BREAKING NEWS: Five Dead In Capital Gazette Newsroom Shooting
Multiple injuries during a newsroom shooting today at the Capitol Gazette Newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland. One suspect is in custody. However, law enforcement officials have released limited information since this is still an active crime scene. Anne Arundel County Police confirmed there was an “active shooter” at 888 Bestgate Road, where the newspaper’s offices are […]
Kennedy to Retire from the Supreme Court In July
Supreme Court judge Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement on Wednesday in a letter to President Donald Trump. Kennedy, a moderate conservative who is also SCOTUS’s swing vote will leave the court on July 31. The 81-year-old Ronald Regan appointee voted with conservative justices to toss out campaign finance restriction and with liberal justices to legalize […]
Nigeria: US, Others Condemn Plateau State Herdsmen Killings, Demand Action
The United State and other concerned individuals have condemned the recent attacks on some communities in Plateau State, North-Central part of the country, by suspected Fulani herdsmen over the weekend. The suspected herdsmen were said to have invaded the communities and started shooting sporadically at helpless civilians’ residing in the area, killing about 120 people […]
US Supreme Court Upholds Trump’s Travel Ban
IN a 5-4 ruling along partisan lines the Supreme Court of the United States upheld President Donald Trump’s third version of the travel ban. The majority opinion, penned by Chief Justice John Robert’s affords Trump a broad range of powers, under current immigration law, to protect the nation. Robert’s also rejected opposition claims of anti-Muslim […]
Nigeria: IBB, Northern Forces Tackle Tinubu Over Role In June 12 Declaration
There are indications that more enemies have been listed for the national leader of All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu over President Muhammadu Buhari’s decision to declare June 12 as Nigeria’s new Democracy Day and also conferred Moshood Abiola with a Grand Commander of the Federal Republic (GCFR) honor. Before now, Democracy Day- a day […]
Civil War Looms In Cameroon Over Protracted French-English Crisis
Not many saw it coming. It all started as a peaceful demonstration- a non-violent movement buoyed initially by the quest to right the wrongs of alleged marginalization and discrimination of Anglophone regions of Cameroon in the hands of their Francophone counterparts. But today, the story has changed to that of rising trepidation. The tone of […]
Hope For Ethiopia-Eritrea Peace Talks Ahead Of Deliberation In Addis Ababa
In what many see as a welcome development, the Eritrean government has finally reciprocated move by its Ethiopian counterpart to end the lingering crisis between the two countries over land issues. In 1988, the countries fought what many considered the deadliest and senseless war in Africa over Badme, a borderland between Ethiopia-Eritrea. About 10,000 people […]
Trump Sign Executive Order to Stop Family Separations
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday reminding his policy of separating children and parents at the southern border. Trump said, “We’re signing on the executive order. I consider it to be a very important executive order. It’s about keeping families together, while at the same time being sure we have a very […]
Federal Judge Revokes Manafort’s Bail
President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort is going to jail. Federal Judge Amy Berman Jackson on Friday revoked Manafort’s ongoing bail arrangement. Manafort was previously on house arrest. Prosecutors for special counsel Robert Mueller successful convinced Jackson that Manfort violated the terms of his bail agreement by actively tampering with wittinesses. NBC News […]
Ethiopia: Move To End Africa’s Deadliest War Dangles Over Eritrea’s Silence
For long, talks of ending the fractured relationship between Ethiopia and Eritrea have been sacrificed on the altar of propaganda and superiority tussle. However, whether recent move to bring the age-long feud to an end would see the light of the day remains a puzzle no one can decipher. Two years of war, an estimated […]