•Workers clear a road from fallen trees after the passing of Storm Goretti in France, today Fierce winds battered France and Britain today as storms barrelled through northern Europe, snarling train travel, shutting schools and cutting power to hundreds of thousands of homes in plunging winter temperatures. Forecasters from Britain to Germany...
•People queue to see the coffin of late Italian fashion designer Giorgio Armani lying-in state for two days at the Armani Theatre in Milan Thousands of mourners paid homage today to Italian fashion legend Giorgio Armani, who died this week aged 91, as his coffin was put on public display in Milan. Crowds filed past […]
In Ganuwa, a community in Danmahawayi Ward, Giwa Local Government Area of Kaduna State, lies a primary health clinic which has collapsed into ruins, leaving the thousands of residents who rely on it without access to essential medical care. The deplorable state of the community PHC was highlighted in a recent statement by a civil […]
•Eurojackpot A Norwegian lottery company today apologised to 47,000 crestfallen gamblers who were mistakenly told they had won huge sums in a lottery, the firm blaming a currency conversion error. State-owned gambling group Norsk Tipping said they had published incorrect prize amounts after a Eurojackpot draw on Friday because of an error conv...
•Anti-government protesters today Thousands of anti-government protesters rallied in Bangkok today, demanding Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra resign after a leaked diplomatic phone call stirred public anger over her leadership. A Cambodian elder statesman leaked a call meant to soothe a border spat between the two nations in which Paeton...
Ordinarily, the large deposits of lead in Enyigba community in Abakaliki Local Government Area and Ameka community in Ezza South Local Government Area of Ebonyi State should be a thing of joy, happiness and a source of wealth to the people. But from every indication, it is not so because of the side effects of […]
•Travellers at motor park Thousands of passengers besieged the designated motor parks in Abuja, Lagos, and other states to benefit from the 50 per cent reduction in transport fares provided by the federal government. Recall that the federal government through the Ministry of Transportation announced last Thursday that it had agreed with stakeh...
Former leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun State have explained their reasons for defecting to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in a move they described as an authentic and widespread defection. The ex-APC members from all 30 local government areas and the Area Office issued a joint statement today, signed by Hon. [&helli...
The International Police Organisation (INTERPOL), yesterday, revealed that “hundreds of thousands of dollars” are being laundered out of Nigeria to other African countries and across the world every hour. The organisation also said money laundering across Africa and the entire world has assumed a monstrous dimension, adding that it would requi...
•Supporters wave Nigerien’s flags Niger’s junta gathered thousands of people in the capital Niamey on Friday to celebrate the first anniversary of its coup. Dressed in clothes bearing photos of regime members, the crowd chanted the name of junta chief Abdourahamane Tiani, reports AFP. “We’re celebrating, our dear country will gradually regain ...

