Layouts
24, June 2024
Seven, including children, killed as over 100 abducted in gunmen attack in Nigeria 0
Gunmen have attacked a village in northwestern Nigeria, killing at least seven people and abducting more than 100 others, residents and police say. The attack took place in Nigeria’s northwestern Katsina state on Saturday night, residents and police said. According to residents, gunmen on motorbikes arrived in Maidabino village in the Danmusa local government area […]
24, June 2024
Rapper Julio Foolio shot dead in Florida 0
Florida rapper Julio Foolio has been killed in a shooting in Tampa, his lawyer says. Police said four people were hit with gunfire in a hotel car park early on Sunday. One person died, whom they believed to be Foolio pending a medical examination. The 26-year-old victim, whose legal name was Charles Jones, was identified […]
24, June 2024
Vice President Yerima’s statement on the burning of taxis in Ambazonia 0
The recent incidents of taxis being burned on our streets are deeply troubling. Taxis represent not just a mode of transportation but a vital source of livelihood for many in our communities in Ambazonia. These acts of destruction do not advance the cause of liberation or justice; instead, they harm the very people we seek […]
23, June 2024
Malian singer Rokia Traore detained in Italy over child custody case 0
Malian singer Rokia Traore has been arrested in Italy over an outstanding two-year prison sentence in Belgium handed down in a child custody dispute, prosectors in Brussels said Sunday. The singer and guitarist was sentenced in absentia in October on charges of parental abduction, after fleeing France in 2020 when she was due to be […]
23, June 2024
Russia: Deadly attacks on Dagestan synagogue and churches 0
Gunmen in Russia’s North Caucasus republic of Dagestan have killed six police officers in a series of attacks, security officials say. Twelve other officers were wounded in the attacks, which targeted a synagogue and churches in the cities of Derbent and Makhachkala. A Russian Orthodox priest has also been killed and two attackers shot dead, […]
21, June 2024
Malawi: Top comedian sworn in as vice-president 0
Top comedian-turned-politician Micheal Usi has been sworn as Malawi’s vice-president at a ceremony held in parliament in the capital, Lilongwe. The 55-year-old replaces Saulos Chilima, who died in a plane crash earlier this month, along with eight other people. Dr Usi received a standing ovation when he spoke after his inauguration, saying he accepted the […]
21, June 2024
Armenia officially recognizes Palestinian state 0
Armenia has announced its recognition of the State of Palestine, becoming the latest country to take the measure during the ruthless Israeli ground and aerial invasion of Gaza. “Reaffirming its commitment to international law, the principles of equality, sovereignty and peaceful coexistence of peoples, the Republic of Armenia recognizes the State of Palestine,” the Armenian […]
21, June 2024
Biya is aging disgracefully 0
Aging gracefully is not about trying to look like a 16 or a 20-something — it’s about living your best life and having the physical and mental health to enjoy it. But when you are over ninety years and you have been in power for forty-two years and there is nothing to show for such […]
20, June 2024
Euro 2024: “German team is truly exceptional. Just imagine if there were only white players” 0
A senior German politician has apologised for the way she worded a comment about the skin colour of members of the country’s football team, in which she praised them and asked what it would be like if there were only white players. Green MP Katrin Göring-Eckardt, who is also the deputy leader of the German […]
24, June 2024
Buea: Development displaces Great Soppo Market Traders 0
by soter • Africa, Business, Headline News
Many vendors at the Great Soppo Market, popularly known as “OIC Market”, have been displaced from their business locations by Buea municipality authorities. An ongoing road construction project is underway at the Bakweri town stretch in Great Soppo, which has led to the closure of the main road which leads to the area. Currently, vehicles […]