The Minister of Power, Abubakar Aliyu, says that the Federal Government will look at areas where it can collaborate with the government of Egypt to boost power supply in the country. Aliyu said this when the Ambassador of the Arab Republic of Egypt to Nigeria, Ihab Awad, visited him in Abuja on Tuesday. “I am aware […]Read More
Hurricane Nicholas made landfall early Tuesday over the Gulf Coast of Texas before being downgraded to a tropical storm, lashing weary residents with powerful wind gusts and driving rain as it moved toward Houston. The center of the storm made landfall just after 12:30 a.m. Central time on the eastern part of the Matagorda Peninsula, […]Read More
Joe Biden, striving to restore public confidence in his handling of the pandemic, announced new vaccination mandates on Thursday for 100 million workers, about two-thirds of the American labour force. Channeling national frustration as the virus surges back, the US president adopted his sternest tone yet in reprimanding the tens of millions of Americans who […]Read More
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Sunday condemned the coup d’etat in Guinea and demanded the immediate release of President Alpha Condé. According to reports, the fate of Guinea’s President, Condé, is unclear after an unverified video showed him surrounded by soldiers who said they had seized power. They appeared on national TV claiming to have […]Read More
World number one Novak Djokovic won without playing his best to reach the second round of the US Open on Tuesday in his quest for a calendar-year Grand Slam and record 21st major title. The 34-year-old Serbian star dominated much of the way in beating 18-year-old Danish qualifier Holger Rune 6-1, 6-7 (5/7), 6-2, 6-1 […]Read More
U.S. President Joe Biden declared Tuesday he is sticking to his Aug. 31 deadline for completing a risky airlift of Americans, endangered Afghans and others seeking to escape Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. The decision defies allied leaders who want to give the evacuation more time and opens Biden to criticism that he caved to Taliban deadline demands. “Every day […]Read More
New Orleans has imposed a night-time curfew to prevent crime on its darkened streets after Hurricane Ida knocked out power to the city. The curfew will run from 8 p.m. until 6 a.m. and will be enforced by the city’s police as well as members of the Louisiana National Guard, Mayor LaToya Cantrell said in […]Read More
Rockets were fired at Kabul’s airport on Monday where US troops were racing to complete their withdrawal from Afghanistan and evacuate allies under the threat of Islamic State group attacks. President Joe Biden has set a deadline of Tuesday to withdraw all US forces from Afghanistan, drawing to a close his nation’s longest military conflict, […]Read More
The world has passed the grim threshold of 4.5 million Covid-19 deaths, according to an AFP tally on Monday, as the virulent Delta variant wreaks havoc globally. Since the outbreak emerged in China in December 2019, the virus has killed a total of 4,500,620 people, the tally of official sources revealed. Some 10,000 deaths are […]Read More
Joe Biden’s meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett was pushed back a day Thursday as the US president cleared his agenda to address bombings in Kabul. “The president’s bilateral meeting… has been rescheduled for tomorrow,” the White House said. The two leaders had been due to meet at 11:30 am (1530 GMT) Thursday. Bennett […]Read More