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Japan seeks to double budget for disputed islands patrol

Japan’s coastguard is to ask for a doubling of its budget to boost patrols around islands that are the focus…

Lebanon plans law to stem growing child marriage trend

At 13, Samiha left school and the home she shared with 10 people near Baalbek in eastern Lebanon to live…

S. Korea ferry victim’s father ends 45-day hunger strike

The father of one of the high school students killed in South Korea’s ferry disaster on Thursday abandoned a hunger…

Head Niger parliament questioned in Nigerian baby-trafficking case

The head of parliament in Niger will be interrogated as part of a probe into international baby-trafficking, sources said on…

UK police arrest man in Pakistani politician murder case

British police on Wednesday arrested a 30-year old man in connection with the 2010 murder of influential Pakistani politician Imran…

US health worker home after ‘low-risk’ Ebola exposure

A health worker with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has returned to the United States after possible…

Cameroun kills 27 Boko Haram militants

Cameroun state-owned radio, CRTV says its military has killed 27 members of Islamist sect Boko Haram near a northeastern town.…

Namibia rocked as protestor shot dead in rare political unrest

A young woman was shot dead in Namibia on Wednesday in clashes between police and the children of fallen independence…

OBJ, Jonathan meet over insecurity in Nigeria

Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta Former President of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo and President Goodluck Jonathan met today in Abuja to discuss nation’s…

Syria’s Assad forms government, appoints 11 new ministers

Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad formed a new government on Wednesday, two months after his reelection, leaving key ministries untouched as…

Three Qaeda suspects die in clash with Yemen troops

Three Al-Qaeda suspects were killed in a clash with troops Wednesday in the southeastern Hadaramawt province, the scene of frequent…

Al-Makura donates N5m to corps members

Governor Umaru Al-Makura of Nasarawa on Tuesday donated N5million for the transportation of Batch ‘B’ 2014 corps members to their…

FG warns against complacency in Ebola fight

Nigeria’s health minister on Wednesday warned against complacency in the country’s fight against Ebola, despite only one patient remaining in…

Nasarawa registers 11,000 cooperative societies

Nasarawa State Government on Wednesday said it had registered over 11,000 cooperative societies in the state as part of efforts…

281 Fake NYSC Members Sacked From Camp

Authorities of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in Niger State, northcentral Nigeria, have thrown 281 fake corps members  out…

Zimbabwe police beat, detain opposition protesters

Zimbabwe riot police detained a dozen opposition protesters and beat up others at a demonstration on Wednesday over high unemployment,…

Kwankwaso Joins Prezy Race

Jamiu Yisa The Governor of Kano State, northwest Nigeria, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso has declared his intention to run for the…

Why I Want Fashola’s Job —Hamzat

Kazeem Ugbodaga Lagos State Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure, Dr. Kadri Hamzat has finally broken his silence, saying he is…

PFN, Others Mourn Pa Sadela

Kazeem Ugbodaga & Joseph Oluwasanmi National President, Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, PFN, Dr. Felix Omobude and other ministers of the…

Jos crisis: Plateau to release Justice Ajibola’s report

Edward Pwajok, Plateau Commissioner for Justice, has said that the report of the Justice Bola Ajibola Commission of Inquiry into…

Gombe earmarks N20m to fight Ebola virus

Gombe State Government has set N20 million aside for the management of any Ebola virus outbreak. Dr Kennedy Ishaya, the…

Water experts call on FG to establish laboratories

Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta To ensure that the health of Nigerians are not endangered through the type of water they drink, it…

Osoba and I will resolve differences – Amosun

Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun state, southwest, Nigeria has revealed that peace talk is ongoing to resolve the…

Ebola: Group sentisize women and drivers in Ogun

Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta Call has gone to Nigerian women to be more cautious to prevent the deadly Ebola Virus Disease, EVD…

Man drowns saving his child in Ogun

Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta Pandemonium struck Sunday evening when a commercial driver identified as Oluwagbeminija Oluwasanya Rhodes drowned at Ogun river in…

WHO staffer with Ebola taken to Germany for treatment

A World Health Organization (WHO) employee who has contracted Ebola arrived in Germany Wednesday, the first patient with the virus…

IMF chief Lagarde charged over French corruption case

International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde announced Wednesday she had been charged for “negligence” over a multi-million-euro corruption case relating…

S.Sudan warring forces trade blame over UN helicopter crash

Warring forces in South Sudan traded blame Wednesday for the crash of a UN helicopter in which three crew died,…

Indian woman kills leopard with sickle

A 56-year old Indian woman is recovering in hospital after killing a leopard that attacked her as she tended her…

Hamas ‘brought Israel to its knees’ – Iran

Iran said Wednesday that Palestinian militants had emerged the victors and brought their Israeli foe “to its knees” during the…