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A court in Russia’s second city Saint Petersburg sentenced a man to two years in a penal colony Monday for insulting high-ranking state officials on social media. Vladimir Timoshenko, 43, was found guilty of writing a post on popular Russian social network Vkontakte that “contained text of humiliating and insulting nature towards high placed officials,” […]

Former Abia State governor, Orji Kalu, says the All Progressives Congress (APC) will force President Muhammadu Buhari recontest election in 2019. The former governor, who said this during his appearance on Channels Television’sSunday Politics, was of the opinion that it was the President’s entitlement to run for a second term. “President Buhari will run for re-election, […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday said his administration saves the nation about N25 billion monthly through the stoppage of unnecessary allowances for government officials and blockage of other financial leakages in all its agencies. President Buhari stated this in Jos, at the graduation ceremony of Senior Executice Course 39 of the National Institute for Policy […]

Robert Mugabe and his wife will receive a “golden handshake” worth many millions of dollars as part of a deal negotiated before the resignation of the ageing autocrat last week. The exact sums to be paid to the former president and his wife Grace are still unclear, though one senior ruling party official with direct knowledge […]

At least 235 people have been killed and scores more injured in a bomb and gun assault on a mosque in Egypt’s north Sinai, in the deadliest attack in the country in recent memory. A bomb ripped through the mosque as Friday prayers were finishing, before militants in four off-road vehicles approached and opened fire […]

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Friday surprised many when he outpaced younger people during a health walk held in Abeokuta,Ogun State capital. Mr. Obasanjo who is 80 years old, led about a hundred residents on a two kilometre trek on Moshood Abiola Way, to commemorate World Diabetics Day. But he shocked many participants when he […]

The Anambra State Governor, Willie Obiano, on Friday said there was no truth in the insinuation that he would leave the All Progressives Grand Alliance for the All Progressives Congress. He said he would never leave the party on which platform he contested and won the governorship seat two times. Obiano spoke to the State […]

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Wednesday urged youth in the country to join political parties ahead of the 2019 elections to enable them to be voted into political offices. Mr. Osinbajo, who was represented by Babafemi Ojudu, Special Adviser to the President on Political Affairs, made the call at the Emerging Political Leaders Summit in […]

The AU said on Tuesday it had launched an investigation into the sale of African migrants as slaves by armed groups in Libya. “The AU would try to get access to illegal detention centres in which migrants were held without charges. “We have asked the Libyan authorities to facilitate the ongoing inquiries. The perpetrators will […]

Zimbabwe’s ruling party fired Robert Mugabe as its leader on Sunday and gave the 93-year-old less than 24 hours to quit as head of state or face impeachment, an attempt to force a peaceful end to his 37 years in power after a de facto coup. Mugabe, the only leader Zimbabwe has known since independence […]

A 31-year-old French police officer shot three people dead before turning the gun on himself, in a killing spree sparked by a row with his girlfriend, authorities said Sunday. The news comes with France already grappling with a surge in police suicides this year The Paris officer, Arnaud Martin, finished his shift on Saturday evening […]