Director-General of Nigeria-China Strategic Partnership (NCSP), Joseph Tegbe, has arrived in China, as part of commitments to strengthening the bilateral trade between the two countries. Tegbe, in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Abuja, described the business trip as a significant step to furthering the comprehensive strategic…
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has dragged the federal government and 36 governors before the ECOWAS Community Court of Justice in Abuja over the legality of the Cybercrimes (Amendment) Act 2024.SERAP is accusing the government of using the Cybercrimes Act to criminalise legitimate expressions and violate the human rights of Nigerians, including activists,…
Jack Smith, the special counsel appointed to investigate Donald Trump for his alleged effort to overturn results of the 2020 election, has left the US Department of Justice, prosecutors said Saturday in a court filing. “The Special Counsel completed his work and submitted his final confidential report on January 7, 2025, and separated from the…
The Los Angeles Lakers and Los Angeles Clippers home games scheduled for Saturday have been postponed due to ongoing wildfires raging across the city, the NBA announced late Friday. Advertisement The league said in a statement that the Lakers’ game against the San Antonio Spurs and the Clippers’ fixture against the Charlotte Hornets had both…
President Bola Tinubu is set to attend the 2025 edition of Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week in the United Arab Emirates. Disclosing this in a statement on Friday, presidential spokesman, Bayo Onanuga, said the summit will take place from January 12 to 18. Tinubu’s planned trip to the Middle East is at the behest of the…
The UN rights chief insisted Friday that regulating hate speech and harmful content online “is not censorship”, days after Meta scrapped its fact-checking programme on Facebook and Instagram citing censorship concerns. “Allowing hate speech and harmful content online has real world consequences. Regulating such content is not censorship,” Volker Turk said on X. “My Office…
The US Supreme Court on Friday will hear TikTok’s appeal of a law that would force its Chinese owner to sell the video-sharing platform or shut it down in the United States. Here’s a closer look at the rise of the platform as it awaits its fate: Born in China TikTok’s meteoric rise from a…
Lebanon’s lawmakers elected on Thursday army chief Joseph Aoun as president after a two-year vacancy of the position, in a step towards lifting the war-battered country out of financial crisis. Aoun, who turns 61 on Friday, arrived inside parliament to swear his oath to general applause, wearing a dark suit and bright blue tie instead…
The Kremlin announced Friday that Russian President Vladimir Putin is open to meeting with incoming US President Donald Trump, following Trump’s assertion that plans for a meeting were underway. “The president has repeatedly stated his openness to contact with international leaders, including the US president, including Donald Trump,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters. Trump,…
Serbian tennis legend Novak Djokovic has alleged that he was “poisoned” during his detention in Melbourne ahead of the 2022 Australian Open, according to an interview published by GQ on Thursday. The 24-time Grand Slam champion said he fell ill from food served at the hotel where he was held after Australian authorities canceled his…
