Headline: Egypt Sentences 22 Militants To Death By Hanging
An Egyptian court on Thursday sentenced to death by hanging 22 Islamist militants for 54 attacks including the attempted assassination of a former interior minister, a judicial source said.
An Egyptian court on Thursday sentenced to death by hanging 22 Islamist militants for 54 attacks including the attempted assassination of a former interior minister, a judicial source said.
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has rejected a planned petrol price hike in the country as well as the Federal Government’s proposal to pay the sum of N5000 monthly to Nigerians as palliative. This plan by the federal government according to NLC President, Ayuba Wabba in a statement on Wednesday […]
Renowned Ethiopian athletes, Haile Gebrselassie and Feyisa Lilesa, say they are set to go to the front line in the war against rebel group, Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF). Gebrselassie is a retired long-distance track and road-running athlete while Lilesa is also a long-distance runner Among other honours, both men […]
Grammy-winning artist, Kanye ‘Ye’ West, says he plans to work out his strained relationship with Kim Kardashian, his estranged wife. The billionaire rapper spoke about his broken marriage during a visit to the Skid Row on Thanksgiving Eve. He said all he wants to do is “go back home” and […]
Interpol has elected a new president for the global police agency: Maj. Gen. Ahmed Naser al-Raisi of the United Arab Emirates’ interior ministry. He has been accused by human rights groups of involvement in torture and arbitrary detentions in the UAE.
South Korea says it will launch a task force to consider outlawing dog meat consumption after the country’s president offered to look into ending the centuries-old practice. The government stopped short of saying the task force would ban dog meat.
The Lagos State government has earmarked huge capital expenditure in the 2022 fiscal year to service key growth areas to consolidate the recovery of the state’s economy and positively impact residents’ livelihoods.
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The Nigerian navy says skit maker, Cute Abiola, will remain detained pending the end of its internal procedure. The internet comedian whose real name is Abdulgafar Ahmad Oluwatoyin, was detained on November 15 after he left for his Navy Town office in Lagos. He has spent 10 days in the […]
A French court on Wednesday handed Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema a one-year suspended sentence for complicity in a bid to blackmail his former France team-mate, Mathieu Valbuena, with a sex tape. The sentence was tougher than that sought by prosecutors against the 33-year-old player over the 2015 extortion attempt, […]
US president, Joe Biden has invited Taiwan to a virtual summit on democracy including more than 100 countries — a move bound to anger China, which is missing on the list. The conference was a campaign pledge by the US president, who has placed the struggle between democracies and “autocratic […]
The Minister of Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika, says the country’s national airline, Nigeria Air, is expected to take off by April 2022. He said the national carrier will be run by a company in which the Nigerian government will hold a five percent stake while Nigerian entrepreneurs will hold 46 […]
Sweden’s parliament on Wednesday elected Social Democratic party leader and current Finance Minister Magdalena Andersson as the country’s first woman prime minister after she clinched a last-minute deal securing key support
WHO’s COVID-19 Technology Access Pool (C-TAP) and the Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) on Wednesday finalised a licensing agreement with the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) for a COVID-19 serological antibody technology.
Libya’s electoral commission said Tuesday that 98 candidates, including two women, had registered to vie for the presidential election scheduled for December. “The candidate registration platform has received the papers of 98 candidates who met the conditions,” the head of the electoral commission, Imad al-Sayeh, told a Tripoli press conference. […]
The Kremlin said on Tuesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin will host the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan this week, days after some of the worst fighting between the Caucasus foes since last year’s war over Nagorno-Karabakh. Putin will hold talks with Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijan’s President […]
Victor Osimhen will miss out on the 2021 African Cup of Nations taking place in Cameroon after undergoing surgery on his cheekbones on Tuesday. Osimhen suffered multiple facial fractures following a thudding clash of heads during Napoli’s defeat at Inter Milan, the Serie A leaders. According to an official statement […]
Nigerian artistes, Burna Boy, Femi and Made Kuti, Wizkid and Tems have been nominated for the 2022 Grammys in the Global Music Album category as well as the newly-created, Global Music Performance category. The awards ceremony will hold 31 January 2022.
President Joe Biden is ordering 50 million barrels of oil released from America’s strategic reserve to bring down energy costs. He says he is acting in coordination with other major energy consuming nations, including China, India, and the United Kingdom.
India’s government will introduce a bill to ban private cryptocurrencies and create a framework for a central bank-backed digital money, parliament said in a shock announcement late Tuesday.
Israel began rolling out COVID-19 vaccines for children aged five to 11 on Monday, becoming one of a handful of countries to inoculate children so young as it seeks to ward off another pandemic wave.
A bus carrying people home to North Macedonia from a tourist trip to Istanbul crashed and caught fire in western Bulgaria, killing at least 45 people, authorities and local media say.
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has said that the EndSARS report submitted by the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry was a waste of time and taxpayers’ money.
The ex-spokesman of Israel’s former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the graft trial on Monday that the veteran leader sought “total and complete” control over his media image. “If we use the term ‘control freak,’ he is much more than that,” said Nir Hefetz. “In everything relating to the media, […]
The organizers of the Brit Awards announced that they will no longer separate awards into male and female artist categories. The change is the latest made in response to criticism that the awards long failed to reflect the diversity of British music.
LeBron James has been suspended for one game and Detroit’s Isaiah Stewart was suspended two games for their roles in an on-court altercation during a free throw. It is James’ first suspension in his 19-year career.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said that the number of fresh registrants in the ongoing nationwide Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) has hit 4,297,494.
Liverpool’s Egyptian forward, Mohamed Salah, has been nominated for the 2021 Best FIFA Men’s Player Award for the second time in his career. The award recognises a footballer’s achievement during the period from October 2020 to August 2021. To win the award, the Liverpool forward has to slug it out […]
The federal government has announced plans to host a national summit aimed at ending the COVID pandemic by December 2022. Mukhtar Mohammed, national incident manager, presidential steering committee (PSC) on COVID-19, made this disclosure on Monday at the bi-weekly national briefing on COVID in Abuja. The summit, which is also […]
Antwain Fowler, the American child who became popular as a foodie after his viral video, is dead. Fowler went viral following a comic video where he famously asked “where we about to eat at?”. News of his death was confirmed in an Instagram post that appeared to have been written […]
Nigerian singer, David Adeleke, popularly known as Davido, on Monday vowed to make sure that children in orphanages benefit from his N250m donation. The singer said this as some fans raised concerns that the money won’t get to the children in the orphanages, due to corrupt practices of welfare officers. […]
Cristiano Ronaldo paid tribute on Monday to Ole Gunnar Solskjaer after the Norwegian was sacked as Manchester United manager describing him as an “outstanding human being” Ronaldo, who returned to Old Trafford in August, has scored nine times in 13 games for United this season but has failed to prevent […]
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele announced plans to build a “Bitcoin City” at the base of a volcano. Bukele said geothermal energy would power both the city and energy-intensive Bitcoin mining. The cryptocurrency is legal tender in El Salvador.
Veteran Nollywood actor, Babatunde Omidina known popularly as Baba Suwe is dead. Bolaji Amusan, president of the Theatre Arts and Motion Picture Producers Association of Nigeria (TAMPAN), broke the news on Monday.
Five people were killed and 40 others wounded after a vehicle plowed into a Christmas parade in the US state of Wisconsin on Sunday, police said.
The leadership of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has questioned the United States for delisting Nigeria from the list of ‘Countries of Particular Concern’ on the issue of freedom of religion. The association in a statement by its President, His Eminence, Rev Dr Samson Ayokunle on Sunday said it […]
Manchester United ended Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s three-year reign as manager at Old Trafford on Sunday, but plan to wait until the end of the season to name the Norwegian’s permanent successor. Saturday’s 4-1 embarrassing defeat to struggling Watford was the final straw for the United board, who had stood by […]
Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities on Sunday issued a new ”religious guideline” that asked the country’s television channels to stop showing dramas and soap operas featuring women actors. According to the directive to Afghan media issued by the Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, which is the first […]
Star striker Victor Osimhen had to leave the field just after the break after he and Milan Skriniar thumped into each other, with Spalletti saying after the match that he hoped it to be a facial injury and nothing more.
Venezuela on Saturday locked in the Guinness record for the world’s largest orchestra after thousands of local musicians performed Tchaikovsky’s “Slavonic March.”
Sudan’s deposed prime minister and the top general that ousted him a month ago signed a breakthrough deal Sunday to reverse the military takeover, but protests continued and a teenager was killed.
Austrian Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg says the country will go into a national lockdown to contain a fourth wave of coronavirus cases. Mandatory vaccinations will start on February 1.
The British government says it intends to ban the Palestinian militant group Hamas as a terrorist organization. The military wing of Hamas has been outlawed in the U.K. since 2001, but the organization as a whole is not proscribed.
He made the pledge on Friday when he received the delegation led by a First Republic parliamentarian and former Minister of Aviation, Mbazulike Amaechi, at the State House in Abuja.
An very rare original copy of the US constitution was sold Thursday for $43 million — a world record for a historical document at auction, Sotheby’s said. The document is one of only 11 known surviving copies of the US charter, signed on September 17, 1787, at Philadelphia’s Independence Hall […]
The Minister of Youth and Sports, Sunday Dare, has revealed that the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) will decide the fate of Super Eagles Head Coach, Gernot Rohr, next week. He reveled this on Thursday while speaking to State House Correspondents at the weekly ministerial briefing organized by the Presidential Communications […]
The speaker said the National Assembly backed direct primary because it would activate the implementation of the Not Too Young To Run Bill signed by Buhari to enable young Nigerians to participate in governance.
A Chinese tennis player who hasn’t been seen in public since she accused a former government official of sexual assault purportedly sent an email claiming she was safe and that the allegation was false. But it has only amplified concerns about her safety.
Britain’s Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla, arrived in Cairo for the first time in 15 years, hoping to promote tolerance and cement bilateral ties. The visit is part of the royal couple’s first tour since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.
More than 400 Iraqis are seeking to fly home from Belarus, abandoning their hopes of reaching the European Union following more than a week of tensions at the bloc’s eastern border. Hundreds of migrants remain stuck there in harsh, freezing conditions.