By Abdulfatah Babatunde Gunmen on Saturday morning intercepted a commercial bus on the fleet of the GOU Transport Company, killed the driver and kidnapped all 18 passengers in the bus on the Shagamu-Benin Expressway. TheNewsZenith gathered that the hoodlums killed the driver as he was about to make a U-turn on sighting them. The incident […]
Tunisia has arrested 19 people for alleged links to an extremist religious cell, the Tunisian National Guard said in a statement on Friday. The statement, posted on the National Guard’s Facebook page, said the 19 people, were wanted by security and judicial agencies. They had been sentenced to one to 10 years in prison on […]
UNICEF said, on Friday that 700,000 children in Sudan were likely to suffer from the worst form of malnutrition this year, with tens of thousands who could die. A 10-month war in Sudan between its armed forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces has devastated the country’s infrastructure. This has prompted warnings of famine and […]
At least two persons died in a fire accident at a camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Cameroon’s Far North Region, officials and local police said on Friday. The fire, which broke out in a tent, on Thursday night, gutted other shelters in the Ndaba locality that hosts the IDPs. Two children, trapped in […]
By Our Correspondent For luring a minor with roasted meat (Suya) and defiling her, a 50-year-old security guard will spend this weekend in a Correctional facility in Lagos. An Ikeja Magistrates’ Court ordered that the guard, Mohammed Sanni, be remanded in the facility for allegedly defiling the 13-year-old girl. The presiding Chief Magistrate, O.A. Layinka […]
By Abdulfatah Babatunde The Yaba College of Technology’s Research Team has received N34 million grant for cancer treatment from the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund). TheNewsZenith reports that TETFunde awarded the grant under its National Research Fund programme. The grant will enable the researchers to develop an artificial intelligence-based precision medicine solution for prostate cancer […]
The Israeli military has killed four people and injured more after bombing a kindergarten hosting displaced Palestinians in the town of Az-Zawayda near Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, the Wafa news agency reports. The deceased and the injured were transferred to the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah. We will bring you more information on […]
From Yinka Salaam, Osogbo A media watch group, Muslim Media Watch Group (MMWG), has called on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) not to shield any individual or group involved in financial crimes in the country. MMWG, a non-governmental organisation, made the call in a statement made available to TheNewsZenith on Friday, in Osogbo, […]
By Omo Odigie Not a few political observers have described Dr Ernest Afolabi Umakhihe, APC’s leading aspirant for the Edo State gubernatorial race as a greenhorn in partisan politics, having retired as a federal civil servant in January this year. How wrong they all are as events have increasingly shown, lending credence to the biblical […]
By Abdulwarees Solanke Recently, I started a discourse on Telling Sustainable Development Stories. But the truth is, most mass media in Africa are at crossroads of playing the role of societal watchdog. Functioning as the fourth estate of the realm demands independence, objectivity, balance and a correct appreciation of differences between public and national interests […]