The Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) has said the newly created Ministry of Livestock Development will boost Nigeria’s foreign earnings, reduce transhumance, poverty and conflicts associated with the outdated practice. The National President of MACBAN, Alhaji Baba Othman-Ngelzarma, stated this at a news briefing on...
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Pope Francis on Sunday said he was hopeful the Paris Olympics which gets underway on Friday would be an occasion for truces in the world’s conflicts. The Pope, who said this during his weekly address to the crowd in St Peter’s Square, urged athletes to be messengers...
Newly re-elected European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and U.S. President Joe Biden, who is under significant domestic pressure, spoke by telephone on Saturday. Both von der Leyen and the White House confirmed that Biden congratulated her on her re-election. According to the U.S. government, the discussion...
A 43-year-old man has died after falling more than 300 metres off Germany’s highest mountain. Police said the man was climbing the Zugspitze in southern Germany with another mountaineer via the Höllental, which translates as Hell Valley, on Friday when he slipped and fell. The man was reportedly...
Israel’s continued occupation of Palestinian territory ‘unlawful’, says ICJ The UN International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Friday declared that Israel’s continued presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory “is unlawful”, and that “all States are under an obligation not to recognize” the decades-long occupation. The Court was responding to...
A Russian court on Friday found a U.S journalist, Evan Gershkovich, guilty of espionage and sentenced him to 16 years in a maximum security colony. Numerous Russian news agencies reported from the court in Yekaterinburg. He was accused of gathering information on the Uralvagonzavod defence equipment factory in...
Donald Trump has vowed to run “to be president for all of America” as he took to the stage at the Republican National Convention on Friday. Trump said this in his first public speech following the failed attempt on his life. “I stand before you this evening with...
U.S. President Joe Biden is expected to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington next week, the White House said on Friday. “We have every expectation that the two leaders will have the chance to see each other while Prime Minister Netanyahu is in town,” White...
The highest court of the United Nations will on Friday deliver their opinion on the legality of the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories. The opinion is not legally binding, but if the 15 highest UN judges in The Hague find that Israel is violating international law, it will...
At least 16 people were killed in a fire that broke out in a high-rise building in China on Wednesday, according to local media. The fire broke out on Wednesday evening in a 14-storey building in the south-western city of Zigong, state news agency Xinhua reported. Initial investigations...
A Florida man has been arrested for making threats against US President Joe Biden, just days after an assassination attempt on his Republican rival Donald Trump. Jason Patrick Alday, 39, was arrested on Monday, the US Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Florida said. Alday, of Quincy,...
Former U.S. President Donald Trump has made his first public appearance since an assassination attempt, appearing at the Republican National Convention with a bandage over his right ear. Trump, who was confirmed as the Republican presidential candidate earlier on Monday, entered the convention to a standing ovation. He...
Incumbent Paul Kagame is set to win a fourth term in office in the presidential election in Rwanda. With nearly 79 per cent of all votes counted, Kagame has garnered more than 99 per cent of the vote, according to the electoral commission. His two opponents, the chairman...
Donald Trump on Monday named right-wing Ohio Senator J.D. Vance as his running mate in the US presidential election, rewarding a one-time harsh critic who became one of his most loyal supporters in Congress. Trump, 78, announced his pick on the first day of the Republican Party...
Police in Kenya have arrested a suspected serial killer in connection with the discovery of mutilated women’s bodies at a rubbish dump in the capital Nairobi. According to the police on Monday, the 33-year-old man was arrested on Sunday evening while watching the European Championship final in a...
Former U.S. president Donald Trump says it was either “by luck or by God’’ that he survived Saturday’s assassination attempt. Trump survived an assassination attempt on his life on Saturday, and said in a joint interview that “I’m supposed to be dead”. “By luck or by God, many...
In the wake of the assassination attempt on the former president Donald Trump, he scrapped plans to talk about how bad the current U.S. administration is at the Republican National Convention. ‘‘I had all prepared an extremely tough speech about the corrupt and horrible administration, but I threw...
By ESTHER ALEXANDER, Abuja – The Palestine Embassy in Nigeria has condemned in strong terms the ongoing genocide in Gaza, which has resulted in the death of over 38,000 Palestinians. In a statement released yesterday, the embassy decried the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, which has left 87,903 injured...
U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday closed a three-day NATO summit in Washington by promising to “keep NATO strong,” in a press conference that focused heavily on U.S. politics and concerns about his mental fitness. The 81-year-old U.S. leader is facing calls to let another candidate from his...
U.S. President Joe Biden said on Thursday that negotiations on a potential ceasefire-for-hostages deal between Israel and Palestinian extremist group Hamas are “making progress.’’ “The trend is positive,’’ Biden said in a news conference at a NATO summit in Washington, adding that the framework was now agreed on...