From Our Correspondent A retired Army General, Charles Airhiavbere, says he is the best to fly the All Progressives Congress (APC) flag in the Edo State Gubernatorial race in September this year. Airhiavbere made this declaration while addressing his teeming supporters in Benin City, after officially submitting his ‘Expression of Interest’ and ‘Nomination’ forms. “We […]
Organisers have postponed a protest march scheduled for Tuesday against Senegalese President Macky Sall’s controversial move to delay this month’s presidential poll to December. Elymane Haby Kane, one of the march organisers, said he received an official letter from local authorities in Dakar. It stated that authorities banned the march as it could seriously hamper […]
On Monday, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said it rescued 442 migrants off the coast of Libya in the past week. IOM said in a statement that from Feb. 4 to 10, 442 migrants were intercepted and returned to Libya, including 68 women and 25 children. So far this year, IOM has rescued 1,004 […]
At least two school children died and 20 others sustained injuries in an explosion, on Sunday, in restive Northern Cameroon, according to witnesses and local police. The blast occurred in Nkambe, a town in the region, as schoolchildren were participating in activities to mark National Youth Day. The country has been celebrating National Youth Day […]
By Our Correspondent A faith-based organisation, the Ansar-Ud-Deen Society (AUD), has called on the Service Chiefs to be more strategic and proactive towards containing escalating insecurity scenarios in the country. Dr Abdul-Rafiu Sanni, the AUD President made the call in a statement made available to TheNewsZenith on Sunday in Lagos. Sanni noted that the society […]
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 […]