The Presidential Candidate of Labour Party, Peter Obi, will on Monday, speak about his programmes at Chatham House in London, United Kingdom. Dr Yunusa Tanko, spokesman of the party’s Presidential Campaign Council, announced this in a statement emailed to The NewsZenith. Chatham House is a global policy institution that celebrated it’s centennial in 2021. Tanko […]
The Bola Ahmed Tinubu Ambassadors (BAT) has pledged to give presidential candidate of APC, ”at least one million votes” in the general elections next month. BAT’s National Secretary, Prof. Mojeed Alabi, made the pledge during the inauguration of State, Local Governments and Ward Executives of the BAT Ambassadors, on Saturday, in Lagos. Alabi, who is […]
Russia will launch the unmanned Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft to bring home three astronauts from the International Space Station (ISS). This is as the astronauts’ Soyuz MS-22 spaceship has an emergency situation, Russian space authorities said on Saturday. Russian cosmonauts Sergei Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin together with NASA astronaut Francisco Rubio will return to Earth aboard […]
Kentucky progressive Democrat and gubernatorial candidate, Geoffrey Young, has proposed immediate impeachment of President Joe Biden for war crimes committed by his administration. “I think Joe Biden should be impeached immediately for war crimes in Ukraine, Yemen, Syria, Iraq etc,” Young tweeted. He specified that reasons for the impeachment include “the illegal proxy war against […]
Gov. Bello Matawalle of Zamfara, on Saturday, said the state government has discovered 199 ghost medical doctors in its payroll. Matawalle announced the discovery during this chat with newsmen in Maradun town, Maradun Local Government Area of the state. The discovery came to the limelight during the recent workers’ verification exercise for the implementation of […]
Four family members died in a road accident on Saturday in Tanzania’s eastern region of Morogoro, said an official. Majid Mwanga, the Kilosa District Commissioner in the Morogoro region, said the accident occurred at around 9.20 a.m. local time. A salon car, in which the family was travelling in, collided head-on with a truck at […]
At least ten persons died in a dawn accident involving a truck and a Toyota bus in Oniworo area on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. Florence Okpe, an official of the Federal Road Safety Corps, confirmed the accident, which happened around 4.30 a.m., on Saturday. The accident also left two other persons with varying degrees of injuries, while […]
The Federal Government has realised more than N1.828 billion in proceeds from the sale of some forfeited assets. Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, announced this during a presentation of President Buhari’s Administration Scorecard on Thursday in Abuja. Malami said $641 million recovered loot from the late Gen. Sani Abacha was used for social investment and […]
The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), on Thursday, appealed for $272.3 million to provide humanitarian services to three million people in Somalia, including two million children in 2023. The UN agency said the funds would help it expand the delivery of essential multisectoral services. The services will focus on hard-to-reach areas and will strengthen its leadership […]
Seven persons died and ten more were injured in an explosion near the Afghan Foreign Ministry building in Kabul on Tuesday, a Qatar-based media outlet reported. A separate new outlet earlier claimed that the blast killed or wounded more than 20 people. Taliban spokesman, Ahmadullah Muttaki, for his part, told reporters that a suicide bomber had tried […]