Apple Inc’s iPhone shipments in China fell more than 35% in November, marking their second straight double-digit decline as sales of the cheaper iPhone 11 remained sluggish, brokerage Credit Suisse said on Thursday. Shares of the company fell more than 1% to 267.67 in early trading. ALSO READ: Oil prices climb to highest in three months […]

Oil prices extended gains on Friday, scaling three-month highs as the United States and China moved closer to a resolution to the 18-month trade war between the world’s two biggest economies that has raised big questions about global demand for crude. Brent futures LCOc1 climbed 47 cents, or 0.7%, to $64.67 a barrel by 0730 […]

U.S. lawmakers will vote Friday on whether to move forward with impeaching Republican President Donald Trump, as the Democratic head of the Judiciary Committee shocked Republicans by declining to hold a late-night vote after a hearing that lasted more than 14 hours. The committee had been expected to approve two articles of impeachment late on […]

Prime Minister Boris Johnson won a resounding election victory on Friday that will allow him to end three years of political paralysis and take Britain out of the European Union within weeks. The Brexit divorce represents Britain’s biggest political and economic gamble since World War Two, cutting the world’s fifth-largest economy adrift from the vast […]

NABIL Suleiman stood before the Nigerian audience. His speech was quite short. It did not matter because his being told  the story of pain. Apparently, he has done well for himself but it is an inner fulfillment he seemed to crave and an end to the suffering of his people, the Palestinians.

The U.S. special envoy for North Korea will arrive in South Korea on Sunday ahead of a year-end deadline set by Pyongyang for Washington to soften its approach to stalled denuclearization talks, Seoul said on Friday. Stephen Biegun will be in Seoul for a three-day stay and hold consultations with his counterpart Lee Do-hoon and […]

By James Ogunnaike The Chairman of Nigeria Union of Journalists, Ogun State Council, Comrade Soji Amosu has described the death of Kolade Olarenwaju as mournful, shocking and devastating. The NUJ Chairman said this in a press release signed by the Secretary of the union, Comrade Kunle Ewuoso and made available to our newsmen in Abeokuta, […]

  The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) said on Friday it is collaborating with state governments on the Right of Way (RoW) to expand transmission networks. The Managing Director of TCN, Usman Mohammed,  disclosed this at the 3rd Quarter 2019 media briefing in Abuja. The states, according to him, are  Edo, Katsina, Ogun, Lagos, Kano, […]

A New Zealand military team in gas masks and hazmat suits recovered six bodies on Friday from the volcanic island that fatally erupted earlier this week, as doctors worked to save badly burned survivors. An eight-person bomb disposal squad set off before dawn and spent four hours on White Island, which experts said could erupt […]

Nine months to the governorship elections in Edo, the PDP has warned the ruling APC in the state, to desist from taking actions or making utterances that would heat up the polity and stoke violence. The Publicity Secretary of the PDP in Edo, Mr Chris Nehikhare, made the appeal in an interview with the News […]

Major League Baseball (MLB) will remove marijuana from its list of banned substances and players who test positive for opioids, fentanyl, cocaine and synthetic THC under random drug tests will be referred for treatment before being disciplined, the league’s updated drug policy announced on Thursday. The sweeping changes, which take effect from Spring Training in […]

MOVES by the Senate to pass a vote of confidence in the President of the Senate, Senator Ahmad Lawan and the leadership of the 9th Upper Chamber, on Tuesday, suffered a major setback as a motion to that effect  was stepped down for inadequate support.

The police in Bauchi said on Thursday that 25 persons were burnt to death in an auto crash along Bauchi- Ningi Road in Bauchi State. The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) of the command, DSP Abubakar Kamal, made this known in a statements in Bauchi. Kamal said the accident occurred, which occurred in the early […]

EVERY time that I open a newspaper, or browse the internet and engage with the debate that constantly rages about the state of our economy, it is increasingly evident to me why our economy is stagnating and our people are becoming poorer. I often feel like I am in a time warp. I’ve witnessed decades of Nigerian economic policies, and find that the solutions many are advocating today are those that were being called for in the 1970s.

…Oshiomhole sues for calm amidst uncertainty over rally By Ozioruva Aliu Not less than 15 persons were injured yesterday as supporters of the two factions existing in Edo State All Progressives Congress clashed as a result of the controversies surrounding the planned mega rally to receive members of the Peoples Democratic Party led by Pastor […]