With Japan preparing to welcome foreign visitors for the cherry blossom season for the first time in three years after loosening COVID-19 border controls, excitement is in the air for the travel industry. Operators of popular tourist spots are rushing to ride the cherry blossom wave, adorning everything from restaurants, vehicles and digital art with…
A tribal ceremony during which young women are whipped in order to show the sacrifices they make for men is revealed in a series of photographs. Women are whipped as part of a Rite of Passage ceremony for boys, when female family members declare their love for the young man at the heart of the…
Shi’ite members in Bakin Ruwa Area of Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State Thursday clashed with Security operatives attached to the convoy of the Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai. The governor’s convoy ran into the Shi’ite members while they were performing their weekly procession at Bakin Ruwa along Nnamdi Azikiwe Expressway. A Shi’ite representative…
By Sunday Isuwa, Abuja The Southern Kaduna People’s Union (SOKAPU), National Youth Wing, has urged the people of Kaduna State to vote for the gubernatorial candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Rt Hon Isa Ashiru in the Saturday’s gubernatorial election. According to the youth, the present administration might have done it best,…
Japan became the third-largest aid provider in 2021 among members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, as the COVID-19 pandemic continued to hit developing nations, government data showed Tuesday. The annual white paper on development cooperation issued by the Foreign Ministry said Japan’s official assistance in 2021, calculated by international standards under the…
A record 514 children attending elementary, junior high and high schools in Japan died by suicide in 2022, topping the previous high of 499 seen in 2020, government data showed Tuesday, with the upward trend apparently fueled by the coronavirus pandemic. Suicides among females also increased for the third straight year, rising 67 from the…
Reports shows that the Middle east, Sahel region in sub-Saharan Africa is now the epicentre of terrorism, with the Sahel accounting for more terrorism deaths in 2022 than both South Asia and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) combined. “Sub-Saharan Africa recorded the largest increase in terrorism deaths, rising by eight per cent,” it…
The Ghana National Petroleum Authority has announced removal of fuel subsidy in the country. Abdul Hamid, the Chief Executive Officer of NPA, stated this during a presentation at the ongoing Africa Refiners and Distributors Week 2023, in Cape Town, South Africa. He said “We have removed subsidies and deregulated our markets. Industries were shutting down…
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has been ranked as the 10th deadliest terror group in the world. IPOB is a separatist group proscribed and declared a terrorist organisation in 2017 by the federal government. In the 2023 global terrorism index (GTI) ranking, IPOB is said to be responsible for 40 attacks and…
At least 190 people are now confirmed dead in Malawi after Tropical Storm Freddy ripped through southern Africa for the second time in a month. Terrifying amounts of brown water have cascaded through neighbourhoods, sweeping away homes. Malawi’s commercial hub, Blantyre, has recorded most of the deaths, 158, including dozens of children. The government has…
