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    President Donald Trump’s state visit to the UK has delivered pledges to invest a combined £150 billion ($205 billion) in Britain over several years, mainly from US tech giants and financial groups. US President Donald Trump (L) gestures beside Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer (R) during a joint press conference following their meeting […]

    An assailant killed two men at the main border crossing between the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Jordan on Thursday, Israeli medics and the military said. Israeli emergency service Magen David Adom said security forces had “neutralised” the attacker, who was reportedly armed with a gun and a knife. The two men, about 20 […]

    Ghana will receive another 40 West Africans deported from the United States in the coming days, Foreign Minister Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa said, after the government revealed last week a deal had been struck with Washington. Deporting people to third countries instead of their home nations has been a hallmark of US President Donald […]

  A legal practitioner, Nazir Sunusi, has said that the Governor of Rivers State, Siminalayi Fubara, will not face any difficulty after returning to office, having allegedly pandered to the whim of his predecessor, Nyesom Wike. Nazir, who stated this on Channels Television’s Lunchtime Politics on Thursday, alleged that Fubara would not have any problem […]

Nigeria’s Super Eagles have slipped further in the latest FIFA Men’s World Rankings, falling to 45th globally and once again dropping out of Africa’s top five. The three-time African champions were ranked 43rd in April and 44th in July, but have now dropped another spot in the September update. This latest decline places Nigeria sixth […]

  Britain on Thursday returned the first migrant to France under a new “one-in, one-out” deal, both governments confirmed, as London bids to curb highly contentious cross-Channel small boat arrivals. The UK interior ministry said it removed the man, who had arrived aboard a small boat in August, on a commercial flight. The French government […]

  The Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA) and the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) have inaugurated a 10-member Joint-Technical Working Committee to strengthen consumer protection in the energy sector. This was revealed by the Authority in a statement on Wednesday. Executive Director, Distribution Systems, Storage and Retailing Infrastructure (DSSRI), Ogbugo […]

A Florida man was executed by lethal injection in the southern US state on Wednesday for the murders of his wife’s sister and her parents. David Pittman, 63, became the 12th person executed in Florida this year and the 31st in the United States. The execution was carried out at 6:12 pm (2212 GMT) at […]

  A total of ₦ 2,225 trillion August 2025 Federation Account Revenue has been shared to the Federal Government, States, and the Local Government Councils. A statement by the Director of Press and Public Relations, Office of the Accountant General of the Federation, Felix Mokwa, on Wednesday, noted that the revenue was shared at the […]

  Pope Leo XIV sought to reassure Catholics in his first interview, published Thursday that he would not change key doctrine on gay marriage and women deacons, after his predecessor’s divisive papacy. The US-born pontiff, elected four months ago, struck a different tone to outspoken Pope Francis, whose attempts to open the Church for the […]

India has issued a health alert after infections and deaths caused by a rare water-borne “brain-eating” amoeba doubled compared to last year in the southern state of Kerala. Numbers are still tiny but Altaf Ali, a doctor who is part of a government task force to arrest the spread, told AFP that officials were “conducting […]

  The curtain fell on the six-month emergency administration in Rivers State at midnight on Wednesday, September 17, as the outgoing administrator, retired Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas, performed his last official duty before formally bowing out of office. At a ceremony on Wednesday evening preceding his exit, Ibas supervised the swearing-in of Mrs Inyingi Brown […]