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Months needed to repair facilities in Gaza – UN

United Nations humanitarian chief Valerie Amos said Sunday on a visit to Iran that it will take months to repair…

Adeyeye assures on completion of FG roads

Minister of State for Works, Dayo Adeyeye, on Sunday assured that most federal roads in the country would be made…

Clashes between Madagascar police, cattle rustlers kill 15

Clashes between armed bands of cattle rustlers and security forces have left 15 people dead in Madagascar including two paramilitary…

Chadian troops rescue 85 Nigerians from Boko Haram

Chadian troops have rescued around 85 Nigerians kidnapped by Boko Haram Islamists last weekend from fishing communities in Nigeria’s extreme…

Attack on Liberia isolation clinic highlights Ebola denial

Seventeen Ebola patients are missing after fleeing an attack on an isolation ward in Monrovia by armed youths claiming the…

MDGs record successes in Nigeria

Reports from various states across the country have shown that the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have recorded tremendous success in…

Mugabe opens southern Africa summit with call for growth

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe on Sunday opened a summit of southern African leaders by calling for countries to drive growth…

Iraqi officer who killed journalist jailed for life

The officer who killed an Iraqi journalist at a Baghdad checkpoint in March was sentenced to life imprisonment on Sunday,…

One shot, 7 arrested as violence flares in US

One person was shot and seven people were arrested as police battled to impose a curfew in the riot-hit US…

Thousands mourn Brazil presidential candidate Campos

Thousands of mourners paid tribute to Brazilian presidential candidate Eduardo Campos here Sunday after the socialist politician’s death in a…

Seven wedding guests killed by Senegal landmine

Seven wedding guests were killed and three were seriously injured when they were blown up by a landmine in the…

Elechi collects PVC, advises electorate to vote in 2015

Governor Martin Elechi of Ebonyi on Saturday collected his permanent voter’s card at the Echi-Alike polling booth in Ikwo Local…

Putin aide denies Ukraine rebel claims of Russia sending arms

President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman denied Sunday a Ukrainian separatist leader’s claim that the insurgents had just received a large shipment…

Ebola: Catholic bishops approves communion in hand

The Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria has approved the reception of Holy Communion in the hand as a precautionary measure…

NIPOST seeks adequate infrastructure

The Nigerian Postal Service (NIPOST) has called on Federal Government to provide adequate infrastructure for the service to enhance its…

Nigerian troops clear terrorist camp in Borno

The Defence Headquarters has said in Abuja on Saturday that troops of the Multi-National Joint Task Force (MNJTF) has cleared…

Armed men free 20 Ebola infected patients in Liberia

Armed men claiming that “there’s no Ebola” in Liberia raided a quarantine centre for the deadly disease in Monrovia overnight,…

Nepal floods kill at least 97 as cholera fears rise

Rescuers Sunday found 12 more bodies buried under mud and debris to bring the death toll from landslides and flooding…

Ebola: Nigerians advised to spread facts, not rumours

A pharmacist at the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH), Kwara, Mr Lanre Alege, has charged Nigerians to spread facts…

Sheriff’s Defection: APC plans nationwide thanksgiving

The All Progressives Youth Forum is planning to organise a nationwide ‎thanksgiving with special Sunday church service and Jumma’at prayers…

Ebola stricken Nigeria doctor in Liberia receives rare serum

Health care workers in Liberia have administered three doses of the rare, experimental drug ZMapp to three doctors, one of…

Association urges FG to rescind sack of resident doctors

The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Lagos Chapter, has appealed to the Federal Government to reverse its directive and withdraw its…

S.African lawmaker who backed cannabis for medical use dies

A South African opposition lawmaker who had called for the legalisation of cannabis for medical use died Saturday after a…

Mixed reactions trail Adamawa acting Gov.’s decision to contest

The decision of the acting governor of Adamawa, Alhaji Ahmadu Fintiri, to seek for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ticket…

Ebola: Female Doctor Discharged

The Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, on Saturday announced that the first Nigerian confirmed to have contracted the Ebola…

Awka in frenzy as group holds rally for Jonathan

The popular Ekwueme Square in Awka was filled to capacity as the Transformation Ambassadors of Nigeria (TAN), on Saturday, held…

Ribadu dumps APC for PDP, eyes guber election

Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has joined the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP,…

Kenya shut borders to Ebola hit countries

Kenya on Saturday became the latest country to ban travellers from parts of Ebola-hit west Africa as Nigeria scrambled to…

APC will participate in Adamawa guber election

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Adamawa state said in Yola on Saturday that it would participate in the 11…

Suffering and smiling in Sierra Leone’s Ebola ‘hot zone’

Virologists call it the “hot zone” — nature’s version of a nuclear ground zero, the centre of an onslaught by…