• Australia Ghana

    Four dead after ride at Australia's biggest theme park malfunctions

    Four people were killed  on a river rapids ride at Australia's biggest theme park after a malfunction threw two of the victims off the seemingly innocuous ride and left the other two trapped inside. The tragedy at the Thunder River Rapids Ride at Dreamworld on the Gold Coast, the main tourist ...

  • Paraguay

    BCP intervino ante un nuevo repunte del precio del dólar

    Luego de varios meses sin intervenir en el mercado cambiario, ayer el Banco Central del Paraguay (BCP) vendió un total de USD 3.300.000 para satisfacer la fuerte demanda de la divisa norteamericana.

  • Nigeria

    Tea vendor bags nine months for drug trafficking

    A Federal High Court in Lagos on Tuesday sentenced a 31-year-old tea vendor, Adamu Dungus, to nine-month imprisonment for trafficking in 300 grammes of Tramadol. Tramadol, a psychotropic substance, is on the government’s prohibition list of drugs. The convict, who was arraigned by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency for ...

  • Nigeria

    Avengers blow up Chevron pipeline in fresh attack

    Ovie Okpare, Warri The Niger Delta Avengers on Tuesday morning attacked an export line operated by Chevron Nigeria Limited at Escravos in the Warri South West Council Area of Delta State. The attack which the militant group claimed responsibility for reportedly occurred on Tuesday morning at about 3:45am. It marks ...

  • Nigeria

    Illegal oil export: Court won’t bar journalists from Total’s case

    Ramon Oladimeji Justice Mojisola Olatoregun of a Federal High Court in Lagos has dismissed an application to bar journalists from covering and reporting the proceedings in the case of alleged illegal oil export filed by the Federal Government against multinational oil company, Total E&P Nigeria Plc. The Federal Government sued ...

  • Nigeria

    Economy: APC’s comments prove Buhari administration is clueless – PDP

    Olusola Fabiyi, Abuja The Peoples Democratic Party has said that the open acceptance of responsibility for the economic downturn in the country by the All Progressive Congress-led Federal Government has vindicated its earlier position that the President Buhari Administration is clueless. Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State had on Monday ...

  • Nigeria

    Senate to ban street begging

    Leke Baiyewu, Abuja The Senate on Tuesday described street begging as a menace that is embarrassing the country. It therefore began a move to enact a law that will make street begging illegal. The lawmaker representing Bauchi-Central Senatorial District, Senator Isah Hamma Misau, while moving a motion titled, ‘Menace of ...

  • Nigeria

    Hold FG responsible if herdsmen attack Ekiti – Fayose

    Kamarudeen Ogundele, Ado Ekiti Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has indicted the Federal Government for not condemning the threat issued by the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria  against the state. MACBAN, the umbrella body of herdsmen in Nigeria, had on Saturday threatened to wage war against the state for enacting ...

  • USA Nigeria

    Quacks may sack us, doctors warn FG

    Akasike Chukwudi, Port Harcourt The Nigerian Medical Association has expressed worries that quacks may take over their profession if the health sector was not adequately funded. The doctors stated this on Tuesday in Port Harcourt during the opening of the 2016 Physicians’ Week, tagged, ‘Health care in a frail economy: ...

  • Nigeria

    PDP to FG: Declare emergency on economy

    The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has advised the All Progressives Congress (APC) led Federal Government to declare “emergency” on the economy. The PDP National Publicity Secretary, Prince Dayo Adeyeye, made the call in a statement in Abuja on Tuesday. Adeyeye also advised government to invite competent hands to manage and ...