An American pastor detained by China since 2006 on what the United States has called spurious charges has been freed, the State Department said Sunday. David Lin “has returned to the United States and now gets to see his family for the first time in nearly 20 years,” a State Department spokesperson told AFP. “We […]
US media named Ryan Wesley Routh, whom AFP interviewed in Kyiv in 2022 where he had traveled to support the war effort, as the suspected would-be assassin of Donald Trump. US media said it was Routh, 58, who was arrested after US Secret Service agents “opened fire on a gunman” carrying an AK-47 style rifle […]
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited has said that it will sell the petrol lifted from the Dangote Refinery at a price above N1,000 per litre in the far north. The NNPC spokesperson, Olufemi Soneye, disclosed this on Monday, in a statement titled, ‘NNPC Ltd Releases Estimated Pump Prices of PMS from Dangote Refinery Based […]
The Minister of State for Defence, Bello Matawalle, and the Chief of Defence Staff, General Christopher Musa, have directed an immediate investigation into allegations that a Naval rating, Seaman Abbas Haruna, has been in detention for nearly six years. Haruna’s wife had, while featuring on a radio station in Abuja, accused the military authorities of […]
Operatives of the Imo State Police Command on Sunday repelled an attack on the Njaba Divisional Headquarters by hoodlums suspected to be affiliated with the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra and its armed militia, the Eastern Security Network. According to a release signed by the command’s Public Relations Officer, Henry Okoye, the attackers, arriving in […]
British Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, meets Italian counterpart Giorgia Meloni, in Rome on Monday to discuss tackling illegal immigration, a day after another Channel migrant shipwreck claimed eight lives. Starmer, whose centre-left Labour Party was elected with a crushing parliamentary majority in July, has vowed to fight illegal immigration, a hot-button topic in British politics […]
Unsettled Napoli striker Victor Osimhen is on the verge of joining Galatasaray after the former Italian champions and the player agreed on a loan move to the Turkish giants on Monday. After his failed move to Chelsea, the 25-year-old still has a lifeline of moving out of Napoli as the Turkish transfer window closes on […]
The Vice President of Oil and Gas at Dangote Industries Limited, Devakumar Edwin, has insisted that the refinery can survive without local patronage and would export most of its products if boycott from local oil traders continue. Edwin, who spoke during a Brekete Family live show, said like the refinery is currently exporting diesel and […]
Nigeria’s downstream petroleum industry may have gone into a frenzy, following clear indications that the Federal Government may no longer sustain the cost of under-recovery, otherwise known as subsidy, due to a the steady rise in petrol import bills. Industry operators told Vanguard yesterday that it is now clear that pump price may be officially […]
Nigerian singer Augustine Amedu Obiabo, popularly known as Blackface, has reignited hopes for a reunion of the iconic music group, Plantashun Boiz. The group, which dominated the Nigerian music scene in the late ’90s and early 2000s, originally comprised Blackface, Faze, and 2Baba (formerly known as 2Face). In a recent post on his Instagram page, […]
