VAM news has gathered that Germany, for the first time, on Friday, recognised it had committed genocide in Namibia during its colonial occupation, with Berlin promising financial support worth more than one billion euros to aid projects in the African nation. Euro is the official currency of 19 of the 27 member states of…
A Pretoria High Court on Thursday May 27 sentenced 33-year-old Sello Abram Mapunya to 1,088 years in prison for raping and robbing 56 women for five years. Mapunya was convicted on Wednesday May 26, for 41 rapes and 40 separate house breakings and house robberies, as well as assault with the intent to…
Unknown armed men have attacked Umutu police divisional headquarters in Ukwuani LGA of Delta state. VAM news gathered that two police officers who were on duty at the station were killed during a gun duel with the gunmen while another one died in the hospital as a result of high blood pressure. Speaking…
The World Bank has approved a $700 million dollar loan for the Nigeria Sustainable Urban and Rural Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene Programme (SURWASH). It made the announcement in a statement on its website in Washington D. C. on Thursday. According to the statement, the credit will provide six million people with basic…
The Minister of Finance and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed has revealed that the government has been borrowing from recovered loots to fund the budget. The minister also revealed that the government has not been able to repay back the loans taken so far. She revealed this while appearing before the House of…
A police Constable, identified as Emmanuel Walubengo, who was attached to Field Force Unit (FFU) Uganda has been confirmed dead after falling off a speeding police patrol vehicle. The accident happened at Labong-ogali trading Centre along Awer-Amuru Districts headquarters road in Amuru Sub County, on Tuesday morning. According to an eye witness, Jimmy…
Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar, has said that the federal government is set to commence the payment of #5,000 to 1 million Urban Informal Workers for six months across the country to cushion the impact of COVID-19. Farouq made this known during the opening ceremony of the…
Mahmood Yakubu, the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has disclosed that 41 of its offices have been attacked in 14 states since 2019. Mahmood disclosed this at the emergency meeting of the Inter-Agency Consultative Committee on Election Security (ICCES), held at the commission’s headquarters in Abuja on Thursday May 27….
Occupants of the new Orisumbare Shopping complex in Osogbo on Thursday, accused the Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company, IBEDC, of fraudulently inflating its electricity bills. The occupants of the government-owned complex blocked the entrance of the IBEDC headquarters in Osun, alleging that the electricity company illegally altered its tariff twice within without informing the management of…
Former Nigerian President, Goodluck Jonathan, mediation efforts has led to the release of the interim President of Mali, Bah Ndaw and Prime Minister, Moctar Ouane, by army officers, lead by Assimi Goita. Jonathan’s Media Office, disclosed this on Thursday in statement titled, ‘Mali’s President, Prime Minister released after Jonathan’s mediation’. According to the statement, leaders…
