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China to release daily Japanese war crimes ‘confession’

China on Thursday began publishing “confessions” of 45 convicted Japanese World War II criminals, officials said, in Beijing’s latest effort…

China’s Xi snubs N. Korea with summit talks in South

China’s president held talks in Seoul Thursday with South Korean leader Park Geun-Hye at the start of a state visit…

11 injured in Gaza raids, rockets strike Israeli houses

Eleven Palestinians were wounded Thursday when Israel pounded targets in Gaza as militants kept up a volley of cross-border fire,…

Egypt Islamists call ‘day of anger’ to mark Morsi ouster

Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood called for a ‘day of anger’ Thursday to mark the first anniversary of the military overthrow of…

Somali lawmaker assassinated, Shebab claims responsibility

Somalia’s Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab claimed responsiblity for shooting dead a lawmaker and wounding another on Thursday, the latest in a surge…

Saudi MERS: Philippines urges its Muslims to abort Hajj

The Philippines urged its large Muslim minority on Thursday to reconsider plans to join pilgrimages to Saudi Arabia this year…

Student Unionism Has Been Destroyed

Sanai Agunbiade, the lawmaker representing Ikorodu Constituency 1 at the Lagos State House of Assembly has become one whose contributions…

How Kidnap Of Umaru Dikko Was Foiled 30 Years Ago

Thirty years ago, there was an attempt to kidnap a Nigerian minister, Alhaji Umaru Dikko, who died in London on…

Engineering Student Jailed For Kidnapping

Jethro Ibileke/Asaba Ndudi Ogwu, an ND II Mechanical Engineering student of Delta State Polytechnic, Ogwashi-Uku, has been convicted and sentenced…

Olu Of Ikeja Dies, markets shut down

Yisa Jamiu The Olu of Ikeja Kingdom, Lagos, southwest Nigeria, Oba Rauf Adeniyi Aremu Matemi, is dead. He was said…

Court Bailiff Faces Trial Over Pension Scam

Nnamdi Felix/Abuja Magistrate Oyeyipo of an Abuja Magistrates’ Court’s siting at Karu has fixed 25 Friday July, for the trial…

Gulder Ultimate Search 11 To Hold In Aguleri, Anambra

Funsho Arogundade The deep forest of the ancient Aguleri community in Anambra State will be playing host to this year’s…

Varsity Admission: JAMB Pegs Cut Off Mark At 180

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, as well as the Federal Government have pegged the cutoff mark for admission…

Fashola Warns Tank Farm Owners To Be Vigilant

Kazeem Ugbodaga Following an explosion at a tank farm in Apapa area of Lagos, western Nigeria, last week, Governor Babatunde…

Arisekola’s Wife Killed In Auto Crash

Gbenro Adesina/Ibadan Barely a week after the death of the Aare Musulumi of Yoruba Land, Alhaji Arisekola Alao, one of…

Spanish princess appeals tax and fraud charges

Spanish King Felipe VI’s sister, Princess Cristina, appealed on Wednesday against tax and money-laundering charges that threaten to land her…

Top Jordan jihadist denounces IS caliphate

A leading Jordanian jihadist ideologist on Wednesday denounced the declaration of a “caliphate” by Sunni militants in Iraq and Syria,…

Police arrest 500 in Hong Kong protest

Hong Kong police arrested more than 500 protesters at a sit-in early Wednesday following a huge march that organisers said…

Blast rips through Osun, Kaduna, Borno killing scores

A bomb blast rocked Ile-Ife, Osun State, early Wednesday morning. The low small bomb went off in the Onipetu area…

Boat migrant death toll in Italy rises to 45

Rescuers recovering the bodies of migrants left to die in the suffocating hull of an overcrowded fishing boat said on…

French police clear 320 migrants from Channel camps

French police early Wednesday cleared a food handout centre and three squats in the port of Calais occupied by some…

W. African nations in crisis talks as Ebola spreads

Health ministers from across western Africa gathered on Wednesday to plan “drastic action” against the world’s deadliest-ever Ebola epidemic as…

Lebanese wife-beater convicted under new law

A Lebanese man who beat his wife has been jailed for nine months in the first such conviction under a…

Ex-French president Nicolas Sarkozy charged with corruption

France’s former president Nicolas Sarkozy has been charged with corruption and influence peddling, French prosecutors said Wednesday, a dramatic move…

Taliban suicide attack on military bus kills 8 in Kabul

A Taliban suicide bomber in Kabul killed eight military officers Wednesday in an attack on an air force bus, Afghan…

China bans civil servants, students from Ramadan fasting

China has banned civil servants, students and teachers in its mainly Muslim Xinjiang region from taking part in Ramadan fasting,…

Kenyan plane crashes into building, kills 4

At least four people died when a cargo plane crashed into a building shortly after takeoff Wednesday from the Kenyan…

Brazil police break up World Cup-related protest

Brazilian police fired tear gas and rubber bullets to break up a protest Tuesday by some 300 people demanding the…

Murdered Israeli teens laid to rest

Israel on Tuesday paid an emotional farewell to three teenagers killed in the West Bank, while vowing to hunt down…

Wole Soyinka Prize: Literary icons to inspire secondary students

Select pupils from secondary schools in Nigeria with keen interest in literary arts will have a golden opportunity to meet…