Author: David Great

President Vladimir Putin will visit Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates on Wednesday, the Kremlin announced, as Moscow courts allies abroad despite being isolated over the Ukraine conflict. Putin has limited his international travel since deploying troops to Ukraine, and the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an international arrest warrant for Putin on the war crime accusation of unlawfully deporting Ukrainian children. “President Putin will go on a working visit to the UAE and Saudi Arabia tomorrow,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters Tuesday. He said the Russian leader would discuss bilateral relations, the conflict between Israel and Hamas,…

A magnitude 5.7 earthquake shook the Philippine capital Manila on Tuesday, the US Geological Survey said, sending people rushing out of buildings and briefly halting train services in the city. The strong earthquake struck off the country’s main island of Luzon at 4:23 pm (0823 GMT) at a depth of 77 kilometres (48 miles), about 94 kilometres southwest of Manila, the USGS said. Videos shared on social media showed commuters sitting squashed together on a train platform and people in the Senate exiting the building after the tremor stopped. Patrolman Mark Dacayanan said his police station on Lubang island, less…

The Kaduna State Police Command said its operatives have arrested four drug dealers with 50kg of cannabis at Unguwar Mai Hayi in Makarfi. ASP Mansur Hassan the command’s Public Relations Officer, said a gun was recovered from the suspected drug dealers when the operatives raided their base. Hassan in a press briefing on Tuesday in Kaduna stated that the arrest followed verifiable intelligence received from a good Samaritan in the community on December 4. NDLEA stop narcotics party in Osun, confiscates 859kg of cannabis in Niger “On getting the information, our operatives mobilised to the area where four suspects were…

The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has listed the Falcon 900B aircraft of the presidential jet which is part of the presidential air fleet, for sale, calling on interested buyers to submit their bids for the acquisition of the aircraft. Details about the proposed sale of the presidential jet was posted late Monday in a flyer shared on the official social media page of the Nigerian Air Force (NAF). According to the information seen on the flyer by Chronicle NG, the presidential jet was listed for sale after receiving approval from the federal government. The announcement partly reads: “The Federal Government…

President Bola Tinubu has ordered a probe into the bombing of a village in Kaduna State. This is contained in a statement by Chief Ajuri Ngelale, Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, on Tuesday in Abuja. There was a bombing of persons alleged to be conducting religious activities in a village at Tudun Biri in Igabi Local Government Area of the state. He said that the president directed a thorough and full-fledged investigation into the incident and called for calm while the authorities looked into the mishap. Bomb kills 30 Kaduna villagers during Maulud celebration Ngelale said…

Mikel Arteta said the Premier League has “gone another level up” from last season as Arsenal seek to open up a five-point lead at the top of the table at lowly Luton on Tuesday. The Gunners, who beat Wolves 2-1 on Saturday, are two points clear of second-placed Liverpool and three ahead of champions Manchester City after the weekend games, with neither of those teams in action until Wednesday. Arteta’s men topped the table for much of last season but faltered down the home stretch and were overtaken by Pep Guardiola’s relentless City side. The Spaniard, bidding to win Arsenal’s…

The federal government have denied rumours flying around social media that it sponsored 1,411 delegates to United Nations Climate Change Conference better known as the Convention of Parties or COP-28 Summit going on in Dubai, United Arab Emirate. The Convention of Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is the world’s pre-eminent Climate Change Conference, attended this year (COP-28) by more than 70,000 participants and delegates from over 100 countries. Nigeria’s representation is very much in line with our status as Africa’s leading Sovereign voice and player in climate action. Minister of Information and National…

Academic activities were on Monday at the University of Calabar (UNICAL) following the students’ protest against the 100 percent hike in tuition fees. Chronicle NG earlier reported the university had released a new schedule of fees that would take effect in the 2022/2023 and 2023/2024 academic sessions. The hiked fees was contained in a statement released on Monday by UNICAL’s spokesman, Effiong Eyo, who stated the decision to raise the tuition was made at an emergency meeting of the university’s Senate on Friday. The students, who protested peacefully to register their dissatisfaction, barricaded the roads leading into UNICAL campus, thus…

A chief magistrates’ court in Ikeja on Monday ordered the remand of a 35-year-old man, Idowu Shoyede, who allegedly defiled his neighbour’s 16-year-old daughter. The police charged Mr Shoyede, of Oredola Street, Iju Ishaga, Lagos, with defilement. The magistrate, E. Kubeinje, who did not take Mr Shoyede’s plea, ordered the police to duplicate the case file and send the same to the office of Lagos State Director of Public Prosecutions for advice. She directed that the defendant be kept in a custodial facility pending the advice. Ms Kubeinje, who frowned at the high rate of child defilement in the state,…

The Nigerian Air Force has denied claims that residents were killed inadvertently during an air attack in Kaduna. Air Commodore Edward Gabkwet, NAF Director of Public Relations and Information, stated that the service has not performed any operations in the state or its vicinity in the previous 24 hours. He also stated that the Air Force is not the only agency in the North West that employs armed drones. “The news making the rounds alleging that Nigerian Air Force aircraft accidentally killed innocent civilians in Kaduna is false,” the statement said. NAF helicopter crashes in Port Harcourt “Please be informed…