Shinzo Abe, Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, was shot on Friday while delivering a speech ahead of a parliamentary election, with public broadcaster NHK saying a man armed with an apparently homemade gun opened fired at him from behind. The former prime minister collapsed and showed no sign of life...
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Accra – Ghana has announced the preliminary finding of two cases of Marburg virus disease and if confirmed these would the first such infections recorded in the country. Marburg is a highly infectious viral haemorrhagic fever in the same family as the more well-known Ebola virus disease. Preliminary analysis of...
Scandal-ridden Boris Johnson announced on Thursday he would quit as British prime minister after he dramatically lost the support of his ministers and most Conservative lawmakers, but said he would stay on on a caretaker basis until his successor was chosen. Bowing to the inevitable as more than 50...
Boris Johnson has planned a July wedding party with his wife, Carrie, at his prime ministerial retreat, multiple sources have said. Johnson, who resigned on Thursday, and his wife have sent save-the-date invitations to guests to the party at Chequers, the prime minister’s grace-and-favour home in Buckinghamshire, at the...
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is to stand down as Conservative Party leader after losing the support of his ministers and MPs, the BBC is reporting. A Conservative leadership contest will take place this summer and a new prime minister will be in place in time for the party conference...
Zimbabwe’s central bank on Tuesday said it would start selling gold coins as a store of value to tame runaway inflation, which had considerably weakened the local currency. The central bank governor John Mangudya said in a statement that the coins would be available for sale from July 25....
Hundreds of German police have carried out multiple raids early on Tuesday as part of an international operation targeting people-smuggling gangs. Police in the city of Osnabrück in north-western Germany said the raids focused on the area around the city, as well as Bremen and Stuttgart. Police in Britain,...
Leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) have adopted the recommendations of its mediator for Mali and Nigeria’s former President, Dr Goodluck Jonathan, concerning the lifting of economic sanctions on the country. in a document obtained by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), in Abuja, Jonathan’s...
New suspected mass graves have been uncovered in Tarhuna, Libya, a UN Human Rights Council probe reported on Monday. The report highlighted continuing extreme rights abuses in the country that have affected children and adults alike. Speaking in Geneva, Mr Mohamed Auajjar, chairman of the Independent Fact-Finding Mission on...
………As West Africa leaders commends Nigeria’s contributions By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – As President Sissoco Embaló of Guinea-Bissau assumes chairmanship of the West African regional body, ECOWAS, alongside a newly composed Commission, there are high expectations regarding the output of the body and the leaders must work harder to...
The latest outbreak of the Ebola disease in Congo has officially been declared over, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Monday. The organisation said that the outbreak affected the north-western Équateur province, with the first case recorded there on April 23. It said that in total, there...
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has appointed former Beninese President, Thomas Yayi Boni as its new mediator for the transition in Guinea. Jean-Claude Kassi Brou, President of the ECOWAS Commission, made the announcement at a news conference on Sunday. The news conference was to conclude the...
Egyptian officials say that two women have now been killed in shark attacks while swimming in the Red Sea. The environment ministry says the attacks occurred within 600m (1,970 ft) of each other. The authorities had earlier announced that an Austrian woman in her 60s had died of her...
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...
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...