Taliban Says It Didn’t Kill Guests Who Played Music At Wedding Reception In Afghanistan
Three Guests were reportedly shot dead at a wedding reception were music was played in Eastern Afghanistan on Friday night. The Taliban Spokesperson, Zabihullah Mujahid, disclosed this at a press conference on Sunday. He said the attack was carried out by three assailants who claimed to be members of the Taliban. According to Mujahid, the gunmen attacked a reception taking place in...
Taliban Supreme Leader Makes Finally First Public Appearance, Commends Ouster Of ‘Infidels’
Taliban supreme leader Haibatullah Akhundzada addressed supporters in the southern city of Kandahar, officials announced Sunday, his first public appearance since taking control of the group in 2016. Akhundzada has been the spiritual chief of the Islamist movement since 2016 but has remained a reclusive figure, even after the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan. His low profile has fed speculation about...
Okonjo-Iweala Meets US President, Joe Biden In Rome, Talks COVID-19 Vaccination (Photos)
The Director-General of the World Trade Organisation and Nigeria’s former Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has met with US President Joe Biden at the G20 Meeting in Rome. Okonjo-Iweala, former Nigeria's Finance Minister who shared pictures from their meeting, said she used the opportunity to appreciate the support rendered by the US on vaccine equity and pandemic preparedness. She tweeted, “Great...
Former South Korean President Dies At 88
Former South Korean President Roh Tae-woo has died, aged 88. His death occurred on Tuesday, ABN TV reports. The late Asian leader was best known for participating in a 1979 coup before going on to win the presidency in a landmark democratic election. However, he ended his tumultuous politics career in prison. According to the Seoul National University Hospital, Roh passed...
First Black US Secretary Of State, Colin Powell Dies Of COVID-19
Colin Powell, the first Black US secretary of state whose leadership in several Republican administrations helped shape American foreign policy in the last years of the 20th century and the early years of the 21st, has died from complications from Covid-19, his family said on Facebook. He was 84. "General Colin L. Powell, former U.S. Secretary of State and Chairman...
Former US Secretary Of State, Colin Powell Dies Of Covid-19 Complications
Former US Secretary of State, Colin Powell has died aged 84 of Covid-19 complications, his family has announced. "General Colin L. Powell, former U.S. Secretary of State and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, passed away this morning due to complications from Covid 19," the Powell family wrote on Facebook on Monday afternoon, October 18 said. "We have lost a...
Sen. Orji Kalu Meets With Djibouti President Ismail Guelleh [VIDEO]
The President of Djibouti, Ismail Omar Guelleh on Thursday received Chief Whip of the Nigerian Senate, Sen. Orji Uzor Kalu at his office in Djibouti. Also at the meeting was Amb. Innocent A. Iwejuo, Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative to the African Union and UNECA. Though details of the meeting was not disclosed to ABN TV, a reliable source informed our...
BREAKING: President Rushed To Hospital, In Intensive Care (Photo)
ABN TV reports that the Czech President Milos Zeman was taken to an intensive care unit on Sunday, a day after the country held a general election, his doctor said. “At the moment, the patient is hospitalised at an intensive care unit of Prague’s Military University Hospital,” Zeman’s doctor Miroslav Zavoral told reporters, adding he could not yet publicise the...
Sen. Kalu In Crucial Meeting With Speaker Djibouti National Assembly, Hon. Mohamed Houmed (Photos, Video)
Chief Whip of the Nigerian Senate Senator Orji Uzor Kalu is about now meeting with the Speaker National Assembly of Djibouti, Hon. Mohamed Ali Houmed, ABN TV reports. Sen. Kalu, representing Abia North senatorial district along with other National Assembly members are participating in the 76th Session Of The Executive Committee And The 43rd Conference Of The National Parliamentary Assembly...
Former BUK lecturer, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Wins 2021 Nobel Literature Prize
The Nobel prize in literature has been awarded to the novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah, for his “uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents”. Gurnah grew up on one of the islands of Zanzibar before fleeing persecution and arriving in England as a student in the 1960s. He has published 10...
