NIGER has revoked the operating licence of French nuclear fuel producer Orano at one of the world’s biggest uranium mines, the company said Thursday, in a move that highlighted tensions between France and the African country’s ruling junta. Orano said it had been excluded from the Imouraren mine in northern …

NORTH Korea and Russia have pledged to use all available means to provide immediate military assistance in the event the other is attacked, according to the text of a new landmark defence pact agreed by the two autocratic nations. Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un …

THE leaders of Vietnam and Russia have said they want to boost ties as the pair met in the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi. There is a statue of Lenin in central Hanoi Vietnamese President To Lam was full of praise for his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, congratulating him on his …

SUPER Falcons winger Rasheedat Ajibade has been named Atletico Madrid Femmine’s Player of the Season. It’s the first time the Nigerian will win the individual accolade. The 24-year-old enjoyed a remarkable campaign for the Reds and Whites. Ajibade registered 10 goals and eight assists for Atletico Madrid during the 2023–24 …

Last week, Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf painted a pathetic picture of the state of primary education in Kano. “Above 4.7 million pupils are sitting on bare floors to take lessons while about 400 schools have only one teacher for all classes subjects and all pupils,” said Yusuf who put the …

THE National Universities Commission (NUC) has granted full accreditation status to the 18 undergraduate and postgraduate programmes presented by the Kwara State University (KWASU) in the Malate area of the state. This was contained in a statement issued by the Acting Director of University Relations, Dr Saeedat Aliyu, on Wednesday, …

A labourer, Nkwegu Shadrach, has narrated why he was not affected by the building collapse that occurred on Tuesday evening in the  Abakaliki metropolis of Ebonyi State. The three-storey building located within the premises of the Alex Ekwueme  Federal University Teaching Hospital Abakaliki I, Ebonyi State,  collapsed when some construction …

No fewer than three million poor and vulnerable households have benefitted from the $800m palliative loan disbursed by the World Bank to cushion the effect of recent government policies, such as the fuel subsidy removal. Of these beneficiaries, 700 thousand households were from rural areas and about 2.5 million households …

INTERNATIONAL award-winning singer, David Adeleke, popularly known as Davido, has dragged Sophia Momodu, the mother of his first child, Imade, to court, seeking custody of the daughter. In an originating motion filed by his lawyers, Dr Olaniyi Arije, Okey Barrah and others, at the Lagos State High Court, dated April …

The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has expressed grave concerns over projections indicating a significant rise in drug intake in Africa, particularly Nigeria, by 2030. According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), drug use on the continent is expected to surge by 40%, driven …