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A gunman opened fire with a hunting rifle on churchgoers leaving a service in Russia’s Dagestan region, killing five people and wounding four others, then was shot and killed by police, authorities say. The shootings took place Sunday evening in Kizlyar, a town of about 50,000 people on the border with Chechnya. Four people died at the scene […]

Ex-President Goodluck Jonathan has taken a swipe at the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), saying even if a party wins through propaganda, it can not govern with it. Speaking when he received leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Yenagoa, Bayelsa state capital, on Friday, Jonathan said the APC had failed to fulfil its promise […]

Shehu Sani, senator of representing Kaduna central, says blood is becoming cheaper than petrol in Nigeria. Sani said Nigeria has now become a country of “mass murder, mass burial and continuous bereavement”. The senator said when a country is no more shocked by tragedy, it has lost its humanity. “In Nigeria today, blood is becoming […]

An 11-year-old girl has been arrested in Florida after writing a note saying she would shoot a middle school – just a day after the deadly school shooting which killed 17 people. Davie Police claim the girl placed a handwritten note under the assistant principal’s office door at Nova Middle School a day after the tragic shooting […]

A former president, Goodluck Jonathan, has backed the National Assembly for its recent re-ordering of the 2019 general elections as contained in an amendment to the Electoral Act. In a statement by Ike Abonyi, special adviser to the national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Uche Secondus, he quoted Mr. Jonathan as supporting the […]

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said that most violent conflicts and killings of Nigerians in South Africa were more of criminal activities than xenophobic attack The ministry’s spokesperson, Tope Elias-Fatile, stated this while briefing journalists on Wednesday in Abuja on a wide range of issues and activities of the ministry. Mr. Elias-Fatile said the […]

Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn said on Thursday he had submitted his resignation as both premier and the chairman of the ruling coalition in an effort to facilitate reforms following a period of mass unrest. Hundreds of people have died in violence sparked initially by an urban development plan for the capital Addis Ababa. The […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday promised to take Nigeria to the next level despite the nation’s current challenges. Buhari made the promise in his remarks at the induction of the Nigerian Air Force’s Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, Tsaigumi, in Kaduna. A copy of his speech was made available to journalists by the Presidency’s media office. The President said his […]

President Muhammadu Buhari felicitates with Christians in Nigeria on the solemn occasion of the commencement of this year’s Lenten season. “As they join their counterparts worldwide to emulate the worthy example of Jesus Christ who fasted 40 days at the beginning of His earthly ministry, the President urges Christian brothers and sisters to pray fervently […]

Controversy is trailing the disappearance of $100,000 from the coffers of Nigeria’s examination board. The exam board alleges that a clerk in Benue State has blamed a snake for swallowing the missing money. The money was supposed to be remitted to the agency. Fabian Benjamin, spokesman of the Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board, told CNN […]

The President of the Philippines has reportedly told his soldiers to shoot female rebels directly in the vagina because without their genitals they are ‘useless.’ President Rodrigo Duterte is said to have made the remarks when he was addressing a group of former communist rebels last Wednesday. In the official government transcription of the speech, […]