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Nigeria’s Golden Eaglets have qualified for the Round of 16 at the FIFA Under-17 World Cup with their 5-1 thrashing of the hosts, Chile, at the Estadio SausalitoVina Del Mar. Eaglets’ midfielder, Samuel Chukwueze, struck after 15 seconds from kick off to score Nigeria’s third fastest goal in the history …

More than 250,000 people are killed on China’s notoriously dangerous roads every year, the World Health Organization (WHO) said — over four times official government statistics. In a global status report on road safety, the WHO estimated 261,367 people were killed in 2013 in the world’s most populous country. China …

Nigeria and Qatar have formally commenced negotiations on a policy that would guarantee the general welfare of the migrant employees in both countries. Dr Clement Illoh, the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Labour and Productivity, disclosed this, Thursday, at an Inter-Ministerial Preparatory meeting on Bilateral Labour Agreement between Nigeria and Qatar …

The White House has explained that the 300 United States troops being deployed to the West African Multi-national force stationed in Cameroon will be armed to defend themselves, not to engage in combat. White House spokesman Josh Earnest said, Wednesday, the deployment is part of an effort to conduct airborne intelligence …

The South African parole board has decided that paralympian athlete Oscar Pistorius will be released from prison next Tuesday, October 20. The parole board said Pistorius will be placed under what it called correctional supervision – in effect house arrest. In 2014 he was sentenced to five years in jail …

Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 crashed as a result of a Russian-made Buk missile, the Dutch Safety Board has said, Tuesday. The missile hit the front left of the plane causing other parts break off, it said in a final report into the July 2014 disaster, which killed 298 people. The …

British-born economist Angus Deaton won the 2015 economics Nobel Prize for “his analysis of consumption, poverty and welfare”, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said on Monday. The academy said that Deaton’s work had been a major influence on policy making, helping for example to determine which social groups are …

Oil prices swung back and forth, Friday as traders closed positions at the end of a week that saw prices rising by the most in over six years earlier in the session. Market participants flip-flopped between the negative fundamentals of persistent oversupply and support factors from Syria-related concerns and a …

Tunisia’s National Dialogue Quartet won the Nobel Peace Prize, Friday for its contribution to building democracy after the Jasmine Revolution in 2011, the Nobel Committee said. The quartet is made up of the Tunisian General Labor Union (UGTT), the Tunisian Confederation of Industry, Trade and Handicrafts (UTICA), the Tunisian Human …

Belarusian writer and journalist Svetlana Alexievich has won the 2015 Nobel Prize for literature. Announcing the prize in Stockholm, the chair of the Swedish Academy, Sara Danius, called her writing “a monument to courage and suffering in our time”. The award, presented to a living writer, is worth £691,000. Previous …

Oil prices rose, Wednesday after data showed the market was beginning to tighten, with falling supply, higher demand and lower inventories after two years of heavy surplus. Global benchmark Brent crude oil has dropped to around $50 from a high above $115 a barrel in June 2014 and many oil …

Britain’s National Crime Agency (NCA) obtained court permission, Monday, to temporarily seize £27,000 from former Nigeria’s Petroleum Minister, Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueka who is embroiled in a financial scandal, a court official in London said, Tuesday. Nigerian authorities confirmed the arrest in London of Diezani Alison-Madueke, who served as oil minister …

American Airlines official has confirmed that the company’s pilot of an Airbus 320 died during early Monday flight from Phoenix to Boston, and the co-pilot landed the plane safely. The plane with 147 passengers and five crew members on board had to be diverted to Syracuse, New York. The airlines …

Japan’s Takaaki Kajita and Canada’s Arthur B. McDonald won the 2015 Nobel Prize for Physics for their discovery that neutrinos, labeled nature’s most elusive particles, have mass, the award-giving body said on Tuesday. “The discovery has changed our understanding of the innermost workings of matter and can prove crucial to …

Three scientists from Japan, China and Ireland whose discoveries led to the development of potent new drugs against parasitic diseases including malaria and elephantiasis won the Nobel Prize for Medicine, Monday. Irish-born William Campbell and Japan’s Satoshi Omura won half of the prize for discovering avermectin, a derivative of which …

Floodwaters from unprecedented rainfall in South Carolina have killed 11 people, closed some 550 roads and bridges and prompted hundreds of rescues of people trapped in homes and cars, officials said on Monday. Governor Nikki Haley warned residents to remain on alert as rain continued to fall in some of …

Economic growth in commodity-exporting countries is likely to slow more amid expectations for further weakness in commodity prices, particularly of energy and metals, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) says in a new study. “A significant deceleration in growth rates is unavoidable for many (commodity-exporting) economies,” the IMF study said. The …

The gunman who killed his English professor and eight others at an Oregon community college in the United States committed suicide after a shootout with police who arrived within five minutes and exchanged fire with him almost immediately, authorities said. Investigators had previously said the 26-year-old shooter was killed by …

The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) welcomes the commitment expressed by the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria towards efforts to end AIDS by 2030. “We welcome His Excellency President Muhammadu Buhari’s call to action to end AIDS by 2030. We are looking forward to supporting government …

A gunman stalked onto an Oregon college campus, Thursday and opened fire, killing nine people and wounding seven before police shot him to death, authorities said, in yet another burst of United States gun violence that ranked as the deadliest this year. The suspect, who witnesses say fired dozens of …

Economic growth in commodity-exporting countries is likely to slow more amid expectations for further weakness in commodity prices, particularly of energy and metals, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) says in a new study. “A significant deceleration in growth rates is unavoidable for many (commodity-exporting) economies,” the IMF study said. The …

The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Ltd (SPDC) operated Joint Venture has declared force majeure on exports from Forcados Terminal effective 15:00hrs, Nigerian time from Wednesday (September 30, 2015) following a leak on the Trans Forcados Pipeline (TFP), that has affected crude receipts into Forcados Terminal. The TFP is …

World trade will grow by 2.8 percent this year and could be pegged back further by a United States interest rate rise, China’s economic slowdown or Europe’s refugee crisis, the World Trade Organization said, Wednesday. The forecast, revised down from a 3.3 percent forecast made in April, means 2015 will …

Officials from several countries have said that more than 1,000 people died in last week’s stampede near Mecca during the annual Hajj pilgrimage. The last figure given by the Saudi authorities was 769. A Nigerian Hajj official in particular, from Kano, Abba Yakubu, said he had been to Jeddah, where …

The death toll from last Thursday stampede in Mina, Mecca which claimed the lives of 769 Muslims, including 54 Nigerians, could be higher than earlier thought as Saudi Arabia has released to foreign diplomats over 1,000 photographs of the dead from the mishap. This is just as President Muhammadu Buhari, …