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...
•Late Frank Kokori ‘I am dying in hospital bed’, NUPENG’s Frank Kokori Ailing elder statesman and former General Secretary of the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG), Chief Frank Kokori, is dead. He died at exactly 1:30 am today, Thursday December 7, 2023, coincidentally on his birthday at exactly 80. His passage [&hell...
•Late Prof Stella Effah-Attoe The National Women Leader of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prof Stella Effah-Attoe, is dead. Effah-Attoe, a member of the PDP National Working Committee (NWC), died yesterday after a brief illness. PDP spokesman, Debo Ologunagba, in a statement today, said the party lost one of its “best and brightest”. “Pro...

