Reading Time: 5 minutes IN Nigeria, there are people who traditionally rejoice at the prospect of war. They are uncomfortable when there are no wars or new territories to conquer, plunder or destabilise. The United States establishment has this same psychological make-up. It appears allergic to peace, and as one conflict drags to a bloody close, it is instigating Read More…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Ukrainian forces are ramping up attacks to reclaim territory in the Russian-occupied south. The Ukrainians are unleashing American-supplied rocket launchers to strike bridges and military infrastructure in the south, forcing Russia to divert its forces from the Donbas in the east to counter the new threat. The attacks come despite Moscow’s massive war machine crawling Read More…
Reading Time: 2 minutes A controversy is raging over the sale of a watch said to have belonged to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. The watch was auctioned off on July 29 for $1.1million at an auction in the US. The watch, a Huber timepiece, was sold to an anonymous bidder. It shows a swastika and has the initials AH Read More…
Reading Time: 4 minutes Liberia, which along with Ethiopia are the two African countries never colonised, marked its Bicentennial as an emergent country, and this Tuesday, July 26, 2022, observed its 75th Independence Anniversary. On that historic date, the five most prominent persons on the dais who are from four countries were of contrasting nature. Liberian President George Manneh Read More…
Reading Time: < 1 minutes The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has rejected a request by Russian news network RT France to lift a broadcasting ban imposed by the European Union (EU) on Russia over Russia-Ukraine conflict. “The EU General Court dismisses Russia Today France’s application for annulment of the EU Council’s acts,’’ the ECJ said on Twitter on Wednesday. Read More…
Reading Time: < 1 minutes Former President Donald Trump returned to Washington for the first time since leaving office Tuesday, and hinted at running for office again in 2024. He vigorously repeated his false election claims that sparked the January 6 insurrection at the nearby Capitol. “It was a catastrophe, that election. A disgrace to our country,” he said, insisting Read More…
Reading Time: < 1 minutes No fewer than three persons were killed in fresh fighting between rival Libyan factions in Tripoli overnight. The fighting took place in the Ain Zara region late on Thursday night between units of the Presidential Council’s security force and the Special Deterrence Force, or RADA. Osama Ali, a spokesman for Libya’s Ambulance and Emergency Services, Read More…
Reading Time: < 1 minutes Heavy gunfire has been heard at the main military base outside Mali’s capital Bamako. The shooting began at around 5am local time on Friday but eased after about an hour. Afterwards, helicopters were seen heard circling above the base in the town of Kati, where mutinies in 2012 and 2020 led to successful coups. The Read More…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Former Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak and Foreign Secretary Liz Truss will battle it out to become Britain’s next prime minister after they won the final lawmaker vote, setting up the last stage of the contest to replace Boris Johnson. International Trade Minister Penny Mordaunt was knocked out in the final round of balloting Read More…
Reading Time: 2 minutes The Russian parliament has moved to tighten already stringent restrictions on the discussion of LGBTQ rights and relationships. A draft bill calling for the broadening of a 2013 ban on the “promotion of non-traditional sexual relations” to minors, widely referred to as the “gay propaganda” bill, was announced on the website of the parliament, or Read More…
