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A powerful earthquake struck Afghanistan’s eastern Paktika province early on Wednesday, killing at least 255 people and injuring hundreds more, state-run media said. Afghanistan’s state-run Bakhtar news agency reported the death toll and said rescuers were arriving by helicopter. The news agency’s director-general, Abdul Wahid Rayan, wrote on Twitter that 90 houses have […]
The People’s Democratic Party presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has set up a committee to pacify and woo the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike and some other aggrieved members of the party. The initiative was instituted by Atiku based on the need to go into the 2023 general elections with a united front. It […]
The former Super Eagles coach, Sunday Oliseh has been appointed the new coach of the German Regionalliga West club, Sav Straelen. This is according to the club’s president Hermann Tecklenburg, who was quoted by waz.de. According to Tecklenburg, 47-year-old Oliseh had already signed a one-year contract to handle the side and will start […]
No fewer than three persons were hospitalised after an airplane caught fire when it landed at Miami International Airport on Tuesday. According to Miami-Dade Fire Rescue, the plane was carrying 126 passengers and 11 crew members at the time of the crash. A video shared online showed passengers screaming as they rushed out […]
It is eight years after Boko Haram insurgents abducted 276 school girls from the Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Borno state, with the help of Theatre Command Operation Hadin Kai two Chibok girls have been rescued from Sambisa forest. The girls were said to have been rescued at Gazuwa enclave in Bama Local […]
The Senate on Tuesday named Senator Philip Tenimu Aduda as the new Minority Leader, while Senator Chukwuka Utazi was also named the Senate Minority Whip. Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, announced the appointments while reading two separate letters signed by the National Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Samuel Anyanwu. The seat of […]
Police in Majorca has launched an investigation after one of Cristiano Ronaldo’s most expensive cars was involved in an accident on the island. Ronaldo’s £1.7m Bugatti Veyron, one of two cars the Manchester United star had shipped to Majorca for his summer holiday, reportedly crashed into a wall in the residential estate of […]
Former X Factor contestant, Tom Mann, has been left heartbroken following the death of his fiancée, Dani, on their wedding day. Tom is best known for his appearance at the ITV singing competition in 2014, where he starred as one of eight members of the boy band Stereo Kicks. The group was […]
The Former Niger State Governor, Babangida Aliyu, has said the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi can’t rule Nigeria in 2023. Aliyu said 2023 is too early for Obi to become president, hence he should wait for either 2027 or 2031. Featuring on Channels Television’s Political Paradigm, the former governor described […]
Ex-guerrilla Gustavo Petro was elected the first-ever left-wing president of Colombia on Sunday, after beating millionaire businessman Rodolfo Hernandez in a tense and unpredictable runoff election. With all votes counted, Petro, the 62-year-old former mayor of Bogota, won with 50.4 percent to Hernandez’s 47.3 percent. “As of today, Colombia is changing, […]
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