An American citizen was shot and killed by a passenger Thursday during his attempt to hijack a plane in Belize. The incident occurred aboard a Tropic Air Belize flight with 13 other passengers onboard when Akinyela Sawa Taylor tried to take over the aircraft at knifepoint after it took off from Corozal toward Belize City. He demanded more fuel for…
Tensions within the Edo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) escalated on Thursday as the party’s Caretaker Committee, led by Dr. Tony Aziegbemi, firmly rejected a recent donation of a party secretariat by Chief Dan Orbih, describing the gesture as a politically motivated ploy to destabilise the party ahead of crucial elections. The…
Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), has called on President Bola Tinubu to remove Vice Admiral Ibok-ete Ibas (rtd.), the Sole Administrator for Rivers State, accusing him of breaching a presidential order. Falana made the statement on Thursday, April 17, asserting that Ibas had violated the provisions of the Official Gazette dated March 18,…
Patco Strike protests. Photo: Socialist Worker archives. I had recently turned twenty-one in 1981, when President Ronald Reagan fired thirteen thousand striking air traffic controllers. It was a hot muggy August day in Boston. I remember that myself and one of my oldest friends Bill Almy were driving past the Boston Common, the country’s oldest…
The Jigawa State Ministry of Health, in collaboration with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), is set to launch a mass immunisation campaign targeting over 1.9 million children in virus-prone border communities. Shehu Ibrahim, the state’s Programme Manager and Coordinator of the State Emergency Routine Immunisation Coordination Centre (SERICC), announced this during a UNICEF-organised media…
