President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has tried to drum up Balkan support for his vision of peace in Ukraine and has promoted the idea of joint arms production at a two-day summit of Southeast European countries. The meeting was held in the Albanian capital, Tirana, as Kyiv is trying to improve its defensive capabilities to beat back…
Ghana’s parliament has voted to pass a controversial bill to severely restrict LGBTQ rights, in a move that has been condemned by rights activists. A coalition of religious and traditional leaders sponsored the legislation that is favoured by most lawmakers and that passed in parliament on Wednesday. The bill would punish those who take part…
The funeral of Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny, who died earlier this month in a remote Arctic penal colony, will be held in Moscow on Friday, his family and spokesperson have said. Navalny’s widow Yulia Navalnaya announced the funeral date on Wednesday, but she said she was unsure if it would pass off peacefully and…
Responding to texts from persons wanting to know his stand on the Oransaye Report, Mr. Obi stated via his official handle on X that before this time, he had during campaigns affirmed that he would have worked with the committee’s findings. The former Anambra State governor further asserted that implementing the report is one of…
Gospel singer, Moses Bliss, has legally tied the knot with his sweetheart, Marie Wiseborn. The musician took to his Instagram account on Tuesday to shared images from the court wedding on his officialBliss expresses his excitement in his caption, praising Marie as his “personal gift from God.” He wrote, “Civil wedding done! It’s official I’m…
President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump have easily won their parties’ primaries in Michigan but results show that both candidates have cause for concern in their bids to win the swing state in November amid a rising number of “uncommitted” voters. Here are some key takeaways from the Michigan primaries: Michigan has become…
New recommendations represent an advance but also highlight need for more evidence to inform effective infection measures, say experts Ten years on from the West African Ebola outbreak, the World Health Organization (WHO) updated its infection prevention and control guidelines for Ebola and Marburg disease. The key recommendations are summarized in The BMJ today with…
The much-hyped street protest called by the Joint Action Front, JAF, and Sowore Omoyele’s Revolution Now group has failed irreparably in Lagos as the membership-based Civil Society Groups they had relied upon for the mass protest failed to show up. Is coming almost 24 hours after the Lagos People’s Parliament and the Defend Lagos Coalition…
Two major opposition parties, the Peoples Democratic Party and Labour Party, have thrown their weight behind the two-day protest declared by the Nigeria Labour Congress. This was even as the ruling All Progressives Congress expressed concern that the protest may be hijacked. In separate interviews, the opposition parties told The PUNCH on Monday that the…
