INTERNATIONAL

Nigeria’s former President and Chair of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Council of the Wise (CoW), Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, has said the sub-region would not accept the five-year transition period proposed by the military government in Mali because it…

The United States announced financial sanctions Monday against rebel territories in eastern Ukraine freshly recognized by Russia and warned that more were ready if necessary. President Joe Biden will issue an executive order to “prohibit new investment, trade, and financing by US…

Mali’s lawmakers on Monday approved a plan allowing the military junta to rule for up to five years, AFP journalists said, despite regional sanctions imposed on the country over delayed elections. After staging a coup in the impoverished Sahel state in August 2020,…

A South African judge on Wednesday dismissed a bid by former president Jacob Zuma to appeal an earlier ruling rejecting his attempt to have the prosecutor in his arms deal corruption trial taken off the case for alleged bias. The judgment means…

Kenyan government in a latest affidavit filed in defence of the suit filed by leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu in the country has asserted that there was no immigration record of Kanu’s departure from Kenya after his last…

Prince Andrew has reached a legal settlement with a woman who alleges she was 17 when she was sexually abused by the British royal, according to a legal filing made public Tuesday. The move came more than a month after U.S. District Judge…

The French government on Friday (Feb 11) said it would scrap the requirement for a negative Covid-19 test for all vaccinated travellers arriving in the country. From Saturday “proof of vaccination will be sufficient to come to France whatever country you are…

Football governing body (FIFA) has cleared Leicester City’s Ademola Lookman to play for the Super Eagles, a move expected to booster the Nigerian team ahead of their 2022 World Cup playoff against rivals Ghana. “New Eagle Alert! Ka bo @molalookman,” the Super Eagles…

The Second Circuit, a United States Court of Appeal has revived Nigeria’s bid for discovery aimed at propping up bribery allegations relating to a nearly $10 billion arbitral award, ruling that a lower court wrongly found that the country seemed to be…

The UN’s top court on Wednesday ordered Uganda to pay the Democratic Republic of Congo $325 million over a brutal war two decades ago, just a fraction of what Kinshasa demanded. The ruling by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) comes as…