The Court nullified the State APC senatorial, House of Representatives and House of Assembly primaries on the basis that they were illegal ward congresses. Tony John, Port Harcourt The Court of Appeal, Port Harcourt Division, yesterday confirmed that the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers…
Rami Ayyub As Nazareth was decked out for Christmas, a group of weavers gathered in the cobblestone alleys of Israel’s largest Arab city, intent on preserving their Palestinian heritage at a time when their communities feel under pressure. Christian and Muslim women are laying out…
New York Times Michael D. Cohen, the former lawyer for President Trump, was sentenced to three years in prison on Wednesday morning in part for his role in a scandal that could threaten Mr. Trump’s presidency by implicating him in a scheme to buy the…
El-Rufai, who launched a door-to-door campaign across the northern state, called on voters to vote for Buhari and other candidates in next year’s polls Noah Ebije, Kaduna Governorship candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Kaduna state chapter, Nasir El-rufai on Tuesday, flagged-off his…
In 2010, I launched my own blog, where I started writing about religious extremism and women’s rights Omaima Al Najjar, Al Jazeera I first met Eman Al Nafjan in October 2006, just before she took up blogging and activism. At that time she was still…
Manchester City and England forward Raheem Sterling has been named the Premier League Player of the Month for November. It is the second time Sterling has won the award, the first coming in August 2016, after claiming three goals and three assists in three games…
A 20-year-old man has drowned while being baptised by a pastor in a river south of Ghana’s capital, Accra. In a video circulating on social media, Yaw Kyeremeh is seen stationed at the banks of River Densu together with a pastor who immersed him in…
Overeating teenagers risk shortening future generations’ lifespan, a study suggests. Researchers in Sweden looked back at 9,039 grandparents born between 1874 and 1910, and followed their grandchildren until 2015. READ ALSO: NAPTIP nabs Sweden-based Nigerian, 2 others After comparing information from harvests, they found that that the…
NAN Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Candidate, has signed the Peace Accord. The former Vice President signed the Peace Accord at the Kukah Centre on Wednesday in Abuja. Atiku used the occassion to appeal to President Muhammadu Buhari to sign into…
NAN A top executive of Chinese telecoms giant Huawei Technologies Co Ltd was granted bail by a Canadian court on Tuesday, 10 days after her arrest. The arrest of Meng Wanzhou in Vancouver at the request of U.S. authorities sparked a diplomatic dispute. Meng ,…
