The Ekiti State Athletics Association on Thursday selected 14 athletes who would represent the state at the South West Alliance U-18 Games in Lagos from March 25 to March 29. The News Agency of Nigeria(NAN) reports that the athletes were selected from a pool of about 100 athletes who stormed the Oluyemi Kayode Stadium, Ado…

The Pene da Bwatiye Youth Wing of Adamawa State, in collaboration with its national body, has condemned the Supreme Court's decision upholding the death sentence of Sunday Jackson, a farmer from Demsa LGA, and is calling on Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri to grant him clemency. Jackson was convicted of killing a Fulani herdsman during a…

Bilateral trade between Nigeria and Korea increased by 38.6 percent to over $2.2 billion in 2024, the country’s Ambassador to Nigeria, Kim Pankyu, has said. Speaking in Abuja on Thursday on the 45th anniversary of relations between both countries, Pankyu described Nigeria as Korea’s most important trade partner on the African continent. “We are committed…

Chinese scientists have successfully conducted an ice cap detection experiment in Antarctica using a domestically developed ultra-wideband hyperspectral microwave radiometer, as reported by China’s 41st Antarctic expedition team. The team carried out joint air-ground experiments with helicopters and snowmobiles, successfully performing remote sensing detection of temperature distribution beneath the Antarctic ice. Zhu Di, a researcher…

Colombian authorities, in collaboration with the FBI, have arrested a Nigerian national, Joseph Chinedu Okparaejesi, alias Alen, a suspected transnational drug trafficker, at El Dorado International Airport, Bogotá. Intelligence sources told Zagazola Makama, a security pundit, that Okparaejesi, who had been residing in Colombia for over 12 years, was apprehended upon arrival from São Paulo,…