Pakistan and India each announced the expulsion of one diplomat, accusing respective officials of espionage activities, in a reciprocal diplomatic move. Pakistan declared a staff member of the Indian High Commission in Islamabad as persona non grata. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that the official has been ordered...
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Indian authorities Monday announced the reopening of 32 airports it closed down for civilian flight operations due to airspace restrictions in the wake of heightened tensions with Pakistan. The step was taken following a ceasefire agreement between the two countries reached on Saturday. In a statement, the state-owned Airports...
U.S. President has threatened the BRICS group of emerging economies with tariffs of 100 per cent if they move away from the U.S. dollar as an international means of payment. “The idea that the BRICS Countries are trying to move away from the Dollar, while we stand by and...
No fewer than 25 people died in a stampede which occurred in India’s northern state of Uttar Pradesh during the early hours of Wednesday. This is according to local news TV channel Aajtak. The official death toll and the number of injured people were expected to be announced soon,...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Nigerian Government has congratulated the government and people of the Republic of India on the country’s 76th Republic Day anniversary celebration. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Amb. Yusuf Tuggar, in a statement in Abuja on Sunday, described January 26 as a “very important day”...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Attempt by 26-year-old Esther Onyinyechi Uzodinma, a 200-level student of nursing at the Noida International University, Uttar Pradesh, India, to swallow 76 wraps of cocaine hours before her return flight to the South Asian country through the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport, MAKIA, Kano,...
More than 20 people were injured, two of them seriously, early Wednesday when an elephant turned violent during a local religious festival in the southern Indian state of Kerala, police said. The incident took place at Tirur in Malappuram district, about 350 km north of Thiruvananthapuram, the capital city...
The Deputy Senate President, Sen. Barau Jibrin, has sponsored 70 youths to study Masters Degrees in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Engineering, among others, in India. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Jibrin (APC Kano-North), sent off the students at a ceremony on Saturday in Kano. He said...
More than 22 people died and another two dozen were injured when the bus they were traveling in fell into a deep gorge in India’s northern state of Uttarakhand on Monday. The local police officer said over phone. The mishap occurred in Marchula area of the state’s Almora district...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto No fewer than 42 students of Sokoto indigenes, who are the first batch of the 100 beneficiaries of the Senator Ibrahim Lamido Education Trust Fund will depart Nigeria this week for India. Senator Lamido, who spoke in his Sokoto residence, when parents of the benefiting...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – The Senator representing Sokoto East Senatorial District, Ibrahim Lamido has granted scholarship to 100 students from the state to study for their Post and undergraduate programmes in India. The first batch of the scholarship beneficiaries include 42 male students who are expected to leave...
Bangladesh’s prime minister has resigned and fled to India following weeks of de@dly protests in the country. Reports of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, 76, resigning were confirmed by the army, as well as Bangladesh High Commission Officials in Delhi. According to the country’s leading national paper, Hasina and her...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, (NDLEA), have intercepted seven containers bearing 1,229,400 bottles of codeine syrup worth over N9,835,200 billion at the Onne ports in Rivers. This is contained in a statement by the NDLEA spokesman, Mr Femi Babafemi on Friday...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The media unit of the Borno State Governor’s office has issued a statement dismissing rumors that the Governor Babagana Zulum’s son was arrested in India for alleged murder. NATIONAL ACCORD reports that the rumors, which originated on the online blog Nairaland, alleged that...
The news of Rema’s record-breaking performance fee at Anant Ambani’s wedding has sent shockwaves across social media, with many users hailing music as a lucrative career path. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Nigerian Afrobeats sensation reportedly pocketed a whopping N4.5 billion (three million dollars)...
Rema, Nigeria’s afrobeats megastar, has arrived in India to perform at the wedding of Asia’s richest man, Mukesh Ambani’s son, Anant Ambani, and daughter of pharma tycoons Viren and Shaila Merchant, Radhika Merchant. On Instagram Thursday night, the ‘Calm Down’ crooner posted a video of himself where he...
No fewer than 27 people, mostly women, died in a stampede at a religious gathering in a town in northern India on Tuesday. Local medical authorities said the stampede in Mughalghari village in Uttar Pradesh took place as hundreds of people that gathered for a Hindu prayer meeting...
By PAUL EJIME – Politically speaking, India is the World’s largest democracy with a voter population of 969 million from more than 1.4 billion inhabitants. It towers above South Africa, which has less than 62 million people, and about 28 million registered voters. The Asian giant is also the...
By BARBARA KALU, Port-Harcourt – The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has intercepted a consignment of 175,000 bottles of codeine-based syrup imported from India. NDLEA spokesman, Mr Femi Babafemi, confirmed the seizure in a statement issued via the agency’s X handle on Sunday. Babafemi said that the seizure...
No fewer than 14 people died, while 75 were injured when a huge advertisement billboard fell on them in India. It fell amid a heavy storm accompanied by rains in the southwestern state of Maharashtra. The incident happened in the Ghatkopar area of the country’s financial capital of...