Wednesday, August 19, 2026

ADEFEMOLA AKINTADE

January 3, 2026

Russia sides with Venezuela as U.S. captures Maduro

Moscow cautioned Mr Trump to allow the Venezuelan people to decide their destiny “without any destructive” interference.

Putin, Maduro and Trump
January 3, 2026

Venezuela seeks emergency UN meeting after U.S. captured President Maduro, wife

The Venezuela defense minister described the U.S. airstrikes as an invasion.

President Nicolás Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores
January 2, 2026

Guinea opposition leader rejects Doumbouya’s ‘fabricated’ presidential victory

“These fabricated results do not weaken us,” Mr Balde said at a pressure conference on Wednesday.

Abdoulaye Yero Balde, Mamady Doumbouya
January 1, 2026

Zohran Mamdani takes oath of office as New York mayor

Mahmood Mamdani, a professor at Columbia University and his wife, Mira, were present at the intimate ceremony held at a decommissioned subway station beneath City Hall.

Zohran Mamdani
December 30, 2025

Court blocks Trump from deporting 68-year-old Nigerian who entered U.S. on student visa in 1980

Ms Sammartino ordered “respondents to immediately release petitioner from custody subject to the conditions of his preexisting order of supervision.”

President Donald Trump
December 30, 2025

Hundreds of Iranians continue protest against inflation, collapse of currency

President Masoud Pezeshkian has appointed Abdolnaser Hemmati as the new central bank governor to douse tensions, but citizens remain defiant.

Iranian protesters
December 29, 2025

Anambra, Zamfara adopt new tax reforms ahead of January 1 deadline

Messrs Soludo and Lawal said early implementation of the tax laws will benefit small and medium-scale entrepreneurs.

Governor Charles Chukwuma Soludo of Anambra State and Zamfara Governor Dauda Lawal
December 26, 2025

National Assembly confirms Bola Tinubu forged new tax law, begins immediate re-gazette of original bill passed by lawmakers

The National Assembly has directed the clerk to the National Assembly to re-gazette the acts and issue certified true copies of the versions passed by both chambers.

President Bola Tinubu
December 26, 2025

Tinubu gave Trump go-ahead for U.S. military airstrikes in Nigeria: Tuggar

“I spoke with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio for 19 minutes before the strike, and we agreed to talk to President Tinubu for his go-ahead, and he gave it,” said Mr Tuggar.

Donald Trump's official portrait and Bola Tinubu official portrait
December 24, 2025

Nigerian businessman Invictus Obi released from U.S. prison, faces deportation after serving five-year fraud sentence

Mr Okeke, 38, before his criminal activities came to light, was celebrated in the Forbes 30-under-30 section in 2016 as one of Africa’s most promising entrepreneurs.