The Nigerian government on Sunday said it is working with authorities in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to assist Nigerians stranded in Dubai. A viral video emerged on social media recently with women who claimed to be Nigerians calling on the government to assist them and also accusing the Nigerian mission in Dubai of being uninterested in their plight. Following the emergence of the video, Francisca Omayuli speaking for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a press release, said the Nigerian Mission
Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo on Saturday expressed dissatisfaction with the unauthorized report of his discussion with the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential candidate, Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu on Wednesday. Obasanjo, through a statement by his Special Assistant on Media, Kehinde Akinyemi, said the statement coming from those claiming to be supporters of Bola Tinubu are unhelpful. The former President said the discussion during the visit was “more brotherly than political”,
Delay hosted Kojo Asante Kesse, who is popularly known as Wesley Kesse, on her weekend talk show and pushed him to comment on rumours that he is gay. Wesley Kesse is a Ghanaian TikToker who shot to fame with videos of himself dressing in women clothes. According to Delay, there have been reports that Kesse is gay, hence she asked “why do you think people think you are gay?” and he replied, “probably because I mostly do my content wearing female stuff”. Delay retorted that
Bastiaan Jeroen’s farm in ’t Zandt has columns made of reinforced concrete. “During one earthquake, I saw them twisting,” he said. “If a chip comes off, it will cut you in half. That’s the fear we’re living in.” Jeroen lives in the province of Groningen, home to a vast gas field and the subject of a parliamentary inquiry into the links between gas extraction and the hundreds of earthquakes and tremors that have traumatised residents. His farmhouse has been shattered by hundreds of
Three Arkansas law enforcement officers have been suspended after a video emerged showing a suspect being pinned to the ground and repeatedly beaten. One of the officers repeatedly punches the man in the head and even bashes his head against the pavement. Another officer repeatedly knees the man in the back. Both are dressed in the uniform of the Crawford County Sheriff’s office. A police officer restrains the man on the ground while this takes place. As he is being beaten, the man covers his
Raila Odinga, who came second in Kenya’s presidential election, has gone to court to challenge the result, describing it as “fraudulent”. In a scathing 70-page legal argument, he alleges there was a pre-planned effort to alter the outcome. According to the electoral commission, Mr Odinga took 48.8% of the vote, losing to William Ruto’s 50.5%. An independent monitoring organisation said the commission’s final result was in line with its own projection. However, four of
Russia has accused Ukrainian special services of killing the daughter of one of Vladimir Putin’s allies. Journalist Darya Dugina, aged 29, died on Saturday when a car she was driving exploded near Moscow. Her father, Alexander Dugin, a prominent ultra-nationalist thought to be close to the Russian president, may have been the intended target. Russia’ Federal Security Service (FSB) now says it has solved the case and that Ukraine is directly responsible. Ukrainian officials had already
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