Aisha revealed she did not run away from the soldiers because she didn’t do anything wrong, only for her to be arrested by them. A video has surfaced online showing a mother of four lamenting about how she was arrested…
Belgium may require to requisition hotels, deploy the army and call for international aid as the coronavirus pandemic continues to push the national health system over the edge of collapse, one epidemiologist said. “We are going to have to get…
Experts in Belgium are sounding the alarm and uring government leaders to take the country back into lockdown “now” ahead of a new Consultative Committee meeting on the coronavirus on Friday. Warning that Belgium’s record-smashing figures and sending it into…
Belgium’s southern Walloon region said it stands “ready” to go one step further into a lockdown if federal coronavirus measures announced in a key meeting on Friday are too lax or uncoordinated. “If the measures are seen as insufficient to…
Nearly 6,000 Covid-19 patients are currently admitted to Belgian hospitals, which is more than during the peak in April, according to Sciensano’s latest figures on Thursday. In total, 5,924 coronavirus patients are currently admitted to hospital, about 200 more than…
Belgium’s latest measures have attempted to bring unity to a country that was starting to approach similar issues in a very different way. Published yesterday evening, a new ministerial decree which is already in force has set a new minimum…
Algeria’s president was transferred from hospital in Algiers to Germany on Wednesday, officials said, days after the 74-year-old went into self-isolation following reports of suspected coronavirus cases among his aides. “The President of the Republic, Mr. Abdelmadjid Tebboune was transferred……
Philadelphia officials imposed a citywide after-dark curfew on Wednesday, seeking to avert a third night of violence amid protests over the fatal police shooting of a Black man wielding a knife and described by family as undergoing a nervous breakdown.…
French Prime Minister Jean Castex on Thursday detailed before parliament new restrictions under a nationwide Covid-19 lockdown, a day after President Emmanuel Macron said the drastic measure was necessary to curb a second wave of the virus that has been…
Germany has announced a month-long lockdown, with bars, pubs and cinemas closing their doors to the public. Restaurants will be limited to take-home and delivery, and people will only be able to socialise outside in groups of less than 10.…
An attacker with a knife killed two people and wounded several others at a church in the French city of Nice on Thursday, French media and police said, in an incident the city’s mayor described as terrorism. Mayor Christian Estrosi…
There is increased concern over the abuse of social media in Nigeria with various stakeholders saying it is partly responsible for recurrent civil disobedience occasioned by fake news. Experts on Wednesday said that through their handheld phones, millions of citizens…
The mood in Lagos State and the whole of Nigeria in general calls for a sombre outlook at the moment. Yet, some important dates have a way of being defiantly critical even in the midst of turbulence. Such is today,…
The Edo State Police command has rearrested 10 of the inmates who escaped from the Benin Medium Custodial Centre and Oko Medium Custodial Centre, in Benin, the Edo State capital. Six of the escapees were rearrested for alleged armed robbery…
A inmate who escaped during the jailbreaks at Oko and Benin prisons in Edo state has been re-arrested for murder. About 1993, inmates escaped from prisons in Benin, following the crisis which trailed #EndSARS protests. Yesterday, the Edo state Commissioner…
Just like in Nigeria, some individuals who disguised themselves to join the protest against police brutality in Philadelphia reportedly looted shopping malls belonging to private business owners. The protest started after a Philadelphia Police officer allegedly fired a gunshot at…
Femi Falana (SAN), a constitutional and human rights lawyer, has said family members of those affected by the Lekki toll gate shooting have refused to speak about the incident. The senior lawyer claimed that the families refused to speak “because…
Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State on Wednesday paid a visit to the State Police Headquarters in Ikeja, where he met officers of the command. During the visit the governor met with the CP, DIG, AIG Zone 2, All Area…
The US has expressed its disappointment over the appointment of Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nigeria’s candidate for the director-general of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), despite her widely gained support. Okonjo-Iweala won the popular vote by a wide margin, with the expectation…
A truck laden with iron has reportedly fallen sideways trapping the occupants of a car at the Owode area inward Mile 12, Lagos State. Eyewitnesses’ account said emergency responders are on the ground. Naija News reports that the Owode area…