An attack in northeast Kenya by suspected militant group al-Shabaab has reportedly claimed the lives of at least six people. According to Kenya’s regional governor, the...
The Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen Tukur Buratai, has said the Nigerian Army is already in a celebration mood over what it called its defeat...
The on-going protests and violence that has engulfed the Oromiya region of Ethiopia has claimed the life of a US citizen who was killed in the...
A yet-to-be identified knife man who stabbed two cops and broke the nose of a third policeman in Brussels has been shot in the leg and...
As the world celebrates Teacher’s Day, Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, has called on government to prioritise the payment of salaries and general welfare of teachers...
Days after protests turned bloody following a stampede caused by police in the Ethiopian region of Oromia and Amhara, authorities have arrested Seyoum Teshome, a notable...
Hong Kong student activist, Joshua Wong, 19, who was invited to come and speak at two universities in the Thai capital of Bangkok was detained on...
A 27-year-old male nurse, Olugbenga Isaac, found himself in the dock of the Ikeja Magistrates’ Court in Lagos for allegedly drugging and raping a 19-year-old female patient. Inspector...
Described as one of the most dangerous and fiercest storms to hit the Caribbean’s in 10 years, Hurricane Mathew has hit Cuba killing six people after...
Congo DR President Joseph Kabila has once again reiterated that he is not planning on clinging on to power while answering questions and accusations that the...
Notwithstanding the biting economic reality occasioned by the current recession in the country, Nigeria has doled out a whooping $54 million as part payment of its...
Rodrigo Duterte, the hard stance Philippine leader has told American President Barrack Obama to “go to hell” after the US refused to sell weapons to his...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday received letters of credence from some newly appointed ambassadors, and High Commissioners at the State House, Abuja. Those received were the...
A pigeon bearing a threat note for the Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi signed by a militant group which has carried out deadly attacks in military...
Haiti has been hit with the strongest Caribbean storm in nine years after Hurricane Mathew which has already claimed three lives swept through the south-western peninsula....
At least six suspected members of a gang that kidnapped the wife of the Central Bank Governor, Margaret Emefiele, about four days ago have been arrested...
In what is seen as a fresh blow for US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, the New York attorney general has ordered Trump Foundation to stop...
Two Mississippi cops have been punished by their superiors after they were both placed on a paid leave following the death of a 3-year-old (daughter of...
It was a tragic day on Sunday for the residents of Kolokolo Quarters of Enerhen, in Uvwie Local Government Area of Delta state as a mid day...
The government of Saudi Arabia has been forced to do away with the Islamic Hajiri calendar opting for Gregorian calendar which will now make the working...
The Bayelsa State chapter of the Nigerian Union of Teachers, NUT, has directed public primary and secondary school teachers in the state to stay off work...
Tension between Kiev and Moscow is expected to be on the high following the arrest of an Ukrainian journalist Roman Sushchenko by the Russian intelligence agency...
Urgent humanitarian aid is needed ahead of the winter after the Red Cross revealed that at least 600,000 people in North Korea have been affected by...
An All Progressives Congress (APC) senator, Shehu Sani has warned that the present recession in Nigeria may result into revolution if nothing is done by the...
The Los Angeles police have identified the 18-year-old shot by a white cop following a car chase as Carnell Snell Jr. In another development, calls have...
Three policemen were reportedly killed and one other is said to be in critical condition when gunmen stormed Igumale Police Station in Ado Local Government Area...
A rather peaceful demonstration by anti-government protesters turned bloody when police in Ethiopia’s Oromiya region fired teargas and warning shots on Sunday to disperse marchers at...
A Dutch journalist identified as Jeroen Oerlemans has been gunned down in an attack blamed on an ISIL sniper. According to reports, Jeroen was killed while...
The Lagos State Government in collaboration with a Lagos-based company, Phosguard Fumigant Ltd., a Non-Governmental Organisation are launching a campaign where residents will be paid for...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday hosted a cocktail event as part of activities to mark Nigeria’s 56th Independent Anniversary. The event had members of the diplomatic...
Concerned Militant Leaders (CML), a Niger Delta militant group has said it would not release 24 Nigerian soldiers it claimed it captured on Friday and vowed...
Jacob Hall, a 6-year-old kindergarten student at Townville Elementary School, who was critically wounded in the shooting at an elementary school in Townville, South Carolina, died...
Another black man has been shot dead again by a white cop in Los Angeles following a car chase. According to Sgt. Barry Montgomery, cops tried...
Two men have been arrested by the Ogun State Police Command for being in possession of dismembered human body parts. The duo, Wole Oke, 38, and...
Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State, one of the major oil producing states in Nigeria has insisted that it is not possible for his government to...
The names of those responsible for downing Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over Ukraine in 2014 might be confirmed by the end of the year Australian Foreign...
According to an internal memorandum reported by Der Spiegel magazine on Saturday, Germany’s economy ministry believes a Donald Trump presidency would severely damage the U.S. economy....
The Somali capital of Mogadishu has been hit by an explosion caused by a car filled with explosives which blew up near a restaurant killing at...
Israeli forces have shot and killed a Palestinian who stabbed and wounded an Israeli security guard at a main military checkpoint in the occupied West Bank...
Ugandans are expressing anger over the killing of Alfred Olango by a US cop with many especially in the town he left more than two decades...
Mrs Margaret Emefiele, wife of the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Godwin Emefiele who was kidnapped on Thursday has regained her freedom. She...
The wife of Godwin Emefiele, the governor of Nigeria’s Central Bank (cbn), Mrs. Margaret Emefiele, has been reportedly kidnapped by gun men. Sketchy reports say she...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday attended Juma’at Prayer to mark Nigeria’s 56th Independence Anniversary celebration at the National Mosque in Abuja. With him were President of...
A witness, Mr Tabugn Sylvanus who testified in court during the ongoing trial of former Interior Minister, Abba Moro, has disclosed how miserly release of fund...
San Diego police have revealed that the unarmed black man who was shot dead by a Southern California cop was holding a vape smoking device before...
There was a clash between some traders in Kaduna and a team of operatives from the state office of the Standard Organisation of Nigeria (SON). The...
Uchena Elumadu, a 49-year-old trader who hails from Imo State has confessed to police while being interrogated that he was drunk on the night he raped...
Tragedy struck at the New Jersey train station during the rush hour when a train rammed into a platform killing a woman and wounding more than...
A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Femi Falana, has rebuffed the idea of apologising to Charles Soludo for alleging that the former Central Bank of Nigerian...
A day after the Somali government suggested that the US was deceived into launching an airstrike which claimed the lives of 22 soldiers in the north...
