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Beijing has just green lighted a project to build the country’s first underwater bullet train route. The line will connect Ningbo, a port city south of Shanghai, to Zhoushan, an archipelago off the east coast. The proposed underwater tunnel will be a part of the 77-kilometer Yong-Zhou Railway plan (Yong is the nickname of Ningbo) to […]

US President Donald Trump may be planning to set up an international television network to counter what he called an “unfair and false” representation of the country by CNN. In a tweet on Monday, Trump said CNN had good ratings internationally because it had little competition, but that was not the case in the US. […]

A new study has suggested that working near busy roads could trigger breast cancer. The research, which was published in the journal New Solutions revealed  that at least six women working at the same bridge got breast cancer within three years of one another. The scientists said chemicals from air pollution in this area could […]

A man and a woman have been shot dead and the third person was left seriously injured following a shooting that took place at the Durban’s Magistrate Court, South Africa on Monday. KwaZulu-Natal Police spokesperson, Tembeka Mbele, said the shooting occurred in the divorce court just before lunch when a man opened fire on his […]

The naira has remained stable at both the official and parallel markets despite huge campaign spendings by political parties, The Nation learnt yesterday. The stability of the local currency was linked to measures instituted by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the Association of Bureaux De Change (BDC) Operators of Nigeria (ABCON) to ensure that foreign […]

A court in Milan is considering charges of corruption against Eni and Shell in a controversial oil deal that led to Nigeria losing an estimated $6bn. The campaign group Global Witness has calculated the OPL 245 deal in 2011 deprived Nigeria of double its annual education and healthcare budget. Eni and Shell are accused of […]

Former Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan joined some Peoples Democratic Party governors to visit the palace of Lamido of Adamawa in Yola on Sunday. Those present at the meeting said Mr Obasanjo showered praises on Atiku Abubakar, his previously estranged vice president with whom he had reconciled since becoming the candidate of Nigeria’s main […]

Zimbabwe’s ex-leader Robert Mugabe is in Singapore for medical care and now unable to walk because of ill health and old age, President Emmerson Mnangagwa said on Saturday. Mnangagwa told his ZANU-PF party supporters at a rally that the 94-year-old Mugabe had been receiving medical care in Singapore for the past two months. “He (Mugabe) […]

Former President Goodluck Jonathan says no Nigerian leader till date has been able to assemble “a star-studded” cabinet as he did while in office. He believed his cabinet was full of achievers and people who he said got to the top of their chosen fields based on merit. Jonathan said this in his book, ‘My […]

Former Vice President and presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, has apologised for joining the groups, who came together to form the All Progressives Congress. He said the apology had become necessary because of the sufferings Nigerians had been subjected to in the last three and half years from a party he […]

A new report, ‘Knowledge is Power’, has revealed that an estimated 9.4 million people who are infected with HIV virus are not aware. According to the report, released by UNAIDS, 75 per cent of all people living with HIV or 27 million people, know their HIV status. The report called for increased efforts to reach […]

The Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, says that the problem with Nigeria is finding upright men in positions of authority. Mr Osibanjo, a pastor, said this on Friday in Enugu during a book presentation by former governor of Enugu State, Mr Sullivan Chime. The vice president said the widely held belief that the problem with the […]

An unprecedented drought in Afghanistan has led to families selling their children just to be able to feed their households. CNN has spoken to multiple families around the western city of Herat who have been forced from their homes because of a record dry spell that, according to the United Nations, has forced more people […]

The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has thrown its weight behind organised labour’s quest to increase the minimum wage, saying that it would boost the economy. CBN Governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, disclosed the apex bank’s position while briefing the press on the outcome of yesterday’s Monetary Policy Committee, MPC, meeting, in Abuja. Emefiele, who warned […]