Politics

A young man fatally shot by Swedish police while carrying a toy gun in Stockholm had Down’s syndrome and a form of autism, local media report. Officers opened fire on Eric Torell, 20, in response to what they described as ...

Through hellfire and brimstone, “The Big Red Machine” has emerged victorious not inside the squared circle, but in the race to become the new mayor of Knox County, Tennessee. Republican Glenn Jacobs, better known to the WWE Universe as Kane, ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has assured supporters of the governing party, the All Progressives Congress APC that his administration will continue to work hard to surpass its campaign promises for a better Nigeria. He has also told the supporters not to ...

The Nigerian army have reunited children abducted two years ago by Boko Haram terrorists with their parents at Ngafure village in Dikwa Local Government Area of Borno State. In a statement signed by the Director Army Public Relations of the ...

Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa won election Friday with just over 50 percent of the ballots as the ruling party maintained control of the government in the first vote since the fall of longtime leader Robert Mugabe. Mnangagwa received 50.8 percent ...

P 21 persons drowned in a boat mishap that took place in Gandi community in Rabah local government area of Sokoto state today August 2nd. According to reports, more bodies are are believed to be in the river.   The remains of ...

The former vice president of the Democratic Republic of Congo DRC and former warlord, Jean Pierre Bemba is back in the country to run for president. He was received by huge crowds in Kinshasa, who thronged the airport to welcome ...

A top Nigerian court has cleared dozens of the followers of prominent cleric Ibrahim al-Zakzaky of criminal charges, raising hopes for the release of the cleric himself, who has been held captive for almost three years by the Abuja government. ...

Madonna suggested in a new interview that she relocated her family from their Manhattan base across the Atlantic Ocean to Portugal to escape Donald Trump. The singer spoke to Vogue Italia about the motivation behind her big move saying “this ...

The deputy Senate president, Ike Ekweremadu, was said to have been hurriedly released by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Wednesday, August 1, after suffering high blood pressure during an interrogation session. Punch reports that Ekweremadu who was ...

The exiled patriarch of Ethiopia’s powerful Orthodox Church, Bishop Merkorios, has returned home to the capital, Addis Ababa, after 27 years. Ethiopia’s reformist Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed met him in the US last week and persuaded him to reconcile with ...

The federal cabinet has approved the sum of seventy-nine point nine billion naira for the reconstruction of the road from Apapa to the toll gate on Lagos-Ibadan expressway in Lagos state, South-West Nigeria. Minister of Works, Power and Housing Babatunde ...

The Lagos Zonal office of EFCC on Wednesday, August 1, 2018, arraigned the trio of Gbadegun Isaiah Abiodun, Oladipo Oladapo and Afolabi Peter Albert, before Justice Chuka Obiozor of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos on a five-count charge bordering ...

President Muhammadu Buhari would on Friday, August 3, embark on a 10 working days holiday in the United Kingdom. This was revealed by the president’s special assistant on media and publicity, Garba Shehu, in a tweet on Wednesday, August 1. ...

Dozens of top executives and government officials have been charged, lifestyle audits have been ordered and even lie detector tests suggested in recent weeks, as Kenya launches a new crusade against corruption. There are few topics as discussed in the ...

\ At least three people have been killed as police and soldiers in Harare clashed with opposition protesters amid a delay in announcing the winner of Zimbabwe’s presidential election. The scene in the capital has deteriorated into serious disorder, according to reports on ...

Gunmen attacked a convoy carrying election materials in central Mali, triggering a shootout in which four soldiers and eight attackers were killed, a Defence Ministry spokesman said on Wednesday. The spokesman said the attack occurred late on Tuesday on the ...

Police fired tear gas to disperse stone-throwing protesters in Harare on Wednesday as the main opposition leader accused the ruling party of trying to rig the result of Zimbabwe’s election. European Union observers also questioned the conduct of Zimbabwe’s first ...

  The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the declaration followed a solidarity rallies organised by the governor’s supporters across the 23 local government areas of the state. Tambuwal told the rally that the defection came after due consultations with ...

Ahead of the elections, politicians are crossing from one political party to another looking for political parties which suit their interests. President Buhari referred to defection as a seasonal occurrence that happens on election eve. While all Nigerian major parties ...

The National Publicity Secretary of Nigeria’s governing party, the All Progressives Congress, APC, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi has resigned his position and his membership of the party. He made this known in a press statement released to journalists in Abuja. This ...

The presidential candidate for Zimbabwe’s main opposition accused the ruling ZANU-PF of trying to steal the general election on Wednesday after official figures gave President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s party a majority in parliament. Nelson Chamisa, 40, and the 75-year-old Mnangagwa were ...

23 members of the Kwara State House of Assembly have defected to PDP. This massive defection comes barely 24 hours after the state governor, Abdulfatah Ahmed and senate president Bukola Saraki, defected form APC to PDP. Reading out a joint ...

  The northern Nigerian state of Zamfara is “at the mercy” of armed bandits who have killed at least 371 people this year, Amnesty International said on Tuesday. Daily kidnappings and raids across the state have left villagers in constant ...

The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Seme Command, said it repatriated 414 irregular immigrants in the first six months of the year. The command’s spokesman , Yusuf Salman, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Seme that 159 ...