Fifteen- year- old Coco Gauff stunned defending champion Naomi Osaka to reach the fourth round of a slam for the second time in her career. Gauff, who won just three games against Osaka when they met...

President Muhammadu Buhari has returned to Nigeria from the UK-Africa Investment Summit 2020 which held in London from the 17th of January. He was received at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport by...

The World Health Organization on Thursday decided not to declare the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak a global emergency, despite the spread of the dangerous respiratory infection from China to at least five...

Popular Lagos-based traditional medicine practitioner, Fatai Yusuf, popularly known as Oko Oloyun has been shot dead by gunmen on the Eruwa-Igboora Road in the Ibarapa area of Oyo State, police said on...

The Trump administration is imposing new visa rules aimed at restricting “birth tourism,” in which women travel to the United States to give birth so their children can have U.S. citizenship. The regulations...

Serena Williams tumbled out of the Australian Open in the third round on Friday, eliminated by an opponent who had previously been one of her least daunting. The eighth-seeded Williams, a seven-time Australian...

The Supreme Court has dismissed the case filed by Alhaji Sani Takori Gummi challenging the victory of Governor Bello Mohammed Matawalle and the Peoples Democratic Party in last year’s governorship...

Africa’s richest woman, Isabel dos Santos, has been accused of embezzlement and money laundering by prosecutors in Angola. Attorney General Helder Pitta Gros said the allegations related to her time...

According to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), 24 people in total have died from the latest outbreak of Lassa fever in the country. Fourteen persons initially died from the outbreak as...

Three American crew members died Thursday when a C-130 Hercules aerial water tanker crashed while battling wildfires in southeastern Australia, officials said. The cause of the crash was not immediately...

China locked down two cities at the centre of the deadly coronavirus outbreak on Thursday, banning planes and trains from leaving in a move aimed at containing the disease which has already spread to other...

The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), on Wednesday, broke his silence on the controversial Western Nigeria Security Network (WNSN) otherwise known as Amotekun which was recently...

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) complies with the provisions of the law and Federal Government policy and regulations to include every segment of the Nigerian society in its recruitment...

South Korea’s economy expanded at its slowest pace for a decade in 2019. The world’s 12th largest economy grew 2.0 percent in 2019, down from 2.7 percent the previous year and the worst performance...

The death toll from a new flu-like coronavirus in China rose to nine on Wednesday with 440 confirmed cases, Chinese health officials said as authorities stepped up efforts to control the outbreak . Authorities...

Greece’s parliament on Wednesday elected the first woman president in the country’s history. Ekaterini Sakellaropoulou, a 63-year-old senior judge with  expertise in environmental and constitutional...

The US Senate has approved a resolution along party lines outlining the rules that will govern the impeachment proceedings on President Donald Trump. The  Senate early on Wednesday voted 53-47 to adopt...

President Muhammadu Buhari has condemned the killing of the Chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria in Michika Local Government Area of Adamawa State, Rev. Lawan Andimi by Boko Haram insurgents. He...

The US media have reported that the Trump administration is planning to add seven countries namely Belarus, Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan, Myanmar, Nigeria, Sudan and Tanzania to its travel ban list. The reports...

The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mallam Mele Kyari, has decried the activities of pipeline vandals whose nefarious act torched parts of the corporation’s...