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The Sunday Stew: Max Amuchie analyzes Nigeria’s ‘insecurity triad’ of kidnapping, banditry and terrorism in new series There is a particular silence that follows a kidnapping. It is not the absence of sound, but the absence of certainty. Phones stay charged. Families stop sleeping. Each unknown number becomes both hope and terror. In that silence, the Nigerian citizen is reduced …

The crisis in the Middle East continues, with ongoing strikes and an increasing need for humanitarian assistance. The UN nuclear watchdog reported on Wednesday that a projectile hit Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant site, although no casualties were reported. In Lebanon, the humanitarian situation has worsened, with hundreds of people reportedly killed and more than a million displaced. UN agencies …

In the United States during that period, laws in many states enforced segregation of schools, transportation, and bathrooms based solely on race. The military was still segregated, laws prohibiting interracial marriage were still in effect and many housing developments implemented “whites only” policies. One of the early residents and later a member of the UN staff, Carlos Figueroa, recalled befriending …

‎‎‎A former Edo State Commissioner for Education, Hon. Paddy Emmanuel Iyamu, traced his involvement in the All Progressives Congress (APC) to 2016, stressing that he has consistently invested time, resources and energy to ensure electoral victories for the party.‎‎He highlighted his role in the subsequent elections, especially his support for Senator Monday Okpebholo, saying he worked tirelessly across Oredo to …

Tension has gripped Ozoro, headquarters of Isoko North Local Government Area of ​​Delta State, as local university students and residents flee the community following violent attacks during a traditional festival. The panic comes in the wake of the controversial “Alue-Do” festival, during which viral videos showed groups of youths chasing, stripping and assaulting women, an incident that sparked nationwide outrage …

He wasted no time getting out on the field. Within days of taking office on January 1, he had left the conference room at his headquarters in Geneva for refugee camps in Kenya and Chad, a signal of his intent to lead an agency beset by crises that are multiplying faster than the systems built to respond to them. “The …

The impact of the war in the Middle East has also reached the Gulf region, disrupting fuel supplies, shipping routes and supply chains across Asia and the Pacific, with some of the region’s most vulnerable economies already feeling the pressure from rising prices, rationing and threats to jobs, food security and remittances.

Passengers on BA Heathrow flight spend 13 hours with a dead body on board Passengers on a long-haul flight complained of an “unpleasant odor” after a body was left next to a heated kitchen. British Airways flight BA32 was traveling from Hong Kong to Heathrow when a woman in her 60s suddenly died about an hour after takeoff. The situation …

By Ayo Kehinde The Chief of Defense Staff (CDS), General Olufemi Oluyede, has raised fresh concerns over the domestic complicity underpinning the protracted insurgency in northeast Nigeria, urging residents of Borno and Yobe states to take greater responsibility in the fight against terrorism. Oluyede spoke after a high-level security meeting in Maiduguri, signaling a strategic shift from reliance on purely …

In front of International Day of Forestsobserved on March 21, the deputy resident of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in Belarus said Armen Martirosyan UN News about the threats facing this critical ecosystem and efforts to protect it. According to him, forests are not just natural resources, but are complex ecosystems that can regulate themselves. The importance of this …