Three women among the 49 Ivorian soldiers detained in Mali have been released. The women arrived home late on Saturday about seven weeks after their arrests sparked a diplomatic spat between military-ruled Mali and the Ivory Coast. Mali said the group – who [...]
A new report has revealed that over 78 per cent of new construction will involve smart building automation and at least one facet of Internet of Things (IoT) and other related buildings technologies in the next five years. It stated [...]
Five people died in a boat accident that happened in the Gwaram Local Government Area of Jigawa State, the police have said. The incident occured less than one week after a similar one in Miga Local Government Area led to the [...]
At least 46 people were reported killed and 16 missing in a 6.8 magnitude earthquake that shook China’s southwestern province of Sichuan. The earthquake which happen on Monday, triggered landslides and shaking buildings in the provincial capital of Chengdu, whose [...]
An 18-year-old boy, Adamu Musa has died in an attempt to rescue his cow in Buji Local Government Area, Jigawa State. A resident told that the incident occurred on Saturday evening at Unguwar Magina in Buji town. He said the [...]
A United Nations helicopter has crashed while flying over the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo’s North Kivu province, the World Food Programme (WFP) said. The UN Humanitarian Air Service chopper, managed by the WFP, went down near the city [...]
The war of words between the Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike and his party’s national chairman, Senator Iyorchia Ayu is not abating. And it may not any time soon. Only yesterday, Wike threatened to assist the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) [...]
A man has allegedly shot his elder brother over non-payment of electricity bill in Uruagu, a community in Nnewi North Local Government Local Government Area of Anambra State, Nigeria’s South-east. The suspect, Peter Orji, reportedly accused his elder brother, Godwin Orji, [...]
The presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) and human rights activist, Omoyele Sowore, has stated that the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, is part of the old system he (Sowore) has always faulted. Sowore, who [...]
A pressure group of the All Progressives Congress’ presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, on Thursday, settled the bills of 40 patients who were on admission in the popular Kubwa General Hospital in the Federal Capital Territory. The initiative, which received a [...]
A United Nations-chartered ship loaded with Ukrainian wheat destined for millions at risk of starvation in Ethiopia has arrived in Djibouti, according to the World Food Programme. The bulk carrier MV Brave Commander, which is carrying 23,000 tonnes of grain, [...]
Nigeria’s bid to float a new national carrier appears to have entered the wrong time zone, with credible investors and technical partners allegedly reluctant to warm up to the high-end venture. The development, following the completion of the bid process, [...]
The police in Jigawa State on Tuesday said two teenage boys died in a boat mishap that happened in the Miga local government area of the state The police spokesperson in the state, Lawan Adam, in a statement, said the victims were [...]
Troops of Operation Desert Sanity in Nigeria have reportedly ambushed suspected fighters of the Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP), killing many of them in Yobe State. According to the Nigerian Army, the troops ambushed the terrorists and killed [...]
Mele Kyari, group chief executive officer (GCEO), Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited, says the country will stop importing petroleum products by mid-2023. Kyari spoke at a press briefing at the state house in Abuja on Tuesday. He said the combination [...]
A Nigerian court has rejected a request to extradite a suspended police officer to the United States after he was implicated by a social media celebrity in a fraud case. Deputy police commissioner Abba Kyari was suspended after he was implicated in [...]
Amid political consultations, alignment and realignment, former President Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday, visited residences of two former Heads of State, retired Generals Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida and Abdulsalami Abubakar. Obasanjo arrived Minna, the Niger State capital, at midday and spent about an [...]
The management of the Ekiti State University (EKSU), Ado Ekiti, has reopened the institution for academic activities, in defiance of the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Union of Universities (ASUU) nationwide. The management directed the students to [...]
Residents of Bassa Local Government Area of Kogi have been counting their losses following the collapse of Oguma-Sheria Bridge, also known as Akpada Dodo Bridge. The residents in a statement by Denwi Adunga Joshua, lamented that since the bridge collapsed [...]
Fisticuffs in the cockpit, leaving a leaky engine running while cruising over Africa — Air France pilots are under scrutiny after recent incidents that have prompted French investigators to call for tougher safety protocols. Two Air France pilots were suspended [...]
Japan will push for an African seat at the United Nations by using its place on the world body’s Security Council. “Japan reiterates its determination to redress the historical injustice against Africa of not being represented through a permanent membership [...]
Despite enlightenment and persuasion against the killing of twins and other children termed “evil,” indications have emerged that the primitive practice is still ongoing in about 68 communities across the Federal Capital Territory. Some communities in the FCT still describe [...]
The Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency (LASEPA) says that 22,500 children died from air pollution in the state in 2021. It stated that the figure was 75 per cent of 30,000 people who died in 2021 in the state due to the [...]
Gunmen suspected to be Islamic militants have reportedly killed a middle-aged woman identified as Lyop Dalyop at Bagai village in Bachi District. The district is in the Riyom local government area of Plateau State. According to Tribune, the victim was [...]
Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), is set to head back to the country to receive Ibrahim Shekarau into the major opposition party. Shekarau, a former Kano state governor, is unsettled at the New Nigeria Peoples [...]
An air raid killed at least four people, including two children, in the capital of Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region, the head of a hospital said. The federal government denied the allegations saying the air force only targeted military sites and [...]
Access to high quality, reliable and sustainable water still remains low, despite considerable progress in Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) sector. The country, in fact, failed to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) for water and sanitation in 2015, [...]
Several shops and houses were razed on Thursday when gunmen invaded Izombe, a community in Oguta Local Government Area of Imo State, South-east Nigeria. The gunmen were said to have attacked the community at about 4:30 p.m. The attack lasted for [...]
Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo of the Ikeja High Court in Lagos State sentenced Taiwo Oreagba, a former lawyer to a Nigerian singer, Naira Marley, to two years in prison on Friday for inducing the operatives with N4million bribe. After a two-year [...]
Rivers State of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Thursday sacked Senator George Thompson Sekibo as leader of the party at Ogu/Bolo Local Government Area of the state over alleged self-centeredness. Former Commissioner for Sports, Hon. Boma Iyaye has been appointed as [...]
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