Agency Report

An 11-year-old student, Miss Amazing-Grace Salami from Greenspill International School, Abuja, has won the Spelling Bee in Nigeria (SpIN) competition. Salami defeated 63 other finalists from the United States and international schools in Nigeria to claim the top prize. The Acting U.S. Consul General, Ms JoEllen Gorg, announced this at the 2025 Grand Finale of […]

The United States is expelling South Africa’s ambassador to Washington, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Friday, accusing the envoy of hating the country and President Donald Trump. “South Africa’s Ambassador to the United States is no longer welcome in our great country,” Rubio posted on X. Ebrahim Rasool is “a race-baiting politician who hates

   

The Governor of Enugu State, Peter Mbah, has signed an executive order to relocate all motor spare parts markets in Enugu to the newly constructed International Motor Spare Parts Market at Nsude. Nsude is in the Udi Local Government Area of Enugu State. Signing the order on Friday at Government House, Enugu, Mbah said motor

Sean “Diddy” Combs pleaded not guilty on Friday to a new indictment that adds further accusations to his US federal sex trafficking and racketeering case. The superseding indictment alleges that, while sexually abusing individuals and coercing them into drug-fuelled sex parties through threats and violence, the hip-hop mogul also forced employees to work long hours

A court in Wales on Friday jailed three men for eight years for having kidnapped a Jewish-Israeli music producer “motivated by events taking place elsewhere in the world”. Faiz Shah, 23, Mohammad Comrie, 23, and Elijah Ogunnubi-Sime, 20, tricked Itay Kashti into travelling hundreds of miles to west Wales, where they kidnapped him, handcuffing him

Pope Francis marked a month in hospital Friday, with football players sending him messages of support for his recovery from pneumonia, including the captain of his favourite team, San Lorenzo. Francis, 88, has been in Rome’s Gemelli hospital since February 14 and has suffered a series of breathing crises, with doctors initially warning his life

Former Australia rugby union captain Rocky Elsom was handed a two-year prison sentence by a French court on Friday after being found guilty of misusing corporate funds. The 42-year-old was also fined 100,000 euros – half of which was suspended – and ordered to pay 240,000 euros compensation to the liquidator of the Narbonne rugby

The Cross River State Government has warned individuals encroaching on state-owned land to vacate immediately, as it is now committed to reclaiming such property across the state. A warning was issued to individuals and groups unlawfully occupying land belonging to state-owned educational institutions. This was stated by the Special Adviser to the Governor on Asset

Turkish police detained five suspects Friday on charges of espionage for the Iranian intelligence service, local media reported. Officers carried out operations in Turkey’s largest city Istanbul as well as in Antalya and Mersin in the south, and detained five people, the DHA news agency reported. The suspects allegedly collected information about military bases and

Russian President, Vladimir Putin, on Friday, called on Ukrainian troops fighting in the Kursk region to surrender after US President Donald Trump urged him to “spare” the lives of Ukrainian soldiers. Trump and Putin said that the Russian army had Ukrainian forces surrounded there — claims rejected by Kyiv, even as President Volodymyr Zelensky conceded