•Self-proclaimed pastor Paul Nthenge Mackenzie (middle) Kenyan prosecutors said today they intend to charge a suspected cult leader and dozens of other suspects with murder and terrorism over the deaths of more than 400 of his followers after a court warned it may have to free him. Self-proclaimed pastor Paul Nthenge Mackenzie is alleged to [&...
•IGP Egbetokun There is an uneasy calm in Enenurhie community over the death of a youth leader, Oyibo Diamond, in police custody at Ughelli A Police Division, Delta State. It was gathered that the deceased, a father of five, arrested and detained on December 20, 2023, allegedly died on Christmas eve in detention in unexplainable […]
•Relatives and supporters of Israeli hostages taken by Palestinian militants demonstrate in Tel Aviv The Israeli army kept bombing the Gaza Strip and fighting Hamas militants on Wednesday as US top diplomat Antony Blinken met the head of the Palestinian Authority in the occupied West Bank. The military said it killed dozens of “terrorists” and...
•Mourners carry coffin of late Hamas deputy leader, Saleh al-Aruri Hundreds of people attended the funeral in Beirut today of Hamas number two Saleh al-Aruri who was killed in a Lebanon strike blamed on Israel. Calling on Hamas to avenge his death and the killing of five other members of the Palestinian militant group on […]
•Fighters of Lebanese Shiite movement, Hezbollah Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah group warned that Israel’s killing yesterday of the deputy Hamas leader in a Beirut suburb they control “will not go unanswered or unpunished”. Hezbollah called it “a serious assault on Lebanon”, reports AFP. “We, Hezbollah, affirm that this crime will not go unan...
Hamas deputy leader, Saleh al-Arouri, has been killed in an attack on Hamas office in Beirut. Hamas’ Al Aqsa Radio and Lebanon’s pro-Iranian Mayadeen TV confirmed word from security sources that Arouri, a member of the Palestinian Islamist movement’s politburo based abroad and a co-founder of Hamas’ military wing, the Qassam Brigades, was kill...
•Opposition leader Ablasse Ouedraogo Burkina Faso’s former foreign minister-turned-opposition-leader has been missing for three days after being taken away from his house by people who said they were police, his party said today. Besides foreign minister, Ablasse Ouedraogo served as deputy director general of the World Trade Organization and h...
An Abuja High Court has restrained one Pedro Chibuzo and Ekundinu Segun Elvis from parading themselves as National President of National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) and Senate President respectively. The duo had been claiming to represent the interests of students despite not being officially elected, reports The Nation. The court ...
•Late Ezeife The United Igbo Elders Forum Worldwide, Anambra Chapter, has described the first civilian governor of new Anambra State, the late Chief Chukwuemeka Ezeife, also known as Okwadike Igboukwu, as a courageous and vigorous leader.with unwavering commitment to the Igbo cause. The forum in statement issued yesterday by its Director of Co...
•Jailed opposition leader, Ousmane Sonko A Senegalese judge today ordered that jailed opposition leader Ousmane Sonko be reinstated on the electoral roll, clearing the way for him to stand in next year’s presidential election. Sonko was struck off Senegal’s electoral register after being sentenced in June to two years’ imprisonment for morally...