Author: Vincent Osuwo

No fewer than 31 people have been killed and 169 injured in an explosion at a mosque during Friday prayers in Islamabad, Pakistan, officials say. According to authorities, a suicide bomber exploded a weapon as he approached the gates of the Shia mosque in the Tarlai neighborhood of the city. Eyewitnesses informed the BBC that the explosion was preceded by shooting. As hospitals began to receive injured people, an emergency was proclaimed, and a blood donation plea was issued. Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif condemned the event, expressing “deep grief” and calling for a swift investigation to identify those responsible.…

US President Donald Trump has stated that he made no mistake for a video briefly shared on his official Truth Social account that depicted former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama as apes. Speaking late Friday to the press accompanying him aboard Air Force One, Trump insisted he made no mistake by sharing the video and does not need to apologize. “I didn’t make a mistake,” he said. Trump stated that he did not watch the entire clip before it was posted. “I didn’t see the whole thing. I looked at the first part, and it was…

The Ondo State Police Command has arrested a 40-year-old lady named Nafisat Lateef for reportedly poisoning her tenant’s three-year-old son in Omifon, Odigbo Local Government Area. According to the authorities, Lateef poisoned the boy following an argument with the victim’s mother, Rofiat. According to reports, the suspect gave the victim a drink that was considered to be harmful. Abayomi Jimoh, the state Police Public Relations Officer, confirmed this in a statement released on Friday. “The incident occurred on Tuesday, February 4, 2026, at about 8:30am, when the suspect allegedly gave the victim, identified as Abdulrasheed, a liquid substance suspected to…

A US congressional hearing on global religious freedom has criticized the federal government’s reported $9m lobbying contract in Washington. The congress warned that the deal appeared to be aimed at downplaying serious human rights and religious freedom violations. The concerns were expressed on Wednesday during a joint hearing of the House Subcommittees on Africa and the Western Hemisphere titled ‘Defending Religious Freedom Around the World.’ The session featured testimony from former US Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom, Sam Brownback, and former chair of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom, Dr. Stephen Schneck. Chris Smith, Chairman of the House Foreign…

The Obidient Movement Worldwide has vowed to hold a large demonstration against the National Assembly following the Senate’s rejection of the real-time electronic transmission of election results, claiming that the decision could jeopardize the credibility of the 2027 general elections. Yunusa Tanko, the group’s National Coordinator, said this in a statement made in Abuja on Friday; however, no date for the planned protest was set. The warning came after the Senate rejected a proposed change to Clause 70(3) of the Electoral Change Bill, which aimed to require electronic transmission of election results. Senate President Godswill Akpabio clarified earlier that the…

Suspected cultists have beheaded the President of the Omoku Youth Federation in the Ogba-Egbema-Ndoni Local Government Area of Rivers State, Ifeanyi Azuazu, and shot dead his personal aide, Chigozie Oluwu. Around 6 p.m. on Thursday, seven assailants invaded a popular drinking establishment on Ogolo Street, off Palace Road in Omoku town. According to sources, the attackers arrived in two vehicles and confronted the youth president, ordering him to get into a car. His aide, Oluwu, attempted to intercede but was fatally shot. The gunmen then kidnapped Azuazu and drove him to an unknown destination. The attack sparked terror among residents…

US President Donald Trump has deleted a post with a racist video depicting former US president Barack and Michelle Obama as monkeys, sparking outrage across the US political spectrum on Friday before deleting it in a rare backtrack. The White House initially dismissed “fake outrage” over the video posted late Thursday night on Trump’s Truth Social account, only to later blame the post on an error by a staff member. Democrats had slammed Trump as “vile” over the post about the Obamas—the first Black president and first lady in US history—while a senior Republican senator said the video was blatantly…

A moving train has reportedly crushed a pregnant woman to death in the Bukuru axis of Plateau State. According to reports, the incident occurred when the victim, identified as Salamatu Ahmad, attempted to board the train while it was still in motion. Eyewitnesses revealed that the train struck the woman, leading to her death. Chronicle NG gathered that the train crushed and amputated a hand and leg of the pregnant woman, prompting her death. This incident comes two months after a tricycle collided with a train along the Bukuru-Jos terminal. The accident, which involved a passenger train travelling from Bukuru…

No fewer than eighteen Senegal football fans detained in Morocco over “hooliganism” during last month’s Africa Cup of Nations final have begun a hunger strike pending their trial, their lawyer told AFP on Friday. Lawyer Patrick Kabou stated that his clients told him they have been “waiting to learn the charges against them since January 18,” the day they were arrested after a heated AFCON final in which Senegal beat Morocco in Rabat. Kabou mentioned that the supporters complained that police officers had questioned them in French and Arabic, whereas they “only speak Wolof,” their native language. Some Senegalese fans…

The death toll from a landslide in Indonesia has risen to 74, authorities said Friday, extending the hunt for missing people and dead almost two weeks after it began. A landslide ripped through a mountain community in Java’s West Bandung province on January 24, burying scores of homes and uprooting hundreds of people. Thousands of rescuers, assisted by police, military, and volunteers, have dug through muck and debris by hand and with heavy equipment. The local search and rescue organization reported that 74 victims had been identified. “There are still a number of residents on the missing persons list who…