FOREIGN NEWS

Missile strikes killed 18 people and wounded dozens in Ukraine’s Odessa region Friday, a day after Russian troops abandoned positions on a strategic island in a major setback to the Kremlin’s invasion. The news came after NATO leaders wrapped up a summit in Madrid, with US President Joe Biden announcing $800 million in new weapons […]

Former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu and his wife, Beatrice, charged with alleged conspiracy to harvest the organs of a child in the United Kingdom, face life imprisonment if found guilty and convicted to maximum sentence under the UK’s Modern Slavery Act 2015 . The couple, who were arrested following an investigation by the London […]

The US Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that Americans have a fundamental right to carry firearms in public in a landmark decision that will prevent states from restricting people carrying guns. The 6-3 ruling, which comes as the country grapples with a shocking surge in gun crime, strikes down a New York law that required […]

The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), has received another batch of 178 stranded Nigerian returnees from Libya. They were returned through the Al Buraq Air with Registration number 5A-DMG Boeing 700-787. The flight arrived at the Cargo Wing of the Murtala Muhammad International Airport, Ikeja at about 18:20 hours on Wednesday. Among the returnees are […]

The London Metropolitan Police Thursday said it arrested a Nigerian national, Ike Ekweremadu, and his wife, Beatrice Nwanneka Ekweremadu, for reportedly conspiring to bring a child to the UK for organ harvesting. In a statement on its website, the Met Police wrote that “Beatrice Nwanneka Ekweremadu, of Nigeria is charged with conspiracy to arrange/facilitate travel […]

As over 10,700 Nigerian pilgrims converged on the city of Madinah in Saudi Arabia, shopping has become fun with the use of calculators. The calculator has reduced the language barrier between pilgrims coming to the city worldwide who could not speak Arabic and resident shop owners. Few Nigerians were able to quickly pick up the […]

Indian police have arrested three men accused of murdering hip-hop star Sidhu Moose Wala, seizing a cache of weaponry including a grenade launcher from the suspects. Moose Wala — also known by his birth name Shubhdeep Singh Sidhu — was shot dead in his car in the northern state of Punjab last month. The 28-year-old […]

The grandson of India’s independence leader Mahatma Gandhi has dropped out of the race to become president after his name was proposed by an alliance of opposition parties. Gopalkrishna Gandhi, 77, a diplomat turned politician said he had declined the request of the 17-party alliance to be their nominee for the largely ceremonial role. National […]

The corpses of the four out of six victims of a boat accident along the Otuan and Ayama communities of Southern Ijaw Local Government council in Bayelsa State, have been found. Of the four victims, two were identified to be corps members. It was gathered that the boat accident, which occurred on Saturday at about […]

NATO Secretary General, Jens Stoltenberg on Wednesday announced that Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskyy was invited to take part in a summit of the alliance’s leaders at the end of the month in Madrid. NATO’s “leaders are extremely committed to support Ukraine,’’ and to “demonstrate that solidarity not only in words but also in deeds.’’jens soltenberg […]