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Benue State Governor Gabriel Suswam has slashed his salary by 25 percent and also proposed a five percent cut in…

Rivers State COMMISSIONER OF POLICE, TUNDE OGUNSAKIN The general state of insecurity in the country was again brought to the…

Both type 1 and type 2 diabetes are rising significantly among young people in the United States, according to new research that warns of a growing epidemic in American youth. Type 1 diabetes rose 21 percent among children and teenagers from between…

More than 2,000 pro-Russian militants on Sunday stormed the police headquarters in the Ukrainian port city of Odessa, where 42 people died in clashes two days ago. An AFP reporter on the scene said the crowd shouted “fascists, fascists” as they attacked…

South Africa’s ruling ANC swept aside a weak economy, fierce criticism of its president and questions about the party’s future at a massive Soweto rally on Sunday, in a pre-election show of force. More than 90,000 jubilant and defiant ANC cadres packed…

Segun Oyeyiola’s parents were always telling him, “you better find something better to do. Your siblings have completed their first degrees and rather than you do some stupid things.” Those “stupid things”, in Segun’s case, included building…

Despite colossal investment, Angola’s goal of pumping two million barrels of oil a day and even upstaging Nigeria as Africa’s largest producer remains a pipedream. To be sure, Angola’s oil industry is going gang-busters. State-owned oil firm Sonangol…

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday ordered top security chiefs and officials to secure the safe release of 223 schoolgirls abducted three weeks ago by suspected Islamists, his spokesman said. Gunmen believed to be Boko Haram Islamists stormed…

Several dozen Russian planes including what appeared to be strategic bombers and fighter jets have been spotted in the sky above the Moscow-controlled peninsula of Crimea, witnesses and experts said. According to Russian media, President Vladimir Putin…

More than 50 houses have been razed at Ibrede in Ndokwa East Local Government Area of Delta State, after an…

Four killed in well trying to retrieve bucket ONE after another, Four men have drowned in Cross River State after…

A-20-year-old man, Segun Ogunleye, has appeared before an Abeokuta magistrate court, sitting in Isabo, for attempted murder of a police officer. The…

A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party in Ekiti State and former Deputy Speaker of the state House of Assembly,…

Voters in Panama go to the polls Sunday to pick the country’s next president, after a campaign that revealed few major policy differences among the top candidates. The campaign has gone down to the wire, with polls giving any of the three leading contenders…

Nigel Farage, head of the UK Independence Party that is currently leading polls ahead of this month’s European elections, told AFP during an interview in Portsmouth of his hatred of the European Union and his determination to bring down its parliament…

President Barack Obama cracked jokes about the government’s disastrous health care policy rollout and mocked political opponents at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. The annual event, known informally as the “nerd prom,” brings Washington’s top…

South Korean dive teams struggled Sunday to gain access to blocked cabins of a submerged ferry that sank nearly three weeks ago, as the confirmed death toll from the disaster rose to 242. Six more bodies were recovered early Sunday, 18 days after the…

The European Central Bank is not expected to cut interest rates this week, but could start paving the way for a possible move in June if deflationary dangers persist, analysts said. The ECB has held eurozone borrowing costs at their current all-time…

One of Vietnam’s last surviving veterans of the battle of Dien Bien Phu recounts with pride the day in May 1954 when, aged just 19, he captured the commander of the French colonial forces. Hoang Dang Vinh’s display of military prowess earned him the…

Even as Europe powered up its most ambitious ever cybersecurity exercise this month, doubts were being raised over whether the continent’s patchwork of online police was right for the job. The exercise, called Cyber Europe 2014, is the largest and most…