Far from being sensitive snowflakes, many post-Millennials are driven to succeed, says Deirdre Reynolds who talks to four young influencers.

Once upon a time, I played golf with a friend every Saturday morning. We are still friends though we rarely play golf together now.

At least eight people are dead after a four-storey residential building collapsed in the Nigerian city of Lagos.

A woman accused of trafficking a Nigerian woman into the country and forcing her into prostitution has gone on trial in Dublin.

As many as 30,000 people in Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos have been left homeless after their community was set ablaze and demolished this week, Amnesty International said.

The Department of Justice last year paid two airlines over €150,000 to deport Africa-bound failed asylum seekers on four flights out of Dublin.

Enda Kenny promised to act on sex trafficking and prostitution four years ago, yet a new programme shows these crimes still blight our society, writes Brian Killoran            

I’VE been doing a good bit of driving this past while, chiefly the Cork-Dublin-Cork-Dublin road. The bit of my elbow between the ‘elbone’ and the funny bone has taken on the shape of the sill of the driver’s door. The floor is covered in Double Decker wrappers.

A former Catholic archbishop has told the High Court he had an “inappropriate” sexual relationship with a woman in Nigeria which began in 1989 when she was aged 20 and he was 40.

The World Health Organisation says the spread of a mysterious virus from the Middle East to South Korea doesn’t merit being declared a global emergency despite infecting more than 160 people in the biggest outbreak outside the Arabian peninsula.

Suspected Boko Haram extremists attacked polling stations and destroyed election material in two northeastern towns, police said as Nigerians continued voting yesterday in certain areas that suffered technical glitches.

A “cruel, money-grabbing” prostitute has been jailed for 16 years after confessing to killing her partner who has been missing since New Year’s Day 2010.

The slaying of hundreds, if not thousands, of innocent Nigerians has not garnered the sort of outrage the Paris attacks did. Why is this so, asks Áine Carroll

The Foreign Affairs Committee will meet with newly appointed Ambassador of Nigeria to Ireland today to look at the development of trade links between Ireland and Nigeria.

It's emerged that at least 200 Irish citizens are currently in areas at a high risk from the Ebola outbreak.

When world leaders, including the Taoiseach, meet at the UN Climate Summit, they have a chance to make a real difference. Right now, it’s as if we are falling from a skyscraper muttering ‘so far so good’, writes Éamonn Meehan, executive director of Trócaire

Rescue workers in Nigeria dug a woman out of the rubble of a building that collapsed four days ago and she walked away with only a slight injury, a government spokesman said.

Rescue workers have recovered 46 bodies and rescued 130 survivors from the rubble of a shopping mall and guesthouse which collapsed on the outskirts of Lagos, Nigeria.

A mother of three, jailed yesterday for smuggling cocaine hidden in the soles of her shoes, claimed in court that her lover gave her the footwear.

Two new cases of Ebola have emerged in Nigeria and are outside the group of medics who treated a man who arrived in the country sick and later died, Health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu said.

Liberia’s President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has apologised for the high death toll among the country’s health workers, who have fought an ebola outbreak which has killed nearly 1,000 people in three countries.

Nigerian authorities rushed to obtain isolation tents in anticipation of more Ebola infections as they disclosed five more cases of the virus and a death.

A Nigerian nurse who treated a man with ebola is now dead and five others are sick with one of the world’s most virulent diseases said authorities, as the death toll rose to at least 932 people in four West African countries.

The doctor who treated a man who flew to Nigeria and died of Ebola has now contracted the disease, authorities said.

Hundreds of troops have been deployed in Sierra Leone and Liberia under an emergency plan to fight the worst outbreak of the deadly ebola virus, which has killed more than 826 people across West Africa.

No one knows just how many people Patrick Sawyer came into contact with the day he boarded a flight in Liberia, had a stopover in Ghana, changed planes in Togo, and then arrived in Nigeria, where authorities say he died days later from Ebola, one of the deadliest diseases known to man.

The Nigerian city of Lagos shut down and quarantined a hospital where a man died of Ebola in the first recorded case of the highly infectious disease in Africa’s most populous country.

Boko Haram extremists have killed more than 100 people in Nigeria, according to a civil defence spokesman.

Suspected Boko Haram gunmen kidnapped eight girls from a village near one of their strongholds in northeastern Nigeria overnight, police and residents said yesterday.

All schools and government offices in Nigeria’s capital will close during a three-day international conference next week, according to a presidential order that follows two bomb attacks in three weeks that killed nearly 100 people in Abuja.

Noel Baker recalls a tranquil few days in Sagres on the southernmost tip of Portugal, with a spin in a Porsche thrown in for good measure.

Wife stages fake kidnapping for €900

A young teenager dashed across a runway at a Nigerian airport, hid in the wheel well of a jet and survived a 35-minute domestic flight.

A teacher from the North married the Crown Prince of Lagos in Co Armagh earlier today.

China will become our global powerhouse, the world’s population will hit 8bn, and we’ll have grown used to biblical floods. Richard Fitzpatrick finds out how Earth will look in 12 years.

A top US human rights official said he has not discussed with Nigerian politicians an anti-gay bill poised to pass Parliament.

Forget about Hawaii or Florida, the buzzword among American retirees is Ireland, either Youghal, Co Cork, or Co Clare — either of which when it comes to affordable homes is hotter than anywhere Stateside.

Last week there was something of a ripple about Michael Bent, a rugby player lately qualified to play for Ireland.