Five people died and another four were seriously injured following an explosion on Monday at a coal mine in Spain's northern region of Asturias, officials said. Two other workers at the Cerredo mine in Degana, some 450 kilometres (280 miles) northwest of Madrid, were unharmed in the accident, local emergency services said. Officials had earlier…

The head of the junta in Burkina Faso has pardoned 21 soldiers convicted of involvement in a failed coup in 2015, according to an official decree seen by AFP on Monday. The troubled west African country has been run since September 2022 by military leaders following a coup headed by Captain Ibrahim Traore. Traore announced…

Kogi State Governor Ahmed Usman Ododo has placed security agencies on high alert following the deaths of two fishermen in a violent clash in the Kogi Local Government Area. The crisis, which erupted in Kasemiya, Katubo, and Umozu Ette, stemmed from fishing activities and resulted in fatalities. In response, the governor has suspended all fishing…

President Bola Tinubu has approved an extension of Mrs. Kemi Nanna Nandap's tenure as the Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) through December 31, 2026. Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, in a statement on Monday, explained that Mrs Nandap began her career in the Nigeria Immigration Service on October 9, 1989.…

American rapper and music mogul Kanye West, who now prefers to be called Ye, has weighed in on the feud between the two rappers Drake and Kendrick Lamar. Speaking in a recent interview with DJ Akademiks, the controversial rapper declared that Drake’s impact on hip-hop far outweighs Lamar’s, despite the Compton-born rapper’s dominance in lyrical…