Former New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, for decades one of the state’s most powerful politicians, was sentenced on Tuesday to 12 years in Read more
A Connecticut woman who underwent a face transplant five years ago after being attacked by a chimpanzee is back in a Boston hospital after doctors Read more
Following growing complaints of Nigerian nationals peddling drugs in the stretch between Byculla an d P D’Mello Road, and adjacent to railway tracks of Masjid Read more
Uganda has banned live media coverage of opposition protests against the re-election of President Yoweri Museveni. The opposition Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) has called Read more
Three persons were said to have been killed after a fire incident engulfed a fuelling station along Muritala Muhammad Way in Kano State, North West Read more
Economic Freedom Fighters MPs have been suspended from Parliament after they were forcibly removed from the National Assembly on Wednesday. The MPs have been suspended Read more
The Benin Traditional Council has called on residents in Benin kingdom to bury their dead now, as funeral rites would be prohibited from the date Read more
The Nigerian Senate, yesterday, agreed to begin a process for the enactment of a law that would prescribe capital punishment for kidnappers across the country. The Read more
The KwaZulu-Natal woman who tried to sell her 18-month-old baby on Gumtree will not spend any time in jail. Bongiwe Madlala was on Wednesday handed Read more
Efforts to completely reduce the fighting capacity of Boko Haram terrorist group has yielded more positive results as Nigerian troops on Wednesday, May 4, discovered Read more
The Courier Regulatory Department (CRD) of the Nigerian Postal Service (NIPOST), on Tuesday in Lagos, raided two courier companies over unethical practices. The courier regulatory Read more
Three Red Cross staff members have been kidnapped in eastern Congo in an attack blamed by a rights group on Rwandan rebels. The abductions were Read more
The Nigerian Army on Wednesday brought six military personnel from various units of the 2 Division of the Nigerian Army, Adekunle Fajuyi Cantonment, Odogbo, Ibadan, Read more
The National Pension Commission on Wednesday said that out of the N1.16tn pension fund assets available for investment in infrastructure, only N1.36bn had so far Read more
Afeni Shakur Davis, the activist mother of slain rap legend Tupac Shakur, has died at the age of 69. She was the subject of his iconic Read more
Manchester City failed to reach their first Champions League final after an uninspiring semi-final second-leg display at 10-time winners Real Madrid. After a goalless draw Read more
The World Bank has committed the sum of $21 Million as grant to Kaduna State, in north-west Nigeria, to improve girl child education. The grant Read more
The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, IPMAN, said, yesterday its members have overcome Forex challenges as they have been granted Forex access to import Read more
Atletico Madrid have qualified for the final of this season’s UEFAu Champions League despite losing 2-1 to Bayern Munich but advance 2-2 on aggregate. Xabi Read more
The police in Afghanistan have confirmed that around 60 students of a girl school were mysteriously poisoned in Rustaq district of northern Afghanistan’s Takhar province. Read more
The entire population of the Canadian city of Fort McMurray was ordered to leave their homes late on Tuesday as a massive wildfire swept through Read more
Twenty years after it was discovered, the Aje field located in Oil Mining Lease 113 has achieved its first oil, putting Lagos on the list Read more
Troops of 120 Task Force Battalion, 27 Task Force Brigade, in conjunction with vigilantes today intercepted 5 Boko Haram terrorists logistics team at Gotumba area, who Read more
Republican front-runner Donald Trump went from long-shot contender to become the party’s presumptive nominee on Tuesday after winning Indiana primary by a wide margin. He rode Read more
He might be too young to have a Facebook account, at least according to Mark Zuckerberg’s rules, but Jani (full name not revealed) has just Read more
[CNN – Buhay Sa Korea] South Korea: The scenario, captured in mobile phone footage, is a mother’s nightmare. On the fourth story of a burning Read more
[Yahoo News] Sunday night’s premiere of Keeping Up With the Kardashians came with the mediocre explosion of drama that has kept the family firmly in Read more
BANGKOK – A British couple in their 60s who were brutally attacked during a family holiday in Thailand recounted the assault Monday in court, after Read more
President Muhammadu Buhari said he had ordered heads of security agencies to take all necessary actions to apprehend rampaging herdsmen who had been causing havoc Read more
A Brazilian judge has once again ordered the shutdown of the mobile messaging service WhatsApp, which is wildly popular in the country and used by Read more
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