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At 3.30 p.m. on Wednesday, a phone rang in a room in an uninhabited village in the demilitarized zone separating North and South Korea. For the first time since February 2016, the North was calling the South. And South Korea answered. Little is known about the contents of the 20-minute call, which ended at 3:50 […]

There was blackout across the country on Tuesday as a result of the collapse of the national grid. The situation was caused by a fire incident on one of the pipeline systems in the country, the ministry of power said in a statement. It identified the pipeline system as Escravos Lagos Pipeline System near Okada, […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has reappointed Rotimi Amaechi, minister of transportation, as the director-general of his election campaign, THISDAY is reporting. Amaechi was the director-general of Buhari’s campaign in 2015. Although Buhari has not made his reelection bid public, there are indications that the president seeks to remain in office till 2023. Many groups and top politicians […]

Femi Adesina, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, was on Tuesday conferred with the traditional title of Nwanne Di Na Mba (A brother in another land) of Mmaku Kingdom, Enugu State. Mr. Adesina received the chieftaincy title during the 1st Grand Ofala festival of Igwe Cyprain Nevobasi, Igwe Omeluenyi 1 of Agunnese, Ezeani […]

In his New Year address to the nation, President Muhammadu Buhari dismissed calls for a holistic new look at Nigeria’s political structure, saying he does not see it as a priority. “When all the aggregates of nationwide opinions are considered, my firm view is that our problems are more to do with process than structure,” […]

A 67-year-old American advance fee fraudster Michael Neu posing as a Nigerian prince has been arrested by the police in Louisiana. He was said to have duped hundreds of people across America using emails. Police said he faces 269 counts of wire fraud and money laundering following an 18-month investigation. Police in Slidell, Louisiana, say […]

A Cairo criminal court sentenced former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi and 19 others to three years in prison on Saturday, and fined him 2 million Egyptian pounds ($112,700) on charges of insulting the judiciary. Others tried by the court in the same case including leading Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel Fattah and lawmaker and television presenter […]

Nine people were killed Friday after gunmen opened fire at a church near Cairo, officials said, the latest in a string of attacks on minority Coptic Christians in the country this year. The Ministry of the Interior said on its Facebook page that the suspected attacker was 33-year-old Ibrahim Ismail Ismail Moustafa, and he was known […]

Retired army chief Constantino Chiwenga, who led a de facto coup in November that ended Robert Mugabe’s 37-year rule, was installed as Zimbabwe’s vice president in Harare on Thursday. Mr. Chiwenga, whose appearance on state television on Nov. 15 preceded armed soldiers taking to the streets, paving the way for Emmerson Mnangagwa to become president, […]