21 Suspected Boko Haram Terrorist Killed In Attempted Jailbreak In Nigeria
Nigeria’s secret police said on Sunday that 21 detainees died during an attempted escape from custody at its headquarters, with unconfirmed ...
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Senegal Shuts Land Border With Guinea To Prevent Spreading Of Ebola Virus
Senegal closed its land border with Guinea on Saturday to try to prevent the spread of the Ebola virus, which Guinean authorities say is sus...
Egyptian Soldier Killed, 3 Police Wounded As Militants Attack Bus In Sinia Peninsula
An Egyptian soldier was killed on Sunday when militants attacked the bus he was driving in the town of Al-Arish in the Sinai Peninsula, the ...
PHOTO OF THE DAY - World’s Fastest Man, Usain Bolt Caught Dirty Dancing With Half Naked Girl
Jamaican runner and world record holder in the 100 meters Usain Bolt has been caught grinding on a female body during a festival. The fes...
Kenya Orders Somali Refugees Back To Camps After Attacks
Kenya on Tuesday ordered all Somali refugees living in urban areas to return to their camps in a bid to end attacks by Islamist militants ca...
Nigerian Opposition APC Settles On General Buhari As Its Presidential Candidate – Sources
Sources in the All Progressives Congress (APC) say that the party may have decided on General Muhammadu Buhari as its presidential candidate...
Suspected Boko Haram Islamists Kill 20 In Market Bomb In Northeast Nigeria
Suspected Islamist militants detonated a bomb in a crowded marketplace in northeastern Nigeria killing at least 20 people, witnesses said on...
Boat Accident Death Toll In Western Uganda Rises To 107
One hundred and seven people have died after a boat capsized in a lake along the border of Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ugan...
Nigerian Police Declare Leader Of Biafran Zionist Movement Wanted
The Enugu State Police Command has declared the leader of the leader of Biafran Zionists Movement(BZM) Mr Onwuka Benjamin Igwe, wanted fo...
Nigeria Football Coach Keshi Says He Is Not Worried By Criticism
Nigeria coach Stephen Keshi says he is will not be letting criticism of his playing methods, selections and decisions affect him. He has ...
Egypt Court Sentences 529 Morsi Supporters To Death
A court in Egypt has sentenced to death 529 supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi. They were convicted of charges includ...
Equatorial Guinea Leader's Son Obiang Faces French Probe
The son of Equatorial Guinea's leader has been put under formal investigation in France over money-laundering allegations, his lawyer h...
Thousands join rare Algeria rally
Thousands of Algerian opposition supporters have called for a boycott of next month's presidential election, during an unprecedented ma...
Burundi MSD opposition protesters 'joggers' get life sentences
A court in Burundi has sentenced 21 opposition supporters to life in prison for participating in an illegal demonstration that turned viole...
Oscar Pistorius murder trial extended to mid-May
The murder trial of South African athlete Oscar Pistorius will now run until the middle of May after both sides agreed to an extension. T...
Deadly Ebola virus reaches Guinea capital Conakry - UN
An outbreak of the Ebola virus - which has already killed 59 people in Guinea - has reached the capital Conakry, the UN's children agen...
Four shot dead in Kenya church attack
Four people have been killed after gunmen opened fire in a church near the Kenyan city of Mombasa, officials say. They say a number of pe...
22-Year-Old Togolese Man Resurrects 7 Days After Burial {PICTURED}
Fear and panic gripped residents of Luk, a Togolese farming community near Bunkpurugu in Bunkpurugu-Yunyoo District of the Northern Region, ...
Boko Haram Senior Commander Writes Threat Letter To Army Chief, Promises Further Attacks
A senior commander of the Boko Haram Sect have written to the 7th Division of the Nigerian Army threatening to attack Maimalari Barracks. ...
Nigerian Senate Leader David Mark Escapes Assassination Attempt In South East State Of Imo
Nigeria’s Senate President, Chief David Mark escaped death by the whiskers last Thursday when his convoy was attacked in Orlu area of Imo St...
State In Northeast Nigeria Shuts Schools After Boko Haram Islamist Killings
Nigeria's northeasterly Borno state has ordered all of its schools to shut to protect children after Islamists killed dozens of pupils i...
Manchester United Vow To Eliminate FC Bayern After Intriguing Champions League QF Draw
The draw for the quarter-finals of the Champions League has been made in Nyon in Switzerland throwing up some intriguing ties. Barcelona ...
Bomb Explodes On Runway Of Libya's Main Airport In Tripoli
A bomb exploded on the runway of Libya's main airport on Friday, the transport minister said, highlighting the deteriorating security si...
Nollywood Actor Jim Iyke Proposes To Nadia Buari With 6 Carat Diamond Ring {PICTURED}
Ghollywood actress, Nadia Buari got the surprise of her life when her boyfriend, Jim Iyke, went down on one knee and proposed to her on live...
Kenyan Lady ‘Cecile Chikitta’ Shares RAW Photos & Offers To Pay A ‘Lucky’ Guy To Make Love To Her
A Kenyan lady Cecile Chikitta got her Facebook account shutdown after posting nude pics and offering men money in exchange for her punani. ...
Nigeria's Oil Rich Minister Spends $60m On Private Jet Worth $30m In Open Market {PHOTO}
Nigeria's oil minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke is alleged to have spent about $ 60m of public funds on leasing services for a Bombardier...
Cameroon Offers 700 Soldiers To Lake Chad Regional Force To Tackle Boko Haram
Cameroon will send 700 soldiers to its northeastern border as part of a regional force to tackle armed groups in an area where Nigerian Isla...
French Forces Kill 40 AL-Qaeda Linked Fighters In Northern Mali
French forces operating in northern Mali killed about 40 fighters believed to be Al-Qaeda-linked rebels who were trying to regroup after bei...
Turkish Airlines Denies Carrying Weapons And Military Equipment To Nigeria
Turkish Airlines on Wednesday denied carrying weapons and military equipment to Nigeria after a Twitter account behind a string of leaks in ...
Niger Republic Fear Contagion From Nigeria's Boko Haram Islamists
A proverb in the Hausa language, spoken on both sides of the border between Niger and Nigeria, warns: "When your neighbor's beard i...
World Bank Releases $70 Million To Help Rwanda Combat Poverty
The World Bank signed off on a $70 million financing package for Rwanda on Wednesday, the last tranche of a three-year aid program, which wi...
NATO Chief Lambastes Moscow’s Annexation Of Crimea As Illegal
Russia’s advances in Ukraine are the greatest threat to European security since the Cold War, NATO’s chief said Wednesday, making it clear t...
Cameroon Lawyer Wins Award For Defending Gay Rights In Africa
A lawyer in Cameroon has been recognised for her work to promote gay rights in Africa with an award from Amnesty International. Alice Nko...
South African President Zuma Accused Of Corruption As Rural Home Renovation Gulps $23m
South Africa's top corruption fighter has said President Jacob Zuma has "benefited unduly" from using state money to improve h...
Nigerian Court Clears President Jonathan To Contest 2015 Presidential Election
A Federal High Court in Kaduna on Monday struck out a suit seeking to restrain President Goodluck Jonathan from seeking re-election in the 2...
Cristiano Ronaldo Scores Brace As Real Madrid Qualify For UCL Quater Final In Style
Cristiano Ronaldo struck a brace as Real Madrid warmed up for Sunday's El Clasico by comfortably confirming their place in the last eigh...
Nigeria's National Confab Wobbles Into Existence Despite Cynicism
When the idea was made public last year during the October 1 nationwide broadcast by President Goodluck Jonathan, there were expressions of ...
Nigerian South-East State Swear In Bank Director As Executive Governor
Dr. Willie Obiano has been sworn in as the new Executive Governor of Anambra State. The swearing-in held at the Alex Ekwueme Square, Awka...
Ex-BBA Star Elikem Dumps Pokello For German Based Fashion Designer
BBA’s Elikem & Pokello have reportedly ended their relationship, and the Ghanaian reality star has moved on to a new fling, German-based...
Russian President Vladimir Putin Signs Crimea Treaty, Defying Western Sanctions
Defying Ukrainian protests and Western sanctions, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a treaty in Moscow on Tuesday making Crimea part o...
Stray bullet kills 10 year old girl as police rescue kidnapped lawmaker
It was a bitter sweet experience for residents of Bauchi at the weekend following the successful rescue operation of the member of the St...
Oyeyiola Segun, An OAU Undergraduate Builds A Solar-powered Car
In an exclusive interview by OAU Peeps Forum, he explained how the car came into existence and the motivations behind it. OAU Peeps: ...
100-year-old Saudi Beggar Dies Leaving Million-dollar Fortune
Over 50 years of panhandling on the streets of Jeddah had taken its toll on her and residents of the downtown al-Balad district never suspe...
17 year old Nigerian girl stabbed and burnt to death in Russia
A 17-year-old Nigerian girl Forester Samson (pictured above) was stabbed and burnt to death in Moscow, Russia by yet to be identified Russi...
North Korea disowns Libya oil tanker
North Korea had nothing to do with a tanker which left Libya with an oil shipment in defiance of the government, a Pyongyang official has ...
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie wins National Critics Book prize
Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has won the US National Critics Book Prize for her novel Americanah. The writer's work tell...
Rwanda ex-spy chief Pascal Simbikangwa jailed in France
A French court has jailed former Rwandan spy chief Pascal Simbikangwa for 25 years over the 1994 genocide. In a landmark trial, Simbikan...
Nigeria: Stampede in Abuja's stadium kills jobseekers
A stampede among jobseekers taking a recruitment test in the national stadium in the Nigerian capital Abuja has left many people dead and ...
Egypt unrest: Six soldiers shot dead in Cairo
Six Egyptian soldiers have been killed by gunmen at a checkpoint in the northern Cairo suburb of Shubra al-Khayma, state media reports. ...
UN: Nigeria’s Boko Haram 'Increasingly Monstrous'
ABUJA — The U.N. says nearly 500,000 people in northern Nigeria have fled their homes in fear of what it calls an “increasingly monstrou...
Cameroon under 'anti-homosexuals apartheid'
Leading lawyer in West African nation says "weapons and police" have been used against people in same-sex relationships. Ca...
Gory details lend Oscar Pistorius trial a 'CSI' flavor
Pretoria, South Africa (CNN) -- As it entered its second week, the Oscar Pistorius murder trial turned into an episode of "CSI," ...
Making the case that Africa needs drones more than roads
Could African countries with poor road infrastructure leapfrog right from donkeys to drones? They can and should, according to the man...
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