Parents of pupils of a government secondary school who were kidnapped on Friday by bandits in Nigeria’s northwestern Katsina State, hit the streets on Sunday, demanding the immediate recovery of

The UK and EU have agreed to carry on post-Brexit trade talks after a call between leaders earlier on Sunday. In a joint statement, Boris Johnson and European Commission President

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday said the federal government had located the bandits who attacked a Government Science Secondary School in Kankara, Katsina State, and allegedly kidnapped hundreds of

Anthony Joshua dominated and picked apart his mandatory heavyweight challenger Kubrat Pulev, scoring a ninth-round knockout to retain his WBA, WBO and IBF heavyweight titles at the SSE Arena, Wembley

Iran has executed a once-exiled journalist over his online work that helped inspire nationwide economic protests in 2017. Iranian state television and the state-run IRNA news agency said that Ruhollah

The US Food and Drug Administration said it authorized the use of Pfizer Inc’s COVID-19 vaccine on Friday, with the first inoculations expected within days, marking a turning point in

Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu will go into self-isolation immediately, after one of his close aides tested positive for Covid-19 on Thursday. Sanwo-Olu and other members of his team will

US President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris were jointly named Time magazine’s 2020 “Person of the Year” on Thursday, chosen from a list of finalists that included the

The Nigerian government has directed health workers to be on red alert and has asked Covid-19 treatment centres across the country to prepare for reopening. Due to a decline in

Facebook Inc could be forced to sell its prized assets WhatsApp and Instagram after the US Federal Trade Commission and nearly every US state filed lawsuits against the social media

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed his ‘disgust’ at the coverage of anti-police brutality protests in the country by foreign media, including the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and America’s Cable

Incumbent Ghanaian President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has won the tightly contested 2020 election for a second term. He polled 6,730,

During the emergency meeting of All Progressives Congress (APC) National Executive Committee (NEC) at the State House, Abuja, a prominent South-west governor put Speaker of the House of Representatives Femi

Talk of a chaotic British split from the European Union grew on Tuesday with just three weeks left to break a deadlock in trade deal negotiations, with UK Prime Minister

Nigeria’s federal government has said religious liberty in the country has never been in doubt and was surprised that the United States could designate the country as one of those

US President-elect Joe Biden has set a goal of 100 million Covid vaccinations in his first 100 days in office. He said his first months in office would not end

Nigeria’s Federal Government has caved in to demands by the organised labour by slashing the pump price of premium motor spirit by N5. By this reduction, the new price of