The decision by the Biden administration on Thursday that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman can’t be sued for the journalist’s murder was quickly criticised by Jamal Khashoggi’s ex-girlfriend. In October 2018, Saudi agents killed Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul and cut him up into pieces. U.S. intelligence said that the operation was Read More…
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GOP wins US House majority, dividing government
It has been projected that Republicans will win the most seats in the United States Congress. On Wednesday, Republicans gained control of the House of Representatives but Democrats maintained their hold on the Senate, setting the stage for two years of divided government under President Joe Biden. This is not the “red wave” that the Read More…
FG commits to Abidjan-Lagos corridor
The Federal Government has reaffirmed its commitment to facilitating the free movement of products and persons among member countries by supporting the Abidjan-Lagos Corridor Organisation’s activities (ALCO). In a statement issued by his Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Ebenezer Adeniyan, the Minister of State for Transportation, Prince Ademola Adegoroye, said this while receiving ALCO’s Read More…
To migrants, watery graves; to humanity, a boiling world
TRAGEDY. Unimaginable tragedy. What is most tragic to me is not the number of migrants, including children from underdeveloped countries, who have gone down the sea to watery graves trying to reach Europe. Yes, this year alone, over 1,200 went on a final dip, never to resurface again, or if they did, only as corpses. Last Read More…
Lula: Battered Brazil rises from the canvas
LUIZ Inácio Lula da Silva, 77 had done his duty to his long-suffering country, Brazil. His origins were rough, like those of his motherland. The product of a polygamous family, he learnt to read at ten and began working at 12. At 19, while working as a press operator, he lost the little finger on Read More…
Nigeria, Cameroon commission multimillion-dollar bridge, border post
President Muhammadu Buhari and his Cameroonian counterpart, Paul Biya, opened a bridge between Nigeria and Cameroon on Thursday in Etung local government area. The bridge cost several million dollars. The bridge, which has two lanes and is worth approximately 44 million dollars, is situated at the Nigeria-Cameroon border in the communities of Mfum in the Read More…
Ex-Pakistan PM Imran Khan shot and injured at protest march
In an alleged murder attempt, Imran Khan, the former prime minister of Pakistan, was shot and injured while participating in a protest march in the eastern city of Wazirabad. Four more people were injured on Thursday, according to members of his PTI party, but no one was killed. He may have been struck on the Read More…
Netanyahu faces balance test after Israeli election comeback
After he lost the election in 2021, Benjamin Netanyahu wrote in the last chapter of his book “Bibi: My Story” that his time in opposition was just a “hiatus” and that he still had important work to do. The book, which was released right before the fifth Israeli election in four years and was prominently Read More…
Ebola: NCDC warns Nigerians against non-essential travel to Uganda
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) issued a warning to people on Monday against making unplanned trips to Uganda at this time. In a statement he signed on Monday in Abuja, Dr. Ifedayo Adetifa, Director-General of the NCDC, issued the warning. He explained that the warning is intended to give public health officials time Read More…
COP27 to test world’s determination to fight war, inflation
The global climate meeting in Egypt next week will show how serious countries are about stopping global warming, even though many of the major players are focused on more pressing issues like the conflict in Europe or rising prices for consumers. From November 6–18, more than 30,000 delegates, including government officials from 200 countries, will Read More…