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Elon Musk offered to buy Twitter for $54.20 a share, or about $43 billion. “I invested in Twitter as I believe in its potential to be the platform for free speech around the globe, and I believe free speech is a societal imperative for a functioning democracy,” Musk wrote in a letter sent to Twitter Chairman Bret Taylor. Elon Musk offered to buy Twitter for $54.20 a share, saying the social media company needs to be transformed privately, a little over a week after first revealing a 9.2% stake in the company. Musk’s offer values Twitter at about $43 billion. “I invested…

When the Russians retreated from Bucha, a massive operation began to find and document the dead. BBC News joined the local police officers and bereaved families as they carried out their grim task. Warning: This article contains graphic images. Police Chief Vitaliy Lobas was sitting at a child’s desk in an abandoned school in Bucha, collecting the details of the bodies. Every few minutes, Chief Lobas, who has broad shoulders and short dark hair, and rarely uses an unnecessary word, received a call on his mobile phone, and the brief conversations went the same: a location, a few details, a…

By Col (Ret) Jitendra Jung Karki, Captain (Ret) Raymond Seebald, LtCol (Ret) Gunter Chassé, Dr David Leffler Europe is in turmoil. The world has been shaken. Uncertainty pervades the globe in the face of the invasion of Ukraine. Yet it is said that it is darkest before the dawn. That dawn should come now, in the form of a clear demonstration that there is a systematic, reliable, effective way to create peace through peaceful means. Quietly, over many years, Invincible Defense Technology (IDT) has been effective in ending war and violence in Mozambique, Cambodia, Peru and Ecuador. With the looming…

The Minister of Women Affairs, Pauline Tallen, has said she almost shed tears after her encounter with the children of late gospel singer, Osinachi Nwachukwu. The minister, who visited the home of the Nwachukwus, said the children narrated their late mother’s experiences with her husband, Peter Nwachukwu. While speaking on an NTA programme, she said the children told her that their late mother had no bank account of her own. They told her that her husband took every proceeds of her performances. She said, “Honourable member, the deputy chief whip, happens to come from the late Osinachi’s village and she…

Members of the House of Representatives on Wednesday demanded the sack of the National Security Adviser, Major General Babagana Mongunu (rtd) from office The lawmakers, during their plenary said the security architecture had failed Nigerians with increased pace of kidnapping and killings. The lawmakers listed cases of mass killings in Plateau, Benue Zamfara and other parts of the country as instances that show that there is no security. Disturbed by the killings, the Chairman of the House Committee on Navy, Yusuf Gagdi, moved a motion of urgent public importance titled ‘Terrorist Attacks on Kanam and Wase Communities of Plateau State,’…

Police in New York City have arrested a man suspected of shooting 10 commuters in a rush hour attack at a Brooklyn subway station. Frank James, 62, is alleged to have donned a construction worker’s helmet, vest and a gas mask before throwing smoke grenades and opening fire. A massive 30-hour manhunt was launched in the wake of the attack. Mr James was taken into custody on Wednesday afternoon in Manhattan after police received a tip-off, they said. “My fellow New Yorkers: we got him,” Mayor Eric Adams said via video during a news conference. Officials said Mr James was…

Atrocities committed by Russian forces in Ukraine have sparked widespread accusations of war crimes – with some voices arguing that Moscow has gone even further. “That is real genocide, what you have seen here,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said from Bucha, where at least 500 people have been found dead since the Russians left. Poland’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki agrees that the killings in Bucha and other towns near the capital Kyiv “must be called acts of genocide and be dealt with as such”. UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said attacks on civilians in Bucha do not “look far…

Flight Delay Causes Violence At Abuja Airport as Angry Passengers Vandalise Airline’s Counter Items Delay of a flight from morning till late in the evening of Wednesday has led to violence at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. It was not certain which airline was responsible for the delay but it was learnt through a video that was posted on social media that the flight had been delayed from about 9am till about 6:30pm when affected passengers went wild. Some of the passengers could be heard saying they had been at the airport since 9am while the airline kept shifting…

Founder of Dunamis International Gospel Church, Paul Enenche, has denied knowledge of domestic violence in the home of late gospel singer, Osinachi Nwachukwu and her husband, Peter Nwachukwu. In a video broadcast on Wednesday, the church founder, he was unaware the gospel artiste, who was the lead singer at the church was having domestic violence challenge. He said the only thing that came to his knowledge was that the husband came to him at some points when he said his wife was complaining of chest pains. He said, “Over two-and-a-half months to three months ago, she came to see me…

The Nigeria Labour Congress on Wednesday gave the federal government a 21-day deadline within which to resolve all trade issues with members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU), Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities (SSANU), and National Association of Academic Technologist (NAAT). This was contained in a communique released and jointly signed by the NLC President, Ayuba Wabba, and the congress’ General Secretary, Emmanuel Ugboaja. After the meeting with the leaders of the affected unions, Wabba frowned at the government’s failure to honour its 2009 re-negotiated agreement with them.…