The British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, on Monday, declared a full COVID-19 lockdown in England, a country of nearly 56 million people. The lockdown will be...
There is public outrage in the city of Warsaw in Poland after a hospital prioritised giving COVID-19 vaccine shots to celebrities and politicians. Reports say the...
In what is seen as the biggest blow suffered by President Donald Trump in his bid to overturn the presidential election results in his favour, all...
Violent protests have broken out in the Chadian capital, N’Djamena, as residents trooped out on January 4, to register their displeasure over the total lockdown of...
The South African government has indicated that its first doses of Covid-19 vaccines would arrive the country in February. South Africa is the worst hit country...
The outgoing President of the United States of America, Donald Trump has ordered Georgia’s top election official to ‘find 11,780 votes’ and recalculate the state’s presidential...
The death toll arising from a deadly attack on two villages in Niger Republic by heavily armed militants which witnessed the killing of 49 people and...
Twelve Republican Senators in the United States have vowed to join forces with outgoing President Donald Trump to challenge the upcoming certification of the results of...
The presidential election in Niger Republic which was held on December 27, 2020, is heading for a second round run-off on February 20, as no candidate...
Health authorities in India have approved the use of two locally made COVID-19 vaccines to stem the outbreak of the second wave of the virus. This...
Tragedy struck in two villages in Niger Republic when heavily armed militants struck, killing no fewer than 49 people and injuring 17 other victims in the...
Ex Malian Prime Minister, Modibo Keïta, is dead. Keita died on Saturday in Morocco where he was receiving medical care. He was 78. The Communication Service...
Local and state prisons in the United States have started shutting down and transferring inmates following an increase in confirmed COVID-19 cases and fatalities. The decision,...
The outgoing President of the United States of America, Donald Trump has suffered another blow as the US Congress sanctioned a $740 billion defence bill which...
Authorities in Iran have condemned the United States of America over what it described as its “military adventurism” in the Gulf and the Sea of Oman,...
Afghan security forces on Thursday killed 18 Taliban fighters in an airstrike in the eastern province of Nangarhar. Nangarhar Governor, Ziaulhaq Amarkhil, told journalists on Friday...
The United Kingdom has finally left the European Union’s economic and political orbit four years after a divisive vote in an historic departure that has split...
Iran has accused a British firm and an airbase in Germany of having a hand in the assassination of Qassem Soleimani almost one year after the...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Thursday granted emergency approval to the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. The United Nations health agency said in a statement the development paved...
The most prolific serial killer in the history of the United States, Samuel Little, is dead. Little, 80, died at a Los Angeles-area hospital on Wednesday....
United States President-Elect, Joe Biden, Wednesday, named a Nigerian-American, Osaremen Okolo as his COVID-19 advisor. President-elect Joe Biden announced her name as one of those who...
China on Thursday approved its first coronavirus vaccine for the general public, developed by an affiliate of the state-backed Sinopharm. This announcement was made by the...
A 23-year-old woman from Shanghai who arrived from Britain on December 14, has become the first known case of a new coronavirus variant that was recently...
A post-Brexit trade deal thrashed out between Britain and the European Union, has been voted in favour by the United Kingdom’s Parliament. The agreement which now...
The main opposition candidate during Ghana’s 7 December election, John Mahama has filed a petition before the Supreme Court seeking to annul President Nana Akufo Addo’s...
Uganda’s main opposition presidential candidate, Robert Kyagulanyi, popularly known as Bobi Wine, has reported that he and his campaign team members were arrested in the country’s...
Health authorities in Germany have confirmed the death of no fewer than 1,129 COVID-19 related deaths in the last 24- hours, thus smashing a previous daily...
A newly elected U.S. congressman, Luke Letlow, due to be sworn into office on Sunday has died on Tuesday night shortly after testing positive for the...
The President-elect of the United States of America, Joe Biden has slammed the administration of incumbent US President, Donald Trump over the pace of the COVID-19...
A court in China has sentenced 10 Hong Kong activists who had been detained after fleeing the territory by boat to between seven months and three...
A court in Egypt on Tuesday sentenced at least 168 militants to life imprisonment over links with the Wilayat Sinai terror group. The group was accused...
Russia has announced that its coronavirus death toll was more than three times higher than it had previously reported, making it the country with the third-largest...
Cambodian Prime Minister, Samdech Sen, said on Tuesday that the kingdom’s first community outbreak of COVID-19 was over after no locally transmitted cases had been detected...
Health authorities in India have confirmed that the country has recorded six cases of the mutant COVID-19 virus variant which was originally identified in the Eastern...
South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa, has announced the country would re-impose the COVID-19 lockdown effective from Monday night. Ramaphosa, who disclosed this in a nationwide address...
Game of Thrones (GoT) game maker, Lin Qi, has died of “poisoning.” The Chinese tycoon, according to Shanghai police, died on Christmas Day. Qi, 39, was...
The Indian government on Monday inaugurated the country’s first-ever driverless train on Delhi Metro’s Magenta Line. Prime Minister Narendra Modi made the disclosure via video conferencing...
A court in China has sentenced a citizen journalist identified as Zhang Zhan, 37, to four years in prison for live streaming a report from Wuhan...
Health authorities in South Korea have confirmed that they have recorded the first case of the mutant COVID-19 virus variant which was originally identified in the...
The President of the United States, Donald Trump, has finally signed the controversial Covid-19 relief and spending package bill into law, thereby averting a partial government...
South Africa has become the first country in Africa to record one million Covid-19 cases which has forced President Cyril Ramaphosa to call an emergency meeting...
Niger Republic is set to hold its elections today, December 27, in the country’s first democratic transition of power between two democratically elected presidents. Former Minister...
The incoming President of the United States of America, Joe Biden has verbally attacked outgoing president, Donald Trump for refusing to sign the $892bn COVID-19 relief...
The Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said on Saturday the COVID-19 crisis would not be the last pandemic and attempts...
A United Kingdom-based think thank, Centre for Economic and Business Research (CEBR), said on Saturday China would overtake the United States to become the world’s largest...
A body builder in Kazakhstan, Yuri Tolochko, has been thrown into tears and heartbreak after his sex-doll wife, Margo, tragically broke on Friday, December 25, and...
Pope Francis on Friday urged the countries of the world to assist one another in the fight against coronavirus by making its vaccines available for all....
Mali’s main opposition leader, Soumaila Cisse is dead, family sources have revealed after he contracted the deadly COVID-19 disease which has claimed many lives globally. The...
Three Burundian peacekeepers have been killed in the Central African Republic (CAR), by unidentified “armed combatants” as rebels in the war torn country called off truce...
9Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said on Friday the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the continent has reached 2,597,090. The agency...
