Category: Foreign
COVID-19 crisis: U.S. cuts crude import from Nigeria by 60%
International buyers continue to balk at the country’s dominant exports, crude as the United States slashed the importation of Nigerian crude oil by 60.37 per...
Head of South Korean church begs nation
After the Seoul City government filed a legal complaint to prosecutors against 12 leaders of the Shincheonji Church of Jesus accusing them of homicide, causing...
COVID-19 deaths: Italy tops chart with 30,000
Italy has registered 30,201 deaths due to the novel coronavirus, after an increase of 240, the Civil Protection Agency reported on Friday. The country has...
COVID-19: Bangladesh announces $8.5 billion bailout package
Bangladesh has announced an economic stimulus package worth over 8.5 billion dollars to cushion the shock of the global coronavirus pandemic. “I hope our...
COVUD-19: 25 docked after May Day violence in Berlin
Twenty-five people on Saturday were to be arraigned in court following May Day protests in Berlin, the city’s Attorney-General said. According to the AG’s...
COVID-19: Russian PM tests positive
Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin tested positive for coronavirus, the state-run RIA Novosti news agency announced Thursday. Mishustin notified President...
COVID-19: U.S. economy contracts for first time in nearly six years
The US economy contracted for first time in nearly six years between January and March, as the coronavirus crisis put the world in a choke hold. America’s...
Timi Frank to ECOWAS: PMB not competent to lead fight against COVID-19
By Jimi Anjolaoluwa – Abuja A one time Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the ruling All Progressives Congress ( APC), Comrade Time Frank has faulted...
COVID-19: ECOWAS heads of govt pledges 15% budget to healthcare
…Supports partial border opening Heads of State and government of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), have agreed to dedicate 15 per cent of...
COVID-19: First patients injected in UK vaccine trial
….Elisa Granato was the first volunteer to be injected The first human trial in Europe of a coronavirus vaccine has begun in Oxford. Two volunteers were...
