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In the face of pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump, Egypt has announced its own reconstruction plan for the largely destroyed Gaza Strip. “Egypt expresses its aspiration to cooperate with the U.S. administration to achieve a comprehensive and just peace in the region by reaching a just settlement of the Palestinian. “This is the cause that upholds the rights of the region’s peoples,” said a statement by the Foreign Ministry in Cairo. The statement went on to say that the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip must be carried out. READ ALSO:Two Australian health workers sacked for anti-Israeli threats “In…

22 mins ago Governor of Bayelsa State, Senator Douye Diri, has said his major preoccupation is to bequeath the legacy of a better Bayelsa and society than he met it. Diri spoke on Wednesday during a memorial service in honour of his father, Pa Abraham Joseph Michael Diri, at the St. Peter’s Anglican Church, Sampou, in Kolokuma/Opokuma Local… 29 mins ago The management of The Polytechnic, Ibadan (TPI) says it has launched an investigation into Tuesday’s incident that led to the hospitalisation of about 10 students. The Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the institution, Mr Soladoye Adewole, disclosed this while…

32 mins ago The Minister of Water Resources and Sanitation, Professor Joseph Utsev, has pledged to support Benue State in achieving Open Defecation-Free (ODF) status before the end of 2025, joining Jigawa as the only state to meet the national sanitation target. Utsev made this vow on Wednesday during the third National Retreat on Clean Nigeria: Use the… 33 mins ago The Ogun State Government has dismissed news reports claiming that the Court of Appeal dismissed an appeal filed by it in a case against Datkems, a company associated with the senator representing Ogun Central in the National Assembly, Gbenga…

Taiwan said Wednesday it detected 62 Chinese military aircraft near the self-ruled island this week, as two US ships sailed through the sensitive Taiwan Strait. The United States and its allies regularly transit the 180-kilometre (112-mile) Taiwan Strait to reinforce its status as an international waterway, angering Beijing. Beijing has never ruled Taiwan, but it claims the democratic island as part of its territory and has threatened to bring it under its control by force. Taipei said the US ships travelled from north to south “starting from February 10”. China’s People’s Liberation Army said Wednesday it had monitored the…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he was ready to swap land in negotiations with Russia, which freed at least one American prisoner in what US President Donald Trump described Tuesday as a goodwill gesture on ending the war. Zelensky has in the past refused to cede any territory after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. But in an interview with The Guardian published Tuesday, he said Kyiv was ready for serious talks ahead of a Friday meeting at the Munich Security Conference with US Vice President JD Vance — a vocal critic of US military support to Ukraine.…

U.S politician and representative for Minnesota’s 5th congressional district, Ilhan Omar, has rubbished an allegation of having a net worth of $83 million acquired in eight years. The claim was made on X by one Mila Joy with the handle, @MilaLovesJoe, who wondered how Omar arrived at the net worth from earning a $175,000 annual salary. She shared, “Ever wondered how some politicians get rich in office? Congresswoman Ilhan Omar has reportedly turned her $175,000 annual salary into an astonishing $83 million net worth in just eight years.” Joy then stated that Omar’s net worth shouldn’t be more than…

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Tuesday that his country will resist any US tariffs on steel, announced by President Donald Trump, that he said would hit the US’s “closest ally”. Such tariffs would be “entirely unjustified” and “Canadians will resist strongly and firmly if necessary”, he said during a conference on artificial intelligence(AI) […] The post Canada will resist US steel tariffs 'strongly and firmly' – Trudeau appeared first on The Guardian Nigeria News – Nigeria and World News.

On the streets of Johannesburg’s student district, US President Donald Trump’s offer to accept white Afrikaners as refugees landed as both “ridiculous” and “lame”, among South Africans of all races. On Friday, Trump cut off aid to South Africa and claimed, without evidence, that the Pretoria government is seizing white-owned land and persecuting Afrikaners, descendants of European settlers. South African-born billionaire Elon Musk, the world’s richest person and Trump’s right-hand man, has in the past echoed far-right conspiracy theories about a “white genocide” in the country. “Trump doesn’t know anything about this. I feel like Elon Musk is pushing…

Five years after her husband was executed in Saudi Arabia, Egyptian Noura Fouad is still seeking his remains, unable to lay his body to rest and pay her respects at his grave. “My husband had an unfair trial,” the mother of three told AFP. He had been an upstanding man “trapped by traffickers”, she added, “and his criminal record in Egypt was clean”. Saudi Arabia executed Fouad’s spouse, Moamer Kadhafi — named for the former Libyan leader — in 2020 after finding him guilty of drug trafficking, a capital offence in the Gulf kingdom. Riyadh put 129 foreigners to…

Pope Francis launched a stinging critique Tuesday of US President Donald Trump’s deportations of undocumented migrants, describing it as a “major crisis” that “damages the dignity of men and women”. In a letter to US bishops, he urged Catholics and others “not to give in to narratives that discriminate against and cause unnecessary suffering to our migrant and refugee brothers and sisters”. The Argentine pontiff, 88, has repeatedly defended the rights of migrants during his 10 years leading the Catholic Church, urging world leaders to be more welcoming to those fleeing poverty or violence. “I have followed closely the…