World News
New Danish Foresight Tool Predicts Coronavirus Will Displace Millions of Africans
A new Danish tool has predicted the displacement of over a million people in Africa, as Coronavirus cases increase in the...
BIOGRAPHY: The heroic life of Ambassador Walter Carrington
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (Senegal and Nigeria) Ambassador Walter Charles Carrington was born on July 24, 1930, in New York...
Walter Carrington, ex-US Ambassador to Nigeria, bids the world good bye at 91
A one-time United States Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr Walter Carrington, is dead. His wife, Arese, a Nigerian, announced on Wednesday: “It is with...
Syrian President Bashar Al Assad Appears to Have Low Blood Pressure Attack on Live TV
Syrian President Bashar Al Assad suffered low blood pressure for a few minutes while delivering a speech to parliament before resuming...
Joe Biden Names Kamala Harris as VP pick
Former U.S Vice President Joe Biden has chosen Sen. Kamala Harris of California to join him on the Democratic ticket, fulfilling his...
Oil Spill from grounded Ship Triggers Crisis In Mauritius
Anxious residents of Mauritius created makeshift oil spill barriers on Saturday as tonnes of fuel leaking from a grounded ship put many and...
Travellers to Germany from Nigeria and at-risk countries must take Covid-19 test or face €25,000 fine
Travellers to Germany from Nigeria and dozen other countries deemed high-risk, such as the United States of America, Egypt, Souith...
US unemployment falls to 10.2% in July, beating expectations
Unemployment in the US fell to 10.2 per cent in July, from 11.1 per cent in the previous month as payrolls rose...
New York’s Andrew Cuomo Elected Chair of U.S National Governors’ Association
New York’s Gov. Andrew Cuomo officially assumed leadership of the National Governors Association on Wednesday during a meeting held virtually because of the...
Egypt, Sudan pull out of Ethiopian Renaissance Dam talks
Egypt and Sudan have pulled out of talks with Ethiopia over a disputed Nile dam being built by Addis Ababa, with the...
Survivors say Lebanon explosion is ‘Hiroshima of the Middle East’
Beiruti residents have described the horror of seeing glass flying towards them as an explosion ripped through the city creating extensive damage...
Death toll passes 100 in Beirut explosion
The death toll following deadly explosions in Lebanon’s capital city rose to over 100 on Wednesday, according to reports from Beirut....
2 Nigerians in U.S Army in $3 million business scams, elderly women romance scandal
Two U.S Army reservists have been accused of coordinating a fraud scheme involving business email compromises and romance scams against elderly women,...
The Obamas’ $11.75 million Martha’s Vineyard Estate
U.S Former President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama have purchased a seven bedroom, nine-bathroom home in Edgartown, Massachusetts. The price for...
US dollar suffers its worst month in a decade
The euro gained the most in a decade last month, the British pound had its best July since 1990 and for the...
Covid-19 patient sentenced to 3 years in prison for deliberately coughing on doctors
A man was jailed for three years after he tried to infect doctors with coronavirus, Bahrain’s state news agency reported on...
