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Iran seizes Chevron chartered oil tanker
Iranian Navy on Thursday arrested and detained an ocean going tanker chartered by Chevron Corporation and sailing from Kuwait to Houston, United States. According to a story broken by Reuters news service quoting the U.S. Navy, the Marshall Islands-flagged oil…
Epidemic, more deaths likely in Sudan as services collapse, fighters overrun disease lab
The World Health Organization (WHO) expects “many more” deaths in Sudan due to outbreaks of disease and a lack of essential services amid fighting, its director general said on Wednesday. Battles between Sudan’s army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF)…
Police, CSOs, others to discuss journalists’ safety during 2023 general elections
Representatives of the Nigeria Police Force, Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) and journalists will appraise the safety of journalists during the 2023 general elections at the April edition of Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) Twitter Spaces billed for Thursday,…
California man rams car six times at black neighbor
Hate crime charges were announced yesterday (March 7) for a December 2021 disturbance. The incident involved two neighbors, where one was repeatedly run over by a car in California. Surveillance video captured the terrifying moments when 45-year-old Cory Brown, a…
Nigerian prostitution mafia queen extradited to Italy
A most wanted Nigerian mafia queen has been received by the Italian police on her way straight into prison for exporting young compatriots to Europe where they are allegedly forced into prostitution by coercion. The woman simply identified as Ms…
EU, ECOWAS thrash Nigeria’s election, want riggers prosecuted
Sopuruchi Onwuka The European Union has asked the government of President Muhammadu Buhari to arrest and prosecute all people involved in electoral violence in the ongoing 2023 elections, saying that the conduct and outcomes of the election so far fall…
Election is not war, Fayemi tells Nigerians to ‘calm down’
Erstwhile governor of Ekiti State and President of the Forum of Regions of Africa (FORAF), Dr. Kayode Fayemi, has urged Nigerians to exercise utmost restraint and patience in the aftermath of the Presidential election. In a statement issued on his…
Lagos markets shut, as Tinubu’s thugs wreak havoc on Igbo traders
Police weak on response, recant early denial Igbo traders have come under violent attacks by political party thugs said to belong to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) across markets in Lagos following earlier Monday’s declaration of the Presidential candidate…
Business in Lagos take risk measures against election violence
Following threats of violence on non indigenes in some areas of Lagos Island over their preferred candidates in tomorrow’s polls, businesses in the areas have started taking precautions to prevent attacks from people believed to be behind the viral voice…
New AU chief wants Africa’s debt cancelled
UN’s Scribe demands peace as ACFTA falters Some 339 million Africans in urgent need Sopuruchi Onwuka Some 339 million of Africa’s 1.4 billion population are in acute need of humanitarian aid as tribes are locked in mortal wars and governments…
