Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, has slammed Benue State governor, Samuel Ortom, over his handling of the farmer-herder clashes. Speaking at the closing ceremony of the 2021 Press Week of the Correspondents’ Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, Bauchi State Council on Thursday, Feb 11 at the Command Guest House, Mohammed also faulted…
US President Joe Biden has announced the purchase of 200 million COVID-19 vaccines to vaccinate all Americans. During a visit to the National Institutes of Health, the Democrat said the federal government signed the final contracts on Thursday afternoon for 100 million more doses of the Moderna vaccine and 100 million more from Pfizer…
Katherine Creag, a popular television news anchor with NBC New York, has died. She was 47. Ms. Creag, who was among the presenters on NBC’s “New York Today” morning show, was said to have died unexpectedly on Wednesday evening January 10. Her death “was unexpected”, NBC New York said, and “she had not been ill…
Yoshiro Mori, the president of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics Organising Committee, has said he is resigning after he made sexist comments that sparked an outcry. The 83-year-old Japanese politician, who served as Prime Minister of Japan between April 2000 and April 2001, had said women talk too much during an online meeting of the…
A Nigerian man, Yusuf Suleiman, has been killed 28 days after his wedding to his wife, Ramatu Idris, in Dutsen Abba ward in Kaduna state on February 4. Ramatu in an interview with NAN, recounted how she was made a widow days after she became wife to her now-deceased husband. “There were about…
A 24-year-old man has been charged with the murder of a Filipina model who was found dead in River Severn in Worcester. Charles Byrne, 24, was charged with murder and attempted murder after the body of the woman, named locally as Christina Rowe, was found in Worcester, West Mercia police said on Thursday night. …
A yet-to-be-identified student of the Rufus Giwa Polytechnic, in Owo, Ondo State, was macheted to death by some unknown persons on Wednesday, February 10. Confirming the incident to newsmen, the public relations officer of the institution, Samuel Ojo, said the reason for the attack is yet to be ascertained. Ojo dismissed rumours that the…
A new law decriminalizing same-sex sexual relations went into effect Wednesday, Feb 10, in Angola. The new law overturned a colonial-era “vice against nature” provision that was seen as a ban on homosexual relations. The changes were passed in January 2019 by Angola’s parliament, but was not signed into law by the country’s…
A young man identified as Muktar Akhtar, a resident of Kano, has been declared missing by his family. The man was said to have disappeared for almost five days without a trace. Tweets by his family and friends called on anyone with useful information about his whereabouts to contact them. “I never imagined it…
Princess Eugenie’s newborn son is expected to have a title nor an official royal role amid reports that the Queen’s granddaughter wants to focus on motherhood and her career rather than picking up any royal duties in the future, and wants the same for her child. The Queen’s granddaughter, 30, and her husband Jack Brooksbank welcomed…
