BY WAFAA SHURAFA, SAMY MAGDY AND SAMYA KULLAB DEIR AL BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — A premature baby squirms inside a glass incubator in the neonatal ward of al–Aqsa Hospital in the central Gaza Strip. He cries out as intravenous lines are connected to his tiny body. A
BY NAJIB JOBAIN, SAMY MAGDY AND RAVI NESSMAN RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The second aid convoy destined for desperate Palestinian civilians reached Gaza on Sunday, as Israel widened its attacks to include targets in Syria and the occupied West Bank and the Israeli prime minister warned Lebanon’s
By ABIA ONYIKE, Editor The National Democratic Coalition(NADECO)has called on the Economic Community of West African States(ECOWAS) to investigate the allegation of cerificate forgery levelled against President Bola Tinubu. The pro-democracy group whose call to ECOWAS was contained in a letter it sent to the regional body, urged
BY MICHAEL BIESECKER Shortly before 7 p.m. Tuesday, a volley of rockets lit up the darkened sky over Gaza. Videos analyzed by The Associated Press show one veering off course, breaking up in the air before crashing to the ground. Seconds later, the videos show a large explosion
BY NAJIB JOBAIN, SAMYA KULLAB, RAVI NESSMAN AND MATTHEW LEE KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Doctors in Gaza City faced with dwindling medical supplies performed surgery on hospital floors, often without anesthesia, in a desperate bid to save badly wounded victims of a massive blast that killed
BY WAFAA SHURAFA, JOSEPH KRAUSS AND ISABEL DEBRE DEIR AL–BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Gaza’s 2.3 million civilians faced a deepening struggle for food, water and safety Sunday and braced for a looming invasion a week after Hamas militants launched a deadly assault on Israel. While hundreds of
.By ABIA ONYIKE Nigeria recently celebrated her 63 years as an independent state, having gained independence in 1960 from Great Britain. Nigeria is actually a Berlin State, created as a result of the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885. The European powers, in their scramble for Africa, arbitrarily partitioned the
BY WAFAA SHURAFA AND JOSEPH KRAUSS DEIR AL–BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Palestinians scrambled to flee northern Gaza on Saturday after Israel ordered nearly half the population to flee south and carried out limited ground forays ahead of an expected land offensive, as the war appeared set to
By ABIA ONYIKE, EDITOR A pro-democracy group, the National Democratic Coalition(NADECO-USA) has faulted Wednesday’s British Broadcasting Corporation report on the Chicago State University academic records of President Bola Tinubu, saying the move was an attempt to perpetuate colonialism in Nigeria. This was as it observed that the BBC
BY MATTHEW LEE, MARY CLARE JALONICK AND SEUNG MIN KIM WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. and Qatar have reached an agreement that the Qataris will not act on any request from Tehran for the time being to access $6 billion in Iranian funds that were unblocked as part
BY KAREEM CHEHAYEB AND ABBY SEWELL BEIRUT (AP) — Will Lebanon’s heavily armed Hezbollah militia join the Israel–Hamas war? The answer could well determine the direction of a battle that is bound to reshape the Middle East. Hezbollah, which like Hamas is supported by Iran, has so far
BY JOSEPH KRAUSS AND WAFAA SHURAFA JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s military on Friday directed the evacuation of northern Gaza, a region that is home to 1.1 million people — about half of the territory’s population — within 24 hours, a U.N. spokesman said. This could signal an impending
BY MICHAEL BIESECKER AND SARAH EL DEEB Less than a month before Hamas fighters blew through Israel’s high–tech “Iron Wall” and launched an attack that would leave more than 1,200 Israelis dead, they practiced in a very public dress rehearsal. A slickly produced two–minute propaganda video posted to
BY BILL BARROW ATLANTA (AP) — Jimmy Carter has always been a man of discipline and habit. But the former president broke routine Sunday, putting off his practice of quietly watching church services online to instead celebrate his 99th birthday with his wife, Rosalynn, and their children, grandchildren
By ABIA ONYIKE, EDITOR Hoodlums suspected to be enforcing sit-at-home order at Ezzangbo community, the hometown of self-acclaimed Prime Minster of Biafra Government in Exile, Simon Ekpa, today burnt three vehicles, five motorcycles and other valuable items. It was gathered that the hoodlums who were eight in number
BY ABIA ONYIKE, EDITOR The Special Adviser to Ebonyi State Governor on Internal Security in charge of Ivo LGA, Ike Cletus on Sunday said the prompt intervention of Governor Francis Nwifuru’s-led administration has brought to an end the incessant killings and kidnappings of innocent motorists, commuters and Indigenes
