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Briga News Nigeria Pope Francis on Friday slammed both U.S. presidential candidates for what he called anti-life policies on abortion and migration, and he advised American Catholics to choose who they think is the “lesser evil” in the upcoming U.S. elections. “Both are against life, be it the one who kicks out migrants, or be…

Briga News Nigeria The US Supreme Court ruled Monday that former President Donald Trump should appear on the ballot in Colorado in a decision that follows months of debate over whether the frontrunner for the GOP nomination violated the “insurrectionist clause” included in the 14th Amendment. The opinion is a massive victory for Trump, vanquishing…

Briga News Nigeria Being text of a press conference by His Excellency, Atiku Abubakar (GCON), Waziri Adamawa, Vice President of Nigeria (1999-2007) and Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (2023), at the Shehu Yar’Adua Centre on the 5th of October 2023. Protocol Gentlemen of the Press, Fellow Citizens of the Federal Republic of Nigeria,…

Briga News Nigeria South African anti-apartheid struggle hero Nelson Mandela’s granddaughter, Zoleka Mandela, has died of cancer aged 43, her family said on Tuesday. Known for having detailed her long battle against the disease, the author was admitted into hospital on Monday as part of her ongoing treatment, a family spokesman said. “Zoleka passed away……

Briga News Nigeria … 2.1 Million Beneficiaries Already Captured The World Food Programme, WFP, has pledged to support President Tinubu’s Zero Hunger Programme under the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation. Country Director of WFP, David Stevesson, made this known Tuesday when he led a team of the United Nations, UN agency to…

Briga News Nigeria Information filtering in from the Republic of Niger indicates some unpleasant developments around the country’s highest political leadership. It should be quite clear to all players in the Republic of Niger that the leadership of the ECOWAS Region and all lovers of democracy around the world will not tolerate any situation that…

Briga News Nigeria President Bola Ahmed Tinubu Friday in Paris-France said Nigeria will sustain its spotlight on African countries as the fulcrum of its policies on economy and foreign policy, assuring that trade issues, security and border controls will be mutually implemented. Receiving the President of Benin Republic, Patrice Talon, after the Summit on New…

Briga News Nigeria Minister of Primary, Secondary and Technical Education (EPST) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Tony Mwaba Kazadi has reportedly impregnated his Deputy Minister, Aminata Namasia. He allegedly confessed to an unethical romance with his subordinate but described the act and consequent pregnancy as “accidental.” Local media reports that Kazadi and Namasia…

Briga News Nigeria A 67-year-old Russian woman has been arrested by the police in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia’s second largest city, for hiring an assassin to kill her children over their inheritance. According to Metro UK on Monday, she ordered the murder of her son and two daughters in order to become the sole owner of a…