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11 Mar
A Nigerian Bola Oyetunji has been appointed as the auditor-general of New South Wales state in Australia. Oyetunji's appointment by Premier Chris Minns will take effect in April, the state government said in a statement. "Mr Oyetunji was appointed following a merit-based recruitment process," the statement said. Before his appointment, Oyetunji was the group executive…
21 Feb
VFS Global, the world’s largest outsourcing and technology services specialist for governments and diplomatic missions, significantly added to its business footprint in 2023. Building on its trusted partnership, the company won seven global contracts which include the governments of the UK, Australia, Norway, Sweden, Latvia, Iceland and Austria. Among the most significant wins of 2023…
25 Jan
A powerful category three cyclone is expected to make landfall in northeastern Australia late on Thursday, lashing cities along Queensland's Great Barrier Reef coast.
3 Jan
A 62-year-old Australian woman can harvest her dead husband's sperm after convincing a judge that the pair were considering having a baby before he died. The couple started thinking about having another child after their 31-year-old son was killed in a car accident in 2019, according to legal documents released Wednesday. Six years earlier, their…
1 Jan
As major countries of the world await with eagerness to celebrate 2024, a few nations have yesterday afternoon already begun their celebrations.
27 Dec
Australian police said Wednesday they were scouring beaches after mysterious packages believed to contain more than 120 kilogrammes (260 pounds) of cocaine washed up over the Christmas period. A first batch of 39 barnacle-encrusted, one-kilogram bricks of suspected cocaine was discovered on Friday near Magenta Beach, north of Sydney, police said. Since then, another 85…
26 Dec
Christmas night thunderstorms and strong winds cut power to 110,000 homes in eastern Australia and toppled a tree that killed one woman, officials said Tuesday. People lost electricity as the storm wrought "catastrophic" damage, downing power lines in Queensland's capital Brisbane and the Gold Coast area, energy company Energex said. "There is no easy way…
14 Dec
An Australian woman was charged Thursday with stealing a parked truck stuffed with 10,000 Krispy Kreme doughnuts. Police said the unmarked delivery truck had stopped for fuel on the outskirts of Sydney when a 28-year-old woman allegedly hopped inside and made off with the freshly baked booty. Detectives followed a trail of crumbs to a…
14 Dec
An Australian mother jailed for 20 years over the killing of her four children was acquitted on Thursday after scientific breakthroughs helped clear her name. Kathleen Folbigg was imprisoned in 2003 after she was convicted of killing her children, who died suddenly and without explanation between 1989 and 1999. Once dubbed "Australia's worst female serial…
13 Dec
Australian police on Wednesday charged a man living in suburban Sydney with sending 17 million scam text messages, one for almost every adult in the country. New South Wales police said the unnamed 39-year-old was single-handedly responsible for scam texts that have been plaguing mobile phone users across the country. The texts included fake links…
16 Nov
The Deputy High Commissioner of Australia at the Australian High Commission, Mr. Matthew Mechan, has disclosed that over 10,000 Nigerian students secured admission to Australian universities between 2015 and 2019.
3 Nov
Jeering Qantas shareholders voted down a pay package for the company's top brass Friday, as the outgoing chairman apologised for a public "loss of trust" in Australia's much-loved carrier

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