Adebayo Adelabu, the Minister of Power, has apologised to Nigerians in the north for the protracted power outage that has occurred over the last few days.…
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The Nigerian Government has allocated funds to pay the outstanding salaries of the Non-Academic Staff Union of Federal Universities (NASU). The Office of the Accountant General…
On Friday, French President Emmanuel Macron formally recognised that Larbi Ben M’hidi, a central figure in Algeria’s independence movement, was killed by French soldiers following his…
Justice Obiora Egwuatu of Nigeria has granted bail to 67 minors, with each set at N10 million, out of 76 minors charged with participating in the…
Richard Moore, a 59-year-old black man, was executed on Friday in South Carolina after a 2001 conviction for the fatal shooting of convenience store clerk James…
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) reported a disturbing 38% rise in journalist killings worldwide over 2022-2023, with 162 deaths recorded. Nearly all cases…
The UN’s biodiversity summit, COP16, made a landmark decision on Friday to create a permanent body to represent Indigenous people and local communities, marking a historic…
The death toll from Spain’s devastating floods rose to 205 on Friday, with fears mounting for the dozens still missing in the country’s worst flooding disaster…
Algeria celebrated the 70th anniversary of its war for independence from France on Friday with a large-scale military parade in Algiers, set against the backdrop of…
In a historic political shift, Botswana’s new president, Duma Boko, assumed office Friday after an election that ended nearly six decades of Botswana Democratic Party (BDP)…