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Terrorism: Obama offers assistance to Kenya

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President Barack Obama called Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta on Sunday to offer condolences over what the White House called a…

PDP vows to unseat APC from Borno in next poll

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Alhaji Baba Basharu, the chairman of PDP in the Boko Haram infested Borno state, in north east Nigeria, said the…

Exit Poll: Merkel wins in Germany

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel won a third term in elections Sunday, according to exit polls. But her conservatives may be…

APC alleges fraud in Jigawa bye-election

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Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission on Sunday announced Alhaji Abubakar Murtala of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) winner of the…

Israelis join Kenyan forces to flush out Nairobi terrorists

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NAIROBI (AFP) – Kenyan troops backed by Israeli agents on Sunday cornered Somali militants holding hostages inside a Nairobi shopping…

Ghanaian poet, Kofi Awoonor killed in Nairobi attack

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Ghanaian poet and former UN envoy Kofi Awoonor, 78, is among 59 people killed in the attack, according to reports…

Kenya President’s nephew, fiancee killed in Nairobi mall attack

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Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta said Sunday a nephew and his fiancee were among the 59 people confirmed killed in an…

Germans begin voting with Merkel set for third term

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Germans began voting Sunday with Chancellor Angela Merkel poised to win a third term, which would make her Europe’s only…

$270m cocaine on Venezuela flight to Paris

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French police have seized a record haul of 1.3 tonnes of pure cocaine found on board an Air France passenger…

Corruption: China sentences Bo Xilai to life in prison

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JINAN (AFP) – Fallen Chinese political star Bo Xilai was sentenced by a court to life in prison Sunday, following…

Shortage of teachers hits Epe schools

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EROMOSELE EBHOMELE Members of the Lagos State House of Assembly Committee on Local Government Administration and Chieftaincy Affairs were shocked…

Kenyatta loses family members in Westgate mall attack

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Thirty-nine people were killed and 150 wounded in Saturday’s attack on a Nairobi shopping mall, Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta said…

Somalia’s Shebab claims Nairobi’s mall killings

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Somalia’s Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab rebels on Saturday claimed resposibility for the attack on Westgate Mall in Nairobi, saying on Twitter it…

Atiku wants Abuja shooting incident probed

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Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar says only an independent investigation by Nigeria’s parliament, the judiciary or civil society will unravel…

Masked gunmen kill 6 in mall, take hostages

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NAIROBI (AFP) – Masked gunmen stormed an upmarket mall in the Kenyan capital Nairobi Saturday and sprayed gunfire on shoppers…

Kwankwaso to battle illicit drug sale, use

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MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano The governor of Kano state, northwest Nigeria, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso has declared zero tolerance to trafficking in fake…

Pakistan frees senior Taliban leader

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ISLAMABAD (AFP) – Pakistan on Saturday released its most senior Afghan Taliban detainee, Abdul Ghani Baradar, a senior official of…

Boy,15, rapes 3 kids, including 10 month-old baby

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An Upper Area Court in Mararaba,in the central Nigerian state of Nasarawa has remanded a 15-year-old -boy in prison custody…

Oyo state bans Boko Haram-like Islamic sect

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The government of the western Nigerian state of Oyo has proscribed the Arsuna Islamic Sect over its alleged involvement in…

Boko Haram kills 159 travellers in two attacks

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Nigeria’s Boko Haram militants killed 159 people in two roadside attacks in northeast Nigeria this week, officials said, far more…

‘We are not Boko Haram’, survivors of Abuja killings say

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Ayorinde Oluokun/Femi Ipaye There has been a twist in the claims by Nigeria’s intelligence agency, the SSS that its men…

Jonathan sacks 2 more aides

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President Goodluck Jonathan, still wielding the long knife, on Friday relieved two of his special advisers of their appointments. They…

64 elephants killed with cyanide in Zimbabwe

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Zimbabwean wildlife authorities will dispatch a team of experts to the country’s largest game park Saturday to investigate the poisoning…

Liberia in press crackdown charges 2 journalists

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Two Liberian journalists appeared in court in Monrovia on Friday charged with criminal libel after accusing the government of corruption…

Ex-Ivorian First Lady to be tried in Abidjan

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Ivory Coast will try former first lady Simone Gbagbo, who is being sought by the International Criminal Court for alleged…

Indian terror suspect escapes

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An Indian terror suspect accused of involvement in deadly bomb attacks five years ago escaped from a court in Mumbai…

Drugs: Language stalls US trial of Guinea Bissau’s ex-navy chief

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The United States is struggling to prosecute one of the prized catches in its global war on drugs, Guinea Bissau’s…

More Soldiers Deployed To Troubled Borno Town

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Nigeria’s military sent reinforcements Friday to the remote northeastern town of Benisheik after Boko Haram Islamists stormed the area, burnt…

Sex ‘Runs’ Thrive As ASUU Strike Persists

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In the past, part-time prostitution, popularly called runs, and a degree or certificate were not synonymous; but not anymore. It…

Police Inspector Detained For Selling Seized Okadas

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A Police Inspector attached to B-OPS of Traffic Department, Ikeja, Lagos, southwest Nigeria, Michael Oguche, is currently being detained in…

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