At least 17 persons have been reportedly killed and 31 others critically injured after a bus plunged down from above 90 metres off a mountainous roadside in southern Mexico. According to emergency services...

Members of a Christian sect in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Bundu dia Kongo, on Wednesday morning, attacked a prison in Kinshasa, the country’s capital, freeing their leader along with 50...

Ghana’s Education Service has banned female teachers in the country from wearing trousers to school except during sporting activities. The directive was contained in an internal memorandum released...

Just minutes after Cote’Ivoire’s Defence Minister, Alain-Richard Donwahi announced on state-owned television that an agreement has been reached to end the on-going unrest in the country, renegade...

  Seventeen inmates from the Buimo Prison in the city of Lae in Papua New Guinea have been killed during a mass prison break on Friday. According to Lae Metropolitan Police, apart from the 17 prisoners...

  North Korea has warned that the new stringent sanctions the United States has placed on the country would only spur her to develop nuclear weapons. The warning was contained in a rare letter of...

  Controversy has continued to trail the recent sacking of the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) Chief, James Comey, by US President, Donald Trump. Trump, who accused Comey of being a “showboat...

The United Nations General Assembly on Thursday, appointed Nigeria’s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the UN, Prof. Tijjani Muhammad-Bande, to preside over the 81st Plenary of the 193-member...

Zimbabwe’s president, Robert Mugabe, has said that his country is one of the most developed countries on the continent, second only to South Africa. He made the statement on Tuesday during a plenary...

Much to the relief of the European Union, the Centrist’s Party candidate, 39-year-old Emmanuel Macron has been declared winner of Sunday’s presidential elections in France. Macron, who has a business-friendly...

Two people have been reportedly hospitalized with gunshot wounds after a shooting near the Fountainbleau Hotel in Miami Beach on Sunday. Although Miami Police has not released details about the suspect...

The United States Military has confirmed that the Terminal High Attitude Area Defense (THAAD) system is already operational in South Korea. In a statement signed by Colonel Richard Manning on Monday,...

The president of Tanzania, John Magufuli has sacked about 10,000 civil servants and ordered that their April salaries be withheld after they were found to have forged high school and university certificates. Magufuli,...

  Famous Ethiopian blogger and journalist, Eskinder Nega, has been awarded the 2017 World Press Freedom Hero, despite his being in jail since 2011. Nega was announced winner of the prestigious award...

  Twenty-four people were reportedly killed and 19 others critically injured when a trailer truck and passenger bus collided at the Kibwezi area of Kenya late Monday night. According to Leonard Kimaiyo,...

  A Nigerian pilot who works for Air Djibouti, Ademola Odujinrin has become the first African to fly solo around the world. In a statement released by Odujinrin’s foundation, Transcend, the 38-year-old...

The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is offering the sum of $1000 as reward for any information that will lead to the arrest of a Nigerian for alleged internet fraud. 32-year-old Kelechi...

A man, John Robert Boone, who escaped from US federal agents about a decade ago, has been deported from Canada to face marijuana charges in the United States. According to John Curtis, a US marshal, Boone,...

Somalia’s new military chief, Gen. Mohammed Adam Ahmed , on Sunday  survived a suicide bomb attack that left at least thirteen people dead. The attack which occurred moments after he was sworn in and...

As a US Navy strike group led by a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier heads towards the Western Pacific Ocean, North Korea has warned  the United States of a pre-emptive nuclear strike. North Korea’s...