President Faustin-Archange Touadera of the Central African Republic is on track to win the elections, his party said on Thursday despite the initial results of Sunday’s elections only just coming in. The announcement comes a

China has approved its first homegrown Covid-19 vaccine for general use, marking the addition of another vaccine in the global fight against the resurgent virus.  The two-dose vaccine from state-owned

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday signed the country’s 2021 Appropriation Bill of N13.588 trillion ($34.518bn) into law. The signing took place at the President’s office at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The National Assembly last Monday passed the budget

Hong Kong’s highest court has revoked media tycoon Jimmy Lai’s bail after prosecutors succeeded in asking the judges to send him back to detention. Lai had been granted bail on

The official NBS Manufacturing PMI for China edged down to 51.9 in December 2020 from a 38-month high of 52.1 in the previous month and below market consensus of 52.0.

Chelsea’s Premier  League game against Manchester City on Sunday looks set to go ahead after City confirmed they are to return to training after the outbreak of Covid-19 at the

The Premier League says it has no plans to suspend the season despite a rise in positive coronavirus tests. On Tuesday, the latest round of top-flight testing found 18 people

Asian shares edged up on Thursday and were set to end a tumultuous 2020 at record highs, while growing investor hopes for a global economic recovery caused the dollar to

France is to mobilise 100,000 police and gendarmes on New Year’s Eve to break up parties and enforce a curfew imposed to combat coronavirus. The extra security also aims at

An Ethiopian refugee who became a symbol of integration in Italy, her adopted home, has been killed on her farm where she raised goats for her cheese business, police said

The US Senate’s Republican leader has rejected calls from an unlikely alliance of President Donald Trump, congressional Democrats and some Republicans to boost coronavirus aid. Mitch McConnell said hiking aid

Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton has been knighted in the Queen’s New Year Honours list. The Briton, 35, sealed a seventh drivers’ title at the Turkish Grand Prix in

US trade officials said on Wednesday they were increasing tariffs on certain European Union products, including aircraft-related parts and wines from France and Germany, amid an ongoing civil aircraft dispute

The leading U.S. infectious disease specialist, Dr. Anthony Fauci, said on Wednesday he foresees America achieving enough collective Covid-19 immunity through vaccinations to regain “some semblance of normality” by autumn

A Chinese drugmaker says its coronavirus vaccine was found to be 79.3% effective at preventing infection, moving Beijing closer to possibly being able to fulfill its pledge to supply other

Wizkid‘s fourth studio album ‘Made In Lagos’ has been listed among British Vogue’s 12 best  albums of the year. The 14-track album, released on October 30, joined the likes of Beyonce’s ‘Black is

Brent crude prices held above $51 a barrel on Wednesday, after API data showed stocks of crude oil in the US declined by 4.8 million barrels in the week ended December

The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) has been named the best-performing stock market among the 93 equity indexes being tracked by Bloomberg across the world. The all-share index which opened at