COVID-19: Govts, Central banks ramp up support as fears tear markets
Governments and central banks readied more emergency measures to tackle the economic impacts of the coronavirus on Friday as Asian markets suffered their worst weekly crashes since the 2008 financial…
Trump bans all travels from Europe to US to tame Coronavirus
President Donald Trump told the nation he was ordering an immediate shut-down of all travel from Europe to the United States as he addressed the nation on the coronavirus in…
COVID-19 trending updates around the globe as at Thursday
05:50 GMT – Kazakhstan suspends all public events Kazakhstan is suspending all public events and taking special preventive measures because of the coronavirus, President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev wrote on Twitter on…
Governments ramp up preparations to battle coronavirus pandemic
Governments ramped up measures on Thursday to battle a global pandemic of the coronavirus as the number of infections outside China, the source of the outbreak, for the first time…
Experts warn climate change could cause global ‘catastrophic’ security threat
Climate change could become a “catastrophic” threat to global security, as people lose their livelihoods, fall ill and battle over scarce water and food, a host of U.S. security, military…
Climate change could spark ‘global systemic crisis’, scientists warn
A failure to get to grips with climate change and associated problems, from ecosystem collapse to worsening water and food shortages, is the most severe and probable threat facing humanity,…
Trump remains in office, impeachment plot fails at Senate
U.S. President Donald Trump was acquitted by the Senate on both articles of impeachment on Wednesday. This means he’s going nowhere and would remain in office. The acquittal allows him…
Nigeria working to have U.S. lift travel ban, as Pompeo calls for sharing of important national security information
Geoffrey Onyeama Nigeria has begun working on the security and information sharing requirements for the lifting of a U.S. travel ban on prospective immigrants from the African nation, Nigerian…
U.S visa ban: Eritrea says ban ‘unacceptable’, Nigeria creates committee to address issues
U.S President trump Eritrea on Saturday denounced U.S. ban on immigrant visas for its citizens as “unacceptable”, while Nigeria’s government said it had created a committee to address the…
Trump plans to include Nigeria, six other countries to travel ban list – Reports
President Trump The Trump administration is planning to add seven countries – Belarus, Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan, Myanmar, Nigeria, Sudan and Tanzania – to its travel ban list, U.S. media reports…