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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…

The Peoples Democratic Party has called on Nigerians, irrespective of religious affiliations to use the occasions of Good Friday and…

The All Progressives Congress (APC) yesterday accused President Goodluck Jonathan and the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of politicizing the nation’s…

Governors of the All Progressives Congress, APC, yesterday maintained that they were duly informed that Thursday’s expanded meeting of the…

Chaplain of the Aso Villa chapel, Ven. Obioma Onwuzurumba, on Friday, said despite the prevailing situation in the country, nobody…

President Vladimir Putin on Saturday said nothing should impede the normalisation of relations between Russia and the West, after ties hit a post-Cold War low due to the standoff over Ukraine. “It does not depend on us. Or does not only depend on us…

As any vehicle licence holder may be able to tell you, there are many classes of UK driving licence. Each…

Russia said its military is massed on Ukraine’s doorstep and warned against further US sanctions as a deal struck with Washington appeared to stall because of intransigence by Moscow-backed rebels in the former Soviet republic. A threat by US President…