No fewer than six people were killed, including a woman who was burned alive, during an attack blamed on the regional militia group ADF in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
The Allied Democratic Forces were believed to have carried out the overnight attack on a road near the border with Uganda, where the group was founded.
‘ADF fighters attacked Kinyatsi, a village near the Virunga national park,’ said Donat Kibuana, local administrator for the Beni territory in North Kivu province.
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‘We have counted six people killed, …
The Chairman Senate Committee on the Federal Roads Maintenance Agency, Senator Gershom Bassey, has state governors against pushing for an increment in the pump price of the Premium Motor Spirit, better known as petrol.
The Nigeria Governors’ Forum had during its virtual meeting on May 20, considered the report of a committee headed by the Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, and accepted its recommendation that supported a full deregulation of the petroleum industry.
The El-Rufai panel was said to have suggested that the pump price of the product should hover around N385 per litre.
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Thousands of anti-abortion demonstrators took to the streets yesterday in Croatia, a largely Catholic country where human rights activists say reproductive rights are increasingly under threat.
Africa Daily News, New York gathered that the marchers in capital Zagreb, most of whom did not wear masks, waived Croatian flags, sang patriotic songs, and carried banners such as ‘Unborn lives matter, too‘.
‘It’s our duty to advocate for the protection of every human life, including unborn children’, said Luka Hudincec, one of the organisers of the rally.
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London side, Chelsea won the Champions League for the second time as a Kai Havertz goal secured a tense 1-0 victory over Manchester City in Saturday’s final in Porto, shattering Pep Guardiola’s dream of lifting the trophy for the third time, a decade on from his last triumph.
Havertz rounded Ederson to score three minutes before halftime at the Estadio do Dragao and the Chelsea players ran to the far end of the pitch to celebrate with the German.
Coach Thomas Tuchel, full of energy on the touchline just like his opposite number, punched the air in celebration, and later
The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA has accused Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari of ‘systematically and methodically destroying’ constitutional democracy in Nigeria going by his actions and inactions.
HIRIWA made the accusations against the President on Saturday in a statement by its National Coordinator Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko and the National Media Affairs Director Miss Zainab Yusuf.
The statement alleged that the Buhari-led administration was gradually “replacing democracy with dictatorship”.
Reacting to the president’s democracy speech on Saturday, HURIWA further alleged that the current administration has ‘established corruption, permissive economic crimes amongst top federal government officials connected to the first …
Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari will depart Abuja on Sunday(Today) for Accra, Ghana to attend an emergency Extraordinary Summit of ECOWAS, convened to discuss recent political developments in Mali.
The meeting is at the instance of the Chairman of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of ECOWAS and President of Ghana, Nana Akufo-Addo.
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A statement issued by presidential spokesman, Femi Adesina, said prior to the Extraordinary Summit, the President had met with the Special Envoy and ECOWAS mediator in Mali, former President Goodluck Jonathan, who briefed him …
Mali’s constitutional court has installed military coup leader, Colonel Assimi Goïta, as transitional president.
The court explained that its decision followed the ‘vacancy in the presidency’.
Goïta had declared himself interim president on Wednesday, two days after seizing power, the second time.
Goita led the mutiny that ousted ex-President, Ibrahim Boubacar Keita in August 2020.
Interim President, Bah Ndaw and Prime Minister, Moctar Ouane were detained by the military on Monday.
They were held along with Defence Minister, Souleymane Doucouré.
Goita, the former interim Vice President, said they were removed for …
The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has expressed support for the introduction of Sharia in the South-West.
The Islamic group told the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) and other Christianity adherents to mind their business.
The comment followed a warning by the PFN against any move to introduce Sharia law in Yoruba States through the ongoing constitutional review by the Senate.
MURIC Director, Professor Ishaq Akintola, accused Christians of always being the first to fire shots and heat up the polity.
He said Christians know very well that Shariah is the Allah-given …
US President, Joe Biden yesterday proposed a $6 trillion budget to ‘reimagine’ the US economy and stave off Chinese competition and set the US economy on the path of full recovery.
Many experts however have pointed out that the proposal would be driving the United States into record debt although it is subject to congressional approval.
Announcing the proposed spending, Biden said the post-pandemic United States ‘cannot afford to simply return to the way things were before.
‘We must seize the moment to reimagine and rebuild a new American economy,’ he said.
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The EU has stated that TikTok must address concerns of aggressive advertising methods targeting children in a case launched by consumer authorities in several member states.
The European Commission said the popular video-sharing app had one month to respond, saying ‘hidden marketing, aggressive advertising techniques targeted at children, and certain contractual terms in TikTok’s policies’ were of ‘specific concern’.
TikTok has faced many such cases globally, and the EU claim comes a month after Britain accused the video-sharing app of illegally collecting personal data from millions of children in Europe.
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Italian heavyweights Juventus have re-appointed Massimiliano Allegri as manager following the departure of Andrea Pirlo.
Inmates serving life sentences in Zambia will soon start enjoying a two-week break to visit their families if they are assessed to be ‘well behaved’.
A new law signed by President Edgar Lungu will give leave licences to chosen prisoners assessed as not posing a danger to the society.
Those who show remorse and stay away from crime will be freed, according to the Zambia commissioner-general, Chisela Chileshe.
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He, however, said inmates will only enjoy such privileges if the Zambia Correctional Service recommended them in writing to Mr Lungu.
‘If they …
