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In this interview, a First Class Traditional Ruler in Benue State, Chief Abu King Shuluwa says the Tiv people are seriously considering changing their settlement pattern as a way of finding lasting solution to the incessant attacks and killings of ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Malaysian authorities are investigating the marriage between an 11-year-old Thai girl and a 41-year-old Malaysian Muslim that has sparked public outrage and calls for child brides to be banned. Rubber scrap dealer Che Abdul Karim Che ...

Kampala- Uganda has Africa’s best electricity regulatory system, according to the African Development Bank (AfDB’s) 2018 Electricity Regulatory Index (ERI) report. Second is Namibia, tailed by Tanzania, Nigeria, Ghana, Malawi, Kenya, Cameroon, South Africa, Togo, Senegal, Côte I’voire, Lesotho, Zimbabwe ...

Ten soldiers were killed and four were missing Sunday after an attack blamed on the jihadist group Boko Haram on a military position in southeast Niger, near the border with Nigeria, the defence ministry said. “We have a provisional toll ...

Schoolteacher Annet Nanozi was mad at her husband. A vehicle mechanic, he was refusing to help raise their four children. She realized he was instead spending his paycheck on alcohol and his time sleeping with barmaids. The 34-year-old decided to ...

A 32-year-old former Boko Haram Commander, Rawana Goni, has appealed to the Nigerian military authorities to allow him to make a phone call to the elusive leader, Abubakar Shekau and at least 137 other terrorists to make them surrender. Goni, ...

A Deputy Superintendent of Prisons, Collins Ugwu, has been paraded by The Enugu State police command for his alleged involvement in armed robbery, Ugwu is from Ezza South LGA of Ebonyi State, and serving with the Nigerian Prisons Service in ...

Dearest Sister, On your special day I wish you only smiles and joy. May each minute of your life be filled with happiness and may this birthday be just perfect for you! My wonderful sister, you are one in a million and I ...

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A 14-year-old schoolgirl has gone missing after leaving her mother’s shop in Ikorodu to go out with her 20-year-old boyfriend. Bilikisu Oseni, an S.S.1 student, left her mother’s shop in Odogunyan, Ikorodu, Lagos State, with her boyfriend, Wahis, on Sunday, ...

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, has disclosed that it would be meeting with Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, to address the issue of remittances to the Federation Account that caused the suspension of the Federation Account Allocation Committee, FAAC, meeting. ...

Assassinated Congolese independence hero Patrice Lumumba was immortalised on Saturday in Brussels with a square named after him; what campaigners called Belgium’s first major step towards tackling its dark colonial legacy. Hundreds of supporters cheered as campaigners and officials unveiled ...

The party of leading Sudanese opposition figure Sadiq al-Mahdi said on Sunday he has been refused entry on his return to Egypt, where he had been living in self-imposed exile. Egypt’s foreign ministry did not respond immediately to a request ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed his deepest sympathy with the gas explosion victims in Kaduna, North-West Nigeria. The President further says his heart is with the victims at their hour of distress. In a statement he issued on Sunday evening, Presidential Spokesman, ...

The Nigerian Army has confirmed that 32 Boko Haram terrorists have willingly surrendered themselves to troops at different locations in Borno. Army spokesman, Brig.-Gen Texas Chukwu, who confirmed this in a statement on Sunday, said that among them was one ...

Without a doubt, the death of a child is the most unendurable filial anguish that could torment a parent. Having lost a couple of sons, David, king of Israel, captured the immeasurable worth of a child in the boundless words ...

  A leaking NNPC petrol tanker was spotted along Ikorodu road in Lagos yesterday July1st. A twitter user shared a video of the tanker conductor trying to stop the leakage as the driver drove the tank through Maryland tunnel. Click on the ...

After more than 130 caps and three major titles, including the 2010 World Cup, the former Barcelona midfielder has hung up his boots Andres Iniesta has announced that he will retire from international football after seeing Spain crash out of ...

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Cristiano Ronaldo has allegedly rejected a big-money offer to stay at Real Madrid. The Portugal international has turned down a contract worth £26.7m from Los Blancos, according to Tuttosport. The five-time Ballon d’Or winner’s future was cast into doubt in May ...

Police are investigating the mysterious deaths of 11 people after their bodies were found blindfolded and hanging in a house in India. The victims were all from the same family and most had lived in the home where they were ...

Government ministers have rehearsed for the Queen’s death for the first time in an “unprecedented” exercise to prepare for 10 days of national mourning, it has been reported. Cabinet ministers and Whitehall officials this week met for the exercise, apparently ...

The burial date of the Legendary Nigerian Musician. Okeleke Augustine Onwubuya, popularly known as Ras Kimono, who passed on few week ago has been announced/ According to one of the family members of the deceased, the burial will take pkace ...

Air Peace on Friday urged members of the public to ignore a recorded voice message warning them not to patronise the airline and some other air and land transport companies. The airline, in a statement signed by its General Manager, ...

The transgender community in Jacksonville, Florida have raised an alarm as they fear a serial killer is after them following the killing of three women who were murdered this year. According to reports,  Celine Walker, 36, was found shot to death in ...