More than 4,000 people have now died from the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, according to the World Health Organization. Most of those deaths have been in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. On Friday, the Geneva-based World Health Organization (WHO), … read more
Ten Chinese and 17 local hostages have been released in Cameroon, where they were kidnapped earlier this year in raids blamed on the Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram, Cameroon’s president said Saturday. “The 27 hostages abducted on May 16 in … read more
The State Department is renewing its global terrorism alert for Americans traveling abroad, saying it sees a heightened risk of reprisal attacks from the by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and its supporters. In a new “worldwide … read more
Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State yesterday urged people of the state to refrain from activities capable of causing what he called “needless noise.” The governor said if only residents would cooperate with government in reducing noise as they did … read more
Telecoms giant MTN is in the firing line in a row between Nigeria and South Africa over a blocked arms deal. Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has approached his South African counterpart about the matter but President Jacob Zuma’s office insists … read more
A Liberian man who was the first person diagnosed with Ebola outside of West Africa died in a Texas hospital yesterday, as Washington stepped up airport screening against the deadly virus. Thomas Eric Duncan died in a Dallas hospital 10 … read more
Nigerian President, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has been named sixth richest president in Africa by Richest Lifestyle, a US-based website. The online portal in an article entitled, ‘Richest African Presidents 2014′, compiled a list of the nine richest presidents and kings … read more
Piracy will increase in the Gulf of Guinea as Nigeria prepares for an election next February in order to funnel ransom money into campaign financing, intelligence experts told a shipping conference in Copenhagen on Tuesday. Risk Intelligence, which advises private … read more
The discovery of oil in Nigeria’s Bayelsa state in 1954 triggered a fundamental disruption of the country’s economic status quo and within the next decade, crude oil emerged in dominance over other drivers of the economy and eventually became the … read more
Sky watchers and observers of the lunar system will notice an extremely rare cosmic sight tomorrow, October 8, when a total lunar eclipse is expected to occur in different parts of the world. The total eclipse of the moon, according … read more