Fifteen sailors were abducted by pirates from a Turkish container ship – M/V Mozart, reports said on Sunday. A sailor was killed in the attack, which…
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Workers, under the aegis of Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and Non Academic Staff Union of Universities and Educational Institutions (NASU), have issued an…
No fewer than 1,300 health workers of various specialisations will be employed Enugu State, southeast Nigeria, an official said on Saturday. Dr Okechukwu Ossai, Administrator of…
A court in Switzerland has sentenced the billionaire Israeli businessman, Beny Steinmetz, to five years in prison for bribery in relation to acquiring mining rights to…
The Malian government plans to buy over 8.4 million doses of coronavirus vaccine, the country’s council of ministers has said. The council said it expects to…
A 45-year-old Nigerian man, Adetunji Tunde Oluwasegun, has been sentenced to two years in prison for spending N2m naira that had been erroneously transferred into his…
Diary Sow, the talented Senegalese student who went missing in France since 4 January 2021, has made contact with authorities in her country, explaining that she…
The Chairman of the Governing Board of NRC, Ibrahim Musa, while speaking during the event, said the e-ticketing solution had finally put an end to the persistent allegation of ticket racketeering at the train stations.
A father of two has died of complications related to coronavirus (COVID-19) hours after arriving in Canada from Lagos, Nigeria. Canada requires in-bound travellers to test…
No fewer than 11 people, including two doctors, have been arrested in Ghana for their alleged roles in a “baby-harvesting” and child-trafficking syndicate. Authorities busted the…