A magistrate court sitting in Katsina has ordered the detention of two friends Hassan Ibrahim, 50 and Adamu Idris, 60, for allegedly raping a 17-year-old girl....
The growing concerns expressed by many after CNN investigation produced footage of human trafficking in Libya has forced France’s ambassador to the UN to call for...
Defiant North Korea led by headstrong leader Kim Jong Un has fired it’s first missile since September 15 according to officials in South Korea, Japan and...
Power, Works and Housing Minister, Babatunde Fashola, on Tuesday refuted claims by many Nigerians that roads in the country are bad. He said that there are...
Men of the Ekiti State Police Command are on the trail of a rape suspect identified as Tope Adeniyi for allegedly raping his wife’s sales girl...
Chinese authorities have slapped Taiwanese rights activist Li Ming-che (a community college lecturer and an activist at a human rights non-governmental organisation in Taiwan) with a...
A high court in Zimbabwe has ordered the detention of ousted former Zimbabwe finance minister Ignatius Chombo who is facing charges of corruption that allegedly took...
A prosecution witness, Abdul-rasheed Bawa, an investigator with the EFCC, on Monday, told Justice Hakeem Oshodi of the Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos...
A Danish high court has slammed a 17-year-old girl with an eight-year jail sentence after she was found guilty as charged of planning attacks on two...
The extremely dangerous conditions at Mexico’s highest peak with iced-I over slopes of the 18,619-foot (5,675-meter) has witnessed the death of a mountain climber and the...
There was chaos at the Mile 2 area of Lagos State when a commercial bus driver was shot dead by unknown gunmen who were taking turns...
Social activities in and around Bali’s Mount Agung volcano in Indonesia have been grounded as authorities have ordered the closure of the holiday island’s airport and...
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader has responded to Saudi Arabia’s crown prince Mohammed bin Salman’s comments of calling him ‘the new Hitler’. Iran’s supreme leader...
The ever busy Owerri-Umuaka-Okwudor-Orlu federal highway witnessed a tragic accident on Saturday when no less than 20 people were feared dead following a crash involving a...
Cops in the UK have reopened two central London Underground stations after sixteen people were injured at Oxford Circus with reports of gunshots being fired. Security...
Diplomatic tension in the Middle East is threatening to boil over again after Saudi Arabia’s crown prince Mohammed bin Salman described Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali...
At least 258 people have reportedly died when tragedy struck again in the thinly populated Sinai Peninsula of Egypt after and another 120 others injured in...
A suspected ritualist identified as Olayinka Abbas Akeem met his Waterloo after he was nabbed by men of the Kwara State Police Command along Ilorin-Ajase Ipo...
The search to find three sailors who went missing after the C2-A Greyhound transport plane they were flying in crashed into the Philippine Sea in the...
Australia has expressed concerns over the South China Sea policy paper especially with concerns about the “pace and scale” of China’s activities in the disputed zone....
Judge Alphons Orie of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has sentenced ex-Bosnian Serbian commander Ratko Mladic to life in prison for genocide....
The League of Progressive Ambassadors of Nigeria (LEPAN), a youth-focused civil society organisation, Wednesday lamented the low voter turnout that characterised the just-concluded Anambra governorship election,...
Zimbabwe’s former vice president Emmerson Mnangagwa who was sacked by former President Robert Mugabe is to be sworn in as President on Thursday. Sources told CNN...
Scores of Haitian immigrants who were offered Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, after an earthquake killed 300,000 people and ravaged their homes in January 2010 are...
The U.S. Treasury has announced sanctions against 13 Chinese and North Korean organisations for helping Pyongyang evade nuclear restrictions and helping the pariah nation to proliferate...
President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, to visit Zamfara State in the wake of recent attacks and report back his findings....
One of Africa’s sit-tight leaders Robert Mugabe on Tuesday resigned as President of Zimbabwe after 37years in office, throwing up jubilation in the streets of Harare....
The Lagos State Police Command have declared musician Damini Ogulu, aka Burna Boy wanted in connection to a robbery incident that happened at the EKO Hotel...
The Supreme Court in Kenya has upheld the presidential re-run election won by President Uhuru Kenyatta. The country’s apex court dismissed the case filed by the...
The long arm of the law has caught up with a truck driver, Ebenezer Oyeneye, 50, suspected to be behind several hacking of customers’ bank accounts...
A political crisis is brewing in Germany after German Chancellor Angela Merkel revealed that she had failed in her efforts to form a three-way coalition government....
Tragedy struck in the Moroccan town of Sidi Boulaalam in Essaouira province when no less than 15 people were feared dead in a stampede while food...
Former Vice President of Nigeria, Alex Ekwueme, who was recently flown out of the country for medical treatment has died. He reportedly passed on at a...
Thousands of Zimbabweans have thronged the streets of Harare celebrating the expected fall of 93-year-old President Robert Mugabe who has been in power since 1980 when...
Ex-Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri confirmed during a visit to Paris where he was hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron that he will return home in...
White House senior aide Jared Kushner has denied that he withheld emails about WikiLeaks and “a Russian backdoor overture” in 2016 as investigations continue into allegations...
A total number of a 100 cultist have been paraded by men of the Lagos State Police Command after they were all arrested by cops attached...
The death toll arising from a police attack on opposition supporters who were following a convoy carrying Raila Odinga from the airport to central Nairobi in...
The end seems near for embattled Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe after the military seized power in an apparent coup even as allies of the long serving...
A convoy carrying opposition leader Raila Odinga from the airport to central Nairobi in Kenya was attacked by policemen who shot and killed two supporters and...
The ongoing investigations into allegations of election meddling by Russia has revealed that White House senior aide Jared Kushner withheld emails he received about WikiLeaks and...
The leader of Zimbabwe’s opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), Morgan Tsvangirai has called on President Robert Mugabe to step down from power in the interest...
There is palpable fear in the country as Zimbabwe is on the knife edge after the military confirmed that it had seized power. However, it is...
Tragedy struck at a community in the outskirts of Maiduguri when four suicide bombers, two males and two females detonated bombs strapped to their waists killing...
The reckless mode by which Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is moving to consolidate his growing power while spearheading a reform programme has been described by...
A cop was killed, while three others were wounded and a petrol van was vandalised when unknown gunmen ambushed policemen stationed at Ovia River Bridge along...
The worrying and senseless shooting sprees that has gripped the United States of America in recent times continued again after a gunman killed four victims and...
The head of Zimbabwe armed forces General Constantino Chiwenga has made good his promise to “step in” to end a purge of supporters of ousted vice-president...
President of the Senate Dr. Bukola Saraki, on Tuesday said that Nigeria is ready to work closely with the European Union in tackling the rising incidence...
Russia has been accused by UK Prime Minister Theresa May of election meddling and cyber espionage. May in one of her strongest attacks on Russia yet,...
