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Nigeria has been named among the most dangerous places on earth for children according to a report by the Save the Children Report which said a total of 93,236 children had been killed or maimed in conflicts in the last 10 years. The report also named Syria, Somalia, Afghanistan, Yemen, DRC, Mali, CAR, Iraq, South […]

Team captain Lionel Messi says he is tired of being blamed for problems at FC Barcelona. The Argentine’s comments came after he was accused by Antoine Griezmann’s former agent of making life difficult for the French striker at the La Liga club. Eric Olhats had accused Messi of having too much control at the club, […]

The Federal Government on Thursday insisted that there was no massacre when soldiers dispersed #EndSARS protesters at the Lekki Tollgate, Lagos, on October 20, 2020. The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, said this at a press conference in Abuja. Mohammed attributed the reports of massacre to those he described as purveyors of fake […]

Prime Minister Boris Johnson says new cars and vans powered by petrol and diesel will not be sold in the UK from 2030. According to the BBC, Johnson said it is part of “a green industrial revolution” to tackle climate change and to create jobs. The 10-point plan is to accelerate the transition to electric […]

Donald Trump says he has fired a top election official who contradicted the US president’s claims of voter fraud. President Trump said he “terminated” Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (Cisa) chief Chris Krebs for his “highly inaccurate” remarks on vote integrity. Mr Trump has refused to concede the US election, making unsubstantiated claims of “massive” […]

The Siaka Stevens Stadium in Freetown, Sierra Leone, was a hostile playing surface to the Super Eagles of Nigeria on Tuesday as they were held to a second draw in four days. The point keeps them in the hunt for qualification for the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations Cup tournament to be held in Cameroon. Despite the […]

Peru’s Congress on Monday chose a 76-year-old former World Bank official as the South American country’s new president, the third in a week. Francisco Sagasti was elected as lawmakers met to try to find a way out of a political crisis, sparked by the impeachment of one popular president and the resignation of his controversial […]

President-elect Joe Biden warned that President Donald Trump’s unwillingness to accept the outcome of the 2020 election could hamper the incoming Biden administration’s ability to rapidly distribute a coronavirus vaccine. “More people may die if we don’t coordinate,” Biden told reporters Monday in Delaware, in a news conference after he met with labor and business leaders and delivered a […]

Peru’s President Manuel Merino resigned Sunday, just five days after taking office, sparking celebrations in the capital Lima following street protests against him and the ousting of his popular predecessor. “I want to let the whole country know that I’m resigning,” Merino said in a televised address, a day after a police crackdown on protesters […]

The United Arab Emirates said Sunday it will grant all doctors and infectious disease experts living in the country a 10-year visa, who are helping to combat the coronavirus pandemic. Foreigners in the UAE, like most Gulf countries, are generally only given limited residence visas tied to their current employment, and long-term residency is difficult […]

President Donald Trump appeared to edge closer towards acknowledging his election defeat in a tweet on Sunday morning, as he again railed against supposed mass fraud in the vote won by challenger Joe Biden. “He won because the Election was Rigged. NO VOTE WATCHERS OR OBSERVERS allowed, vote tabulated by a Radical Left privately owned […]

A fugitive Leonard Rayne Moses has been arrested in the US state of Michigan, by the FBI nearly half a century after he escaped from custody. In 1971, Moses fled while serving a life sentence for the first-degree murder of Mary Amplo during civil unrest that followed the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in […]

Respite has come the way of Lagos, as the state did not record any new case of COVID-19 on Saturday, with Oyo and FCT taking over the lead. Also, the nation posts fewer cases of the deadly virus on Saturday, with the Nigerian  Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, announcing 112 new cases for Nigeria. This […]

Nigeria’s currency, the Naira closed the week, falling to its weakest level in six weeks as Central Bank of Nigeria interventions failed to save it against battering by US Dollar. On Friday, the Naira exchanged for between N460 and N470 per dollar, at the parallel market, the lowest since September 29, ngnrates.com and abokifx.com, reported. Rates at the […]

Outgoing US President Donald Trump suffered a triple of legal setbacks on Friday, even as he continues to make his case that the election was ‘rigged’ and that he will prevail. The latest bad news for the president came in Michigan. There, a judge denied the Trump campaign’s request to stop the counting of ballots […]