Nigerian army’s offensive against Boko Haram militants the north of the country has left 14 insurgents and three soldiers dead, the defence ministry said Sunday in its latest toll from the operation. “After a mop up of scenes of battle (since Saturday), 14 terrorists were confirmed dead… Altogether three soldiers died, while seven are wounded [...]
A 48-year-old divorced Briton locked in a bitter custody battle confessed on Sunday that he had killed his two young children by slitting their throats near the eastern French city of Lyon. The bodies of a five-year-old girl and a 10-year-old boy were discovered on Saturday afternoon in the man’s apartment in Saint-Priest, a southeastern [...]
Professor Wole Soyinka, Nobel Laureate, in an interview with Sahara Reporters, speaks on his relationship with compatriot, Chinua Achebe and slams those, he describes as ‘an incorrigible sect’, promoting lies that his Nobel prize poisoned the relationship. Excerpts… “Well then, this prospect that “my 1986 Nobel Prize in literature poisoned my personal relationship with a [...]
The Northern State Governors’ Forum (NSGF) on Saturday in Minna said it was in support of the state of emergency rule imposed on Borno, Yobe and Adamawa in the North-East. Forum Chairman and Niger Governor, Babangida Aliyu, disclosed this in a statement by Danladi Ndayebo, his Chief Press Secretary, and made available to the News [...]
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad insisted he will not resign before the end of his mandate in 2014 as a car bomb exploded in the capital Damascus on Saturday killing at least three people. “To resign would be to flee,” Assad said in an interview with the Argentine newspaper Clarin when asked if he would consider [...]
Pope Francis on Saturday called for the respect of ethical values in public life and politics as their absence was “hurting all of humanity”. “We are seeing a crisis of mankind which is destroying mankind,” the pope told a crowd of 200,000 people, most of them members of religious groups, in Saint Peter’s square. “If [...]
Americans by the droves plunked down cold cash Saturday for a chance at fulfilling their most feverish dream: winning the $600 million Powerball lottery jackpot. Millions will be glued to their TV sets when the Powerball numbers are drawn in a live event broadcast just before 11:00 pm eastern time (0300 GMT Sunday). If there [...]
