Swedish climate activist, Greta Thunberg is among the four people named on Wednesday as the winners of the Right Livelihood Award also known as the ‘Alternative Nobel’. The Foundation said the 16-year-old...

A photographer with the Associated Press, Dieu-Nallo Chery sustained gunshots wounds after a Haitian senator, Ralph Fethiere appeared to open fire amid chaotic scenes outside the country’s Parliament...

The National and State Assembly Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital on Tuesday sacked the candidate of the Social Democratic Party, Ipalibo George as the lawmaker...

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday described the British court judgment which authorized Process and Industrial Development (P&ID) Ltd to seize N9. 6 billion worth of Nigerian assets as a scam. Speaking...

Twelve people, including a brother and sister whose fathers died as heroes following the 9/11 terror attack have graduated into the New York Fire Department. A total of 343 firefighters were among almost...

President Muhammadu Buhari has redeployed the Minister of State for Niger Delta Affairs, Festus Keyamo to the Ministry of Labour and Employment. This is coming less than a month after Kenyamo assumed office. A...

The United States House of Representatives on Tuesday launched an official impeachment investigation of President Donald Trump after he allegedly encouraged a foreign leader to conduct a probe that...

The United Nations has called on the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari to put a halt to forced evictions in Nigeria. Leilani Farha, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing...

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the Financial Reporting Council  have sanctioned four commercial banks in the country between January and June for various infractions. The nation’s apex bank imposed...

The United Nations (UN) has appointed Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, the President of the African Development Bank, Akinwumi Adesina and 25 others as global leaders who will champion the fight...

Liverpool coach, Jurgen Klopp on Monday night became the first English Premier League (EPL) manager to sign up to the Common Goal movement, promising to donate 1 percent of his salary to the charity. The...

Boeing is set to pay the families of passengers who died in two 737 MAX crashes $144,500 each. In a statement issued on Tuesday, Boeing’s Chief Executive Officer, Dennis Muilenburg said the $50 million...

A major blow was dealt to the British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson on Tuesday morning after the country’s highest court ruled that his decision to suspend Parliament for five weeks was illegal. The...

Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari on Monday in New York said his administration has put in place robust plans and initiatives to reverse the negative effects of climate change in the country. In his...

Barcelona’s Lionel Messi has won the best men’s player at the Best FIFA Football Awards in Milan beating Juventus’ Cristiano Ronaldo and Liverpool’s Virgil van Dijk. It is the sixth...

The British government has concluded that Iran was responsible for the attacks on oil facilities in Saudi Arabia. British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson who made the assertion on Sunday said the UK would...

Hundreds of protesters in Indonesia‘s restive Papua province on Monday set fire to several homes and other buildings. Papua Police Chief, Rudolf Alberth Rodja says Monday’s demonstration...

The Nigerian Army on Sunday said it has dismissed three soldiers arrested among a kidnapping gang in the outskirts of Maiduguri, the Borno State capital. The Theater Commander, Operation Lafiya Dole, Maj.-Gen....

The Senior Pastor of Latter Rain Assembly, Tunde Bakare on Sunday declared that he will succeed Muhammadu Buhari as Nigeria’s next president. In a video which has been trending on social media, Bakare...

The Oyo State government on Sunday exempted churches and mosques from paying levies and taxes to the coffers of the state . The government position is in sharp contrast to the immediate past administration...