By Abdulfatah Babatunde The Inspector General of Police (IGP) has set up a seven-man Panel of Inquiry to investigate the cause of the tragic death of a police cadet at the Nigeria Police Academy (POLAC), Wudil, Kano State. Force Public Relations Officer, ACP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, announced this in a statement emailed to TheNewsZenith on Tuesday […]
No fewer than 63 people died and 43 others sustained injuries, on Thursday when a building in a South African city centre caught fire, an official said. Robert Mulaudzi, spokesperson for the City of Johannesburg Emergency Management Services, said they received information that the five-storey building was on fire at around 1.30 a.m. on Thursday […]
A pilot, Ivan Andaur, has collapsed and died in a toilet onboard a Boeing 787 while flying from Miami to Chile. Andaur, 56, was flying flight LA505 from Miami International Airport to Santiago, Chile, on Sunday night, when he fell ill. LATAM Airline, in a statement, said Andaur had been a pilot for 25 years. […]
By Our Correspondent A member of Lagos State House of Assembly (LAHA), AbduSobur Olawale ( popularly called Omititi) has reportedly slum and died on Tuesday in Jos, Plateau State. Omititi was among thousands of supporters of the ruling APC who stormed Jos for the flag off of the Presidential Campaign rally of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed […]
The death toll has risen to 42 and more people were found missing after a strong overnight downpour flooded a number of towns in the Maguindanao province in the southern Philippines, a local official said Friday. Naguib Sinarimbo, interior and local government minister of Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM), said 27 people were […]