The British Government has awarded 82 Nigerians, the prestigious Chevening and Commonwealth scholarships to study a wide range of postgraduate programmes in the UK in 2024. This is according to a statement by Atinuke Akande-Alegbe, Senior Communications and Public Diplomacy Officer at the British High Commission on Friday in Abuja. Akande-Alegbe said that 32 scholars…
The Federal Government has congratulated incoming President Donald Trump on his victory as the next President of the United States of America. Amb. Eche Abu-Obe, Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja on outcome of the U.S.presidential election. Abu-Obesaid, “The Federal Republic of Nigeria wishes to…
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko on Tuesday criticised the leaders of rich countries for skipping the climate talks under way in Azerbaijan’s capital and said the climate crisis is being exacerbated by conflicts around the world. “The people who are responsible for this are absent,” admonished the strongman leader and close ally of Russian President Vladimir…
The encounter between Russian jets and a US drone, which resulted in the drone crashing into the Black Sea, appears to be the most significant publicly acknowledged US-Russia confrontation since Russia’s all-out invasion of Ukraine more than a year ago. As such, it raises a lot of questions and represents a moment fraught with danger….
Napoli’s President Aurelio De Laurentiis has reiterated his desire to keep the core of the Serie A-winning team together, ruling out a potential summer move for Super Eagles Victor Osimhen. Osimhen was one of the major drivers for Napoli’s first Serie A title since 1990 with his 22 goals powering the Partenopei to a historic…
Ten wounded children from the Gaza Strip arrived in Slovenia for treatment and psychosocial rehabilitation, confirmed the foundation of former Slovenian President Danilo Turk. It is a group of ten children and adolescents from the Gaza Strip with serious injuries, four of them have had their legs amputated, and two had their arms amputated. The…
An Israeli drone attack targeted and destroyed a weapons depot in the coastal Syrian city of Jableh before daybreak Thursday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported. The attack carried out via drones and warplane missiles leveled the depot and caused massive explosions heard from long distances, said the UK-based watchdog group. It added that…
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin will not be attending the Brics Summit in Johannesburg from August 22 to 24, 2023, as announced by the South African presidency. Instead, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will represent Russia at the summit, according to Jerry Chifamba’s report for AllAfrica. Earlier, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa stated that any attempt to…
Former US President Donald Trump has called on Rupert Murdoch to support his baseless allegations of voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election, ahead of the $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News and its parent company, Dominion Voting Systems. In a recent post on his Truth Social platform, Trump claimed that Fox News is…
NATO member states were skeptical about Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s call to intercept Russian missiles over Ukraine from their territory. Polish Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz said this on Wednesday. “There is a lot of scepticism on this issue. “No single country will make such decisions individually. “I have not seen any supporters of this decision…
