The United States has announced the removal of Nigeria from its religious freedom blacklist.
This was contained in a statement, titled ”Religious Freedom Designations.” and released by US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, on Wednesday.
Countries on the blacklist, according to the statement, are “Burma, the People’s Republic of China, Eritrea, Iran, the DPRK, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan.”
The social-media platform X (formerly Twitter) suffered a major global outage on Tuesday, leaving thousands of users unable to load their feeds, publish posts or access the service across both mobile and desktop channels. According to outage-tracking service Downdetector, more than 11,500
Former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was sentenced to death in absentia on Monday by the International Crimes Tribunal in Dhaka for her role in the violent suppression of student-led protests in July – August 2024. Her former Home Minister, Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal,
Nigeria’s headline inflation dropped sharply to 16.02% in October 2025 from 18.02% in September, marking the steepest monthly decline in 2025, according to a policy brief by the Centre for the Promotion of Private Enterprise (CPPE). The decline reflects base effects from
Armed gunmen launched a coordinated assault on Government Girls Comprehensive Secondary School in Maga, Kebbi State, on Monday, killing the vice principal and abducting 25 female students in one of the latest mass kidnappings to hit Nigeria’s northwest. Police spokesperson Nafiu Abubakar
The U.S Department of State indicates it will on November 24 officially designate Cartel de los Soles as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO). Based in Venezuela, the Cartel de los Soles is headed by Nicolás Maduro and other high-ranking individuals of the
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