Wednesday, August 5, 2026

HILLARY ESSIEN

Hillary Essien is a reporter with Peoples Gazette focusing on special reports and critical national news. She is a lawyer with 2 years of writing and reporting. Prior to working with The Gazette, Hillary served as an administrative assistant at a non-profit organisation focused on food security for children of low income households.She is on Twitter @Hillary_essien
October 9, 2021

Austrian chancellor resigns for giving journalists brown envelopes

Mr Kurz was said to have paid an unnamed media company to publish favourable surveys.

Sebastian Kurz
October 9, 2021

Law banning quiet removal of condoms during sex signed in California

Removal of condom during sex without the consent of the other party has been criminalised in California, U.S.

October 8, 2021

Taliban: Afghanistan excluded from IMF’s debt relief program

Afghanistan was excluded because the Taliban government is yet to be recognised by the international community.

IMF DG, Kristalina Georgieva and Taliban
October 8, 2021

Nigeria missing again as IMF extends debt relief to 24 low-income countries

Despite President Buhari repeatedly begging for debt relief, Nigeria is again missing from the IMF list.

Kristalina Georgieva
October 8, 2021

Russian, Philippines journalists win 2021 Nobel Peace Prize

Awarding the Peace Prize to Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov reiterates the importance of protecting and defending fundamental rights.

October 8, 2021

Blackmailer threatening to expose my sex tape: Tiwa Savage

“It’s a tape of me and the person l’m dating right now and it got out,” Tiwa mentioned.

Tiwa Savage
October 7, 2021

Amazon platform Twitch suffers data breach

Twitch says the infraction was caused by server configuration error.

October 7, 2021

Zanzibar novelist wins 2021 Nobel Prize for literature

Until his retirement, Professor Gurnah had authored 10 novels and a number of short stories.

October 6, 2021

“Ahm well, so I, I, I, you know, I am not, you know, I am”: Tolu Ogunlesi suffers to defend Buhari’s Twitter ban

Mr Ogunlesi appeared on a CNN segment with Larry Madowo on Wednesday, where he was asked whether he was in support of the ban or not.

Tolu Ogunlesi on CNN
October 6, 2021

WHO approves first-ever malaria vaccine for widespread use

The WHO announced the approval in a statement on Wednesday.