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South Korea’s former first lady Kim Keon Hee on Wednesday was sentenced to 20 months in prison for bribery. The Seoul Central District Court found found the wife of former president Yoon Suk Yeol guilty of accepting several luxury gifts and abusing her position for personal gain. The 53-year-old was acquitted of a further charge ...
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The Iranian judiciary has rejected statements by U.S. President Donald Trump suggesting that Tehran halted the execution of 800 demonstrators under the threat of military force. This claim is “completely false,” state radio quoted Attorney General, Mohammad Movahedi-Azad, as saying on Friday. A week ago, Trump said that a military attack on the Iranian leadership ...
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Thursday marks one year since U.S .President Donald Trump ordered the country’s withdrawal from the World Health Organisation (WHO) just hours after taking office. According to an agreement between the U.S. and the Geneva-based UN agency, the withdrawal is due to be effective as of Thursday after the U.S. saw out a mandatory one-year notice ...
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Thousands of Nigerians in the overseas are facing persistent difficulties in obtaining international passports at the Nigeria High Commission in London, prompting fresh appeals for urgent intervention by the Federal Government. In a public appeal on Twitter space addressed to the Honourable Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, affected applicants expressed frustration over prolonged delays and ...
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The U.S. military on Saturday said it had killed “an experienced terrorist leader” in Syria who was linked to the December attack that killed two U.S. soldiers and a U.S. interpreter. Bilal Hasan al-Jasim had ties to Al-Qaeda and had direct contact with the militant who carried out the Dec. 13 ambush, the U.S. Central ...
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The United Nations and members of the diplomatic corps on Thursday joined Nigeria to pay tribute to fallen heroes at the Nigerian Armed Forces Remembrance Day. The UN Deputy Secretary-General, Amina Mohammed, at the commemoration held at the Nigeria House in New York, commended Nigeria for its leadership role in Africa and globally. Mohammed said ...
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The European Commission on Thursday disbursed one billion euros (or 1.16 billion dollars) to Egypt in budgetary support as part of a partnership agreement signed in 2024. “This funding is going where it is needed most: economic stability, democracy, sustainability, and the rule of law,” said European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. The payment ...
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NASA has bought back four-member astronaut crew to Earth due to a medical issue, marking the first such early return in the history of the International Space Station (ISS). The astronauts undocked from the ISS aboard a Crew Dragon capsule operated by SpaceX, the company of tech billionaire Elon Musk, NASA live footage showed. U.S ...
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China said on Tuesday that it intends to protect its interests following US President, Donald Trump’s announcement that the U.S. would target Iran’s trading partners with tariffs. “There are no winners in a trade war,” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said in Beijing. She said that China would resolutely defend its legitimate rights and interest. ...
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The U.N. children’s agency on Tuesday said over 100 children have been killed in Gaza since the October ceasefire, including victims of drone and quadcopter attacks. UNICEF spokesperson James Elder told reporters at a UN briefing by video link from Gaza that “more than 100 children have been killed in Gaza since the ceasefire of ...
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When Yoweri Museveni seized power in Uganda in 1986, he said “the problem of Africa in general and Uganda in particular is not the people but leaders who want to overstay in power.” The 81-year-old president and former rebel is seeking a seventh term in office on Thursday after nearly four decades leading the East ...
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China on Wednesday sharply criticised U.S. President Donald Trump’s planned intervention in Venezuela’s oil industry. The “outrageous use of force against Venezuela” by the United States and the demand that the country should manage its oil resources according to the “America first” principle constitute harassment, violate international law, and harm the rights of the Venezuelan ...
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United States President Donald Trump has announced the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, following what he described as a large-scale US military operation targeting strategic locations in Venezuela. Trump disclosed on Saturday, January 3, 2026, that US forces, working alongside American law enforcement agencies, apprehended Maduro after coordinated airstrikes ...
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Canada deported 366 Nigerians between January and October 2025, as part of an intensified immigration enforcement drive—the fastest pace in over a decade, official data shows. The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) also revealed that 974 Nigerians remain in the “removal in progress” inventory, awaiting deportation. Updated statistics from November 25, 2025, placed Nigeria ninth ...
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The United States government has announced a partial suspension of visa issuance to Nigerian nationals, effective from January 1, 2026, following a new presidential proclamation on border and national security. The US Mission in Nigeria confirmed on Monday that the restriction will take effect at 12:01 a.m. Eastern Standard Time, in line with Presidential Proclamation ...
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The United States’ Ambassador to Nigeria, Richard Mills, says the recent visa restrictions announced by the U.S. government are designed to strengthen security procedures, and not actions targeted at Nigerians. Mills gave the clarification at a news conference on Sunday in Abuja during the visit of a U.S. Congressional Delegation (CODEL) to Nigeria. He said ...
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Russian President Vladimir Putin is scheduled to hold his traditional annual press conference in Moscow on Friday, answering questions from national and foreign journalists on a range of topics over several hours. This year, the media spectacle will again be combined with the TV show “Direct Line,” in which Russian citizens can lament their problems, ...
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The European Union (EU) has agreed to provide Ukraine with €90 billion ($105.5 billion) for the years 2026 and 2027, European Council President Antonio Costa has said. “We have a deal,” Costa said in a post on social media platform X in the early hours of Friday. “Decision to provide 90 billion euros of support ...
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The European Commission has launched an antitrust investigation into Google’s use of online content for search results generated with artificial intelligence (AI), as well as videos uploaded on YouTube used to train AI. The probe will assess whether Google is breaching EU competition rules by not appropriately compensating publishers or offering them the possibility to ...
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The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has ordered the immediate deployment of its Standby Force in Benin following Sunday morning’s aborted coup d’etat in the country. This is contained in a statement issued by the ECOWAS Commission, hours after releasing its first statement on Sunday regarding the coup. Newsmen had on Sunday reported ...
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A group of soldiers in Benin Republic on Sunday announced that they had overthrown President Patrice Talon, but the presidency quickly countered the claim, insisting that the president was unharmed and that loyal forces were regaining control. Appearing on state television, the soldiers—who referred to themselves as the Military Committee for Refoundation—declared that they had ...
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The United Nations has welcomed a newly signed peace accord between the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda as a “critical step” toward restoring trust. UN Secretary-General António Guterres, in a statement, hailed the accord while warning that active fighting near border areas continue to exact a heavy toll on civilians. The Washington ...
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U.S. President Donald Trump has brokered a peace deal between leaders of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda, Félix Tshisekedi and Paul Kagame. The U.S. president facilitated the signing of a peace agreement in Washington aimed at ending more than three decades of conflict in mineral-rich eastern Congo. The ceremony took place at the Peace ...
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The West African country - Guinea-Bissau has been suspended from all ECOWAS decision-making bodies after a military coup on November 26 and called for the immediate return of constitutional rule, saying the coup threatens the country’s fragile democracy. The Extraordinary Session of ECOWAS’ Mediation and Security Council (MSC) met virtually on Thursday night, chaired by ...
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The military in the West African coastal state of Guinea-Bissau on Thursday announced that it has installed a new leader. State broadcaster TGB reported that General Horta Inta-A is to serve as transitional president for a one-year period. Much remains unclear about the balance of power in the country and the circumstances surrounding the alleged ...
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Tanzania President Samia Hassan was sworn into office on Monday after winning a landslide victory in an election that set off deadly protests across the country. Hassan, who came to power in 2021 following the death in office of her predecessor, was declared the winner of last week’s election with 97.66 per cent of the ...
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Former French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, arrived on Tuesday at a Paris prison to begin a five-year sentence, television images showed. Sarkozy, 70, was convicted of having participated in a criminal organisation in connection with alleged campaign finances from the late Libyan dictator Moamer Gaddafi. Sarkozy remained defiant until the end, posting on X a statement ...
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Elon Musk’s social media platform X has launched a marketplace to redistribute inactive or unused profile names. The feature is initially available exclusively to paying Premium Business and Premium+ subscribers. The platform offers two types of handles: priority and rare. Priority usernames, often full names, multi-word phrases, or alphanumeric combinations, can be requested free of ...
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By Tunde Rahman A major human foible is the tendency to pursue symbolism at the expense of substance. It is not a particularly Nigerian flaw. But the desperation that has characterised our politics, especially amongst the opposition, often makes it seem so. An example is the criticism of President Bola Tinubu's inability to personally attend ...
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France’s new Prime Minister, Sébastien Lecornu, has resigned, the Élysée Palace announced on Monday. Lecornu submitted his resignation to President Emmanuel Macron who accepted it, the Élysée Palace said. Nearly four weeks after his appointment, Lecornu had only just unveiled the allocation of key ministries on Sunday evening. The leader of the conservative Republicans, Bruno ...