Police officers in the Nigerian southwestern city of Ogbomosho shot at protesters, killing one and injuring another during a nationwide protest that has rocked Nigeria, with citizens calling for the

The second presidential debate between US President Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger Joe Biden has been cancelled. The announcement by the Commission on Presidential Debates came as the president

A number of European nations have registered record jumps in new coronavirus daily cases as the continent grapples with a second wave of Covid-19.  Nnmmmm Many governments have started closing

A previously unknown painting by Ben Enwonwu, Nigeria’s most celebrated 20th Century artist, is up for auction. ‘The Court of the Oba of Benin’, thought to have been painted in

August GDP data just released in the UK by the Office for National Statistics, came in at a disappointing 2.1% missing analysts estimate of 4.6%. After over 20% contraction of

Germany on Thursday donated medical equipment to Peru worth $1.17m to help improve medical care in remote parts of the Amazon in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. The donation

The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has dismissed reports of four positive Covid-19 tests in Super Eagles camp ahead of tonight’s international friendly with African champions Algeria. Media Officer of the

A criminal complaint unsealed Thursday in a US federal court has shown that six men plotted to try to kidnap Michigan Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer at her vacation home. According

US vice-presidential nominees clashed over coronavirus, taxes, race, ‘court-packing’. Although it didn’t have the tension of last week’s debate between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden, there

Nigeria’s Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and South Korea’s Yoo Myung-hee have been selected to advance to the final round in the race to lead the World Trade Organisation. Okonjo-Iweala and Yoo’s candidacies

Netflix is facing a criminal charge in Texas over the allegedly “lewd” depiction of children in a film on its platform. The film, called ‘Cuties’, follows an 11-year-old Senegalese girl

President Donald Trump has had no Covid-19 symptoms for more than 24 hours and has been fever-free for more than four days, his doctor Sean Conley has said. Conley also

Leaving Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula on Wednesday, Hurricane Delta is expected to strengthen back into a major storm as it makes its way toward the same area of the US Gulf

A live TV debate between the candidates for vice-president ahead of next month’s US election has seen fierce clashes over the coronavirus pandemic. Democrat Kamala Harris accused Donald Trump of

Two scientists have won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing a method for editing DNA with precision. Frenchwoman Emmanuelle Charpentier and American Jennifer A. Doudna discovered one of gene technology’s

Sri Lankan Authorities on Wednesday widened a curfew and warned of legal action against those evading treatment for COVID-19 after reporting a growing cluster centered around a garment factory in

Siemens delivered 3,000 personal masks to Sudan’s Ministry of Health last month to assist in the battle against Covid-19, the company’s latest humanitarian investment initiative aimed at improving living standards

US Vice President Mike Pence and his Democratic challenger, California Senator Kamala Harris, are poised to meet later on Wednesday for a debate that will offer different visions for a

A court in Kenya has found two men guilty of helping Islamist militants attack a shopping mall in 2013. Militants burst into the luxury Westgate shopping centre in Kenya’s capital,

Nigeria again won another international legal battle as the US-based International Centre for Settlement of Investment Dispute has ordered Inter Ocean Oil Company to pay the federal government $660,129.87 as