The re-elected governor of Edo State, Godwin Obaseki of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and his deputy, Phillip Shaibu, on Friday visited the Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari, of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in a courtesy visit. Lanre News | Latest News in Nigeria | Africa | Around the World. Freelance Writers and Employers, visit […]
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Four Cameroonian soldiers were sentenced Monday to 10 years in prison for the execution-style killings of two women and their children, one of them a baby, in a region where the army is fighting jihadists. A fifth soldier received a two-year sentence. A video broadcast on social media in July […]
It seemed little to worry about: Sudanese farmer Khadija Ahmad was planting onions when she stepped on a thorn that pierced her sandal and cut her foot. But the thorn brought with it a flesh-eating infection, a bacterial and fungal disease called mycetoma, which rips through the body causing severe […]
When her regular clinic ran out of her government-funded HIV medications amid South Africa’s COVID-19 lockdown, Sibongile Zulu panicked. A local pharmacy had the drugs for $48, but she didn’t have the money after being laid off from her office job in the shutdown to slow the spread of the […]
Nigeria’s former Vice President and the 2019 presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar on Tuesday just as he promised some months ago has instituted a N2.5BN libel against President Muhammadu Buhari’s aide, Mrs Lauretta Onochie over an alleged libellous publication. Mr Atiku was seen on […]
The Nigerian Army has on Sunday disputes report circulating on online media that it recruited into service some repentant Boko Haram members. There were videos published online showing one Balhatu Musa Ezekiel who claimed the Nigeria Army had recruited de-radicalised Boko Haram ex-members, an action claimed to be a recycling […]
A German Green party lawmaker with Turkish roots has won a runoff election to become the mayor of Hannover. Belit Onay received 52.9% of the vote in Sunday’s election compared with 47.1% for centre-right candidate Eckhard Scholz. German news agency dpa reported that it is the first time a candidate […]
The video showing a pastor in full action as he was performing a mouth action on the ‘special spot in the private part’ of a lady alleged to be his wife friend’s daughter has thrown the social media into a frenzy state. Some people condemned his action while some also […]
The Borno State governor, Babagana Zulum of Borno has engaged 30 clerics over the unending Boko Haram insurgency in his state. Zulum’s spokesman, Isa Gusau in a statement said that the government engaged the 30 residents of Makkah, Saudia Arabia to intercede for the state affected by a decade of […]
The released British oil tanker, the Stena Impero, has left Iran’s Bandar Abbas port to international waters on Friday morning local time, the Ports and Shipping Office of Iran’s southern Hormozgan Province announced, according to official IRNA news agency. “The captain and the crew of the ship have officially committed […]
