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The Abuja Division of the Federal High Court has granted the Advertising Regulatory Council of Nigeria (ARCON) leave to serve a writ of summons on Meta, the owner of Facebook. The court gave the nod under an application by ARCON in a pending N30 billion suit against the social media giant for violation […]
A pharmaceutical company, Pfizer, has said cervical cancer may become the first cancer to be eliminated with a vaccine. In a statement signed by the company and in commemoration of World Immunisation Week, Medical Director, Sub-Saharan Africa, Pfizer, Kodjo Soroh, said there was a need to invest in vaccine research and development. He said, […]
A Ghana’s presidential aspirant on the platform of the ruling NPP, His Excellency Allan John Kyerematen on Monday met with Interpol Systems Consultant, Sir Chikwe Udensi in his office in Abuja. Kyerematen was a former Minister of Trade & Industry and former Ghanaian Ambassador to the United States of America. He was in […]
Popular American singer, R. Kelly has been moved to a prison in North Carolina where he will serve his prison sentence. The Federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed Kelly, whose full name is Robert Sylvester Kelly – was moved on Wednesday of last week from the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago to the Federal Correctional […]
Forty- seven bodies have been dug out of their graves by Kenyan police in Malindi, a coastal town in the southeastern part of the country. 15 members of the Good News International Church were rescued from shallow graves in the Shakahola forest last week. Kenya Broadcasting Station (KBC) said that 58 graves have so […]
The deputy prime minister and secretary of justice of the United Kingdom, Dominic Raab, has resigned. The development follows an independent inquiry and investigation into eight bullying allegations against him. During the investigation conducted by Adam Tolley, evidence was heard from multiple government officials about complaints of bullying at three different departments. Raab […]
Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) said it had agreed to a 72-hour truce on humanitarian grounds, effective from 6 a.m. local time on Friday, offering a potential respite from a six-day military conflict with the Sudanese army. The capital, Khartoum, was rocked by bombing and shelling earlier on Friday. There was no immediate comment from the army and […]
The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has congratulated Nigeria’s President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on his election victory inviting him to visit war-torn Ukraine after inauguration. The congratulatory message is coming two months after the former Lagos State governor was declared winner of the presidential election. “Please accept my sincere congratulations on your election […]
At least 78 people were crushed to death in Yemen’s capital, Sanaa as hundreds gathered in a school to receive aid on Wednesday night. Evening Standard also disclosed that dozens more were reportedly left injured, including 13 who were in critical condition. Witnesses said hundreds of people had crowded into a school to receive […]
The ongoing war in Sudan and the Nigerian Embassy has been accused of neglecting her students in times like this. Reports indicated that over 200 civilians were killed in the war that erupted in Khartoum between aggrieved parties in the country. Speaking in an interview with the Voice of America ( VOA) Hausa […]
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