A fragile calm descended on Israel and the Gaza Strip on Thursday, after a ceasefire brokered by Egypt between Israel and Islamic Jihad militants took hold in the early morning hours.
According to the Israeli army, however, rockets were fired at Israel from the coastal enclave after the ceasefire had gone into effect at 5:30 …
Chileans are to vote on whether they want a new constitution in a referendum in April next year, representatives of the conservative government coalition and the opposition said.
The text of a new constitution is then to be put to the voters in another plebiscite.
“We want a peaceful and constructive way out of the crisis,’’ Senate President Jaime Quintana asserted.
“We will for the first time have a 100 per cent democratic constitution.’’
An Appeal Court sitting Port Harcourt, Rivers State as restored Hon David Lyon as the All Progressive Congress (APC) governorship candidate for the November 16 governorship election.
The appellant Court ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC) not to remove Lyon as the candidate of the party based on an earlier ruling by Justice Jane Inyang of the Federal High Court who nullified the governorship primary election that produce Lyon.
The Appellant Court order followed an ex parte motion filed by the Lyon through his counsel challenging the judgment of Justice …
A 42-year-old publisher, Benjamin Adedoyin, on Friday appeared in a Kubwa Magistrates’ court, Abuja, over alleged fraud involving ₦4 million.
The police charged Adedoyin, who lives in Dutse, Abuja, with criminal breach of trust, cheating and intimidation.
The Prosecutor, ASP Ejike Peters, told the court that the complainant, Stanislaus Ntekop, in April gave the defendant N4 million to use as down payment for a N6.4 million contract for the supply of books to the Central Bank of Nigeria.
Peters alleged that when the defendant completed the job, he refused to pay the complainant his money back.
He said when …
According to her, climate change affects everyone but women bear the brunt of its adverse effects.
“Adverse results of Climate Change are security and farming crises.
“We are in the month of November and the rains are still falling. This is unusual and the people who suffer it most are women and children,”
United Airlines said Friday it pushed back its expected date for Boeing’s 737 MAX aircraft to return to service, following similar announcements by rivals Southwest and American Airlines.
The US air carrier now says it expects flights to resume on March 4, 2020, two months later than a previous estimate, implying the cancellation of thousands of scheduled flights.
The top-selling Boeing jets have been grounded since March of this year following the second of two crashes which left 346 people dead.
Boeing has faced stumbling blocks in its efforts
The statement said that the cause of the incident could not be ascertained.
The statement reads: “@NigAirForce Helicopter has crashed on landing in Enugu after a routine flight today. Fortunately, there were no fatalities or injuries to any crew member or persons on the ground.
The verdict, in a trial arising from investigations of Russian interference in the 2016 US election, is not only a blow to Stone but renews scrutiny on then-candidate Trump’s activities at a time when he faces an impeachment inquiry that could derail his presidency.
The 67-year-old veteran Republican political operative – a self-described “agent provocateur” – was charged earlier this year with obstructing justice,
Oyo Governor Seyi Makinde and Governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Saturday’s election in Kogi state, Musa Wada on Friday escaped being whisked away by masked gunmen, who attacked the Suitorial Hotel where they were lodged.
The gunmen, dressed in police uniforms and bullet proof masks, were said to have arrived the hotel at about 12.50 pm with some of them scaling the fence to gain access.
Makinde is the Chairman of the PDP Governorship campaign Council for Kogi state.
The gunmen however did not succeed in gaining access into the hotel as security men attached to …
United States Vice President Mike Pence has announced that Boeing and SpaceX, the private US aerospace companies contracted to provide NASA’s astronauts their ride to the International Space Station (ISS), would begin their Commercial Crew space transport operations within roughly four months.
The vice president made his announcement on Thursday at the same time that NASA’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) released a damning report depicting a space agency willing to accept serious delays and to pay Boeing hundreds of millions of dollars for cost overruns.
Pence told a crowd of engineers and scientists working at NASA’s Ames Research
President Donald Trump on Friday tweeted an attack against the former US ambassador to Ukraine while she was in the middle of testifying in his impeachment probe, prompting her to complain she was being intimidated.
Trump’s furious tweet came as Marie Yovanovitch testified in the House of Representatives about her abrupt firing from her post in Ukraine following an alleged smear campaign led by the president’s personal attorney, former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani.
“Everywhere Marie Yovanovitch
