British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday apologised after his government was criticised for “failures of leadership and judgment” in allowing lockdown-breaching parties at his offices. Johnson’s position has been hanging by a thread because of the steady drip of revelations since late last year, but he has in the last week been given a…
Mexico’s economy contracted for a second straight quarter in the last three-month period of 2021, according to official data published on Monday, putting it in a technical recession and joining regional powerhouse Brazil, whose economy fell back into negative territory last year. Gross domestic product (GDP) in Latin America’s second-largest economy shrank in the fourth…
February 1 marks a year since the military seized control of Myanmar. The generals made their move on the day the new parliament – elected the previous November – was due to sit for the first time and all the politicians had congregated in the capital Naypyidaw.They first detained Aung San Suu Kyi, the country’s…
Trust Africa News, By Ayomide Otitoju Three Nigerians have just become millionaires’ courtesy of WAW detergent, one of Nigeria’s largest detergents. They emerged after being picked at the WAW millionaire’s draw from the maiden WAW Wash and Win Millions promotion. The draw was held over the weekend at the Ibadan office of the detergent maker,…
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Sunday registered 22 additional lab-confirmed cases of COVID-19 in four states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).The NCDC, via its verified website on Monday morning, said that the additional figure coronavirus infections in the country had moved up to 253,023 as on Sunday. The News Agency of…
Indian forces have killed five suspected rebels in stepped-up operations in Indian-administered Kashmir, police say. The five people were killed in two separate operations that started on Saturday night in Pulwama and Budgam districts, police said on Sunday, adding that the dead included a top commander of the Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM) armed group and a Pakistani…
The Leader of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Primate Elijah Ayodele has warned the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, against zoning its presidential ticket ahead of the 2023 elections. Primate Ayodele warned that the PDP would not make any impact during the 2023 Presidential election if they zone the ticket to any region in the country. The…
The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, on Monday, revealed why the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government is still holding its leader, Nnamdi Kanu in custody. IPOB’s spokesman, Emma Powerful, said the Federal Government was holding onto Kanu in a bid to infiltrate the group and destroy it from within. In a statement, Powerful said the…
Afruit seller, Roseline Joguntan has been gang-raped and murdered on her farm by suspected Fulani herdsmen at Igbokoda in the Ilaje council area of Ondo State. Vanguard reports that the culprits took advantage of the victim when she was alone on the farm.According to the report, the deceased went to the farm alongside her daughter…
