An aircraft has crashed into the sea off Ivory Coast, shortly after taking off from the international airport of the main city Abidjan, with reports of several dead or injured people, according to a BBC report. It was a cargo plane carrying freight for the French army, security sources told local news site Koaci. Reports […]
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The government has said on Friday that 45 Boko Haram suspects have been convicted and jailed. The sentences are the first handed down in a set of mass trials that have drawn criticism for being held behind closed doors. Those convicted were sentenced to between three and 31 years in jail, Lai Mohammed, the information […]
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The President of the World Bank Group, Jim Yong Kim, on Thursday said President Muhammadu Buhari asked the body to concentrate on the Northern part of Nigeria. The President made the disclosure while speaking at a conference in Washington DC, United States, US. Kim also advised Buhari to invest in things that would enhance Nigeria’s […]
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The UN’s human rights agency UNHCR has said it is concerned about the ongoing trial of suspected Boko Haram Islamist militants in Nigeria. It said that, though it welcomed the prosecution of the suspects, it had serious concerns that they may not get a fair trial. It added that lack of transparency was worrying, pointing […]
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Governor of Abia state, Okezie Ikpeazu, has said that he doesn’t know where the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu is. According to a Daily Post report, the governor said he has never had any kind of affinity whatsoever with the IPOB leader and as such wouldn’t provide answers to the IPOB […]
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Partial results from Liberia’s presidential election show former football star George Weah has taken an early lead, according to a BBC report. Figures from the National Elections Commission (NEC) put Mr Weah ahead in 11 out of 15 counties, although most votes have yet to be counted. His main rival, incumbent Vice-President Joseph Boakai, leads […]
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Actor Ben Affleck has apologised after being criticised for groping an MTV presenter on air in 2003. The incident surfaced after he posted condemnation of Harvey Weinstein, who is facing sexual assault allegations. One Twitter user remembered how Affleck “grabbed Hilarie Burton’s breasts on TRL once” but “everyone forgot though”. Burton replied: “I didn’t forget.” […]
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Wife of the president, Aisha Buhari, has said that the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB),Nnamdi Kanu, took advantage of her husband ‘s absence to create chaos in the country. According to Leadership newspaper, she made this statement at the opening of a one-day Stakeholders meeting on RMNCAH+N – Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child, […]
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The first study of two separate vaccines against the Ebola virus has found that they can both protect against the haemorrhagic fever for at least a year, according to a BBC report. The research, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, was conducted in Liberia and involved 1,500 patients. Those given the vaccines successfully […]
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The governors of Nigeria’s 36 states on Wednesday met and discussed the ongoing process of amending the 1999 constitution, the Premium Times reports. The governors, who met under the aegis of Nigeria Governors Forum, NGF, also briefed reporters on the outcome of the meeting. The NGF chairman and Governor of Zamfara State, Abdulaziz Yari, said […]
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