Belgian police have arrested two people suspected of planning attacks in Brussels to be carried out on New Year’s eve, prosecutors say. Raids took place on...
A middle aged man in Kaduna got more than he hoped for when his bid to steal electric cable at a power supply installation led to...
By Timothy Enietan-Matthews. . . Reports reaching Ripples Nigeria has it that scores of people were killed on Monday when two female suicide bombers attacked a...
The Iraqi army has declared that the city of Ramadi has been freed from the stronghold of the Islamic State, though there are still pockets of...
By Timothy Enietan-Matthews In what may be a renewed onslaught by Boko Haram insurgents, no fewer than 20 persons were killed on Monday in a fresh...
But for the intervention of the police, a Benin-based pastor, Apostle Ikenna Okafor would have been lynched to death by an angry mob that accused him...
The reluctance of Brazil to accept an Israeli ambassador who is a West Bank settler has led to a standoff with Israel now warning it could...
By Timothy Enietan-Matthews Contrary to Federal Goverment’s anouncement that the Boko Haram insurgents have been defeated, the insurgents launched an attack on Maiduguri, the Borno State...
Reclusive ISIS leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, has waved aside Western coalition against the Islamic State group in a 24-minute audio saying airstrikes by the international coalition...
In a bid to cope with an ageing population and a shrinking workforce, China has decided to relax it’s birth laws by officially ending its one-child...
Tragedy struck at a hotel in the Ketu area of Lagos State when an apparently drunk policeman, Stephen James shot and killed three male customers on...
In from Ahmed Boulor . . . Flashpoint Borno State has continued to be a target for jihadists who have increasingly resorted to suicide bombers –...
A statement released on Saturday by police in Vienna, Austria reveals that an unnamed “friendly” intelligence service has warned several European cities of possible terror attacks....
According to a police report, at least eight people have been confirmed dead in the Dallas area after raging tornadoes and severe storms tore through the...
Lionel Zinsou, the Prime Minister of Benin Republic is thanking his stars at the moment after he emerged unhurt when the helicopter in which he was...
Palpable fear is in the air following the death of Zahran Alloush, the leader of the Jaysh al-Islam group, who was killed on Friday in an...
At least two people drowned and 12 others were injured while trying to get to a small patch of Spanish territory in North Africa by swimming...
U.S Geological Survey (USGS) reports that a 6.2-magnitude earthquake has struck northeast Afghanistan near the country’s borders with Pakistan and Tajikistan with tremors being felt as...
In what is described as the worst flooding in years, more than 150,000 people in Paraguay, Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil have been driven from their homes...
A monitoring group and Syrian state media both report that the commander of one of the most effective rebel forces battling Syria’s government has been killed...
A man who had contemplated taking his own life by jumping off a bridge in Istanbul was persuaded to give up the act by the Turkish...
Traders in the plank section of the popular Sango Market in Ibadan, Oyo State lost millions of naira worth of goods on Christmas day to an...
Narenda Mordi made a suprise stop-over in Pakistan to meet his counterpart, Nawaz Sharif. It is the first time an Indian prime minister visited the rival...
At least 25 people have been confirmed dead after an overnight fire razed a southern based Arabian hospital. The inferno, which broke out in the intensive...
It would turn out to be a black Christmas celebration for many families in Anambra State, whose family members were roasted alive when an industrial Gas...
According to a UK-based monitoring group, a deal with the Syrian government and ISIL supporters will see wounded fighters belonging to armed groups allowed to withdraw...
Foreign nationals in Beijing especially those of British and American origin have been warned to be extra cautious especially when visiting the Sanlitun district. Sanlitun is...
A Muslim man and his family from London who planned to visit Disneyland were banned from boarding a Los Angeles bound plane because of their religion....
The National Weather Service in Memphis released a map showing the track of an “exceptionally long-track, violent tornado” that hit Northern Mississippi. The violent storm and...
Tensions continue to boil over in recent months as Palestinians persist in their violent protests against Israel’s occupation and an increase in Israeli incursions into occupied...
According to a spokesperson for South Africa’s Department of International Relations, a North Korean diplomat has been summarily expelled from SA for engaging in rhino horn...
An Amnesty report says at least 200 civilians were killed as Russia pounded Syria in sporadic airstrikes in ongoing fight to free the country from the...
The controversies sorrounding the arrest and trial of the leader of the Indeginous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, went a notch higher of Wednesday, as...
Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, Wednesday painted the picture of a bleak Christmas celebration for civil servants in different states across the country, adding that...
For fear that they risk not getting a fair trial back home, a London judge has ruled that five Rwandan men accused of taking part in...
The Human Rights Watch, an international human rights advocacy body has faulted the account of the Nigerian Army, over the recent clash that led to the...
Rescuers at the site of the Shenzhen disaster made a big breakthrough when they rescued a 19 year-old man from under the rubble caused by a...
By Ahmed Boulor The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB and founder of Radio Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, has been slammed with fresh charges by...
The fight to retake Helmand- a key town in Afghanistan from Taliban forces has intensified following the deployment of British troops to help reclaim the town....
Republican aspirant, Donald Trump has weighed-in on the Miss Universe mix-up which saw Steve Harvey, the host of the “Miss Universe” pageant, originally crowning Colombia’s Ariadna...
The crackdown on terror group, ISIL has reached intensive dimensions following a search by police in Karachi for 20 women from well-off families accused of sourcing...
The alleged murder of Thomas Sankara- a left-wing radical who is considered a hero for many Africans continues to raise dust in Burkina Faso following a...
Dreaded militant group, Boko Haram are at it again, and this time, it was a child suicide bomber who detonated explosives tied to his body, killing...
An Ikeja High Court on Monday sentenced Mrs Oluronke Rosolu, a court registrar, to 10 years imprisonment for defrauding a former Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen....
Embattled former National security Adviser, NSA, Sambo Dasuki, alongside a former Minister of State for Finance, Bashir Yugular and others, got a breather on Monday, as...
In from Ahmed Boulor . . . Three persons who were obviously carried away with what they were doing in a Toyota Camry car were crushed...
A ship conveying up to 122 people capsized after being caught in rough seas off the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. Reports say the ship was attempting...
Heavily armed Taliban militants have taken over the southern Afghan province of Helmand. The militants are also reported to have taken over the police headquarters in...
Four months after huge chemical blasts at the northern port of Tianjin killed more than 160 people, a huge mound of mud and construction waste collapsed...
The cloud of political uncertainty hovering over Bayelsa State took another dimension on Sunday, as gunmen, suspected to be kidnappers, abducted the state’s Commissioner for Local...
