Hundreds of thousand of job seekers in various locations across Nigeria took part in a recruitment exercise for jobs with the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS). The immigration service had announced the exercise earlier and charged each applicant N1,000 as ...

Over 125,000 applicants in Abuja and Lagos alone chasing 4,500 jobs! 16 feared dead in the scramble. Thousands fainted from stampede and exhaustion. Many more applicants thronged the remaining 35 states of the federation. These casualty figures from ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The U.S. government is relinquishing its control of the Internet's address system in a shift that may raise questions about the future direction of online innovation and communications. The decision announced Friday begins a ...

Antonio Guterres urged western nations to relax visa policies in order to help Syrian refugees. (AFP/File). The U.N. and other aid organizations urged western countries to open their borders to Syrians, AFP reports. In a press conference Saturday, U.N. refugee ...

Trapped in her northern Syrian village by fighting, Mervat watched her newborn baby progressively shrink. Her daughter's dark eyes seemed to grow bigger as her face grew more skeletal. Finally, Mervat escaped to neighbouring Lebanon, and a nurse told ...

NEW YORK (TheBlaze/AP) — Workers hauling away debris from the wreckage of a New York City explosion that killed eight people have recovered a Bible that belongs to the Spanish Christian Church, which was located in one of the two destroyed buildings ...

Six weeks before a fatal gas explosion destroyed two East Harlem apartment buildings, firefighters got a call about a gas odor at a small, wood-framed house on Staten Island. With the Bravest still on the scene, the place blew up. Three people were injured, ...