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Exiled Ethiopian patriarch returns

The exiled patriarch of Ethiopia’s powerful Orthodox Church, Bishop Merkorios, has returned home to the capital, Addis Ababa, after 27 years. Ethiopia’s reformist Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed met him in the US last week and persuaded him to reconcile with ...

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Cabinet approves N79.9 billion for Apapa road in Lagos

The federal cabinet has approved the sum of seventy-nine point nine billion naira for the reconstruction of the road from Apapa to the toll gate on Lagos-Ibadan expressway in Lagos state, South-West Nigeria. Minister of Works, Power and Housing Babatunde ...

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LIB- 45-year-old married man arrested for sodomizing 11 year old boy in Abuja

The FCT police command has arrested 45-year-old married man, Mohammed Sani, pictured above, for allegedly sodomising an 11-year-old boy in the Mabuchi area of the city. According to reports, the victim who is an apprentice at a mechanic workshop, was introduced ...

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Guys.. Are you a first class graduate and still unmarried?? This is for you.. Nigerian lady looking for a husband, says he must be a First Class graduate and also have a very good Government Job

A Nigerian lady looking for a husband has revealed the qualities he must poses before they can get married. The lady identified on Twitter as @WitWinnie, says her lucky man must be a first class graduate and also have a ...

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Court remands three INEC Staff in Ikoyi prison for N177.3m fraud

The Lagos Zonal office of EFCC on Wednesday, August 1, 2018, arraigned the trio of Gbadegun Isaiah Abiodun, Oladipo Oladapo and Afolabi Peter Albert, before Justice Chuka Obiozor of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos on a five-count charge bordering ...

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Buhari embarks on 10-day London vacation, transfers power to Osinbajo

President Muhammadu Buhari would on Friday, August 3, embark on a 10 working days holiday in the United Kingdom. This was revealed by the president’s special assistant on media and publicity, Garba Shehu, in a tweet on Wednesday, August 1. ...

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Hope and scepticism as Kenya rounds up graft suspects

Dozens of top executives and government officials have been charged, lifestyle audits have been ordered and even lie detector tests suggested in recent weeks, as Kenya launches a new crusade against corruption. There are few topics as discussed in the ...

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Don’t treat childless women like they are damaged goods – maybe my purpose on earth is not to procreate, says Jennifer Aniston

Jennifer Aniston has delivered one of her most candid interviews to date about her personal life, hitting back at her critics and declaring her ‘purpose on this planet’ may not be ‘to procreate’. The 49-year-old Friends vet, who was interviewed by ...

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Three dead in violent Harare protests as security forces battle demonstrators after Zanu-PF win in parliament vote

\ At least three people have been killed as police and soldiers in Harare clashed with opposition protesters amid a delay in announcing the winner of Zimbabwe’s presidential election. The scene in the capital has deteriorated into serious disorder, according to reports on ...

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Pope blasts “supermarket of idols” of money, drugs, vanity

Pope Francis poses with nuns for a family photo at the end of his weekly general audience in the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican, Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2018. Pope Francis has returned from a month’s vacation, blasting the “idols” ...

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Congo announces 4 new Ebola cases in country’s northeast

At least four new cases of the Ebola virus have emerged in Congo’s northeast, just a week after an outbreak in the northwest was declared over, the country’s health ministry said Wednesday. There was no indication the two outbreaks, separated ...

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Body of kidnapped 6-year-old girl found in shallow stream in South Africa; she was raped and murdered

Police in Mpumalanga, Johannesburg, South Africa are investigating what appears to be a spike in child kidnappings in the province following the murder of a six-year-old girl. Noluthando Masango disappeared on Saturday, July 21, while attending a traditional ceremony with ...

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Protest as 15-year-old who was raped and impregnated by her own brother got jail term for aborting the pregnancy

Indonesian activists have filed an official complaint against three judges in Sumatra, who sentenced a teenage girl to six months in prison for having an illegal abortion after she was repeatedly raped by her brother. An alliance of women’s rights ...

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Gunmen strike convoy with Mali election materials, 12 killed in shootout

Gunmen attacked a convoy carrying election materials in central Mali, triggering a shootout in which four soldiers and eight attackers were killed, a Defence Ministry spokesman said on Wednesday. The spokesman said the attack occurred late on Tuesday on the ...

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Zimbabwe police clash with opposition supporters as ruling party wins majority

Police fired tear gas to disperse stone-throwing protesters in Harare on Wednesday as the main opposition leader accused the ruling party of trying to rig the result of Zimbabwe’s election. European Union observers also questioned the conduct of Zimbabwe’s first ...

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Miss Ghana 2017 resigns just 8 months after being crowned, says “It’s just one big sham on the inside”

Margaret Dery, the winner of Miss Ghana 2017 beauty pageant has resigned while stating that being Miss Ghana was one of the worst experiences of her life. The beauty queen, who was crowned 8 months ago, claims she sent the organizers an email informing ...

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African athletes forced to sleep on the floor at the Lagos airport because there was no flight to Asaba

Athletes from across various African nations who came into Nigeria for the Africa Senior Athletics Championship in Asaba were forced to sleep on the floor at the airport in Lagos because there was no flight to Asaba.   The Asaba 2018  ...

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