Twin Suicide Bombings Kill More Than 20 In Baghdad
The toll in a twin suicide bombing in an open-air Baghdad market on Thursday morning topped 20 dead and 40 wounded, an interior ministry official told AFP. The ministry said…
Truckers Hold Agbara Industrial Estate, Residents To Ransom
FOR three consecutive days, members of the National Association of Road Transport Owners, NARTO, last week held Agbara Industrial and Resident Estates to ransom thereby disrupting the shipment of manufactured…
Ex-AG, ex-Customs boss refund N8b into govt coffer
You cant’ prosecute us, Otunla, Dikko tell EFCC, ICPC DETAILS have emerged on how two former senior public officers returned about N8billion to the coffers of the Federal Government to…
COVID-19: Nigerian Doctors Raise The Alarm As NYSC Reopens Camp
Medical doctors from all over the country have faulted the plan by the National Youth Service Corps to open its orientation camps across the country and mobilise graduates for national…
Outbreaks On Scottish Islands ‘Believed To Be Under Control’
Covid 19 outbreaks on a number of Scottish islands are “believed are be under control” , the national clinical director has said. NHS Western Isles confirmed 10 positive cases on…
Dutch Rutte government to resign over child welfare fraud scandal
Mark Rutte’s Dutch government is to step down after thousands of families were wrongly accused of child welfare fraud and told to pay it back. Families suffered an “unparalleled wrong”,…
Amotekun Firs Operative For Killing 23-year-Old Man In Ibadan
By Stephen Godonu Afolabi Kazeem, a member of the Western Nigeria Security Network, Amotekun, has been dismissed for killing of Tosin Thomas, a 23-year-old resident of the state. Kazeem was said to…
Fourth Ivorian UN Peacekeeper Dies in Mali Attack
The death toll from an attack on UN peacekeepers in Mali has risen to four after another soldier died from his wounds, the United Nations said Thursday. A detachment of…
Yakubu’s Trial: Court To Rule On EFCC’s Request To Inspect $9.8m Cash Feb 17
Justice Ahmed Ramat Mohammed of the Federal High Court Abuja has reserved till February 17, ruling on the request by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for the Court…
COVID-19: Malaysia Declares Nationwide Emergency, Suspends Parliament
Malaysia’s king declared a nationwide state of emergency on Tuesday to fight a coronavirus surge and parliament was suspended, with critics charging it was a bid by the unstable government…
