INTERNATIONAL

The murder of over 200 lives in rustic communities in Plateau State by bloodthirsty marauders has continued to attract local and international attention with the latest being from Pope Francis. Let us pray together for the victims of the severe violence in Nigeria’s…

Evariste Ndayishimiye, the president of Burundi, declared on Friday that same-sex couples ought to be publicly stoned in a vicious anti-gay tirade. In 2009, homosexuality was made a crime in Burundi, an East African nation of conservative Christian beliefs. Consensual same-sex acts can result…

Naira has been rated among the world’s worst performing currencies in 2023. This is according to Bloomberg in its latest report. It said the currency is poised for its worst year since the return to democracy in 1999, with analysts predicting further depreciation in…

The New York Times is suing OpenAI and Microsoft, accusing them of using millions of the newspaper's articles without permission to help train artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. The Times said it is the first major U.S. media organization to sue OpenAI and Microsoft,…

A former Nigerian Ambassador to Namibia, Lilian Onoh, has filed a libel suit at the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas against a former Nigerian Foreign Affairs Minister, Geoffrey Onyeama. The suit filed by Ms Onoh’s lawyer, Steven Thornton, on…

Apple Inc. (AAPL) is pushing back against a ban on some of its smartwatches after President Joe Biden's administration chose not to wade into the dispute. The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) issued the original order to block sales of the Apple…

A US federal court ruled on Friday that social media company Twitter, now branded X, violated contracts by failing to pay annual performance bonuses it orally promised its workers. The breach-of-contract lawsuit was brought by former employer Mark Schobinger in June. The lawsuit said…

A 26-year-old Nigerian Master’s student at Dundee University, Scotland, Somtochukwu Okwuoha, has been sentenced to 40 months in prison for making terrorist threats against staff and students of the school. According to a BBC report, Okwuoha, an international energy studies student, would also be deported…

In a recent move, the French parliament has approved a law tightening immigration policies, restricting the ability of migrants, including Nigerian students, to bring their families into the country. The law, supported by President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist Renaissance party and the far-right National…

France will close its embassy in Niger, where anti-French sentiment has grown since a July coup, because a staff exodus following an attack left it unable to function, diplomatic sources said Thursday. “After the attack on our embassy July 30, and the setting…