Japan’s Kyodo news agency and others reported on Thursday — citing unnamed sources — that Yoshiro Mori, President of the Tokyo Olympics, will step down on Friday as the president

Confrontation between China and the United States would be a disaster and the two sides should re-establish the means to avoid misjudgments, Chinese President Xi Jinping told his US counterpart

Senators at Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial have been shown new dramatic and graphic video of an attack by his supporters at the US Capitol. Using Trump’s own words and

Nigerian Afrobeat legend, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, could be set for a posthumous honour after he was nominated for the 2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. The maverick musician and

Twitter has posted record revenues for the last quarter of 2020, capping off what its chief executive said was “an extraordinary year” for the platform. The social messaging platform said

Nigeria President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday justified the extension of the Kano-Katsina-Jibiya rail line to Maradi in Niger Republic, saying the project, when completed, will boost trade between Nigeria and

Former First Lady Michelle Obama is launching a kid-centric cooking show on Netflix. Obama will be a star and an executive producer of “Waffles + Mochi,” which will be available

Japan’s Toyota Motor Corp on Wednesday reported a bigger-than-expected 54% jump in third-quarter profit and jacked up its full-year earnings forecast, boosted by a rebound in demand for cars as

In honour of his halftime Super Bowl show, Toronto mayor John Tory announced the city’s decision to enshrine Feb. 7 as an annual holiday called “The Weeknd Day.” During his

Travellers to the United Kingdom caught violating newly imposed quarantine restrictions could face a heavy fine of up to 10,000 British pounds ($13,800), and 10 years in prison, as the

International experts investigating the origins of Covid-19 have all but dismissed a theory that the virus came from a laboratory in China. Peter Ben Embarek, the head of the World

The pilot of Kobe Bryant’s helicopter flew into clouds last year in an apparent violation of federal standards, US safety investigators have said. Robert Sumwalt, chairman of the National Transportation

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says Nigeria needs to absorb the projected 54 million new entrants in the labour force by creating 5 million jobs annually for the next 10

Britain is looking at greater testing of all people who have arrived from abroad while they are self-isolating to defend against new variants of the virus that causes Covid-19, a

BUA Group, a member of the steering committee of Coalition Against COVID-19 (CACOVID), responded Monday evening to a statement issued by CACOVID earlier in the day, which disowned the press

Nigeria’s federal government has barred the private sector from administering Covid-19 vaccines, reserving the vaccination exclusively for the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency (NPHCDA) for safety reasons. Minister of Health,

The International Monetary Fund has stressed the need for Nigeria’s federal government to intensify revenue mobilisation in order to reduce fiscal sustainability risks. It also advised the federal government to

Thousands of Nigerians have taken to Twitter to express their determination to stage another protest over the ruling of the Lagos State Judicial Panel allowing the Lekki Concession Company to regain possession

Tesla, the electric car company run by the world’s richest person, Elon Musk, revealed on Monday that it had bought $1.5bn (£1.1bn) in bitcoin and said it may soon accept payment