The current Deputy Chief de Mission at the Embassy of Israel in Nigeria Mr. Nadav Goren has said the power behind the nation’s economy is in the population and not the conventional oil sector. Goren […]
Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed took to national television dressed in military fatigues and described the situation in Amhara as an attempted coup Ethiopian police have shot dead a security chief suspected of orchestrating a […]
Turkey’s ruling party has lost control of Istanbul after a re-run of the city’s mayoral election, latest results show. The candidate for the main opposition party, Ekrem Imamoglu, won 54% of the vote with nearly […]
The chief of staff of the Ethiopian army, Gen Seare Mekonnen, has been shot dead by his own bodyguard in the capital, Addis Ababa. He and another officer died trying to prevent a coup attempt […]
A light aircraft has crashed in Hawaii, killing at least nine people on board, officials say. The twin-engine aircraft went down close to Dillingham Airfield near Mokuleia in Honolulu County. There were no survivors from […]
A son of the late former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has accused incumbent President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and a number of other officials of “killing” his father. Morsi, Egypt’s first democratically elected president who was arrested after being overthrown in […]
Egypt’s former president Mohammed Morsi, who was ousted by the army in 2013, has died in court, state TV says. He reportedly fainted after a court session where he was facing espionage charges and subsequently […]
Twenty four people were killed when a passenger bus and a smaller transport vehicle collided in north-east South Africa, police said on Monday. Four others sustained serious injuries when the vehicles crashed head-on in the […]
Another Nigerian , Maxwell Ikechuku Okoye, from Oji River Local Government Area of Enugu State, has been allegedly killed by members of the South African Police Service. The Vice-President, Nigerian Union in South Africa, Mr Joshua Ogade Itua, told the News […]
A member of the Kenyan Parliament representing Wajir East, Rashid Kassim has been arrested hours after allegedly assaulting Wajir County Woman Representative Fatuma Gedi. Wajir Woman Representative Fatuma Gedi was allegedly beaten up on Thursday […]
The 10 candidates running to replace Britain’s outgoing Prime Minister Theresa May face the first round of voting today. And it is expected that at least one of them will be eliminated. Conservative MPs hold […]
Queen Elizabeth II on Saturday celebrated her 93rd birthday with a parade, a cause for Meghan, the duchess of Sussex and wife of Prince Harry, to make her first official engagement since the birth of […]
For refusing to perform sexual acts before them, a female couple were left covered in blood after the beating they received inside a bus by a group of homophobics, who attack them for their sexual […]
A group of 14 lions is on the loose near a mining community bordering South Africa’s Kruger National Park, officials said Friday, and warned members of the public to be alert. The lions have been […]
British Prime Minister Theresa May steps down as leader of her Conservative Party on Friday, formally triggering the race for a successor who will try where she failed to deliver Brexit. May will remain prime […]
The African Union (AU) has on Thursday suspended Sudan days after the military launched a crackdown on protesters that killed dozens of people. The AU’s Peace and Security Department said in a post on Twitter […]
Shakira Mebarak, Colombian singer, appeared in a Spanish court on Thursday to answer tax fraud charges. The prosecutors accused her of failing to pay up to 14.5 million euros ($16.29 million) in taxes on income […]
No fewer than 26 Nigerians successfully studied and graduated after registering and learning Korea language in various classes put together by Korean Cultural Centre in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital. The graduating students who were full of […]
Gianni Infantino has just been reelected as President of global football’s governing body, FIFA, in Paris. The Swiss-Italian, 49, was re-elected until 2023 without opposition at Fifa’s annual congress in Paris. He succeeded Sepp Blatter in 2016 […]
Thousands of protesters greeted President Donald Trump’s U.K. visit with anger and British irony Tuesday, crowding London’s government district while the U.S. leader met Prime Minister Theresa May nearby. Feminists, environmentalists, peace activists, trade unionists […]
Israel’s First Lady, Nechama Rivlin, 73, died on Tuesday morning after battling with a respiratory disease for years, the Presidential Residence announced. She died at Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva. Three months ago, Rivlin underwent […]
Nigeria’s permanent representative to the United Nations, Tijjani Muhammad-Bande, has just emerged president of the 74th United Nations general assembly (UNGA). As the sole candidate for the position, Muhammad-Bande, emerged through acclamation at the 87th […]
A man caught inside a church with a fully loaded pistol, is presently explaining to the police what led to such a bizarre act. Police have detained the man, said to be a Burkinabe caught […]
The U.S. government is gearing up to investigate whether Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google misuse their massive market power, sources told Reuters on Monday, setting up what could be an unprecedented, wide-ranging probe of some […]
A 77-year-old woman was woken up in the middle of the night by what she thought was an intruder – but instead found an 11ft alligator in her kitchen. Mary Wischhusen heard a large crash […]
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