Ignatius Asabor, a self-taught Nigerian engineer who builds drones for agriculture, has been flown to Finland and offered immediate employment by a foreign company that saw and appreciated his talent.
Ignatius, who makes special drones using local materials, was flown to Finland by the company who also employed him.
Breaking the...
Israeli warplanes have bombed Hamas sites in Gaza in response to incendiary balloons launched from the Palestinian enclave that caused brush fires in southern Israel, according to its military.
There were no immediate reports of casualties in the air attacks that targeted what the military said early on Tuesday was...
Former Afghan president Ashraf Ghani has finally broken his silence after leaving his country to escape the Taliban militants.
Ghani ran for his life as Taliban forces entered Kabul on Sunday, August 15.
Speaking from exile today, in his first public comment since it was confirmed he is in the United...
CNN has released footage showing its chief international correspondent, Clarissa Ward and her crew being attacked by Taliban militants in Afghanistan.
Clarissa reported that Taliban militants were prepared to “pistol whip” a field producer for the network before a fellow fighter intervened and prevented an attack.
Narrating the ordeal people pass through...
China has dragged Taiwan over the chaotic US withdrawal from Afghanistan, capitalizing on the crisis to taunt the self governed Island with threats of invasion.
Taiwan and mainland China have been governed separately since the end of a civil war more than seven decades ago, in which the defeated Nationalists...
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani fled his country with $169million in his cash-stuffed helicopter and has been given asylum in Dubai on 'humanitarian grounds,' it has emerged.
Ghani fled the country on Sunday night to avoid bloodshed, as the Taliban closed in on the capital Kabul. He reportedly took with him four cars...
Women from Afghanistan have expressed fears for their future after the government fell to the Taliban.
One woman has shared a video online, crying as she lamented her fate and that of others in Taliban.
She said: "We don't count because we were born in Afghanistan.
"I cannot help crying. I have...
Afghanistan's former President Ashraf Ghani is reportedly in exile in Oman after fleeing the country following the Taliban's takeover.
Russian sources disclosed that he is in exile in Oman after early reports suggested he had fled to Tajikistan after escaping Kabul and effectively ceding power to the Taliban on Sunday...
The Taliban has declared the 'Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan' after capturing the Air force, Army bases and the presidential palace of the country on Sunday, August 15.
This comes as US, UK and Western nations hastily evacuate their citizens and diplomatic staff out of the country.
This comes after Afghan president,...
Florida Governor, Ron DeSantis has threatened to withhold salaries from school leaders who enact or enforce mask mandates on their pupils.
DeSanctis, a Republican, close friend to Donald Trump and heavy critic of Covid-19 restrictions, earlier issued an order against such policies in schools, but some districts in Florida have...
China has punished more than 40 local officials for failing to control the spiraling Delta variant outbreak, as Chinese authorities struggle to stop the worst resurgence of Covid-19 the country has seen in over a year.
The current outbreak of the virus, first emerged in the eastern city of Nanjing.
It...
A 29-year-old female police officer was shot and killed while another was seriously wounded in an exchange of gunfire during a traffic stop in Chicago over the weekend.
The officer killed Saturday night, August 7, was identified as Ella French. She is the first female cop to be fatally shot on...
A Catholic priest was murdered on Monday August 9th in the French western region of Vendée, by a Rwandan refugee who was giving him shelter, Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said on Twitter.
A suspect handed himself over to police and said he had killed the priest, a source close to...
The International Police has arrested a Nigerian alleged to be running a human trafficking ring from Ghana, Togo, Benin to Nigeria.
The Nigerian, who was not named, was intercepted by officers in Ghana.
The suspect had been placed under a Red Notice by Spain during an operation against cross-border crimes.
He was caught when the officers conducted...
Kwek Yu Xuan was just 212g (7.47oz) - the weight of an apple - when she was born and measured 24cm long.
She was delivered at just under 25 weeks - 15 weeks short of the average 40.
Before her birth , the previous record holder was a girl in the...
Melinda French Gates and MacKenzie Scott, former wives to two of the world's richest men- Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos have teamed up to give $40 million to help in advancing the power and influence of American women over the next decade.Melinda Gates and Scott,...
U.S. President, Joe Biden has authorised $100 million in emergency aid for refugees from Afghanistan, the war torn country that the US recently withdrew it's forces from after an almost 20 year old invasion.
The money will be used to meet the “unexpected urgent refugee and migration needs’’ of people...
Tokyo Olympics organisers have fired the opening ceremony director after historical footage emerged of Kentaro Kobayashi making jokes about the Holocaust.
A clip was widely shared on Japanese social media on Wednesday, July 21, showing the comedian Kobayashi in a 1998 TV skit which included the line “Let’s play Holocaust”,...
A video of the moment Mali's interim President was attacked by a knifeman while he was praying at the mosque has emerged.
President Assimi Goita was at the Great Mosque in Bamako on Tuesday, July 20, in celebration of Eid al-Adha.
During the prayers, an assailant tried to stab him. He survived.
Security agents...
Six people including one foreign citizen have been arrested by the police in Madagascar for reportedly plotting to assassinate President Andry Rajoelina.
Attorney General Berthine Razafiarivony said on Thursday Juky 22, that the arrests took place on Tuesday July 20 as part of months-long investigation “into an attack on state security”.
Though there was no official...
At least 31 people have been killed after torrential rain swept through Mumbai, India late on Sunday, July 18..
Twenty-one people died in the Mumbai suburb of Chembur, in India's western state of Maharashtra, while 10 people were killed in the suburb of Vikhroli, according to Satya Pradhan, India's National...
The United States Air Force has announced it will be sending more than two dozen F-22 stealth fighters to an exercise in the western Pacific this month, an unusually large deployment of the powerful jets that military analysts say sends a strong warning to China.
The F-22s are the world's...
Boris Johnson has announced that online racists will be banned from football matches in the wake of abuse aimed at England stars.
England trio, Bukayo Saka, Jadon Sancho, and Marcus Rashford were targeted with sickening racial abuse following Sunday's Euros final defeat after they missed penalty shootout against Italy at...
Bill Gates blamed himself for "messing up" as he opened up about his messy divorce.
The billionaire spoke last week at the exclusive Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference, widely known as "summer camp for billionaires", in Sun Valley, Idaho.
One attendee at the camp said the Microsoft founder was "emotional" and on the...
Videos have emerged showing the Taliban militant group killing Afghanistan special forces.
The killings allegedly happened on June 16 in the town of Dawlat Abad by the Taliban in Faryab province, close to Afghanistan's border with Turkmenistan.
Across Afghanistan, tens of thousands of civilians have been displaced amid a surge in fighting...
A factory fire in Bangladesh has reportedly killed 52 people and injured 30 others.The fire broke out on Thursday night, July 8 at Hashem Food and Beverage factory in Rupganj, an industrial town near the capital city, Dhaka.
Authorities told AP news agency the fire happened due to the chemicals...
The European Commission has fined Volkswagen Group and BMW the sum of $1 billion for colluding with Daimler to hold back the development of technology that could have reduced harmful emissions from their vehicles.
In a statement released on Thursday, July 8, the Commission said the three German carmakers, along...
A container ship anchored at Dubai's huge Jebel Ali port caught fire late Wednesday, July 7, the Emirate's media office has reported.
According to the report the fire caused an explosion that sent tremors across the commercial hub of the United Arab Emirates.
Dubai's state-run media office said that a team...
A court in France has found eleven people guilty of sending abusive messages to a French teenager who posted videos criticizing Islam online.
After Mila (aged 16 then) was called a "dirty lesbian" by a Muslim blogger for speaking about her sexuality on Instagram she posted a clip on Instagram criticizing Islam.
She...
Russian hackers suspected to be behind a mass extortion attack that affected hundreds of companies worldwide late on Sunday, July 4, have demanded $70 million to restore the data they are holding ransom.
According to a posting on a dark web site, the cybercrime gang, a Russia-linked group that is...
A 25-year-old actress in West Bengal, India, has lodged a complaint with the Kolkata Police alleging that she has been receiving a barrage of online hate comments regarding her “dusky skin tone”
Shruti Das, who debuted in 2019 in Bengali soap "Trinayani", said she had been shamed for her skin tone...
Fifty people have been confirmed dead after a Philippine Air Force plane crashed in the southern Philippines on Sunday. It's one of the country’s worst military air disasters in 30 years.
The C-130 military plane was reportedly carrying 96 military personnel and crew from Cagayan de Oro in Mindanao to...
Roman Catholic church head, Pope Francis has undergone surgery hours after attending the traditional Sunday Angelus prayer in St. Peter's Square on Sunday July 4, the Vatican has announced.
According to Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni, the pope had surgery for "colon diverticulitis,"
Diverticulitis is an inflammation caused when people develop small...
The US government under Joe Biden has ordered a halt on federal executions that were resumed in 2020 under the Trump administration after a 17-year hiatus.
The Trump administration carried out 13 federal executions during the former president's final months in office, before the Trump the last execution occured 17...
Japan has vowed to work with the US in protecting the Island of Taiwan as China continues to make threats against the self governed island of more than 20million people.
Japan warned of the growing threat posed by Chinese and Russian collaboration and said it was necessary to "wake up"...
A Frenchwoman who admitted to killing her abusive husband, fainted in apparent shock in court on Friday, June 25, after hearing that she could walk free.
According to a lawyer for the accused, the prosecution has asked for a sentence of five years in prison for Valerie Bacot, with four years...
The Russian government has warned the UK that it will bomb its British warship, HMS Defender, the next time it sails too close to Crimea after warning shots were fired at HMS Defender on Wednesday, June 23.
The British Type 45 destroyer sailed within the 12-mile limit of Crimea near...
A previous Japanese justice minister received a three-year jail term on Friday for vote-buying in an attempt to get his wife elected to a national office, local media said.
Katsuyuki Kawai, 58, was found guilty of charges that he distributed 29 million yen ($260,000 at today’s rates) to about 100...
A British Airways plane on Friday, June 18, suffered a nose gear collapse on the tarmac at Heathrow Airport, London.
Airport emergency crews rushed to the scene with the extent of the damage to the plane not yet known.
Photos show the Dreamliner 787 with its nose on the ground while...
More than 30 women have sued pornographic content company, Pornhub, alleging exploitation for using their explicit videos without seeking their permission.
The women say the videos were uploaded to Pornhub without their consent and have lodged a civil suit in California accusing Mindgeek, the parent company of Pornhub of running...
Hungary has passed new anti-LGBT laws ahead of a must win 2022 election for hardline nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
The legislation passed on Tuesday, June 15 by Hungary's parliament bans the dissemination of content in schools deemed to promote homosexuality and gender change.
Prime Minister Viktor Orban (pictured above) has...
Transatlantic security alliance, NATO for the first time has warnes China in its communique following it's summit in Brussels on Monday, June 14.
NATO confronted China’s military ambitions for the first time, saying Beijing presents “systemic challenges” for the transatlantic security alliance.
The communique marks a diplomatic victory for US President...
A mystery bidder has paid a whopping $28m (£20m) for a seat on Amazon founder Jeff Bezos's first crewed spaceflight by his Blue Origin company to space.
The winning bid was made at an auction on Saturday, June 13, with Blue Origin tweeting that the winner's identity would be revealed...
United States investigators have recovered millions of dollars of cryptocurrency paid to Russian ransomware hackers in the Colonial Pipeline cyberattack, the Justice Department said in a statement on Monday June 7.
“Earlier today, the Department of Justice has found and recaptured the majority of ransom Colonial paid to the DarkSide...
Tech giants and multinational companies such as Amazon, Google, Facebook will no longer be able to shift profits to low-tax offshore havens, after G7 Nations led by the US and UK agreed on a deal on taxation.
The landmark deal agreed on Saturday, June 5, will enable them to squeeze...
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has deployed 19 warships with accompanying fighter jets from 11 of it's member nations in war games off Portugal as they practise deploying to the Black Sea.
Britain's state of the art Navy carrier, HMS Queen Elizabeth led other Warships from the US, Germany,...
China has scrapped its controversial 'two child' policy and will now allow couples to have three kids.
According to Chinese state media, the move was approved by President Xi Jinping in order to aid the country's ageing population.
This comes after Beijing abolished its infamous 'one child' policy in 2016 which...
French President, Emmanuel Macron has publicly acknowledged France's role in the 1994 genocide of Rwandans but stopped short of apologizing.
In a statement on Thursday, May 27, following a visit to the Gisozi memorial in the Rwandan capital Kigali, Macron acknowledged France's "overwhelming responsibility" in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda...
WhatsApp has sued the Indian government in a bid to block new rules it says would lead to "mass surveillance" by forcing social media platforms to hand over private information about their users.
The company owned by Facebook, confirmed Wednesday, May 26, that the lawsuit has has been filed with...
The European Union has announced it will sanction Belarus and call on its airlines to avoid it's airspace, after a Ryanair flight from Greece to Lithuania was forced to land in the country on Sunday May 23, and a political activist/dissident journalist on board was arrested.
Ryanair (RYAAY) flight 4978...
Iraqi President Barham Salih has said that an estimated $150 billion of stolen oil money has been smuggled out of Iraq in corrupt deals since the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.
The Sunday, May 23 statement came as the Iraqi President submitted a draft Corrupt Funds Recovery Act to the...
North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un has reportedly banned mullet hairstyles and skinny jeans in North Korea.
The decision was made over concern that they reflect Western cultures that might influence young people in the country and impact his regime.
North Korean newspaper Rodong Sinmun - which is owned by the ruling...
US House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi has slammed China’s human rights violations against the Uighurs and other ethnic minorities, calling for a boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, saying that global leaders who attend would lose their moral authority.
US legislators have been increasingly vocal about an Olympic boycott...
US President, Joe Biden on Thursday, May 20, signed into law anti-hate crime legislation in response to the surge of attacks on Asian Americans during the Covid-19 pandemic.
The newly enacted law, COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act, would establish a position within the Justice Department centered on anti-Asian hate crimes and...
Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday, May 19, vowed to continue a fierce military offensive in the Gaza Strip, rejecting calls from U.S. President Joe Biden to deescalate the operation that has left hundreds dead.
Netanyahu’s comments marked the first public rift between US and Israel since the fighting...
Data from Israeli authorities and the Palestinian Health Ministry have revealed that Israel bombed the house of Hamas' Gaza leader and obliterated a family's home in Gaza as Hamas launched more than 100 rockets toward Israel on Sunday May 16, marking the deadliest day of the week-long conflict so...
