Worldwide deaths related to COVID-19 surpassed 5 million on Friday, according to a Reuters tally, with unvaccinated people particularly exposed to the virulent Delta strain. The variant has exposed the

  About 5.3 million passengers travelled through Nigerian airports in the first half of 2021 as against 4.9 million recorded in the first half of 2020. The figure which represented

A former deputy speaker in Malawi has shot himself dead inside parliament in the capital, Lilongwe, authorities said. Clement Chiwaya, who moved in a wheelchair, had gone to the building

UN reports alarming malnutrition among children, pregnant and lactating women in the conflict-hit region. The United Nations has warned of “unprecedented” malnutrition among pregnant and lactating women in Ethiopia’s embattled

Venezuela is set to debut a new currency that will feature six fewer zeros, a response to years of some world’s worst inflation. The highest denomination of the Venezuelan bolivar

International boxing champion Manny Pacquiao has formally filed his candidacy for president of the Philippines, as the country kicked off its election season with television celebrities, political scions and at

Brazil legend Pele has been released from hospital after undergoing surgery for a colon tumour. The 80-year-old had the operation at Albert Einstein Hospital in Sao Paulo on 4 September.

The UN has expressed its shock at the expulsion of seven of its senior officials by the Ethiopian government. Secretary-General António Guterres said it was engaging with the government “in

Australia will reopen its international border from November, giving long-awaited freedoms to vaccinated citizens and their relatives. Since March 2020, Australia has had some of the world’s strictest border rules

Japan fully came out of a coronavirus state of emergency for the first time in more than six months as the country starts to gradually ease virus measures to help

Scarlett Johansson and the Walt Disney Co. on Thursday settled her lawsuit over the streaming release of “Black Widow,” bringing a swift end to what had begun as the first

A source in Zurich, Switzerland, on Thursday clarified that the Director General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, did not at any time threaten to resign her

Apparently yielding to pressure and paying attention to the mood of the nation, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National zoning committee, on Thursday, made a u-turn on the zoning of

The Federal High Court, Abuja on Thursday okayed the take-off of the Central Bank of Nigeria Digital Currency (CBDC) also known as the eNaira. This emerged just as a civil

The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) lost over $240 billion last year,  following the collapse in demand and prices due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the cartel’s Annual Statistical Bulletin

With only hours to spare, President Joe Biden signed legislation to avoid a partial federal shutdown and keep the government funded through Dec. 3. Congress had passed the bill earlier

Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun on Thursday signed into law the bill to regulate Animal Grazing and Establishment of Cattle Ranching in Ogun State. Abiodun, who assented to the

The Minister of Water Resources, Mr. Suleiman Hussein Adamu has revealed that the activities of the insurgents in the north-eastern part of the country has stalled the African Development Bank