Former European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi has been sworn in as Italy’s new prime minister. It comes a day after he accepted the Italian president’s bid to form a

Senators are poised to vote on whether Donald Trump will be held accountable for inciting the horrific attack at the Capitol after a speedy trial that laid bare the violence

Donald Trump’s defence lawyers are set to present evidence in the US Senate, denying charges he incited insurrection in the Capitol riots of 6 January. The team has indicated it

US President Joe Biden has rescinded the national emergency order used to fund Donald Trump’s border wall. In a letter to Congress on Thursday, Biden wrote that the order was

Dire harm from Donald Trump’s false and violent incitements will affect American democracy long into the future unless the Senate convicts him of impeachment and bars him from future office,

US President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping held their first phone call as leaders and appeared at odds on most issues, even as Xi warned that confrontation

The pan-Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere, and its Niger Delta counterpart, Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), have expressed their support for the position of the Northern Governors’ Forum (NGF) that open

Dozens of former Republican officials, who view the party as unwilling to stand up to former President Donald Trump and his attempts to undermine US democracy, are in talks to

Confrontation between China and the United States would be a disaster and the two sides should re-establish the means to avoid misjudgments, Chinese President Xi Jinping told his US counterpart

Senators at Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial have been shown new dramatic and graphic video of an attack by his supporters at the US Capitol. Using Trump’s own words and

Nigeria’s Federal Government on Wednesday refuted allegations levelled in an online publication against one of the ambassador-designates. The ambassador-designate, Mrs. Ingekim Regina Ocheni was accused of corruption, human trafficking, forgery,

Nigerian Senators have commenced legislative activities for the year by asking the country’s President, Muhammadu Buhari to direct the National Security Adviser, the Inspector-General of Police and the newly nominated service chiefs “to devise

A former National Chairman of the governing All Progressives Congress (APC) Adams Oshiomhole has described the party’s ongoing membership revalidation exercise as strange and one that is against the constitution

President Muhammadu Buhari has called for a comprehensive overhaul of the African Union (AU) for it to be more functional in meeting set targets and relevance, warning that failure to

The National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons (NCFRMI) has met officials of Cameroon and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) over the repatriation of 4,982

The Senate early Friday approved a measure that would let Democrats muscle President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief plan through the chamber without Republican support. Vice President Kamala Harris

US House Democrats on Thursday asked former President Donald Trump to testify under oath for his Senate impeachment trial, challenging him to respond to their charge that he incited a

Nigeria’s main opposition party, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has condemned President Buhari’s nomination of the immediate past service chiefs for an ambassadorial appointment, describing the move as a decoy