Metro

By Enyichukwu Enemanna No fewer than 31 illegal miners from neighbouring Lesotho have perished from a suspected gas explosion in a shuttered gold mine in South Africa, authorities announced on Friday. This came days after residents...

A Kenyan woman traveling from Nairobi to Mombasa has welcomed her newborn baby while aboard the Madaraka Express passenger train. Kenya Railways Authority expressed gratitude that there was a doctor and a nurse on board who...

By Enyichukwu Enemanna A two-year-old boy has shot his pregnant mum, Laura Ilg with a loaded handgun in their Ohio home in the United States, killing her along with the unborn baby, the police said. Ilg...

By Enyichukwu Enemanna The immediate past governor of Benue state, North Central Nigeria, Samuel Ortom, on Tuesday arrived at the office of anti-graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) located in the state capital,...

By Enyichukwu Enemanna Preparation for the conduct of population and housing census has gulped a whopping N200 billion ($429.6m) in the last eight years, the National Population Commission (NPC) has clarified. This is in response to...

Authorities in Namibia on Thursday said about 40 crocodiles will be put up for sale following a rise in attacks on humans. The Namibian government also issued a permit for citizens to kill the reptile said...