Politics

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy was found guilty of corruption on Monday and handed a three-year prison sentence after a court in Paris convicted him for trying to illegally influence a judge during his time in office. The sentence includes two years suspended, which means it is unlikely Sarkozy will …

Montreal, Canada – In 1969, then-Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau famously described Canada’s proximity to the United States as akin to sleeping with an elephant: “No matter how friendly or even-tempered is the beast … one is affected by every twitch and grunt.” Decades later, with Joe Biden in the …

Hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets of major cities in Myanmar, protesting the military’s power grab amid rising concern of violence in the troubled Southeast Asian nation. Wednesday’s protests marked one of the largest in Myanmar since the February 1 coup, and came after protesters urged …

British Foreign Minister Dominic Raab said the ban was ‘unacceptable’ and damaged China’s global standing [File: Carl Court/Getty Images) British television channel BBC World News has been barred from airing in China, the National Radio and Television Administration said on Friday, a week after the United Kingdom’s media regulator revoked …

House lead impeachment manager Representative Jamie Raskin concludes the impeachment managers’ case in the Senate trial of former President Donald Trump on a charge of inciting insurrection [Senate TV/Handout via Reuters] The third full day of arguments in the Senate impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump concluded on Thursday. …

Ankara indicates it may be willing to compromise on the Russian air defence system that strained ties with the US. US says the S-400 system could be used by Moscow to secretly acquire classified information on NATO weaponry Turkey’s proposal to not fully activate its controversial Russian S-400 missile system …

(FILES) In this file photo Democratic Representative Jamie Raskin speaks during the House Judiciary Committee’s markup of House Resolution 755, Articles of Impeachment Against President Donald Trump, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on December 12, 2019. – Democratic Party impeachment managers requested former president Donald Trump on February 4, …

At last the Miyetti Allah group is being dressed in the borrowed robe of respectability. It was only after the governors meeting in Akure on Monday that I heard of the new acronym by which this apparent backer of terrorism is known. It is now officially the MACBAN, the Miyetti …

• Southeast APC seeks unity All hopes that leaders of Southeast geopolitical zone would play as united team towards the 2023 general election cycle were shattered yesterday, when stakeholders from the zone met in Owerri. Apart from the most recent joiner to the party, Ebonyi State Governor Dave Umahi, who …

Arewa leader, Chief Audu Ogbeh, has alerted the Federal Government to the use of camels by insurgents and bandits in ferrying weapons into Nigeria. The former Minister of Agriculture urged the current administration to urgently look into the matter. In a statement yesterday, the one-time PDP national chairman said during …