FOREIGN NEWS

Emirates Airlines on Thursday said it would suspend its flight operations to Nigeria from September 1, 2022. The flag carrier of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) disclosed this in a statement, blaming its decision on the inability to repatriate its earnings in foreign exchange from Nigeria. This is coming about three weeks after the airlines appealed […]

At least 174 stranded Nigerians have returned from Libya, emergency officials said on Wednesday. The fresh returnees comprise arrived at the cargo wing of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) at about 3:35 pm on Tuesday. They consist of 84 females and 90 males. The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Director General, Mustapha Habib Ahmed, […]

Kenya on Tuesday braced for a protracted legal battle after William Ruto was declared  the winner of presidential election. Ruto was declared the victor in a closely fought presidential race over the objections of more than half the electoral commission, stoking fears of political violence. In the western city of Kisumu and Nairobi’s huge Kibera […]

The German defence ministry said Friday it had suspended most of its operations in Mali after the local military-led government denied flyover rights to a UN peacekeeping mission. “The Malian government has once again refused to give flyover rights to a flight planned today” for the rotation of personnel on the ground, a ministry spokesman […]

NAIROBI — Kenyans crowded round radios and televisions yesterday, increasingly anxious for news of who their next president might be, two days after voting in an election ended. The East African country’s election commission (IEBC) has neither released a running tally of results nor said when it plans to announce the winner, but unofficial and […]

Former Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa left Singapore Thursday, the city-state’s immigration office said, after his social visit pass expired. “The Immigration & Checkpoints Authority (ICA) confirms that Mr Gotabaya Rajapaksa left Singapore on 11 August 2022,” the office said in reply to an AFP query. It did not say where the former leader was […]

Tunisia has approved a new constitution granting unchecked powers to the office of President Kais Saied, the electoral board said, after a poorly attended referendum in which voters overwhelmingly backed the document. Saied’s rivals accused the electoral board controlled by Saied of “fraud” and said his referendum, held Monday, had failed. On Tuesday evening, electoral […]

Ivory Coast’s president on Friday dismissed any suggestion that his country sought to destabilise Mali after a group of Ivorian soldiers were detained there and accused of being mercenaries. Speaking during an official visit to South Africa, President Alassane Ouattara also voiced hopes for a rapid solution to the dispute, which has strained relations between […]

Italy’s Prime Minister Mario Draghi reacts during the debate on the government crisis following his resignation the week before, at the Senate in Rome on July 20, 2022. Italy’s political crisis comes to a head on July 20, 2022, as Prime Minister Mario Draghi, 74, discovers whether his fractured grand coalition can be saved or […]

A reputable American newspaper, The Washington Post, has announced Nigerian-American journalist and political commentator, Toluse Olorunnipa as its White House bureau chief. The announcement was made on the newspaper’s website on Tuesday, adding his breathtaking exploits in journalism which include covering three Presidents of the United States of America. The statement was from TWP’s National […]