Featured Notes United Kingdom Wole Olaoye World

God Save Their King!

Reading Time: 6 minutes Congratulations, King Charles III. The whole world literally stood still as the major networks of the globe tuned to Westminster to report the incredible cultural spectacle of your coronation. The global community felicitated as one family with the United Kingdom, gluing its eyes to the show stopper. Before God and man, Charles III ascended the Read More…

Featured Notes Owei Lakemfa World

Battered, occupied, exploited, but the Saharawi remain unbowed

Reading Time: 5 minutes I got word that my elderly friend, His Excellency Mohammed Ould Salek, the Minister-Adviser on Diplomatic Affairs to President Brahim Ghali of the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic, better known as Western Sahara, was in Nigeria. He was the Special Envoy sent by the Saharawi President on April 28, 2023 to bid farewell to President Muhamadu Read More…

Sudan Top Story World

FG to rescue Nigerians in Sudan

Reading Time: 2 minutes As a result of the ongoing turmoil in Sudan, the Nigerian government has announced its willingness to evacuate all Nigerian students and other members of the Nigerian community currently there. This information was released by the government in a joint press statement from Dr. Sani Gwarzo, permanent secretary at the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Read More…

Top Story United States World

80-year-old Biden declares 2024 presidential bid: “Let’s finish this job”

Reading Time: 2 minutes Joe Biden, already the oldest U.S. president at age 80, announced on Tuesday that he will run for reelection in 2024, putting to the test whether or not the American people are willing to grant the Democrat another four years in the White House. In a professionally prepared video distributed by his new campaign staff, Read More…

Sudan Top Story World

Sudan: Nigeria requests safe corridor as many nations evacuate nationals

Reading Time: 4 minutes While countries around the world are scrambling to evacuate their diplomats and citizens from Sudan, the Nigerian government has requested a safe corridor from the fighting forces of the Sudanese army and a paramilitary group known as the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). This is to enable the safe evacuation of 5,500 Nigerians, mostly students, from Read More…

REUTERS/Andrew Kelly
Top Story United States World

Trump denies 34 New York felony counts

Reading Time: 3 minutes After an investigation into hush money payments to a porn star, Donald Trump, the former US president and front-runner for the Republican nominee in 2024, entered a not guilty plea to 34 felony charges of falsifying company records on Tuesday. When Trump, 76, waved to the audience gathered outside the courthouse after being taken there Read More…

REUTERS/Johanna Geron
Top Story World

Finland joins NATO on Tuesday

Reading Time: 2 minutes Finland will join NATO on Tuesday, completing the Nordic country’s quick entry into the military alliance following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, authorities said. Finland has a 1,300-kilometer (810-mile) border with Russia, which means NATO’s border with Russia would approximately quadruple in length, prompting Moscow to commit to strengthening its military in border regions. “Tomorrow we Read More…

Featured Notes Owei Lakemfa World

ICC: Europe’s lapdog in a theatre of the absurd

Reading Time: 4 minutes THE International Criminal Court, ICC, on March 17, 2023 added a comic dimension to the tragic war in Ukraine by issuing warrants of arrest for Russian President Vladimir Putin and Commissioner for Children’s Rights, Maria Lvova-Belova. The ICC, a body notorious for the persecution of people in the bad books of the European Union, EU, Read More…

Russian Presidential Press Service/Handout via REUTERS
China Russia Top Story World

Putin cosies up with Xi as ‘dear friends’ meet in the Kremlin

Reading Time: 2 minutes Vladimir Putin had tea with his “dear friend” Xi Jinping in the Kremlin on Monday, demonstrating his rapport with his most powerful ally just days after an international court ordered his arrest for war crimes in Ukraine. US condemned Xi’s visit, claiming that the timing demonstrated that China was helping Moscow with “diplomatic cover” to Read More…

Russia Top Story Ukraine World

ICC wants Putin arrested for Ukraine war crimes against children

Reading Time: 2 minutes In a decision that has infuriated the Kremlin, the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Friday issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin, accusing him of the war crime of the forcible deportation of children from Ukraine. After Muammar Gaddafi of Libya and Omar al-Bashir of the Sudan, Putin is the only other sitting Read More…