After years of delays, Russia’s atomic energy giant Rosatom started work on Egypt’s first nuclear power plant, calling it “the largest project of Russian-Egyptian cooperation” since the 1950s. Russian state atomic energy corporation Rosatom has begun construction of Egypt’s first nuclear power plant, according to a joint statement from Rosatom and Cairo. Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi and Russian President Vladimir Putin

A High Court sitting in the Federal Capital Territory has remanded the suspended Accountant-General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris, in prison custody over his alleged illegal diversion of public funds to the tune of N109.4 billion.

Russian shelling pounded a densely populated area in Ukraine’s second-largest city Thursday, killing at least two people and injuring at least 21 with a barrage that struck a mosque, a medical facility and a shopping area, according to officials and witnesses at the scene. Police in the northeast city of Kharkiv said cluster bombs hit Barabashovo Market. a public bazaar

Members of the All-Progressives Congress in Rivers State have accused Governor Nyesom Wike of making several moves to stop the party’s governorship candidate, Tonye Cole, from participating in the 2023 general elections. A former Rivers State Accountant General and Wike’s stooge, Fubara Siminialayi is the governorship candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). Nyesom Wike A member of the APC

A US judge has ordered that Twitter’s lawsuit against Elon Musk go to trial in October, a blow to the world’s richest man who had asked for a delay.