The US embassy says it will reopen its Abuja’s consular section on August 24 for full services for both visas and American Citizen Services (ACS). The embassy said this in a message on its website. The embassy had on August 15 temporarily suspended its consular services in Abuja due to reasons it said were beyond […]
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No fewer than 17 million Africans left the continent in 2017 in search of greener pastures, a new report by the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has said. The ‘Economic Development in Africa’ report also said 5.5 million people moved to Africa from other continents while some 19 million international migrants moved within […]
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US President Donald Trump greeted three Americans released by North Korea at an air base near Washington early Thursday, underscoring a much needed diplomatic win and a stepping stone to a historic summit with Kim Jong Un. Trump and first lady Melania made the short helicopter ride from the White House to Joint Base Andrews […]
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Chinese telecom giant ZTE has asked the US government to lift a ban on sales to the company, which threatens its survival and has added to trade tensions between Washington and Beijing. The telecom equipment and handset maker said in a filing Sunday that it had submitted a request to the commerce department for a […]
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It has been revealed that London has become notorious as far as murder cases are concerned and it’s becoming more like New York City. The city of Big Ben and the tube overtook New York in murders for the first time in modern history as the British capital dealt with a surge in knife attacks. […]
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US President Donald Trump’s administration on Thursday announced sanctions against Russians accused of trying to influence the 2016 election and of involvement in other separate cyber attacks. The announcement follows a lengthy delay that had caused anger on Capitol Hill and raised questions about Trump’s willingness to confront Moscow. The measures target five entities and […]
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Following the outrage of the international community over the comment of U.S. President, Donald Trump, wherein he called countries in Latin America and Africa Shithole countries, the president on Tuesday made a u-turn by saying he wants immigrants from around the world. “I want them to come in from everywhere,” he told reporters at the […]
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Less than a year after he tore his green card following the emergence of President Donald Trump, Wole Soyinka is going back to America. He is scheduled to deliver the Richard D. Cohen Lectures at Harvard University Centre for African Studies from November 14 to November 16. “I’ll go in as an alien, an alien […]
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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said eight persons were killed on Tuesday when a terror suspect plowed into cyclists and pedestrians in Lower Manhattan, and rammed another vehicle on Halloween. The man left the vehicle holding up fake guns, before being shot by police and taken into custody, officers said. The motive was […]
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Hurricane Nate has made its second landfall outside Biloxi in the U.S. state of Mississippi, the National Weather Service has confirmed. The storm moved ashore at 12:30 a.m. (0530 GMT) as a Category 1 hurricane with maximum winds of 140 kilometres per hour, the agency’s Jackson, Mississippi office said. The storm is currently moving north […]
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