Ekeomah Atuonwu After fleeing to Singapore on Friday to avoid widespread protests sparked by the nation’s greatest economic crisis in seven decades, Sri Lanka’s parliament speaker accepted President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s resignation. Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena told reporters, “From this point, we shall seek to constitutionally appoint a new president.” “It will occur swiftly and […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu An 83-year-old Ugandan man, Mzee Yosia Mwesigye has fathered his first child after waiting for one for 60 years. He married his wife, Jane Tukamuhabwa (now deceased) at the age of 23 in 1962. Doctors assured them they were fertile despite numerous attempts to have children together. Life turned against him, and he thought of marrying a second […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu Paul Kagame, Rwanda’s de facto president since the end of the genocide in 1994, has said he will run for office once more in the 2024 election. When asked if he will run for office again, Kagame responded, “I think about running for another 20 years. I don’t have an issue with it, he said in […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu President Gotabaya Rajapaksa will step down on Wednesday, according to the speaker of parliament, after Saturday’s massive protests following a crippling economic crisis. However, Rajapaksa has not publicly stated his intentions. The Prime Minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe, has said that he too will step down to make way for an all-party transitional administration. Crowds will continue to occupy the president’s and prime minister’s […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu On Saturday, just before demonstrators incensed by an unprecedented economic crisis overran the property and seized his adjacent office, Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa left his official house. Following months of severe suffering for the island nation’s 22 million residents due to a slump, thousands of protestors besieged the leader’s mansion to demand […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu Insurgents believed to be from the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a Ugandan armed group that has operated in the dense forests of eastern Congo for decades, attacked a church clinic at around 10.00 pm on Thursday night, the witnesses said. An army spokesman confirmed the attack in the town of Lume in North Kivu province, […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu The national airline of Nigeria, Air Peace, has announced intentions to start direct flights from Lagos to Mumbai, India, and Guangzhou, China, in July. The airline has announced that similar international operations would start on routes to Israel. The Federal Government gave the airline access to a variety of routes before the COVID-19 […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu The Marburg virus, a highly contagious illness comparable to Ebola, was found in two Ghanaians who later died, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported on Thursday. The results of tests performed in Ghana were positive, but a laboratory in Senegal must confirm those findings before the cases can be termed verified, the WHO stated in […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu The Woman King, a historical epic starring award-winning actress Viola Davis, will transport you to the 1800s. The film centers on General Nanisca of the Dahomey Amazons and Nawi, a driven recruit, and was inspired by actual historical events. It demonstrates how the Dahomey Amazons fought off adversaries who posed a danger to what they had achieved for, tarnished their […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu The British judge hearing the case relating to Nigerian senator Ike Ekweremadu and his wife, Beatrice, has accepted that the complainant is not a child as previously reported. On Thursday, the two were seen in court in London where they were both charged with planning to bring an organ donor to the country. According to […]
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