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Tech company, Microsoft, has announced moves to drop social media service, Twitter, from its advertisement platform, Smart Campaigns. In a release shared via the company’s website, it was stated that the platform which enables ad buyers to manage their various social media accounts…

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy has again congratulated Nigeria’s president-elect Bola Tinubu and invited him on a state visit to the European nation. The Ukrainian president said this in a statement he personally signed, according to Tinubu’s media aide Tunde Rahman. “Please accept my sincere…

The US Supreme Court was poised Wednesday to wade into the divisive battle over the abortion drug mifepristone with a ruling on tough new court-ordered restrictions on the widely used pill. The nation’s highest court has until midnight Eastern Time (0400 GMT Thursday)…

The British parliament's Commissioner for Standards opened an investigation into Prime Minister Rishi Sunak earlier this month, according to a list of open inquiries posted on its website on Monday. The list said the matter under investigation was a "declaration of interest". The…

Nurses in Britain are prepared to strike until Christmas if they cannot reach a deal with the government on pay, the leader of the country’s main nursing union said on Sunday. Members of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) would strike at the…

According to a report published on Saturday by British daily newspaper, The Times UK, Chinese mining bosses are funding Nigerian militant groups in order to secure access to the country’s mineral reserves. Sparking speculation that Beijing could be indirectly funding terror in Africa’s…

Fighting in the Sudanese capital raged into the early hours of Sunday after a day of deadly battles between paramilitaries and the regular army that left at least 27 people dead and 170 wounded. Explosions and gunfire rang out on the deserted streets…

French President Emmanuel Macron signed his controversial pension reform into law Saturday, prompting accusations from unions and the left he was showing “contempt” towards those behind a three-month protest movement. The alterations became law after the text was published before dawn in France’s…

The US Supreme Court on Friday temporarily preserved access to a widely-used abortion pill, in an 11th-hour ruling preventing lower court restrictions on the drug from coming into force. The nation’s highest court issued an “administrative stay” freezing the rulings until Wednesday to…

The United States has charged three Nigerians with money laundering and a fraud scheme with more than $6 million in losses. The Nigerians – 29-year-old Kosi Goodness Simon-Ebo, James Junior Aliyu aged 28 and Henry Onyedikachi Echefu, aged 31 – are accused of…