The United States on Tuesday released its yearly reports on human rights in Nigeria. The 47-page document is essentially a rehash of events and reports during 2020 and draws substantially from the assessment of Nigeria’s human rights record by Amnesty […]
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Agency Report Tony Hernandez, brother of Honduran president was sentenced to life in prison by a New York judge Tuesday for large-scale drug trafficking. The sentencing of the 42 year-old followed a trial that also implicated President Juan Orlando Hernandez […]
The 2017 winner of the World Food Prize and current President of African Development Bank, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, alongside other World Food Prize laureates, have called for United States’ intervention to end global hunger by 2030. In an open letter […]
Tanzania’s late president John Magufuli was laid to rest Friday in his ancestral village in the country’s northwest after his sudden death last week from an illness shrouded in mystery. Nicknamed the “Bulldozer” for his leadership style, Magufuli was buried […]
Ahmad Al Issa, the 21-year-old man accused of killing 10 people at King Soopers supermarket in Boulder, Colorado, will go for psychiatric test, as requested by his lawyers. In the meantime, Issa, with the full name, Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, […]
Hollywood actor Johnny Depp has lost his bid to appeal a London High court verdict agreeing with The Sun newspaper that he serially beat his wife Amber Heard.https://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/pagead/ads?client=ca-pub-8264632571551786&output=html&h=343&slotname=3312974848&adk=3122995346&adf=2601855656&pi=t.ma~as.3312974848&w=412&lmt=1616670759&rafmt=1&psa=1&format=412×343&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pmnewsnigeria.com%2F2021%2F03%2F25%2Fhollywood-actor-johnny-depp-loses-appeal-over-wife-assault-verdict%2F&flash=0&fwr=1&fwrattr=true&rpe=1&resp_fmts=3&sfro=1&wgl=1&dt=1616670767102&bpp=29&bdt=1917&idt=1863&shv=r20210322&cbv=r20190131&ptt=9&saldr=aa&abxe=1&cookie=ID%3D638563c53f239b72-22b593c36fa600db%3AT%3D1605506538%3ART%3D1605506538%3AS%3DALNI_MZVSayvvu4e7oM-DQsicRCSBwgfvA&prev_fmts=0x0&nras=1&correlator=7755568809116&frm=20&pv=2&ga_vid=1569762374.1597259094&ga_sid=1616670769&ga_hid=1938014020&ga_fc=0&u_tz=60&u_his=2&u_java=0&u_h=915&u_w=412&u_ah=915&u_aw=412&u_cd=24&u_nplug=0&u_nmime=0&adx=0&ady=979&biw=412&bih=671&scr_x=0&scr_y=45&eid=44737561%2C44737458%2C31060474%2C44739387%2C21066973&oid=3&pvsid=305515172335004&pem=813&ref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pmnewsnigeria.com%2F&rx=0&eae=0&fc=1920&brdim=0%2C0%2C0%2C0%2C412%2C0%2C412%2C671%2C412%2C671&vis=1&rsz=o%7C%7CoEebr%7C&abl=CS&pfx=0&fu=8320&bc=31&ifi=2&uci=a!2&btvi=1&fsb=1&xpc=fgrkGpKhFS&p=https%3A//www.pmnewsnigeria.com&dtd=1914 The actor asked the Court of Appeal to grant permission for him […]
FIFA banned its former president Sepp Blatter until 2028 on Wednesday after handing him a new suspension of six years and eight months for receiving huge bonuses. Former FIFA secretary-general Jerome Valcke also had his existing suspension extended by the […]
By Deji Elumoye President Muhammadu Buhari has commiserated with the government and people of Tanzania over the demise of President John Pombe Magufuli. According to him, the late Tanzanian president’s legacy of patriotism and dedication to the African course will […]
Environmental and social justice groups both in the United Kingdom and Nigeria have condemned Italy’s anti-corruption laws as unfit for purpose, following the acquittal of oil multinationals Shell and Eni on international corruption charges in Milan. Thirteen other defendants were […]
Tanzania’s President John Magufuli has died, Vice President Samia Suluhu Hassan said on Wednesday. Magufuli was 61. He was Tanzania’s first president to die while in office. His death was announced after more than two-week absence from public life, that […]