An American death row inmate set to be put to death in less than two weeks has asked that his execution be delayed so he can donate a kidney to someone in need of it. Ramiro Gonzales is scheduled to receive a lethal injection on July 13 for fatally...
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Disgraced RnB singer, R. Kelly has been placed on suicide watch at the federal detention facility in Brooklyn after he was sentenced to 30 years in prison on racketeering and sex trafficking charges. His lawyers who disclosed that the singer will be suing the federal prison housing him, insisted...
The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has announced that Algeria has joined the bank as its 52nd Member State. This is contained in a statement by the bank’s Media Contact, Mr Amadou Sall, in Abuja on Friday. Afreximbank member states rose from 38 in 2015 to 51 in 2021, with...
INTERPOL, in collaboration with the US Secret Service, South African Police and other agencies, has arrested an alleged Nigerian cybercrime kingpin, James Aliyu, in connection with $12m romance scam and business email compromise fraud. Aliyu was arrested in a luxury Sandton estate in South Africa on Wednesday, June 29 and...
Ketanji Brown Jackson has been sworn in as the first black female Supreme Court justice. She was sworn in on Thursday by Justice Stephen Breyer, whose seat she is taking with his retirement from the bench. Brown recited the Judicial Oath back to Jackson as he officially became a retired...
The House of Representatives has demanded justification for Nigeria’s huge financial contribution to the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) which amounted to 1.177billion dollars in 16 years. The House mandated its committees on Inter-parliamentary Relations and ECOWAS Parliament as well as Foreign Affairs to determine the justification....
Ukrainian authorities have said that a large quantity of grain was destroyed in a Russian attack in eastern Ukraine. A fire broke out in the affected warehouse in the city of Zelenodolsk, the governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region, Valentyn Resnichenko, wrote on Telegram on Thursday. Forty tonnes of grain...
An official burial ceremony is taking place on Thursday for the tooth of the Congolese independence leader Patrice Lumumba in the capital Kinshasa. The relic is all that remains of the African country’s first prime minister, who was murdered in 1961 by separatist rebels in collusion with Belgian mercenaries....
The U.S. military presence in Europe is set for a long-term expansion, U.S. President Joe Biden says. “We’re going to make up sure that NATO is ready to meet threats from all directions across every domain, land, air and the sea,’’ Biden said. He spoke alongside alliance NATO Secretary-General...
Former U.S. President Barack Obama joined former German chancellor, Angela Merkel on a visit to Washington’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. “As president, I saw Chancellor Merkel lead through crises with her wise pragmatism, good humour, and unrelenting moral compass and I feel lucky to call...
The pro-Russian military administration ruling the area around the occupied Ukrainian city of Kherson said it was preparing to hold a referendum on joining Russia. The Deputy Head of Kherson’s military and civil administration, Kirill Stremoussov, said in a video published on Telegram. “Yes, we are preparing for a...
NATO leaders are expected to sign off on a major reinforcement of the alliance’s Eastern European members on Wednesday when they meet in Madrid to project a united stance amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The decision is a fundamental shift of deterrence and defence in the alliance, NATO...
At least 46 migrants were found dead Monday in and around a large trailer truck that was abandoned on the roadside on the outskirts of the Texas city of San Antonio. The grim discovery was one of the worst disasters involving migrants in the United States in recent years...
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB), has approved the establishment of African Pharmaceutical Technology Foundation for Africa’s access to technologies. According to the bank, this is for the manufacture of medicines, vaccines and other pharmaceutical products. In a statement by the bank”s Communication and External...
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Parliament on Monday called for member states’ coordinated actions towards ending terrorism in the sub-region. The parliament made the call in a resolution which was adopted on the floor of the house at the end of its 2022 First Ordinary Session...
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson condemned Vladimir Putin’s “cruelty and barbarism” after a missile strike on a shopping centre in Ukraine left scores feared dead. The prime minister said the attack, on the day Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky addressed the G7 summit, would strengthen the resolve of allies to resist...
South African mourners expressed anger and despair on Monday at the death of 21 teenagers in a tavern over the weekend, as investigating authorities said the youths were probably accidentally poisoned by something they ate, drank, or smoked. The still unexplained deaths of the teens, some of whom were...
Three people were killed and at least 50 others injured when an Amtrak train headed from Los Angeles to Chicago crashed into a dump truck Monday afternoon in Missouri, officials said. Two of those killed were on the Southwest Chief train, and the other was in the truck, said...
To help organisations of all sizes and structures in Ghana maximise their human resources (HR) and payroll management needs, HumanManager—a frontline HR and payroll solution for Africa—has collaborated with HR Focus, an international human resource brand based in Ghana, to distribute the HumanManager software across the country. The HumanManager...
Sudan Armed Forces have accused Ethiopia’s army of executing seven Sudanese soldiers and a civilian who were captives. The Sudanese army in a statement on Monday also accused Ethiopia of displaying the bodies of the executed people to the public and vowed that there would be “an appropriate response”....