Malikah Shabazz, one of the daughters of civil rights activist Malcolm X, , has been found dead at her home in New York, Monday evening, according to two senior police officials. Just…
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Afghanistan: Taliban Commences Payment Of Salaries To Govt Employees
Taliban authorities in Afghanistan on Saturday disclosed that they had begun paying government employees who had not received a paycheck since the Islamists seized power and triggered a major financial crisis. Most…
Kamala Harris Logs Another Record As First Woman To Become US President
US President Joe Biden is billed to transfer power to Vice-President Kamala Harris on Friday while he is placed under anaesthesia for a routine colonoscopy. Jen Psaki, White House press secretary, announced…
International Criminal Court Calls Buhari For Trial, 7,000 Sign Online Petition
By Ashimedua Adebiyi A petition addressed to the International Criminal Court to arraign Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari, over his crimes against humanity, has been launched on web-based petition aggregator, change.org. …
United States Take Off Nigeria From Religious Violators’ List
The United States has disclosed that it has removed Nigeria from its list of religious violators even as it backlisted Russia, China and eight other countries “as Countries of Particular Concern for…
Ekiti Varsity VC’s son graduates from Foreign University
A son to Edward Olanipekun, the vice-chancellor at the Ekiti State University (EKSU), has graduated from the University of Oxford. Oxford varsity in the United Kingdom is regarded as one of the…
Bomb blasts rock Uganda’s capital city
Two explosions have rocked Kampala, the capital city of Uganda. Derby Awio, a resident of Kampala, confirmed the development to TheCable on Tuesday morning. “We are not safe in Kampala,” Awio said….
Tree bears 10 different fruits: Grafter wins Guinness Record
A tree in Australia bearing 10 different fruits has just claimed a Guinness world record for most types of fruit on a single tree. The tree is the result of a decade…
After 20 months, US reopens borders
Long lines formed at border crossings and anxious relatives gathered at airports Monday as the United States reopened to vaccinated visitors, ending 20 months of Covid-19 restrictions that separated families, hobbled tourism…
Nigeria Owes China $3 Billion As Of 2020 – World Bank
The World Bank has disclosed that Nigeria has so far borrowed $3.121 billion (1,126.68 trillion at USD/361) from China as at March 2020, an amount which represents only 3.94 per cent of…