Chelsea have reported fresh positive Covid-19 cases ahead of Sunday’s clash with Manchester City – but Frank Lampard confirmed there have been no new ones involving players. Man City’s game

Manchester United moved level on points with Premier League leaders Liverpool after an entertaining and hard-fought victory over fellow high-flyers Aston Villa on New Year’s Day. Only goal difference separates

Pope Francis ushered in the New Year with a traditional Angelus blessing from the papal library, pushing through nerve pain that forced him to skip New Year’s ceremonies in St.

Ethiopian security forces killed more than 75 people and injured nearly 200 during deadly ethnic unrest in June and July following the killing of a popular singer, according to Ethiopia’s

Australia has amended its national anthem to remove reference to the country being “young and free” amid calls to recognise that its Indigenous people are the oldest continued civilization in

Israel says it has vaccinated 1 million people against Covid-19, more than a tenth of its population, as it rolls out one of the world’s earliest and most rapid inoculation

At least 25 people were killed in an attack on New Year’s Eve by rebels in Congo’s eastern Beni territory. Farmers had gone to the fields in the village of

Equities investors in the Nigerian capital market have every reason to cheer as the value of their investments, measured by the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) capitalisation, went up by N8

Rights group, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has given the Nigerian government 48 hours to unconditionally release Omoyele Sowore, the publisher of Sahara Reporters and other activists arrested during

Nigeria’s federal government, through the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), on Thursday announced that 161 successful companies had been shortlisted to advance to the next and final stage of the

Large crowds took to the streets at midnight on Friday in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, celebrating the arrival of 2021 after a year marred by a deadly pandemic

Nigeria’s military on Thursday tendered its report card in the last one year, in the efforts to keep Nigeria safe, saying it killed 4,000 terrorism suspects, including terror commanders of

Manchester United’s Edinson Cavani has been given a three-match ban and a £100,000 fine for a social media post containing a Spanish phrase that is offensive in some contexts. The

Italian football giants, AS Roma, have kicked off their youth  football academy operations in Abuja, Nigeria. UEFA licensed coaches, Portuguese Andre Joao Castro from Lisbon (Level 1 in Talent identification)

A group in northern Nigeria, the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has said ransoms being paid to kidnappers are converted to acquire sophisticated weapons and instruments of death by the kidnappers

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has promised to urgently tackle the country’s challenges head-on with a renewed determination and promising to fulfill the five demands of the #EndSARS protesters, a demand

The United Kingdom exits the European Union in a few hours, turning its back on a 48-year liaison with the European project for an uncertain future that will shape the

US President-elect Joe-Biden has appointed Nigerian – American Osaremen Okolo as a member of his Covid- 19 Response Team. Okolo, the daughter of Nigerian immigrants, will serve as Biden’s Covid-19