July 24, 2015

The world’s most advanced malaria vaccine got the nod Friday from European regulators, despite mixed trial results, for eventual use in children in African countries plagued by the killer disease. Dubbed Mosquirix

Carlotta Sami, Spokeswoman, UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) for southern Europe ,said over 40 African migrants were feared drowned after their inflatable boat sank near the Libyan coast on Wednesday morning.

A Pakistan-based militant group on Thursday disowned a splinter faction suspected to be having a hand in the string of killings in Indian-occupied Kashmir. The killings have raised concerns that rogue insurgents

An NGO — Federation of Informal Workers Organisation of Nigeria (FIWON) — in Osun has called on security agencies to check what it called the excesses of politicians in the state. FIWON

The Kaduna State Chapter of the Miners Association of Nigerian on Friday said lack of access to loans from commercial banks had crippled mining activities in the state. The Chairman of the

Gov. Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun, on Friday, sent the names of transition committee members for the 20 local government areas in the state to the Ogun House of Assembly for screening. Mr

The former commander of one of the most notorious prisons under Romania’s ousted Communist regime was given a 20-year jail term Friday. Alexandru Visinescu, 89, had been on trial since September on

Some candidates for the Anambra State Football Association (FA) chairmanship have said that they were confident that the elections would be credible. They expressed their confidence in the organisation of the poll

The Police in Ibadan on Friday re-arraigned a 31-year-old ex-banker, Ogunsola Israel, over an alleged N19.5 million fraud. Israel was docked at an Iyaganku Chief Magistrates’ Court on a three-count charge bordering