October 26, 2021

Japan’s Princess Mako married her university sweetheart on Tuesday, but it was a low-key union bereft of traditional rituals, with the couple voicing sadness over the controversy that haunted their engagement.

Under the rules of the imperial family, Emperor Naruhito’s 30-year-old niece Mako gave up her royal title as she wed Kei Komuro, who is the same age and works for a US law firm.

‘To me, Kei is irreplaceable. Our marriage is a necessary step for us to be able to protect our hearts,’ she told reporters after the marriage was registered.

‘I have been scared, feeling sadness and

Ohanaeze Ndigbo, the Pan-Igbo socio-cultural organisation, has warned against the harsh effects of the planned one week sit-at-home directive by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) in the southeast region.

In a statement by its Secretary General, Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro, and sent to Africa Daily News, New York on Tuesday, against the backdrops of the planned exercise by the pro-Biafra group, Ohanaeze, maintained that the planned one week sit-at-home declared by the group was gradually having severe and destructive impacts on the genuine quest of the people to enhance and harness the economic potentials of the southeast for her development.…

Brigadier-General Shuaibu Ibrahim, the Director-General National Youth Service Corps, (NYSC), has warned Corps members against indiscipline throughout their service year.

The DG gave the warning on Tuesday at the Dazigau Permanent Orientation Camp in Yobe State during the swearing-in of the 2021 Batch ‘C’ Stream One corps members deployed to the state.

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Represented by Mrs Hafsat Yerima, the State Coordinator, Ibrahim reminded the corps members that the regimented nature of the Camp is intended to further instil discipline and build their resilience.

‘You are expected to comply strictly with the set rules

Colombia’s government has announced that it is working towards extraditing the country’s most-wanted drug trafficker ‘Otoniel’ to the United States, a day after he was captured in a major operation in the jungle.

Speaking in an interview yesterday, Defense Minister Diego Molano said, ‘There is an extradition order against Otoniel, and this extradition order… remains in progress’.

‘This is the path for all those who commit transnational crimes,’ Molano told reporters later, adding that nearly 30 percent of the many tons of cocaine exported from Colombia went through the so-called Gulf Clan, the country’s largest drug trafficking gang, led by …

The Islamic State (IS) group on Monday claimed responsibility for a deadly bombing at a restaurant in Uganda at the weekend, an attack which the police has called an ‘act of domestic terrorism’.

Investigators revealed yesterday that a 20-year-old woman was killed and three others injured in a blast at a popular roadside eatery in northern Kampala on Saturday evening.

Police further revealed the crude bomb left underneath a table indicated the work of an unsophisticated local outfit, and played down any connection to foreign networks.

However, in a message sent via its communication channels, the Islamic State’s Central Africa …