A Burundian activist has been jailed for five years accused of preparing reports on human rights abuses for a banned organisation, militant and legal sources said Tuesday.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), on Tuesday said no fewer than 1,500 deaths were recorded in 2017 from explosives, while 66 per cent of the deaths were civilians.

Leading governorship aspirant in Nasarawa state on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Musa Maikaya has stated that the rationale behind his wanting to run for the top job in the state is to take the state to a level greater and better than where it is now.

Chelsea midfielder Tiemoue Bakayoko has joined AC Milan on loan, both clubs announced on Tuesday.

Justice T.S Umar of an Ilorin high court yesterday restrained Kwara state house of assembly and its agents from suspending and investigating , Hon Saheed Popoola.

A car crashed into barriers outside Britain’s Houses of Parliament in a suspected terror attack on Tuesday, injuring a “number of pedestrians” yards from where five people were killed last year.

A 26-year-old employee, Isaac Ayoke, who pleaded guilty to stealing his employer’s N1million was on Tuesday remanded at Kirikiri Prisons in Lagos on the orders of an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court.

THE Akwa Ibom State First Lady, Mrs. Martha Udom Emmanuel has dissolved the Executive Committee of Ikot Ekpene Senatorial District Women Forum with immediate effect.

Interestingly, one of the major prophecies of popular Abuja based Prophet, Bro. Joshua Iginla for 2018 has been confirmed. The internationally acclaimed prophet predicted thrice about the gales of defections rocking the major Political party in Nigeria, APC.

Fresh trouble may be looming for popular Nigeria singer, Harrison Tare Okiri, aka HarrySong, as he has been accused of song theft by an Italy based Nigerian musician, Timothy Ozemebhoya Asotie, better known as ‘TOA’.

A section of a viaduct on the A10 motorway collapsed on Tuesday in Genoa, Italian firefighters said, with cars and trucks trapped among the rubble.

South Korean President, Moon Jae-in, says the issue of World War II sex slavery cannot be resolved diplomatically, in what appeared to reiterate his denial of the 2015 deal between Japan and the former South Korean government, under impeached President Park Geun-hye.

American Pastor Andrew Craig  Brunson, the man detained in Turkey on terror-related charges and espionage, and who is one of the reasons for the economic hostilities against Turkey by the United States, has filed a fresh appeal for freedom.

Touting military cooperation and “instructors,” arms deals and investment, Russia is making a comeback in Africa after years of inactivity and now aims to rival European countries and even China, analysts say.

Retired Brazilian striker Ronaldo left a clinic in Ibiza on Tuesday following a four-night stay for treatment for a flu infection.