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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it will remove the Sen. David Mark-led National Working Committee (NWC) of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) from its portal. The commission also disclosed that it will cease all dealings with any faction of the party pending the determination of a substantive suit before the Federal High Court, Abuja. The National Commissioner and …

7.4-magnitude earthquake struck early on Thursday near Ternate, an island in Indonesia’s Molucca archipelago, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said. The quake struck at 5:48 am (2248 GMT Wednesday) between northern Sulawesi and the North Molucca Islands, around 127 kilometres west of Ternate, at a depth of about 35 kilometres. Indonesia’s Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) initially reported …

The U.S. military on Wednesday said that it had struck more than 12,300 targets in Iran during the conflict, which has been ongoing for just over a month. The U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), which oversees U.S. forces in the region, said in an update on Wednesday that its forces “Damaged or Destroyed” more than 155 Iranian vessels among the more …

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) Four astronauts embarked on a high-stakes flight around the moon Wednesday, humanity’s first lunar voyage in more than half a century and the thrilling leadoff in NASA’s push toward a landing in two years. Carrying three Americans and one Canadian, the 32-story rocket rose from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center where tens of thousands gathered to witness …

LONDON (AP) — President Donald Trump has said he is strongly considering pulling the U.S. out of NATO, ratcheting up his criticism of European allies and exposing a wider rift in the transatlantic alliance — this time over America’s war alongside Israel against Iran. While Trump’s talk of a possible NATO pullout dates back years, the comments to Britain’s Telegraph …

Operatives of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission on Wednesday took a former Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai, into custody moments after proceedings at the Federal High Court in Kaduna. El-Rufai, standing trial over alleged corruption, had just concluded a hearing on his bail application when he was bundled into a waiting vehicle and driven away, reportedly …

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran kept up its attacks on Persian Gulf neighbors on Wednesday as airstrikes pounded Tehran, while U.S. President Donald Trump again made contradictory statements about whether he was ready to wind down the war or escalate it. Trump struck a hard line Wednesday in a Truth Social post, demanding that Iran stop blocking the …

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is taking up one of the term’s most consequential cases, President Donald Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship declaring that children born to parents who are in the United States illegally or temporarily are not American citizens, and he was in the courtroom on Wednesday for the arguments. The justices will hear Trump’s appeal …

The president is telling US allies — who didn’t join his war in Iran because they got no advance notice, didn’t want it and thought it infringed international law — that they’ll be stuck with the consequences. “Go get your own oil,” he wrote on Truth Social Tuesday, shortly before sources told CNN that the administration can’t promise to restore …

The Plateau Government has relaxed the 48-hour curfew earlier imposed on Jos North Local Government Area (LGA) of the state. Mrs Joyce Ramnap, the Commissioner for Information and Communications of the state, disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday in Jos. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the government had earlier imposed the curfew, following an attack on …