FOREIGN: UK UNEMPLOYMENT HITS HIGHEST LEVEL SINCE 2021 AMID TAX, TARIFF PRESSURES
By: Sefiu Ajape Britain’s unemployment rate has risen to its highest point in nearly three years, reaching 4.6% in the three months leading up to...
WORLD NEWS: US, CHINA BEGIN KEY TRADE TALKS IN LONDON
Agency Report China and the United States began a new round of trade talks in London yesterday, Beijing’s state media reported, as the world’s two...
NEWS: IRELAND REPORTS 35 NIGERIANS OVER IMMIGRATION OFFENCES
By Agency Report Ireland on Wednesday deported 35 Nigerians for flouting various immigration offences. A statement from the Garda National Immigration Bureau (GNIB), which led...
35 NIGERIANS DEPORTED FROM IRELAND
By: Sefiu Ajape The Republic of Ireland has deported at least 35 Nigerians, including five children, on a chartered flight that departed Dublin Airport on...
WORLD NEWS: MYANMAR ARRESTS SIX-YEAR-OLD GIRL OVER KILLING OF GENERAL
Myanmar authorities have arrested 16 people including a six-year-old girl over the assassination of a retired general shot dead in Yangon last month, state media...
WORLD NEWS: BODIES OF 14 AFRICAN MIGRANTS DISCOVERED IN VENEZUELA
Agency Report Authorities in northeastern Venezuela have discovered the bodies of 14 African migrants on a river that connects to the Atlantic Ocean, Interior and...
WORLD NEWS: MOROCCO URGES EID AL-ADHA SACRIFICE BOYCOTT AMID SEVERE DROUGHT AND LIVESTOCK SHORTAGE
By Aishat Momoh. O. As the Islamic festival of Eid al-Adha nears, many Moroccans are grappling with an unprecedented request from the monarchy: skip the...
SAUDI AUTHORITIES BAN POLITICAL, SECTARIAN EXPRESSIONS AT HAJJ SITES
NAN Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Interior has announced a strict ban on taking photographs or videos or raising political and sectarian expressions at main Hajj...
LOVERS FLOGGED PUBLICLY FOR SEX OUTSIDE MARRIAGE IN INDONESIA
AFP A man and woman were publicly whipped 100 times each in Aceh province, Indonesia, after being convicted of engaging in premarital sex under the...
SAUDI ARABIA WELCOMES OVER 1.3 MILLION PILGRIMS FOR HAJJ AMID SWELTERING HEAT AND HEIGHTENED SECURITY
By Aishat Momoh. O. More than 1.3 million Muslim pilgrims have arrived in Mecca ahead of the annual hajj pilgrimage, with Saudi authorities ramping up...