Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta has won re-election in a presidential poll rerun marred by violence and a boycott by the main opposition coalition. The Independent Electoral...
The Cuban government has denied through its foreign ministry that it aimed sonic attacks against US embassy staff in its capital of Havana. Cuba’s Foreign Minister...
The Kano State Commissioner for Health, Dr Ibrahim Kabiru Ketso has revealed that the blood sample of the suspected Monkey pox patient in the state has...
The political rift in Burundi is about to fester after opposition officials criticised a legislation which they say was initiated in secrecy designed to entrench President...
Sacked Catalan leader, Carles Puigdemont has called for peaceful “democratic opposition” to the central government’s takeover of the region hours after the Spanish government triggered Article...
Political unrest in Kenya continues as a clash between opposition protesters and pro-government supporters in the Nairobi neighbourhood of Kawangware left one victim dead and several...
President Uhuru Kenyatta’s hopes for a decisive second-term mandate has been dealt a big blow as results of election rerun began to trickle in with early...
US President Donald Trump has fired back at billionaire environmentalist Tom Steyer who is calling for his impeachment via Twitter calling him “wacky & totally unhinged.”...
The suspected killers of Professor Paul Osatowie of the Faculty of Engineering, Department of Electrical and Electronics, University of Benin have been arrested by men of...
Raila Odinga, the presidential candidate of the National Super Alliance (NASA) and leading Kenyan opposition leader, has called on his supporters to boycott Thursday’s repeat presidential...
Embattled Brazilian President Michel Temer has for the umpteenth time survived a move by the lower house of congress to put him on trial for charges...
While Abubakar Shekau, leader of the deadly Boko Haram sect, remains an elusive target, the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) Wednesday revealed that his wife, Mallama Fitdasi...
Following allegation of extortion of retirees by staff of Ebonyi State Audit Department, the state Governor Dave Umahi has ordered a thorough probe of the matter...
For allegedly disrespecting corpse of wife, by allowing it to decompose inside their residence, a onetime wrestling champion, John Uti, popularly known as Power Uti, was...
George Charamba, spokesman for Africa’s longest serving leader, Robert Mugabe, insisted during an interview that his boss was never officially asked to take up the controversial...
Abdurrahman Amadu, 81, has landed himself in court for being in possession of 34 fake $100 notes suspected to be counterfeit which were recovered from him...
In a continued bid to rid its system of homegrown radicalism, authorities in Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim-majority country, have arrested no less than nine men...
More properties belonging to the former chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Pension Reforms, Abdulrasheed Maina, have been sealed by the operatives of the Economic...
Reports have emerged that Boko Haram on Sunday night carried out suicide attacks in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital. The suicide bombers attacked two locations in...
The long arm of the law has again caught up with an ex-convict identified as Kunle Afolabi, 31, who was arrested after he allegedly vandalised a...
President Carles Puigdemont, the embattled Catalonian leader has rejected an impending move by the Spanish government to implement Article 155 of the constitutional provision to end...
The body of the man who committed suicide by jumping into Lekki Toll gate area of Lagos Lagoon last Friday has been found. The body of...
Days after the speaker of the Catalan parliament, Carme Forcadell, called measures announced by the Spanish government to implement constitutional provision to end Catalonia secession bid...
President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe has been stripped of his role as a goodwill ambassador for the World Health Organisation (WHO), days after he was appointed...
A diplomatic feud is currently brewing in North Africa after the Algerian foreign minister accused Moroccan banks of laundering drug money in Africa forcing Rabat to...
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director general of the UN health agency, is rethinking his decision to name Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe a goodwill ambassador amid growing...
The Lagos State Commissioner of Police Imohimi Edgal has warned and advised residents who have cars abandoned at police stations across the state to remove them...
The previously untapped Article 155 of Spain’s constitution which will enable Madrid to seize powers from the wealthy northeastern region of Catalonia, according to Spanish Prime...
Infamous Nigerian “underwear bomber” Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab has dragged the US government to court for allegedly violating his constitutional rights by not allowing him communicate with...
A raid by armed policemen across 24 states including the Brazilian capital of Brazilia, witnessed the arrest of no less than 108 suspected pedophiles across the...
A tragic scene played out in George Town, capital of the northwest Malaysian state of Penang when a landslide at a construction site buried 20 people...
Pressure is mounting on Catalonia’s leader Carles Puigdemont to drop a secession bid as final deadline looms with Spain waiting in the wings to impose full...
A daredevil 21-year-old suspected rapist did the unthinkable in Okpe Local Government Area of Delta State, when he stormed the home of his victim, Mercy Godwin,...
Scores of several demonstrators and activists thronged the streets of Washington DC in the US to welcome the latest blocking of President Donald Trump’s proposed plan...
Wafula Chebukati, the chairman Kenyan Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) has stated that he is not sure that the rescheduled presidential election slated for October...
The Chief of Army Staff, Nigerian Army, Lt.-General Tukur Buratai, has disclosed that the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government is currently acquiring and installing fresh technologies...
For the third time in a row, the controversial travel ban on several Muslim countries mooted by US President Donald Trump has been blocked by a...
A woman simply identified as Morenike has been arrested after she was unable to provide useful answers when questioned over a four-year-old girl she brought home...
The streets of Barcelona have been flooded with demonstrators numbering up to 200,000 who are demanding the release of two jailed Catalan leaders who have been...
The Senate, on Tuesday, summoned the Minister of Solid Minerals, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, to brief it in plenary on his Ministry’s mining roadmap and implementation framework....
The Vice President of Kenya William Ruto has declared that opposition leader Raila Odinga pulled out of the forthcoming run-off elections not for reasons of principle...
Two leaders of two of the largest separatist organizations in the Catalan region have been jailed by Madrid’s High Court as Spain moved closer to imposing...
Defiant North Korea led by headstrong leader Kim Jong Un has warned that the situation in the Korean peninsula “has reached the touch-and-go point and a...
The long arm of the law has caught up with a 26-year-old robbery gang leader identified as Olasunkanmi Olajide after himself and his gang members robbed...
There is more trouble in the horizon for oil-rich nation Venezuela after the opposition led by Gerardo Blyde of the Democratic Unity coalition demanded a complete...
The police in Kenya have identified the lone gunman whhttps://www.ripplesnigeria.com/?p=107880&preview=trueo attacked a school in the northern part of the country, killing no less than seven victims,...
Scores of common Iranians are wallowing in despair over fears of their economic future after President Donald Trump refused to formally certify that Tehran was complying...
Tragedy struck at the Balukhali camp in Ukhiya town, southern Bangladesh when a herd of wild elephants overran sleeping Rohingya refugees killing a woman and her...
Officers of the Inspector General of Police’s Intelligence Response Team have been accused of extorting money, other valuables running into millions of naira as well as...
The long arm of the law has caught up with two notorious kidnappers identified as 27-year-old Emmanuel Jibril and Thyasa Momoh, 20, both of whom previously...
