Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused the United States of supporting Kurdish armed groups that Ankara says executed 13 kidnapped Turks in northern Iraq, adding a US statement of condemnation...

China last year overtook the United States as the EU’s biggest trading partner, the EU statistics agency Eurostat said on Monday. The EU’s trade with the United States dropped significantly...

The former Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has been appointed as the Director-General of the World Trade Organisation. Okonjo-Iweala, whose tenure begins March 1, is the first woman and African...

South Africa’s former president Jacob Zuma did not show up on Monday at an inquiry into alleged corruption during his time in office. The country’s top court had earlier ordered Zuma to appear...

Syria’s army said on Monday the country’s air defences intercepted “Israeli aggression” over the capital, Damascus, in the latest stepped-up bombing of alleged Iranian targets inside the country...

Guinea has declared an Ebola epidemic after three people died and four others became ill in the country’s southeast. The seven people fell ill with diarrhoea, vomiting and bleeding after attending a...

Security forces in Myanmar opened fire on protesters Sunday, as demonstrations against military rule in the country enter their second week. There was no immediate confirmation of a death toll and no comment...

Prince Tonye  Princewill, a philanthropist, movie producer, business tycoon, politician and one time gubernatorial candidate of the Action Congress and Labour Party in Rivers State, and currently a chieftain...

Former US President Donald Trump was acquitted by the country’s Senate on Saturday in an impeachment trial for his role in the January 6 attack on the US Capitol. Trump was the first US president...

Suspected bandits have invaded Baka village in the Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State, killing  a man and his son. The deceased man, Sanusi Musa and his son were said to have resisted attempts...

President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Maj. Gen. Samuel Adebayo as the Chief of Defence Intelligence. By this, Adebayo becomes the head of Nigeria’s Defence Intelligence Agency, DIA., Adebayo,...

Police have detained at least 12 people following protests over the reopening of the Lekki toll gate in Lagos on Saturday. The Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry on February 6 had ordered that the toll...

Israel Afeare has publicly apologised to DJ Cuppy less than 24 hours after he was issued a letter demanding that he did so if he was to avert a law suit. Israel, who is an aide to Afro pop star, Davido,...

The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, has dragged President Mohammadu Buhari to the Federal High Court in Lagos  over his elongation of the tenure of the Inspector General of Police, Mr Mohammed Adamu. Named...

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the establishment of a Public Private Partnership-styled Infrastructure company named Infra-Co, with an initial seed capital of N1 trillion. The Senior Special Assistant...

The meeting between the Federal Government and the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities (NASU), has ended in a deadlock. It was the...

Not fewer than two persons reportedly lost their lives on Thursday in a clash between the Amotekun Corps and armed herdsmen in Ondo State. The incident occurred at the Government Forest Reserve at Ago...

Nigerians have been warned against participating in the planned protest at the Lekki Toll Gate, Lagos, on February 12,2021. The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed made this known in Abuja...

The first civilian governor of Lagos State, Alhaji Lateef Jakande, is dead. Announcing Lateef Jakande’s death on Twitter, the Lagos State governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu wrote via his official twitter...

Ukraine’s parliament on Friday approved a bill intended to speed up the approval of COVID-19 vaccines, which also bans the approval of vaccines made in Russia. The government has said it expects...