Pope Francis began a historic meeting with Iraq’s top Shi’ite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani on Saturday, in a powerful appeal for coexistence in a land torn by sectarianism and

Nigeria has commenced the COVID-19 vaccination campaign after the most populous African country received almost 4 million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca through the COVAX mechanism. The campaign commenced in the nation’s capital, Abuja with

Executive Director of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) Faisal Shuaib has said President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo will receive the Covid-19 vaccine publicly on Saturday. Mr Shuaib stated

Security has been ramped up at the US Capitol in response to “a possible plot to breach” the building on Thursday, Capitol police say. The move was prompted by intelligence

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered security agents to shoot anyone illegally possessing sophisticated weapons such as AK-47, his spokesman, Mallam Garba Shehu, has said. Shehu told the BBC in

Myanmar security forces opened fire on protests against military rule on Wednesday killing nine people, witnesses and media reported, a day after neighbouring countries called for restraint and offered to

Texas will lift its mask requirement and allow businesses to reopen at full capacity next week, Governor Greg Abbott has announced. “It is now time to open Texas 100%,” the

A Paris court has found Nicolas Sarkozy, France’s former president, guilty of corruption and influence peddling, sentencing him to one year in prison and a two-year suspended sentence. The 66-year-old

Protesters marched in Myanmar on Monday in defiance of a crackdown by security forces that killed at least 18 people a day earlier, as calls grew for a more united

Ex-US President Donald Trump says he has no plans to launch a new political party, telling a conservative conference in Florida that it would split the Republican vote. In his

A transborder drug trafficker, 36-year-old Nkem Timothy, has been arrested in Sokoto by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, with suspected cocaine of about N1bn street value. Nkem

Police in Myanmar moved quickly to stamp out protests against military rule on Sunday, firing live and lobbing stun grenades and tear gas canisters at demonstrators in the main city

US regulators have formally approved the single-shot Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine, the third jab to be authorised in the country. The vaccine is set to be a cost-effective alternative

Armed bandits have released the twenty-seven schoolboys and fourteen others that were abducted from Government Science Secondary School Kagara, in Nigeria’s north central Niger State. A government official who confirmed

A US national intelligence report has found that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the murder of exiled journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018. The declassified report released by the

More than 300 schoolgirls have been abducted by suspected bandits from a Government Girls Secondary School in Mafara local government area of northwestern Zamfara state. The bandits invaded the school

Facebook on Thursday said it had banned the Myanmar military from using its Facebook and Instagram platforms with immediate effect, as weeks of mass demonstrations continue in the Southeast Asian

A flight carrying 600,000 doses of the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine produced by the Serum Institute of India landed in Ghana’s capital Accra, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations

Former President Trump has reportedly filed a statement appealing his ban from Facebook and Instagram to an independent oversight panel. The ex-president submitted a “user statement” to the oversight board