Australia
14 Dec
An Australian mother jailed for 20 years over the killing of her four children was acquitted on Thursday after scientific breakthroughs helped clear her name. Kathleen Folbigg was imprisoned in 2003 after she was convicted of killing her children, who died suddenly and without explanation between 1989 and 1999. Once dubbed "Australia's worst female serial…
13 Dec
Australian police on Wednesday charged a man living in suburban Sydney with sending 17 million scam text messages, one for almost every adult in the country. New South Wales police said the unnamed 39-year-old was single-handedly responsible for scam texts that have been plaguing mobile phone users across the country. The texts included fake links…
16 Nov
The Deputy High Commissioner of Australia at the Australian High Commission, Mr. Matthew Mechan, has disclosed that over 10,000 Nigerian students secured admission to Australian universities between 2015 and 2019.
3 Nov
Jeering Qantas shareholders voted down a pay package for the company's top brass Friday, as the outgoing chairman apologised for a public "loss of trust" in Australia's much-loved carrier
2 Nov
Australian police on Thursday arrested the woman at the centre of a mushroom meal mystery that left three people dead and a local preacher fighting for his life.
31 Oct
Australia decided on Tuesday against bidding for the 2034 men's football World Cup, paving the way for Saudi Arabia to host the event.
25 Oct
United States of America President, Joe Biden will receive Australian Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, today at the White House for an official visit and state dinner, deliberating on Indo-Pacific and trendy global matters. In a fact sheet issued from the White House to newsmen at the Foreign Press Centre (FPC) yesterday, Biden disclosed that the…
14 Oct 2023
Australians have roundly rejected greater rights for Indigenous citizens, scuppering plans to amend the country's 122-year-old constitution after a divisive and racially tinged referendum campaign. With 88 percent of polling places reporting, around 59 percent of people had voted against a proposal to acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders within the 1901 constitution for the…
23 Sep 2023
Hundreds of protesters rallied in Sydney on Saturday against a plan to adapt Australia's constitution to enshrine Indigenous rights, ahead of a referendum next month. The crowd gathered in the city's Hyde Park railed against the proposal, which if it passes on October 14, would give Indigenous peoples the right to be consulted on policies…
29 Aug 2023
A parasitic roundworm typically found in snakes was pulled "alive and wriggling" from a woman's brain in a stomach-churning medical first, Australian doctors said Tuesday.
27 Aug 2023
Three US Marines died Sunday after an Osprey aircraft crashed on a remote tropical island north of Australia during war games, US military officials said. Five Marines had been rescued from the crash site and flown to a hospital in Darwin in a "serious condition", the US officials said, while Australian police said they were…
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The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has warned the public not to fall for a video suggesting it is auctioning vehicles. NCS on Friday refuted the video with scandalous narration announcing a purported auction of vehicles. Customs issued a statement on Friday to alert the general public on the video while warning them not to fall…
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The Registrar, Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Is-haq Oloyede has monitored the ongoing Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) exercise in Abuja. Prof. Oloyede who monitored the exercise at the Kogo Computer Based Tests (CBT) Centre in Bwari Area Council of Abuja, expressed satisfaction with the process. He reiterated the examination body's earlier order…