Lagos: Nigeria’s leisure scene is changing a lot because video games are quickly becoming more popular than regular TV and are becoming a billion-dollar industry. Because Nigerians are young, smartphones are becoming cheaper, and internet access is growing, gaming is changing how Nigerians have fun and pass the time. How and why linear TV is […]
Monday saw a very strange chemical spill event which occurred in an industrial site area of Cape Town. The release of a thick orange gas cloud over Montague Gardens created a very disturbing situation for residents and emergency workers. The unexpected reaction was an event that transformed the afternoon into a dramatic crisis for public […]
The Foundation of Orthopedics and Complex Spine (FOCOS), a nonprofit organisation that provides access to comprehensive, affordable orthopaedic care, will host its 2019 FOCOS NYC Fundraising Gala on Monday, September 23, 2019, at the renowned 583 Park Avenue event centre in Manhattan. This year’s esteemed guest of honour will be President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, […]
MDC UK and Ireland have reported that their members, MDC UK and Ireland Manchester branch, are demonstrating outside Zimbabwe Embassy over continued arrests of MDC leaders, members and human rights defenders. Posting on Twitter, the opposition party said: _Happening now, MDC UK and Ireland Manchester branch outside Zimbabwe Embassy demonstrating against continued arrests of MDC […]
Every year in September, all 193 members of the United Nations meet at the General Assembly at the organisation’s headquarters in New York. The General Assembly is one of the six main organs of the UN, where several international issues covered by the Charter of the United Nations, such as development, peace and security, international […]
Ethiopia’s foreign ministry in a sharply worded statement dismisses Egypt’s latest proposal on a massive Nile River dam project as “against the sovereignty of Ethiopia.” The statement issued Friday comes shortly after Egypt said a new round of talks over the soon-to-be-finished $5 billion Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam failed to achieve progress. Egypt fears Africa’s […]
The Minister of Territorial Administration Paul Atanga Nji has held a high level security meeting in the North West region with administrative officials in that part of the country. He met with them behind closed doors to discuss the administrative situation of the regions and transmit special instructions from the Head of State for the […]
At least, nine people have been reportedly killed in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital following attack on a farm at Ajilari community in Mere Local Government Area. DAILY POST gathered that those killed were working on a farm when Boko Haram stormed the area, killing nine and abducting several others. Residents around the area of […]
Foodstuffs that were donated by well-wishers to the victims of Tropical Cyclone Idai are said to be rotting in warehouses in Chimanimani East before distribution to beneficiaries. According to The Herald, some food items have either decayed or expired while locked up at Nyahode District Union Warehouse at Machongwe Business Centre. The publication’s source is […]
At least 10 people have been reported dead in a road accident that occurred Wednesday night breaking Thursday September 19, 2019 at Ngwei, a locality between Edea and Pouma in Cameroon’s Littoral region. The accident involving a Guaranti inter-transport bus heading to Yaounde and a semi remorque occurred when both engines entered into a violent […]
At least 27 people, many of them children, have been killed in a fire at a boarding school in a suburb of the Liberian capital Monrovia. The fire is believed to have broken out in the early hours of the morning, when Koranic school students were sleeping in a building near their mosque. Police have […]
The second batch of Nigerians have departed the O.R. Tambo International Airport, Johannesburg, for the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos. About 319 persons were evacuated by Air Peace at about 2:58p.m. An official of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Kimiebi Ebenfa, confirmed this to The PUNCH via a WhatsApp message on Wednesday. Ebenfa said, […]
Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya and Egypt were named among the world’s most dangerous places to live and work in, for expatriates. The latest Expat Insider Survey, done by InterNations, polled 20,259 expats representing 182 nationalities and living in 187 countries or territories, covering topics such as quality of life, cost of living, personal finance, safety […]
The police in Meghalaya, India, has arrested six Nigerians in East Jaiñtia Hills on Saturday, bringing the total number of foreign nationals arrested to nine within a span of two days.The Nigerians are Thomson Nwafama, 29, Chijioke Obiacha, 28, Desmond Uzochkwu, 25, Okoliegbe Henry Onyedika, 33, Okeke Justin, 32, and Chukwunyere Christian, 30. East Jaiñtia […]
The government has reportedly told the family of the late former president of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe to pay for $2.5 million for catering services provided by Nyaradzo Group for Mugabe’s funeral. Zim Morning Post reports that the government asserts that the family of the former ZANU PF boss contracted Nyaradzo without government approval. An unnamed […]
Tunisian voters appear to have up-ended their nation’s politics in Sunday’s presidential election, rejecting established leaders for two outsiders with 39% of votes counted. Kais Saied, a conservative law professor, and Nabil Karoui, a media magnate held in detention since last month, have an apparently solid lead over a moderate Islamist candidate and seem set […]
On Sunday, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed asked ethnic groups pushing to form breakaway regions to be patient and join him in building “a great Ethiopia”. Abiy made the plea during a visit to leaders of the Kafficho ethnic group, that are seeking to create a new federal state heightening further destabilization in Ethiopia’s diverse […]
The Prime Minister Head of government Chief Dr Joseph Dion Ngute has held consultative talks with the speaker of the National Assembly and the President of the Economic and Social Council this morning, ahead of the major National dialogue convened by the Head of State. Early this morning, Prime Minister Joseph Dion Ngute met with […]
Indian government will proceed with its plans to erect a bust of Indian nationalist Mahatma Ghandi in Blantyre but changed plans from having it at an open site to put it inside Mahatma Ghandi International Convention Centre after a public backlash. Two individuals—Pemphero Mphande and Mkotama Katenga-Kaunda—obtained a court order against the contractor, Plem Construction […]
Former President Jerry John Rawlings has paid glowing tribute to the late President of Zimbabwe on behalf of government and people of Ghana. At the funeral of Robert Mugabe Saturday, in the capital Harare, he described the late leader as a “formidable warrior.” “Ghanaians, especially those familiar with Africa’s epic struggle for freedom, justice and […]