•Late Ali Hassan Mwinyi Former Tanzanian president Ali Hassan Mwinyi, who introduced multi-party democracy to the East African nation, died yesterday aged 98, the presidency said. “I’m saddened to announce the death… around 5:30 in the evening,” President Samia Suluhu Hassan said on state television TBC1, adding that he had been receiving trea...
The bodies of eight migrants have been found after their vessel sank off Morocco’s northern coast, local authorities said today, adding that nine others were rescued. The migrants took off from Morocco’s northern Nador region seeking to “cross the Mediterranean aboard an inflatable boat”, authorities were quoted by the state news agency MAP as...
•Site of Anambra collapsed building The Anambra State Emergency Management Agency has confirmed the death of six people in the building collapse incident that occurred in the commercial city of Onitsha yesterday. According to the agency, about 20 other people were rescued from the rubbles of the collapsed building. Most of them sustained vario...
•A stationary car Three children of the same parents were yesterday found dead inside a car parked in Ilorin, Kwara State. The deceased, a boy and two girls, were suffocated to death inside the car parked at their compound at No 8, Boluke Line, Zango-Kulende quarters in the Ilorin metropolis, reports The PUNCH. It was […]
•The market One person has died following a clash between two traders in the Oluwole Market in Ogba, Lagos State. Trouble ensued when two men, Hausa and Yoruba, were engaged in a verbal exchange leading to a fight and the eventual death of one who was stabbed by his opponents, reports Channels TV. According to […]
•FRSC officials at an accident scene Nine persons have been reported killed in a road crash at Kere Town in the Ewekoro Local Government Area of Ogun State. The sad accident, which occurred today along the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway, also saw seven injured persons. The spokesperson for the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in the state, [&hellip...
•Late Andreas Brehme German football legend, Andreas Brehme, who scored from the penalty spot to seal victory for West Germany against Argentina in the 1990 World Cup final, is dead. He died at the age of 63 overnight into this morning. Brehme’s death was announced by his former club, FC Bayern München. The club announced […]
•Late Henry Rono Kenyan long-distance runner Henry Rono, who set four world records in 81 days, has died at the age of 72, athletics officials said today. Rono was a student at the Washington State University in the United States when he blazed the track with four world records in 1978 in the 3,000m, 5,000m […]
One person was killed and children were among the 21 injured after a mass shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl victory rally yesterday triggered panic among huge crowds of fans. Shots rang out moments after jubilant Chiefs players addressed a vast, cheering crowd, sending shocked fans and VIPs fleeing in a tragic end […]
The Chairman of the Ondo Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Mr Fatai Adams is dead. He reportedly died in the early hours of today. Ondo PDP Publicity Secretary, Mr Kennedy Peretei, who confirmed the incident, said the party would soon make official communication to the media on the matter. “Yes it is true […]

