Author: Mohammad Adamu

The United States said Sunday it had carried out air strikes on Iranian rocket launchers on a small island in the Strait of Hormuz, marking its first attacks on Iran since late July. “Earlier today, US forces struck two Iranian launchers on Larak Island. Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps forces were observed preparing to launch rockets with sea mines into the Strait of Hormuz,” US Navy Captain Tim Hawkins said in a message to AFP. Washington said the strikes were aimed at preventing Iran from placing more sea mines in the strait, days after it announced it had completed clearing explosives…

The Bauchi State Police Command has arrested a 70-year-old man, Usman Abubakar, in connection with the alleged defilement of an eight-year-old girl in the Tsakanin Bayara area of Bauchi metropolis. According to a statement by the Command’s Police Public Relations Officer, Superintendent of Police (SP) Nafiu Habib, the suspect was arrested following a complaint lodged at the ‘E’ Division, Yelwa, by the victim’s 48-year-old father on Wednesday, August 26, 2026. Police said the father alleged that the suspect, who resides in the same area, lured his daughter to an uncompleted building on Sunday, August 24, where he allegedly sexually assaulted…

President Bola Tinubu has asked a US court to stop the Department of Justice, FBI and DEA from releasing records tied to old drug trafficking allegations against him. The records are sought by transparency activist Aaron Greenspan, who filed a FOIA lawsuit demanding the FBI’s full file on Tinubu, 1992–1993 interview records, and material linked to a 1993 civil forfeiture case involving roughly $460,000 connected to him. In a 16-page filing shared with Channels Television, Tinubu’s lawyers argued release would violate his privacy, citing Supreme Court precedent that individuals retain a privacy interest in investigative files even when some related…

Disgraced former Ecuadorian leader Lenín Moreno was hit with a five-year prison sentence Friday — to be served from his own home — after judges found he pocketed dirty money from a Chinese construction giant. The 73-year-old, paralysed since a 1998 shooting, sat through the verdict as a Quito tribunal branded him guilty of bribery over the $2 billion Coca Codo Sinclair dam. Judges didn’t stop at prison time: Moreno was slapped with a lifetime ban from public office, and the court demanded over $163 million in reparations from him and 19 co-defendants — including his own wife and daughter.…

President Bola Tinubu has ordered a “comprehensive” forensic audit of Federal Government systems following reports of ghost workers and “fake agencies,” presidential spokesman Bayo Onanuga said in a statement on Friday. The audit will cover the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS) and its interfaces with GIFMIS, Remita, the Treasury Single Account and Sub-TSA, to trace how fictitious or ineligible persons were enrolled and determine whether fraud stemmed from system defects, process failures or deliberate circumvention. Finance Minister Taiwo Oyedele will oversee the exercise. The directive follows an August 19 Federal Executive Council resolution responding to ICPC findings on…

The Federal Government has moved to convert Nigeria’s potential in the $7 trillion global halal economy into investment, jobs and exports, with a new national strategy targeting $12 billion in capital mobilisation. This as the country has declared its intention to become a leading player in the global halal economy, leveraging its large consumer market, agricultural resources, manufacturing capacityand access to the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). Speaking the Lagos Halal Leadership Reception 2026 on Wednesday, Vice President Kashim Shettima said Nigeria could no longer afford to remain a consumer of halal products while other countries dominate production and…

Norway’s King Harald has died aged 89, the palace said on Friday, with his son, 53-year-old Crown Prince Haakon, automatically succeeding him as King Haakon VIII. “It is with deep sadness that we announce that His Majesty King Harald passed away today… at Oslo University Hospital on Friday, August 28 at 6:35 am,” the palace said in a statement. The flag at the royal palace in Oslo was lowered to half-mast. Europe’s oldest reigning monarch had been hospitalised in Oslo since August 17 with haemolytic anaemia, a condition that causes fatigue and shortness of breath. His condition was declared “extremely…

Miss World Nigeria 2026, Tamunosoye Karibi-George, has booked a place in the Top 40 of the ongoing Miss World competition in Vietnam after winning the Africa Top Model title.Karibi-George beat contestants from Equatorial Guinea, Botswana, Kenya and South Africa to the Top Model crown, which was decided during the Vietnam Beauty Fashion Fest XVII, themed “Soul of Heritage.” Her win gives Nigeria an automatic place in the quarter-finals, alongside continental winners from the Dominican Republic, France and Vietnam, who represented the Americas and Caribbean, Europe, and Asia and Oceania respectively. Announcing the results on Instagram, the Miss World Organisation congratulated…

Muhoozi Kainerugaba, son of Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, has announced plans to contest the country’s presidency in 2031, ending months of speculation over whether he would seek to succeed his father. Kainerugaba, 52, made the declaration in a series of posts on X on Tuesday, saying he intended to contest for what he described as “the highest office in the land.” “I will stand for the highest office in the land in 2031. And we will win by the grace of Almighty God,” he said. The announcement places Kainerugaba, who heads Uganda’s army and the Patriotic League of Uganda, a…

More than 1,300 people, including more than 700 foreign nationals, are missing across Nepal and China’s Tibet region after a huge collapse of mud and rock into a Himalayan river triggered catastrophic flooding across local towns and valleys, authorities have said. Nepalese police and tourism officials confirmed on Thursday that more than 500 foreigners were among 823 people missing in Nepal. Police added that they expected the confirmed death toll to rise significantly past 177. “This will go up, as we have resumed the search and more bodies are expected to be recovered,” police spokesperson Abi Narayan Kafle said. Among…