As a way of helping struggling economies deal with the fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic, the International Monetary Fund has approved the allocation of IMF Special Drawing Rights (SDRs), a

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has declared parts of southern Turkey ravaged by wildfires as “disaster areas”, with the death toll from the fires rising to six after two forest

Police in Beijing have detained Chinese-Canadian pop star Kris Wu on suspicion of rape. Wu’s detention on Saturday came after a 19-year-old student accused the singer of date-raping her when

For many years, the cultural spotlight in Africa has seemed to be stubbornly focused on the west or south of the continent rather than East Africa. And yet from Sudan

MTN Nigeria o Saturday declared revenue of N790.3 billion (about $1.9bn), representing an increase of 24.1 per cent in its unedited half year results for the period that ended on

Awoken by gunshots in the middle of the night, Fatima Amadou was shocked by what she saw among the attackers: children. Guns slung over their small frames, the children chanted

USA Gymnastics announced Sunday that the six-time Olympic medalist has opted not to compete on floor, where she won gold in Rio de Janeiro and placed second in qualifying last

Nigeria’s Inspector-General of Police Usman Alkali Baba has recommended the immediate suspension of DCP Abba Kyari, the Head of the Police Intelligence Response Team (IRT), from the Service of the

A former President of the Nigerian Senate, Bukola Saraki says he visited the country’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Saturday out of his own volition, to be quizzed

Everything continues to go wrong for team Nigeria at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics as Divine Oduduru was disqualified from the 100m men’s event for a false start on Saturday. Oduduru

Nigeria basketball player Chimezie Metu and head coach Michael Brown have blasted the West African country’s government and Olympic committee for lack of support of their athletes at the Olympic

Veteran Nollywood actress, Rachael Oniga, is dead. She was 64 years old. Nigerian media personality, Seun Oloketuyi via his Instagram platform, said the movie star who has featured in hundreds

The war against COVID-19 has changed because of the highly contagious Delta variant, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control said, proposing a clearer message, mandatory vaccines for health workers and

Simone Biles has withdrawn from the vault and uneven bar apparatus finals at the Tokyo Olympics on Saturday as the US gymnast continued to wrestle with mental health issues. Biles

Israel has accused Iran of being behind an attack on an oil tanker in which two crew members – a British national and a Romanian citizen – were killed. The

Nigeria’s federal government has denied reports that some lawmakers in the United States have blocked the planned sale of $875 million ammunitions to Nigeria due to poor human rights record.

Rattled by last Wednesday’s minority judgement of the Supreme Court on the Ondo State governorship election, which punched holes in the legality of the actions of its National Caretaker Committee’s

The wife of Haiti’s murdered president, seriously wounded in the very attack that killed her husband, listened in terror as the gunmen ransacked their home, she said in her first

An Afghan security guard was killed on Friday when a United Nations compound came under attack in Herat, officials said, as fighting raged between government forces and the Taliban on

After collecting N100 million ransom (about $200,000), abductors of the students of Bethel Baptist High School, Damishi, Kaduna, are said to have demanded for another N50 million ransom for the