A Conservative Party member, Liz Truss, has emerged as the new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom after winning the Conservative Party Leadership contest on Monday. Liz Truss polled a total vote of 81,326 to defeat her opponent, Rishi Sunak, who polled 60,399 votes in the Conservative Party’s election. Truss’s victory in the Conservative Party […]
Continue ReadingAgency Report 12 May 2022 Kindly share this story: A plane carrying 11 people crashed in a forest in central Cameroon on Wednesday, the Ministry of Transport said. Air traffic controllers “lost radio contact with the aircraft” which was later “located in the forest” near Nanga Eboko, around 150 kilometres (90 miles) northeast of the […]
Continue ReadingKindly share this story:Russia-Ukraine crisis3 Agency Report24 February 2022Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a military operation in Ukraine on Thursday with explosions heard soon after in the capital and other parts of the country, prompting outrage from Joe Biden who warned of a “catastrophic loss of life”. Weeks of intense diplomacy and the imposition of […]
Continue ReadingFriday Olokor and Leke Baiyewu 20 January 2022 Kindly share this story:  The Nigerian Senate • Senate adds consensus to House of Reps’ direct, indirect primaries proposal The Senate on Wednesday included the consensus mode of primary in the Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill as suggested by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.). Both chambers […]
Continue ReadingThe last two years has indeed been a tough one for everyone, the harsh economic occasioned by the outbreak of Covid-19 Pandemic is one which has led many Nigerians to coming out with new ways for survival. It is also one which has left lawmakers in their various Constituency with the need to find ways […]
Continue ReadingSodiq Oyeleke with agency report 17 August 2021 Kindly share this story: The United States has given conditions for recognising a Taliban government in Afghanistan. US Department spokesman, Ned Price, said on Monday that the US would only recognise a Taliban government in Afghanistan if it respects the rights of women and shuns, denounces extremist […]
Continue ReadingAgency Report 16 May 2021 Kindly share this story: Israeli strikes killed 42 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, the worst daily toll yet in almost a week of deadly clashes, as the UN Security Council met amid global alarm at the escalating conflict. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres pleaded for an immediate end to […]
Continue ReadingAdemola Olonilua The ‘Megxit’ saga will be brought to screens in a Lifetime movie about the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, it has been announced.Harry & Meghan: Escaping the Palace will reveal ‘what really happened inside the palace that drove Harry and Meghan to leave everything behind to make a future for themselves and their […]
Continue ReadingOn Mar 25, 2021 United States President Joe Biden said on Thursday his expectation is to run for reelection in 2024, an apparent effort to douse speculation that the oldest person to assume the office will step down after a single term, the Agence France Presse (AFP) reported. In his first extended chat with reporters […]
Continue ReadingA gunman killed at least 10 people including a police officer at a grocery store in Colorado on Monday, police said, in the latest shooting to hit the western state — scene of two of the most infamous US mass murders.The shooter is being held in custody and was injured, said Michael Dougherty, district attorney […]
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