SEOUL – South Korea’s presidential guards and military troops prevented authorities from arresting impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol on Friday in a tense six-hour stand-off inside Yoon’s compound in the…
Ayomidele Oluwasusi A wedding in Nigeria’s northwestern state of Jigawa turned sour after a bride allegedly poisoned food served at the reception, with the groom hospitalised and one guest killed…
Agency Report A drunken police officer in Zambia freed 13 suspects from custody so that they could go and celebrate the new year, officials say. Detective inspector Titus Phiri was…
Martins Olasehinde ADO-EKITI – A police officer’s accidental discharge of a firearm claimed the life of a woman in Nigeria’s southwestern city of Ado-Ekiti on Thursday, local news outlets report,…
Matthew Onocheta Telecommunication companies in Nigeria have submitted to the Nigerian Communications Commission – a proposed 100 per cent increase in their tariffs, aimed at addressing rising operational costs, including…
Olayomi Koiki LAGOS – A man – said to be an electrician was reportedly electrocuted while fixing some wiring connections in Nigeria’s commercial hub Lagos on New Year’s Day, a…
An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 struck Antofagasta, Chile on Thursday, KOIKI Media reports, citing Reuters. The quake was at a depth of 104 km (64.62 miles), the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre…
HAVANA – In their New Year predictions, high priests from Cuba’s Afro-Cuban Santeria religion told followers on Thursday to watch their health and spending, care for their families, guard against…
Israeli airstrikes killed at least 68 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip on Thursday, including at a tent camp where the head of the enclave’s Hamas-controlled police force, his deputy and…
LONDON – Researchers have uncovered hundreds of dinosaur footprints dating back to the middle Jurassic era in a quarry in Oxfordshire, southern England, showing that reptiles such as the nine-metre…
