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298 people on board crashed Malaysian flight, 154 Dutch – Airline
There were 298 people, including 154 Dutch nationals, on board the Malaysia Airlines flight that crashed in strife-torn eastern Ukraine…
Erdogan accuses Israel of ‘systematic genocide’ in Gaza
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday launched his most bitter attack yet against Israel over its air campaign…
CAF Shifts Eaglets, DR Congo Tie To 27 July
The Confederation of African Football, CAF, on Thursday moved the 2015 African U-17 Championship qualifying match between Nigeria and the…
BPE Lauds IKEDC Over Transformation Process
The Director General of Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE), Benjamin Dikki on Wednesday lauded Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company (IKEDC) over…
BBC News to cut 400 jobs in austerity drive
The BBC said on Thursday it will cut 415 jobs from its news department in the latest cost-cutting measures by…
Tiger Woods delights Open crowds with birdie blitz
Tiger Woods rolled back the years with some of the scintillating golf that made him a 14-time major winner as…
Thabo Mbeki grilled over arms deal
Former South African president Thabo Mbeki was grilled Thursday over a multi-billion-dollar arms deal tainted by charges of corruption and…
NNPC to begin oil bunkering in October
The Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) said it had concluded plans to go into oil bunkering business to boost its…
40 dead, millions without power in Philippine typhoon
Millions of people in the Philippines endured a second sweltering day without power on Thursday after a ferocious typhoon paralysed…
Civil servant arraigned over cruelty to 2-year old baby
The police on Wednesday arraigned a civil servant, Alexander Omale, 34, before a Karu Senior Magistrates’ Court, Abuja, over alleged…
3 Gaza mortar shells hit Israel after ceasefire
Three mortar shells fired from Gaza hit southern Israel on Thursday, the army said, just over two hours after a…
Israel, Hamas agree new truce
An Israeli official said Thursday the Jewish state had agreed a ceasefire with Hamas that will begin at 0300 GMT…
Seven drown in septic tank on Polish pig farm
Seven people, all members of the same family, died in a freak accident Thursday after falling into an industrial-size septic…
Chibok Parents Snub: Jonathan embarrassed Nigerians – APC
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has described as a compound embarrassment the fact that it took 17-year old girl-child education…
Great white shark choked by sea lion
A great white shark that washed up on an Australian beach this week had a sea lion stuck in its…
Pharma giant Novartis says profits soared
Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis said Thursday its net profits for the first half had shot up by 13 percent and…
Maradona ex-girlfriend arrested, accused of theft
An ex-girlfriend of legendary footballer Diego Maradona was arrested Wednesday at a Buenos Aires airport for allegedly stealing from him…
Adamawa Acting Gov. appoints SSG
The Acting Governor of Adamawa, Alhaji Ahmad Umaru, on Wednesday in Yola swore in Prof. Liman Tukur as the new…
Lead us to Sambisa Forest, Danjuma tells Jonathan
Former Nigeria Chief of Staff, General Theophilius Danjuma (rtd) on Wednesday 16 July told President Goodluck Jonathan to lead the…
Edo assembly members criticise media for addressing them as APC legislators
Members of Edo State House of Assembly elected on the platform of All Progressives Congress (APC) have criticsed the media,…
APC took Osun through ‘back door’, we’ll reclaim it – Sambo
Vice President Namadi Sambo has said that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will reclaim Osun state, taken “through the back…
Nyako: APC describes impeachment as PDP’s invasion against opposition
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Adamawa has described the impeachment of former Governor Murtala Nyako, as a plan by…
Reps summon Jega over permanent voter cards
The House of Representatives on Wednesday summoned, Prof. Attahiru Jega, Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission, over alleged haphazard distribution of…
High-ranking China official given life sentence for bribery
A Chinese regional official was sentenced to life imprisonment on Thursday for bribe-taking, a court said, the first high-ranking bureaucrat…
Tech enhanced food crops cannot cause cancer
The National Root Crops Research Institute (NRCRI) on Wednesday described as untrue assertions by non-scientists that technologically-enhanced food crops could…
Gunmen kidnap German in Adamawa
Gunmen on motorcycles kidnapped a German national on Wednesday in Adamawa state, police said, in the latest assault in the…
Immigration intensifies efforts on air border patrol
The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) said on Wednesday that it would rehabilitate its old aircraft to resume air border patrol…
Jonathan seeks N162bn loan to fight insurgency
President Goodluck Jonathan has sought the approval of the National Assembly to borrow $1 billion (N162bn) to finance the war…
Police arrest civil servant over N20.8m theft
The Kebbi Police Command has recovered stolen medical equipment worth N20.8 million and arrested a suspect, Faruk Zaki who is…
Liverpool start life after Suarez with defeat
Liverpool started life without Luis Suarez on Wednesday with a 2-1 defeat against Danish side Brondby in the club’s opening…