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Saturday, 14 May 2022 06:07

What to know after Day 79 of Russia-Ukraine war

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said although Ukrainians are doing everything they can to drive out the Russians, “no one today can predict how long this war will last.” “This will depend, unfortunately, not only on our people, who are already giving their maximum,” he said in his nightly video address to the nation. “This will depend on our partners, on European countries, on the entire free world.” He said he was thankful to all those who are working to strengthen the sanctions on Russia and increase military and financial support to Ukraine. “This is the only recipe for protecting freedom in…

Saturday, 14 May 2022 06:06

Finland’s push to join NATO suffers setback as Turkey opposes move

Finland’s Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto urged patience on Friday and called for a step-by-step approach in response to Turkish resistance to Finnish and Swedish NATO membership. Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan earlier said NATO member Turkey could not support Finnish and Swedish plans to join the alliance, erecting a potential stumbling block as membership requires unanimous backing from all 30 member states. “We need some patience in this type of process, it’s not happening in one day ... Let’s take issues step-by-step,” Haavisto told reporters. Erdogan’s statement appeared to come as a surprise to Finland after Haavisto had visited Turkey twice…

Friday, 13 May 2022 06:44

Nigerian pilot who was daughter of a former FCT minister along with 10 others die in plane crash in Cameroon

A small passenger plane with 11 passengers on board has crashed in a forest in central Cameroon on Wednesday, the country’s transport ministry has said. The aircraft was flying from Yaounde Nsimalen Airport to Belabo in the east of the country when air traffic services lost radio contact. “The air traffic services have lost radio contact with an aircraft flying from Yaounde-Nsimalen-Dompta-Belabo-Yaounde-Nsimalen on Wednesday, May 11, 2022 with 11 people on board,” Jean Ernest Massena Ngalle Bibehe, the transport minister was quoted to have said. There were no survivors. Reports have it that the pilot was Adzuayi Ewuga, a Nigerian…

Friday, 13 May 2022 06:42

Mary Odili retires from Supreme Court, tasks govt on ASUU strike, unemployment

A Supreme Court judge, Mary Peter-Odili, retired after attaining the retirement age of 70 on Thursday. Speaking at the valedictory court session held in her honour, Mrs Peter-Odili lamented the spate of violent crimes in Nigeria, which she attributed to youth unemployment. At the event which held at the Supreme Court in Abuja, the retiring apex court justice, who is the wife of Peter Odili, a former Rivers State governor, warned that the “urgency of what we are all faced with right now calls for necessity in tackling them. “The massive unemployment of tertiary institution graduates is a tip of…

Friday, 13 May 2022 06:36

Nigeria, Brazil cooperate to empower Nigerian academics for enhanced agric production

PRESS RELEASE Within the context of the South-South Triangular Cooperation in the global south, the Tertiary Education Trust Fund TETFund) of Nigeria supports the strengthening of human capital within the Nigeria Academia. Just closing from a very successful outing in Brazil, the major outcome of the First Agricultural Research and Innovation Fellowship for Africa- (ARIFA) Symposium, which took place between 28th and 29th April 2022 at the Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Brazil, is the signing of a Memorandum of understanding between the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA) and the Brazilian Association for International Education (FAUBAI) with the endorsement…

Friday, 13 May 2022 06:30

Russia vows ‘symmetrical responses’ as Finland seeks NATO membership

Finland said on Thursday it would apply to join NATO "without delay", with Sweden expected to follow, as Russia's invasion of Ukraine looked set to bring about the very expansion of the Western military alliance that Vladimir Putin aimed to prevent. The decision by the two Nordic countries to abandon the neutrality they maintained throughout the Cold War would be one of the biggest shifts in European security in decades. Finland's announcement angered the Kremlin, which called it a direct threat to Russia and threatened an unspecified response. It came even as Russia's war in Ukraine was suffering another big…

Friday, 13 May 2022 06:28

Europe's gas supply crisis deepens after Russia imposed sanctions

Pressure on Europe to secure alternative gas supplies increased on Thursday as Moscow imposed sanctions on European subsidiaries of state-owned Gazprom a day after Ukraine stopped a major gas transit route. Gas prices surged, with the key European benchmark gaining 12% as buyers were unsettled by the mounting threats to Europe's supply given its high dependence on Russia. Moscow has already cut off supply to Bulgaria and Poland and countries are racing to fill dwindling gas reserves before winter. Russia imposed sanctions late Wednesday mainly on Gazprom's European subsidiaries including Gazprom Germania, an energy trading, storage and transmission business that…

Friday, 13 May 2022 06:27

What to know after Day 78 of Russia-Ukraine war

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russian forces on Thursday night struck the Chernihiv region and hit schools. “Of course, the Russian state is in such a state that any education only gets in its way. But what can be achieved by destroying Ukrainian schools? All Russian commanders who give such orders are simply sick, and incurable.” He condemned what he suggested were senseless attacks on the refinery in the central Ukrainian industrial hub of Kremenchuk, on the Zaporizhzhia region and the Donbas. “They are cowards, and they try to hide the truth behind missiles, airstrikes and artillery shelling,” he said…

Thursday, 12 May 2022 06:44

10m out of 18.5m out-of-school children in Nigeria are girls - UNICEF

Nigeria has a record of 18.5 million out of school children out of which 10 million are girls, the chief of UNICEF Field Office, Kano, Rahama Farah, has said. Farah, who spoke during a media dialogue on girls’ education in Kano Wednesday afternoon, said the statistics are alarming. The dialogue is part of a three-day training for journalists from Katsina and Kano States. He said: “Currently in Nigeria, there are 18.5 million out of school children, 60 per cent of these out of school children are girls – that is over 10 million girls are out of school. “Most importantly…

Thursday, 12 May 2022 06:39

Conflicting judgements: NJC issues policy direction on political, election suits

As political activities continue to increase towards the 2023 general election, National Judicial Council (NJC) has issued a Policy Direction to guide judges that would be handling political and election related cases. The new regulations according to the body was borne out of concern in “the multiplicity of litigations of political suits at different courts of coordinate jurisdiction across the nation”, which according to the NJC is responsible for “conflicting orders on the same issues and facts”. A statement from the Director Information, NJC, Soji Oye, disclosed that the decision was made on May 10 and 11 at the 98th…

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Thursday, 12 May 2022 06:32

What to know after Day 77 of Russia-Ukraine war

An adviser to the Mariupol mayor said Wednesday that Russian forces have blocked all evacuation routes out of the city. The adviser, Petro Andriushchenko, said there were few apartment buildings fit to live in after the weeks of bombardment and very little food or drinking water. Andriushchenko said some residents who have remained in the city are cooperating with the Russian occupying forces in exchange for food. Meanwhile, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk says Ukraine has offered to release Russian prisoners of war if Russia will allow the badly injured fighters to be evacuated from the Mariupol steel plant.…

Wednesday, 11 May 2022 06:30

Presidency responds to Clarke’s suggestion to Buhari to elongate tenure

Garba Shehu, presidential spokesman, says President Muhammadu Buhari will hand over to his successor at the end of his tenure in 2023. On Monday, Robert Clarke, senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN), had said the Nigerian constitution allows Buhari to extend his tenure in order to tackle the country’s security challenges. Reacting to the statement on Tuesday, Shehu said the president is committed to observing democratic values by handing over to the candidate elected by the people. “Robert Clarke, a very well respected elder may be sincere in his wish for the president to extend his term by six months. We…

Wednesday, 11 May 2022 06:28

Twitter ban on Donald Trump ‘morally wrong and flat-out stupid’. I’ll reverse it - Elon Musk

Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk said Tuesday he would reverse Twitter’s ban on former U.S. President Donald Trump, while speaking at the Financial Times Future of the Car conference. Musk, who has called himself a “free speech absolutist,” recently inked a $44 billion deal to acquire the social media platform. The decision to ban Trump from Twitter did not silence the former president’s voice, but rather amplified his views among people on the political right, Musk said, calling the ban “morally wrong and flat-out stupid.” Trump was permanently suspended from Twitter shortly after the Jan. 6 riot on the U.S.…

Wednesday, 11 May 2022 06:27

What to know after Day 76 of Russia-Ukraine war

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy cited some good news Tuesday from the front, where he said the Ukrainian military was gradually pushing the Russian troops away from Kharkiv. The Ukrainian General Staff said its forces drove the Russians out of four villages to the northeast of Kharkiv as it tries to push them back toward the Russian border. Meanwhile Tuesday, Ukrainian officials say Russian missiles pummeled the vital port of Odesa, apparently as part of efforts to disrupt supply lines and weapons shipments critical to Kyiv’s defense. Ukraine’s ability to stymie a larger, better-armed Russian military has surprised many who had…

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