The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) on Saturday said that it has cancelled the reservation of petroleum products for institutions, and “special customers,” also known as...
Humanitarian organisation, Red Cross has revealed that three of their workers have been freed unharmed after they were held hostage in Northern Mali. “The best news...
Embattled Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff says the impeachment process agsinst her has “all the characteristics of a coup” as it has no legal basis. She is...
The highest administrative court in Finland has ruled against the deportation of an Afghan asylum seeker to Hungary in the light of asylum violations in the...
Moments after American President Barack Obama urged UK voters not to back Britain’s proposed exit from the EU, British proponents of a so-called Brexit said they...
Three officials of the Osun State Government were on Friday kidnapped by gunmen on the Obajana – Lokoja road in Kogi State. Those abducted were Permanent...
A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, Ricky Tarfa, has lost the quest to have the 27 count charge filed against him by the EFCC, before a...
President Idriss Deby of Chad has been declared the winner of the country’s presidential election held in April 10 across that country. The win marks his...
27-year-old Algerian hacker and developer of malicious SpyEye malware Hamza Bendelladj will spend the next 15-years in jail according to a judgment delivered by a US...
Intelligence and police reports have revealed that 28-year-old Giulio Regeni who was tortured and murdered in the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt had been detained by the...
The Ethiopian army has reportedly located and surrounded the area in neighbouring South Sudan where it believes that more than a hundred Ethiopian kids are being...
The Ethiopian army has reportedly located and surrounded the area in neighbouring South Sudan where it believes that more than a hundred Ethiopian kids are being...
A staff of the Delta State University, Abraka, Mr. John Ogeleke, has been kidnapped by suspected Fulani herdsmen, who are demanding to be paid N5 million...
The Kaduna State Government is seeking the death penalty for 50 members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, otherwise known as Shi’ites, for causing the death...
A 70 year old chief, Moses Adeniyi, has been sentenced to seven years in prison by an Osun State High Court sitting in Ilesa for raping...
A fresh outbreak of xenophobic attacks has played out in the South African city of Cape Town with property of Nigerians and some other Africans being...
Cuba’s long-time former president, Fidel Castro has hinted that death may be near in his final speech to Communist Party congress as he calls on party...
The festering crisis in Burundi has claimed the life of an army officer, a motorcyclist and two members of an armed group in separate incidents in...
According to Mexican authorities not more than three people were killed and over 100 were injured when an explosion rocked a state-run petrochemical plant in the...
Residents of the new site area of Oba Ile town in the Akure North Local Government Area of Ondo State were thrown into disarray when a...
The Defence Headquarters has raised the alarm that the Boko Haram insurgent group has deviced a new method of recruiting members by giving out loans to...
The trial of the former Director General of the Nigeria Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, Patrick Akpobolokemi, could not continue on Wednesday, as a Lagos...
The United Nations has deployed a team to the Greek coastal city of Kalamata to ascertain the actual number of casualties who drowned in the Mediterranean...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arrested the suspended Director General of the Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate (PTAD), Mrs Nelly Mayshak over an alleged...
Democratic frontrunner, Hillary Clinton and mouthy Republican candidate Donald Trump both emerged winners of their parties primaries in New York. Both candidates clinched the tickets for...
A Lagos State High Court, on Tuesday, ordered the two engineers, who handled the construction of the collapsed seven-storey guest house of the Synagogue Church of...
Authorities in Switzerland have suspended the citizenship of two teenage Syrian brothers after the pair refused to shake hands with their female teachers for religious reasons....
There is serious scramble from candidates seeking employment into the Nigerian Police Force as the Police Service Commission has received 705, 352 applications for about 10,000...
The demise of a male patient who died of Lassa fever at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital, Edo State has forced authorities at the hospital...
The National Judicial Council, NJC, has wielded the big stick against three High Court judges as it said on Tuesday that it had sacked Justice O....
Members of the dreaded Boko Haram sect continued with their daring attacks on Tuesday morning, as they ambushed the convoy of the General Officer Commanding, GOC,...
A police constable, Victor Omorokai, has reportedly been arrested by the Lagos State Police Command over his alleged involvement in armed robbery. According to reports, Omorokai,...
Hundreds of migrants making the dangerous trip from Libya to Europe through the Mediterranean sea drowned when a boat conveying about 500 of them capsized. About...
Mr Odion Omoarebokhae, husband to a gospel singer, Yvonne whose lifeless body was found in a private hotel in Benin, Edo state, claims that his wife...
The military on Monday claimed it had repelled an attack by Boko Haram fighters near the border with Niger. The Nigerian Army also reported casualties in...
Fugitive Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo, and six brothers of former NIMASA boss, Patrick Akpobolokemi, were on Monday arraigned in absentia by the Economic and Financial Commission...
Over 90 herdsmen, armed with dangerous weapons, have been arrested in Abuja on their way to Nasarawa state. Ripples Nigeria learnt that they were arrested...
Intensive search for possible survivors is underway in Ecuador after the country suffered a 7.8 magnitude earthquake which smashed the Andean nation’s coastal region killing at...
Soldiers of the Nigerian Army are currently engaged in a fierce battle with Boko haram insurgents in Kareto, Northern Borno. This was made known by a...
Tragedy struck at the Festac Town end of Lagos State when a 45-year-old man was burnt to death at C Close, when a keg of fuel...
Legislators in Brazil have casted their vote in favour of impeaching incumbent President Dilma Rousseff over corruption charges. Tens of thousand gathered in the capital of...
Five members of a gang of kidnappers are already facing charges at a magistrate court in Port Harcourt for being behind the abduction and murder of...
A bolt of lightning that struck the Heavenly Sure Charismatic Church, in Owerri North LGA of Imo State has left two female members dead, and the...
Defiant North Korea led by iron fisted leader, Kim Jong-un is likely planning to conduct a fifth nuclear test which is likely to be launched before...
A finding carried out by border security at the Manchester Airport in northern England reveals that a team of sniffer dogs set up at the British...
Authorities in Japan have intensified search for missing persons as thousands of rescue workers scan through the debris strewn southern village in Japan for about half...
The South American country of Ecuador has been hit by a powerful earthquake which reports say has left at least 41 people dead. The 7.8-magnitude earthquake...
A couple in Spain have been arrested over links with dreaded terror group, ISIS. The pair, a Moroccan man and a Spanish woman were both arrested...
There is palpable tension on the streets of Brazil as Members of Parliament begin proceedings that could see the toppling of incumbent President Dilma Rousseff over...
A fresh round of earthquake has hit the southwestern Japanese island of Kyushu following a second tremor which left 19 more people dead. Authorities in Japan...