More than 40 people have died during an attempt to free people during an ambush by militant Islam group Boko Haram, sources have told the BBC. At least five members of an oil exploration team were killed, a spokesman for the University of Maiduguri said. Soldiers and members of a vigilante group also died in […]
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People in remote villages in Kaduna, north-western Nigeria, are celebrating a rare two years of uninterrupted electricity, according to a BBC report. According to the report, two remote villages managed this by going off-grid, using solar power mini-grids. “The villages were far from the reach of the national power grid, so the Federal Ministry of […]
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Morocco will meet next month’s deadline to bid to host the 2026 World Cup, says leading Confederation of African Football (Caf) official Amaju Pinnick, according to a BBC report. Interested countries have until 11 August to submit their bids, with the USA, Canada and Mexico having already expressed an interest. “I’ve been told Morocco wants […]
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Charges have been dropped against a 41-year-old Nigerian man who named his dog after President Muhammadu Buhari. Joachim Iroko, a market trader also known as Joe Fortemose Chinakwe, was arrested in 2016 accused of conduct likely to cause a breach of the peace. A judge in south-west Ogun state found the prosecution had failed to […]
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The Rector of the College of Aviation Technology, Zaria, Captain Abdulsalami Mohammed has revealed that Fifty Thousand job seekers have applied for the hundred staff vacancy available in the institution. Mohammed while encouraging the twenty six thousand applicants who were eventually selected to write the Computer Base Aptitude Test, yesterday, at the Federal Civil Service […]
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The President, Muhammadu Buhari, in accepting his nomination by other African leaders, as leader of “2018 AU Theme On The Fight Against Corruption”, has assured the Guinean leader, Alpha Conde that he is making good progress. Guinea’s Alpha Conde is the current chairman of the Assemblies of Heads of States and Governments of the African […]
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Researchers in the United States say a trial in which American teenagers used a vaginal ring to prevent HIV infection has proved successful. According to a BBC report, a further such study will now be run with teenagers in Africa. The girls used a flexible plastic ring, embedded with anti-retroviral drugs, which was changed every […]
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A man who battered his girlfriend’s five-year-old son to death in a London park for losing a trainer has been jailed for life. Marvyn Iheanacho, 39, attacked Alex Malcolm in Mountsfield Park, Catford, on 20 November 2016. Witnesses heard a “child’s fearful voice saying sorry”, loud banging and a man screaming about the loss of […]
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At least six people, including five Nigerian nationals and one Indian woman, were arrested for indulging in procuring and supplying of drugs along with running an organised human trafficking racket in the Rachakonda area near Hyderabad, India. The police have seized 20 grams of cocaine, 12 grams of brown sugar, 39.8 grams of amphetamine tablets […]
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White House press secretary Sean Spicer has moved to minimise talk of divisions within the Trump administration after announcing his resignation. Mr Spicer is reportedly stepping down because he is unhappy with President Donald Trump’s appointment of a new communications director. But he told Fox News he had “no regrets” about his six-month stint. Wall […]
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