Kenya scraps First Lady’s budget, dissolves 47 agencies
Agency Report NAIROBI – Kenya is to scrap the budget of the First Lady’s office and dissolve more than 40 state-owned companies as part of austerity measures to address the…
ECOWAS finance ministers, Central Bank Governors meet to actualise single currency, ECO
Agency Report Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors from across the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) convened in Abuja to tackle the possibility of launching the single currency,…
UN warns 82 million Nigerians could soon face hunger
Agency Report The United Nations has again predicted that 82 million Nigerians, about 64 percent of the country’s population, could face hunger by 2030, and has called on the government…
Defeated Rishi Sunak quits with call for kindness, decency and tolerance
Reuters London – Rishi Sunak said on Friday he would resign as prime minister and Conservative Party leader after losing heavily to Keir Starmer’s Labour Party, leaving with an apology,…
Stakes high for Haiti as Kenya forces deploy
Agence France-Presse Haiti’s leaders face a high-stakes balancing act as Kenyan forces arrive in the violence-wracked country, where security is desperately needed and the new, unelected government must also win…
Mexico girds for hit from Hurricane Beryl
Agence France-Presse Tourist resorts in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula girded Thursday for a hit from Hurricane Beryl, which is still packing ferocious winds after slamming Jamaica and the Cayman Islands. Beryl…
Nigeria declares its law on same-sex marriage ‘supersedes’ Samoa agreement
Matthew Onocheta The Nigerian government declared Thursday that the Samoa agreement the President Bola Tinubu-led government recently rectified at the international stage did not invalidate the country’s law on same-sex…
Activist Shehu Sani asks Nigerian government to withdraw from $150billion Samoa Agreement over LGBTQ conditions
Morakinyo Akinosun A former federal lawmaker from Nigeria’s Kaduna State, Senator Shehu Sani, has urged the President Bola Tinubu-led Nigerian government to go back and unsign the Samoa Agreement it…
Americans take a break to celebrate Independence Day
Reuters WASHINGTON – Millions of Americans took a welcome Fourth of July break on Thursday, flocking to parades, fireworks shows and barbecues for a brief respite from the daily drumbeat…
Germany summons Turkish ambassador over ‘wolf’ goal celebration at Euro2024
The Guardian UK BERLIN – Turkey’s ambassador to Germany has been summoned to the foreign ministry in Berlin over the rightwing extremist “wolf salute” displayed by the Turkish footballer Merih…