France
14 Feb
A French court convicted five adolescents for their role in a violent assault on a teenage girl which they streamed on social media in January. The teenagers, aged 15 to 16, were charged with group violence, making death threats and filming and distributing pornographic images of minors via social media networks. The court found late…
8 Feb
More than 5,000 people died in France as a result of searing summer heat last year, health authorities said Thursday.
6 Feb
Nigeria's President Bola Tinubu has returned to Nigeria after spending two weeks in France on a private.
1 Feb
France wants the European Union to issue a "clear" definition of lab-grown meat, Prime Minister Gabriel Attal said Thursday as he presented measures designed to satisfy protesting farmers.
28 Jan
There is anger and uncertainty in the air across the country over President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s incessant private trips to Paris, France.
17 Jan
President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday sought to breathe new life into his final term with a promise for a "stronger and fairer" France, at a rare news conference peppered with a string of announcements aimed at forging greater civic responsibility and security.
9 Jan
French leader Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday picked Gabriel Attal as prime minister in a bid to give new momentum to his presidency, with the 34-year-old becoming France's youngest and first openly gay head of government. Following days of speculation, Macron late Monday accepted the resignation of Elisabeth Borne, 62, who stepped down along with the…
9 Jan
French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday was expected to name a new prime minister in a long-awaited cabinet reshuffle to reboot the final three years of his presidency.
4 Jan
Inflation in the eurozone's second-largest economy France accelerated in December, official data showed Thursday, with food prices a persistent sore point for consumers.
28 Dec
A 33-year-old French man has admitted killing his wife and their four children, saying he "heard voices" telling him to "cause harm", the public prosecutor said on Thursday. French police on Tuesday arrested a man with a history of psychiatric illness on suspicion of murdering his Haitian-born wife and their children, aged nine months and…
26 Dec
A plane grounded in France for days over concerns it was part of a human trafficking scheme landed in India Tuesday, with its passengers avoiding media questions as they quickly exited bustling Mumbai airport. The Airbus A340 initially had been bound for Nicaragua when it was detained last Thursday at Vatry airport, east of Paris,…
26 Dec
French police on Tuesday arrested a man suspected of murdering a mother and her four children found dead at home on Christmas Day, a law enforcement source said. Authorities discovered the bodies of the woman and her children, aged nine months, four, seven, and 10 years old in their flat in the town of Meaux…
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Landmark Group said the Lagos State government is yet to consult it on the Lagos-Calabar coastal road construction and beach sand filling. Landmark made this disclosure in a statement on Thursday and said the issue of the Lagos-Calabar coastal road passing through Landmark Beach remains a topic of wide-reaching discourse. The Group said it wants…
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The General Officer Commanding (GOC), 82 Division, Nigerian Army, Maj-Gen. Hassan Dada, has expressed concern about the high number of weapons in unauthorized hands in Nigeria.
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The National Chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC) Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje has secured an exparte injunction restraining further action on his purported suspension as member of the party. In an exparte motion granted by Federal high Court in Kano, Wednesday, Justice A. U Liman ordered the purported suspension of Ganduje as member of the…