Saudi Arabia Considers Disbanding Oil Production Cartel OPEC Amid Growing Pressure Following Trump Criticisms And Jamal Khashoggi Murder

The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, founded in 1960, coordinates petroleum prices among producers and maintains a regular supply to consumer nations

●Saudi Arabia commissions study into dissolving oil production cartel OPEC ●OPEC coordinates oil prices among producers and maintains the supply globally ●Saudi now researching effects of disbanding group amid surmounting pressure ●Kingdom faces scrutiny following US president's criticism and Khashoggi affair

Saudi Arabia's leading government-financed think tank is looking into the possible effects on oil markets of a breakup of OPEC.

The move comes amid growing pressure on the Saudi government, including from the US President Trump, who has accused the cartel of hiking up oil prices. While investors have temporarily distanced themselves after US-based Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was brutally murdered by regime henchmen (Trump with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman)

Climate Fund Approves US$1B For Projects In Poor Countries

A U.N.-backed fund has approved more than US$1 billion for 19 new projects to help developing countries tackle climate change, officials said Sunday.

Campaign Steps Up Against Traffickers Who Lure Children To Non-Existent Football Trials

Interpol want people to follow Didier Drogba in communicating with young African players

●An estimated 1,000 African children a year are tricked into fake football trials ●Traffickers bring them to Europe and then take their money and abandon them ●Many of the children are sold into slavery and vanish off the radar completely ● Traffickers worm their way into junior football clubs in Africa or use social media ●An expert panel convened at the European Parliament to discuss the problem ●Baroness Young of Hornsey admitted young people are being 'let down'

An estimated 1,000 African children a year are tricked into coming to Europe for non- existent football trials by traffickers who take their money and abandon them.

Baroness Young of Hornsey hit out against traffickers who lure children to fake football trials

South African Newspaper Apologizes For ‘Tainted’ Scoops

The Sunday Times is one of South Africa's leading newspapers

One of South Africa's leading newspapers admitted Sunday it had run "tainted" scoops during the presidency of Jacob Zuma which turned out to be largely false, but insisted it had been the victim of political manipulation.

HIV-Positive Mother Donates Liver To Save Her Child’s Life

South Africa has the world's largest HIV treatment programme

Faced with the only chance to save a child's life, doctors in South Africa have performed a medical first -- transplanting part of the liver from a HIV-positive mother to her HIV-negative child, it was announced Thursday.

The doctors at the University of Witwatersrand reveal one year after the operation, the child may not have caught the virus from her new liver

Lilly’s Diabetes Drug Data Impresses, Hurts Rival Novo’s Shares

GLP-1 drug Trulicity contributed at least 38% to Eli Lilly and Co's total sales of US$6.36 billion in the latest reported quarter

Eli Lilly and Co said on Thursday its new two-in-one diabetes drug was successful in lowering blood sugar and reducing weight, sending its shares to a record high and weighing on those of arch-rival Novo Nordisk.

UN Report Spotlights Government Inaction On Climate

With only one degree Celsius of warming so far, the world has seen a climate-change crescendo of deadly heatwaves, wild fires and floods, along with superstorms swollen by rising seas

Diplomats gathering in South Korea Monday will find themselves in the awkward position of vetting and validating a major UN scientific report that underscores the failure of their governments to take stronger action on climate.

Climate 'tipping points': the Earth's ticking time bombs

EU Launches Asia Strategy To Rival China’s ‘New Silk Road’

No longer the only game in town

As doubts grow over China's vast "Belt and Road" trade infrastructure project, the EU is launching an alternative plan for Asia that it says will not saddle countries with debt they cannot repay.

Sri Lanka is a key link in the 'new silk road' but fears over a debt trap are growing

How Lawyers Forged Judgments To Get SAN Title, By CJN

Justice Walter Onnoghen

●Police to investigate, prosecute arrested culprits ●Legal body restores Ogunba to senior advocate

An unspecified number of lawyers have been apprehended for forging court judgments in a bid to qualify as Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SAN).

Google Looking To Future After 20 Years Of Search

Google is set to mark its 20th anniversary with an event in San Francisco devoted to the future of online search

Google celebrated its 20th birthday Monday, marking two decades in which it has grown from simply a better way to explore the internet to a search engine so woven into daily life its name has become a verb.

Google is also now a major player in artificial intelligence

2-IN-1 STORY: Nigeria Suspends National Carrier Takeoff Over Investors’ Apathy

Nigeria’s Aviation minister Hadi Sirika speaks at a press conference at the Farnborough Airshow, south west of London, on July 18, 2018.

• Funding delays application for AOC, recruitments, others

The Federal Government has suspended indefinitely the takeoff of the proposed national carrier scheduled for December 24.

Nigeria's last flag carrier was Nigeria Airways, which collapsed in 2003 under a mountain of debt Image credit: AFP

Liberia Loses US$104 Mln In Central Bank Cash, Bans 15 From Foreign Travel

Central Bank of Liberia

Fifteen Liberians, including the son of former president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, are banned from leaving the country while the government investigates the whereabouts of US$104 million in missing cash intended for the central bank, the government said.

UK University To Atone For Profits Gained From Historical Slavery

Glasgow University

A Scottish university will launch a "programme of reparative justice" after discovering it gained tens of millions of pounds from historical slavery, with activists hailing rising attention on modern slavery for stirring fresh debate about past horrors.

From the book "The Black Man's Lament, or, how to make sugar" by Amelia Alderson Opie. (London, 1826). Image source: The Peninsular

Eliud Kipchoge Sets New World Record In Berlin Marathon Win

CORRECTS FINISH TIME -- Eliud Kipchoge runs to win the 45th Berlin Marathon in Berlin, Germany, Sunday, Sept. 16, 2018. Eliud Kipchoge set a new world record in 2 hours 1 minute 39 seconds. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Olympic champion Eliud Kipchoge has set a new marathon world record, winning the Berlin race in 2 hours, 1 minute and 39 seconds on Sunday.

Eliud Kipchoge stars for the 45th Berlin Marathon in Berlin, Sunday, Sept. 16, 2018. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Monkeypox Is Diagnosed In The UK For The First Time After It Was Contracted By A Visiting Naval Officer From Nigeria

Monkeypox has been discovered in the UK for the first time ever. The rare viral infection was recorded on Friday in a Nigerian national staying at a naval base in Cornwall 

●Monkeypox was recorded in Nigerian national staying at naval base in Cornwall ●Transferred to expert infectious disease unit at Royal Free Hospital, London ●Public Health England have said that monkeypox does not spread easily

Monkeypox has been discovered in the UK for the first time ever, Public Health England have said. 

The patient was transferred to the expert infectious disease unit at the Royal Free Hospital in London, pictured, on Saturday morning

2019: How Political Parties Are Raking In Billions — Daily Trust Investigation

2019: How political parties are raking in billions. Image source: Daily Trust

This is the best of times for political parties in Nigeria, as many of them are cashing in on the rush by candidates for nomination forms and other million-naira offerings.

Japan Evacuates Major Airport After Typhoon Wreaks Havoc

Typhoon Jebi sent a tanker crashing into the only access road to Kansai International Airport

Japan scrambled Wednesday to evacuate passengers trapped at a major airport when a tanker slammed into its only access bridge during the most powerful typhoon to hit the country for 25 years.

More than 200-kilometre-an-hour winds caused havoc in the seas around Japan, sending this ship crashing into a breakwater

Norway’s US$1 Trillion Sovereign Wealth Fund To Beef Up Scrutiny Of Sustainability, Ocean Pollution

Norway’s sovereign wealth fund is the largest in the world. Image: Reuters/Nerijus Adomaitis

Norway's US$1 trillion sovereign wealth fund will demand that companies in which it invests follow stricter guidelines on global sustainability and strengthen efforts to combat plastic pollution of the oceans, it said on Wednesday.

President Weah Honours Former Coaches Wenger And Leroy

Liberia’s President George Weah speaks during a news conference at Presidential palace in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, April 4, 2018. Reuters/Thierry Gouegnon

Liberian president George Weah will decorate Arsene Wenger and Claude LeRoy, the two French coaches who gave his football career an early boost.

Cubans Cheer As Internet Goes Nationwide For A Day

Tourist guide Daniel Hernandez, 26, sits on his Russian-made car as he speaks to his girlfriend who lives in Britain, at an internet hotspot in Havana, Cuba, September 24, 2017. Reuters/Alexandre Meneghini

Cuba's government said it provided free internet to the Communist-run island's more than 5 million cellphone users on Tuesday, in an eight-hour test before it launches sales of the service.