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  The Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) has called on the government at all levels to desist from intimidating journalists with repressive laws. The NGE, in a statement to mark World News Day, urged the government to always respect the Freedom of Information Act by freely providing journalists with any requested information and, therefore, aligning […]

President Donald Trump on Saturday authorised the deployment of troops in the northwestern US city of Portland and at Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facilities, extending his contentious domestic use of the military. READ ALSO: Trump Urges Microsoft To Sack Ex-Biden Administration Official The potential deployment in Portland — the largest city in Oregon — would […]

Authorities in Senegal have issued an international arrest warrant for a journalist who disobeyed orders not to leave the country, the country’s interior ministry said late Friday. READ ALSO: French Army Leaves Senegal Ending Military Presence In West Africa Madiambal Diagne, editor of Le Quotidien and head of the media group Avenir Communication, is a journalist […]

  More than 3,000 people marched through Cape Town on Saturday, calling for South Africa to cut trade and diplomatic ties with Israel, including by shutting its embassy, over the war in Gaza. READ ALSO: Palestinian State Would Be ‘National Suicide’ For Israel — Netanyahu Pretoria has been a leading critic of Israel’s actions in Gaza, […]

   Troubled Manchester United crashed to a 3-1 defeat at Brentford on Saturday as Bruno Fernandes’s penalty miss piled pressure on beleaguered boss Ruben Amorim.   Brentford’s Brazilian striker, Igor Thiago (R), shoots to score the opening goal of the English Premier League football match between Brentford and Manchester United at the Gtech Community Stadium […]

  Germany wants to authorise its military to shoot down drones, the interior minister said Saturday, after a “swarm” of them was spotted over the north of the country. It comes after a string of drone sightings near airports and military sites in Denmark and Norway in recent days. Suspicion has fallen on Russia, even […]

  Hundreds of mostly young protesters faced off against security forces in Madagascar’s capital Saturday days after an anti-government demonstration erupted into clashes and looting. Police used rubber bullets and teargas to disperse crowds at Thursday’s protest, which was called to condemn persistent water and power cuts in the impoverished nation but descended into violence […]

  More than 150 tonnes of counterfeit cigarettes were seized from the largest illegal factory ever discovered in Italy, customs police said in a statement on Saturday. An underground bunker housed the 1,600-square-metre (17,000 square feet) factory near the town of Cassino, southeast of Rome, which produced more than seven million cigarettes a day — […]

  West Ham hired Nuno Espirito Santo as their new manager just hours after sacking Graham Potter on Saturday. Nuno, axed by Nottingham Forest earlier this season, agreed a three-year contract with the Premier League strugglers and will take charge of his first game at Everton on Monday. Potter’s exit, which came only nine months […]

  Iraq resumed crude exports from the autonomous Kurdistan region on Saturday after a more than two-year halt over legal and technical disputes. Control over lucrative oil exports has been a major point of contention between Baghdad and Arbil, the capital of the Kurdistan region, with a key pipeline to Turkey shut since 2023. Iraq’s […]

  The ‘ten over ten’ season of Big Brother Naija is rolling into its climax. With less than two weeks to go, the ₦150 million dream is in sight, and tensions have reached fever pitch. Week 9 opened just days after the shock exits of Thelma Lawson, Bright Morgan, Joanna, and Kuture. Only 13 housemates […]

  US President Donald Trump called on Microsoft on Friday to fire its head of global affairs, Lisa Monaco, a former senior official in Democratic administrations. “It is my opinion that Microsoft should immediately terminate the employment of Lisa Monaco,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social. Since taking office in January, the Republican […]