A GRID iron is an intentional malapropism. In medicine, one gridiron is the type of incisionused in appendectomy, the removal of an inflamed appendix, a vestige of the gut with little or no use but a litany of woes. Here, alternating crisscrossing cuts are employed as progress is made into the abdominal cavity.

Jihadist fire downed a Syrian air force plane over the Islamic State stronghold of Raqa on Tuesday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said.

By Sebastine Obasi, with Agency Reports ABUJA—Nigeria will earn more than $20 billion from the sale of the assets of its national electricity transmission company, TCN, as it struggles to provide adequate power to Africa’s largest economy, Minister of Power Chinedu Nebo said. The sale of state-owned Transmission Company of Nigeria may start “in a […]

Little or no activity has been recorded in the Ebola isolation wards in Lagos and Port Harcourt over the last seven days following the discharge of the last patient from the Lagos isolation centre last week.

Four civilians were killed in renewed fighting in the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine on Monday despite a ceasefire, the local authorities said.

—The Minister of Communication Technology, Dr. Omobola Johnson, yesterday noted that with over 121 million active subscribers, the country’s tele-density has increased to 86.62 percent as against 114.76 million in 2011 and 95.9 million in 2010.

A Taliban suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden car into a NATO convoy close to the US embassy in Kabul on Tuesday, killing three soldiers and wounding at least 13 Afghan civilians.

LAGOS — Activities at the office of the Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola, were yesterday paralyzed by students of Lagos State University External System,LASUES, over alleged fraudulent practices by the school authorities and mass failure by the students.

ABA — POLICE from Ndiegoro Division in Aba, Abia State have arrested a man said to be the landlord of 2, Ogechi Street, off Ohanku Road for inflicting machete cuts on a couple who were his tenants.

A Chief Magistrates’ Court sitting in Akure on Monday ordered a 23-year-old lady, Ajowele Busayo, to be remanded at the Olokuta prison for allegedly setting her lover, Anthony David, ablaze.