Europe

Terry Ikponmwosa, a 31-year-old man has narrated how he was sold four times by human traffickers in Nigeria before he could get to Libya en route to Europe, where he hoped for a good life.Ikponmwosa, in an…

Air pollution remains a leading cause of premature deaths across Europe in spite of  progress in cutting emissions, according to data released on Monday by the European Environment Agency (EEA). SEE ALSO: European Commission to Propose…

A World Health Organisation (WHO) special COVID-19 envoy predicted a third wave of the pandemic in Europe in early 2021, if governments repeat what he said was a failure to do what was needed to prevent the second wave of…

The Nigerians in Diaspora Organisation Europe(NIDOE) has elected new executive members who will oversee the activities of the body for the next two years. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Dr Bashir Obasekola, an…

With the second wave of coronavirus rising across Europe, countries are becoming wary of its spread. By this Friday, October 30, people in France will only be permitted to leave home for essential work or medical reasons.…

The World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Director for Europe, Hans Kluge, on Thursday expressed concerns over the COVID-19 surge in Europe. SEE ALSO: Europe Imposes New Travel Bans after Italy’s National Lockdown Kluge said that…

Europe’s best player of the season will be awarded behind closed doors due to the coronavirus outbreak in a ceremony moved from Athens to UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland. SEE ALSO: Osimhen's Napoli move excites Buhari The European…

Serbians went to the polls on Sunday to elect a new parliament in Europe’s first national election since coronavirus lockdowns took effect three months ago. SEE ALSO: Bayelsa judgement: What Supreme Court should have done - Itse Sagay The…

In a switch from the longer-term trend, European equities are beating their U.S. peers in the latest leg of the rebound. Boosted by a strong outperformance of cyclical shares on bets of a swift economic recovery and after a string of…

Sweden, which has opted for a more open strategy in combating the virus than other European countries has the highest number of deaths in Europe per capita from the COVID-19 disease over the past seven days, data showed. SEE ALSO: First…

Europe wants to open its internal borders for tourism before summer begins, a group of European Union (EU) foreign ministers said on Monday.German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas met his counterparts from Spain, Italy, Austria,…

Recently, countries in Europe have began to take steps to come out of the lockdown. Switzerland passes directive for primary schools to be open, while wearing of masks have been made mandatory in taking the public transport in Germany.…

FC Dynamo Brest of Belarus, one of a handful of football clubs still playing in Europe, is filling its stands with mannequins sports cut-out portraits of fans. SEE ALSO: Sane, Reus score in Germany’s away win in Euro 2020 qualifier This…

U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced a 30-day ban on most travel from Europe set to take effect Friday at midnight, as the country experiences a surge in coronavirus cases. SEE ALSO: On Sanusi’s Dethroning: The North Only…

European countries attempted to block a severe coronavirus outbreak in Italy from spreading any further on Tuesday with travel bans and warnings, as they introduced ever stricter measures to contain their own domestic epidemics. SEE ALSO:…

Italy on Monday reported five deaths and more than 200 coronavirus cases, amid growing anxiety about the spread of the virus in the heart of Europe.Two virus clusters developed last week in the northern regions of Lombardy and…

Britain has extradited one of Europe’s most wanted organised criminals to Romania, where he faces charges including human trafficking, murder and money laundering, police said on Friday.Romanian authorities accused Florin…

Top Premiership clubs will face disruptions next season as Cameroon, next AFCON hosts announced that the competition that was earlier scheduled to take place in the summer has been moved up to January.Liverpool will be without two of…

Ghana Police officers have nabbed three male Nigerians who hid as stowaways in a ship heading to Europe.According to reports, they had traveled in the ship from a port in Lagos and were hoping to remain in there until she got to Europe.…

Large parts of Europe are expecting exceptionally warm summer weather this week with sweltering heat waves forecast in Germany, France, Italy, Spain and Britain.In Germany, official weather service, DWD, said temperatures would reach 38…

The UN on Thursday said fighting between eastern Libyan forces and Tripoli government troops had killed 56 people and forced 6,000 to flee their homes in the capital in the last week.This has made France and Italy to wrangle over how to…

European shares rose further on Wednesday with the export-oriented autos and tech sectors leading the way on growing optimism over a possible trade deal between the U.S. and China.The pan-European benchmark hovered around its highest…

Financial Giant, HSBC continues to be at the receiving end of a backlash from various sections of the Nigerian Government and its agencies following its prediction that Nigeria’s economic woes will not come to an end anytime soon if…

Europe is not helping to preserve the agreement on Iran’s nuclear programme by asking for additional negotiations on issues like missiles, Ahmad Jannati, an anti-Western cleric, said Tuesday.Jannati is the…

European football boss Aleksander Ceferin wants only one European bid to host the 2030 World Cup, he said on Friday, adding that a British bid would be a “wise idea”.The English FA said at the start of this month that it was carrying…

The foreign minister of Spain has declared that Europe needs new blood as he denied the news that Spain is currently experiencing mass immigration.Josep Borrell, Spain’s foreign minister said on Monday that Europe needed new blood to…