FEDERAL GOVERNMENT DELEGATION, US OFFICIALS STRENGTHEN SECURITY PARTNERSHIP Discussions and engagements held last week between a high-level Nigerian delegation and US officials will help strengthen security partnerships between the two countries and open new avenues for cooperation to protect Nigerian citizens. The delegation, led by the National Security Adviser, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, met with senior...
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President Of Nigeria Orders Withdrawal Of Police Officers Guarding VIPs For Core Police Duties Amid Insecurity Breech
Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has ordered the withdrawal of police officers currently providing security for Very Important Persons in the country. This is coming after insecurity breech and terrorist abducting innocent citizens in the last week. In a statement by Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser to the President, Information and Strategy states that henceforth, police...
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Cameroon Opposition Leader Flees To Gambia After Contested Election
Gambia said it was temporarily hosting Cameroonian opposition leader Issa Tchiroma Bakary after a disputed election in his country saw longtime President Paul Biya win an eighth term, triggering deadly protests. Gambia’s Ministry of Information said in a statement Sunday that Tchiroma arrived in the small West African country on Nov. 7 and is being hosted “purely on humanitarian...
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Philippine President Says 7 Suspects In Corruption Scandal Have Been Detained, Others Being Sought
Philippine authorities detained seven suspects and several more were being sought in a major corruption scandal involving flood control projects, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said Monday as he tried to quell public outrage over the brazen anomalies that have implicated powerful members of Congress. Massive corruption has been blamed for substandard or non-existent flood control projects in...
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Fátima Bosch’s Miss Universe 2025 Win Echoes In Mexico Where Women Fight For Equality
Fátima Bosch Fernández’s Miss Universe victory resounded across Mexico on Friday, framed as the vindication of a disrespected contestant from a country where women have pushed their way into positions of power and are increasingly calling out traditional chauvinism. The 25-year-old from the Gulf coast state of Tabasco was scolded by the competition’s Thai director, Nawat Itsaragrisil, during a...
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Belgium Hit By Three-Day National Strike As Govt Pushes Austerity, Reforms
Belgium steeled itself for closed schools and disrupted train and air travel as three days of strikes kicked off on Monday in protest at government austerity plans aimed at shrinking the national debt. The movement is planned in three waves: trains and other public transport went on strike Monday, with national railroad company SNCB expecting...
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Brazil’s Bolsonaro Says ‘Hallucinations’ Led Him To Violate Ankle Monitoring And Cause His Arrest
On his first full day in jail, former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro told a judge on Sunday he had violated his ankle monitoring the day before at his house arrest because of a nervous breakdown and hallucinations caused by a change in his medication. Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered the 70-year-old leader’s preemptive...
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Japan’s First Female Leader Faces A Taboo Over Entering The Male-Only Sumo Ring
Sanae Takaichi made history by becoming Japan’s first female prime minister in October. She must now decide whether she’ll break another barrier: the taboo barring women from the sumo ring. The winner of the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament that ends Sunday will be presented with the Prime Minister’s Cup. Some of her male predecessors, including former...
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Guatemalan Woman’s Body Returned Home After She Was Killed Going To Wrong Home In Indiana
The body of a Guatemalan woman who was killed earlier this month when she went to clean the wrong home in Indiana in the United States was returned to her native country on Sunday. María Florinda Ríos Pérez, 32, a mother of four, was killed on the front porch of a home in Whitestown, outside Indianapolis, on...