Namibia’s President Hage Geingob has been re-elected for a second term, the country’s electoral commission says. Mr Geingob polled 56.3% in Wednesday’s election, well ahead of his nearest rival Panduleni Itula with 29.4%. However, Mr […]
The White House is on a lockdown after a plane entered restricted space on Tuesday, the CNN has reported. Fighter jets were mobilised immediately, and they scrambled over the unauthorised aircraft. The North Lawn of […]
Former mayor of New York City Michael Bloomberg launched a video ad Sunday to formally announce his campaign for president in the 2020 U.S. election. The minute-long campaign ad portrayed the 77-year-old media mogul as […]
Mexico said Monday it has granted asylum to Bolivia’s recently resigned president Evo Morales, after the leftist leader’s departure left the South American nation reeling amid a power vacuum. “Several minutes ago I received a […]
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says his forces have captured ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s wife, sister and brother-in-law in Syria. ‘The United States said Baghdadi killed himself in a tunnel. They started a communication campaign about this,’ […]
President Muhammadu Buhari and Russian President, Vladimir Putin, Wednesday in Sochi, Russia, agreed to put Nigeria-Russia relations on a fast track, and pursue the completion of partially completed and abandoned projects initiated by both countries. […]
An explosion rocked a mosque in eastern Afghanistan as dozens of people gathered to offer Friday players, causing the roof to collapse and killing 62 worshipers, provincial officials said. Attahullah Khogyani, spokesman for the governor of Nangarhar, […]
Conservative political outsider Kais Saied has won Tunisia’s presidential election by a landslide taking 72.71 per cent of the votes, the North African country’s electoral commission said on Monday. Saied garnered 2.7 million votes against […]
Five persons were critically injured after being shot in a Chicago neighbourhood on Saturday evening, according to Chicago Fire Department officials. CFD officials said the victims were shot in the 6700 block of West Irving […]
Indian High Commission has so far trained 529 Nigerians in Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation (ITEC) in the past three years. Mr. Abhay Thakur, High Commissioner of India, disclosed this at the 55 years Anniversary […]
It’s a bitter issue that has divided families, Britain’s prime minister included. But Boris Johnson on Wednesday revealed that while he may have fallen out with his brother and sister over Brexit, at least his […]
Three people were killed and a fourth was injured when a combat helicopter used by United Nations peacekeepers in the Central African Republic crashed on landing, the UN force said on Friday. “It is with […]
The United Kingdom Commercial and Arbitration Court on Thursday ordered a stay of execution of the $9.6 billion damages awarded against Nigeria by Process and Industrial Developments (P&ID) pending the determination of an appeal by […]
The Trump administration on Wednesday bowed down to threats of impeachment by the House of Representatives and released a five-page transcript of Trump’s July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. The transcript has […]
President Muhammadu Buhari has declared that Nigeria is sending a notice to criminal groups by its vigorous prosecution of the “P&ID scam attempting to cheat Nigeria”. Speaking at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on […]
Fifty-five members of the Knesset parliament on Monday called on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the head of Likud party, to form the next government, compared to fifty-four votes for the opposition Blue and White […]
A collapsed classroom killed seven children and injured a further 57 in Kenya’s capital Nairobi early on Monday morning, a government spokesman said. “There have been 57 students that have been taken to hospital for […]
Former Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe died from cancer after chemotherapy treatment was stopped because it was no longer effective, a state-owned newspaper quoted President Emmerson Mnangagwa as saying, the first time the government has given […]
President Muhammadu Buhari has departed Abuja and is on his way to New York, United states capital. where he will be attending the 74th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). The president who departed on Sunday […]
A former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, has disassociated himself from a purported petition written against Justice John Tsoho, acting Chief Judge of the Federal High Court. He said he did not authorise anyone […]
Iran’s Foreign Ministry has denied any involvement in the attacks on Saudi oil facilities in an official letter to the U.S. “Iran has nothing to do with the attack,” states the letter, which was delivered […]
The House of Representatives, has commended efforts of Chairman of Air Peace, Mr. Onyema Allen, over his humanitarian intervention, following the renewed xenophobic attacks in South Africa. The House in a resolution on Tuesday […]
The evacuation of the second batch of Nigerians from South Africa owing to ongoing xenophobic attacks, suffered an interruption on Tuesday following the delay in granting landing permit to Air Peace. The airline has volunteered […]
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson failed to convince EU leaders on Monday he has a serious plan for a Brexit deal, then ducked out of a planned news conference under a chorus of abuse from […]
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