Category: Around the World

A former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu; his wife Beatrice and their doctor have been convicted of organ trafficking, in the first verdict of its kind…

Read More Ekweremadu, Wife, Doctor Found Guilty of Organ Trafficking

A woman and her Nigerian boyfriend were arrested with drugs by members of the East London Tactical Response Team (TRT) in eastern Cape, South Africa.…

Read More Nigerian Man And His Girlfriend Arrested With Drugs In South Africa

A massive new gas pipeline to China could help reduce Russia’s reliance on European buyers, but analysts say the project reveals a growing imbalance between…

Read More China Holds ‘Upper Hand’ in Russian Gas Exports

The World Health Organisation (WHO) says Tanzania confirmed its first-ever cases of Marburg Virus Disease after conducting laboratory tests in the country’s northwest Kagera region.…

Read More Tanzania Confirms Outbreak of Deadly Marburg Virus

Nigeria’s Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), says trade is part of solution to managing the economics of water to incentivise…

Read More Trade, Solution to Manage Water Economics – Okonjo-Iweala

The government of the United Kingdom said it has started gathering relevant information about those who incited and engaged election violence in the just concluded…

Read More UK Compiles Names of Election Violence Perpetrators, Vows to Punish Them

German authorities said Wednesday they had taken down the “world’s largest” money laundering site for cryptocurrency, seizing millions of euros’ worth of bitcoin in the…

Read More Germany Shuts Down ‘World’s Largest’ Crypto Launderer

Pope Francis has appointed Nigerian-born Archbishop Fortunatus Nwachukwu as the new Secretary of the Dicastery for Evangelisation. The appointment which occurred on Wednesday was part…

Read More Pope Appoints Nigerian Archbishop As New Secretary Of Dicastery For Evangelisation