December 29, 2025

Rescue Hunt Intensifies After Tour Boat Submerge In Indonesia

Rescue Hunt Intensifies After Tour Boat Submerge In Indonesia

December 29, 2025 3:28 am

Search teams race against time near Komodo National Park as rough seas delay efforts to find a Spanish soccer coach and three children missing after a boat accident.

Indonesian rescue teams intensified search efforts on Saturday December 27, 2025, for a Spanish soccer coach and three of his children after a tour boat carrying foreign tourists and crew sank near Padar Island, a remote but popular destination inside Komodo National Park.

The wooden vessel, which was transporting 11 people, went down late Friday December 26, 2025, after suffering engine failure while traveling from Komodo Island to Padar, according to Indonesia’s

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Gaza Talks To Continue As Trump Meets Netanyahu

Gaza Talks To Continue As Trump Meets Netanyahu

December 29, 2025 3:21 am

U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to press for movement on the stalled Gaza ceasefire when he meets Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday, according to officials familiar with the plans. The talks are set to cover the next phase of the Gaza agreement as well as Israel’s security concerns involving Hezbollah in Lebanon and Iran.

The meeting comes as Washington tries to prevent a collapse of the ceasefire framework it helped broker last year. Despite a sharp drop in large scale fighting, the agreement has been repeatedly tested by accusations of violations and continued violence on the ground.…

Why Captain Iheanacho Is Imo’s Best Hope—Part 7

Why Captain Iheanacho Is Imo’s Best Hope—Part 7

December 29, 2025 3:03 am

The future is not awaited — it is constructed. Imo’s tomorrow depends on whether competence becomes its language or corruption remains its culture.

By Prof. MarkAnthony Nze

The Compass of Tomorrow

Every generation reaches a threshold where history pauses and asks: Who among you can build again? For Imo State, that question is no longer rhetorical. The years of drift, the politics of survival, the exhaustion of faith — all have led to this reckoning. Beneath the fatigue of failure still beats the heart of a people too intelligent to accept despair as destiny.

What Imo needs now is …

Nigeria AKK Gas Pipeline Nears Completion

Nigeria AKK Gas Pipeline Nears Completion

December 29, 2025 2:51 am

Nigeria’s NNPC says a long delayed gas pipeline is finally nearing completion, a step it believes could unlock large scale manufacturing and power generation across the country’s northern region.

After briefing President Bola Tinubu on Sunday, NNPC Ltd Group Chief Executive Bashir Ojulari told reporters that welding work on the main line of the Ajaokuta Kaduna Kano gas pipeline has been completed, including the technically difficult crossing of the River Niger. That section had stalled progress on the project for years.

The milestone brings the 614 kilometer pipeline closer to delivery, with connections expected to begin early next year. Ojulari …

Nepal Election Alliance Shakes Up For March Vote

Nepal Election Alliance Shakes Up For March Vote

December 29, 2025 2:32 am

Two of Nepal’s most popular anti establishment figures have joined forces ahead of the country’s March 5 parliamentary elections, setting up a direct challenge to the traditional parties that have dominated politics in the Himalayan nation for more than three decades.

Kathmandu Mayor Balendra Shah, widely known as Balen, has formally aligned with the Rastriya Swatantra Party, or RSP, led by former television host Rabi Lamichhane, according to party officials. The alliance brings together two leaders who gained national followings through youth driven protest movements and anti corruption campaigns, reshaping an already volatile election landscape.

The deal gives the …

Ghana Arrest And Detains 141 Nigerians For Fraud, Cybercrime

Ghana Arrest And Detains 141 Nigerians For Fraud, Cybercrime

December 29, 2025 2:26 am

Ghanaian authorities raid Accra suburbs, seizing laptops, phones, and detaining 141 Nigerians linked to online fraud and cybercrime networks.

Ghanaian Government have arrested 141 Nigerians in a pre-dawn crackdown on alleged cybercrime networks operating in the capital. The operation, intelligence-led and coordinated across multiple suburbs, targeted Lashibi and Tabora, resulting in 100 arrests in Tabora and 41 in Lashibi.

Officials also detained a Ghanaian landlord who reportedly housed approximately 100 of the suspects. Authorities recovered 38 laptops and 150 mobile phones believed to have been used in a range of cybercrime activities, including mobile money fraud, romance scams, sextortion, business …

Trump Zelenskiy Ukraine Peace Talks Edge Closer To Deal

Trump Zelenskiy Ukraine Peace Talks Edge Closer To Deal

December 29, 2025 2:18 am

U.S. President Donald Trump said talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy are nearing a potential breakthrough, signaling fresh momentum in efforts to end the war in Ukraine while acknowledging that the future of the eastern Donbas region remains unresolved.

The two leaders spoke to reporters on Sunday after meeting at Trump’s Mar a Lago resort in Florida, where they discussed security guarantees for Ukraine and the territorial status of areas in eastern Ukraine occupied during the conflict. Trump said the negotiations were moving forward, adding that the sides were “getting a lot closer, maybe very close” to an agreement.

The …

Dia Smith: Former Broadway “The Lion King” Star Killed In NJ

Dia Smith: Former Broadway “The Lion King” Star Killed In NJ

December 29, 2025 2:12 am

Imani Dia Smith, former Young Nala in Broadway’s “The Lion King,” dies at 26 in New Jersey stabbing; boyfriend charged with murder and weapons offenses.

Imani Dia Smith, a former child actress who played Young Nala in Broadway’s acclaimed production of “The Lion King,” was fatally stabbed at her home in New Jersey on December 21, 2025. She was 26 years old.

Authorities arrested Smith’s boyfriend, Jordan D. Jackson-Small, 35, and charged him with first-degree murder, second-degree endangering the welfare of a child, and weapons offenses. Police have confirmed that the investigation is ongoing, but no further details about the …

WTO Chief Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Celebrates Christmas In Village

WTO Chief Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Celebrates Christmas In Village

December 29, 2025 1:58 am

WTO Director-General joins age-grade dance in her husband’s hometown, blending festive cheer with local traditions in Umuahia, Nigeria.

World Trade Organization Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala brought global attention to local traditions when she joined her age-grade group in a festive dance during a visit to her husband’s hometown in Umuda Isingwu, Umuahia, Abia State.

WTO chief shared a video of the celebrations on X, captioning it: “In the Christmas spirit. With Umu Ada Association and Umu Adukwu women in the village at Umuda Isingwu Umuahia.” The footage shows Okonjo-Iweala moving energetically alongside village women, embodying a joyful blend of holiday cheer …

US Resumes Surveillance Over Sambisa Forest After Air Strikes

US Resumes Surveillance Over Sambisa Forest After Air Strikes

December 29, 2025 1:46 am

United States restarts ISR operations in northeast Nigeria, targeting ISWAP terrorists after recent air strikes in Sokoto State, officials confirm.

United States has resumed intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) operations over northeast Nigeria, focusing on terrorists in the Sambisa Forest, following air strikes in Sokoto State, on the night of Thursday December 25, 2025.

The development was disclosed Saturday December 27, 2025, by Brant Philip, a Sahel-focused terrorism analyst, who shared flight-tracking data showing a U.S. Gulfstream V aircraft operating over Borno State. The long-range business jet is often modified for ISR missions, providing real-time intelligence on militant activity.

Philip …

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