The Senate has referred the alleged sexual harassment petition filed by Sen. Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan (PDP) against the President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio to its Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions. Akpoti-Uduaghan had during Wednesday’s plenary, stood up and stated that she had a petition, read it out aloud, and submitted it. The petition…
An Abeokuta Magistrate’s Court has adjourned the case against popular Musician Habeeb Okikiola a.k.a Portable, to March 26 to enable the prosecution merge his charges with those of his workers. When the case against the artist resumed on Wednesday after his earlier arraignment on Feb. 20, the prosecution told the court that it would be…
High-level talks between leaders of Germany’s centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) and the winners of the recent elections, the centre-right CDU/CSU bloc, continued in Berlin on Wednesday. Outgoing German Chancellor Olaf Scholz of the SPD met for an hour and a half with CDU chairman Friedrich Merz, widely expected to replace him as chancellor. Alexander Dobrindt,…
Eyal Zamir has officially assumed his role as Israel’s chief of staff of the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) during a handover ceremony in Tel Aviv on Wednesday. The new IDF chief was appointed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Israel Katz. Zamir succeeds Herzi Halevi, who resigned more than 15 months after the…
The Indigenes of Federal Capital Territory (FCT) have proposed that Kwali be made the capital, when the territory is given a state status. The Etsu of Kwali, Mr Luka Nizassan III, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Kwali, the headquarter of Kwali Area Council. The Etsu…
The Israeli military said on Wednesday its forces demolished the houses of two Palestinians who killed seven people in an attack in Tel Aviv last year. Videos have showed that troops detonating explosives in the homes located in Hebron, a Palestinian city in the south of the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Seven people were killed and…
A Catholic Priest, Rev. Fr. Thomas Edogbanya has urged Christians to use the period of Lent to enhance their closeness to God and help one another, especially the less privileged in the society. Edogbanya, the Parish Priest of Saint Charles Lwanga Parish, Apo, Abuja, gave the advice in a sermon during the church’s Ash Wednesday…
The Minister of Interior, Dr Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, has vowed to eradicate corruption in correctional centres and ensure that the centres across the country focus on rehabilitation, rather than punishment. Tunji-Ojo made the vow on Wednesday in Abuja, during the second public hearing on alleged corruption and other violations against Nigeria Correctional Service (NCoS). The minister…
Chief Alagoa Morris, a renowned environmentalist has said that the Feb. 16, oil leak from Shell’s pipeline in Southern Ijaw LGA of Bayelsa has raised the toxicity of Obololi River leading to death of fishes. Morris told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Yenagoa that the pollution caused by the leak was…
Russia has said that Zelensky’s peace talk offer was a positive and welcomed idea, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s stated willingness to negotiate for peace, calling it a “positive’’ step. But Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov questioned the practicality of such talks, noting that Zelensky had legally barred negotiations with Russian President Vladimir Putin through a decree…
