Nearly two weeks after the military took over power in Niger, the coup plotters have named former economy minister Ali Mahaman Lamine Zeine as the country’s new prime minister. A spokesman for the military junta made the announcement on television late on Monday night. Lamine Zeine was formerly the minister of economy and finance for […]
The United Arab Emirates has ordered the arrest of a man who was filmed arrogantly telling a car dealer in a luxury showroom to sell the most expensive cars in the garage to him, Arabian Business reports. According to a report by state-run news agency, WAM, the video insults and ridicules Emirati society and incites harmful public […]
The United Kingdom has put in place a new law that will see Nigerian students and others studying in the UK from bringing their family as dependents except “under specific circumstances.” This is as the UK government aims to bring immigration into the country that stands at around one million down, Sky News reports. Under […]
World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus planned to visit the Syrian city of Aleppo on Friday. The visit would be in the wake of this week’s earthquakes, according to his cabinet chief in Geneva. Aleppo, in the northwest of the country, is controlled by the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. WHO could not initially […]
