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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 […]

A gunman opened fire at a South Florida high school on Wednesday, killing 17 people and sending students running for their lives, according to law enforcement officers on the scene. At least 14 victims were being treated by Broward Health Hospitals from the incident at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland; five are in life-threatening […]

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 Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka, has described President Muhammadu Buhari as being under a trance. Mr. Soyinka, who expressed frustration about what he described as the unforced errors of the Buhari administration, made the comment at a press briefing on the increasing agitation across the country following attacks by armed herdsmen on farming communities. When […]

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, […]

The Chairman, Nigeria Governors’ Forum, Governor Abdulaziz Yari, on Monday said creation of state police would help in addressing spate of insecurity in the country. Mr. Yari, also the Zamfara State governor, said this at the end of a two-day summit organised by the Senate Ad hoc Committee on Review of Current Security Infrastructure in […]

A former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Kingsley Moghalu, announced on Monday that he was consulting widely to run for the presidency in 2019. Mr. Moghalu told political correspondents in Lagos that time had come for technocrats, intellectuals and experienced people to take power from Nigeria’s career politicians. He said that he […]

Police in China have begun using sunglasses equipped with facial recognition technology to identify suspected criminals. The glasses are connected to an internal database of suspects, meaning officers can quickly scan crowds while looking for fugitives. But critics fear the technology will give even more power to the government. The sunglasses have already helped police […]

Nigerians who own properties in the United Kingdom have inundated the Federal Ministry of Finance’s Voluntary Assets and Income Declaration Scheme hotlines with calls, causing the lines to crash on Friday. A source at the VAIDs office told the News Agency of Nigeria that the unprecedented level of calls was not unconnected with the new UK regulation […]

Former U.S. President George W. Bush accused Russia on Thursday of meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, calling Russian President Vladimir Putin a “brilliant tactician”. Bush, interviewed on stage at a business conference in the capital of the United Arab Emirates, said there was clear evidence that the Russians had meddled but whether that […]

A new study now finds that masturbation kills up to 100 Germans a year. The study has also uncovered the bizarre ways people have died pleasuring themselves. As many as 100 people are dying every year in Germany from ‘risky masturbation practices’, a new study has shown. According to Dr Harald Voss, the most common […]

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo says his role in President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration is to add to the integrity, do the right thing and push the government is the right way. Osinbajo noted that he was possibly the first born-again Christian and pastor elected as Nigeria’s vice president, saying there is a divine purpose for this. […]

In what appears the worst fuel crisis in the country in recent history, petrol users in Nigeria have for two months faced an unending scarcity and price hike of the product. The confusion is amid rising prices in filling stations and a Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC that seems bereft of ideas on any immediate […]

A couple with 13 sons is expecting a 14th child in April but waiting until birth to learn the sex. They express hopes the next baby will be a girl. Michigan couple Jay and Kateri Schwandt say adding another child to their large family won’t be too big of a logistic change or financial burden. […]