Five metres beneath a Kyiv classroom, headmaster Mykhaylo Aliokhin puts the finishing touches on the bunker where his students will spend much of their time once Ukraine’s school term starts later this week. The study hall above is still littered with school bags abandoned since February 23 — the last day before Russia invaded and

Country Director of Actionaid Nigeria, Ene Obi, has lamented the impact of banditry on the country’s food security, adding that government should tackle it in order to solve the food crisis. Obi made this disclosure in her remarks on Monday at the National Stakeholders Consultative Meeting on the 2023 Agriculture Budget in collaboration with Oxfam

Labour Party Presidential Candidate, Peter Obi, has urged Diaspora Nigerians to play their roles in holding the Nigerian government accountable. He said aside from the constitutional rights of voting, the people’s sacred role is also to hold elected government accountable for ensuring desired development. The former Anambra State governor in a series of tweets on

Residents and traders at Mile 12, in the Kosofe Local Government Area of Lagos State, have been living in fear after cultists allegedly killed a Chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, Sulaimon Onaolapo, aka Ariku, in the area. In a video which trended online on Sunday evening, no fewer than four suspected

The Kano State Government has set up a technical committee to expeditiously look into the prevailing incidents of flooding occasioned by the intermittent heavy downpours being recorded in the state in the last few days. The state Commissioner for Information, Malam Muhammad Garba, who disclosed this in a statement, said that the government was worried

Tuesday, August 30, 2022 LAMATA bus The Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA) says the pilot phase of its Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) powered buses for passenger operations will soon begin on the Marina/CMS to Lekki and Ajah-Epe routes. LAMATA’s consultant, corporate communication, Kolawole Ojelabi, disclosed this in a statement on Monday in Lagos. Mr

Tuesday, August 30, 2022 NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has called off a rocket launch in its Artemis I mission due to a temperature issue with one of its four engines. On Monday, a faulty liquid hydrogen line did not adequately chill one of the rocket’s four core-stage engines, part of the

Tuesday, August 30, 2022 SP Benjamin Hundeyin Police in Lagos State have arrested a 22-year-old man, Ayomide Fawehinmi, for alleged child trafficking. The Lagos police spokesperson, Benjamin Hundeyin, who confirmed the arrest in a statement on Monday, said officers rescued the suspect from a mob in the Empire Area of Surulere. Mr Hundeyin said police

Tuesday, August 30, 2022 A photo of terrorists used to illustrate the story Türkiye has detained eight Islamic State (IS) suspects in police raids in the Black Sea province of Samsun, local media reported. Samsun police detained one Syrian and seven Iraqi nationals in the district of Ilkadim and seized digital materials belonging to them.

Tuesday, August 30, 2022 Information Minister Lai Mohammed The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has appealed to African leaders to invest more in the creative industry for job and wealth creation. The minister appealed in a remark at the closing of the sixth edition of the Edinburgh International Cultural Summit in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Mutare City Council requires a US$30 million grant or loan from international and regional financial institutions to construct a new water treatment plant. Council officials say Odzani water treatment plant can no longer meet the demand in the eastern border city. Mutare also supplies water to surrounding areas in Mutasa district, where the Odzani water

The leader of the People's Front for Transition (PFT) Dr Kizza Besigye, has lashed out at Ugandans who are celebrating the death of Gen Elly Tumwine, saying that only God has the right to judge the dead. "I wish to encourage Ugandans to stop judging the dead. I am a believer and know that we