Telling the story of The Return of the Alaafin, which reached its grand climax on Saturday, 5 April 2025, gave me the honour of witnessing and documenting one of the most important historical and cultural events of this decade. This moment is deeply personal. In 1971, I stood as a young trainee cameraman with Western…
Military contacts between China and Russia are “increasing in frequency,” the Japanese government said in its latest foreign policy report released Tuesday, in the first such wording about the growing defense cooperation between the two countries. In its 2025 Diplomatic Bluebook, the government also expressed serious concern about growing military ties between Russia and North…
Global human rights organization, the Amnesty International, has lamented the rising wave of attacks by terrorists and non-state actors across Nigeria which has resulted in the killing of 71 Nigerians and the abduction of 50 others in just one week. The body which raised the alarm in a statement on Monday, said the renewed surge…
Gov. Bassey Otu. By Anietie Akpan In the past 35 years about 150 innocent persons are feared to have lost their lives to series of communal clashes involving different communities in Odukpani Local Government Area (LGA) of Cross River State. Some of these communal conflicts include Odukpani Qua Town/New Netim in Odukpani LGA in September…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has publicly confirmed for the first time that Ukrainian forces are conducting operations within Russia’s Belgorod region. In his nightly address on Monday, April 7, 2025, Zelensky stated, “We continue to carry out active operations in the border areas on enemy territory, and that is absolutely just—war must return to…
