Two labour leaders in Lagos State on Tuesday urged the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government to give workers’ welfare priority in the New Year.

An Ethiopian Court on Tuesday sentenced 20 alleged Islamists to five and a half years in prison on terrorism-related charges, the state-affiliated agency reports.

The Comptroller-General of Customs, retired Col. Hameed Ali, has approved the redeployment of eight Assistant Comptrollers-General and 238 Deputy Comptrollers to strengthen the service’s operations in 2017.

The Naira on Tuesday stabilised at N490 to a dollar at the parallel market in spite of speculations that it would depreciate to N500 to a dollar by the end of 2016, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports.

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump says the foremost legacy policy of the President Barack Obama’s administration, the Affordable Care Act, neither works nor is it affordable.

Swansea City have announced the appointment of Paul Clement as their head coach on a two-and-a-half year deal.

Pope Francis has lamented that sexual abuses of minors by priests is a sin that has continued to shame Catholicism as a church and doctrine. He urged Bishops not to tolerate any priest who engages in any form of sexual abuse.

The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) has warned that poor visibility will prevail over the country in the next 24 hours due to thick dust in the atmosphere.

France’s Jo-Wilfried Tsonga won through to the second round of the Qatar Open on Tuesday, but only after seeing off a determined fightback from Russia’s Andrey Kuznetsov.

Oil prices hit 18-month high on Tuesday, the first trading day of 2017, buoyed by hopes that a deal between OPEC and non-OPEC members to cut production, which kicked in on Sunday, will drain a global supply glut.