The police said that eight people, including four children, were killed and over 12 others injured when a factory wall collapsed in the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh on Wednesday. The police said the incident took place early in the morning at Saraj Majra village, 120 km from the …

  Economic and financial experts have raised the alarm over the nation’s rising debt burden, calling on the Federal Government to spend more on capital expenditure and exercise care in its quest for more borrowing. The experts, who spoke in separate interviews with our correspondents on Tuesday, reacted to the …

Governor Nasir El Rufai of Kaduna State has ordered the immediate arrest of all signatories to a statement issuing a three-month ultimatum to all Igbos to leave northern Nigeria. The governor, in a statement by his Senior Special Assistant- Media and Publicity, Samuel Aruwan, on Wednesday also assured residents in …

Despite insistence by the Presidency that none of the Judges recently recalled by the National Judicial Council, NJC, should return to the bench, Justice Adeniyi Ademola, on Wednesday, resumed sitting at the Federal High Court in Abuja. Justice Ademola was among eight superiors court Judges that were arrested after a …

Passengers on a London bus watched in horror as armed police detained a man who was filmed with three giant knives stashed in his bags. Footage taken by a witness on the top deck shows how the scene unfolded in front of shocked commuters at a bus stop on Monday afternoon. According to …

These are live photos from the ongoing service of songs being held for late Nollywood actress, Mojisola Olaiya  at LTV Blue roof in Ikeja with her daughter and family members seen present… Some Nollywood celebrities like; Toyin Aimakhu, Fathia Balogun, Iyabo Ojo and Yomi Fabiyi were also present. See more …

The Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, has assured investors that Nigeria is one of the most profitable places in the ECOWAS sub-region for business and investment. Osinbajo said this while meeting the Foreign Minister of Indonesia, Mrs Retno Marsudi, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The meeting took place on Monday …

Justice Muslim Hassan of the Federal High Court, Lagos, on Tuesday ordered the permanent forfeiture to the Federal Government the sums of $43,449,947, £27,800 and N23,218,000 recovered from No. 16, Osborne Road, Flat 7B Osborne Towers, Ikoyi, Lagos. The funds had been stashed in iron cabinets and “Ghana-must-go” bags in …

Arsene Wenger’s first activity in the transfer market since signing a new contract last week was securing the services of Bosnian international defender Sead Kolasinac on a free transfer. Kolasinac — who turns 24 later this month — joins the FA Cup winners from Bundesliga side Schalke 04 and will …

Prominent Northern youth organisations, on Tuesday, rose from a joint meeting called ‘Kaduna Declaration’ to issue a serious threat to the Igbos residing in the region urging them to begin making arrangements to relocate out of the North. The groups gave the Igbo up till October 1, this year to …