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North Korea fired a salvo of roughly 12 short-range ballistic missiles into the sea off its eastern coast on 29 October 2026. The mass launch originated near the coastal city of Wonsan around 12:30 pm local time. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff confirmed the projectiles flew roughly 250 kilometres before crashing into waters outside…
Over 600 construction workers on the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway project downed tools on Wednesday over sudden pay cuts and harsh conditions. The strike brought heavy earth-moving equipment and earthworks to a complete standstill across key construction yards in Cross River State. Discontent had brewed for weeks before workers abandoned their posts, citing unpaid entitlements and…
Nigerian kitchens face a sharp squeeze as onion prices soared 900 percent over the past six months, turning a basic staple into a luxury item. A standard 120-kilogram bag that sold for N30,000 in April now costs N300,000 across major urban markets. The National Onion Producers, Processors and Marketers Association of Nigeria confirmed the massive…
Former president Barack Obama returned to the campaign trail on Saturday to lead Democratic midterm rallies in Ohio and Michigan ahead of the critical 3 November vote. He pinned surging household grocery bills and fuel prices directly on Donald Trump’s military strike against Iran. Reckless wars always bleed consumer wallets. The military strikes pushed crude…
A British Crown Court sitting in Amersham has jailed 35-year-old Goodness Sokoh for 21 years following his conviction on multiple sexual offences against children. Jurors delivered a unanimous guilty verdict against the Bedfordshire resident after detectives untangled a predatory scheme that targeted four vulnerable teenage girls across Buckinghamshire. Justice arrived with uncommon speed. Sokoh built…
Nigerian commercial lenders pulled N537.6bn out of private sector loan books in September, demonstrating how quickly punishing cash reserves choke commerce despite official claims of monetary easing. Fresh money market figures from the Central Bank of Nigeria show that total credit to businesses and households dropped to N83.93trn, retreating from the N84.47trn recorded in August….
Federal health authorities in Abuja urged Nigerians on Wednesday to maintain calm and vigilance after laboratory tests confirmed an imported case of Ebola disease in the Federal Capital Territory. The patient, an international air passenger who arrived in the country from Uganda, remained inside a private medical clinic in the capital city for several days…
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps declared the Strait of Hormuz closed on Saturday after sea strikes hit three commercial oil tankers navigating the strategic chokepoint. The naval arm of the Guards singled out a vessel carrying two million barrels of crude oil, claiming the ship entered unauthorised waters without clearance from Iranian maritime controllers. Chokepoints…
Mount Zion’s faith-based remake Agbara Nla: The Return has grossed over N307.2m at the Nigerian box office, ranking it as the fourth highest-earning domestic film of 2026. The theatrical release on October 1 marked a thirty-three-year leap from the VHS tapes that built the original television drama into a household name across southern Nigeria. Nostalgia…
A Triton Aviation Challenger jet lost an entire cabin door mid-flight over Abuja on Thursday afternoon before returning for an emergency landing at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport. The business aircraft departed Runway 22 at 4:17 p.m. bound for Lagos, but the pilots declared a Mayday three nautical miles out while climbing past 3,000 feet….