SpaceX just sent the first Black woman to the International Space Station for an extended period of time. Jessica Watkins is one of four astronauts who were hurled into orbit early Wednesday morning — part of a mission called Crew-4, which was using yet another Dragon rocket to make their daylong ascent. The team went […]

NEW YORK, ForeTVHub – Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) is poised to agree on a sale to Elon Musk for around $43 billion in cash, the price the chief executive of Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) has called his “best and final” offer for the social media company, people familiar with the matter said. Twitter may announce the $54.20-per-share deal […]

The Chief Executive Officer of Tesla, Elon Musk, has offered to buy micro-blogging and social media platform, Twitter, for $43 billion. Musk announced the offer in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday. The billionaire will offer 54.20 per share in cash, representing a 54% premium over the January 28 closing […]

Elon Musk will join Twitter’s board of directors, the social network’s chief executive announced Tuesday, a day after the Tesla boss bought a major stake in the company and became its largest shareholder. “I’m excited to share that we’re appointing @elonmusk to our board! Through conversations with Elon in recent weeks, it became clear to […]

Madeleine K. Albright, the first woman to serve as U.S. Secretary of State, passed away on Wednesday (March 23). She was 84. According to a statement from her family, Albright died from cancer. “We are heartbroken to announce that Dr. Madeleine K. Albright, the 64th U.S. Secretary of State and first woman to hold that […]

Popular Instagram celebrity Hushpuppi has received fresh charges as US prosecutors submit court documents showing how he committed fraud and laundered over $400k from behind bars. US prosecutors presented documents before the United States District Court of California on Wed 16th March 2022 with fresh evidence indicting HushPuppi of committing fraud and money laundering in […]

OMG!! Rihanna is pregnant. The superstar singer and her artist boyfriend A$AP Rocky are expecting their first child together, the couple confirmed in photos obtained by E! News. In the pictures, taken in New York City over the weekend and published on Monday, Jan. 31, Rihanna can be seen showing off her growing baby bump […]

The founder of the Fountain of Life Bible Church, Pastor Taiwo Odukoya, has lost his twin sister, Kehinde Hassan, weeks after losing his wife, Nomthi Rosemary Odukoya to cancer. Recall that the cleric a few weeks ago announced that his wife died after battling with cancer for two years Meanwhile, the cause of the death […]

The Omicron variant has now become dominant in South Africa and is driving the increase in new infections. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases has said more than 70% of all the virus genomes it has sequenced last month had been of the new variant. South Africa recorded just over 8,500 new Covid-19 infections in […]

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The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control on Wednesday morning confirmed the first case of the Omicron variant in the country. This was contained in a press release issued by the center and signed by the Director-General, Dr. Ifedayo Adetifa. ForeTVHub News reported that the Omicron variant, a new strain of the coronavirus disease, was reported […]

The World Health Organization (WHO) is due to hold a special meeting on Friday to consider the significance of a rapidly spreading new coronavirus variant in South Africa. Experts in Geneva will decide whether it should be designated a variant of concern. A senior WHO official said it could take weeks to establish whether the […]

Malikah Shabazz, the daughter of civil rights activist Malcolm X, was found dead inside her Brooklyn home Monday evening, according to two senior police officials. The 56-year-old Shabazz was found unconscious and unresponsive inside her home on East 28th Street in Mid-wood just before 4:30 p.m., the police officials told NBC New York. She was […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has received the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken at the State House in Abuja. Blinken arrived at the presidential complex in a motorcade on Thursday and is expected to have a meeting with Buhari in his office. The Nigerian leader and US top diplomat are also expected to discuss security issues […]

UK police have declared the blast outside a hospital in Liverpool a terrorist incident and said they believed the explosion occurred when a man brought an improvised device into a taxi. Officers said Monday that a passenger is believed to have entered the vehicle with an explosive device that suddenly went off. The suspect died […]

FW de Klerk, South Africa’s last white president, has died aged 85, his foundation announced on Thursday. “It is with the deepest sadness that the FW de Klerk Foundation must announce that former President FW de Klerk died peacefully at his home in Fresnaye earlier this morning following his struggle again,” the statement said.

Britain’s highest court on Wednesday blocked a $4-billion class action against Google that had accused the company of illegally tracking millions of iPhone users. The Supreme Court said in a statement that its five judges “unanimously dismiss” the legal action brought by campaigners against the US-based tech giant on behalf of 4.4 million people in […]

The police in the Federal Capital Territory announce that all abducted victims of the University of Abuja have been rescued and reunited with their families. The police also said the feat was achieved through a joint operation with other security agencies, DSP Josephine Adeh, Police Public Relations, said in a statement on Friday.

Armed men suspected to be bandits on Tuesday morning stormed the Senior Staff Quarters of the University of Abuja at Gwagwalada Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. It was gathered that no fewer than four staff of the University were abducted in the attack which happened around 1 am. The University’s spokesman, Habib […]

Sudan’s military has dissolved civilian rule, arrested political leaders, and declared a state of emergency. Gen Abdel Fattah Burhan, who had been heading a joint council with civilian leaders, blamed political infighting. Protesters have taken to the streets of the capital, Khartoum, and there are reports of gunfire. Military and civilian leaders have been at […]

Nigerian separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu pleaded not guilty to charges including terrorism in an Abuja court on Thursday, three months after his trial was delayed when authorities failed to produce him in court. The charges against Kanu, a British citizen, also included calling for secession, knowingly broadcasting falsehoods about President Muhammadu Buhari and membership of […]

Queen Elizabeth II has “reluctantly” accepted medical advice to cancel a trip to Northern Ireland, planned for Wednesday and Thursday, Buckingham Palace has said. In a statement, the palace said the Queen has been advised to rest for the “next few days.” A source close to the palace said that it is “not Covid related.” […]

Colin Powell, the first Black US secretary of state whose leadership in several Republican administrations helped shape American foreign policy in the last years of the 20th century and the early years of the 21st, has died from complications from Covid-19, his family said on Facebook. He was 84. “General Colin L. Powell, former U.S. […]

Kenya’s two-time World Championship bronze medallist, Agnes Jebet Tirop, has been found dead. The 25-year-old long-distance runner, who represented Kenya at the Tokyo Olympics, was found dead in her house in Iten, Elgeyo Marakwet County on Wednesday, October 13. Chairperson of Athletics Kenya in the Nairobi Region, Barnaba Korir, who confirmed the tragic news, said […]

Three U.S.-based academics — David Card, Joshua D. Angrist and Guido W. Imbens — won the Nobel Prize in economics Monday. Card is a professor at UC Berkeley and Imbens at Stanford. Angrist teaches at MIT. Card was honored “for his empirical contributions to labor economics.” Angrist and Imbens share one half of the prize […]

The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to journalists Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov for their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression in the Philippines and Russia. Ressa is the CEO of Rappler, a news outlet critical of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s regime, while Muratov heads the independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta. “Free, independent and […]

Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah has been awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature. Announcing him as the winner on Thursday, the Academy praised Gurnah for his “uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism”. The prize is awarded by the Swedish Academy and is worth 10 million Swedish crowns ($1.14m / £840,000). Gurnah, 73, […]

The Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded to Benjamin List and David W.C. MacMillan, two scientists honored for creating “an ingenious tool for building molecules” that helped develop new drugs and made chemistry greener. The pair were awarded the prize “for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis.” Their discoveries “initiated a totally new way of […]

The government had also increased the national budget for the fiscal year from N13.98 trillion to N16.45 trillion. The report was based on an assessment of the revised 2022-2024 Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) submitted to the House of Representatives by President Muhammadu Buhari for approval, Vanguard reports. The MTEF is annual, rolling three year-expenditure […]

The National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has suspended its nationwide strike. The doctors went on strike on August 1 to protest against inadequate allowances, irregular payment of salaries, among others. In a ruling on August 23, Justice John Targema, directed all parties in the suit to suspend all forms of hostilities and return to […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered that a ban on the services of social media app, Twitter, be lifted in Nigeria. Mr President said in his Independence Day speech on Friday, October 1, 2021 that the ban is conditional on ensuring Nigerians use the platform for business and positive engagements. The Federal Government had controversially banned […]

A French court Thursday imposed a one-year sentence on former president Nicolas Sarkozy after finding him guilty of illegal campaign financing for massive overspending on his 2012 re-election campaign. The verdict came six months after he was found guilty of corruption in a separate trial. The court will allow the ex-president to serve the sentence […]

Dr. Chike Akunyili, husband to late former Information Minister, Prof. Dora Akunyili, has been reportedly murdered by gunmen. He was killed at Umuoji in Idemili North LGA of Anambra state on Tuesday evening. Though details of the incident are still sketchy, a source close to the family said the deceased was still at the University […]

There are counter-protests ongoing at the headquarters of the United Nations as the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), addressed the UN General Assembly. While one is organised by the Yoruba Nation and Biafra agitators, the other is held by a OneNation group on Friday. The Yoruba Nation and Biafra agitators earlier resumed their protest […]

The European Union announced on Thursday that it will impose a universal charger for smartphones, setting up a clash with Apple and its widely used iPhone. The European Commission believes a standard cable for all devices will cut back on electronic waste, but Apple argues that a one-size-fits-all charger would slow innovation and create more […]

Emir of Gaya, Alhaji Ibrahim Abdulkadir, died in Kano State on Wednesday. A presidential aide, Bashir Ahmad, confirmed the death in a Facebook post. He posted, “As announced by Abubakar Aminu Ibrahim, the SSA on New Media to the Governor of Kano State, our Amir, the Emir of Gaya Emirate, Alhaji (Dr.) Ibrahim Abdulkadir is […]

A man who was portrayed in a film as a life-saving hero during the Rwandan genocide has been convicted of terrorism by a court in Rwanda. Paul Rusesabagina was found guilty of backing a rebel group from exile which killed civilians in attacks in 2018. His family have alleged that he was taken to Rwanda […]

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson demoted his foreign secretary on Wednesday in a major reshuffle, removing his more under-fire colleagues to refocus the government on raising living standards after COVID-19. After months of criticism of several of his top team for missteps and gaffes, Johnson finally started a process some say he wanted to do […]

The African Union has followed in the footsteps of regional bloc Ecowas and suspended Guinea, as punishment for last Sunday’s military coup. The AU Political Affairs, Peace and Security department made the announcement via its Twitter handle on Friday morning, confirming the continental bloc would remove Guinea from official business until it returns to constitutional […]

Special Forces who seized power in Guinea on Sunday, capturing President Alpha Conde, announced a nationwide curfew “until further notice” as well as the replacement of governors by the military. The junta also said in a statement read out over national television that it would convene Conde’s cabinet ministers and other top officials at 11:00 […]

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has declared Lekki, the fast-developing upper middle class area of Lagos Metropolis as the new hub of internet-related fraud. EFCC, in a statement signed by its Head of Media and Publicity, Wilson Uwujaren, said data from investigation of activities of the Lagos Command for the second quarter of […]

State House correspondents were stunned at President Muhammadu Buhari’s latest decision on two of his appointees. The president, through one of his media aides, Femi Adesina, announced the sack of two ministers, Mohammed Sabo Nanono and Saleh Mamman.  President Buhari made immediate replacements for the sacked northern appointees who were in charge of agriculture and […]

Researchers are monitoring a new coronavirus variant found in South Africa. The C.1.2, which has multiple mutations, has not yet been labelled as a variant of concern. Cases of the variant have been recorded in all provinces in South Africa and seven countries in Africa, Asia, Europe and Oceania. Scientists are analysing how the variant […]

This was disclosed in a statement from President Emmanuel Macron’s office. It said that enough jabs had now been purchased through AVAT to enable vaccination of 400 million people in Africa – a third of the continent’s population — by September 2022, at a cost of three billion dollars.“ The vaccines will be allocated and […]

Celebratory gunfire echoed across Kabul as Taliban fighters took control of the airport before dawn on Tuesday following the withdrawal of the last US troops, ending 20 years of war that left the Islamic militia stronger than it was in 2001. Shaky video footage distributed by the Taliban showed fighters entering the airport after the […]

A woman is among five people injured in a mass knife fight outside a London Tube station. All those injured in the incident outside Harrow Tube station were in their teens or 20s and were taken to hospital – with two men said to be in a “serious but stable” condition. Harrow Police wrote on […]

The Ghanaian police have reportedly arrested some members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) in Accra. The police, it was learnt, stormed the venue of IPOB’s monthly meeting around Mallam Junction in Accra on Sunday, arresting an undisclosed number of members of the group. The reason for the action was not disclosed. They were […]

The Chairperson of the Commission of the African Union, H.E. Moussa Faki Mahamat, is pleased to announce the appointment of H.E. Olusegun Obasanjo, former President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, as his High Representative for the Horn of Africa region. This decision is part of the African Union’s drive to promote peace, security, stability […]