GUNMEN riding in a speedboat kidnapped four Nigerian oil workers in the crude-producing Niger Delta, the military said Wednesday, as fears rise of growing unrest in the region 10 days before national
US Secretary of State John Kerry is to hold talks with his Iranian counterpart on efforts to secure a deal over Tehran’s nuclear drive, a US official said Thursday. “Secretary Kerry will
FRENCH President Francois Hollande said Thursday he and German Chancellor Angela Merkel would visit Kiev and Moscow in a fresh push for peace in Ukraine, but warned diplomacy “cannot go on indefinitely”.
THE Kano State Government has declared Friday, Feb. 6 public holiday to allow civil servants who have not collected their Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) to do so. This is contained in a
SINGAPORE said Thursday it will introduce a new aircraft tracking system that will ensure complete surveillance of its airspace, amid global efforts to prevent a repeat of Flight MH370’s inexplicable disappearance. The
DR TEMITOPE Onile, a medical consultant at the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Lokoja, on Thursday urged governments to raise public awareness on the dangers of cancer. Onile made the call in an
TWO Australians facing imminent execution in Indonesia issued Thursday a last-ditch plea for their lives, but Prime Minister Tony Abbott and their lawyers admitted the situation was looking bleak. Andrew Chan and
THE UK’s role in fighting Islamic State extremists is “strikingly modest” and should be stepped up, MPs have said. The Defence Select Committee found the UK had carried out 6% of coalition
ONE of America’s most famous news anchors has apologised after a story he repeatedly told about coming under fire in Iraq was revealed to be untrue. NBC’s Brian Williams said he was
NATO is set to announce details of a plan to bolster the alliance’s military presence in Eastern Europe in response to continued fighting in Ukraine. The bloc’s chief says it will be
