Moscow on Saturday launched a “counter-terror operation” in three border regions adjoining Ukraine to halt Kyiv’s biggest cross-border offensive in the two-and-a-half-year conflict. Ukrainian units stormed across the border into Russia’s western Kursk region on Tuesday morning in a shock attack and have advanced several kilometres, according to independent analysts. Russia has deployed additional troops…
Gaza’s civil defence agency said Saturday an Israeli airstrike on a school housing displaced Palestinians killed 93 people, as Israel’s military accused militants of using the building as a command centre. AFP could not independently verify the toll which, if confirmed, would appear to be one of the largest from a single strike during 10…
The #EndBadGovernance protest has taken a new turn as demonstrators initiated a one-million-man protest in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja, on Saturday. The protest, which addresses the escalating cost of living, and poor government policies, commenced on August 1 and is anticipated to conclude today, August 10. The organizers had pledged to conduct a…
GISTSMATE MEDIA reports that a two-term former member of the House of Representatives and younger brother to the late former Chief of Defence Staff, Wole Duro Diya is dead. This Nigeria news platform gathered that Wole Duro Diya died in the early hours of Friday. Diya was a two-term representative of Somolu Federal Constituency in…
Vice President Kashim Shettima has lauded the donation of N1 billion to the federal government’s Food Support Programme and 4,600 units of digital devices for distribution to schools by telecommunications giant, MTN Nigeria. He said the gesture by the telecommunications outfit towards the government’s efforts in addressing hardship in the country is worthy of emulation…
Former President Donald Trump headed to Montana for a Friday night rally in hopes of ousting the state’s Democratic senator, but his plane first had to divert to an airport on the other side of the Rocky Mountains because of a mechanical issue, according to airport staff. Trump’s plane was en route to Bozeman, Montana,…
President Bola Tinubu says the Economic Community of West African States will continue to persuade the military leaders of Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso to return their nations to the fold. “We will do everything to offer a hand of friendship to them and give them reasons to come back to us,” Tinubu, who chairs…
Yemisi Ogunleye on Thursday won a historic gold medal in Women’s Shot Put final at the Paris Olympics, not for Nigeria but for Germany. She becomes the first athlete in 20 years to win a medal for Germany in Shot Put event. Ogunleye, 25 was born in Germersheim, Germany and grew up in the village…
All 62 people aboard a plane that crashed Friday in Brazil’s Sao Paulo state were killed, the mayor’s office in Valinhos, a city near the scene of the accident, announced. “There were no survivors,” the city government — which was involved in the rescue and recovery operation in the neighboring town of Vinhedo — said…
The Nigerian Police Force has denied raiding the national secretariat of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC. In a statement sent to POLITICS NIGERIA on Friday, the police disclosed that reports of the alleged invasion are false. The statement read; “The Nigeria Police Force has noted a publication alleging that the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) National…