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Fashola condemns soldiers for burning BRT buses

Kazeem Ugbodaga Lagos state governor, Babatunde Fashola has condemned Friday’s mayhem at Palmgrove area on Ikorodu Road in which irate…

Pandemonium as armed policemen invade Edo Assembly

Jethro Ibileke/Benin About 50 fully armed policemen from the Police Mobile Force unit of the Nigerian Police Friday stormed the…

Senegal prime minister sacked

Senegal’s Prime Minister Aminata Toure, who has only been in power since September 2013, has been removed from office less…

Billionaire conservative donor Richard Mellon Scaife dies

Richard Mellon Scaife, a generous donor to US conservative causes and heir to a sizeable banking fortune, died Friday according…

Russian lawmakers pass new bill restricting Internet

Russia’s parliament passed a bill on Friday requiring Internet companies to store Russians’ personal data inside the country in an…

Bosnia floods unearth war graves

The remains of 24 people, believed to be Muslims killed during Bosnia’s 1990s war, were exhumed from several graves unearthed…

Nigerian troops arrest three female Boko Haram members

Nigeria Defence headquarters said on Friday 4 July that in the aftermath of the failed suicide bombing attempt on a…

Lavish Nigerian conman, ‘Fizzy’ jailed eight years

A Nigerian fraudster nicknamed ‘Fizzy’ because of his love for champagne has been jailed for eight years for conning vulnerable…

2 Die As Flyover Collapses In Brazil

A flyover has collapsed on vehicles in the Brazilian World Cup host city of Belo Horizonte, killing two people. The…

Most Lagos BRT Drivers Are Not Fit —Lawmaker

Eromosele Ebhomele The Chairman of the Lagos State House of Assembly Committee on Transportation, Commerce and Industry, Bisi Yusuf, has…

2 Men Face Trial For Throwing Rival Into Well

Cyriacus Izuekwe The police at State Criminal Investigation Department, SCID, Panti, Yaba, have arraigned two suspects over the murder of…

Chibok pleads for UN protection from Boko Haram‎

Villagers from Chibok town where Boko Haram Islamists abducted more than 200 schoolgirls on Friday appealed to the United Nations…

Human Rights Lawyer Murdered

Yusuf Muhammed A human rights lawyer Barrister Kunle Fadipe has been murdered in his home in Lagos, southwest Nigeria. He…

German agent suspected of spying for US

An employee of Germany’s foreign intelligence service is suspected of spying for Washington on a parliamentary panel probing US surveillance,…

Soldiers go berserk, set BRT buses on fire on Ikorodu Road

Kazeem Ugbodaga, Tunde Adekeye & Simon Ateba Irate soldiers went on the rampage on Friday morning at Palmgroove area of…

Mother stabs teacher to death in front of students

A female teacher was stabbed to death Friday in front of her pupils at a primary school in the southern…

Cameron’s ex-aide jailed for 18 months for phone hacking

Andy Coulson, a former editor of the defunct News of the World tabloid and en ex-aide to British Prime Minister…

Putin congratulates Obama on Independence Day

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin congratulated US counterpart Barack Obama on America’s Independence Day Friday and expressed hope that bilateral relations…

S.African policemen sacked over videoed immigrant killing

Eight South African policemen have been sacked over the death of a Mozambican immigrant who was shown in graphic video…

84-year old TV star Rolf Harris faces jail for sex assaults

Television star Rolf Harris, a household name in Britain and Australia for over 50 years, faces jail on Friday when…

N220,000 fraud: Man Bags 14 years Jail term

Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja Justice Fatu Riman of the Federal High Court Kano on Wednesday sentenced one Stephen Onyekachi to 14 years…

Fashola employs 265 health tech graduates, appeals to striking doctors

Kazeem Ugbodaga Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has appealed to the Nigeria Medical Association, NMA, to call of its…

Overpass collapse kills two in Brazil

An unfinished overpass being built for the World Cup collapsed in Brazil’s southeastern city of Belo Horizonte on Thursday, killing…

Queen to smash whiskey on Britain’s biggest warship

Queen Elizabeth II is to smash a bottle of whiskey over the British navy’s biggest ever ship at its naming…

INEC sends Osun REC on compulsory leave

Ambassador Rufus Akeju, Osun state Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), has been requested to proceed on leave of absence – for…

Bolivia allows child labour from age 10

Bolivian lawmakers have approved child workers as young as 10 years old, under a new law that lays out specific…

Lindsay Lohan sues creators of ‘Grand Theft Auto V’

Actress Lindsay Lohan is suing the creators of “Grand Theft Auto V” over a character she contends is an unsanctioned…

Train bomb blast in Egypt injures five

A bomb blast in a train in the Egyptian city of Alexandria on Thursday wounded five people, security officials said,…

US teen charged with trying to help jihadists

A United States teenager who agreed to marry a fighter from the militant network that is threatening to overrun Iraq…

France wants South Korea ferry owner event scrapped

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius has called for a cultural event organised by a businessman wanted in connection with the…