INTERNATIONAL NEWS

France is expelling six Russians suspected of working as spies under diplomatic cover after the French intelligence services uncovered a clandestine operation on its territory, the foreign ministry said on Monday. Six Russian agents operating under diplomatic cover whose activities were found to be contrary to our national interests have been declared persona non grata,” […]

Saudi Arabia announced on Thursday a three billion U.S. dollars support for Yemen, following the formation of the Yemeni Presidential Leadership Council. The Saudi Press Agency reported that the support included two billion dollars offered jointly by the kingdom and the United Arab Emirates to the Yemeni Central Bank. It said it also included one […]

Kano State High Court on Tuesday sentenced an atheist, Mubarak Bala, to 24 years imprisonment after he reportedly pleaded guilty to an 18-count charge of blasphemy levelled against him by the Kano State government. Mr Bala, who is the president of the Humanist Association of Nigeria, was arrested at his home in Kaduna State on […]

Zimbabwean Central Bank to introduce $100 note The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe on Wednesday said that it was set to introduce a new 100 Zimbabwean (ZWL) dollar note. This followed instructions by the Finance and Economic Development Minister Mthuli Ncube. The instructions were given by Ncube in a “Statutory Instrument’’ published in the April 5 […]

A military tribunal on Wednesday ruled that Burkina Faso’s former president Blaise Compaore be sentenced to life imprisonment for complicity in the 1987 murder of his predecessor Thomas Sankara in a coup. The charismatic Marxist revolutionary Sankara was gunned down in the West African nation’s capital Ouagadougou at the age of 37, four years after […]

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will on Tuesday address the UN Security Council and predict further worse instances of mass killings of civilians by Russian troops would be discovered. The Security Council Session will consider Ukraine’s allegation of the murder of civilians by Russian soldiers in Bucha, northwest of Kyiv, following the discovery of hundreds of […]

Gun violence is on the rise in Sweden according to a report by national TV broadcaster SVT based on police records and its own investigations. This year, 18 people have been shot in Sweden so far, compared to five in the same time span in 2021, 12 in 2020, 10 in 2019 and eight in […]

The United States Government has said its new $537million (approx N223,257,750,000.00) in Lagos will be its largest consulate in the world when completed in 2027. Ambassador Mary Leonard and Lagos Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu stated this at the Eko Atlantic City in Lagos during the ongoing groundbreaking ceremony for the consulate. The 10-storey consular complex will, […]

The Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA), says its four-point strategy is responsible for restoring normalcy in the distribution of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS). Mrs Roselyn Wilkie, NMDPRA, Zonal Operations Controller, Abuja, said this on Thursday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). According to Wilkie, the increase in product […]

Fuel prices were increased again in India Wednesday for the eighth time in the last nine days. According to a price notification of state fuel retailers, in the capital city of Delhi, petrol and diesel prices were hiked by INR 0.80 a litre respectively.   A litre of petrol in Delhi now costs (1.33 dollars) […]