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British pharmaceuticals producer GlaxoSmithKline has agreed to buy late-stage biopharmaceutical company Sierra Oncology. GlaxoSmithKline said on Wednesday that it would pay 55 dollars per share of common stock in cash, representing an approximate total equity value of 1.9 billion dollars. The acquisition is to be carried out through a one-step merger in which the outstanding […]

The 27 European Union member states have agreed to send another 500 million Euros in military aid for Ukraine, top EU Diplomat, Josep Borrell, announced on Wednesday in a statement. Borrell said it was crucial the EU increased military support to Ukraine as Russia gears up for a new assault in the country’s east as […]

A court in southern Germany on Wednesday admitted a university scientist to a one-year suspended sentence for spying for the Russian secret service. The presiding judge at the Higher Regional Court in Munich said the 30-year-old researcher from University of Augsburg “came to terms with the fact that he had done research for a Russian […]

European countries, yesterday, continued their quest to have Nigeria export more Liquiefied Natural Gas, LNG, to the European Union, as they seek a move away from Russian energy dependency. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is forcing Europe to diversify its energy supply. Energy Vanguard gathered that LNG is fast becoming the low carbon alternative fuel of […]

France is expelling six Russians suspected of working as spies under diplomatic cover after the French intelligence services uncovered a clandestine operation on its territory, the foreign ministry said on Monday. Six Russian agents operating under diplomatic cover whose activities were found to be contrary to our national interests have been declared persona non grata,” […]

Saudi Arabia announced on Thursday a three billion U.S. dollars support for Yemen, following the formation of the Yemeni Presidential Leadership Council. The Saudi Press Agency reported that the support included two billion dollars offered jointly by the kingdom and the United Arab Emirates to the Yemeni Central Bank. It said it also included one […]

Kano State High Court on Tuesday sentenced an atheist, Mubarak Bala, to 24 years imprisonment after he reportedly pleaded guilty to an 18-count charge of blasphemy levelled against him by the Kano State government. Mr Bala, who is the president of the Humanist Association of Nigeria, was arrested at his home in Kaduna State on […]

Zimbabwean Central Bank to introduce $100 note The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe on Wednesday said that it was set to introduce a new 100 Zimbabwean (ZWL) dollar note. This followed instructions by the Finance and Economic Development Minister Mthuli Ncube. The instructions were given by Ncube in a “Statutory Instrument’’ published in the April 5 […]

A military tribunal on Wednesday ruled that Burkina Faso’s former president Blaise Compaore be sentenced to life imprisonment for complicity in the 1987 murder of his predecessor Thomas Sankara in a coup. The charismatic Marxist revolutionary Sankara was gunned down in the West African nation’s capital Ouagadougou at the age of 37, four years after […]

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will on Tuesday address the UN Security Council and predict further worse instances of mass killings of civilians by Russian troops would be discovered. The Security Council Session will consider Ukraine’s allegation of the murder of civilians by Russian soldiers in Bucha, northwest of Kyiv, following the discovery of hundreds of […]