The death toll from Friday’s crash near Balasore, in the eastern state of Odisha, was expected to climb above 288. India’s Railway Minister said Sunday the cause and people responsible for the country’s worst train crash in decades had been identified, pointing to an electronic signal system without giving further details. “We have identified the…
Erdogan won 52.18 percent of the vote while his secular rival Kemal Kilicdaroglu scored 47.82 percent, official results show. Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan was sworn in for a third term as president on Saturday, promising to serve “impartially” after winning a historic runoff election to extend his two-decade rule. Erdogan called for unity and the…
The fatal crash involving two passenger trains and a goods train in the Indian city of Balasore, in the eastern state of Odisha, occurred on Friday. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has sent a message of commiseration to the government and people of the Republic of India over a multiple train crash in the country which…
Smashed train compartments were torn open in the impact late on Friday, leaving blood-stained holes in their sides. At least 288 people were killed and hundreds more injured in a three-train collision in India, officials said Saturday, the country’s deadliest rail accident in more than 20 years. Wreckage debris was piled high at the crash…
The Philippines is the only place outside the Vatican where divorce is outlawed Philippine mother-of-three Stella Sibonga is desperate to end a marriage she never wanted. But divorce in the Catholic-majority country is illegal, and a court annulment takes years. The Philippines is the only place outside the Vatican where divorce is outlawed. Pro-divorce advocates…
The President of United States,Joe Biden has extended his congratulatory message to President Bola Tinubu on the occasion of his inauguration. According to the press statement signed and issued on Monday, reads: “On behalf of the people of the United States, I send warm wishes to the government and people of Nigeria as they inaugurate…
As reactions continue to trail the ban imposed on immigrant students from bringing members of their family into the United Kingdom as dependants, among other provisions of the law, some experts in the field of immigration and education have shed more light on the new policy and its implications on the pursuit of acquiring international…
A gas leak killed 11 people in India on Sunday, an official said, in the latest deadly industrial accident in the vast developing economy of 1.4 billion people. The gas leak happened in Giaspura, an industrial area of Ludhiana in the northern state of Punjab.“Eleven deaths are confirmed,” Mandeep Singh Sidhu, police commissioner of Ludhiana,…
The Federal Government has appealed to Nigerians to avoid dangerous trips to the borders of Sudan in a bid to escape the country. The FG issued the warning in a joint statement signed by Janet Olisa, a director in the ministry of foreign affairs, and Nasir Sani-Gwarzo, a permanent secretary in the ministry of humanitarian…
The United Nations Children’s Fund says over 6,800 children living in the North-East have been subjected to grave violations of their rights. In a press release on Friday, UNICEF representative in Nigeria, Cristian Munduate, lamented the brutal consequences of conflict on children nine years after 276 schoolgirls were abducted in Chibok and 96 girls still…
