Kubrat Pulev will fight champion Anthony Joshua in a world heavyweight title bout in London on December 12, the Bulgarian claimed yesterday. Sagamu-born British boxing champion Joshua was originally scheduled

Nigerian officials in positions of authority suffer from a hangover of its past experience with military rule, a key reason why uniformed personnel sometimes treat civilians with disdain. This was

Microsoft announced legal action Monday seeking to disrupt a major cybercrime digital network that uses more than one million zombie computers to loot bank accounts and spread ransomware, which experts

Facebook has announced it will remove all content on its platform that “denies or distorts the Holocaust.”  The company says this expansion of its hate speech policies is a response

Asian stocks are set to rise on Tuesday as a renewed tech rally and fresh optimism that Washington would deliver a coronavirus relief package helped lift global equity markets. Shares

The Los Angeles Lakers paid glowing tributes to Kobe Bryant after winning their first NBA title in a decade Sunday night. Five-time NBA champion Bryant was killed in a helicopter

Germany striker Timo Werner is fully fit for their UEFA Nations League game against Switzerland tonight but there are still doubts about Julian Draxler, Lukas Klostermann and Marcel Halstenberg, coach

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of MultiChoice Nigeria, Mr. John Ugbe, has said that Pay-As-You-Go (PAYG) billing model is not technically and commercially feasible in the pay television industry. Ugbe

One of Africa’s leading think tanks and civil society groups, the Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) has called on authorities in Nigeria to enforce stiffer measures against those involved

Emerging market sovereigns will suffer long-lasting revenue losses due to the coronavirus crisis, with governments’ ability to implement and enforce effective revenue-raising measures set to be a key credit driver

The Super Eagles are set for in Tuesday’s friendly against Tunisia at the Jacques Lemans Arena in the Austrian city of St. Veit an der Glan, following a fresh round

The United Kingdom and Kenya will co-host a high-level summit next year to lead global action to educate every child, Prime Minister Boris Johnson and President Uhuru Kenyatta announced Monday.

As the world commemorates this year’s edition of the Global Handwashing Day, Nigeria’s Minister of Water Resources Engr. Suleiman Adamu has said handwashing with soap cuts deaths from diarrhoea by

Nigeria is ready to explore every opportunity to ensure Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala becomes the Director-General of World Trade Organisation (WTO), according to the country’s president Muhammadu Buhari. President Buhari’s spokesman

Americans Paul R. Milgrom and Robert B. Wilson have won the Nobel Prize in economics for “improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats.” The winners were announced

Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-olu on Monday made an unscheduled appearance at the Lekki Toll where protesters gathered Monday to demand Police reforms. Sanwo-Olu’s attempt to appease the crowd and

The Chinese city of Qingdao is testing its entire population of nine million people for Covid-19 over a period of five days. The mass testing comes after the discovery of

British Airways says it will be replacing Chief Executive Officer Alex Cruz. This comes just weeks after fellow Spaniard Luis Gallego took over as head of parent company IAG SA.

Nigerians on Monday continued nationwide protests demanding an end to police brutality, a day after the Inspector General of Police Mohammed Adamu banned rogue unit Special Anti-robbery Squad (SARS). Protesters

The Los Angeles Lakers ended a decade-long wait for a 17th NBA title as they beat the Miami Heat 106-93 to seal a 4-2 series victory. The Finals’ most valuable