Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram is still holding 85 girls it abducted from a raid on a secondary school in northeastern Borno state this week, although the other 44 were free, the state government said on Saturday. Monday’s mass abduction…
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Japan broke ground Saturday on a coastal surveillance unit near a string of islands at the centre of a bitter territorial dispute with China, a report said. Radar equipment will be installed on Yonaguni island to monitor ships and aircraft in the East…
President Goodluck Jonathan on Saturday promised that despite the “evil machinations” of terrorists, criminals and their collaborators, his administration will…
The Osun State chapter of All Progressives Congress has rejected the war intention of the Vice President, Namadi Sambo, who…
Curious where in the US no one lives? Here are some maps on just that: As the creator over at mapsbynik writes: A Block is the smallest area unit used by the U.S. Census Bureau for tabulating statistics. As of the 2010 census, the United States consists…
Two people were killed Saturday when their car exploded in a Shiite village in Bahrain, the interior ministry said, although it was unclear whether the vehicle itself had been targeted. A third person was wounded in the blast and taken to hospital as…
Over 100 people have been killed in a cattle raid in South Sudan’s Warrap state, a local information minister told UN radio, the latest atrocity in the war-torn nation. “We lost about 28 civilians” in a remote cattle herders’ camp in the remote northern…
Four French journalists taken hostage in Syria last year were freed on Saturday after a 10-month ordeal in the world’s most dangerous country for the media. French President Francois Hollande announced the release of Edouard Elias, Didier Francois,…
A couple and a young boy were shot dead in an overnight attack near the eastern Belgian city of Liege, media reports said on Saturday. The woman was seriously wounded in the attack near the local sports ground in Vise, and died early Saturday of her…
A powerful earthquake with a magnitude of 7.5 struck off Papua New Guinea late Saturday night, the US Geological Survey said, with a tsunami warning issued. The quake hit 75 kilometres (47 miles) south-west of the town of Panguna on Bougainville island…
Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for Monday’s cowardly attack on a motor park in Nyanya, a suburb of Abuja, which…
Ekiti State Governor Kayode Fayemi has said he will start teaching at the state-owned university in October this year .…
Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi has called on the people not to see the June 21 governorship election in…
The Borno State Government has announced that fourteen more students of the state-owned Government Girls’ Secondary School, Chibok, are presently…
Detectives in the Ondo state Police Command for have arrested a man who called himself an actor, Onyeke Michael, over…
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, laid the mass murders of Christians at the feet of same-gender married couples and Americans last week: “I have stood by gravesides in Africa of a group of Christians who had been attacked because of something…
The leader of Nigeria’s Boko Haram Islamists Abubakar Shekau claimed responsibility for a bombing in Nigeria’s capital that killed at least 75 people, in a video message obtained by AFP on Saturday. “We are the ones that carried out the attack in Abuja…
Another 14 Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram Islamists in the northeast have escaped, leaving 85 missing on Saturday after an attack that has sparked global outrage, an official said. The unprecedented mass abduction of 129 teenage girls…
One of the four French hostages freed after 10 months in captivity in Syria said Saturday he was “very happy to be free”, Turkey’s Dogan News Agency reported. Didier Francois, smiling broadly and wearing a long beard, spoke briefly to a journalist at…
Rescuers searched Mount Everest for bodies Saturday as authorities ruled out hope of finding any more survivors from an avalanche that killed at least 12 Nepalese guides in the deadliest accident ever on the world’s highest peak. Four sherpas were still…