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Cyclone Mora battered Bangladesh on Tuesday, killing two people, ripping through camps housing Rohingya refugees and forcing 450,000 people to flee coastal villages. Police said a woman and a man had been crushed under trees felled by winds of up to 135 kilometres (84 miles) per hour in the coastal district of Cox’s Bazar, which […]

I learned some pretty big things during the Y2k scare, and some of them have every relevance to how to survive an economic depression. When year 2000 was approaching, I was part of the doomsday camp. I believed, wrongly, that technology would fail and everything around me would start to fall apart. But did a […]

Britain’s politicians resume campaigning in earnest with national security in the spotlight, as police scramble to bust a Libya-linked jihadist network thought to be behind the Manchester terror attack Britain’s government came under criticism for police budget cuts as campaigning resumes on Friday and police scramble to bust a Libya-linked jihadist network thought to be […]

The Senate on Thursday passed the much anticipated Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) after 17 year of consideration: The bill has been passed as the Petroleum Industry Governance Bill (PIGB). The Bill which has gone through 5 sessions of the National Assembly beginning from the 4th Assembly which was inaugurated in 1999 under President Olusegun Obasanjo. […]

The World Health Organisation (WHO) said it had deployed new technology that allowed for rapid diagnosis of Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). WHO said in a statement that in collaboration with the DRC’s Ministry of Health and partners, it had rapidly set up an intensified field alert and response system […]

ACTING PRESIDENT OSINBAJO CHAIRS PEBEC 0A&B. Acting President Yemi Osinbajo during the Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council at the Presidential Villa. PHOTO; SUNDAY AGHAEZE. MAY 18 2017 The Acting President Yemi Osinbajo has said that the budget 2017 would soon be passed into law, he was speaking while delivering the Democracy Message to mark the […]

Security forces traded heavy gunfire with Islamist militants inside a southern Philippine city Monday, as fears grew for up to 2,000 people unable to escape a week of fighting that has left women and children among the dead. President Rodrigo Duterte imposed martial law across the southern third of the Philippines shortly after the fighting […]

Britain raced Wednesday to track down a jihadist network suspected of orchestrating the Manchester concert attack, as the suicide bomber’s father and brother were arrested in Libya and grisly information emerged of how he engineered the deaths of young pop fans. British soldiers fanned out to guard key sites as investigators tried to piece together […]

Former heavyweight champion, Evander Holyfield has arrived Lagos ahead of his ‘mouth-watering’ bout with Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. The ‘Rhumbles in Lagos”, a charity fight, is part of the ceremonies marking the 50th anniversary of the creation of Lagos State. [embedded content] It will take place at the Landmark Event Centre in Victoria Island. Tinubu […]

Roger Moore, best known for playing James Bond in seven of the 007 films, has died. He was 89. His children shared the news on his verified Twitter account Tuesday that Moore had died in Switzerland after a “short but brave battle with cancer.” [embedded content] “With the heaviest of hearts, we must share the […]

NATO is to join the US-led anti-Islamic State coalition, meeting a key demand of President Donald Trump that the alliance do more to fight Islamist terrorism, diplomatic sources said Wednesday. Trump was due to meet NATO leaders in Brussels on Thursday to press his case, with the deadly IS-claimed bomb attack in Manchester high on […]

Still mired in controversy over telling Russia about a planned ISIS attack, President Donald Trump is caught in yet another, this time spilling US military secret to President Rodrigo Duterte of Philippines.. The New York Times reported that Trump told Duterte that Washington has sent two nuclear submarines to waters off the Korean peninsula, a […]