Eight people were killed and numerous others wounded in New York on Tuesday when a suspect rammed a pickup truck into pedestrians in Lower Manhattan, and collided with a school bus in an “act of terror,” officials said.
Kenya’s opposition leader Raila Odinga on Tuesday rejected outright the result of last week’s “sham” election, vowing to fight on after the protest-hit poll that handed President Uhuru Kenyatta a landslide win.
A 43-year-old father, Musa Mohammed, has been arrested by the Rights Protection Agency in Niger for setting his 15-year-old son, Bello Musa, ablaze.
The National Judicial Council on Tuesday announced that retired Justice of the Supreme Court, Suleiman Galadima will replace former President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Ayo Salami as the head of the Corruption and Financial Crime Cases Trial Monitoring Committee.
President Muhammadu Buhari will soon appoint more ministers into his cabinet. He will also make board appointments, a demand by his party members over the months.
The Nigerian Senate on Tuesday hailed President Muhammadu Buhari on the sacking of former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr. Babachir Lawal.
Japanese police have found nine bodies with their flesh stripped off and heads severed in containers in a suburban Tokyo flat, media reported Tuesday.
An investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election moved into a new and more perilous stage for the White House Tuesday after three aides to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, including a former chairman, were charged.
It has emerged that President Muhammadu Buhari knew about the reinstatement of fugitive former Chairman of the Pension Reforms Commission, Abdulrasheed Maina, into the civil service.
The Presidency has said that security agencies were free to pounce on the sacked and disgraced Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, and the Director General of the National Intelligence Agency, Ambassador Ayo Oke.
President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday received his estranged political ally and national leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
A federal judge on Monday blocked President Donald Trump’s ban on transgender personnel from serving in the US military, though she upheld a block on the Pentagon paying for sex-change procedures.
