Sudan’s minister of defense, Lt Gen Jamaleldin Omar has died of a heart attack in South Sudan, an official announced on Wednesday morning. Omar died in Juba town where he was taking part in peace
CHAIRMAN, Senate Committee on Trade and Investment, Senator Rose Oko, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Cross River North is dead. Senator Oko, who died last night at a UK medical facility, was aged 63. The late
A powerful earthquake has struck Zagreb, north of Croatia, damaging buildings, burying vehicles in rubble and causing several fires. As firefighting and rescue operations were ongoing at several locations across Zagreb on Sunday, news outlets
A students hostel at Kafin Hausa Science Secondary School in Jigawa state has been razed by fire. Spokesman of the Nigerian Security and civil defence corps SC Adamu Shehu confirmed the incident in Dutse. He
Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland, Iba Gani Adams, has urged the Lagos State Government and Federal Government to conduct a thorough investigation of the Sunday explosion in the Abule Ado area of Lagos State to determine
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has debunked claims of pipeline vandalism being the cause of the pipeline explosion in Abule Ado community of Lagos State. Ibrahim Farinloye, acting coordinator of the Lagos office of
Many are feared dead after a pipeline explosion reportedly rocked Abule-Soba icommunity of Lagos state this morning. The explosion of a pipeline reportedly owned by the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, in Abule-Soba community of
The National Inland Waterways Authority, NIWA, has expressed worry over incessant accidents on waterways across the nation. It said the body would not fold its arms and allow unlicensed boat drivers to continue to operate
Nigerian stocks sank to a more than four-year low on Wednesday while bond yield spreads widened as jittery investors fret over a possible naira devaluation after oil prices plunged, Reuters reported on Thursday. JP Morgan
ABUJA—Worried by the continued gridlock and other traffic challenges in Apapa Port axis, the House of Representatives, Thursday, resolved to investigate an alleged extortion of truck drivers by the terminal security operatives. The House believed
The dinghy had contacted a crisis hotline for distressed migrants after sailing from Libya for Europe on February 8. As of last October, roughly 19,000 migrants have drowned or disappeared on the sea route since
The Anambra State government through the Ministry of Diaspora Affairs, Culture and Tourism on Wednesday, hosted a stakeholder meeting with Anambra State Association of Hotel Owners in a bid to revive tourism and hospitality services
Lagos State Government on Wednesday announced that it would close Brewery Level Crossing/Gaskiya Road on Friday to facilitate completion of the ongoing construction of the Lagos-Ibadan Standard Gauge Rail line. “In line with the Nigerian
The Director General, Bureau for Public Procurement, Mamman Ahmadu, has decried level of insufficient funds for national development of the country following the declining price of crude oil, the main source of financing the national
Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, on Saturday, alerted his members that there will be a surprise search in Abia State. Kanu in a tweet on his Twitter page said