Israel’s military said Wednesday it was fighting the militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon, not the Lebanese army after the latter said four of its soldiers were killed in Israeli strikes. “We emphasise that the (Israeli army) is operating precisely against the Hezbollah terrorist organisation and is not operating against the Lebanon Armed Forces,” the military told AFP in a statement. The ...

Governor Hyacinth Alia of Benue State has approved a minimum wage of N75,000 for workers in the state.  Alia announced the approval at the state secretariat after a meeting with representatives of the organised labour in Makurdi.  The governor in a statement by his spokesman, Tersoo Kula, noted that the remaining three months of the five-month backlog of arrears promised to the union will be ...

Yetunde Balogun, sister of renowned Afrobeats star, Ayo Balogun, popularly known as Wizkid, recently sparked reactions online after comparing her brother to the legendary German scientist, Albert Einstein. The singer’s sister explained that while Einstein and Wizkid belong to entirely different realms, their shared brilliance in their respective fields demonstrates the essence of ...

President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, has called for more collaboration between the Nigerian parliament and its counterpart in China. Akpabio made the call while receiving the new Chinese Ambassador to Nigeria, Yu Dunhai, and top officials of the embassy, who paid him a courtesy visit in his office on Wednesday. The Senate president said Nigeria intended to take full advantage of President ...

Dr John Aderibigbe, a former technical consultant to the Wheat Farmer Association of Nigeria during President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration and currently, Chairman of the National Agricultural Commodity Projects (NACP), spoke to Weekend Trust at the last WECA wheat summit in Abuja, where he discussed the challenges and opportunities in wheat production in Nigeria, and how the country can ...

The International Criminal Court on Wednesday sentenced a jihadist police chief to 10 years in jail for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during a reign of terror in the fabled Malian city of Timbuktu. ICC judges had convicted Al Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz Ag Mohamed Ag Mahmoud, 47, in June for crimes including torture when he was a member of the feared Ansar Dine Islamic militant group ...