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The United States government believes now is the time for major geopolitical players across the world to start treating Africa as one of them. U.S. Secretary of State, Mr Antony Blinken, stated this on Friday while addressing members of the Economic…

President Muhammadu Buhari has received the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken at the State House in Abuja.  Blinken arrived at the presidential complex in a motorcade on Thursday and is expected to have a meeting with Buhari in his office. The N…

Pfizer, BioNTech and Moderna are making combined profits of $65,000 every minute from their highly successful Covid-19 vaccines while the world’s poorest countries remain largely unvaccinated, according to a new analysis. The companies have sold the…

Alec Baldwin has called for film and TV production companies to hire police officers to 'monitor weapons safety' onset after he accidentally shot dead his cinematographer.   Posting on Instagram, Baldwin shared a short statement, which reads…

The World Bank says Nigeria has so far borrowed $3.121 billion (?1,126.68 trillion at USD/?361), from China as at March 2020, an amount which  represents only 3.94 per cent of Nigeria’s total public debt of $79.21 billion as of September 2021.   Sim…

Houstonians gathered on Sunday at Cuney Homes in the Third Ward to pray for the family of George Floyd. During the prayer, the white people in attendance knelt down and asked for forgiveness from the blacks for years of racism. The powerful mom…

Former football star George Weah on Wednesday won the elections in Liberia to become that country’s 25th president. The senator of Montserrado County – once named Fifa World Player and winner of the much-coveted Ballon d'Or – defeated his 73-…

STATEMENT DELIVERED BY HIS EXCELLENCY MUHAMMADU BUHARI, PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA AT THE GENERAL DEBATE OF THE 72ND SESSION OF UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY, IN NEW YORK, ON TUESDAY, 19 SEPTEMBER 2017. Mr. President, Fellow …

President Muhammadu Buhari will depart Abuja on Sunday for New York, to join other world leaders at the 72nd Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA 72). The high point of the President’s visit will be his participation in the Genera…

No fewer than 20 people are injured in Tube terror attack as home-made bucket bomb sends 'fireball flying down train carriage' amid reports of 'second device' and the attacker is on the run. An explosion on a Tube train at the hei…

Kenya’s Supreme Court on Friday declared the results of last month’s presidential poll “invalid, null and void” and ordered the election be re-run within 60 days. “The presidential election held on August 8 was not conducted in accordance with th…

In a retaliatory move, the US government has given Russia 48 hours to close three of its missions in San Francisco, Washington D.C. and New York. The spokesperson of the U.S. Department of State, Heather Nauert, said in a statement on Thursday th…

Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Texas on Friday and ravaged the southeast coast before moving back off shore where it has thundered on for days. It returned to land on Wednesday. 30,000 people in shelters across the state with another 10,000 ex…

The continued stay of a six-year-old Nigerian boy, Monisola Muiz Bakre, in the United Kingdom (UK) has become a source of dispute between his parents and the British government. The boy’s father, Mr Ayokuleyin Bakre, is accusing the UK government…