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A member of parliament, owner of a strategic mining company, was sentenced to death on Friday in Kinshasa by the military justice system on charges including "participation in the M23 insurrectionary movement" and "treason", in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The death penalty is often pronounced in the DRC, but has not been applied for 20 years and is systematically commuted to life imprisonment. In August, the prosecution had requested […]
By Kayode Oyedare Government at all levels, Non Governmental Organizations and wealthy individuals have been urged to invest more in young women for economic development of the country. An Entrepreneur, Mr Agaba Ikwue stated this in Abuja during a capacity building program for young women who would be deployed to empower rural women and young Nigerians across the six Geo Political Zones. Mt Ikwue said there was need to […]
Edited By Georgina Humphrey Labour Party wants the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, to leave out its candidate, Peter Obi, from his feud with President Bola Tinubu. This is contained in a statement signed by the National Publicity Secretary of the party, Mr. Obiora Ifoh in Abuja. The statement states that Mr. Peter Obi is solely focused on reclaiming his ‘stolen mandate’ at the apex […]
By Georgina Humphrey The Federal Government says the Ajaokuta Steel Company will host the Compressed Natural Gas, CNG, Project across the country. Minister of Steel Development Prince Shuaibu Abubakar Audu stated this during a 3-day working visit to the Steel Plant in Ajaokuta, Kogi state. He explained that the initiative is aimed at producing and storing CNG, to support the President's Gas Initiative Agenda and mitigate the impact of […]
Ex-international football star George Weah is running for a second term as Liberia’s president in elections on Tuesday, with peace and development among voters’ main concerns. Under a tin roof by a petrol station in Buchanan, around 150 kilometres (93 miles) east of the capital Monrovia, a group of men discussed their priorities for the October 10 presidential and parliamentary polls. They talked about better healthcare, education and roads, jobs […]
The Senate has summoned the Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, Minister of Health, Ali Pate, and his Federal Capital Territory counterpart, Nyesom Wike, over what it described as the “avoidable death of Ms Greatness Olorunfemi, at the Maitama General Hospital”. Greatness, who was a victim of vehicle robbers known in common parlance as “one chance, bled to death after she was stabbed and thrown out of a moving vehicle, then […]
Iranian rights activist Narges Mohammadi wins the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize. The Norwegian Nobel Committee picked the winner for the world’s most significant peace prize among 351 candidates, including 259 individuals and 92 organisations. Last year, the prize went to human rights advocate Ales Bialiatski from Belarus, the Russian human rights group Memorial and the Ukrainian human rights organisation Center for Civil Liberties. The winners had for many years promoted the right […]
Ice-cold floodwaters have swept through mountain towns in India’s Himalayan northeast, killing at least 40 people, washing away houses and bridges, and forcing thousands of people to leave their homes. The flood began shortly after midnight on Wednesday, when the waters of a glacial lake overflowed, cracking open the biggest hydroelectric dam in Sikkim state and then cascading through towns in the valley below. The Sikkim State Disaster Management Authority said in […]
Police in Ecuador seized nearly 14 tons of drugs destined for Central America, the US and Europe, authorities said Thursday. More than 40 raids were carried out across the country, resulting in the arrest of 28 individuals and the seizure of 13.6 tons of drugs, Interior Minister Juan Zapata said on X, formerly Twitter. The raids were staged in eight of the country’s 24 provinces, where criminal violence and drug […]
