At least six people have lost their lives while more than 30 were wounded today, in a blast near a mosque in Pakistan’s Balochistan province, newsmen reported. The Assistant Commissioner of Mastung district said the explosion happened as people gathered for a procession marking the birthday of Prophet Mohammed. The country’s interior ministry confirmed a…
The appointees – Osagie Imasogie and Chinenye Ogwumike – are part of the 12 members of the President’s Advisory Council on African Diaspora Engagement in the United States Congratulating the duo on the appointment, the Chairperson of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), Abike Dabiri-Erewa, said their recognition and appointment into the 12-member advisory council…
Eight people, including four children, died by electrocution in two slums after torrential rains lashed Cape Town, South African authorities said Tuesday. The deaths occurred on the outskirts of the southern port city, its disaster risk management unit said Tuesday. Local media reports said the electrocutions were caused by illegal power connection. Many people in…
Several villages in Russia’s Kursk region bordering Ukraine lost power on Tuesday morning after a Ukrainian drone dropped explosives on an electricity substation, the region’s governor said. Since Russia launched hostilities against Ukraine last year, Russian regions bordering Ukraine have repeatedly accused Kyiv’s forces of attacking civilian infrastructure, including the power grid. “In the morning,…
Somalia, officially the Federal Republic of Somalia, is a country in the Horn of Africa. Emergency workers in central Somalia dug through rubble to recover more bodies Sunday after a truck bombing killed over a dozen people and brought buildings crashing down. A suicide bomber drove the vehicle which was loaded with explosives towards a…
Exiled former Central African Republic, President Francois Bozize, who became a rebel leader, has been sentenced in absentia to forced labour for life for conspiracy and rebellion, authorities said today. Bozize, 76, who was in exile in Chad until March when he moved to Guinea Bissau, heads an alliance of rebel groups called the Coalition…
Two men have been jailed after beating a French bus driver to death after he asked them to get off for not correctly wearing face masks during the pandemic. Wyssem Manai and Maxime Guyennon left Philippe Monguillot beside the bus with serious head injuries in the city of Bayonne in south-west France in 2020. Manai…
Six Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. Four were killed in a late-night military raid of Jenin refugee camp in which some 30 people were also injured, according to Palestinian medics. Another young Palestinian man was killed during an Israeli raid in Jericho on Wednesday morning….
By: Babatunde Tiamiyu The Joe Biden administration is dispatching the United States Deputy Treasury Secretary, Wally Adeyemo, to Nigeria next week as it seeks to deepen economic ties with Africa and counter China’s influence on the continent. According to the New York Times, the visit comes as President Bola Tinubu, embarks on reforms to…
Spanish police have arrested a man for allegedly sexually assaulting a female journalist, Isa Balado, while she was live on television. Balado was reporting on a Madrid robbery on Tuesday when the man walked up and appeared to touch her bottom, which he denied when she confronted him. Ms Balado tried to continue but was…