Events

The late Namibian president Sam Nujoma, who died last week aged 95, will be laid to rest in a state funeral in March, the government said on Friday. Nujoma, a guerrilla leader, was the country's first president after it won independence from South Africa in 1990. He will be buried on Saturday March 1 at…

Honda Motor Co. and Nissan Motor Co. have decided to terminate discussions on a potential merger, ending the restructuring attempt to create one of the world’s largest automotive groups. Both companies held board meetings on Thursday, where they agreed to withdraw the basic agreement signed in December 2024 and officially end merger discussions, according to…

Nigeria’s biggest music award show, The Headies, has finally dropped the full nomination list for its 17th edition, and the competition is stiff. The list, released on Wednesday, shines the spotlight on both homegrown and international acts who have made waves in the past year. Topping the list is Tochukwu Ojogwu, aka Odumodublvck, who bagged…

US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order directing the Justice Department to halt the prosecution of Americans accused of bribing foreign countries to win business. According to the order, the US Attorney General, Pam Bondi, will pause prosecutions under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977. The pause will remain until Bondi issues…

U.S politician and representative for Minnesota's 5th congressional district, Ilhan Omar, has rubbished an allegation of having a net worth of $83 million acquired in eight years. The claim was made on X by one Mila Joy with the handle, @MilaLovesJoe, who wondered how Omar arrived at the net worth from earning a $175,000 annual…

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Tuesday that his country will resist any US tariffs on steel, announced by President Donald Trump, that he said would hit the US's "closest ally". Such tariffs would be "entirely unjustified" and "Canadians will resist strongly and firmly if necessary", he said during a conference on artificial intelligence(AI)…

On the streets of Johannesburg's student district, US President Donald Trump's offer to accept white Afrikaners as refugees landed as both "ridiculous" and "lame", among South Africans of all races. On Friday, Trump cut off aid to South Africa and claimed, without evidence, that the Pretoria government is seizing white-owned land and persecuting Afrikaners, descendants…

Five years after her husband was executed in Saudi Arabia, Egyptian Noura Fouad is still seeking his remains, unable to lay his body to rest and pay her respects at his grave. "My husband had an unfair trial," the mother of three told AFP. He had been an upstanding man "trapped by traffickers", she added,…

Pope Francis launched a stinging critique Tuesday of US President Donald Trump's deportations of undocumented migrants, describing it as a "major crisis" that "damages the dignity of men and women". In a letter to US bishops, he urged Catholics and others "not to give in to narratives that discriminate against and cause unnecessary suffering to…

Business tycoon Asil Nadir, once jailed for stealing millions from his Polly Peck empire, was buried on Tuesday after a funeral in northern Cyprus. Nadir, 83, died late on Sunday at a hospital in the self-declared Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC), which is only recognised by Turkey. The flamboyant Turkish Cypriot businessman was convicted…

President Donald Trump said in remarks airing Sunday that Elon Musk, who is presiding over a purge of US government jobs, will help find "hundreds of billions of dollars of fraud" in federal agencies. Speaking in a Fox News interview set to air before the Super Bowl football championship, Trump said the American people "want…

Brazil's president this week amped up pressure for a major oil project to go ahead at the mouth of the Amazon River, despite criticism from environmentalists as the country prepares to host UN climate talks in November. President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, 79, aspires to make Brazil a leader in the fight against global…