In their sustained attacks on educational facilities, particularly in the northern part of the country, gunmen late Thursday attacked Nuhu Bamalli Polytechnic in Zaria, Kaduna State, in the North Central, killing one staff, abducting eight student and two lecturers, while another student was seriously injured
A Palestinian teenager has been killed by Israeli fire during confrontations between protesters and Israeli troops in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian authorities said. Aljazeera
Turkey should withdraw its troops from Afghanistan under the 2020 deal for the pullout of foreign forces, a Taliban spokesman has said, effectively rejecting Ankara’s
The Federal Government of Nigeria has given micro-blogging giants, Twitter, conditions for it to return to the country, saying there would be no dialogue until the American networking platform with 33 million subscribers are registered in Nigeria as a business entity. The federal government also
Peace advocates and pro-Palestinian groups in the United States are calling on President Joe Biden to halt a $735m sale of precision-guided bombs to Israel
Fatou Bensouda has given her last briefing as chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to the UN Security Council on Wednesday, lamenting that
A high-level UN-led committee that focuses on rapid responses to humanitarian crises estimated about 350,000 people in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region are facing famine conditions. The 350,000 figure was presented at a meeting on Monday of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee, comprising 18 UN and non-UN
At least 18 Pilgrims have been killed when a bus carrying dozens of them overturned in the southwestern Pakistani province of Balochistan, injuring 42 others,
Zweli Mkhize, the South African Health Minister, was on Tuesday suspended by President Cyril Ramaphosa, following allegations that his department irregularly awarded COVID-19-related contracts to
The two minority caucuses of the Nigerian Senate and the House of Representatives in the National Assembly have asked Nigerians nationwide to ignore the ban on Twitter operations and the concomitant of threats of arrest by the federal government and continue tweeting. In a statement