Gen Prayut was formally elected as the country's 29th prime minister by parliament. However, the military will still remain his tool to maintain a stable government and help achieve his vision for the country, says a military source close to the prime minister.

NICE: A couple of seconds elapsed before a disbelieving Kanjana Sungngoen raised her arms in celebration.

MANCHESTER: Rohit Sharma scored his second hundred in three innings as India maintained their unbeaten record against Pakistan at the World Cup with an 89-run win under the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern method on Sunday.

PEBBLE BEACH: Gary Woodland took a two-shot lead over two-time defending champion Brooks Koepka and Justin Rose into the back nine at Pebble Beach on Sunday in the final round of the US Open Golf Championship.

WASHINGTON: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo vowed Sunday that the US will guarantee free passage through the vital Strait of Hormuz, as he accused Iran of recent attacks on oil tankers and the downing of a US drone.

WASHINGTON - Washington is planning another tidal wave of tariffs on Chinese imports that represent a worst-case scenario for markets and major industries on both sides of the Pacific.

The Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) in Kwara state has cried out over alleged plan by the All Progressive Party (APC) led state government to arrest some of its leaders on trumped up charges. The leading opposition party in the state made this known in a petitioned addressed to the Kwara state director of the Department of […]

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Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, and the Abia State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, have commended the Supreme Court’s ruling setting aside the corruption conviction of former Abia State governor, Orji Uzor Kalu. Reacting to the apex court judgment, HURIWA National Coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, said the judgment “speaks to common […]

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Conference of Civil Society of Nigeria and Civil Society Centre for Leadership and Followership on Friday urged President Muhammadu Buhari to set up ECOWAS Sub-regional Taskforce on Coronavirus response. The call was made on Friday by at a press conference in by Comrade Adams Otakwu, Coordinator of Civil Society Situation Room on COVID 19. Read […]

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Three days after he passed on after a battle with leukemia, members of the board of Nigeria Football Federation and other prominent figures in the Nigeria football firmament are yet to come to terms with the demise of Member of NFF Board and Chairman of the Nigeria National League, Hon. Chidi Ofo Okenwa. READ ALSO: […]

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Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) –:  In addition to the actions taken so far by the Delta State Government to address the menace of flood in Asaba, the state capital, further […]

Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) –:  The people of Ugborodo Community in Warri South West Local Government Area of Delta State have said that they are satisfied with the current  location […]

In an interview with Natasa Meli, SACAP’s Head of Online Campus, she discusses how resistance to online learning has changed.

The wine industry has welcomed the easing of export restrictions as a positive step towards boosting the constrained economy.

Both hospitals had further enhanced their disinfecting and decontaminating programmes of all facilities on their premises. Doctors would be again be consulting from their rooms as from Monday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin marked Victory Day, the anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II, in a ceremony shorn of its usual military parade and pomp by the coronavirus pandemic.

Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi has approved amendments to the country's state of emergency that grant him and security agencies additional powers, which the government says are needed to combat the coronavirus outbreak.

The decision to shelve detailed advice from the nation’s top disease control experts for reopening communities during the coronavirus pandemic came from the highest levels of the White House.

After weeks of trying to flee the current coronavirus epicentre of the world, Ziyanda Stuurman is finally home.

All this was long before the doctor, who smokers and vapers are so angry with, came back from exile.

The N2 was closed at the Mtunzini toll plaza after two people died when a fuel tanker and another truck collided and burst into flame, paramedics said.

The ANC and the EFF are making "a desperate attempt to save face" by appealing the High Court in Pretoria's ruling overturning the Gauteng government's dissolution of the City of Tshwane council, the DA said.

More than 1 000 people queued to get free food parcels in Geneva, underscoring the impact of the coronavirus epidemic on the working poor and undocumented immigrants even in wealthy Switzerland.

Western Cape Premier Alan Winde said that issue of bringing the province back to Level 5 had not been discussed either at the provincial government level or with the health minister despite a call from the ANC to do so.