Month: December 2018

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has estimated that 25,685 babies would be born i n Nigeria on New Year Day. Pernille Ironside, UNICEF Nigeria’s Acting Representative revealed this in a statement on Monday in Abuja. He said that the…

  The Police Command in Enugu state has confirmed that five persons were killed in an accident along Enugu-Abakaliki road on Monday. The state’s Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), SP Ebere Amaraizu, gave the confirmation while speaking with the News…

Tragedy struck as three youths drowned while swimming in a dam after a church camp programmes. The youths, from a Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe based Glory Ministries church drowned just outside Marondera. The police were said to have retrieved the bodies of…

  Nigeria’s former President, Olusegun Obasanjo has called on Nigerians not to mourn the demise of the nation’s first Executive President, Alhaji Shehu Shagari. Obasanjo said instead of mourning the late president, he should rather be celebrated as a true,…

  Scores of corpses were gutted by a mysterious fire at the mortuary section of the General Hospital Enugwu -Ukwu in Njikoka Local Government Area of Anambra. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) gathered that the incident occurred at about…

  Bangladesh went to the polls on Sunday after violence-plagued campaigning, with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina confident of a third straight term in a face-off against an opposition whose leader is in jail charged with corruption. Law enforcement officials are…

  The United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has restated the “red alert” he issued on Jan. 1, 2018 over a range of dangers confronting the world, which “still persist” as 2019 looms. The UN chief said in his message for…

Morocco has arrested a Swiss national  in connection with the killing of two Scandinavian women, the counter-terrorism agency said. Reuters recalls that Louisa Vesterager Jespersen, 24, from Denmark, and Maren Ueland, 28, from Norway were found dead early on Dec….

The United Nations has released a new report, which detailed the unimaginable horrors Nigerian migrants were being subjected from the moment they entered Libya and throughout their stay in that country. The report, released by the United Nations Support Mission…

President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday arrived Sokoto State to condole with the family, people and government over the death of former President Shehu Shagari. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the president was received at the airport by…