Photo credit: Citynews National Defence Minister David McGuinty says the United States’ deal to boost its military presence in Greenland while keeping the island under Danish control is “encouraging.” Global News reports that US President Donald Trump said Friday he has a deal with Denmark after months of threatening to take the island by force…
Photo credit: Aljazeera Saudi Arabia on Saturday confirmed Yemen’s Houth i rebels tried to attack its capital with a ballistic missile, the first targeting of Riyadh since the escalation in fighting with the Tehran-backed rebels that has opened a new front in the Iran war. The Associated Press reports that the Saudi authorities said the attack…
Photo credit: the Jerusalem Post A hundred-meter-long shroud with the handwritten names of more than 20,000 Palestinian children was put on display at the United Nations (UN) headquarters in New York, Ynet reported on Friday. The Jerusalem Post reports that the exhibition called “The Shroud of the Children of Gaza,” was organized by a coalition of…
NEPA used to be Nigeria’s electric supply monopoly before we started having the Power Holding Companies. I understand Nigeria’s Minister of Power, Mr Joseph Tegbe, said some Nigerians are asking him to slow down the so-called improvements in electric supply because their freezers are over freezing. If that’s true, even at 18 hours per day,…
There’s a common saying, at least in Nigeria, that when a matter has gone beyond crying one should laugh! So, is the case of thieves actually making their ways into a police station in Ebute Meta, Nigeria and stealing a television set. Haba! Let’s look at it in the proper perspective. A police station is…
I learn Edo politics is now so low that one Kabaka was saying on the campaign ground that people shouldn’t vote for Obaseki because he’s childless. Haba! I believe Kabaka must have been tombo drunk before he could utter such a petty statement. But then, I wouldn’t blame him. I would rather blame the people…
Hundreds of Ugandans demonstrated outside the Turkish Embassy on Friday to demand the extradition of a dissident whose online activities are seen by local authorities as anti-government propaganda. AP reports that the dissident, Fred Lumbuye, has lived for years in Turkey, but his legal status there is unclear. His posts about Ugandan politics are viewed by…
