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Synthetic opioid use is booming, UNODC report on worldwide drug report has shown deaths in the US from overdoses still rising and a “crisis” of tramadol use

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has denied using the word ‘exaggerated’ during an address on kidnapping in New York on Monday contrary to media reports

Italian mafia boss Rocco Morabito has broken out of jail in the Uruguayan capital, Montevideo, where he was awaiting extradition to Italy, according to Italy’s interior ministry.

A Greek-Cypriot army officer has been handed multiple life sentences for the premeditated murder of five foreign women and two of their children.

Facebook’s plan to operate its own digital currency poses risks to the international banking system that should trigger a speedy response from global policymakers

A woman in Canada has said she was forgotten and left alone on an Air Canada plane after falling asleep during a flight, she says she’s having night terrors since then

An Iranian minister said Monday that the US was unsuccessful in its cyber attacks against Iran this week after Tehran downed an American surveillance drone.

A US-based professor has asked Senator Shehu Sani to apologise to VP Yemi Osinbajo on his comments belittling the poverty level of Nigerians on social media

A jazz singer born in Britain to Nigerian parents Bumi Thomas is facing deportation after falling foul of controversial Home Office Windrush red tape.

The chief of staff of the Ethiopian army, General Seare Mekonnen, has been shot dead in the capital, Addis Ababa, state media confirm.