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Another fuel tanker has exploded along the Lagos Badagry Expressway on Tuesday ... Read more via YNaija News – https://ift.tt/2NXsQ69 Get More Nigeria Metro News

A huge fire from an explosion at Saclux Paints Industry in Umuahia, the Abia capital, on Sunday destroyed a missionary school building in the neighbourhood. Mr Emeka Okereke, the owner of the school, known as Love for Africa Mission, told Newsmen that a tanker, allegedly bearing ‘black oil’...

An explosion ripped through a demonstration of hundreds of people in Afghanistan's capital of Kabul on Saturday afternoon, killing at least 31 people and injuring more than 160, according to Ismail Kawoosi, a spokesman for the Afghan Health Ministry. The blast happened where hundreds of people...

A Nigerian solider and four civilians were killed in a mine explosion on Sunday, the army has announced. The army spokesperson, Sani Usman, said in a statement that the incident happened along the Biu -Damboa road, close to a military checkpoint. Retreating members of the Boko Haram are...

A powerful bomb blast rocked Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore on Sunday evening, killing at least 50 people and injuring over a 100, police said. The explosion took place inside a children's Park known as Gulshan-i-Iqbal at Iqbal Town here. A large number of families, especially women and...

President Muhammadu Buhari joins leaders across Europe and the rest of the world in condemning the atrocious terrorist attacks on the Zaventem Airport and Maalbeek Metro Station in Brussels earlier today. President commiserates with Prime Minister Charles Michel and Belgians over the loss of...

At least 12 people were killed on Sunday in a double bomb blast near the Shiite shrine of Sayyida Zeinab, south of the Syrian capital Damascus, a monitor said. Dozens more were wounded in the blasts, one of which was caused by a car bomb, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights...

Two suicide bombers killed four people at a school in northern Cameroon on Thursday, local officials said, the latest attack in a central African country struggling to contain violence blamed on Boko Haram militants in neighboring Nigeria. A dozen people were wounded in the twin bombing in the...

Explosions have rocked two Sunni mosques in central Iraq Monday, amid fears of renewed sectarian strife following Saudi Arabia’s execution of a prominent Shiite cleric, police and medics said. Groups of men wearing military uniforms detonated explosives at two Sunni mosques overnight in the...

Tragedy struck the industrial town of Nnewi, Anambra state on thursday when an industrial Gas plant suddenly exploded and with over 100 persons burnt to death. The explosion occurred at Chikason Group gas plant in Nnewi just few hours to Christmas with over 100 people were reportedly burnt to...

Tragedy struck the industrial town of Nnewi, Anambra state on thursday when an industrial Gas plant suddenly exploded and with over 100 persons burnt to death. The explosion rocked the Inter Corp Oil limited(LPG Gas Plant), an subsidiary of Chikason Group. According to an eye-witness, the...

At least three people have died and seven injured in a "huge" explosion in the centre of the Somali capital Mogadishu. Social media reports also claimed gunfire and a ball of smoke could be seen over the city after the explosion, which is believed to have been a car bomb that detonated at...

A grenade blast hit a mosque in a busy district of Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, wounding more than a dozen people, government spokesman Getachew Reda said. Authorities are unsure who is behind the attack at the Grand Anwar Mosque but are investigating, Information Minister Getachew Reda...

Seven people were reportedly killed with scores injured when suspected female suicide bomber in her 20s detonated her Improvised explosive Devices (IEDs) along Maiduguri – Mafa road on Sunday afternoon. Sources said. The incident according to a police officer who is not authorized to talk to...

No less than five individuals were killed in overnight conflicts in Burundi, police said on Sunday, and occupants reported a fight at the president's office in the capital Bujumbura which has been tormented by brutality since a questioned presidential race. Burundi has been in emergency since...