The former president of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Mr. Olumide Akpata has resigned from the law firm, Templars, to pursue his political ambition.
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
Nigeria’s Tobi Amosun, the World Champion, has lost her world title after finishing 6th in the final at the ongoing World Athletics Championship in Budapest on Wednesday.
The Wagner Group has vowed to avenge the suspected killing of their leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin in a plane crash, which occurred on Wednesday.
ASHENEWS reports that following the hard stand of the Nigerien military junta, and pressure from many fronts against ECOWAS plan to invade the neighbouring country, president Bola Tinubu has despatched a delegation of Islamic leaders (Ulama) to Niger Republic for another round of dialogue with the coup leaders.
The U.S Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Wednesday, said it detected two cases of a new COVID-19 virus subvariant, BA.2.86, and has issued a risk-assessment summary explaining what is known about it.
The Russia plane crash that killed Wagner’s boss, Evgueni Prigojine on Wednesday north of Moscow, also killed nine other passengers, including three crew members, that were onboard the plane.
“If we weren’t engaged, with the Sereral operations then Barkhane, there wouldn’t be, without a doubt, more Mali, more Burkina Faso, I’m not even sure there would still be Niger dixit Manu,” French President Emmanuel Macron said in an interview to the weekly Le Point.
“We have agreed on the matter of expansion. We have a document that we’ve adopted which sets out guidelines and principles, processes for considering countries that wish to become members of BRICS…That’s very positive.
Protestors specifically targeted the China-backed East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP), and its associated oil drilling sites, in Uganda and Tanzania. The protest also targeted China’s involvement in the Musina-Makhado Special Economic Zone in South Africa, the Hwange coal-related projects in Zimbabwe, and the Cabo Delgado gas projects in Mozambique. These projects are said to be incompatible with China’s climate action and cooperation pledges to global south countries.
Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin was on the passenger list of a jet which crashed killing all on board, Russia’s civil aviation authority has said.