A retired Deputy Superintendent of Police spoke at a protest in Abuja on Saturday, disclosing that officers like him escorted politicians to conceal stolen public funds in villages, while retirees now struggle with delayed entitlements. “We are the ones that escort politicians after they stole public money, we follow them to hide the money in their villages. Now, to pay us our entitlement is an issue.” The retired DSP expresses pain over unpaid wages Under the Contributory Pension Scheme, officers receive monthly pensions as low as ₦40,000 and gratuities of ₦1-3 million after decades of service, amid 30% inflation and...

 A prominent cleric in Armenia was sentenced to two years in prison on Friday after being found guilty of calling for an overthrow of the government. Archbishop Mikael Ajapahyan was arrested in June and accused of being part of an alleged coup plot against the government of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. The cleric was found guilty on Sept. 24 of calling for the government to be overthrown. His lawyer, Ara Zohrabyan, condemned the verdict as being politically motivated. Ajapahyan was prosecuted for merely expressing an opinion, said Zohrabyan, who vowed to appeal the verdict. The Armenian Apostolic Church also condemned the verdict as...

 A court in Tunisia has sentenced a 51-year-old man to death over Facebook posts deemed offensive to President Kais Saied and a threat to state security, his lawyer said Friday. Saber Chouchen was convicted on Wednesday of three charges: attempting to overthrow the state, insulting the president and spreading false information online. Judges said the posts incited violence and chaos and violated Tunisia’s penal code as well as the controversial 2022 cybercrime law, Decree 54. The ruling is the first of its kind in Tunisia, where dozens have been handed heavy prison sentences over similar charges since Saied seized power over all branches of...

Hamas announced its agreement to release all remaining Israeli hostages in exchange for a permanent ceasefire and full Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s 20-point peace proposal. Trump praised the move and instructed Israel to immediately halt bombing to enable safe hostage extraction, leading Israel to reduce military operations to defensive actions amid U.S. pressure. Global leaders, including Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, and French President Emmanuel Macron, welcomed the development as a step toward ending the nearly two-year conflict that began with Hamas’s October 7, 2023, attacks. UK prime...

 A woman has been named to the post of Archbishop of Canterbury for the first time in the history of the Church of England. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced Friday that King Charles had approved the nomination of Sarah Mullally, bishop of London, for the church’s most senior position. She will be installed in a service at Canterbury Cathedral in March 2026. Mullally is the first female Archbishop of Canterbury to be chosen since women were allowed to become bishops in 2014. As the spiritual leader of the Church of England, the Archbishop of Canterbury heads a global Anglican community of around 85...

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth: “Earlier this morning, on President Trump’s orders, I directed a lethal, kinetic strike on a narco-trafficking vessel affiliated with Designated Terrorist Organizations in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility. “Four male narco-terrorists aboard the vessel were killed in the strike, and no U.S. forces were harmed in the operation. The strike was conducted in international waters just off the coast of Venezuela while the vessel was transporting substantial amounts of narcotics – headed to America to poison our people.  “Our intelligence, without a doubt, confirmed that this vessel was trafficking narcotics, the people onboard were narco-terrorists,...

Igbo-Ora, a town in the heart of Oyo State, 80 Kilometers from Lagos, earning a global title (The Twin capital of the world), is made up of mostly farmers and traders. A visit to Igbo-Ora means seeing double is the norm, not the exception. The town boasts an extraordinarily high rate of twin births, nearly 1 in every 22 births results in twins resulting to 45 to 50 sets of twins per 1000 births. This figure is nearly four times the global average, which sits at around 12 twin births per 1,000. It is so common that walking through the...

The U.N. food agency announced on Friday that it is cutting food assistance for hundreds of thousands of people in Somalia, where millions are facing devastating effects of climate change and acute levels of hunger. The World Food Program said the number of people receiving emergency food assistance in the country will decrease from 1.1 million in August to 350,000 in November due to “critical funding shortfalls.” “We are seeing a dangerous rise in emergency levels of hunger, and our ability to respond is shrinking by the day,” said Ross Smith, the agency’s director of emergency preparedness and response. “Without...