Nigeria’s Port Harcourt refinery shuts down again, weeks after $1.5 billion rehabilitation
Morakinyo Akinosun After resuming production, less than a month, Nigeria’s Port-Harcourt Refinery has ceased operations for the second time, raising concerns about the effectiveness of its $1.5 billion rehabilitation project.…
Israeli military says Yemen missile lands near Tel Aviv, 14 lightly injured, ambulance service says
The Israeli military said it failed to intercept a missile from Yemen early on Saturday that fell in the Tel Aviv-Jaffa area, and the ambulance service said 14 people received…
Numerous people injured after car drives into Christmas market in Germany
Numerous people were injured on Friday after a car drove into a crowd of revellers at a Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg, a city spokesperson told local…
Macron slammed over ‘racist’ remarks which his office denies
France’s President Emmanuel Macron faced accusations of racism Friday over an alleged comment on problems in hospitals, which his office strongly denied he made, adding to controversy over an angry…
Fire department in Nigeria’s Oyo averts disaster as gas truck catches fire
Matthew Onocheta IBADAN – Disaster was averted after a gas truck caught fire along Nigeria’s Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, near the Agidigbo area in Ibadan, Oyo State capital, the fire department in…
Nigeria police charge female activist for insulting president’s son on social media; remand her in jail
Olayomi Koiki ABUJA – A female activist in Nigeria, Olamide Abiodun Thomas – was on Friday – arraigned on four “criminal” counts by police in the country’s capital – after…
Truck rams into police vehicle, kills 3 officers, 1 suspect in Nigeria’s Ondo State
Ayomidele Oluwasusi Ọ̀RẸ̀ – No fewer than three Nigerian policemen and one suspect lost their lives in a fatal road accident that reportedly occurred on the Benin-Ore-Ijebu Ode Expressway in…
Magistrates’ court grants Nigerian human rights lawyer Dele Farotimi ₦30 million bail, bars him from granting media interviews
Morakinyo Akinosun ADO-EKITI – A magistrates’ court sitting in Nigeria’s Ado-Ekiti has granted ₦30 million bail to human rights lawyer and activist Dele Farotimi. At the hearing of the bail…
Italy’s Salvini defiant as verdict due in migrant trial
Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini was defiant Friday as he arrived for the verdict in his long-running trial for blocking a migrant rescue ship at sea, for which he…
Malaysia agrees to resume search for wreckage of missing Flight MH370
KUALA LUMPUR – Malaysia has agreed to resume the search for the wreckage of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, its transport minister said on Friday, more than 10 years after…