US President, Joe Biden’s approval rating dropped to 36 per cent in a new poll with most American voters saying they want to see Republicans take control of Congress. The new numbers – from a Quinnipiac University Poll on Thursday, November 18, indicate a level of frustration among voters with the party in power as…
The United States government has reacted following the conclusion of work by the Lagos State Panel for victims of SARS related abuses and other matters. After the panel chairman, Justice Doris Okuwobi (retired) submitted the report at the Lagos House, Ikeja, on Monday, Nov. 15, 2021, concluding that people were killed and injured at the Lekki…
The federal government has announced the possible resumption of flights between Nigeria and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Recall flights between both countries were suspended in March over issues relating to COVID-19 protocol. Speaking at a media briefing on Monday, Mukhtar Muhammad, the national incident manager of the presidential steering committee on COVID-19, said…
American rapper, Yella Beezy has been accused of raping a woman on a first date after he was hit with sexual assault charges earlier in November. According to documents obtained by TMZ, an unidentified woman went to the hospital to report an alleged rape in April. She says Yella Beezy reached out to her on Instagram asking if she…
A man has been arrested by the Talibans for reportedly selling 130 women in northern Afghanistan, after duping them into believing they would be marrying into money. Officials said on Tuesday November 16 that the man was arrested in northern Jawzjan province late on Monday November 15. Damullah Seraj, the Taliban provincial police chief, told…
Police in Kenya are currently pursuing a man who allegedly attacked his 22-year-old wife following a domestic dispute and chopped off her hands before escaping on a waiting motorcycle. The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) in a statement on Monday, November 1, said the appalling incident happened in Busia’s Butula sub-county on Sunday evening. As…
President Joe Biden has apologized to his fellow world leaders at the global climate summit COP26 on Monday Novermber1, for Donald Trump taking the United States out of the Paris Climate Accord. Trump announced the U.S. was withdrawing from the accord in 2019, though the withdrawal didn’t take effect until November 2020. But after taking office in January,…
American rapper Fetty Wap has been arrested and charged with participating in a conspiracy to smuggle large amounts of heroin, fentanyl and other drugs into the New York City region. The rapper, whose real name is Willie Maxwell, was arrested Thursday, October 28, at Citi Field, where the three-day Rolling Loud hip-hop music festival is…
At least 14 civilians were killed in northeastern DR Congo on Friday, October 29 when their village was attacked by two armed groups, monitors said. The deaths occurred in the village of Gina in Ituri province, “during an incursion by the #CODECO-UDPC and ALC” groups, the Kivu Security Tracker (KST) said on Twitter. “They also…
Britain’s monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, 95, has been told by doctors to rest for at least the next two weeks and not undertake any official visits, Buckingham Palace said in a statement on Friday, October 29. The announcement comes more than a week after the monarch, 95, spent a night in the hospital for what…
