Hurricane Ida battered the southern US state of Louisiana and plunged New Orleans into darkness, killing at least one person. Ida slammed into the Louisiana coast as a Category 4 storm but weakened into a tropical storm on Monday. More than one million people in Louisiana and Mississippi were without power. President Joe Biden described…
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. has dismissed 10 staffers for publicizing an employee’s account of sexual assault allegations against a former manager, people familiar with the matter said, as the e-commerce giant moves to resolve a case that’s rocked China’s tech establishment. Alibaba announced internally last week it fired the group for sharing a harrowing account…
Several rockets have been fired at Kabul’s international airport, a day before the deadline for the US troops to pull out of Afghanistan ends. The White House, which confirmed the attack, said that evacuation operations at the airport were not interrupted, adding that US President Joe Biden was briefed about the latest rocket attack on…
The Police Command in Plateau has described as fake speculations that unidentified persons have killed 230 Igbos in Jos. ASP Ubah Ogaba, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) of the command, dismissed the report in statement on Sunday in Jos. The social media has been agog by reports that a luxurious bus conveying commuters of…
The management of the University of Benin (UNIBEN) has described the death of Nigeria’s highlife music icon, Sir Victor Uwaifo, as a huge loss to the entertainment industry. The Vice Chancellor, Prof. Lilian Salami, said in a statement on Sunday that Uwaifo would be missed by the university community. “He had an uncommon mastery of…
By Trust Africa News, Ayomide Otitoju The Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has approved a multimillion Naira upgrade of key infrastructure at the Lagos Television (LTV) as part of a comprehensive plan to reposition the State-owned television station for national and international competitiveness. According to a release by Mr. Rasaq Musbau, the Director,…
By Trust Africa News, Ayomide Otitoju Lady Roseline Idimogu, the wife of Hon Sir (Dr) Jude Chukwuemeka Idimogu, Member Lagos State House of Assembly has commissioned A-two-bedroom bungalow which was built by Lagos Metropolitan Council of Ladies of St. Mulumba (KSM), Nigeria for widows in the state. Lady Roseline Idimogu, who represented the First Lady…
The Peoples Democratic Party on Saturday announced Abuja as the venue of its elective National Convention scheduled for October 30-31. National Publicity Secretary of the party, Kola Ologbondiyan, made the announcement after the 92nd National Executive Committee meeting of the party in Abuja on Saturday. He noted that the body also resolved to meet on…
French President Emmanuel Macron said Saturday that discussions were underway with the Taliban through Qatar to “protect and repatriate” Afghans at risk since this month’s takeover by the group. Evacuations are planned jointly with Qatar and may involve “airlift operations”, Macron said after a summit in Baghdad, adding that France had evacuated 2,834 people from…
