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Crime & SecurityNewsNigeriaItalian police nab most wanted Nigerian prostitution ringleader after 13 years

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)March 9, 2023

A most-wanted Nigerian human trafficker in Italy has been extradited from Abuja to Rome to serve 13 years imprisonment. According to reports, the 48-year-old woman, identified as Joy Jeff, has been wanted in Italy since 2010 for crimes including human trafficking and running a prostitution ring. She had been sentenced to 13 years in prison in absentia by the Italian authorities. Jeff played a leading role in trafficking women to Italy, Spain and the Netherlands,...

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LifestyleNewsWorld NewsSpain becomes the first European nation to legalise paid menstrual leave

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)March 6, 2023

The Spanish parliament has approved a three to five days menstrual leave for women, making Spain the first European country to do so. The Economic Times reports that the law was passed on Thursday, February 16, 2023. The bill got 154 out of 185 votes cast during the parliamentary session. Irene Montero, the nation’s equality minister, lauded the support the bill enjoyed from the parliament. She noted that the law is momentous in terms of...

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NewsOpinionWorld NewsMaking sense of the year’s shocking events

PilotnewsDecember 30, 2022

Culled from the Conversation  |  Lorna Grisby (Senior Politics & Society Editor) The year 2022 has been full of confounding events. Russia invaded Ukraine. The Supreme Court overturned a 50-year precedent guaranteeing the right to abortion. Midterm election results overwhelmingly contradicted pundits’ predictions. And so much more. But, as regular readers, you know the politics editors and the scholars we collaborate with provided deep analysis and explanation to help you make sense of it all....

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NewsSportWorld NewsThe World Cup final went to a penalty shootout after it finished 3-3 in extra time

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)December 19, 2022

Argentina led France 2-0 at half-time with a 23rd-minute penalty from Lionel Messi and a 36th-minute strike from Angel Di Maria. However, Kylian Mbappe’s double goals in the 80th and 81st minutes, gave the defending champions hope of lifting the cup once more and secured France in the game. Messi poked in a goal to put Argentina 3-2 ahead in the 108th minute before Mbappe completed his hat-trick two minutes before the end of extra...

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NewsWorldWorld NewsPresident Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine is Time magazine’s 2022 ‘Person of the Year’.

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)December 11, 2022

Time announced on Wednesday, hailing the 44-year-old Ukrainian president for his courage in the face of Russia’s invasion and for inspiring Ukrainians to remain steadfast and resist Russia’s full-scale invasion, which it launched in late February. In a feature story on Zelensky, the magazine said: “Zelensky’s success as a wartime leader has relied on the fact that courage is contagious. It spread through Ukraine’s political leadership in the first days of the invasion, as everyone realized...

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NewsNigeriaPoliticsUnited Kingdom“Don’t Travel to US, UK to Avoid Being Robbed”, FG Advises Nigerians

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)November 29, 2022

The federal government has raised alarm over the high rate of theft of valuables, including passports of Nigerians in the United States, United Kingdom and Europe. “It has come to the attention of the government that Nigerian travellers to the US and some countries in Europe are having their belongings, especially money and international passports, stolen at an increasingly high rate,” the minister of information and culture, Lai Mohammed, said at the fifth edition of...

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AfricaNewsNigeriaPhilanthropyBill & Melinda Gates Foundation To Assist Nigeria, Other African Countries With $7bn

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)November 21, 2022

Donation will help tackle hunger, disease, poverty and gender inequality In the next four years, Nigeria and other African countries would receive aid of $7 billion from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The foundation said in a statement is committing the money towards tackling hunger, disease, poverty and gender inequality. According to Reuters report, the organisation said Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, will take the lion share. “The European budgets are deeply affected by...

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NewsSoccerSportQatar 2022: FIFA Yields to Pressure, Ban Sales of Alcohol At Stadiums

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)November 19, 2022

Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) on Friday gave in to the Qatari government’s demand to ban the sale of alcoholic drinks at the eight stadiums that will host the World Cup competition. Breaking the news on Twitter, FIFA said fans will only be able to access alcohol at “FIFA fan festival, other fan destinations and licensed venues.” “Following discussions between host country authorities and FIFA, a decision has been made to focus the sale...

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NewsUnited NationsWorldOver 345 Million People Faces Acute Food insecurity In 82 Countries

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)September 25, 2022

The Executive Director of the UN World Food Programme David Beasley, on Thursday told the UN Security Council that 345 million people are facing acute food insecurity in the 82 countries. The Security Council was focusing on conflict-induced food insecurity and the risk of famine in Ethiopia, northeastern Nigeria, South Sudan and Yemen. Beasley also said 70 million are pushed closer to starvation by the war in Ukraine, noted where the agency operates is more than twice the...

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