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Oil prices swing amid recession fears

Oil prices swung on Wednesday, losing earlier gains, and slumped to six-month lows as investors weighed fall in US inventories against recession fears...

Breaking: William Ruto wins Kenya’s Presidential poll

Kenya’s Vice President, William Ruto, has won the country’s presidential election, the Head of Kenya’s Electoral Commission announced on Monday. But the validity...

Help, Help!!! Terrorists taking over Kaduna State, Gov. el-Rufai urges Pres. Buhari’s intervention

Apparently beleaguered by rampaging terrorists, Kaduna State Government has cried out for help from the federal authorities to free the state from the...

Salman Rushdie will likely lose one eye, nerves in his arm severed and his liver damaged

US prosecutors have charged a man, 24, with the assault and attempted murder of Sir Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses. Rushdie...

Seplat’s Non-Executive Director, Raimi, quits, sells off 16.139m ordinary shares

…. volume of Seplat’s traded shares declined to 3,193 units at the same price of N1,430.50 per share as of Friday, August 12,...

Murder by lethal injection: Guilt-racked 82-year-old monarch with 12 wives, 60 children keeps a date with hangman

The aphorism that “the law is no respecter of persons and will bring good or evil to any, according to his use or...

Ousted Sri Lankan president arrives in Thailand

Former Sri Lankan president Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who last month fled anti-government protests in his country, arrived in Thailand on Thursday night on a...

Africa will decide its energy future – Obasanjo

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, — In the midst of a global oil and gas crisis, Africa must take charge of its own energy destiny,...

Train attack: Another batch of kidnapped passengers, family of six, 60 yr old woman released

A family of six — a couple and four children as well as a 60-year-old woman, who were among the kidnapped Kaduna-bound train...

US seeking country to accommodate Al Qaeda money courier and would-be suicide bomber Majid Khan

The United States government is urgently looking for a country that will take in former Al Qaeda money courier Majid Khan, who was...

Elon Musk sells Tesla shares worth nearly $7bn

Chief executive of Tesla, Elon Musk sold $6.9 billion of his shares in the electric car maker, his biggest sale on record, saying...

Serena Williams says she’ll soon retire from Tennis

Grand Slam 23-time winner Serena Williams announced on Tuesday that “the countdown has begun” to her retirement from tennis. “There comes a time in...

Debt-Ridden Dana Air Flies Plane Without Licensed Captain, Other Safety Infractions

``One of Dana Air’s Captain who had attained 65 years of age in July, 2021, operated several flights on the jump seat. Also,...

Breaking: Jailed ex-Plateau, Taraba governors finally released from prison

Barely three and a half months after jailed ex-Governors Joshua Dariye and Jolly Nyame were pardoned by the National Council of States, the...

Breaking: Tafa Balogun, 11th Inspector-General of Police is dead

The 11th Nigeria’s Inspector-General of Police, Mr Mustafa Adebayo Balogun, is dead. Born on August 25,1947 in Ila Orangun,  Osun State, the late...