•US President Donald Trump (L) and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa The US decision to expel South Africa’s ambassador was “regrettable,” the office of the South African president said today, after Washington’s top diplomat accused the envoy of hating America and President Donald Trump. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said yesterday that...
•Amb. Yusuf M. Tuggar The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Amb. Yusuf M. Tuggar, has refuted claims of targeted killings of Christians in Nigeria, describing them as misleading and aimed at influencing foreign governments, particularly the United States, to designate Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC). In a press statement today sign...
•Poland’s President Andrzej Duda Polish President Andrzej Duda called on the United States to transfer its nuclear weapons to Poland, urging an eastward “shift of the NATO infrastructure” in an interview with the Financial Times published today. Poland, a staunch ally of Ukraine, has been ramping up its defence as it aims to deter a […]...
•Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky Ukraine endorsed an American proposal for a 30-day ceasefire and agreed to immediate negotiations with Russia in pivotal talks in Jeddah yesterday after three years of grinding war. In the first high-level US-Ukraine meeting since President Volodymyr Zelensky’s White House dressing down, the Americ...
Top Ukrainian and U.S. officials are today set to sit down in Jeddah, Saudia Arabia in an effort to get Russia’s war against Ukraine stopped. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky would not be there, though he was in the Gulf state yesterday to meet with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, reports NAN. Foreign Minister, Andrii Sybiha, […...
•Headquarters of the United Nations building in Midtown Manhattan in New York The UN migration agency, the International Organisation for Migration has laid off thousands as it gets hit hard by the US aid funding cuts. The agency is battling claims from current and former staff of now pandering to Washington and providing cover for […]...
•Late Rev. Father Sylvester Okechukwu The U.S. Mission in Nigeria has said it is distressed by the “brutal and senseless” killing of Reverend Father Sylvester Okechukwu in Kaduna State. Okechukwu is reported to have been abducted from his residence by suspected bandits on Tuesday night and his corpse found on Wednesday. Before his demise, he [...
A South Carolina man convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend’s parents is to be put to death by firing squad tomorrow in the first such execution in the United States in 15 years. Brad Sigmon, 67, is to be executed at a prison in Columbia, the South Carolina capital, for the 2001 murders of David and […]
•Zelensky (Ukraine), Trump (US) and Putin (Russia) The United States has halted intelligence sharing with Ukraine, CIA Director John Ratcliffe confirmed today, a decision that could impact Ukraine’s ability to target Russian forces on the battlefield. Ratcliffe described the decision as a “pause,” following earlier media reports, and stated th...
•Actor Adrien Brody Best actor winner Adrien Brody broke the record for the longest-ever Oscar acceptance speech Sunday, as a lengthy gala suffered a small ratings dip, reaching some 18 million people on US network ABC and streamer Hulu. Despite promising to be “brief” on multiple occasions during his marathon monologue, “The Brutalist” star B...

