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Christian Toby Obumseli, a young Nigerian man living in Miami, Florida, was murdered in his house, a week before his 28th birthday by his white lover, Courtney Tailor. The event occurred on April 3 in the couple's shared apartment.…

By Derrick Bangura  Shell has announced that it will write off between $4 and $5 billion in the value of its assets after pulling out of Russia following the country’s unprecedented invasion of Ukraine. Thursday’s announcement offers…

By Derrick Bangura  Over 12.8 million children have tested positive for COVID-19 since onset of the pandemic, according to the report by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the Children’s Hospital Association. More than…

By Derrick Bangura Ukraine told residents of its industrial heartland to leave while they still can and urged Western nations to send “weapons, weapons, weapons” Thursday after Russian forces withdrew from the shattered outskirts of Kyiv…

By Derrick Bangura The government of Poland has said over two million refugees from Ukraine including over two thousand Nigerians fleeing the Russia-Ukraine War have been allowed passage into Poland. A statement on Wednesday by the…

By Derrick Bangura Twitter on Tuesday announced that it has been working on an edit feature “since last year,” with testing on the edit button set to begin “in the coming months” with Twitter Blue subscribers In a demo of the feature on…

By Derrick Bangura International aid agencies on Tuesday raised the alarm that the West African sub-region was currently facing its worst food crisis in a decade, with 27 million people currently going hungry. In a damning statement,…

By Derrick Bangura The number of internally displaced people in Ukraine has risen to over 7.1 million, according to the International Organisation for Migration (IOM). Earlier, the Geneva-based UN agency had put the number of people…

By Derrick Bangura Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will on Tuesday address the UN Security Council and predict further worse instances of mass killings of civilians by Russian troops would be discovered. The Security Council…

By Derrick Bangura Kim Yo Jong, the sister of leader Kim Jong Un, on Tuesday said North Korea opposes war but would use nuclear weapons if South Korea attacks. Kim Yo Jong, a senior official in the government and ruling party, said it…