International

Two members of the public have died after a knifeman wearing a hoax suicide vest launched a terror attack on London Bridge. The suspect was shot dead by police after he stabbed “a number” of people in central […]

  By Kemi Yesufu The continued closure of Nigeria’s land boarders caused tempers to flare during the siting of Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Parliament on Wednesday.   Aggrieved members of the regional […]

Two Roman Catholic priests were each sentenced to more than 40 years in prison in Argentina for sexually abusing deaf children, a court in the western city of Mendoza ruled Monday. Argentine priest Horacio Corbacho […]

…….Mali, Burkina Faso records  302,000 IDPs By Kemi Yesufu The Republic of Niger has identified Nigeria as one of the countries that contributed to the spike in the number of refugees within its territory. The […]

The body of Islamic State group chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was disposed of at sea by the US military after he killed himself during the weekend raid on his Syrian hideout, Pentagon sources told AFP […]

Representative Elijah Cummings, of Baltimore, died early Thursday at the age of 68, his office said. Cummings passed away at Johns Hopkins Hospital at 2:45 a.m. from “complications concerning longstanding health challenges,” his office said. […]

Hailed as a visionary and reformer, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for his efforts to resolve the long-running conflict with neighbouring foe Eritrea. Abiy was honoured “for his […]

Jacques Chirac, a two-term French president who was the first leader to acknowledge France’s role in the Holocaust and defiantly opposed the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, died Thursday at age 86. His son-in-law Frederic […]

President Muhammadu Buhari, on Wednesday, reacted to the reported coup attempt in Ghana, saying that Nigeria was fully in support of its neighbour’s democratically-elected government. Buhari, in a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on […]

  Renowned philanthropists, Bill Gates, Mo Ibrahim and Aliko Dangote yesterday at the Africa Center, expressed concern over the effect of climate change and the stereotypes on Africa that have hindered business opportunities in the […]