America’s first black president, Barack Obama, attacked President Donald Trump as a failure during his speech on the third night of the all-online Democratic convention. Obama said that on handing over the White House to Trump in 2017, he thought the Republican “might show some interest in taking the job seriously;Continue Reading
An Air India Express flight crashed in the South Indian state of Kerala after skidding off the runway while landing at Calicut International Airport. A pilot and two passengers have died in the incident, according to CNN. Details to followContinue Reading
At least 10 people have been killed in a huge explosion in the Lebanese capital Beirut, officials have said. The country’s health minister Hamad Hasan also told local news station LBC that there are a “high number of injuries” and the blast had caused extensive damage. Hundreds of people haveContinue Reading
The Conference of Nigeria Political Parties (CNPP) has demanded that the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi should immediately step aside. The body based its call on the probe of the alleged lethal clauses in Article 8(1) of the commercial loan agreement signed between Nigeria and Export-Import Bank of China. TheContinue Reading
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability roject (SERAP) has sent Freedom of Information (FoI) requests to the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, and Speaker of House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, to, within 7 days, publish all reports of hearings and corruption probes by the National Assembly since 1999. It urged them to discloseContinue Reading
Wiley’s Twitter account has been temporarily locked while Instagram said it had deleted some of his content, after a long series of posts on both platforms on Friday and Saturday. The social media giants are facing growing pressure to close his accounts. Police said they were looking at “relevant material”Continue Reading
UK holidaymakers in Spain are facing a two-week quarantine after the country was hit by a new outbreak of coronavirus. Tourists in Spain are facing a race against time to fly back home to avoid the mandatory two-week quarantine that will come into effect at midnight tonight. The quarantine willContinue Reading
In what stakeholders see as another brewing aeropolitics, the British Government has denied Nigeria’s carrier, Air Peace landing permit to evacuate Nigerians stranded in the United Kingdom. However, the federal government has commended the airline for facilitating the evacuation of the 584 Nigerians by engaging another airline after the BritishContinue Reading
The medical doctors denied departure by the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) were offered jobs in the United Kingdom. The medical doctors were being offered between £51,384 (N25.1m) and £98,112 (N47.9m) per annum as reportedly stated in the advertisement for the various positions. More facts emerged Saturday on why 58 NigerianContinue Reading
The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio, has reacted to the allegations made against him by Joy Nunieh, a former Acting Managing Director of Interim Management Committee of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC. Nunieh recently made some damning revelations about the Minister and former Governor of Akwa IbomContinue Reading
