At least 31 people have been killed and dozens are missing as tropical cyclone Idai hit eastern parts of Zimbabwe after lashing neighbouring Mozambique, the government said on Saturday. Most of the deaths were in Chimanimani town, Zimbabwe’s information ministry announced on Twitter. Two of the victims were students who died after a landslide sent a […]
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Mozambique’s city of Beira has been hit by a Tropical cyclone Idai on Friday, killing at least 19 people and cutting off more than half a million people. State broadcaster Radio Mocambique, said “preliminary information points to 19 deaths and more than 70 injured in Sofala province as a result of cyclone Idai”. Most of […]
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One of the terrorists, who attacked two mosques in New Zealand city of Christchurch, killing 49 worshipers, appeared in court on a murder charge on Saturday. Australian-born 28-year-old Brenton Tarrant, a right-wing extremist, filmed himself rampaging through the two mosques. Tarrant appeared in the dock wearing handcuffs and a white prison shirt, sitting impassively as […]
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250 scientists from over 40 countries have expressed concerns about the increasing use of wireless earbuds. In a petition addressed to the World Health Organisation and United Nations, the scientists said microwave radiation from popular wireless technologies may pose considerable health risks. Arguing that these technologies communicate with each other through an electromagnetic field that […]
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Boeing has announced its decision to ground its entire fleet of 737 Max 8 aircraft days after a crash involving one of the planes killed 157 persons. The US company, in a statement on Wednesday, said the decision to suspend operations of all 371 of the aircraft in its possession follows consultations with US authorities. […]
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Nigeria and India are working on ways to enhance the $12 billion annual bilateral trade between both countries in a way that would focus on investment. Receiving the Indian High Commissioner to Nigeria, Mr. Shri Abhav Thakur, in his office, Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Dr. Okechukwu Enelamah lauded the relationship between Nigeria and […]
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The European Union Observation Mission to Nigeria (EOM) has narrated how Nigerian soldiers stopped them from monitoring elections in Rivers and some other states. The allegation was made when the observers their preliminary report in Abuja on Monday. Maria Arena, the chief observer, told journalists that they came to Nigeria on the invitation of the […]
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China and Indonesia grounded their fleets of Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft on Monday. As witnesses recalled the terrifying spectacle of smoke and debris trailing from an Ethiopian Airlines plane before it crashed killing 157 people. The disaster came just months after a jet of the same model came down in Indonesia killing 189 people, […]
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A yet-to-be identified Nigerian was among the 157 dead victims of the ill-fated Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737-800 Max that crashed this morning shortly after take-off in Addis Ababa. The plane billed for Nairobi had 32 Kenyans on board, the largest group of nationals in the ill-fated plane. There were 33 different nationalities on board with […]
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Finnish Prime Minister Juha Sipila’s centre-right government resigned on Friday after failing to push through a flagship social and health care reform package, just five weeks ahead of a legislative election. There has been a hard-fought struggle for the wide-reaching reform for over a decade, dividing successive governments. Sipila called the failure to pass the […]
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