The Federal Government on Monday said it will not tolerate the recruitment of Nigerians as foreign fighters in Ukraine. According to a statement signed by Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson, Francisca Omayuli, the government is in talks with Ukrainian counterparts to forestall such an occurrence. The government’s statement comes...
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Former South African President Jacob Zuma has defended Vladimir Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine. In a statement released by his foundation on Sunday, Mr Zuma described the US and its western allies as “bullies” using Ukraine as a front to bring Russia to its knees through unjustifiable sanctions. According...
Police authority in Mwiyala in the outskirts of Kakamega town, Kenya have arrested a 32-year-old woman who served her two children with food laced with poison leading to their death. Pherine Maero, a nurse by profession, poisoned her two children, aged 7 and 9, on Saturday night, March 5...
Four adults and two children were killed when a tornado hit Madison County in the US state of Iowa on Saturday, officials said. At least four other adults were injured in the tornado that caused “widespread damage to both homes and properties,” the county’s emergency management director told a...
Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan and opposition leader Freeman Mbowe pledged to heal rifts and buttress democracy as they met hours after Mbowe was freed from jail in a surprise move. Mbowe, chairman of the Chadema party, was arrested last July to face terrorism charges in a case his...
U.S House of Representatives member, Jason Crow has revealed the fate of Ukrainains as fight with Russia intensifies. Crow predicted that the current war with Russia will get worse for the Republic of Ukraine because Russia’s President Vladimir Putin doesn’t care about his soldiers . Crow, who is a...
The Ukrainian embassy in Berlin has asked the German government for further weapons deliveries to help fend off the Russian invasion. Since the conflict began, the government of Chancellor Olaf Scholz reversed years of highly restrictive arms export policies and allowed direct weapons deliveries to Ukraine to help fight...
Pope Francis in July will visit the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan, two African nations plagued by violence in which the pontiff has taken particular interest, the Vatican announced on Thursday. The 85-year-old pope will be in the DRC from July 2 to 5, visiting the capital...
The UN General Assembly on Wednesday adopted a resolution condemning Russian aggression, with 141 countries voting in favour, 34 abstaining, and only five voting against. Known informally as the world’s “town hall”, the assembly is where all 193 UN member states had a voice. A total of 141 countries...
World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned that shortage of oxygen in Ukraine could put lives in danger and undermine the support of UN efforts in the country. On day seven of the Ukraine crisis, UN-led efforts to ramp up support to the country’s embattled health workers have continued, with...
Russian soldiers taking part in the invasion of Ukraine are in ‘complete disarray’, according to voice recordings obtained by a British intelligence company. The intercepted radio messages indicate that troops are refusing to obey central command orders to shell Ukrainian towns and are complaining about running out of supplies...
The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) citing information from Moscow said Russian forces now have control of Ukraine’s largest nuclear power plant. IAEA director general Rafael Grossi on Wednesday said Russian diplomats in Vienna had informed him of the development. According to the Russian embassy’s letter...
The International Court of Justice said Tuesday it would hold genocide hearings on March 7 and 8 over the war in Ukraine, as fighting intensifies. The Hague-based ICJ, the United Nations’ top court, will open the public hearings after Ukraine lodged a complaint with the court to order Russia...
The UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres has made an appeal for $1.7 billion dollars to provide urgently needed assistance to help refugee exodus from Ukraine. The secretary general, on Tuesday, at the inauguration of the flash appeal said rockets had been “raining down” on Ukraine’s cities and hundreds of people...
Russia’s attack on Ukraine stretched into its sixth day Tuesday, as a massive armored convoy advanced toward the capital, Kyiv, and major cities were hit by more heavy shelling. In Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, video captured a deadly explosion at the regional state administration building that left at least...
World Taekwondo says it has “decided to withdraw the honourary 9th dan black belt” given to Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2013 following the invasion of Ukraine. The governing body said it “strongly condemns the brutal attacks on innocent lives in Ukraine … and we hope for a peaceful...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday signed an official appeal for the European Union (EU) asking for an accession of Ukraine via a new special procedure, the presidential spokesman Sergii Nykyforov said. In a statement on Facebook, Nykyforov said that the document is historical for Ukraine. Earlier in the...
Russian President Vladimir Putin laid out conditions on Monday for ending his invasion of Ukraine, as Moscow’s forces shelled the country’s second city and Western nations prepared even more sanctions. Putin’s ultimatum came as Moscow and Kyiv held their first talks since the outbreak of war last Thursday, which...
The largest plane in the world — Ukraine’s Antonov-225 cargo plane — was destroyed by Russian strikes outside Kyiv on the fourth day of Moscow’s invasion, Ukraine’s state-owned Ukroboronprom group said Sunday. “Russian invaders destroyed the flagship of the Ukrainian aviation, the AN-225” at the Antonov airport in Gostomel...
Ukraine demanded an immediate Russian ceasefire and troop withdrawal on Monday as a Kyiv delegation arrived for talks with Russian negotiators on the fifth day of the Kremlin’s offensive against the country. He also demanded an “immediate” European Union membership for Ukraine. Russia invaded Ukraine on Thursday, sending shockwaves...