A fresh debate over fuel prices and the timing of government relief has drawn attention on social media, with an X user questioning why Nigerians may be receiving relief from the high cost of petrol as another election approaches. The controversy centres on a question that has remained important to many Nigerians since President Bola … Read more
The federal government has announced a 30-day petrol discount at filling stations run by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC), and within hours the plan had become a political battleground. Finance Minister Taiwo Oyedele unveiled the measure at a press briefing in Abuja on Thursday, October 8. Opposition parties, labour unions and civil groups … Read more
A fresh row has erupted inside Nigeria’s opposition after a senior aide to Peter Obi appeared to say publicly that his principal turned down a vice-presidential nomination from Atiku Abubakar, a claim that sits uneasily with what Obi himself told Nigerians last month. The Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) Director of New Media and Strategic Communications, … Read more
Tinubu Government Announces 30-Day Petrol Discount At NNPC Stations, Prioritises Public Transporters The Federal Government has announced a 30-day petrol discount at filling stations operated by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC), with public transporters given first priority across the country. The announcement is aimed at easing the weight of high fuel costs on … Read more
Yemeni Government Forces Seize District Overlooking Bab el-Mandeb Strait, Military Sources Say Saudi-backed Yemeni government forces seized key positions along the Bab el-Mandeb Strait on Monday, according to military and government sources, in an operation aimed at reversing territorial gains the Iran-backed Houthis made last month and pushing them back from one of the world’s … Read more
China’s October Fuel Export Freeze Threatens to Squeeze Supplies Across Asia China’s decision to halt oil product exports beyond Hong Kong and Macau this month is poised to tighten fuel availability for several of the country’s biggest regional customers, including Singapore, Malaysia and Australia, just as global fuel markets remain stretched thin from months of … Read more
Tennessee’s Attempt to Execute Christa Pike Fails, Leaving Her Alive and Hospitalized Tennessee’s attempt to execute Christa Gail Pike, the only woman on the state’s death row, ended in what a death penalty expert called an unprecedented failure Wednesday night, after the state administered two doses of lethal injection drugs without killing her. Pike, 50, … Read more
Smit Machchhar never set out to become a pilot. He grew up expecting to join his family’s textile business, enrolling in a textile engineering course straight out of school before later pursuing management studies at Mumbai’s Welingkar Institute of Management. It was at an aviation seminar there, at around 19 years old, that something shifted, … Read more
Ghana Rejects $109 Million U.S. Health Deal as Mahama Calls Terms ‘Humiliating’ — Did Nigeria Accept Similar Terms? Some diplomatic rows are settled in private. This one was settled at a podium in New York. The President has just returned from a foreign trip. Was this agreement discussed there, or was it not on the … Read more
Japan is confronting a growing misinformation problem as false and misleading claims about foreigners spread across social media, intensifying an already heated debate over immigration and contributing to the political environment in which the country’s far right has gained greater attention. Researchers and misinformation analysts have warned that fabricated stories about crimes allegedly committed by … Read more