The Ballast Water Management (BWM) Convention of the International Maritime Organisation (IMO), is poised to unlock an unprecedented estimated private sector investment of about $30b in the next few years. The BMW was adopted in order to control and manage ships ballast and sediments. This will help reduce the harmful …

The suspended Director-General of National Intelligence Agency, Ambassador Ayo Oke, on Wednesday betrayed emotion as he made desperate attempts to enter the Presidential Villa, Abuja shortly after his suspension was announced. Oke made attempts to seek an audience with Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo but was turned back.    Ayodele Oke. He …

The toll in a suspected meningitis epidemic in Nigeria has killed 745 people, a rise of over 250 in just over a week, the federal government said on Wednesday. Over 8,000 suspected cases of the disease have been reported across the country over the past five months although most have …

John Terry insists he has no intention of retiring when he completes the toughest decision of his life by leaving Chelsea at the end of the season. Terry revealed this week that he will bring down the curtain on his glittering 19-year Chelsea career once the current campaign is over. …

United Nations headquarters employee was arrested on Monday for robbing four banks over a two-month span, The New York Post reports. Nigerian national Abdullahi Shuaibu, 53, was charged with two counts of robbery and two counts of attempted robbery. All robberies were committed during his lunch breaks at banks within …

Three people were killed and four others wounded on Wednesday in a suicide attack in Cameroon’s restive Far North, a local official said.   “The blast killed three people — a police officer and two civilians,” he said. The bomber also died in the explosion which left another four people …

An advocacy group in the Niger Delta, the Grassroots Initiative for Peace and Social Orientation, has advised the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, to stop frustrating the peace process in the region. GIPSO said the minister’s alleged selective town hall meetings with some groups and ex-militant …

A former New England Patriots star who was convicted of murder was found hanged Wednesday morning in the Massachusetts prison where he was serving a life sentence, officials said. CNN is reporting the death of Hernandez, 27, comes just days after he was acquitted in a separate murder case. Hernandez …

Police say no fewer than 44 people were killed when a passenger bus fell into a river in India’s northern mountainous state of Himachal Pradesh on Wednesday. The bus rolled off the road and fell 500 metres into the Tons river in the Nerwa region, local police officer Narender Singh …

Leicester City manager Craig Shakespeare said his side’s remarkable run to the Champions League quarter-finals left his players determined to return to Europe’s top table as soon as possible.Appearing in the tournament for the first time Leicester cruised through the group phase and sank Europa League champions Sevilla in the …