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Tunisia sets dates for polls

Tunisia, where the Arab Spring started, will hold presidential and legislative elections on June 23, 2013 the ruling Islamist Ennahda…

Is there life after death? Surgeon sparks new debate

For some people, life ends here on earth and when people die, the other life they enjoy is inside their…

Mom jailed for supergluing child’s hand to wall

A Texas judge has sentenced a mother who superglued her toddler’s hands to a wall to 99 years in prison,…

US election: Obama leads the social media war

By Rob Lever WASHINGTON, (AFP) – The 2012 US presidential election campaign is being fought with tweets, hashtags, Facebook updates…

Army claims shooting Mauritanian president in error

NOUAKCHOTT(AFP) – Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz was shot and “slightly wounded” Saturday when an army unit accidentally fired…

Wife of Osun Speaker rescued, abductors arrested

Wife of the Speaker of State of Osun House of Assembly, Mrs Muibat Salaam, was on Saturday rescued from her…

Nana Rawlings joins Ghana’s presidential race

The wife of Ghana’s former leader John Jerry Rawlings was nominated as a presidential candidate by an upstart political party…

Tears as FATGBEMS Petroleum owner buried

Abiodun Onafuye/ Abeokuta The remains of the Chairman and chief Executive Officer of Fatgbems Petroleum, Alhadji Abdul Fatai Olalekan Akanmu…

Protest in Kaduna after cop kills printer

By Femi Adi/Kaduna An overzealous Nigerian policeman today killed a commercial printer along Forcados Road, by Bonny street in Kaduna…

Ondo Poll: Pastor Bakare told to bury his face in shame

FOLA ADEMOSU Action Congress of Nigeria, Lagos Chapter, has asked the Senior Pastor, Latter Rain Assembly and Vice Presidential candidate,…

Ikorodu youths protest bad road

Hundreds of Youths in Ikorodu Community on Saturday in Lagos state, western Nigeria held a protest over what they conceived…

Stop the war, governor appeals to Boko Haram

Nigeria’s Borno state governor, Kashim Shettima added his voice to that of the Shehu of Borno, in appealing to members…

Asantehene’s jewel: Norway police release CCTV footage of suspects

Norwegian police released on Saturday images of a woman and a man suspected in the Oslo theft of crown jewels…

Al Qaeda chief urges more protest over anti-Islam film

Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri urged Muslims to keep up their protests against an anti-Islam film produced in the United States,…

PDP suspends vice chairman

.Party also mobilizes support for Olusola Oke in Ondo The National Working Committee (NWC), of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP),…

Boko Haram begged to embrace dialogue now

The leading traditional leader in the Boko Haram beleaguered Borno state in Northern Nigeria, Abubakar Ibn Garbai, the Shehu of…

IMF, World Bank warn on West Africa’s food emergency

The IMF and World Bank on Saturday raised the alarm on the “humanitarian emergency” in West Africa’s Sahel region, where…

Nigeria’s corruption outrageous, says US author Fukuyama

Francis Fukuyama, author of the world acclaimed book “The End of History and the Last Man,” has described as ”outrageous”…

Francophone summit begins in Kinshasa

Leaders of French-speaking nations began meeting in troubled Democratic Republic of Congo Saturday for their 14th summit, with France’s President…

Chinese political system could collapse, warns US academic

China’s top-down political system, under pressure from a growing middle class empowered by wealth and social networks, is likely to…

3 babies delivered at camps for flood victims

No fewer than three births were recorded at the flood victims’ camps located in Asaba, capital of Delta state, an…

Facebook boost for Obama campaign

US President Barack Obama got an exceptional spike of more than one million “likes” on Facebook this week in his…

Shot fired at Obama campaign office

A shot was fired Friday at a campaign office for President Barack Obama in the western US state of Colorado,…

Paradoxical Nigeria: View from Outside

By STEPHEN HAYES (October 12, 2012) Nigeria is perhaps the most misunderstood country in Africa, and it is not an…

Nigerian doctor sacked in the UK

A Nigerian medical consultant in the United Kingdom has lost his job at an NHS hospital after carrying a sample…

Jonathan inspects flood ravaged home state by air

President Goodluck Jonathan on Friday arrived in his home state of Bayelsa to inspect flood ravaged areas. He could not…

Pastor divorces wife after 26 years

A Nigerian pastor has got his prayer fulfilled by a Customary Court in Lagos. After accusing his wife of 26…

Lagos bizman docked for assaulting debtor

A Lagos businessman, Ayodele Alonge has been docked at the Ojokoro Senior Magistrates’ Court, charged with assaulting a woman, while…

Okonjo-Iweala launches book on Nigeria in Tokyo

Dr. Ngozi Okonjo Iweala, Nigeria’s powerful minister of finance has launched a book, “Reforming the Un-reformable: Lessons from Nigeria”, on…

More millions for Chelsea’s owner, Abramovich

Boris Berezovsky has agreed to pay £35 million ($56 million) towards his fellow Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich’s legal costs after…