Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State has given in to pressure from the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, by recalling the 3000 workers of the state government...
Tragedy struck on Wednesday morning when an Indonesian air force plane which was on a routine maintenance flight crashed into a home in the island of...
Labour unions in Imo State, namely the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) have made good their threat to shut down the state,...
Zimbabwe is seeking for alms as it hopes to save more than a quarter of its population from starvation following the worsening drought situation which has...
At least three Malian soldiers lost their lives when the vehicle they were driving in hit a landmine in Mopti located in the central region of...
In from Ripples Nigeria The lower legislative chambers of the National Assembly on Tuesday set in motion an investigation into the diversion of N1.5b compensation fund...
In from Ripples Nigeria The Chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr. Ibrahim Magu, on Tuesday sought the support of the National Assembly to...
A Nigerian, Abdulsalam Enesi Yunusa, has been arrested by the Department State Services (DSS), over allegations that he was recruiting for the Islamic State of Iraq...
A Chinese baby, who was declared dead by doctors, miraculously breathed his way back to life moments before he was to be cremated according to a...
There was drama on Tuesday at the Federal High Court in Abuja, when embattled leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, refused to...
The murder of Italian student Giulio Regeni who was found dead in Cairo has obviously ruined the once friendly relationship between Egypt and Italy with the...
A senior U.S. defence official has said that the long-rang satellite shot into space by North Korea is “tumbling in orbit” and incapable of functioning in...
German police say at least two people have been reported dead and 100 left injured after a train derailed in the southern part of Germany. According...
Opposition parties in South Africa and the ruling African National Congress (ANC) are heading for a heads on collision over protest trailing the controversy of the...
Unknown gunmen on Monday stormed the family house of the Taraba State deputy governor, Haruna Manu, whisking his mother, Hajiya Belli Manu away to an...
By Ali Smart Contrary to widespread insinuations in some quarters that some of the ministers who served in the last political dispensation are untouchable, the Economic...
The hope of embattled former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, to stop his trial, was again dashed by a Federal Capital Territory High Court on Monday,...
The administration of Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State recently had its image terribly bashed owning to the excesses of its several task forces. See video...
President Muhammadu Buhari has stated that there may be a number of Nigerians who have found their way to Syria, and who are fighting for the...
Pandemonium struck at an Indian school in Bangalore when an escaped leopard hurt six people who were trying to capture it. Among those mauled in the...
About 30 people, all male were killed and at least 50 more sustained varying degrees of injuries when a trailer loaded with passengers travelling to Lagos...
Rescue efforts are still ongoing to pull out possible survivors with over a 100 people still thought to be trapped under the rubble of the collapsed...
North Korea’s launch of a long-range rocket into orbit Sunday which Pyongyang say is part of a purely scientific space programme has been strongly condemned by...
A lie has been put to claims by the Federal Government that terror group, Boko Haram no longer control any part of Nigerian territory and that...
The European Union has called on Turkey to allow the entry of thousands of Syrian refugees stuck at the border of Kilis after fleeing fighting in...
Anxious families affected by the 6.4 magnitude earthquake which hit the southern Taiwan city of Tainan collapsing a 17-storey building now have cause to be positive...
The East Asian country of North Korea has finally gone ahead to launch the controversial long-range rocket which Pyongyang says carries an earth observation satellite but critics...
An Australian woman who was kidnapped alongside her husband on the same day a deadly attack was recorded at a hotel in the Burkina Faso capital,...
North Korea is all set to go ahead with its proposed satellite launch despite warning from regional and other world powers. According to regional sources, the...
A frantic search for missing persons following a 6.4 magnitude earthquake which rocked the southern Taiwan city of Tainan collapsing a 17-storey building is underway. Rescuers...
A number of state governments have decided to suspend the payment of monthly allowances to members of the National Youth Service Corps due to the prevailing...
The southern Taiwan city of Tainan has been hit by a 6.4 magnitude earthquake collapsing a 17-storey building with at least five lives lost and many...
Concerned authorities in South Africa are carrying out a major rescue operation following the collapse of a building at the surface of a gold mine which...
in from Ali Smart . . . A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos on Friday heard tales of alleged cash jamboree as the fifth prosecution witness,...
By Ali Smart . . . An otherwise peaceful protest by staff of Linda Manufacturing Company, a Korean firm in Lagos, makers of popular hair accessory, X-pression,...
Australia is facing wide-spread criticism after a leaked government document which proposes new strict assessments for over 12,000 refugees in a bid to stop ‘extremism’ became...
A 27-year-old Italian actor Raphael Schumacher has been declared clinically dead by doctors after he was strangled when a hanging scene went wrong on stage. Schumacher...
The N20 billion libel suit hanging on African Independent Television, AİT, has finally been lifted as former Lagos State governor and national leader of the All...
An 11-year-old Afghan boy, Wasil Ahmad, who has been praised by many for leading security forces in battle against the dreaded Taliban, has been shot dead...
President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe has declared a state of emergency following a drought disaster which has hit rural areas of the country with an estimated...
The police in Chicago are now investigating an apparent homicide after it found six dead bodies inside a home in the city’s South Side. According to...
The murder of Guilio Regeni an Italian PhD student of the Cambridge University now clouds the relationship between Egypt and Italy. Reports say Regeni who worked...
The Newspaper Proprietors’ Association of Nigeria (NPAN) still smarting from recent controversies that trailed it has assured the federal government that it would assist in the...
A group of suspected pipeline vandals have been arrested by a Joint Military Task Force a.k.a Operation Pulo Shield, in connection with recent pipeline bombings in...
In the face of mounting challenges posed terrorists, especially Nigeria’s Boko Haram, President Muhammadu Buhari, on Thursday in London, pleaded with the international community to give...
The Senate President, Bukola Saraki on Thursday played host to members of the Small and Medium Scale Enterprise Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN) led by Senator...
Following on the heels of another crash involving Bristow helicopters, in which 11 people escaped death, the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority NCAA has dropped its hammer...
The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) is setting the stage for a showdown with the Rochas Okorocha-led administration in Imo State over the sack of 3000 workers...
There are indications that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) investigating the arms procurement scandal tagged ‘Dasukigate’ may restrict access to bank accounts operated by...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday called on the international community to help end the turmoil in Libya, warning that it was creating a “strategic time bomb”...
