Relative calm returns to Mexico as Hurricane Patricia weakens, but most Mexican citizens are still not letting their guard down. Patricia, the strongest hurricane ever recorded...
Russia’s pounding of ISIL strongholds in Syria counties with the use of hi tech military weapons. Sleek combat jets loaded with precision bunker-buster bombs roar into...
The eyes of the world is now focused on Tanzania as general elections are being staged across the country. The polls will decide whether the ruling...
Nobel Laureate Prof. Wole Soyinka is not taking recent “unprovoked assault of public lies” directed against him lightly, as he vowed yesterday that his latest book,...
In from Olumide Olaoluwa . . . In a bid to rid the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja of security treats, some suspected Boko Haram members...
No doubt the percentage of billionaires in the world has increased in recent times especially with news making the rounds that there’s a new richest man...
The spate of bombings of targets in the Northeastern part of the country showed no sign of abating, as two female suicide bombers have attacked a...
A twelve-year-old boy was killed and others wounded when a series of blasts targeted Shia Muslims in Dhaka as they gathered for a procession in the...
Considering the strain families go through in trying to migrate to safer climes, German Chancellor Angela Merkel is said to want hundreds of thousands of refugees...
The key actors in the South Sudan war, President Salva Kiir and rebel leader Riek Machar have in the past committed to stopping the fighting, only...
Mexicans are now preparing for the worst days after being warned about Hurricane Patricia, churning toward southwestern Mexico. Described as a “potentially catastrophic hurricane,” forecasters said...
Unknown to Nigerians, the Boko Haram terrorist group had perfected plans to extend its deadly carnage to the south western part of the country by causing...
Two top executives of a commercial bank, who have been allegedly managing accounts on behalf of former Chairman of Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT) Abdulrasheed Maina,...
French police say that at least 40 people have been killed in a collision between a bus and truck near the southwestern city of Bordeaux. Reports...
Illegal logging in Africa has resulted in the loss of millions of dollars in revenue each year, exacerbates poverty in forest-dependent communities, accelerates forest ecosystem degradation...
About 70 hostages were saved from execution during raid on ISIL prison near Hawija, which left US soldier dead. US special forces and Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga...
A young couple fell into in troubled waters and has been jailed, over the death of an infant left in their care, which they claim died...
The Federal Government is at the moment arraigning five suspects in the October 2 Nyanya, Kuje multiple bomb blasts. The suspects, Abdulazeez Muhazab, Ishaka Salihu, Mohammed...
In from Timothy Enietan-Matthews . . . In apparent reaction to several complains of engaging in illegal activities, the Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase, has...
In from Timothy Enietan-Matthews . . . The interrogation of the immediate past Minister of Interior, Comrade Abba Moro, continues today, as the Economic and Financial...
In from Ahmed Boulor . . . The crisis between the Deji of Akure, Oba Aladetoyinbo Aladelusi and the leader of the Igbo community, also referred...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been mocked and condemned for claiming Hitler did not intend to kill Jews until he was convinced to do so...
The case of fugitive cartel kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman who fell off what appeared to be a small cliff as special forces chased him earlier...
Kenya’s battle against home-grown terrorism seems to be yielding positive results. Having faced the worst attack which took place on April 2, 2015 at Garissa University...
In from Olumide Olaoluwa . . . A teenager and an octogenarian were among five persons rescued on Wednesday from a three – storey collapsed building...
In from Olumide Olaoluwa . . . A hungry male passenger aboard Air Peace Lagos-Abuja flight on Wednesday collapsed ten minutes after take-off. He was however...
By Olumide Olaoluwa Former President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday pleaded with whoever loses next Sunday’s presidential election in Tanzania to take a cue from what he...
Perhaps in attempt to douse criticisms that his administration has not been too gender sensitive in its appointments, President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of...
In from Timothy Enietan-Matthews . . . Journalists in the commercial city of Kano, North West Nigeria, had a raw deal in the hands of guards...
The US and Russian military officials have appended a memorandum of understanding aimed at avoiding clashes over Syria, as they both intensify air strikes against Syrian...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,(EFCC) Tuesday, gave account of how a former governor of Imo State, Ikedi Ohakim bought his current Asokoro residence before an...
In from Ahmed Boulor . . . The General Aviation Terminal, GAT, Muritala Muhammed Airport was the scene of a near death experience when two planes...
The ugly scenes of civil unrest and protest which characterised the third term of bid of Burundi’s Pierre Nkuruziza is now playing out in Congo with...
Leaders of the Okunraye Community in Ibeju Lekki area have denied being culpable for the untimely death of the Managing Director, Lekki Free Trade Zone, Mr....
The stakes are getting higher and the quest to make an impression before the American electorate has sometimes led presidential candidates for the forthcoming American elections...
There seems to be no end to the spiraling violence in the middle east as an Isreali man was ran over and killed in West Bank...
Friends and colleagues of former BBC journalist and U.N. official, Jacqueline Sutton who was found dead in a restroom at Istanbul Ataturk airport are calling for...
A number of people on Tuesday escaped death when the convoy of the Edo state Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Dan Orbih, was...
Protesters, under the umbrella the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, stormed Port Harcourt, Rivers State, to protest the arrest and detention of the Director of Radio...
President Muhammadu Buhari has invariably brought to an end, the civil service career of the Head of Service of the Federation, Danladi Kifasi, as he has...
Reports reaching Ripples has it that the immediate past Minister of Interior, Abba Moro, has been invited and is being questioned by the Economic and Financial...
According to a recent poll, Nigeria’s Port Harcourt International Airport is rated as the worst airport in the world. The African terminal received the unfortunate distinction...
The influx of migrants into Europe, many of them from Syria has continued to spark protest to in Europe. Every Monday evening in Dresden, thousands gather...
The nine-year reign of Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his Conservative Party came to a sudden and stunning end on Monday night at the hands of...
In what is seen as a historic attempt, several hundred mostly elderly South Koreans headed for North Korea Tuesday for a rare reunion with relatives they...
Double-amputee Olympian, Oscar Pistorius who had been held at Kgosi Mampuru II Correctional Centre for fatally shooting his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine’s Day in 2013...
Military authorities on Monday in Abuja stated that troops battling the Boko Haram insurgents in the Northeast part of the country are having to contend with...
The Secretary, Oyo State Pilgrims Welfare Board, Alhaji Adeleke AbdulKareem, said in Ibadan on Monday that two of the 1,191 pilgrims from Oyo State who performed...
Humanity has had to cash in on its insurance policy earlier than expected. Deep in the side of a mountain in the Arctic archipelago is the...
Tensions are building among thousands of migrants heading north through Balkan states as their route to Western Europe is stalled by new controls. Croatia had asked...
