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KYIV, Ukraine— Ukraine’s air force claimed Saturday to have downed a Russian hypersonic missile over Kyiv using newly acquired American Patriot defense systems, the first known time the country has been able to intercept one of Moscow’s most modern missiles. Air Force commander Mykola Oleshchuk said in a Telegram post that the Kinzhal-type ballistic missile had been intercepted in an overnight attack …

LONDON — King Charles III was crowned Saturday at Westminster Abbey, in a ceremony steeped in ancient ritual and brimming with bling at a time when the monarchy is striving to remain relevant in a fractured modern Britain. At a coronation with displays of royal power straight out of the Middle Ages, Charles was presented with an orb, a sword and scepter …

Edo State Waste Management Board has cleared a perennial refuse dump site at Ibiwe, in Benin City, Oredo Local Government Area of the State. The General Manager, Edo State Waste Management Board, Mr. Charles Imariagbe, who addressed journalists during the evacuation exercise, said the exercise was carried out as part of the Governor Godwin Obaseki-led administration’s agenda to promote a …

New York (AP) — Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, submitted her resignation Friday, saying the waning of the COVID-19 pandemic was a good time to make a transition. Walensky’s last day will be June 30, CDC officials said, and an interim director wasn’t immediately named. Associated Press reports that she sent a …

David Nwamini, the would-be kidney donor in the organ trafficking case that sent Senator Ike Ekweremadu, 60, to jail, has said he wanted to remain and work in the UK, as “they could arrest me or kill me in Nigeria”. His impact statement was read in court, at the sentencing that saw Ekweremadu, his wife, Beatrice, 56, and the doctor-middleman, …

Sonia, the daughter of embattled former deputy senate president, Ike Ekweremadu said she feels guilty that her parents were convicted because they were looking for ways to find a solution to her health condition. The Ekweremadu’s daughter stated this in an interview with BBC on Friday. Recall that in March 2023, a UK jury found that Ekweremadu, his wife Beatrice, …

The Prosecutor, Hugh Davies told the jury that the behaviour of Ekweremadu showed “entitlement, dishonesty and hypocrisy.” On the occasion of the new British monarch coronation ceremony slated for tomorrow (Saturday), King Charles III may pardon embattled former deputy senate president, Ike Ekweremadu, a legal practitioner Kayode Ajulo, has said.  Ajulo stated this in an interview on Channels Television on …

• It’s time to move on, Gambari advises Former Head of State Gen. Yakubu Gowon yesterday urged politicians with cases before election petition tribunals to accept the outcomes in good faith. Gowon, who insisted that it was only an independent Judiciary that could protect the nation’s democracy, advised that the Judiciary must be allowed to work without external interference. Also, Chief of …

Choices bind everything in life. The one taken by former Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu, in June 2022, has now earned him 10 years jail term. A United Kingdom court on Friday sentenced Ekweremadu to a total of nine years and eight months imprisonment, while his wife, Beatrice, was sentenced to four years and six months imprisonment for plotting to …

Millions of electricity consumers may be plunged into darkness in the coming weeks as the Federal Government via the Transmission Company of Nigeria and the Market Operator have begun a massive disconnection of debtor electricity distribution companies from the national grid. PUNCH findings showed the development followed notices of disconnection from the grid served on some of the Discos by the …