Ekeomah Atuonwu Late on Tuesday night, there was a terrifying attack on the Kuje Correctional Centre in Abuja the capital city of Nigeria. The insurgents stormed the facility at about 10:00 p.m., detonating explosives and opening live rounds on state agents guarding the facility, according to a senior government official. “Suspected Boko Haram attackers have just seized the prisons from […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu On Wednesday, South Africa 🇿🇦 bade goodbye to the 21 people, most of whom were teenagers, who died inexplicably at a township bar last month in a shocking tragedy. More than a thousand people, including President Cyril Ramaphosa and many elected officials, attended the service held in the township of Scenery Park, near […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu Former Burkina Faso 🇧🇫 president Blaise Compaore will return from exile for the first time since being deposed in a 2014 rebellion, according to Burkinabe officials, despite his conviction earlier this year for participation in his predecessor’s death. The reigning military junta invited Compaore to attend a meeting on Friday between interim President […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu Economic and financial sanctions imposed on Mali by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) have been lifted after its military authorities suggested a 24-month transition to democracy and issued a new electoral legislation. According to reports, the EU slapped harsh sanctions on Mali in January when the military administration indicated it […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu Nigerian police have rescued dozens of people, many of them children, from a church where they had been told to wait for what they believed would be a divine happening, a police statement said. Police raided the Whole Bible Believers Church in southwestern Ondo State, Nigeria on Friday after a tip that children were being […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu A small town Mexican mayor married his alligator bride in a colorful ceremony as traditional music rang out and revelers danced while imploring the indigenous leader to seal the nuptials with a kiss. San Pedro Huamelula Mayor Victor Hugo Sosa obliged more than once during Thursday’s wedding, bending down to plant his lips […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu At least 14 people have died and another four dozen are feared to have been killed after a massive landslide in a remote area of the northeastern Indian state of Manipur. Rescue workers battled heavy rains to pull out 19 survivors from the rubble on Thursday morning after the landslide at a railway […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu On Friday, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) revealed that 12 African nations had recorded 1,782 cases of monkeypox. During a weekly briefing, Ahmed Ogwell, interim head of Africa CDC, stated that of the 1,782 cases of monkeypoxreported in Africa, 1,678 were suspected cases and 104 were confirmed cases. He stated that instances have […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday night expressed appreciation to Portugal for the deployment of weapons and training of military personnel to ensure peace in Africa. At a State Dinner in National Palace Ajuda, Lisbon, the Portuguese capital, Buhari commended President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa for deploying troops for peacekeeping in the Central African Republic, monitoring political developments and providing assistance to […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu Doctors and bankers were among hundreds of Sri Lankans who marched on Wednesday to demand the government resolve a severe fuel shortage at the heart of the Indian Ocean island’s worst economic crisis in decades or step down. Weeks of street demonstrations against cascading woes such as power cuts and shortages of food and medicine brought a change […]
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