Kenya’s Finance Ministry will seek suggestions from the public on new legislation to boost revenue and tackle other challenges, Finance Minister, John Mbadi, said on Monday. This is coming after protesters forced the government to withdraw its financing law. President William Ruto discarded tax hikes worth more than 346 billion shillings ($2.7 billion) in June after […]
Dozens of families of Israeli hostages, held in the Gaza Strip, gathered in Tel Aviv’s HaBima Square on Thursday, demanding an exchange deal with the Palestinian group, Hamas, Anadolu Agency reports. The demonstrators carried six empty coffins draped in Israeli flags. The coffins symbolised the six hostages whose bodies were recovered from a tunnel in the […]
From Jadar Omoniyi, Kano The Russian Embassy in Nigeria has reacted to the sudden appearance of it’s country’s national flag among protesters in Nigeria on Monday. The embassy denied involvement in the ongoing protests following the use of the Russian flag by demonstrators in northern Nigeria. TheNewsZenith reports that some groups of protesters on the […]
From Our Correspondent in Awka Presidential Candidate of Labour Party (LP) in 2023 general election, Mr Peter Obi says Nigeria youths have absolute right to express their grievances as long as such steps were within the confines of the law. Obi spoke to reporters during the investiture of the 8th District Governor, District 9142 of […]
The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights says the situation in Iran is critical” as authorities’ response to protests have caused over 300 deaths in two months. Volker Turk, the spokesperson for U.N. Human Rights Chief, made this known at a Geneva news briefing on Tuesday. He said that “the rising number of deaths from […]