The long-anticipated four-day pause in the fighting between Israel and Hamas is due to begin now The temporary ceasefire was due to start at 07:00 local time (05:00 GMT) and the first group of 13 hostages held by Hamas will be freed at 16:00, according to Qatari mediators Under the deal, Hamas will release 50…
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, on Thursday, said it would end the importation of refined petroleum products by December 2024 as all the country’s refineries would be operational by then. It also projected that the national oil firm would grow its revenue to N4.5tn at the end of 2023 adding that the rehabilitation of…
A new revelation by the BBC shows that a key political ally of Vladimir Putin has adopted a child seized from a Ukrainian children’s home Sergey Mironov, the 70-year-old leader of a Russian political party, is named on the adoption record of a two-year-old girl who was taken in 2022 by a woman he is…
Prosecutors in Spain are seeking a nine-year jail term for footballer Dani Alves who is accused of raping a young woman in December 2022. They are also demanding that the former Barcelona and Paris Saint-Germain full-back, who has been in jail in Spain since his arrest in January, pay his alleged victim 150,000 euros in…
Governor Charles Soludo of Anambra State, has said that President Bola Tinubu inherited a dead economy from Mohammadu Buhari. Soludo said this on Thursday while commenting on policies of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in an interview on Channels Television’s monitored in our newsroom. Soludo, while explaining his role in putting curbs on monetary…
Argentina winger, Ángel Di María has called time on his international career. The former Manchester United winger says he will officially stop playing for the Argentine National team after the upcoming Copa América next year. Di María made this known in a statement shared on his Instagram page on Thursday. The statement, written in Spanish…
Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has dismissed an application by the National Broadcasting Commission seeking an order to set aside its judgment restraining the commission from imposing fines on broadcast stations in the country. The Media Rights Agenda had sued NBC for imposing a fine of N500,000 each on Channels, TVC, AIT, and 42…
The Kogi State Government has issued a directive to freeze all state and local government accounts, with immediate effect A statement on Thursday signed by the Commissioner for Finance, Asiru Idris, said no form of payment should be made to anyone from the government account henceforth. According to the statement, all “standing orders and investment…
Qatar has announced key details of the planned pause in fighting and release of Israeli hostages held by Hamas An official says the temporary ceasefire will begin at 07:00 local time on Friday and that the first group of 13 hostages will be freed at 16:00 The pause in fighting was initially due to start…
Governor Hope Uzodimma of Imo state has suspended the state Commissioner for Lands, Survey and Physical Planning, Noble Atulegwu. Also suspended is his Special Adviser/ General Manager, Imo State Housing Cooperation, Mbakwe Obi. A statement issued in Owerri, the state capital on Thursday by the Secretary to the State Government, Cosmos Iwu, said the suspension…
