Tesla (TSLA.O) CEO Elon Musk’s net worth crossed $400 billion on Thursday, the Forbes real-time billionaires list showed, boosted by a nearly 71% surge in the automaker’s shares this year…
Since seizing power in a July 2023 coup, the military government has banned several Western media outlets. NIAMEY – The ban on the BBC – accused of airing “erroneous information…
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has strongly denounced “recent and extensive violations of Syria’s sovereignty and territorial integrity,” and urged Israel to end attacks. “The secretary-general is particularly concerned over the…
Morakinyo Akinosun LONDON/LAGOS – The United Kingdom’s Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch has said she stands by her remarks about Nigeria, following criticism from Vice President Kashim Shettima, who accused…
Matthew Onocheta ABUJA – The Nigerian Senate has summoned the Managing Director of Julius Berger Nigeria PLC, Peer Lubasch, over the company’s refusal to honour invitations to provide details on…
Olayomi Koiki Abuja – The managing director of a Nigerian pharm company, Divine Kings Pharmaceutical Limited – has been arrested in connection with the suspended Deekins Amoxycillin 500mg capsule, which…
Agency Report A 20-year-old Brit has died in a horror fall while climbing in Spain on a path known as ‘The Monkey Bridge’. The man was doing a dangerous hike…
An investigation into alleged rape and sexual assault in Stockholm which Swedish media said targeted Real Madrid forward Kylian Mbappe has been closed due to insufficient evidence, the Swedish prosecutor…
WASHINGTON – Outgoing President Joe Biden said Thursday he had commuted the sentences of nearly 1,500 criminals and pardoned 39 others convicted of non-violent crimes, in what the White House…
CALIFORNIA – Aided by favorable winds and weather, firefighters on Wednesday progressed in containing a wildfire in the beach community of Malibu, California, where 6,300 people evacuated their homes as…
