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US President Joe Biden is expected to speak with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday, an administration official says. The anticipated call would mark the third call between the two leaders since Hamas launched its attacks on Israel on Saturday and would come as the president is set to speak about the “terrorist attacks” Tuesday afternoon. Netanyahu has been in “continuous …

The French army said Tuesday it had begun withdrawing its troops from Niger after being ordered out of the country by the leaders of a coup that ousted a pro-Paris president. The move kicks off a complex and sensitive process that Paris expects to be completed by the end of the year, drawing the curtain on another French anti-jihadist operation …

European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said he has invited the top diplomats from Israel and the Palestinian Authority to address an emergency meeting Tuesday of the bloc’s foreign ministers. Borrell said Israel’s Foreign Minister, Eli Cohen, and his Palestinian counterpart, Riyad al-Maliki, were asked to participate in the hybrid video and in-person talks after the surprise Hamas assault. …

•Says he’s returning to Nigeria soon •It confirmed FG had nothing against him —Aliyu, counsel After two years of incarceration in Benin Republic, Yoruba Nation activist, Sunday Adeyemo, also known as Sunday Igboho, yesterday, commended Yoruba leaders and some traditional rulers, including former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Afenifere leader, Pa Ayo Adebanjo; Professor Banji Akintoye, Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, and …

President Bola Tinubu is considering recalling a 71-year-old former Justice of the Supreme Court from retirement to serve as the chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), PREMIUM TIMES has reliably gathered. Abdu Aboki, who hails from Kano State, north-west Nigeria, exited the Supreme Court bench after clocking the mandatory retirement age of 70 on 5 August …

Former Military Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon, has refuted speculations that he is dead. The retired Army general told Vanguard over the telephone that he is alive and wondered where the unfounded rumours started from. There were speculations in a section of the social media that the General passed on aged 89. However, when contacted by a Vanguard editor …

Lagos State High Court has sentenced Drambi Vandi, the suspended police officer who shot dead a Lagos-based lawyer, Bolanle Raheem, to death by hanging. Bolanle Raheem The judge Ibironke Harrison on Monday found the police officer guilty of murder. On 25 December 2022, Vanguard reported that Vandi allegedly killed Mrs Raheem, who was pregnant at that time, at the Ajah …

The ocean is central to global illicit trade. Criminal networks plunder marine resources, scour shipping lanes for vessels to hijack, and traverse coastal state waters and the high seas to move commodities to distant destinations. Covering 70 per cent of Earth’s surface, the ocean is likely the world’s most extensive transnational crime scene and Africa’s location between multiple global demand …

Ethiopia’s President Sahle-Work Zewde on Monday said Africa’s second-most populous country had failed to create a “national narrative” to unite its citizens thus leading to wars. The nation of 120 million people and a mosaic of more than 80 ethno-linguistic communities, has in recent years been troubled by sometimes deadly conflicts over administrative divisions and associated disputes over territory. “We …

Seyi Tinubu, the son of President Bola Tinubu, was on Sunday flown to Kano in a presidential jet to watch the finals of this year’s edition of the Kano International Polo Tournament. Witnesses say the presidential jet conveying Seyi Tinubu and his friends landed in Kano around midday on Sunday. He was said to have been received at the airport by …