• U.S insists on Korean's Yoo Nigeria’s Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has the best chance of emerging Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) via consensus, the body has stated. In a tweet after the head of delegates meeting on Wednesday in Geneva, the WTO said the result of the consultations is being...... more
Samsung Electronics Co. said in a statement that its chairman, Lee Kun-hee, died Sunday. He was 78. No cause of death was given by the company, but Lee had been incapacitated since suffering a heart attack in 2014, according to The New York Times. “All of us at Samsung will cherish...... more
Photo: Protestors shout slogans as they raise their fists during a protest action against police brutality in Nigeria, in New Cavendish Street in central London on October 24, 2020. (Photo by Daniel LEAL-OLIVAS / AFP)Around 500 demonstrators took to the streets of London on Saturday in support of youth #EndSARS protests in...... more
• The rocket came after a weeks-long lull and caused only material damage to an area in southern Gaza An Israeli aircraft struck what the army said was a Hamas military target in the southern Gaza Strip late on Monday, shortly after Gaza militants fired a rocket into Israel. The rocket...... more
Democratic presidential challenger Joe Biden on Friday urged Americans to take the coronavirus seriously, urging everyone to wear face mask in public after Donald Trump’s positive diagnosis. Biden, who shared the debate stage with Trump on Tuesday, tested negative for Covid-19 on Friday. “This is not a matter of politics. It’s...... more
President Donald Trump has been taken to Walter Reed Army Medical Centre after showing some symptoms of the novel coronavirus disease. Trump and his wife, Melania, tested positive to COVID-19 on Thursday night after a White House aide — close to the president –also contracted the virus. “President Trump remains in...... more
U.S President Donald Trump said on Thursday he and his wife Melania had tested positive for COVID-19 and were in quarantine, after Hope Hicks, one of his closest advisers, tested positive for the disease. In a Tweet, Trump said he and Melania would “get through this together”. Hicks travels regularly with...... more
Former Malian foreign minister Moctar Ouane has been named prime minister by the country’s interim president Bah Ndaw, state television announced Sunday. Ouane, 64, served as foreign minister between 2004 and 2011 during Amadou Toumani Toure’s presidency. The members of the new PM’s government will be unveiled Tuesday, an officer from...... more
A woman from Slovenia who deliberately sawed off her own hand in hopes of claiming £925,000 insurance payout has been sentenced to two years in prison. Julija Adlesic, 22, plotted with her boyfriend to have her left hand severed above the wrist at their home in the capital Ljubljana early last...... more
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Four Nigerians in Muntinlupa City, Philippine have been arrested for alleged involvement in an international syndicate that hacks and siphons funds from banks. However, the Nigerians denied the allegations. The National Bureau of Investigation made this known in a statement on Tuesday, ABS CBN News reports . The statement was signed...... more
The head of Mali’s new junta on Thursday visited the man he ousted, Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, at a hospital where the former president is being treated for a ‘a stroke-like attack’, family and medical sources said. “A delegation from the ruling military, led by Colonel Assimi Goita, visited (the) former president...... more
At least 17 people died on Saturday when a restaurant in northern China collapsed, state media said, with rescuers pulling dozens of survivors from the rubble and searching for others believed to be trapped. The two-storey building used for banquets came down in the morning in Xiangfen county, in Shanxi province,...... more
Authority of Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States’ (ECOWAS) has told the new military junta in Mali it has just one year to return the country back to civilian rule. This was one of the decisions arrived by the ECOWAS authority at the end...... more
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Four Malian soldiers were killed and one seriously injured on Saturday when an explosive device detonated as their vehicle drove by in the centre of the country, a military source told AFP. The explosion in the Koro region, near Mali’s border with Burkina Faso, comes just days after a military putsch...... more
Following the military coup in Mali, the Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States will today (Thursday) hold an extraordinary summit on the situation in the country. This is coming as the ECOWAS suspended Mali and directed member countries to close their borders against the...... more
President of Mali, Ibrahim Boubacar Keita announced his resignation on live television in the early hours of Wednesday morning following a military coup. “I’ve decided to leave my post,” he said, clad in traditional clothing and a medical mask to protect against the coronavirus. The president and Prime Minister Boubou Cisse...... more
Malian soldiers have arrested the country’s president, Ibrahim Boubacar and Prime Minister Boubou Cisse. Soldiers had earlier on Tuesday rounded up senior government and military officers in Kati town and elsewhere. Reports said there were scenes of thousands of citizens cheering the ouster. Crowds are jubilating at Independence Square in Bamako,...... more
Donald Trump’s younger brother Robert died on Saturday after being hospitalized for an undisclosed illness, the US president said in a statement mourning his loss. “It is with heavy heart I share that my wonderful brother, Robert, peacefully passed away tonight,” Trump said in a White House statement. “He was not...... more
A former United States ambassador to Nigeria, Walter Carrington, is dead. His wife, Arese Carrington, announced the death in an email to some media houses on Wednesday, titled, “Press Release – Ambassador Walter C. Carrington, former U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria and Senegal.” She wrote: “It is with a heavy and broken...... more
U.S. President Donald Trump was abruptly escorted from the White House briefing room on Monday shortly after a shooting outside the fence surrounding the complex. Trump returned to the media room after several minutes and said a person had been shot by law enforcement and taken to the hospital. He said...... more
Lebanon’s prime minister Hassan Diab announced his government’s resignation on Monday, saying a huge explosion that devastated Beirut and triggered public outrage was the result of endemic corruption. The Aug. 4 detonation at a port warehouse of what authorities said was more than 2,000 tonnes of ammonium nitrate killed at least...... more
A man and a woman have been found dead inside a car this morning at an idyllic country park. The casualties were discovered in an unresponsive state by passers-by at Durlston Country Park, near Swanage in Dorset. The emergency services rushed to the coastal location but the pair were pronounced dead...... more
At least 29 people are dead and 50 injured after ISIS attacked a prison in Afghanistan, sparking a two-day battle that saw 300 inmates including jihadis freed. The attack began Sunday when an ISIS militant drove a van filled with explosives up to the prison gates and detonated it, before gunmen opened fire. Attackers...... more
British Airways is to retire its fleet of Boeing 747 with immediate effect due to the effects of the COVID-19 crisis. The airline has used the craft since July 1989 and is currently the world’s biggest operator of the 747-400 model. It was planning to retire the fleet of 31 craft...... more
The personal assistant to Fahim Saleh, founder of the Nigerian ride-sharing app Gokada, was arrested on Friday in the grisly murder of the 33-year-old tech entrepreneur in his Manhattan apartment, New York news media reported. Saleh’s body was found dismembered and decapitated in his luxury condo on Tuesday, New York police...... more
Dubai-based flamboyant Nigerian Ray Hushpuppi has been reportedly arrested in Dubai by International Police (Interpol) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) over alleged fraud. According to unconfirmed reports, the Social Media celebrity was allegedly arrested alongside his colleagues Mr Woodbery on the grounds of being fraud suspects. They were allegedly involved...... more
Three police officers have been arrested in the Mexican state of Jalisco over the death of a man taken into custody for allegedly breaking coronavirus restrictions, authorities said Friday. Among those placed under arrest over the death of 30-year-old Giovanni Lopez last month is a municipal police chief in Guadalajara and...... more
PHOTO: Protesters disperse as they clash with police during a demonstration over the killing of George Floyd by a policeman outside the Third Police Precinct on May 27, 2020 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. - Demonstrators gathered on May 27 for a second night of protests over the killing in the US city...... more
A gang of monkeys attacked a laboratory assistant and escaped with a batch of coronavirus blood test samples, it has been reported. The bizarre incident saw the troop of primates launch their assault near Meerut Medical College in Delhi, India. According to local media, the animals then snatched COVID-19 blood test...... more
A Pastor, Frankline Ndifor, 39, who laid his hands on dozens of confirmed and suspected coronavirus sufferers is dead, according to Dailymail.co.uk Dr Gaelle Nnanga, who was called to treat Ndifor after he started suffering severe respiratory difficulties a week after falling ill with the virus, said the pastor died ten minutes...... more
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