FOREIGN

Fierce fighting erupted yesterday in Sudan’s capital between the military and the country’s powerful paramilitary force, raising fears of a wider conflict in the chaos-stricken country. A doctors’ group said at least three people were killed and dozens injured. The clashes between the military and the Rapid Support Forces group capped months of heightened tensions between both sides that forced …

Florence Enwerem Onyegbu, a convicted Nigerian fugitive, has been extradited to the United States of America, USA. She was extradited to the North American country on Thursday where she wanted to answer to criminal charges bordering on violation of U.S. Law involving the offer and payment of illegal remuneration in a health care matter. Her extradition was supervised by the …

Ayomide Ibrahim, the brain behind FinServe Pro, a financial services company in Maryland United States of America that as been providing assistant to Nigerians and Africans in Us solve their tax filing challenges and other finance related issues.The Nigerian born Ayomide Ibrahim, who is the Chief Executive Officer of FinServe Pro, said the company is all about facilitating a sound …

The Speaker of South Africa’s African National Congress (ANC) Free State legislature has accused Douye Diri, a Nigerian politician and Governor of Bayelsa State of leaking her sex tape. The Lawmaker taking to Facebook on Thursday, identified Governor Diri as the Nigerian man who leaked the video. She described the Nigerian politician as her lover whom she trusted. There has …

A court in Pennsylvania, U.S. has sentenced a 24-year-old Syrian American, Mustafa Mousab Alowemer, to 208 months — over 17 years — in federal prison over his support for the dreaded terror group, the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) and plot to bomb a Nigerian church in Pittsburgh. The US Department of Justice said Alowemer, who moved to …

James Foley will be honored with a memorial outside his neighborhood church after being killed by ISIS in 2014Slain journalist James Foley has been honored with a stone memorial outside the church he attended while growing up in New Hampshire.Foley, a freelance journalist, was among a group of Westerners brutally murdered in Islamic State captivity in Syria in 2014. He …

Mrs. Aisha Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria first Lady hosts His Excellency, Amb. CUI Jianchun of People’s Republic of China in her office at the State House. They had fruitful deliberations centered around the existing mutual relationship between the two countries and the development of Women, Youth and Children in Nigeria.

…Musa: We’ll make Nigeria proud The Nigeria High Commission to the Republic of Cameroon led by Ambassador Abayomi Olonisakin has charges the Super Eagles of Nigeria to beat Central republic of Africa in the second leg of 2022 FIFA World cup qualifiers on Sunday in Douala, Cameroon. Olonisakin who welcome the national team led by the team captain Ahmed Musa …

A major row broke out between leaders of the Taliban just days after they set up a new government in Afghanistan, senior Taliban officials told the BBC. Supporters of two rival factions reportedly brawled at the presidential palace in the capital Kabul. The argument appeared to centre on who did the most to secure victory over the US, and how …

Former vice president of the World Bank (African Region), co-founder and founding director of Transparency International,  Dr Obiageli Ezekwesili, has been elected as member of Fundação Dom Cabral Board of Trustees, to help FDC consolidate its objectives. Ezekwesili, an economics policy expert, joined the FDC board as the newest member. The founder and Global Chief Executive Officer of Stefanini, Marco …