•US President Donald Trump The Trump administration has directed U.S. immigration authorities to begin identifying between 100 and 200 potential denaturalisation cases each month, As reported by the Economic Times today and according to an NBC News report, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), under the Department of Homeland Se...
•Front pages of newspapers featuring Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chairman and election candidate Tarique Rahman, in Dhaka, today The Bangladesh Nationalist Party celebrated a landslide victory today in the first elections held since a deadly 2024 uprising, with leader Tarique Rahman to become prime minister. Election Commission figures...
•Kim and daughter North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, has selected his 13-year-old daughter, Kim Ju Ae, as his successor, according to South Korea’s National Intelligence Service. The South Korean spy agency disclosed the assessment to lawmakers, saying it reached the conclusion after reviewing a range of indicators, reports AFP. This includes th...
•Nigerians killed as Russian mercenaries The Ukrainian Defence Intelligence (UDI) has identified two Nigerian men, Hamzat Kazeem Kolawole and Mbah Stephen Udoka, killed as Russian mercenaries during assaults in Luhansk. UDI announced their deaths in a statement yesterday, with photographs revealing their pre-death military poses and one family...
•French President Emmanuel Macron France’s government yesterday presented an energy plan to use less imported fossil fuels, including by ramping up nuclear-fuelled power production over the next decade. France wants to phase out fossil fuels by 2050 and is hoping consumers will switch from burning oil and gas to consuming more low-carbon elect...
•French Police A woman in her fifties has been arrested after two newborn babies were found dead in a freezer in eastern France, sources close to the case.. The case is the latest suspected instance of infanticide to emerge in France in recent years, reports AFP. According to one source, a man alerted police on […]
•Trump President Donald Trump’s pointman today announced the end of ramped-up immigration operations in Minnesota that triggered outrage following the killing of two US citizens. Thousands of federal agents have in recent weeks conducted aggressive raids and arrests in what the administration claims are targeted missions against criminals, rep...
•German Airline, Lufthansa Almost 800 flights in Germany, affecting about 100,000 passengers, were cancelled today, Lufthansa said, as pilots and cabin crew staged a one-day strike over a pensions dispute. Airports in Frankfurt, Berlin, Hamburg and Düsseldorf were particularly affected, according to their websites, but most flights at Munich t...
•Bandits and US Congress logo A new bill in the United States House of Representatives seeks to have the US Secretary of State collaborate with Nigeria to counter what lawmakers describe as the destabilizing impact of illegal Chinese mining operations in the country. The “Nigeria Religious Freedom and Accountability Act of 2026” was introduced...
•Late Douglas Izevbigie The death of a Nigerian student, Douglas Izevbigie, in the United Kingdom has sparked fresh concerns over chronic illnesses among Nigerians living abroad, as members of the community launch a fundraising appeal to support his burial. It was learnt yesterday that a GoFundMe appeal was created following his death on Janua...

