Biden Announces New Sanctions On Russia, Says Putin ‘Chose’ War

NewsWorld NewsBiden Announces New Sanctions On Russia, Says Putin ‘Chose’ War

PilotnewsFebruary 24, 2022

NEW YORK — President Joe Biden on Thursday announced new sanctions on Russia after its invasion of Ukraine, saying that Russian leader Vladimir Putin “chose this war” and his country would bear the consequences. The sanctions target Russian banks, oligarchs, and high-tech sectors, Biden said. The United States and its allies will block assets of four large Russian banks, impose export controls, and sanction oligarchs. Biden had on Tuesday announced the first tranche of sanctions...

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Ukraine Invasion: Canada Cancels $700m in Export Permits to Russia

NewsWorld NewsUkraine Invasion: Canada Cancels $700m in Export Permits to Russia

PilotnewsFebruary 24, 2022

NEW YORK — Canada is cancelling all export permits to Russia in response to the country’s invasion of Ukraine, a decision that Canada’s foreign affairs minister says will impact companies in the aerospace, technology, and minerals sectors. The cancellation of existing export permits and additional sanctions were announced at a press conference on Thursday, with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland, Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly and Defence Minister Anita Anand. Joly...

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A Total of 45,318 Women Have Died During Childbirth In 2022, Statistics Reveals

LifestyleNewsWorldWorld NewsA Total of 45,318 Women Have Died During Childbirth In 2022, Statistics Reveals

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)February 24, 2022

This was revealed by the reference website, Worldometer, a live world statistics on population, government and economics, society and media, environment, food, water, energy and health. Lending a voice to the issue of maternal mortality, the World Health Organisation, WHO, said women die as a result of complications during and following pregnancy and childbirth; while most of these complications develop during pregnancy, most are preventable or treatable: “Other complications may exist before pregnancy but are...

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Poverty Rate in Most North-East States is 70% – World Bank

PovertyWorld NewsPoverty Rate in Most North-East States is 70% – World Bank

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)November 16, 2021

MAIDUGURI — The World Bank has put the poverty rate in most states of the North-East at 70 per cent, adding that the region suffers from severe climate crisis and conflict which are diminishing its development. This was contained in a new report titled, ‘The Lake Chad Regional Economic Memorandum: Development for Peace’, which was released by the bank on Monday. The lender, in the report, revealed that the North-East and other regions around Lake...

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Meaningful Climate Action Requires Taking Africa’s Needs Seriously

ClimateWorld NewsMeaningful Climate Action Requires Taking Africa’s Needs Seriously

PilotnewsNovember 16, 2021

By Michelle Gavin, Guest columnist and blogger As the world debates the successes, failures, and omissions of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, one inescapable conclusion is that Africa’s needs should be elevated on the global climate agenda. African leaders went into the conference with a clear agenda about the urgency of support for adaptation, the centrality of expanding access to power for Africans, and the overall need for partnering with African states on equal footing...

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Apical Diagnostic Centre Yola Screened Over 50 People Free

HealthWorld NewsApical Diagnostic Centre Yola Screened Over 50 People Free

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)November 15, 2021

YOLA — The Apical Diagnostic Centre Yola has conducted free Serum Glucose screening on over fifty people on Sunday in commemoration of World Diabetes Day is celebrated on the fourteenth of November each year. The Day is set aside by the United Nations to serve as a platform of creating awareness and enlightening people about the disease. Speaking at the event, an official of the centre Doctor Aminu M.C Tahir said the centre organized the...

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France Says Nuclear Talks With Iran Must Resume Where They Left Off

World NewsFrance Says Nuclear Talks With Iran Must Resume Where They Left Off

PilotnewsNovember 9, 2021

PARIS — France’s foreign minister told his Iranian counterpart on Tuesday that when talks with world powers on reviving a nuclear accord resume at the end of November, they must continue where they left off in June. The comments suggest growing concern over Iran’s public rhetoric before indirect talks between Iran and the United States resume in Vienna on Nov. 29 On Monday, Tehran repeated demands that the United States lift all the sanctions it...

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BREAKING: Ugandan President Assures Country After Bomb Blast in Capital

AfricaWorld NewsBREAKING: Ugandan President Assures Country After Bomb Blast in Capital

PilotnewsOctober 24, 2021

KAMPALA — Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni on Sunday said the perpetrators of the bomb attack in the capital Kampala on Saturday night will be arrested. “It seems to be a terrorist act but we shall get the perpetrators. The public should not fear, we shall defeat this criminality like we have defeated all the other criminality,’’ Museveni tweeted. The president said the Police were at the scene in Komamboga, a Kampala suburb, and will provide...

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Israeli Scuba Diver Discovers 900-year-old Crusader Sword

NewsWorld NewsIsraeli Scuba Diver Discovers 900-year-old Crusader Sword

PilotnewsOctober 19, 2021

TEL AVIV — An Israeli scuba diver had discovered a 900-year-old Crusader sword in the Mediterranean Sea. The sword, with its 1-metre-long blade and a 30-centimetre-long hilt, was lying on the seabed off the Carmel coast, the Israel Antiquities Authority said on Monday. “The sword, which has been preserved in perfect condition, is a beautiful and rare find and evidently belonged to a Crusader knight,’’ said Nir Distelfeld, inspector for the Israel Antiquities Authority’s Robbery...

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Novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah wins the Nobel Prize in Literature

Arts & CultureWorld NewsNovelist Abdulrazak Gurnah wins the Nobel Prize in Literature

PilotnewsOctober 7, 2021

Zanzibar-born novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah won this year’s Nobel Prize in literature. “For his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents,” announced the Swedish Academy this morning. The award comes with more than $1 million in prize money. Gurnah was born in 1948. He’s was previously a professor of English and postcolonial literature at the University of Kent in Canterbury, England...

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