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President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday met behind closed doors with the Zamfara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulaziz Yari, over the Tuesday killings in his state. The meeting was held inside the President’s office at the Presidential…

Yesterday at about 10.00pm in a repelled attack suspected Boko Haram terrorists attacked a 119 Battalion Nigerian Army location at Mallam Fatori, northern Borno State. The troops fought gallantly and repelled the attack, killing 14 Boko…

About five people are feared dead in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, following clashes between two rival cults. Our correspondent learnt on Wednesday that the clashes started on Monday at the Gaa-Akanbi area of the metropolis,…

Two persons have been killed in a cult clash in Konor Community, Khana Local Government Area of Rivers State. The Rivers Police Command confirmed the killing of the suspected cultists on Monday. They were reportedly killed in a…

With its evening gowns, celebrity judges and tears of joy, the beauty pageant in Kenya’s capital was like others elsewhere, except for one thing – all 20 contestants who strutted, sashayed and swaggered down the catwalk had albinism.…

Activists say more than 20 people, mostly children, have been killed in air strikes on a rebel-held village in north-western Syria. A school complex was reportedly among several locations targeted in the village of Haas, in Idlib…

At least 60 were killed when a packed passenger train derailed between Cameroon’s two main cities, a hospital source in the capital Yaounde said Saturday, giving a new toll the day after the accident. Almost 600 people were injured…

Saudi Arabia has executed one of its own young princes for the first time in 40 years, sending what analysts described as a “strong message” to younger royals that they are not above the law. Prince Turki bin Saud bin Turki bin Saud…

The teenage daughter of US Olympic sprinter Tyson Gay died on Sunday after a shooting at a restaurant in Lexington, Kentucky, U.S., local media reported. Trinity Gay, 15, – herself a rising track athlete – was shot in the neck about…

AT least one person was reported killed while 10 people were injured in a renewed Shiite and youths’ violence in Kaduna State. This was coming barely four days after youths killed three members of the Shiite sect at Zango road, Tudun…

Emeka Morgan It appears the CEO of Morgan Entertainment is not telling us all the truth he knows about the death Igbo rapper, Obiajulu Nwozo, famously addressed as MC Loph and his only sister, Chinwe. Recall that in one of our previous…