An Ethiopian refugee who became a symbol of integration in Italy, her adopted home, has been killed on her farm where she raised goats for her cheese business, police said on Wednesday. A Ghanaian employee on her farm in the…
Hong Kong’s highest court has revoked media tycoon Jimmy Lai’s bail after prosecutors succeeded in asking the judges to send him back to detention. Lai had been granted bail on Dec. 23 after three weeks in custody on charges of…
The Defence Headquarters have warned Boko Haram terrorists, bandits, kidnappers and other criminals to repent before 2021. Speaking to newsmen on Thursday, the Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, Maj. Gen. John Enenche, warned them to desist from their devilish acts. He…
Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday signed the country’s 2021 Appropriation Bill of N13.588 trillion ($34.518bn) into law. The signing took place at the President’s office at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The National Assembly last Monday passed the budget for…
The federal government of Nigeria has suspended its earlier directive which banned the registration and replacement of old sim cards. This development was made known on Thursday, 31st December in a statement by the Association of Licensed Telecoms Operators of…
Corporal Thomson was among the 82 suspects paraded by the Kaduna State Police Command for various criminal acts in Kaduna on Thursday. Charles Thomson, an Army Corporal, who ran away from the theatre of operation in the North-eastern part of…
California on Wednesday announced the nation’s second confirmed case of the new and apparently more contagious variant of the coronavirus, offering a strong indication that the infection is spreading more widely in the United States. Gov. Gavin Newsom announced the…
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell all but shut the door Wednesday on President Donald Trump’s push for $2,000 COVID-19 relief checks, declaring Congress has provided enough pandemic aid as he blocked another attempt by Democrats to force a vote. The…
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s father Stanley confirmed plans on Thursday to seek French citizenship as the free movement of Britons in the EU comes to an end under the Brexit pact delivered by his son. Speaking to France’s RTL…
France has detected its first case of the South African variant of coronavirus, the health ministry said on Thursday. The 501.V2 Variant was detected by South African authorities in mid December. Cases have since been found in Japan and Britain…
The French are still living under tight restrictions, as cases of Covid-19 continue to rise. Yet after the year we’ve all had, seeing an end to 2020 calls for celebration. But be careful: the government is putting 100,000 police on…
FRANCE 24 takes a look back at the famous faces that have left us in 2020, from lionised British spy novelist John Le Carré to left-wing US Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg to the last icon of Hollywood’s Golden…
The arrest was made possible through the advertisement sent on social media platforms. The Kaduna State Police command has arrested organisers of the maiden edition of a s3x party in the state. The youths who have advertised the event on…
This is to enable the budget implementation to kick off in January next year. President Muhammadu Buhari will today, Wednesday, December 30 sign the N13.588 trillion 2021 Appropriation Bill into law. This is to enable the budget implementation to kick…
According to Interpol, the scheme was coordinated using compromised emails, advance-payment fraud and money laundering. The International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol) has traced a €500,000 Covid-19 fraud to Nigeria. The organisation made this known in a statement on its website…
Argentina passed a landmark bill legalising abortion on Wednesday over the objections of its influential Roman Catholic Church. The Senate voted by 38 in favour to 29 against with one abstention to approve a bill allowing the procedure through the…
EU leaders Ursula von der Leyen and Charles Michel signed the post-Brexit trade deal agreed with Britain in a brief ceremony on Wednesday. The texts were then to be flown to London in a British Royal Air Force jet for…
The number of coronavirus cases in the Chinese city where the pathogen was first detected may have been 10 times higher than official figures suggest, according to a study by health authorities in Wuhan. About 4.4 percent of the city’s…
The European Union and China agreed on Wednesday to an investment deal that will give European companies greater access to Chinese markets and help redress what Europe sees as unbalanced economic ties. The agreement has been nearly seven years in…
The French government on Wednesday faced criticism over the slow progress of its drive to vaccinate people against Covid-19, a problem compounded by the high levels of public scepticism about the campaign. France on Sunday joined several other EU countries…