India said on Saturday it had seized $725 million from the local bank accounts of China’s Xiaomi Corp (1810.HK) after a probe found the smartphone maker had made illegal remittances

Russian forces pounded Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region on Saturday but failed to capture three target areas, Ukraine’s military said, while Moscow said Western sanctions on Russia and arms shipments to

The number of presidential aspirants on the platform of the APC jumped to 13 on Friday as the Governor of Ekiti State, Kayode Fayemi, sent out a notice that he

The Gulf of Guinea still remains at risk of piracy attacks and crew kidnappings, the International Maritime Bureau has raised the alarm. The International Maritime Bureau is a specialized department

Ukraine acknowledged on Friday it was taking heavy losses in Russia’s assault in the east, but said Russia’s losses were even worse, as U.S. President Joe Biden called on Congress

  Twitter has reached an agreement for billionaire Elon Musk to buy the social media platform in a $44bn (£34.6bn) deal. The announcement followed, what were reported to be, extensive

Shanghai authorities battling an outbreak of COVID-19 have erected fences outside residential buildings, sparking fresh public outcry over a lockdown that has forced much of the city’s 25 million people

Ahead of the 2023 general election, the leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has picked Lagos-based businessman, Mr. Tonye Cole, as its governorship candidate in Rivers State. Ten governorship

Nigeria’s First Lady Mrs. Aisha Buhari on Saturday night held Iftar dinner with presidential aspirants across political divide at the Old Banquet Hall of the State House, Abuja. The First

Justice Donatus Okorowo of the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court has ordered the former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara to vacate his seat as

Nigeria’s Vice President and Presidential aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Yemi Osinbajo, on Friday, in his first trip after declaration, took his campaign to Ibadan

Former President Goodluck Jonathan on  Friday in Abuja came under intense pressure from his supporters, urging him to contest for president in 2023 and he did not disappoint, telling them

A Russian general declared on Friday that Moscow wants to seize all of southern and eastern Ukraine, far wider war aims than it had acknowledged as it presses on with

The United Nations on Friday accused Russia of taking action in Ukraine “that may amount to war crimes”, including indiscriminate bombing that killed civilians and destroyed schools and hospitals. “Russian

Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk posted a tweet on Saturday saying “Love Me Tender”, days after he took aim at Twitter Inc with a $43 billion cash takeover offer. After Musk’s

The tensions of lockdown have exposed divisions among Shanghai residents, pitting young against old, locals against outsiders, and above all, COVID-negative against COVID-positive people. Shanghai’s 25 million people, most of

A series of “powerful” Russian strikes on military infrastructure in Lviv on Monday left several dead and ignited blazes in the west Ukraine city that has been spared fierce fighting.

Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah, on Sunday accused President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration of having, “divided our people on the basis of ethnicity, religion, and region, in

Former Nigeria vice president and presidential hopeful in the 2023 general election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, at the weekend, said what Nigeria needed after seven years of ineptitude of the President

Political economist and Founder/CEO of Centre for Values in Leadership (CVL) Prof. Pat Utomi has described the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and People’s Democratic Party (PDP) as election machines