Founded in 1970, NOC has historically controlled the country's vast oil reserves — some 48 million barrels of crude, ...

In early September 2024, Maiduguri, the capital of the northeastern state of Borno, was inundated with floods as deteriorated portions of the Alau Dam were overridden by heavy rains. The rapid ...

The entire project will be completed in the next 24 months." Legit.ng recalls that in September 2024, the Alau dam collapsed, causing catastrophic flooding in Borno state. Heavy rains caused ...

In 2024, the dam collapsed, causing catastrophic flooding in Borno State and killing over 150 people, with at least 419,000 people displaced. The Minister of Water Resources and sanitation ...

An example is the Brumadinho mine dam disaster in Brazil. On 25 January 2019, the waste dam of an iron mine owned by the Brazilian mining giant Vale burst, spilling several million cubic meters of ...

How will the balance of power in the region evolve after the potential collapse of the Assad regime ... Russia may seek alternative footholds in the region. Libya, and particularly the port of ...

The women watched in shock as a newly constructed four-storey building right opposite Manju’s workplace crumbled and collapsed. “All of a sudden it became dark… it was like night had fallen in a few ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- A construction worker was rescued after being trapped in an elevator at a construction site in downtown Houston where a scaffolding collapsed, according to officials.

QUINCY, Mass. — There is a large emergency response underway on the South Shore after scaffolding at a construction site collapsed on Tuesday morning. Crews responding to a report of a construction ...

Baghpat Stage Collapse: A makeshift stage prepared for devotees collapsed under their weight, killing 7 and injuring at least 40 people, officials said. Listen to Story Incident happened during laddu ...

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) likened President Trump’s onslaught of executive action to a “blitzkrieg” whose ultimate goal is to “collapse our democracy.” “The freezing of federal ...