Kenyans have elected Deputy President William Ruto as the substantive President who will take over from incumbent President Uhuru Kenyatta. Kenyatta has been in office since 9 April 2013. Chairperson of the country’s Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC), Wafula Chebukati  said,  amid dramatic scenes, that Ruto of the United Democratic Alliance had 50.4 percent of the votes to beat …

Nigerian Ambassador to Mexico, Rt Hon. Adejare Bello has ordered the closure of the Nigerian mission in Mexican city, the country’s capital, due to fresh outbreak of Covid-19 within the mission. The closure will last seven days beginning from Monday, 8 August. As at the time of this report, six of the mission staff have tested positive to Corona virus. …

The two Nigerian young men shot dead on Saturday at an ATL Lounge in Canada recently were graduates of Canadian higher institutions, according to a GoFundMe account opened by one Adamu Abdul. According to Abdul, who says one of the victims was his cousin, the Nigerians killed at the facility at Vaughan, Ontario, Canada were Chibueze Momah (22), and Tosin …

Two Nigerian men – Tosin Amos Arowoshegbe and one Eze – were killed in the early hours after a shooting at a nightclub in the city of Vaughan, Ontario, north of Toronto, Canada. They were employed as security guards at the facility. York Regional Police’s investigators disclosed that officers got to that scene following a report of a shooting at …

United States President Joe Biden has tested positive to COVID-19. A statement by the President’s Press Secretary,  Karine Jean-Pierre said the result came out Thursday morning. According to the statement, President Biden “is fully vaccinated and twice boosted” but is “experiencing very mild symptoms”. He has immediately proceeded on isolation as required by the guidelines of the Center for Diseases Control …

Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has succumbed to a people’s revolution and agreed to step down next week. The announcement by the country’s parliamentary speaker, Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana came hours after protesters stormed the President’s official residence to vent their anger over Sri Lanka’s severe economic crisis. Protesters later broke into Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe residence in the capital, Colombo …

The World Bank has approved a loan of €454.4 million (about US$474.4 million) to help South Africa fund COVID-19 vaccine purchases. In a joint statement, the bank and South Africa’s National Treasury said South Africa had recorded the most coronavirus cases and deaths on the African continent, with over 3.9 million confirmed cases and more than 101,000 deaths. South Africa …

Pope Francis is using a wheelchair to protect his injured knee. The 85-year-old head of the Catholic Church was pushed by a Vatican employee to an audience with nuns on Thursday. The Pontiff said recently that his doctors had told him to rest his painful right knee. He has been seen hobbling in recent weeks and had to cancel some …

Two months after Russia invaded Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin has claimed that his main spy agency foiled a Western plot to kill a prominent Russian journalist. Putin told reporters on Monday: “This morning, the Federal Security Service stopped the activities of a terrorist group that planned to attack and kill one famous Russian TV journalist. “They have moved to …

Germany’s Minister for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth, Anne Spiegel resigned Monday after coming under pressure for taking a summer vacation last year, shortly after the region where she was environment minister at the time suffered deadly flooding. The 41-year-old Family Minister said she had decided to step down because of ‘political pressure’. ‘I am doing this to avert …