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Engineering Student Jailed For Kidnapping
Jethro Ibileke/Asaba Ndudi Ogwu, an ND II Mechanical Engineering student of Delta State Polytechnic, Ogwashi-Uku, has been convicted and sentenced…
Olu Of Ikeja Dies, markets shut down
Yisa Jamiu The Olu of Ikeja Kingdom, Lagos, southwest Nigeria, Oba Rauf Adeniyi Aremu Matemi, is dead. He was said…
Court Bailiff Faces Trial Over Pension Scam
Nnamdi Felix/Abuja Magistrate Oyeyipo of an Abuja Magistrates’ Court’s siting at Karu has fixed 25 Friday July, for the trial…
Arisekola’s Wife Killed In Auto Crash
Gbenro Adesina/Ibadan Barely a week after the death of the Aare Musulumi of Yoruba Land, Alhaji Arisekola Alao, one of…
Spanish princess appeals tax and fraud charges
Spanish King Felipe VI’s sister, Princess Cristina, appealed on Wednesday against tax and money-laundering charges that threaten to land her…
Taiwan’s Hon Hai pulls out of Huawei deal
Taiwan tech giant Hon Hai said Wednesday it has pulled out of a deal to buy 4G equipment from Huawei…
Top Jordan jihadist denounces IS caliphate
A leading Jordanian jihadist ideologist on Wednesday denounced the declaration of a “caliphate” by Sunni militants in Iraq and Syria,…
Police arrest 500 in Hong Kong protest
Hong Kong police arrested more than 500 protesters at a sit-in early Wednesday following a huge march that organisers said…
Blast rips through Osun, Kaduna, Borno killing scores
A bomb blast rocked Ile-Ife, Osun State, early Wednesday morning. The low small bomb went off in the Onipetu area…
Oscar Pistorius a ‘suicide risk’
Paralympian star Oscar Pistorius, on trial over the killing of his girlfriend, is suffering from post-traumatic stress and is a…
Facebook probed by Britain over mood experiment
British authorities will question Facebook over an experiment in which the social network secretly manipulated the feelings of users to…
Consumer education vital for product satisfaction – Airtel
Airtel Nigeria’s Director of Corporate Communications & CSR, Emeka Oparah, has identified consistent consumer education as strategic to ensuring customer…
Boat migrant death toll in Italy rises to 45
Rescuers recovering the bodies of migrants left to die in the suffocating hull of an overcrowded fishing boat said on…
French police clear 320 migrants from Channel camps
French police early Wednesday cleared a food handout centre and three squats in the port of Calais occupied by some…
Golden Eaglets off to Cairo for friendly
The national Under-17 team, Golden Eaglets would depart Abuja for Cairo on Wednesday for a two-tie international friendly match against…
W. African nations in crisis talks as Ebola spreads
Health ministers from across western Africa gathered on Wednesday to plan “drastic action” against the world’s deadliest-ever Ebola epidemic as…
Anambra hosts Gulder Ultimate Search XI
Funsho Arogundade The deep forest of the ancient Aguleri community in Anambra State will host the 11th edition of the…
Lebanese wife-beater convicted under new law
A Lebanese man who beat his wife has been jailed for nine months in the first such conviction under a…
Ex-French president Nicolas Sarkozy charged with corruption
France’s former president Nicolas Sarkozy has been charged with corruption and influence peddling, French prosecutors said Wednesday, a dramatic move…
Taliban suicide attack on military bus kills 8 in Kabul
A Taliban suicide bomber in Kabul killed eight military officers Wednesday in an attack on an air force bus, Afghan…
China bans civil servants, students from Ramadan fasting
China has banned civil servants, students and teachers in its mainly Muslim Xinjiang region from taking part in Ramadan fasting,…
Kenyan plane crashes into building, kills 4
At least four people died when a cargo plane crashed into a building shortly after takeoff Wednesday from the Kenyan…
Orlando unveils Brazilian ace Kaka
Brazilian star Kaka was officially unveiled Tuesday as the marquee signing of Major League Soccer expansion team Orlando City SC,…
Brazil police break up World Cup-related protest
Brazilian police fired tear gas and rubber bullets to break up a protest Tuesday by some 300 people demanding the…
Murdered Israeli teens laid to rest
Israel on Tuesday paid an emotional farewell to three teenagers killed in the West Bank, while vowing to hunt down…
Belgian players hail superb Howard
Lionel Messi, Neymar and Robin van Persie make the headlines, but the World Cup’s real heroes have been goalkeepers like…
Wole Soyinka Prize: Literary icons to inspire secondary students
Select pupils from secondary schools in Nigeria with keen interest in literary arts will have a golden opportunity to meet…
Di Maria fires Argentina into last eight
Four-time world footballer of the year Lionel Messi set up Angel di Maria for the only goal two minutes from…
Sharapova out, Serena suffers health scare
Maria Sharapova suffered more Wimbledon heartache as the French Open champion crashed to a shock 7-6 (7/4), 4-6, 6-4 defeat…
Rafael Nadal knocked out of Wimbledon by World number 144
Australia’s world number 144 Nick Kyrgios caused one of the greatest Wimbledon sensations on Tuesday when he sent world number…