Six people have been arrested as part of a preliminary investigation into a suspected plan to attack French President Emmanuel Macron, an official close to the...
Turkey has not received written notification regarding any waiver on buying Iranian oil after the U.S. reimposes sanctions on Tehran but it has heard rumours on...
The two Koreas agreed at a meeting on Friday to send a letter to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) confirming that they want to co-host the...
South Sudan’s rebel leader Riek Machar (C) arrives to Juba international airport with his wife to attend a peace ceremony in Juba, South Sudan, on October...
Indonesia’s transport minister removed on Wednesday the technical director of the Lion Air airline and several of its technicians after the crash of one of its...
United Nations human rights experts called on Saudi Arabia on Monday to halt the imminent execution of six men sentenced to death for activities related to...
FORMER U.S. President Jimmy Carter waded into the heated governor’s race in his home state of Georgia on Monday, asking the Republican candidate to step down...
Republicans promised that the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act would lead to a boom in US business investment. A new survey from the National Association for...
Angela Merkel has announced she will quit as German chancellor when her mandate ends in 2021. Merkel’s decision may not be unconnected to series of political...
PRESIDENT Ali Bongo of Gabon has been taken into medical care after suffering a bout of exhaustion during a trip to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, four days...
FORMER President Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria has blamed West African leaders who form decision makers in Economic of West African States (ECOWAS) for the non-establishment and...
Former President Barack Obama questioned President Donald Trump’s calls for civility on Friday, pointing out that Trump has repeatedly unleashed rhetorical attacks on the media and...
Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded Microsoft together in 1975, cementing the pair as legends in the world of technology. Allen passed away Monday, and not...
Paul Allen, the billionaire co-founder of Microsoft, died Monday. He was an investor, entrepreneur and philanthropist who influenced many aspects of modern life — from technology...
US President Donald Trump has welcomed freed US pastor Andrew Brunson at the White House, hours after he arrived in Washington back home from Turkey following...
Mohammed Dewji, worth $1.5bn (£980m), and said to be Africa’s youngest billionaire has been kidnapped by masked gunmen in Tanzania’s main city Dar es Salaam….. Mohammed...
Africa needs to prepare and speak with one voice when it goes to COP 24 in Katowice, Poland, in December, Kenya’s Environment and Forestry Minister, Keriako...
Pope Francis has compared having an abortion to hiring a “contract killer”. “Interrupting a pregnancy is like eliminating someone,” Francis said in his address to worshippers...
President Paul Biya, the 85-year-old Cameroonian leader who will seek a seventh term on Sunday, has developed an effective system to stay in power despite long...
We won’t mark our daughter’s birthday because we’re Jehovah’s Witnesses —Serena Williams. Serena Williams’ daughter, Alexis Olympia, is turning one on Saturday, but it will be...
The Peoples Democratic Party has called on the British Prime Minister, Theresa May, to use her state visit to Nigeria to uncover the alleged dismal state...
• President fit and lively, says media organ Iyobosa Uwugiaren, Omololu Ogunmade and Adedayo Akinwale in Abuja The Presidency and the United States Embassy in Abuja...
Emmerson Mnangagwa was officially sworn in as president of Zimbabwe on Sunday after winning a bitterly contested election that marked the country’s first vote since Robert...
John McCain, a senior member of the United States Senate and former presidential candidate, has died. Mr McCain passed on Saturday night after years of battling...
I have been in the United States of America attending family events and attempting a vacation. Before I left Nigeria,I was really downcast with the turn...
President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort has been a key figure in the special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian election meddling and possible...
A group, on the platform of Migration Enlightenment Project Nigeria, MEPN, has raised the alarm that over 700 Nigerians died in the Mediterranean Sea while migrating...
President Muhammadu Buhari has mourned the death of former Secretary General of the United Nations (UN), Kofi Annan. In a telephone call to President Nana Akufo-Addo...
Gov. Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta on Saturday sympathised with the family of Kofi Annan, the United Nations, government and people of the Republic of Ghana on...
Nigeria’s former president, Goodluck Jonathan, on Saturday, August 18, described late Kofi Annan, a former secretary general of the United Nations (UN), as one who managed...
The former UN secretary-general, Kofi Annan is dead. Kofi Annan is said to have died at the age of 80 in the early hours of Saturday,...
