At least 22 people were killed in a stampede on a bridge near a railway station in Mumbai on Friday after heavy rains, officials said.

Following the mass unemployment in the country and the recent drive for the consumption of made-in-Nigeria contents, an indigenous digital satellite TV service in Nigeria,  TSTV is set to launch on the 1st of October, 2017, with an over  5000 Nigerians to be employed.

The National president of Itsekiri Patriotic Alliance (IPA), Keka Erefoluwa, has pleaded with President Muhammadu Buhari to resume work at the Export Processing Zone, EPZ in Warri South West Local Government Area of Delta, noting that the  EPZ project will eradicate youth restiveness

Turkish prosecutors have issued detention warrants for 117 military personnel over alleged links to the U.S.-based cleric accused by Ankara of orchestrating the 2016 attempted coup, security sources said on Friday.

Twitter has identified and blocked 201 suspected Russian-linked accounts connected to the spreading of false information in last year’s US presidential election, the social network said Thursday.

The World Health Organization on Thursday rejected an anti-smoking foundation endorsed by tobacco giant Philip Morris.

At least two oil workers were injured in an early morning fire outbreak at an oil rig operated by Consolidated Oil, an indegenous oil firm at Akassa, Brass Local Government Area of Bayelsa, newsmen report.

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said over 57 per cent of schools in Borno State remained closed, in spite the new school year, due to the Boko Haram insurgency in North-East Nigeria.

Owerri—Speakers of the 36 state Houses of Assembly, yesterday, passed a motion calling on President Muhammadu Buhari, to use security agencies to checkmate activities of agitators, just as some lawmakers slightly disagreed.

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said that state governors are more powerful than President Muhammad Buhari or any other Nigerian President.

CALABAR—CROSS River State Police Command has rescued a 22-year-old lady, Bassey Happiness, from abductors, even as it paraded 17 suspects for alleged kidnapping, robbery as well as cultism.

APC governorship candidate, Dr. Tony Nwoye, yesterday, called on voters in the state to vote for him saying that it is the surest way to lift them from the bondage and banter which he said they had been subjected to by the Governor Willie Obiano-led administration in the state.

PORT HAR-COURT— PROMINENT  leaders of All Progressives Congress, APC,  in Rivers State, yesterday, declared support for the governorship aspiration of Senator Magnus Abe, insisting that the party will not encourage imposition of candidates for the 2019 election.

THE PDP governorship candidate, Mr. Oseloka Obaze, has for the first time opened up on how he was edged out in the 2013 contest putting the blame squarely on the then national chairman of the party, Chief Victor Umeh.

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price has promised  to repay the nearly $52,000 cost of his seats on private charter flights, as President Donald Trump reportedly fumed over the penchant of aides to hop on private jets.