’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrii Sybiha said on Tuesday, accusing Moscow of having waited for […]
Trump announces plan to sue Harvard for $1bn damages
United States President Donald Trump has said his administration will seek $1bn in damages from Harvard University. The US president announced his plan to extract the money from the Ivy League school on social media late on Monday. The note, which did not explain the exact nature of his complaint, extends an already protrac “We […]