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A regional assembly in Japan on Monday backed the restart of the world’s largest nuclear power station—a landmark decision that brings the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa facility a step closer to generating electricity for the first time since the 2011 Fukushima disaster. The Niigata prefectural assembly approved a supplementary resolution endorsing Governor Hideyo Hanazumi’s earlier decision to…
A French court has sentenced Carole Sun, 30, to 10 years in prison for participating in a terrorist conspiracy linked to the Islamic State group. Sun, who travelled to Syria in 2014, was repatriated to France in 2022 after years in detention camps. The court found that she knowingly associated with high-profile IS…
Leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has concluded its 60th Ordinary Session of the Authority of Heads of State and Government in Abuja with a communiqué for the international community to support the sanctions imposed on Guinea and Mali so as to promote peace, security, and stability in the region. Those…
The United Kingdom has included Nigeria in its red list category as it tightens travel restrictions in an effort to limit the spread of the COVID-19 variant, Omicron. The UK government’s travel advisory on Nigeria said “From 0400 on Monday 6 December, Nigeria will be added to the red list for entering England.” Accordingly, Nigerians…
Each time China coughs, America gets the flu and her allies fall into a state of frenzy. Why is Chinaphobia becoming a dominant public malady in the West today? **** The United States of America (USA) takes pleasure in parading itself as number one on the list of world super powers; self-positioning as the unofficial…
“It is more difficult to stay on top than to get there” – Mie Hamm A few months ago, precisely on January 26th, 2021, President Muhammadu Buhari (PMB) appointed new Service Chiefs for the country. Rear Admiral A. Z. Gambo was appointed Chief of Naval Staff. He was found competent and worthy to drive the…
The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change declared a “code red for humanity” in a recent report, giving a peek of the world’s future. Global warming is dangerously close to spiraling out of control, a U.N. climate panel said in a landmark report Monday, warning the world is already certain to face further climate…
A day after the Taliban installed themselves in the presidential palace in Kabul, seizing control over Afghanistan two decades after being toppled from power by the U.S. military, fears intensified about a return to the Taliban’s brutal rule and the threat of reprisal killings. Kabul’s international airport was under the protection of foreign forces, including…
For the past three and a half months, I fought day and night, nonstop, in southern Afghanistan’s Helmand Province against an escalating and bloody Taliban offensive. Coming under frequent attack, we held the Taliban back and inflicted heavy casualties. Then I was called to Kabul to command Afghanistan’s special forces. But the Taliban already were…
The world just witnessed the takeover of Afghanistan’s political control by the Taliban and critical conversations have been emerging with regards to the future prospects of the new regime with regards to its governance philosophy within the volatile region and broader international relations. The Taliban which refers to itself as the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) is an Islamist religious-political…
