Written by By Chioma Obinna As the world observes World Antimicrobial Resistance, AMR, Awareness Week 2025, the World Health Organisation, WHO, has issued one of its strongest warnings yet on the escalating threat of drug-resistant infections, calling for urgent, coordinated action to prevent millions of avoidable deaths and a looming global economic catastrophe. In a message to … Continue reading “AMR silently reversing decades of progress, WHO warns”
By Johnbosco Agbakwuru President Bola Tinubu will depart Abuja on Wednesday for a two-nation visit to Johannesburg, South Africa and Luanda, Angola. President Tinubu’s first stop is Johannesburg, where he will attend the 20th summit of the G20 Leaders. After the summit, he will proceed to Angola for the AU-EU summit. President Cyril Ramaphosa, the … Continue reading “Tinubu to attend G20 leaders summit in South Africa, AU-EU summit in Angola”
By Kingsley Omonobi The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command on Tuesday night dismissed a viral social media video alleging that its officers engaged in a physical confrontation and blocked the Governor of Bauchi State from accessing the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) National Secretariat, Wadata Plaza, in Abuja on Tuesday, 18 November 2025. A statement … Continue reading “FCT Police debunks claims of confrontation at PDP national secretariat”
US lawmakers voted overwhelmingly Tuesday for releasing government files on sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, after President Donald Trump dropped his opposition to opening the books on a scandal that has roiled politics, law enforcement and the country’s elite. The president had put allies in Congress under intense pressure not to make the material public, but … Continue reading “US lawmakers vote for Epstein files release after Trump U-turn”
By Favour Ulebor, with agency report American rapper Nicki Minaj has raised global attention to alleged Christian persecution in Nigeria, calling for urgent international action during a United Nations event hosted by United States Ambassador, Mike Waltz, on Tuesday. Minaj, who has repeatedly commented on the issue in recent months, said she was invited after … Continue reading “‘In Nigeria, Christians are being targeted’ – says Nicki Minaj, calls for urgent action”
A former banker, Atoyebi Adeyemi Akande, was on Monday arraigned before a Federal High Court in Lagos alongside his company, Atadak International Limited, on charges of conspiracy and advanced fee fraud involving N150 million. The arraignment, conducted by the Legal/Prosecution Department of the Force Criminal Investigation Department (ForceCID) Annex, Alagbon-Ikoyi, Lagos, took place before Justice […]
A special tribunal sentenced Bangladesh’s ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and one of her close aides to death on charges of crimes against humanity for her crackdown on a student uprising last year that killed hundreds of people and led to the toppling of her 15-year rule. The International Crimes Tribunal based in Dhaka, the […]
In a staunch defense of Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister Nyesom Wike amid a brewing national controversy, former President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Joseph Daudu, SAN, has condemned the actions of Navy Lieutenant A.M. Yerima for obstructing the minister during an official inspection. Daudu described the incident as an illegal interference by a […]
*Dismisses Purported BoT, NEC Meeting Notices Circulating on Social Media The newly elected National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Tanimu Turaki, SAN, on Monday said the party had formally notified the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command of its plan to reclaim and hold its inaugural National Working Committee (NWC) meeting at the […]
In a scathing judgment that exposes the scourge of sexual predation in Nigeria’s academic halls, the Federal High Court in Abuja has convicted Prof. Cyril Osu Ndifon, the suspended Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Calabar (UNICAL), on two counts of sexual harassment and cybercrimes. Justice J. K. Omotosho imposed a […]