The Senate on Tuesday rose firmly against what it described as “glaring exploitation” of Nigerian travelers, summoning the Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, along with major aviation agencies and airline operators, over the steep rise in domestic airfares nationwide. During a heated plenary session, lawmakers decried the sudden spike in ticket prices […]
Chelsea are set to learn the outcome of their FA disciplinary hearing into 74 charges that were placed on the club, with offences relating to agents, intermediaries and third-party investment coming to light under the ownership of Roman Abramovich. The Blues self-reported the situation to the governing body to cooperate with the findings. It came […]
A fire that broke out in a residential building in southern China killed 12 people, state media reported Wednesday. The blaze at the four-storey building in Shantou, Guangdong province, erupted around 9:20 pm on Tuesday, and was extinguished just after 10:00 pm, the local fire department said in a statement. It comes after a huge […]
The Federal Government has directed Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) to carry over 70 per cent of their 2025 capital allocations into the 2026 fiscal year. The directive is contained in the 2026 Abridged Budget Call Circular issued by the Ministry of Budget and Economic Planning and circulated to ministers, service chiefs, and heads of […]
Rwanda has accused the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Burundi of deliberately violating a ceasefire in eastern DRC, just days after a peace agreement was signed in Washington. The Rwandan-backed M23 rebel group captured the strategic city of Uvira near the Burundian border late Tuesday, the latest major settlement to fall in the mineral-rich […]
Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF), yesterday, declared support for President Bola Tinubu’s intervention in Sunday’s attempted coup in the Republic of Benin, saying his timely role prevented a major security threat to Nigeria. Chairman of NGF and governor of Kwara State, Alhaji AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, disclosed this while reacting to the development. That was as Senate granted […]
The Nigerian Senate has approved request by President Bola Tinubu to deploy troops to the Republic of Benin on a peace mission amid the ongoing attempted coup in the country. President Tinubu had on Tuesday transmitted a letter to the Senate a request seeking its consent to deploy Nigerian troops on peace mission to Benin […]
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has sentenced former Janjaweed commander Ali Muhammad Ali Abdelrahman, known as ‘Ali Kushayb’ and feared in Darfur as the “Colonel of Colonels” to 20 years in prison for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in 2003-2004. The sentence, handed down on today in The Hague, follows his October conviction […]
Nigeria and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to deepen defence and military cooperation between both countries. The MoU was signed by authorised representatives of the two governments, with Nigeria represented by the Minister of State for Defence, H.E. Dr. Bello Mohammed Matawalle, MON, while Saudi Arabia was represented […]
