FRANCE TO BAN SMOKING IN CHILD-FRIENDLY OUTDOOR SPACES STARTING JULY 2025
By Aishat Momoh. O. France will implement a sweeping new anti-smoking regulation from July 1, 2025, banning smoking in outdoor areas where children are likely...
BREAKING: MAURITANIA’S SIDI OULD TAH ELECTED NEW AfDB PRESIDENT
Agency Report Sidi Ould Tah, a former minister of economics from Mauritania, was chosen on Thursday to take over as president of the African Development...
KENYA STUDENT ON TRIAL FOR FAKE CAPTION OF RUTO ‘FUNERAL’
Agency Report On Thursday, a Kenyan university student appeared in court on charges of disseminating misleading information via a phoney photo caption that claimed President...
WORLD: THOUSANDS STORM AID WAREHOUSE IN GAZA AS HUNGER CRISIS DEEPENS
As Israel and the UN exchanged blame for the worsening hunger crisis, thousands of desperate Palestinians stormed a United Nations warehouse in central Gaza on...
WORLD NEWS: FOUR KILLED AS NAVY PATROL PLANE CRASHES IN SOUTH KOREA
Agency Report According to authorities, all four occupants of a navy marine patrol jet perished in a crash in South Korea on Thursday. About six...
SOUTH AFRICAN COURT SENTENCES WOMAN TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT FOR SELLING HER DAUGHTER
In a case that shocked the nation, a South African court sentenced a woman to life in jail on Thursday for kidnapping and selling her...
SURGEON BAGS TWENTY YEARS JAIL TERM OVER ABUSE OF CHILDREN FOR DECADES IN FRANCE
By Aishat Momoh. O. A French court on Wednesday gave the maximum 20-year jail term to a surgeon who admitted sexually abusing hundreds of...
WORLD NEWS: ISRAELI AIR STRIKE KILLS HAMAS LEADER MOHAMMED SINWAR
Agency Report Israel said Wednesday its military killed Mohammed Sinwar, Hamas’s presumed Gaza leader and the brother of Yahya, the slain mastermind of the...
WORLD NEWS: US SUSPENDS STUDENT VISA PROCESSING AS TRUMP RAMPS UP SOCIAL MEDIA VETTING
By Aishat Momoh. O. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday ordered a suspension of student visa processing as President Donald Trump’s administration ramps...
WORLD NEWS: HAJJ PILGRIMAGE TO COMMENCE ON JUNE 4
By Aishat Momoh. O. Saudi Arabia announced on Tuesday that the annual Muslim hajj pilgrimage to Mecca would begin on June 4 after astronomical...