An earthquake with a magnitude of at least 7.4 struck the Alaskan Peninsula on Wednesday, the GFZ German Research Center for Geosciences said. The US Geological Survey put the quake’s magnitude at...

President Donald Trump admitted on Tuesday that the coronavirus will get worse in the United States before getting better. In a press conference that lasted about 30 minutes, Trump said he believed the...

Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Tuesday imposed a curfew and reinstated strict measures to curb the spread of the coronavirus following a spike in that country’s cases in recent...

The Nobel Foundation, managers of  the Nobel Prizes, on Tuesday cancelled its traditional December banquet due to the COVID-19 pandemic. “The Nobel week will not be as it usually is due to the current...

Nigeria recorded 576 new cases of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, within the past 24 hours. This brings the total number of recorded cases in the country to 37,801. The latest figures were disclosed by...

The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, on Tuesday said the appointment and sacking of service chiefs was the perogative of President Buhari. Adesina said this in a statement...

The House of Representatives has asked the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio, to publish, within 48 hours, the names of members of the 9th National Assembly whom he claimed got...

Nigeria has recorded 562 new cases of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 37,225. The latest figures were disclosed by the Nigeria Centre for...

Governor Rotimi Akeredolu has emerged the winner of the Ondo State All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship primary which took place on Monday. Akeredolu polled 2458 votes to defeat other nine aspirants...

President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed sadness over the passing away of his longtime friend, Malam Isa Funtua.  Isa Funtua died of cardiac arrest on Monday. He was  aged 78. President Buhari in a...

The Acting Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Kemebradikumo Pondei passed out this afternoon while being grilled by members of the House Committee on Niger Delta who are...

The government of the United Kingdom has entered partnerships with Pfizer and Valneva to secure doses of several promising COVID-19 vaccines and  COVID-19 neutralising antibody treatments from AstraZeneca. The...

Iran on Monday executed a former translator convicted of spying for the US and Israel, including helping to locate a top Iranian general killed later by the Americans, the judiciary said. The judiciary...

The Ballon d’Or will not be awarded this year due to the  conditions created by the coronavirus pandemic, the organisers, France Football announced on Monday. “There will be no edition in 2020,...

Africa’s most populous nation, Nigeria has recorded 556 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 36,663. The latest figures were disclosed by the Nigeria...

John Lewis, a respected pioneer of the civil rights movement and eminent member of the United States House of Representatives, died on Friday. Lewis, a member of Congress from Atlanta who had announced...

Nigeria has recorded 600 new cases of COVID-19 bringing the total number of cases recorded in the country to 35,454. The latest figures were disclosed by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) via...

Nigeria’s inflation rate rose further to 12.56 per cent in June, as prices of basic food items surged. Inflation in Nigeria has been on the increase since August 2019 when the country shut its land...

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has settled for the indirect mode of primaries for its July electoral exercise for the upcoming Ondo governorship election. Chairman of the Election Committee and...

The House Committee on Niger Delta Development Commission has summoned the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio. The committee issued the summons after the former acting Managing Director...