“Interest rates are high, yes but we have stabilized exchange rate. We have pulled back from the brink of total economic collapse. Inflation is coming down, it’s still at 20% but it’s coming down from the very high levels of a few years ago. We have built our foreign reserves to over $40 billion. The economy has grown first quarter by more than 3%, second quarter by more than 4%. And this is the first time in a long time that the economy has been growing faster than the population.” HRH Muhammad Sanusi IIEmir of Kano Appointment rustlers, forex bandits,...
US Diplomat Fired Over Relationship With Woman Accused Of Ties To Chinese Communist Party
The State Department said Wednesday that it has fired a U.S. diplomat over a romantic relationship he admitted having with a Chinese woman alleged to have ties to the Chinese Communist Party. The dismissal is believed to be the first of its kind for violating a ban on such relationships that was introduced late last year under the Biden administration. The Associated Press reported earlier this year that in the waning days of Democrat Joe Biden’s presidency, the State Department imposed a ban on all American government personnel in China, as well as family members and contractors with security clearances, from any romantic or...
Costa Rica Nominates Former Vice President Rebeca Grynspan To Lead UN
Costa Rica put forward Wednesday longtime diplomat and former Vice President Rebeca Grynspan as a candidate to be the next secretary-general of the United Nations. The economist is currently the secretary-general of U.N. Trade and Development in Geneva. She was a major player in the U.N. effort to ship Ukrainian and Russian grains to global markets at the start of the war in Ukraine and outgoing Secretary-General António Guterres designated her as the senior U.N. official to deal with the Russians. “This candidacy will be formally registered at the United Nations in the coming weeks,” Costa Rica President Rodrigo Chaves...
Mexico President Vows Thorough Investigation Into The Killing Of 6 Civilians By Soldiers
Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum vowed a thorough investigation Wednesday into the killing of six civilians by soldiers a day earlier in the northern border state of Tamaulipas. The Mexican army reported late Tuesday that some of its soldiers on patrol on the highway connecting Ciudad Mante and Tampico fired on a vehicle that had tried to ram them. Five people died at the scene and one more died later at the hospital. Two others were injured. The army’s statement did not say if the vehicle’s occupants were armed. On Wednesday, Sheinbaum was asked about the incident during her morning news briefing...
Police Discloses Manchester Synagogue Attacker Pledged Allegiance To Islamic State Group.
The assailant in last week’s attack on a synagogue in the northwest of England that left two congregants dead pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group, police said Wednesday. The attacker, Jihad Al-Shamie, called emergency dispatchers during his deadly attack on Oct. 2. to express his commitment to the terror group, Counter Terrorism Policing North West said in a statement. Al-Shamie, 35, was shot dead by police outside the Heaton Park Congregation Synagogue in Manchester after he rammed a car into pedestrians, attacked them with a knife and tried to force his way into the building. Assistant Chief Constable Rob Potts said...
LASG ISSUES TRAFFIC ADVISORY FOR REPAIR OF ADENIJI ADELE INTERCHANGE JUNCTION TO CMS
The Lagos State Government has issued a traffic advisory ahead of the repair works on the Adeniji Adele Interchange Junction to CMS. The repair will take place between 11:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. daily, commencing on Sunday, 12th October, and ending on Sunday, 23rd November 2025 – a duration of six weeks. To minimise traffic disruptions, only one lane will be closed at a time, while the remaining lanes will be open to motorists. The Commissioner for Transportation, Mr. Oluwaseun Osiyemi, assured that traffic management personnel will be deployed to the affected area to reduce inconvenience and manage vehicular movement...
Daughter Suspected In An Attack On A Newly Elected Mayor In Germany
Investigators said Wednesday that the newly elected mayor of a German town who was found at her home with stab wounds apparently was attacked by her teenage daughter, and that her life is no longer in danger. Iris Stalzer, 57, was elected as the mayor of Herdecke in western Germany on Sept. 28 and is due to take office on Nov. 1. Police said emergency services were alerted shortly after noon Tuesday by her daughter, who reported that Stalzer had been seriously wounded outside her house in an attempted robbery. Police went to Stalzer’s house, where they found her sitting in a...
Argentine Court Sentences Man To 10 Years In Prison For Trying To Shoot Former President Fernández
A court in Argentina sentenced a man to 10 years in prison Wednesday after finding him guilty of attempting to kill powerful former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner three years ago. The court in Buenos Aires also sentenced the man’s accomplice to eight years in prison, capping a dramatic case that has convulsed and captivated the country since the assassination attempt on Sept. 1, 2022, when the main defendant, Fernando Sabag Montiel, squeezed through a crowd outside Fernández’s home, thrust a loaded gun at her face and pulled the trigger. The gun did not go off, and Fernández, then Argentina’s vice president, was unharmed. The bewildering episode provoked street...
Court Orders Arrest Of Ex-INEC Boss, Mahmood Yakubu
The Federal High Court sitting in Osogbo, the Osun State capital, has ordered the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Kayode Egbetokun, to arrest the former INEC chairman, Prof Mahmoud Yakubu, for an offence relating to contempt of court. The Court order came a few hours after Yakubu left office as the INEC chairman. The Action Alliance, AA, in a suit numbered FHC/OS/194/2024 sought an order from the court to compel INEC, Professor Yakubu, to re-enlist the names of the Rufai Omoaje-led National Executive of the party, which had been illegally removed from the Commission’s portal. According to reports the certified...
