Afghan women will be allowed to attend university as long as they study separately from men, the Taliban’s new higher education minister said Sunday. Women’s rights in Afghanistan were sharply curtailed under the Taliban’s 1996-2001 rule, though since returning to power last month the hardline Islamists have claimed they will implement a less extreme rule. […]
The Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, has called for stricter measures taken against nations where military takes over government by force. He made the call on Wednesday at a virtual Extraordinary Session of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of ECOWAS member-states on the political developments in the Republics of Guinea and Mali. […]
West Africa bloc ECOWAS has decided to suspend Guinea following a recent coup in the country, Burkinabe Foreign Minister Alpha Barry said Wednesday after a virtual crisis summit. The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) will also send a mediation mission to Guinea on Thursday, Barry told reporters in Burkina Faso’s capital Ouagadougou. The […]
The leader of the coup which ousted Guinea’s President Alpha Condé has said a new “union” government would be formed in weeks, the BBC has reported. Col Mamady Doumbouya told ministers who served in Mr Condé’s government that there would be no witch-hunt against former officials. President Condé remains in detention, but his fate is […]
A Cameroon separatist group, the Interim Government of Southern Cameroon Ambazonia, has said it has no plans to attack Nigerians. It accused the Cameroonian government, through her military, of plots to put the group on a collision course with the Nigerian government by disguising as ‘Ambazonians’ to attack Nigerian security personnel.” In a statement b […]
The Taliban on Monday claimed total control over Afghanistan, saying they had won the key battle for the Panjshir Valley, the last remaining holdout of resistance against their rule. Following their lightning-fast victory in mid-August over the former Afghan government’s security forces and the withdrawal of US troops after 20 years of war, the Taliban […]
It’s been a tough period for many Nigerians living in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), especially those in Dubai, as they lament the loss of jobs and difficulty in obtaining a work permit. Bisi Kazeem, one of the affected Nigerians, believes authorities in the Middle East country are punishing them for the sins of a […]
Jacob Zuma, a former president of South Africa, has been granted medical parole. Parole is the release of a prisoner to supervision in the community after he/she has completed a part of his/her sentence. The former president was sentenced to 15 months a jail term in June after he was found guilty of contempt of […]
President Joe Biden called the US airlift of more than 120,000 people from Afghanistan an “extraordinary success” Tuesday, a day after the last US soldiers pulled out of the country. “We completed one of the biggest airlifts in history,” Biden said. “No nation has ever done anything like it in all of history; only the […]
The Federal Government has declared that there is no Nigerian in Afghanistan who needs evacuation, following the takeover of the country by the Taliban. The Nigerians in Diaspora Commission explained that its findings indicated that no Nigerian national resided in the country. Findings also indicate that Nigeria has no high commission or consulate in the […]
