Waves of explosive-laden suicide drones struck Ukraine’s capital and other cities as families were preparing to start their week early Monday, the blasts echoed across Kyiv, setting buildings ablaze and sending people rushing to shelters. The assaults, which reportedly killed several people, came after a week of massive, coordinated Russian air strikes across the country. Russia…
Thousands of people took to the streets of Paris on Sunday to protest against soaring prices as weeks of strikes for higher wages at oil refineries spurred demands for a general strike. The leader of hard-left party La France Insoumise (France Unbowed), Jean-Luc Melenchon, marched alongside this year’s Nobel Prize winner for Literature, Annie Ernaux….
By Nike Adebowale-Tambe Nigeria has been ranked 103 out of 121 countries in the 2022 Global Hunger Index, a position that signifies the nation “has a level of hunger that is serious”. The Global Hunger Index was jointly published by the German-based Welthungerhilfe and Dublin-based Concern Worldwide on Friday. The report, which ranks countries by…
(Bloomberg) — Ghana’s cedi slumped to become the world’s worst-performing currency this year as investors continued to squeeze foreign capital to the west African country before a deal with the International Monetary Fund. The currency of the world’s second-biggest cocoa producer depreciated as much as 3.3% Monday, before paring the loss to 11.2750 per dollar…
Nigerian Philanthropist, Chigozie Effe has alleged that a security guard has impregnated a JSS 2 student of a Government Secondary school in Minna, Niger State, NaijaCover Reports. According To Effe, The Man had earlier reached out to him to pay for his child’s surgery and he helped the man raise N100,000. Taking To Facebook On…
Kogi House of Assembly on Monday summoned cement manufacturing firm, BUA Group, over a 50,000-hectare land it acquired 10 years ago but has yet to pay for it. The lawmakers gave the summons at a public hearing of one of its ad-hoc committees held at a hotel in Lokoja since its complex was gutted by…
I Frankly I don’t get what people are mocking in Bola Tinubu’s characterization of climate-change policies for poor countries as “a question of how do you prevent a church rat from eating poisoned Holy Communion.” Tinubu merely deployed familiar ecclesiastical metaphors to capture the dilemma that developing countries face over the dire existential adjustments that…
Princess Atika Ajanah donates Fully Equipped Crèche To Her Alma Mater Christ the King Nursery and Primary School Okene Popular event host, Princess Atika Ajanah has donated a fully furnished crèche to her alma mater, Christ the King Nursery and Primary School located in Okene, Kogi State. She said the donation is to stimulate their…
22-year-old Joy Raimi Mojisola has emerged Miss Intercontinental Africa. Recall in 1989 wife of the late Biafran leader, Bianca Ojukwu first Won Miss Intercontinental World. Mojisola whose height measures 1,75 m hails from Boripe L.G.A in Osun state Nigeria, born and raised in Rivers State Nigeria. She won the Miss Intercontinetal Africa 2022 which took…
The Labour Party (LP) has called for the immediate arrest and prosecution of the Iyaloja General of Lagos State, Folashade Tinubu-Ojo for coaxing traders who failed to attend the Women’s rally in support of her father’s presidential ambition, to pay N5,000 or be shut down. Arabambi said that the call became necessary following complaints by the…