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The United States has ordered all its non-emergency staff in South Sudan to leave, amid rising tensions in the country. Fighting in recent days has threatened an already fragile peace deal between President Salva Kiir and Vice-President Riek Machar. The two leaders signed a peace agreement in 2018 to end a five-year civil war that killed hundreds of thousands of people, but their relationship has remained fraught. On Sunday, […]
In commemoration of International Women’s Day,The Nigeria Association of Women Journalists (NAWOJ) FCT Chapter, in partnership with the Federal Medical Center (FMC) Jabi Abuja, is offering free cancer screening services to 100 female journalists in Abuja. The initiative which is the brain child of the Chairperson of NAWOJ, Comrade Bassey Ita Ikpang is part of the Association's activities to accelerate action for female journalists health care to commemorate International Women's […]
The National Working Committee of the All Progressive Congress has adopted an indirect method for the forthcoming governorship primary election in Anambra State. The National Secretary of the party, Senator Bashir Ajibola, stated this while briefing newsmen at the party's secretariat in Abuja. He explained that the decision was reached following stakeholders and supporters' plea from the state for a free, fair, and credible election come April this […]
President Donald Trump has said he is moving forward with 25% tariffs on goods imported from Canada and Mexico into the US, adding that time had run out to reach a deal. US stock markets sank in response to the measures, which he has threatened since earlier this year and said would now go into effect on Tuesday. An additional 10% tariff on Chinese imports also is expected to come […]
Carl Dean, the longtime husband of country music icon Dolly Parton, died on Monday at the age of 82. Dean, who was famously private throughout his nearly 60-year marriage to Parton, died in Nashville, Tennessee, according to a statement she posted on social media. "Carl and I spent many wonderful years together. Words can't do justice to the love we shared for over 60 years. Thank you for your prayers […]
A third man has appeared in court charged with murder following a house fire which killed a mother and her three children. Bryonie Gawith, 29, Denisty Birtle, nine, Oscar Birtle, five, and 22-month-old Aubree Birtle died following the blaze at their home on Westbury Road, Bradford, on 21 August last year. Sharaz Ali, 39, who was seriously injured in the same fire and subsequently spent time in a coma, has […]
More than one million low-paid workers in the UK are to be entitled to 80% of their weekly salary as sick pay from the first day of illness, under government plans. At the moment, UK workers earning less than £123 a week are not entitled to any statutory sick pay. "No one should ever have to choose between their health and earning a living, which is why we are making […]
The West African regional bloc, Ecowas, says a mission deployed to Guinea-Bissau to help resolve an election dispute has left the country after the president threatened to expel it. The team was sent in last month to help reach a "political consensus" on how to hold elections this year. Guinea-Bissau's general elections had been scheduled for last November but President Umaro Sissoco Embalo postponed them. He has since announced 30 […]
The mother of a six-year-old girl who disappeared more than a year ago in South Africa has gone on trial accused of organising her kidnapping. Kelly Smith, her boyfriend Jacquen Appollis and their friend Steveno van Rhyn were arrested after Smith's daughter, Joshlin, went missing from outside her home in Saldanha Bay, near Cape Town, in February last year. Joshlin's disappearance sent shockwaves across South Africa and despite a highly […]
